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Fri, 14/04/2023 - 23:00

EDITED BY PETER ORNER AND LAURA LAMPTON SCOTT


Jean Marseille and his son, Diego.

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Jean Marseille recorded these dispatches on his phone while surviving on the streets of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, from October through December 2022. As the chaos that followed the assassination of Haitian president Jovenel Moïse in July 2021 devolved into further lawlessness, Jean witnessed firsthand a city in free fall.

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Fri, 14/04/2023 - 22:00

1. Your goal is to retrieve your treasure from a monstrous entity.

2. All you need is pen and paper, but expensive software makes it much easier.

3. The rules are constantly being updated, but they’re still shackled to a system from the 1970s.

4. You’re constantly referring back to an incomprehensible spreadsheet.

5. You’d have put more effort into your backstory if you knew it would be this important later.

6. Some classes have a much easier time than others, and it’s unclear why.

7. You’re drowning in acronyms.

8. Being a Cleric has its advantages.

9. If you’re a musician, this is going to be extra complicated.

10. Every check can result in a circumstantial bonus or a penalty.

11. Groups who can afford it hire an unsavory rogue to do their dirty work.

12. When in doubt, just round the number down.

13. If you want to get away with this bluff, you’d better come up with a damn good story.

14. Tread carefully. Traps are everywhere.

15. You’re unsure whether your opponent is Lawful or just Chaotic—but they’re definitely Evil.

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Fri, 14/04/2023 - 20:07

The transaction is the first known instance of money flowing from Crow to the Supreme Court justice. The sale netted the GOP megadonor two vacant lots and the house where Thomas’ mother was living.

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Fri, 14/04/2023 - 14:08

By Patrick Lawrence / Original to ScheerPost Sometime in the mid–Russiagate years, when it became clear that America was on a swoon back into the collective neuroses of the 1950s, I began to think we would have to wait for future historians to retrieve the truth buried alive in the cesspit of lies and cynical […]

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