Rym DeCoster

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An Open Letter to Chuck Schumer on USAID funding

As a direct result of the obscene actions of Russell Vought and Elon Musk in destroying USAID, we can expect “at least 9.4 million additional deaths by 2030, if the current funding trend continues.

About 2.5 million of those deaths are projected to be children under the age of 5.”

CNN reporting: www.cnn.com/2026/02/0…

This is murder.

History books are going to write about Trump and Putin the way they wrote about Hitler and Mussolini. This is an axis of death. It’s trans-national fascism.

Prosecute the leadership of DOGE. Fully restore USAID. Shut down the government until this happens. Millions of lives depend on this.

→ 9:04 PM, Feb 16

Write or call your senators DAILY.

“Dismantle the Department of Homeland Security. Investigate and prosecute the leadership of ICE.”

Don’t worry about writing big statements. Your messages are aggregated by aides into simple reports. We want “Dismantle ICE” and “Dismantle DHS” to be at the top.

→ 12:44 PM, Feb 14

An Open Letter to Senator Chuck Schumer

It is clear that the Department of Homeland Security was, from its inception in 2003, a grave and dangerous mistake. ICE is a violent paramilitary force operating under the direction of an insane president. It is being used to brutalize good people, and is exactly what it looks like it is.

We all saw the video.

ICE must be dismantled, and its leadership prosecuted. The Department of Homeland Security must be dismantled, and its leadership prosecuted.

These are Sturmabteilung. We all saw the video. History is repeating itself. It’s pathetic how “on the nose” all of this is. This is how gas chambers get built.

The Senate should pass no funding bill of any kind until, at minimum, ICE is fully and permanently defunded.

→ 11:15 PM, Jan 28

The Minnesota State National Guard have a duty to halt ICE operations and confine their officers.

The only “insurrection” is the ICE officers themselves. They are the perpetrators of this violence.

→ 7:52 PM, Jan 24

We are on a path that leads to a direct confrontation between federal and state forces in America. America is at a very real and material crisis point.

Pay attention to what’s happening in Minneapolis.

→ 3:53 PM, Jan 24

Don’t say “unalive” on your TikTok or whatever. Say the words that repel advertisers. They are magic words of power that keep the demons of capital away from your soul.

→ 8:43 AM, Jan 16

We are live at MAGFest!

Designing Games for Spectators Thursday 8:30pm Panels 2 (Baltimore)

Lifestyle Games Friday 3:00pm Panels 6 (Chesapeake)

Tabletop Game Mechanics Friday 5:30pm Tabletop Panels

Exploring Metacontext in Games Saturday 4:30pm Panels 2 (Baltimore)

Note the schedule change!

→ 8:53 PM, Jan 4

Write or call your House reps TODAY. Tell them Trump needs to be IMPEACHED over this IMMEDIATELY.

Write or call your Senators TODAY. Tell them to take extreme action.

This is a crisis. An extreme crisis. America is cooked if we let this illegal aggression continue unchecked.

→ 11:08 AM, Jan 3

These attacks on Venezuela are illegal. Frankly, the United States should be ejected from the UN Security Council along with Russia.

→ 9:53 AM, Jan 3

2025 in a nutshell

→ 9:41 PM, Dec 23

GeekNights will be live at Super MAGFest 2026 with four talks! Check out the schedule!

Tabletop Game Mechanics Thursday 1:00pm

Designing Games for Spectators Thursday 8:30pm

Lifestyle Games Friday 3:00pm

Exploring Metacontext in Games Saturday 4:30pm

→ 9:56 PM, Dec 22

I am documenting and answering questions about the GeekNights panel/lecture video creation process. See here in our forum.

It is well-suited to quickly publishing a high-fidelity video of a lecture or panel, using Adobe Premiere and Audition.

AMA, and let me know if this is helpful at all.

→ 9:26 PM, Dec 20

Look what I found on a random brick building in LIC.

→ 12:26 PM, Nov 9

If you live in NYC I implore you to vote for Zohran Mamdani, and straight ticket Democrat.

→ 7:54 AM, Nov 3

I’ve written an open letter to my congressional representative Nydia Velazquez.

Do not reopen the government without real concessions from the Republicans. Instead, you should ADD to our demands for passing the budget. Since they let SNAP expire, risking hundreds of thousands of lives in America, add a new condition for passing the budget: an expansion to SNAP.

The Republicans are tantamount to terrorists. The naked hypocrisy of demanding a “clean” budget bill from us when this is exactly the hostage taking they have engaged in for years is as baffling as it is vile.

Do NOT re-open the government without extending ACA subsidies, providing back-pay to all federal workers impacted, expanding SNAP, and requiring that SNAP is funded through any future government shutdowns.

→ 5:34 PM, Nov 2

GeekNights 20 Year Anniversary Special on Friday

Tomorrow on Oct 31, GeekNights will be 20 years old! We’ve been podcasting continuously for 20 years, and we literally published our first episode on October 31 2005.

We want to hear from you! Ask a question. Reply right here! We’ll be answering them and reading comments on the show tomorrow (friday).

→ 12:33 PM, Oct 30

Disown your Republican relatives. They’re collaborators in this.

→ 8:46 PM, Oct 20

Unfettered and Unaccountable: How Trump is Building a Violent, Shadowy Federal Police Force

This is all exactly what it looks like it is.

→ 5:19 PM, Oct 19

Saturday Oct 18 is No Kings day. Find your local protest!

→ 2:24 PM, Oct 17

I just donated $2,000 to Resistencia en Accion NJ.

If the rise of fascism terrifies you and you don’t know what to do, donate to this group specifically. I have it on good authority they are making a real difference in their area. They are helping families survive this.

→ 12:17 PM, Oct 12

Today I’ve completed U.S. Public Policy: Social, Economic, and Foreign Policies offered by HarvardX.

If you are rightly worried about the dangerous state of the US government, I recommend it. It’s free, and it’s about how to gain and wield power in systems like the US Government.

→ 12:16 PM, Sep 24

We are living through a rapid and unfathomable societal transitionary period that began in the late 1700s and has been accelerating ever since. We are nowhere near the plateau.

Modernity isn’t a state. It’s a transition.

→ 2:17 PM, Sep 12

Is it time for gun control?

→ 6:46 PM, Sep 10

Energy costs are going to skyrocket and the Republicans are doing this on purpose for profit.

www.youtube.com/watch

→ 9:15 AM, Sep 7

On that note. In the coming weeks and months, I will be making occasional public donations to key people or institutions.

Consider these endorsements. I’m not an expert in many things, but I am an expert in picking which other experts we should trust. So I’m telling you who I trust.

→ 7:46 PM, Sep 3