# rule law (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 9 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover rule law. Page: Feed: --- ## [American Martyr: The Stanley Rother story comes to theaters](https://greydanus.substack.com/p/american-martyr-the-stanley-rother) _2026-08-21 · SDG · SDG’s Dailies & Sundays_ \[Review of the film and interview with Rother biographer María Ruiz Scaperlanda\] ## [‘Where are the arrests? Where is the trial? Where is the justice?’](https://www.headsupnews.org/p/where-are-the-arrests-where-is-the) _2026-08-19 · Dan Froomkin · Heads Up News_ A joint editorial from newspapers in Houston and Maine poses fundamental questions after ICE brought chaos and death to their communities ## [The Zen of Venns](https://greydanus.substack.com/p/the-zen-of-venns) _2026-08-18 · SDG · SDG’s Dailies & Sundays_ \[Venn diagrams are funny! Or at least they CAN be funny. Venn diagrams and humor OVERLAP. \] ## [Power to the people](https://tommcinerney.substack.com/p/power-to-the-people) _2026-08-17 · Tom McInerney · Rights, regulation, rule of law with Tom McInerney_ Insights from experiments in direct citizen engagement ## [Children vs. dogs? Or universal brotherhood?](https://greydanus.substack.com/p/children-vs-dogs-or-universal-brotherhood) _2026-08-16 · SDG · SDG’s Dailies & Sundays_ \[Homily for the 20th Sunday of Ordinary Time – Year A, 2026\] ## [M2: What’s Changing in the New Microscope](https://arsludi.lamemage.com/index.php/5381/m2-whats-changing-in-the-new-microscope/) _2026-08-15 · Ben Robbins · ars ludi_ My fellow designer Caroline Hobbs has described Microscope as my Silmaril, the work of my heart that cannot be remade . And she was not wrong. For a long time cracking open Microscope and revising it felt like an impossible task. But what better task to take up than the impossible one? And now, after creeping \[ \] ## [When will the resistance step it up? And how?](https://www.headsupnews.org/p/when-will-the-resistance-step-it) _2026-08-12 · Dan Froomkin · Heads Up News_ The collapse of the rule of law adds urgency to the mission ## [It’s a solar eclipse, Charlie Brown](https://greydanus.substack.com/p/the-solar-eclipse-of-peanuts) _2026-08-12 · SDG · SDG’s Dailies & Sundays_ \[When Charles Schulz spent a week of ‘Peanuts’ on a notable solar eclipse … plus: ‘Peanuts’ meta-humor!\] ## [August 2026 eclipse: The Moon, math, and the last total eclipse](https://greydanus.substack.com/p/august-2026-eclipse-the-moon-math) _2026-08-10 · SDG · SDG’s Dailies & Sundays_ \[fun facts about total eclipses, the size of the Moon, gravity, the future of the solar system, and more!\] ## [Being female in public: What men should know](https://greydanus.substack.com/p/being-female-in-public-what-men-should) _2026-08-06 · SDG · SDG’s Dailies & Sundays_ \[street harassment, vulnerability, fragility, and Catholic teaching\] ## [Auto-trade Cross-Exchange Gaps (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/V96OUP0dlKyI) _2026-08-06 · **Sponsored**_ Find cross-exchange spreads, backtest strategies, and execute automatically with risk controls. ## [As Haitian immigrants lose their legal status, Ohio models resistance](https://www.headsupnews.org/p/as-haitian-immigrants-lose-their) _2026-08-05 · Dan Froomkin · Heads Up News_ What DHS does next – and how the American people respond – is unclear ## [July 2026 monthly digest](https://greydanus.substack.com/p/july-2026-monthly-digest) _2026-08-03 · SDG · SDG’s Dailies & Sundays_ \[No Krakens, but a kitten! Plus: Wait, Substackers can color text now?!\] ## [Gratitude, Grey Havens update, and a statement of intent](https://greydanus.substack.com/p/gratitude-grey-havens-update-and) _2026-07-31 · SDG · SDG’s Dailies & Sundays_ \[note to readers about Dailies & Sundays’s past, present, and future\] ## [Democrats vow to investigate ICE killings when they regain power](https://www.headsupnews.org/p/democrats-vow-to-investigate-ice) _2026-07-29 · Dan Froomkin · Heads Up News_ ‘We will make sure justice happens when we take back the halls of Congress’ ## [Schrödinger’s Mitch?](https://greydanus.substack.com/p/schrodingers-mitch) _2026-07-28 · SDG · SDG’s Dailies & Sundays_ \[Can McConnell be alive and dead at the same time? In Trump’s America, perhaps.\] ## [Literally selling our belongings for the kingdom](https://greydanus.substack.com/p/literally-selling-our-belongings) _2026-07-26 · SDG · SDG’s Dailies & Sundays_ \[Homily for the 17th Sunday in Ordinary Time – Year A, 2026\] ## [I Left Out the Reaction Shot, a Dev Journal](https://arsludi.lamemage.com/index.php/5349/i-left-out-the-reaction-shot-a-dev-journal/) _2026-07-26 · Ben Robbins · ars ludi_ When I was a kid watching movies with my Dad, he would sometimes frown and say, they left out the reaction shot . What he meant was the movie showed some important moment like the bad guy getting defeated or some tragic setback, but it didn t show the characters reaction. The hero s relief as they score \[ \] ## [‘The Odyssey’ and the consequences of war](https://greydanus.substack.com/p/the-odyssey-and-the-consequences) _2026-07-25 · SDG · SDG’s Dailies & Sundays_ Christopher Nolan draws on surprising sources—including the Gospels—in his blockbuster adaptation of Homer’s epic. ## [What is the resistance governing agenda?](https://www.headsupnews.org/p/what-is-the-resistance-governing) _2026-07-22 · Dan Froomkin · Heads Up News_ A new focus for Heads Up News ## [One Strong (But Wrong) Opinion](https://arsludi.lamemage.com/index.php/5306/one-strong-but-wrong-opinion/) _2026-07-19 · Ben Robbins · ars ludi_ It s hardly revolutionary to say that in the vast majority of role-playing games, your character is your single strongest vector of contribution, so making a good character is critical. But what s a good character? Easy: Someone you (and everyone else at the table) finds interesting. Someone we want to talk about. Someone who moves the \[ \] ## [ThreatCrush on GitHub (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/9UXg2Fg3m1wO) _2026-07-19 · **Sponsored**_ View the ThreatCrush listing on the GitHub Marketplace. ## [Killings rekindle anti-ICE protests, but Trump doubles down](https://www.headsupnews.org/p/killings-rekindle-anti-ice-protests) _2026-07-15 · Dan Froomkin · Heads Up News_ Public outrage led officials to temporarily ban ICE traffic stops. Trump overruled them. ## [Rules To Speak By](https://jonmay.substack.com/p/rules-to-speak-by) _2026-07-11 · Jon May · Legally Speaking..._ by John G. Snow ## [New push to get the National Guard out of Washington](https://www.headsupnews.org/p/new-push-to-get-the-national-guard) _2026-07-08 · Dan Froomkin · Heads Up News_ Focus is on troops from blue states, particularly Michigan ## [For Post-Trump accountability start with the lawyers](https://tommcinerney.substack.com/p/for-post-trump-accountability-start) _2026-07-03 · Tom McInerney · Rights, regulation, rule of law with Tom McInerney_ Lessons from transitional justice processes for lawyer accountability ## [The would-be king is ruining the original 'No Kings' day](https://www.headsupnews.org/p/the-would-be-king-is-ruining-the) _2026-07-01 · Dan Froomkin · Heads Up News_ Independence Day falls flat as Trump seizes more and more monarchical power ## [M2](https://arsludi.lamemage.com/index.php/5278/m2/) _2026-06-30 · Ben Robbins · ars ludi_ I m making it official: a new edition of Microscope is in the works. I ve looked in my crystal ball, laid out my schedule, and set crowdfunding for October. If you ve been following this blog, you know I ve been working on improvements for Microscope for a few years now. Because I love it but I think \[ \] ## [Living In the War, a Dev Journal](https://arsludi.lamemage.com/index.php/5271/living-in-the-war-a-dev-journal/) _2026-06-25 · Ben Robbins · ars ludi_ I ve talked about how This Means War strives to simulate a believable (but surprising) war. But now I want to talk about the other half of the game: the character-side. The idea all along was that this was a war-game that wasn t really about war, it was about the people living through the war. All \[ \] ## [Federal judges are making Trump’s lawlessness crystal clear](https://www.headsupnews.org/p/federal-judges-are-making-trumps) _2026-06-24 · Dan Froomkin · Heads Up News_ The evidence is overwhelming ## [Going Back to Games Unlimited](https://arsludi.lamemage.com/index.php/5266/going-back-to-games-unlimited/) _2026-06-23 · Ben Robbins · ars ludi_ The old Games Unlimited in Pittsburgh was the game store of our childhood. It s where we went to buy RPGs, modules, dice, and a whole pile of miniatures. We rummaged through the shelves in the far back and then greedily carried our treasures home on the bus. But now, decades later, they have a new \[ \] ## [The resistance is under attack](https://www.headsupnews.org/p/the-resistance-is-under-attack) _2026-06-17 · Dan Froomkin · Heads Up News_ Trump is trying to criminalize the act of protesting him ## [CLI-first decentralized compute (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/sltNviz24xke) _2026-06-17 · **Sponsored**_ Run and pay spare GPUs from the CLI — transcode, coinpay (DID+escrow), infernet (AI). ## [What it Means to Be a Zealous Advocate](https://jonmay.substack.com/p/what-it-means-to-be-a-zealous-advocate-abe) _2026-06-17 · Jon May · Legally Speaking..._ Reprinted from Ethics and Professionalism with permission of the American Bar Association ## [Wvyerdown vs Irontree: An Example of War (part 3)](https://arsludi.lamemage.com/index.php/5236/wvyerdown-vs-irontree-an-example-of-war-part-3/) _2026-05-29 · Ben Robbins · ars ludi_ The war between Wyverdown and Irontree continues! I know I said I was writing this to demonstrate the rules of This Means War, and that mission is pretty much accomplished, but I am having too much fun to stop. So let s just do a fewwww more seasons… Season 3, Spring of Year 2 The snows \[ \] ## [AI Content on My Radar; Make of it What You Will](https://anani.bearblog.dev/ai-stuff-ive-read-and-recommend-you-do-too/) _2026-05-28 · anani · Pedro Pavón_ The below are in no particular order The Abstraction Fallacy: Why AI Can Simulate But Not Instantiate Consciousness The TESCREAL bundle: Eugenics and the promise of utopia through artificial general intelligence MAGNIFICA HUMANITAS OF HIS HOLINESS POPE LEO XIV ON SAFEGUARDING THE HUMAN PERSON IN THE TIME OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE Artificial Intelligence in a Democratic Society \*Note-I was a… ## [Shot Dead In the Fens](https://arsludi.lamemage.com/index.php/5213/shot-dead-in-the-fens/) _2026-05-27 · Ben Robbins · ars ludi_ or, how this weird new game relates to a session of West Marches from over twenty years ago After three wars and 15 sessions, we had our first character death in This Means War. I mean a death caused by the rules, where the Waracle requires you to roll for Fate and then looks you \[ \] ## [On Defining America](https://jennifermercieca.substack.com/p/on-defining-america) _2026-05-24 · Jennifer Mercieca · Rhetorical Tricks_ Now is the time to reclaim and defend America’s rule of law, American freedom, and American patriotism. ## [Wvyerdown vs Irontree: An Example of War (part 2)](https://arsludi.lamemage.com/index.php/5155/wvyerdown-vs-irontree-an-example-of-war-part-2/) _2026-05-23 · Ben Robbins · ars ludi_ We ve got our nations and we re ready for war. You re welcome to download the playtest rules and follow along at home. And if you re asking wait, what nations, what war? you should probably go back and read the first post. Season 1 Starts It s Fall, the first season of the game, and time to consult \[ \] ## [Gutting public finances central to rule of law assault](https://tommcinerney.substack.com/p/gutting-public-finances-central-to) _2026-05-23 · Tom McInerney · Rights, regulation, rule of law with Tom McInerney_ Contextualizing the Trump IRS deal and lawbreaker payout ## [Wvyerdown vs Irontree: An Example of War](https://arsludi.lamemage.com/index.php/5127/wvyerdown-vs-irontree-an-example-of-war/) _2026-05-22 · Ben Robbins · ars ludi_ You know what This Means War is missing? Examples. There are not nearly enough examples. I was hyper focused on making sure all the rules clicked before I handed you the playtest, but now that it s out, I ve got time to demonstrate exactly what playing a war is like. And (spoiler) you re reading it right \[ \] ## [Hello, I’m a Battlemap](https://arsludi.lamemage.com/index.php/5119/hello-im-a-battlemap/) _2026-05-18 · Ben Robbins · ars ludi_ What does This Means War look like on your table? A little something like this: That intimidating beast is the Battlemap. But don t be afraid, it is here to help. The Battlemap makes your game flow more smoothly by showing the state of each nation, the territory, the current action, and a brief history of \[ \] ## [This Means War is ready to play](https://arsludi.lamemage.com/index.php/5108/this-means-war-is-ready-to-play/) _2026-05-13 · Ben Robbins · ars ludi_ Want to start some trouble? The playtest of This Means War is ready to download and play, right now. Be warned, it is very… different… from my other games. We ve played it a bunch and had some pretty fantastic experiences, but it is still very much a summerlab experiment: We re going to sit down together \[ \] ## [Techno-libertarianism is nonsense on stilts](https://tommcinerney.substack.com/p/techno-libertarianism-is-nonsense) _2026-05-13 · Tom McInerney · Rights, regulation, rule of law with Tom McInerney_ The Musk-Altman OpenAI battle exposes the tech industry's dependence on the state ## [Making Peace with Microscope](https://arsludi.lamemage.com/index.php/5101/making-peace-with-microscope/) _2026-05-08 · Ben Robbins · ars ludi_ I did, by the way, literally change my opinion on Microscope and this rule as I was writing this post, which was originally going to be a piece about how weird and bad this rule is This is a great article by Nicholas aka omophagic\_beast, having a lot of issues with Microscope, but then digging \[ \] ## [Yellow Journalism and Newsweek’s Hit Piece On NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani](https://jonmay.substack.com/p/yellow-journalism-and-newsweeks-hit) _2026-04-27 · Jon May · Legally Speaking..._ I am not an apologist for New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani. ## [Help me Help Men](https://anani.bearblog.dev/help-me-help-men/) _2026-04-20 · anani · Pedro Pavón_ On May 17th, I'm riding in The Distinguished Gentleman's Ride for the 4th time. It is a global event raising funds and awareness for men's mental health. With your help, I've raised thousands of dollars over the years. I feel that the need for caring for men, especially young men, is greater than ever right now. Many men have lost the thread. They've abandoned kindness and compassion and confuse… ## [Actual Play Roundup: “That person leaves and never comes back to sports”](https://arsludi.lamemage.com/index.php/5089/actual-play-roundup-that-person-leaves-and-never-comes-back-to-sports/) _2026-04-19 · Ben Robbins · ars ludi_ Want to listen to people playing games? Well you ve got options, because folks out there are playing games of all shapes and sizes: Stormwrought Shores, The Emerald Bloodletting (Microscope: Chronicle): That s the link to the first episode, but The Unexplored Places is already up to game three. Baseball, In This World: Their sports career is \[ \] ## [Hungarian voters demand rule of law](https://tommcinerney.substack.com/p/hungarian-voters-demand-rule-of-law) _2026-04-17 · Tom McInerney · Rights, regulation, rule of law with Tom McInerney_ What lessons from Poland's experience tell us about prospects for reform in Hungary and the US ## [A Plan to Hold DOJ Leadership Accountable for Undermining the Rule of Law: Lawyers For the Rule of Law White Paper](https://jonmay.substack.com/p/a-plan-to-hold-doj-leadership-accountable-d85) _2026-04-15 · Jon May · Legally Speaking..._ Published in the on-line legal journal Verdict ## [A Star-Pattern Loophole: Words, Words, Words](https://arsludi.lamemage.com/index.php/5077/a-star-pattern-loophole-words-words-words/) _2026-04-13 · Ben Robbins · ars ludi_ From my original Star-Pattern post: A player can describe whatever they want their character to do but it’s not \*real\* until it goes through the approval of the GM, because there can always be factors the GM knows about but the players don’t, which could cause them to unexpectedly fail or succeed. There is, of \[ \] ## [To the Moon 🚀🌖](https://anani.bearblog.dev/to-the-moon/) _2026-04-01 · anani · Pedro Pavón_ Really enjoyed watching the moon launch. I hope achievements like these help the AI technocratic would-be feudalists realize that what makes this event great is that humans are at the center of it. When so many are eager to hand human agency over to machines, remember this: every great endeavor in history emerged from curious and brave people. No AI will ever produce greatness on its own because… ## [This Means War: Crushing Dreams and Alarming Civilians](https://arsludi.lamemage.com/index.php/5066/this-means-war-crushing-dreams-and-alarming-civilians/) _2026-03-30 · Ben Robbins · ars ludi_ The playtest of This Means War is chugging along, alarming civilians and crushing dreams. Dreams of the characters, that is the players love it. After 10 games I can confidently say that this weird experiment actually works. We ve got two wars going, ancient Baat Kazir and futuristic Novaterra, and I am tremendously pleased with \[ \]