Far from absurd, it may have happened before: pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC... (2019 study of Ronald Reagan's speech patterns suggesting that his dementia began during his presidency).

The union representing thousands of Harvard graduate students just went on strike - The Boston Globe The university and its graduate student union are at odds over pay and protections for noncitizen students.

Faculty, your job is to be annoyed at the administration and back the students 100%!

www.bostonglobe.com/2026/04/21/b...

This is the most believable JFK conspiracy theory, because it means that the cover-up was worse than the crime, it isn't that always the way?

Omaha Is Home to a Massive Superfund Site. Most Kids Living There Aren’t Tested for Lead. For more than a century, a smelter and other factories spewed 400 million pounds of lead dust across the city’s east side. Faced with similar concerns, 13 states passed laws requiring all kids to get ...

Many states have passed laws requiring universal lead screening — but not Nebraska.

So in Omaha, where factories deposited 400 million pounds of the toxic metal, most kids haven’t been tested.

I wondered. You're welcome!

Minnesota News Cold Open - SNL YouTube video by Saturday Night Live

You can rewatch the whole thing here: youtu.be/5H_ZdnvMJnE

The fact that every major police union endorsed Donald Trump is under appreciated in our political discourse.

“I Have Lost Everything”: The Toll of Cities’ Homeless Sweeps Cities often take belongings — including important documents and irreplaceable mementos — when they conduct sweeps of homeless encampments. ProPublica gave notecards to people across the country so th...

We asked people who lived in homeless encampments that were cleared out in city “sweeps” to write about what object was the hardest for them to lose.

“They took my baby pictures and my moms obituaries,” a man in California wrote.

(Published Dec. 2024)

This is the problem with your plan to turn Infowars into a parody of itself; it already is.

I haven't looked into this case, so it might be something different, but Head Start preschool programs are usually run by private charities using a mixture of federal and state money, rather than run by state governments like K-12 school is. Some states have public preschool, but most don't.

Thanks, it looks like #61, dated March 11, is the last possible deadline for a withdrawal (although for other reasons the ballot isn't fixed yet then). But that's the USA's long election season for you!

That poor bee is dying! Upside down; wings spread but not flying; two legs missing; I don't know what's going on with those eye spots but the actual eyes seem to be missing; only one mandible which has somehow been shoved to the centre; and the clearest sign of impending death: no more stinger!

The Deal That Could Destroy Hollywood - The American Prospect Paramount’s purchase of Warner Bros. would be a huge blow to filmmakers and film lovers alike.

prospect.org/2026/04/20/d...

I didn't find much on google, but I did find that counties must mail ballots by May 4, so I hope that the deadline hasn't passed. (Even people who drop out still garner votes if their name's on the ballot.)

When do they print the ballots?

I see that the judge still to approve the sale. And Jones has another website to jump to. But hopefully you'll control the URL (etc) soon.

To what extent do you own it? if I go to infowars dot com, it's still Alex Jones bullshit. Will you be suing him for trademark infringement now?

Because it's the only free preschool in the area. Which is because the grant went to a Catholic school and now there's no money left for anyone else. That's how a lot of these ‘free child care’ programs work.

It's not a religious classification at all. We have the term ‘evangelical’, which for us refers to conservative Protestant groups. But the Religious Right is a *political* program that started mainly as an alliance between evangelicals and Catholics with similar right-wing positions.

The present no longer lasts long enough to be a setting. All fiction is either science fiction or historical fiction.

I've been saying this for long enough that even this statement itself is no longer true. The future doesn't last long enough either. All science fiction is now retrofuturism.

Zine cover reading: MAY DAY STRONG Friday, May 1, 2026 HERE'S WHAT YOU DO No school, no work, no shopping

Made a #MayDayStrong zine! Here's what we're all doing on Friday, May 1, 2026, friends -- and why! Check out the zine in this thread and check out maydaystrong.org for events near you!

Pancreatic cancer mRNA vaccine shows lasting results in an early trial Scientists caution that more research is needed, but nearly all of the patients who responded to the personalized vaccine are still alive six years later.

“Pancreatic cancer mRNA vaccine shows lasting results in an early trial. Scientists caution that more research is needed, but nearly all of the patients who responded to the personalized vaccine are still alive six years later.”

This is why we should fund science. 🧪

Now you're talking sense!

Just different kinds of vanilla.

Sweet, I was right!

It's not? Are they wrestlers?

Yes, we need even more thorough changes to have a representative democracy going forward.

Not that that explains Baby Jesus's huge legs. But that's not a matter of perspective either. I think that besides the masters of perspective, we also have to give credit to people like Leonardo who studied anatomy.

I think that they knew the general idea, but it's hard to make it look right without knowing the geometric principles to use, so instead they used size to indicate relative importance and didn't try to make that realistic.

Damnatio memoriae is well and good, but what they really need to do is to revoke all of his executive orders, repeal all legislation he signed, and vacate all of his Supreme Court's decisions.