“Constituents are really alarmed.” – state Representative Erin Zwiener
New from Miranda Williamson: Energy, water, and deep tax breaks ... legislators are just beginning to count the real costs of the data center boom.
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American Lung Association finds nearly half of U.S. children living in areas with a failing grade for air pollution, and says data centers could add to the problem.
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Virginia Republicans are pointing fingers after their narrow gerrymandering loss, with many frustrated that the party didn't spend much more, much earlier.
One GOP operative: “You’d be hard pressed to find a single Republican tonight who doesn’t think the GOP should’ve done more in Virginia."
Assisted dying campaigners sent a powerful message to the House of Lords as they gathered for the UK’s largest ever public demonstration in support of assisted dying.
President Trump’s administration rocked the American research enterprise over the last year with disruptions and changes to the historically reliable stream of federal funding that fueled it.
Labs are running on fumes. https://wapo.st/48dWJWX
Previously: “It was really important to document it [so that] no one can say this didn’t happen … and really just for people to understand the human toll that these state laws and now the federal government is having on these families, that they have become political refugees in their own country.”
Then they shouldn't be doctors.
Arkansas public television receives three-year, $3M pledge to keep PBS in state arkansasadvocate.com/2026/04/21/a...
That's the plan..
BREAKING: As Virginians head to the polls to vote on Democrats’ redistricting plan, Steve Bannon warned that “demonic” Democrats will impeach Trump and gerrymander congressional districts nationwide if they win today.
If passed, the map would likely give Democrats a 10-1 advantage in the state.
NEW: Common Cause, ACLU, CREW and other pro-voting groups sued the DOJ to stop it from building a national voter database using private voter data from every state.
They called the effort a bid "to take over elections from states and subvert the...midterms" and a threat to Americans' voting rights.
In @nytopinion.nytimes.com
Rebecca Archer’s daughter died of measles that she contracted before she was old enough to be vaccinated. “Parents must realize that refusing vaccinations doesn’t just put your own child at risk. It puts other children at risk,” Archer writes.
The secretary of war threatens to undermine the nonpartisan culture of America’s armed forces. The damage he is doing could last longer than the conflict with Iran
Farley famously drove a Xiaomi SU7 EV for six months in 2024 and said he did not want to give it up. https://bit.ly/4vFRQjp
Day after day, a team backing Iran’s theocratic regime releases videos, made with AI, that ridicule Donald Trump and glorify those who resist him
Marjorie Taylor Greene shared a controversial post on X on Saturday, driving arguments about Trump's shooting in Butler.
It’s almost like RFK jr is a moron
Duh
“Since the attempt on his life, Trump has show [sic] no interest in investigating what really happened. He never mentions it, it’s as if it never happened, except when he tells us, he took a bullet for us.” trib.al/lQLk7Xb
"NASA helped build out SpaceX," and now America's space agency is utterly dependent on the richest man alive.
Obviously 🥱
