i think that's the plot to goncharov

The world needs to purify itself in the waters of Lake Minnetonka

oh my god they really did "while you were having sex i was studying the blade"

Why I'm Voting Yes on Virginia's Redistricting Amendment Today Virginia votes on a constitutional amendment that would allow mid-decade redistricting — redrawing congressional maps in a way that would eliminate mos...

the case for strategic gerrymandering youtu.be/YgMSs_aMP84?si…

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Iran going after Bsky is a genuinely funny waste of resources.

and it was a hub for isis recruitment and engagement! but never hacked!

tumblr was definitely targeted by the russians in 2015-16 for disinfo but has not, to my knowledge, ever been hacked by a foreign gov

The ‘public trust crisis’ in science largely comes down to ‘scientists tell people things they don’t want to hear’. Applies equally to climate science

ICE detained more than 70 Minnesota children, data reveals Immigration officials detained more than 70 Minnesota children between Dec. 1 and March 10, a Sahan analysis of court records and federal deportation data shows.

“This is a systemic violent act, to be detaining children, that has long-term consequences,” Kelley said. “It’s massively detrimental to the well-being of these families and our whole communities.”

hate it here

it's a good thing i wasnt there for what im sure was coming down the pike of "the end of the cold war was a peaceful transition"

New lawsuit aims to block Trump DOJ from building national voter database via state voter roll grab The lawsuit calls the effort “a key component of the Trump Administration’s attempts to take over elections from states and subvert the 2026 midterms.”

🚨BREAKING: Pro-voting groups sued the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) Tuesday to block its bid to build a national voter database using private voter data from every state. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Opinion | My Child Died of Measles If more people had gotten the vaccine, she might still be here.

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.

in the IB history class i was observing, one of the questions students were prepping ahead of the exam was "who was more responsible for the end of the cold war, reagan or gorbachev" and i basically had to bite on a belt to keep my mouth shut

bad for the country, excellent content

what a one-two we could have had

would absolutely kill to work on an inspector pekkala series. hell id kill to find two other people who have read the series

First: hilarious.

Second: A core belief of Trump-brand conservativsm is there are and never have been difficult problems, only dumb leaders without the strength to be cruel enough to solve them.

It's why they always look so baffled when pushing the "more cruelty" button doesn't seem to work.

Obviously the answer is mostly “drugs” but it really is kind of fascinating to me how Musk oscillates between “a post scarcity utopian future is at hand!” and “the mongrel races are coming to claim the persecuted white man’s scarce resources in a zero sum game!”

What is the "Mamdani Act"? GOP bill would ban socialists, Marxists from US Chip Roy's "Mamdani Act" would make socialists, Marxists and Islamists deportable and inadmissible to the United States.

As a liberal, I am against this kind of thing.

the boys can be back in town, but without suitable transit and urban infrastructure there will be nowhere for them to go

evidence: california

"public input" was a mistake

there was also a breakout room about tax policy, whose discussions boiled down to "even if we tax the rich, it's not enough for all the entitlements The Left👹 is calling for so whoops better things are actually not possible"

at our big national conference there was a panel where legit they were like "wE haVE tO tAlk liKe nOrmAl pEopLe nO onE knOws wHat inTerSeCtiOnalIty is" and i about crashed the fuck out

as someone affiliated with these guys, national can say some Dumb Shit™️ but the dmv chapter got some cool dudes in it

brother it drives me up the fucking wall

i swear ive been seeing versions of this headline every few months since like 2010