people don't really get that because witches can't sink, they're a direct threat to surface combatants

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yet another conservative who thinks he can cheat without the opposition fighting back. still more lessons to be learned even after California and Virginia

2 awarded for exceptional contributions to youth arts in Wisconsin MADISON, Wis. -- The Wisconsin Youth Symphony Orchestras (WYSO) has named Diana Popowycz and the Theodore W. Batterman Family Foundation as recipients of the 2026 Rabin Youth Arts Awards, recognizing

The Wisconsin Youth Symphony Orchestras (WYSO) has named Diana Popowycz and the Theodore W. Batterman Family Foundation as recipients of the 2026 Rabin Youth Arts Awards.

Endangered/Endangering Hailey Kaas published a post on Ko-fi

Hi! I (re)debuted as an artist, and I'm now uploading my artwork on my kofi page! I also write a newsletter about resistance and hope to go through these terrible times. If you like it, please consider subscribing and donating to help my mom fight cancer here in Brazil ❤️
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I love this artwork, and also Hailey's beautiful explanation of it.

She's using newspaper articles about Operation Tarantula, a police operation which targeted transfems/travesti like Hailey back in the day in Brazil. I love that she's turning this pain into something new. <3

Initializing Sequence The very

“I will talk about writing. And fiction. And nonfiction. And whether a lightbulb might be changed by a porpoise and two orangutan if they really worked at it. And I want you to join in.”

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Horrible, and deregulation will make accidents like this more common.

UH oceanographer selected as lead author of IPCC report on CO2 removal approaches SOEST oceanography professor David Ho was selected as a lead author for the 2027 IPCC Methodology Report on carbon dioxide removal (CDR) and carbon capture, utilization and storage (CCUS)

It me!

Gritty

Bluesky's leadership is basically Basil Fawlty: they have dreams of a higher class of customer and they are appalled that they have to put up with the riffraff that has actually shown up.

Gritty comes for us all

this is the best thing I’ve seen today by quite a bit

For the fifth time, a vote in the US Senate to limit Trump’s war in Iran falls short • South Dakota Searchlight Senate Republicans, and one Democrat, maintained their support for President Donald Trump’s war in Iran, after blocking for the fifth time a resolution that would force the president to seek…

Senate Republicans including South Dakota's John Thune and Mike Rounds, and one Democrat, blocked for the fifth time a resolution that would force the president to seek congressional authorization for further military action in #Iran.

Via @statesnewsroom.com

Juliana Stratton won her IL primary by literally telling Trump to fuck off and relentlessly refusing to do any kind of bipartisan bullshit.

I think there's a lesson there!
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In 2026, if your article assessing "fandom" is mostly sourced from Twitter, you'd better frame the article as being *about* Twitter fandom specifically. That is a verrry narrow and intentional subset of fans today. That's not to say it's not worth covering—but that framing needs to be prominent.

i think it's great and cool that the guy second-in-line from the presidency has all of the people associated with claremont as his staffers

like buddy, you published a hateful screed about a tiny trans news website because you didn't like what your former employee said lol

it is very ironic for the New York Times to be upset about retaliatory investigations considering they do the exact same thing to queer organizations that criticize them lol

It cannot be overstated the degree to which the GOP has rebranded "being factually, technically, mathematically, objectively wrong" as "a different way of doing things."

It is an entire party where there can be no correct and incorrect, just a difference of opinion.

This is the difference between a political party that might argue in good faith or might try to spin lies to convince people, and a party that has given itself entirely to a bullshit regime where citizens can't ever move to any common vision of what is good.
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For the fifth time, a vote in the US Senate to limit Trump’s war in Iran falls short • Idaho Capital Sun Idaho's Mike Crapo and Jim Risch, both Republicans, voting against a resolution that would force Trump to seek congressional authorization for further action in Middle East.

As of Wednesday, the Pentagon updated the number of American troops injured in the conflict to 400.

Trump’s FCC Wants Input on Whether ‘Transgender and Gender Nonbinary’ TV Programming Is ‘Appropriate’ for Children The FCC, led by Trump-appointed chairman Brendan Carr, wants feedback about whether the TV industry's voluntary ratings need to be tweaked -- specifically with regard to how shows with child-friendly ...

Seems bad that the Trump administration is trying to use the FCC to scare media companies into actively avoiding stories related to trans people, tbh.

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There's stupid and there's dangerous, and then there's this piece of work that manages to seamlessly combine the two in a tour de force of bad reasoning. I hope people take note of the second name on that byline list. Is this guy some sort of GOP trojan horse op'n?

Dan Lehner reaction thread is 🎯

When the Rules Fail: Tax Incentives and Defense Sustainment In the 1986 World Cup, Diego Maradona scored his infamous “Hand of God” goal — an obvious handball that went uncalled, because the referee did not have

The Pentagon keeps asking how to build industrial base capacity. It might start by asking why it’s sidelining the maintenance capacity it already has.

America Just Shrugged at the Largest Mass Shooting in Years A horrifying massacre in Louisiana can teach us a few things, but first we need to pay attention.

"Children who are black or Latino, or come from lower-income communities, have a higher probability of being victims. Their deaths stopped being 'news' a long time ago. This is a uniquely American phenomenon but one we’ve come to accept." How about not?

The NYT believes their coverage on trans people has been fair – we beg to differ!

GLM affirming mom of a trans teen confronted the New York Times during its annual shareholder meeting about its anti-trans coverage, which Trump administration & others have cited to justify discrimination & harm.

So I just made this big long thread to explain percentages & I messed up some of the wording in a way that made part of it wrong! 🤦🏼‍♀️

The way these things work:

New price is 100% of old price = price stays the same (price x 1)

Price GOES UP by 100% = price doubles (price + price x 1)

The front of the Warren E. Burger Federal Building in downtown Saint Paul, MN.

Spent an hour here this afternoon here pulling court docs for habeasdockets.org - a project piecing together the full picture of federal immigration detention cases by ensuring public access to hard-to-reach information.

If you've been looking for a way to help, maybe this is for you...!

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Yesterday, another member of Congress, Rep. Tim Burchett (R-TN), went on this QAnon-affiliated network, going on a podcast that calls itself "DEFCON ZERQ." On the podcast, where the hosts & Burchett discussed UFOs, Burchett said it was "a complete & total honor" to be on the podcast.