The press is intent on whitewashing Republican agency out of everything.

Watching history one step at a time. 100 miles on a treadmill…absolute grit. 🏃‍♀️🔥👏 #W#WorldRecordR#RecordAttemptruntok #treadmill #running @iFIT TikTok video by MBurakRuns

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Ashley Paulson sets world 100-mile treadmill record in Boston - Canadian Running Magazine Paulson averaged 4:46 per km over 100 miles on a treadmill at the Boston Marathon Expo

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Emails show Amazon colluding with other firms to raise prices, California authorities allege The previously redacted messages were unveiled as part of an antitrust battle with California attorney general Rob Bonta

Emails released on Monday by California’s attorney general show Amazon allegedly colluding with other companies to raise the prices of pet treats, khaki pants, eyedrops and other products sold online

Daniel Blackman—an early favorite—was disqualified last summer on similar grounds AFTER early voting had early voting had already started.

A June 11 @georgiarecorder.com article quoted one Clayco voter saying, “It’s disappointing to hear my vote won’t matter.”

Blackman was, of course, a Democrat.

Infowars’ endless afterlife The Onion may finally boot Alex Jones from his studio, but years of damage have already been done.

NEW: How exactly has Alex Jones avoided paying the Sandy Hook families a single dime of what he owes? I wrote about it here, and spoke to Chris Mattei, an attorney for some of the families, and Lenny Pozner, the father of the youngest child who died at Sandy Hook: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

I mean, it's one of the classics

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👏 Canada 👏 Post 👏 is 👏 a 👏 public 👏 service 👏

Nothing proves how capitalism has brain rotted everyone than thinking the post office, hospitals, public transit, libraries, etc. need to turn a profit to be worthwhile.

Keep this in mind next time Dreher opines on welfare, the state, and minorities.

Ahead of midterms, Trump’s DOJ is targeting voting in three of the most pivotal swing-state counties "They're basically acknowledging they got nothing," one elections expert said. "It's going to be used for propaganda and PR. And DOJ's law enforcement powers aren't supposed to be used for propaganda ...

With the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) last week demanding 2024 election records from Wayne County, Michigan, the Trump administration is now aggressively targeting the voting process in perhaps the country’s three most pivotal voting jurisdictions. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Banks is of those authors on my personal "died too young" list (e.g., Olivia Butler, Douglas Adams). What would they have made of this insanity we inhabit?

This is one of the dumbest things I’ve ever read (w alt text)

A 2:01 at Boston???? This year was deepest field we’ve ever seen #courserecord #asicsrunning #bostonmarathon #marathonmonday TikTok video by bunnies4allison

4:39 min/miles for 26 miles - new course record:

www.tiktok.com/t/ZTkHGGYsq/

Congrats to everyone who ran/walked/rolled today!

The DC area’s first women’s sports bar is officially open. Westover Taco in Arlington has a new mission under woman ownership.
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Measles outbreak means my immunocompromised son can’t leave the house without extreme safety measures Hundreds of thousands of families are making life-or-death decisions as measles continues to spread.

Yes, measles, Covid-19, flu... it does not matter, public health is a shared responsibility - our decisions impact others around us

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The Mask is Off: Major Anti-Abortion Group Calls for Arrest of Abortion Patients Students for Life says it should be "an easy vote"

It was only a matter of time: the powerful anti-abortion org Students for Life has endorsed legislation to imprison abortion patients.

The move marks the biggest shift in anti-abortion politics in decades. jessica.substack.com/p/the-mask-i...

sauron's security infamously cannot account for three tiny guys, one of whom is literally carrying his most prized possession and who is able to do so fully into the heart of his realm where it is destroyed

Microplastics and nanoplastics were found in 100% of healthy brains, 99.4% of diseased brains, with much higher concentrations adjacent to brain tumors
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How the Kremlin Turned a MAGA Influencer Trip Into an Influence Operation - VSquare.org A report of Alliance4Europe and an investigation by Vsquare and Context.ro uncovered that a 10-day trip to Moldova and Moscow by a group of MAGA influencers from the US, Canada, and the UK was used in a Russian online info operation.

🔎🇷🇺 A 10-day Moldova–Moscow trip by MAGA influencers from the US, UK and Canada was leveraged in a Kremlin-linked influence operation named “Matushka”. No proof the influencers knowingly took part – but we uncovered their many ties to Russia. VSquare.org

How Ideology Reinforced Juristocratic Thinking on the Shadow Docket And in what sense is John Roberts an institutionalist?

Something about the NYT discoveries over the weekend made me think of things at the intersection of my work, @stevevladeck.bsky.social, and @corinneblalock.bsky.social. Here's a new Substack. If you get the chance Corinne has a similar piece coming out soon that really inspired me to write this.

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Cracked dry earth and withered vegetation under a hazy sky signaling severe drought conditions near suburban homes.

Virginia is now in its worst drought in nearly 20 years, and Fairfax County is under a Drought Warning. More than 60% of the state is classified as Severe Drought or higher.

Details: https://ow.ly/GX4p50YMGjR

1980-94 Complete Far Side Comics : Larry Garson : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive 1980-to-1994 Complete Far Side Comics reposted for convenience only – No Rights Implied

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Original publication date December 6, 1987

‘Bat feast’ animal videos at African cave offer clues to how deadly viruses spread Researchers filmed 10 species eating or scavenging bats at known Marburg-virus hotspot — and caught hundreds of humans visiting.

"the team caught on video more than 200 people — tourists, trainees from a local wildlife institute and children with school groups — approaching the cave [("in a known hotspot for Marburg virus")] during the four-month period when the cameras were active."

The next pandemic can be preventing by addressing the wildlife trade and deforestation (so no surprises). More large-scale surveillance is needed at the human-animal interface

Should be noted that fur farming is a significant problem when it comes to harbouring viruses which represent a risk to humans

It’s a good idea, but I wonder if he knows that Substack is part of the same “parallel media” operation as X & that Musk ally Marc Andreessen has funded both of them? To be fair, I don’t think most people know this (yet). 1/