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.
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.
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)
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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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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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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🔎🇷🇺 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
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
Original publication date December 6, 1987
"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/
finding actual humans to listen to approaching needle-in-a-haystack difficulty level
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this is more than Tesla got for its car factory in Austin which employs 16,000+ people
Much rather swap in a fresh battery than hook up a heavy battery pack while the phone charges.
