Here's some good news: Catelin Drey won a special election this week to flip a seat blue in the Iowa Senate and break Republicans' supermajority.

This is what keeps me up at night. How can it be that the United States of America is turning its back on millions of (mostly but not all) Africans? This is not who we were. Is it who we are?
www.washingtonpost.com/.../africa-p...

I had to bring this here because it’s so good

The #Dems and #progs could now foment discord by plastering “Vance is controlling Trump.” Which will make the clown crazy. And which also by the way appears not untrue.

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2/ - Local: @seattletimes-rss.bsky.social hasn't published I-137 election updates after Tuesday.

Is it lazy or because they lost? (They sure told us 1A would destroy us plenty before Tuesday!)

Does the publisher expect us to continue to pay for local news that we must find elsewhere? Do better.

1/ National: My hot takes on the most outrageous, h/t to @tpm.bsky.social:

“I’m … here today to directly and unambiguously express that stark strategic realities prevent the United States from being the primary guarantor of security in Europe.”

So says SecDef @petehegseth.bsky.social at NATO HQ

I don't tbh. I did spend a bunch of high school senior year in the student center at ACC, not going to classes with Mary Ann Allen.

Ha! Hi Jim!!

Hi! Thanks for the message. I wore only lace-up shoes - no loafers, slip-ons - until I was 18 because Dad said it would nearly cure my flat feet. He was right there, too. So who are you (sorry)?