Ok, everybody: Place your predictions for the results of the Virginia Redistricting initiative tonight. I say it passes by 5.56%

UPDATE: this dangerous bill passed another hurdle in South Carolina today. We're keeping a close eye on how this bill is progressing. In the meantime, we need you to get LOUD about how EXTREME anti-abortion politicians are being. We have to fight back!

Let me RE-UP THIS LOUDER FOR THOSE IN THE BACK!!!!!!

all I’m saying is they put Britney under a conservatorship for a lot less

To be clear, he's done things since then too, and he's been in the Iowa Senate since 2019

Zach Wahls is that kid who went viral in 2011 for testifying at the Iowa state legislature about his gay moms. Anyway, I feel old

look, do I think bliowa is super likely? no

but trump has worked overtime on "fuck farmers specifically" this term, so

This isn't perfect, but I love it and it is a single long-exposure shot, not a composite. Rarely for me, this show had a bit of a plan behind it or at least the idea of looking across the bow with a long enough time exposure to render bergy bits in the water with streaks. 1/

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Every intelligent speculative fiction universe missed the mark by assuming things would happen for reasons that make sense

Don't let them steal your wonder. Says Skeltor feeling extra fab.

Right. Your choice is to a) stop using the phrase, because you don't want to offend people, or b) keep using the phrase, despite the risk of offending people. This is a minor thing that happens to everyone.

Tweet by “Secretary of War” Pete Hegseth: “The War Department is once again restoring freedom to our Joint Force. We are discarding the mandatory flu vaccine requirement, effective immediately.” Below there is a video of the announcement for his many, many illiterate fans

Behind Hegseth’s big stupid face, a painting can be seen.

The painting is of George Washington crossing the Delaware. It is by Emanuel Leutze.

An article from the National Parks Service: Smallpox, Inoculation, and the Revolutionary War Boston National Historical Park During the 1700s, smallpox raged through the American colonies and the Continental Army. Smallpox impacted the Continental Army severely during the Revolutionary War, so much so that George Washington mandated inoculation for all Continental soldiers in 1777. Just fifty-six years earlier, in 1721, Bostonian doctors and clergy introduced the procedure to the American colonies. Without the vision and determination of these early Bostonians in normalizing inoculation, Washington may not have made the decision to mandate inoculation for the Continental Army. Though it was a controversial action, many historians credit the medical mandate with the colonists' victory in the Revolutionary War and the creation of the United States of America.

It's a common Ghanaian name (and apparently common in other parts of the world too, but all the Nanas I've known have been Ghanaian)

The 2026 Atlantic storm name list: Arthur Bertha Cristobal Dolly Edouard Fay Gonzalo Hanna Isaias Josephine Kyle Leah Marco Nana Omar Paulette Rene Sally Teddy Vicky Wilfred

the 2026 Atlantic hurricane names have been released, and I need to tell you all right now that if I get swept off this mortal coil by a storm named Kyle I am haunting the halls of the World Meteorological Organization until the end of time

Opinion | Measles Took My Daughter. This Is What I Want Everyone to Know.

I hope this heartbreaking column gets through to some vaccine skeptics. I'm sharing a gift link in case you want to pass it along. (And if this is too much for you today and you need to skip by it, just do that.)

Two lines of three dimensional sans-serif letters colored in gradients of blue and purple reading ‘Maybe it will/Happen today’. Above the ‘y’ in’ today’ and with its bottom point nestled neatly into the fork of the letter it’s a similarly dimensional golden pentagram with little flares of golden light glinting off its vertices. The entire lockup is superimposed over a glittering rainbow as it all streaks together through a black void.

(*_*)/
<( ( Maybe
/ \

\(*_*)
) )> It Will
/ \ Happen

(*_*)/
<( ( Today
/ \

Oh wonderful!

It’s always darkest.

Maggie, do you ever sell your pigeons? They are perfect.

A pigeon on the go, wearing a fez, painted in acrylic over a green background

Today's pigeon is wearing a fez, and was painted in a hotel room

I would have said the same, but there’s no accounting for spouses.

We’re clearing out the garage and apparently my partner has a big bag of deer bones there. He’s had them since before we met. He’s moved them cross-country several times.

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Yes, he said he started drawing it on his hand every day before he knew there was a name for it. (What he draws doesn’t look a lot like most Jerusalem crosses.) It seems like a personal thing. I’ll find the interview

Colman Domingo!

We long for the halcyon days of the Burger Court

Esquites (street corn, not on the cob), served with lime and hot Cheeto dust. And yes, it was in a little plastic helmet

He always looks perfect. His clothes fit him so well, and he clearly gets such joy from his clothes.