shaded map of Virginia showing redistricting results from today’s special election Yes: 51% No: 49%

oof that was a lot closer than I thought it would be

we all know I have no life, so:

The SPLC has long monitored and exposed white nationalist and Christian nationalist hate groups, so it makes sense that an administration staffed by many people sympathetic to one or both of those movements would use the DOJ to go after them.

Tweet by Martina Navratilova. "Predator. That is how he should register. A sexual predator…" quote-tweeting a tweet by "Biology Rules OK" about Dr. Beth Upton, a trans woman

This tweet is highly defamatory and Martina Navratilova should be fired from BBC Sport for it.

It demonstrates an horrendous level of hatred for a trans woman (who was cleared of all wrongdoing in a recent tribunal) because she is a trans woman.

The Breathers

gettim

I’ve only lived in the US for less than a quarter of my life but it’s definitely Geico

It's very weird, as the scion of a German Jew who fled in the 30s, to be sitting here in Berlin and thinking "yes well it's good now"

Do *not* miss the alt-text for a great story.

My kids destroyed Nintendo Labo in a single day With many kids, Nintendo Labo can be a magical, educational bonding experience. My kids are not those kids...

I'm working on a parenting type thing for CHOICE and found myself re-reading the piece I wrote about Nintendo Labo when it first came out.

Remember all the glowing reviews about how this shit was gonna be the new Minecraft?

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Tim Cook to Step Down After 15 Years as Apple CEO John Ternus, Apple's senior vice president of hardware engineering, will replace Cook as Apple's chief executive officer.

Wow. 50th anniversary CEO change. Announced before WWDC www.cnet.com/news-live/ti...

Trump’s presidency is what evil looks like: absurd, frightening, cruel | Nesrine Malik Commentators have said that the US president’s clownishness and lack of ideology somehow make him less dangerous. They’re wrong, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik

“better to reign in Hell than serve in Heaven”

Stepanovs is surely ironic. Pepe, I reckon they thought he was the real deal and have been trying to style it out as ironic ever since. I bet Zohran Mamdani has a Bellerin shirt.

I think if you live in the US, it is like... beyond belief that countries can and do turn off the internet regularly.

When I was in Leh, India just turned off the internet to a region of 1.5 million people for no discernible reason and when I asked the locals were like "yeah that happens"

🎶this is how legends are made🎶

I think about this all the time

When Angela Rayner underpaid £40,000 in stamp duty, Richard Tice said it was "morally completely indefensible” and she should resign if she had “any moral decency”.

Now we learn he set up four shell companies that let him avoid paying £100,000 he owed in tax and to then transfer the cash to Reform

Morticia vibes (complimentary)

We live in a country where the two most dynamic, charismatic, eloquent politicians of this century have the first names Barack and Zohran. This is what bothers the white supremacists so much.

Federal judge unloads on ‘unserious’ RFK Jr., says anti-trans policy showed his ‘cruelty’ Judge Mustafa T. Kasubhai vacated the “Kennedy Declaration,” finding it unlawfully attempted to override medical standards and restrict care for transgender youth.

Breaking: HHS’s ban on gender-affirming care is struck down. Rarely have I read a ruling this sharply worded.

“This case is one of a long list of examples of how a leader’s wanton disregard for the rule of law causes very real harm to very real people.”

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John Roberts is and always has been Sam Alito with better PR

he has declared himself and his fellow republican justices the unelected rulers of America and they have wielded their power in favor of making Donald Trump of all people untouchable

the court as it exists today must be broken

Though Chris is probably right about the UK rejoining the EU, I feel the point needs re-stating that my old cat Biggles, dead since 2010, has more chance of forming a government than Farage. Reform's support would have them at best extending their second place/first loser showing nationwide-

Ian Culverhouse?!

Post the best picture you have ever taken of your pet (her little paw 🥰)

great question, great answer - thank you for this!

i could really relate to this person who wrote in and it was nice to get to answer them

me and the dog when it's 33C and humid in April