“You are an abolitionist, ain’t you?” “As to that, I cannot so readily answer. If by abolitionist you mean a zealot, I am none; but if you mean a man, who, being a man, feels for all men, slaves included, and by any lawful act, opposed to nobody’s interest, and therefore, rousing nobody’s enmity, would willingly abolish suffering (supposing it, in its degree, to exist) from among mankind, irrespective of color, then am I what you say.” “Picked and prudent sentiments. You are the moderate man, the invaluable understrapper of the wicked man. You, the moderate man, may be used for wrong, but are useless for right.”

Herman Melville on moderates, all the way back in 1857:

RESULT: Omaha's Republican Mayor Jean Stothert just lost to her Democratic challenger John Ewing.

Stothert, who was running for a fourth term, resorted to anti-trans ads and messaging around who uses bathrooms in the final stretch of the campaign.

Ewing will be Omaha's first Black mayor.

Chair of DuPage Dems here… I believe we are leading in 44 of 45 partisan races countywide, and that includes total sweeps in several townships that haven’t had a Dem in decades if ever

Wow, Linke took Berlin-Neukölln. Stunning result for Berlin city politics

they have to be unafraid of it looking like/being called retaliation

Screenshot of Prop1A election results, showing Prop1A beat Prop1B 58-42

Another W for workers in Seattle! Thanks @seattledsa.bsky.social and @houseourneighbors.bsky.social

Anti-Trump Resistance Didn't Go Too Far. It Didn't Go Far Enough | Opinion Since Trump's election, many pundits, consultants, and Democratic elites have indicated it's time to stand down.

Since Trump's election, many Democratic pundits & elites have indicated it's time to stand down.

They think the “Resistance” of protest movements from 2016-2020 went too far, & people should now fight less hard.

I call these people "The Desistance”— they’re wrong!

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THE DEMOCRATS HAVE FLIPPED IOWA'S #SD35:

Mike Zimmer (D)- 51.8%
Katie Whittington (R)- 48.2%

THIS WAS A TRUMP+21 DISTRICT!

Nate Silver: "Thinking ChatGPT is useless is midwit. It's a magic box that answers any question you ask it from levels ranging from modestly coherent to extremely proficient. If you haven't bothered to figure it out to derive some utility out of it then you're just being lazy tbh."

i can see how you would come to this conclusion if your job didn't require you to ever be correct

years of lead paint

Beetles of Eastern North America The most comprehensive full-color guide to the beetles of eastern North America

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Regarding the letter to the editor: “Practice of neurosurgery on saturn”

Looks like they just published it as a bit lol www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

The Korean Confederation of Trade Unions has announced that it will begin an indefinite general strike tomorrow, demanding the immediate resignation of President Yoon Suk-yeol.

i mean it was kinda the opposite lol

So it turns out Joe Biden can use his vast power in norms-defying ways to oppose Republican intentions when he wants to.

Collier's Weekly Magazine US cartoon 1906 about Roosevelt's simplified spelling campaign sponsored by Carnegie

I mean they kinda tried but english doesn’t have a central academy like spanish or french so that’s not rly a thing. And also they made fun of everyone who tried lol

afaik it’s because of greek and the way that Υ/υ got transliterated into latin. In French the name for Y is literally “Greek I”

After we win 5 we get Toledo 😤😤

Fwiw she is pretty widely disliked even by her GOP colleagues. She’s all over the place. Messy. Fights with them too.

This is the most attention she has gotten in ages despite her many attempts, hence the differences in tack some have taken in this whole brouhaha. She really craves it. It’s weird