Notice DOJ doesn't talk about its efforts to obtain state voter files anymore. They are 0-20 in those cases and today is the beginning of the quiet period -- states can no longer do systematic removals of names from the voter rolls. TLDR: We won!🥳
Mark Arnest
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Composer, Pianist, Servant to Several Cats. He/him. 💙 🇺🇸🇺🇦 Born 312.4 ppm CO2
More cops have been arrested for using flock cameras to stalk women than there are transgender athletes in youth sports.
on the political side, I do think (and have thought for awhile) we need an org thats dedicated to recruiting, training, and supporting Jewish candidates for office, because there is clearly an effort to drive Jews from public life.
looking at the headlines and reflecting once again on how all the smart, hard-working, honest people I know feel like they’re going at least a little insane in our era of total Stupid Immoral Asshole ascendancy
We can verify the daily physical status of a specific Seattle raccoon but apparently we're completely unable to determine whether a United States Senator is alive or dead.
ContempraInn 🌹@contemprainn.bsky.social · 2w agoJimothy the racoon from Seattle keeps getting spotted
No, No, no. Look, are there lessons to learn from this debacle? Sure. Drone warfare, mag depth, etc. But the solution here is not 'yet more tactical excellence or tech.' It is 'the president asked the impossible of the military and they should have said so.' www.theatlantic.com/internationa...
The War Is Lost. Now Fix What It Broke.
America has to rethink how it moves resources, fights wars, and deters adversaries.
theatlantic.com
If anyone would like to see a short video of a baby Armadillo having a drink of milk, this is your lucky day.
I look for info on the McConnell situation about 5 times a day, because--legitimately--as a mystery writer I have a major interest in how you hide a dead body.
I’m not entirely sure who put this sign up… …but I fully support the initiative and will be conducting regular quality inspections. Purely in the interests of sustainability, of course.
China just got a heliostat plant – a concentrated solar power (CSP) station using a large field of computer-controlled mirrors, [heliostats], to reflect the sun on to a tall central tower – to power 170k homes a year and save 130k tons of CO2. The US is getting a ballroom.
what’s the Odyssey about? I’m so glad you asked
Imagine writing this and asking the newspaper to publish it
Trump Derangement Syndrome is getting in the way of my love life | Opinion
A retired professor shares how political polarization is impacting his dating life in modern America.
dispatch.com
How do you sell Paella to Minnesotans? “The hotdish of Spain” 😂
Spoke to my friend Mitch McConnell for 20 minutes today
let this be a lesson to deal with your feelings of gender anxiety and masculine inadequacy with a hobby or therapy or something and not a high stakes senate election
I think it is just a really strange take to conclude that the world's longest standing written constitution, which also happens to be the constitution of its most powerful and prosperous country, is a "remarkable failure." 'It's not perfect' - sure. But a failure? Uh, scoreboard?
Cat: “I cannot convey to you just how much I genuinely despise this food.” Me: “Here, have this instead.” Cat: “OMG I LOVE IT.” Me: “It’s exactly the same bowl of food. I just took it away for six seconds then put it back in the same place.” Cat: “I am fire and the wind. Do not attempt to know me.”
Post from the intrepid Tamino: Not just another summer tamino.wordpress.com/2026/06/28/n...
Not just another summer
When it comes to temperature in Europe, there is absolutely no doubt — unless you are a complete idiot or outright liar (or both) — that this is not “just summer.” Europe is…
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"Mistakenly, we thought that by just introducing artificial intelligence and ingesting the design requirements that we had, that that would produce a high-quality product." Holy cow, Ford bought the AI hype, believing they could go "hey computer, make me a good car" and it would.
Dare Obasanjo@carnage4life.bsky.social · last mo.Ford has rehired hundreds of senior engineers after replacing them with AI backfired and has cost the company billions of dollars. AI adoption is blamed for Ford being the most recalled automaker in the U.S. with 51 recalls covering over 11 million vehicles in the first half of 2026 alone.
The World Cup is proof that if not for our leaders, the vast majority of the world's people would get along just fine.
I've spent the last two months putting together this exhaustive analysis of the New York Times coverage of trans people. It covers 3,242 articles over 12 years. In 2022, the NYT shifted towards a hostile stance towards trans people in their framing. www.thedissident.news/exclusive-ho...
Exclusive: How The New York Times Changed Its Coverage of Trans People
An exhaustive analysis of over 3,242 articles by the New York Times covering transgender issues from 2014-2026 revealed a stark shift towards hostile framing in 2022. In January 2015, the New York Ti...
thedissident.news
“Dirtbagism essentially authorizes any kind of dishonesty or cruelty if it’s deployed by people on the left. Proper progressive positions are presumed to be a pre-justification for bad behavior.” www.liberalcurrents.com/the-dirtbags...
The Dirtbags Won’t Save Us
There is no path out of our present crisis offered by the exultation of callousness.
liberalcurrents.com
Did Kushner and Witkoff personally profit from selling out the U.S. to Iran on these terms? I wish it was an unfair question to ask.
I'm a progressive because I value diverse and multiethnic spaces with people from many different places and backgrounds intermingling and developing new cultural forms together. A certain kind of discourse of cultural appropriation truly borders on "blood and soil nationalism, but call it leftist."