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Former journo. Italy evangelist. Extraordinary house sitter. Lover of dogs. Durmer.
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Congratulations to #AndersonClayton on your re-election as the @ncdemocrats.bsky.social party Chair with @abreezeclayton.bsky.social the #ncdp expects to do great things in the upcoming #Congressional & #senate #elections

Question 4 in the NYT weekly news quiz. Find the error. #copyediting

It may not be cool or hip in some circles, but we legitimately do need a massive amount of people to run for office. Flood the school boards, councils, county seats, state legislatures, Congress, etc. Big changes at the top happen when the ground shifts at the bottom. And that can start now.

Wait, are Dan Caine's pronouns he/they?

1 or 2 people out of 100. So about the same rate as redheads.

JUST IN: A judge has enjoined President Trump's effort to block federal funds from going toward grant recipients who engage in DEI practices. The judge says the orgs are likely to succeed on claims that this is viewpoint discrimination, among other issues storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

The postal service, found in Article 1 of the US Constitution. Also a band.

lmao, jesus

Does this mean we're Canada's eleventh province?

New Bluesky feature makes you watch an hour of MSNBC before replying

After emancipation, ex-enslavers claimed that educating Black Southerners would cause a "negro insurrection." The idea came from the Haitian Rev—that if Black ppl really understood how they were exploited, they wouldn't stand for it. The anti-woke/CRT/DEI GOP repeats this same racist nonsense today.

Capri Son

The root that tears apart your foundation begins as a seed of distrust, hate, and blame. The seed that grew into a dictatorship in Europe didn’t arrive overnight. It started with everyday Germans mad about inflation and looking for someone to blame.

The comma after trade-off seems to change the entire meaning of the sentence, no?

Dawg, we have a fifth-place government now.

Gov. Hochul: "Think about this next time you're stuck in traffic." www.youtube.com/watch?v=mhFl...

This will come as news to the red-cockaded woodpecker.

It was sitting right there.

Oh FFS

Hey Peter: Get all the way fucked.

Trump's lawyers are absolutely flailing in the courts right now

I'm quite, quite, quite done with this clown.