NEW: The USPS changed its rules on how it postmarks ballots. This may affect elections at every stage at which there's a mail deadline. An underplayed one: VOTER REGISTRATION. Many voters who send in their registration forms by mail could be postmarked late, missing out without realizing it.

Subacute sclerosing panencephalitis (SSPE) is one of the delayed complications of measles and affects up to 1 in 600 unvaccinated children who’ve had measles. It occurs without warning an average of 7 years after infection and can occur decades later. There is no cure and it is almost always fatal.

I'm convinced none of these people have normal jobs, because if you tried to talk like this in any normal workplace, people would look at you like you had grown a tentacle out of your forehead

like jfc talk to a normal person for once in your life. If a friend told me that this happened to them my response would be “that’s awful, I’m so sorry to hear that, we need to do a better job of providing healthcare for people like that rather than just leaving them on the train” not “toughen up”

if these people were right wing psyops they wouldn’t be saying anything different

there are too many people on the left who think that politics entails being extremely unpleasant as a purity test. just a total dead end for a bunch of losers

American leftism will never achieve power if the response to getting peed on while taking public transit is “toughen up” public spaces should be safe and pleasant, and that shouldn’t be a hot take

Oh.

Like, polio paralyzing or killing thousands of children - CHILDREN! - is something that is still within living memory in this country. My father remembers it. He’ll tell you all about it. And these motherfuckers want to go “oh I dunno, there was that thing that one time” about Salk?

My father was born in 1945. The Salk vaccine wasn’t approved until 1955 (it was literally front page news). My dad remembers watching his mother’s tears of relief when he got the shot. He’s still alive, btw. You want me to go ask him what happened to the kids he played with who didn’t get the shot?

Again, Flavor Flav has been walking the walk of his Olympic fandom and his fierce support of women’s teams for a while now. I really hope they go.

Formal invitation to the hockey team sent,,, if any people with connections to the hockey team wanna have them email my team my bio. I’m for real. 👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾

I gots to bring my Bobsled + Skeleton team too

If the USA Women’s Hockey team wants a real celebration and invite ,,, I’ll host them in Las Vegas. Do some nice dinners and shows and good times. I’m sure I can get a hotel and airline to help me out here and celebrate these women for real for real. 👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾

they should invent a falling asleep on the couch that happens in bed

The most high-profile kidnapping case of our time is still unsolved and Kash Patel is slamming beers in the locker room with US men's Olympic hockey team.

Alysa Liu: It's really important to notice the faults in our own government, yeah, very similar to my dad. Things are rough in our country. There are so many protests going on that I've attended. Coming from a family of immigrants, I think immigrants deserve rights

Unironically, yes.

Tortured logic from John Yoo, but that’s how he likes it.

Investors will be limited to people who’ve never heard of The Producers.”

The left is going to end up with the CIA in the national divorce because educational polarization means knowing anything about China or Iran at all is woke coded, let alone leaning their language and history.

Anyway, as usual: nothing *could* happen, but I think we all need to remember that we live in a post "nothing ever happens" world. Every Iran crisis of the past 3 years has been more severe and come closer to disaster than the last, and on a long enough timeline eventually something's gotta give.

I can kinda understand why Caine or someone else might be suddenly waking up today and going "oh shit" regarding Trump and Iran since we've been boiling the frog on a steady military buildup for like two months or more now. But that's not an excuse, rather an explanation of why the sudden urgency.

I appreciate that *someone* is trying to stop us from doing something really fucking stupid re: Iran, but the fact that its only just starting *now* after we've moved so many forces in-theater and the entire region is on tenterhooks/freaking out is not, uh, great - to say the least of it.

Honestly, the fact only *now* at least some in higher Pentagon leadership are now trying to put the brakes on what's happening re: Iran is more discouraging than encouraging because it suggests we're a lot closer to something really fucking stupid actually happening for real this time.

Another L for Donald Trump

Breaking NBC: Jeanine Pirro's office has decided to stop pursuing the case against six Democratic lawmakers who urged members of the military and intelligence communities in a social media video not to comply with unlawful orders, three people familiar with the matter told NBC News.

trump refuses to understand that no one wants to think about him every fucking day, in the first admin, staff knew this, no one cares this time

just what americans want from a president on the verge of the worst approvals in american history, a speech that starts 50 minutes late and is three hours of petty, personal gripes and complaints

so the last sotu was 1 hour 39 minutes long, pegging it right at the "very sleepy castro speech announcing the opening of a new bus stop" length level. Let's see if our big wet boy can do better this year. no i will not be actually watching

I interviewed Josh Turek, a retired Paralympian running for #IASen, about how Democrats can reconnect with working people and he voluntarily brought up ending subminimum wage labor for people with disabilities. That's never happened before. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

for those who don't get it: basically anything that *actually* moves money around runs on an old IBM mainframe, which is programmed in cobol. this code has a VERY delicate change process, because, uh, if you break something, people don't get paid, their taxes are wrong, etc.

>they're going to vibecode cobol so, who's stocking up on canned food and shotguns?

It’s a week later but I haven’t forgotten that President Trump is trying to arrest leaders in Congress who oppose him politically. Never before in the history of the country has this happened. And we shouldn’t normalize it.

"Mr. President it will not only save lives it will save American taxpayers money if we let Ukraine test the F-47 platform rather than the USAF, it's just common-sense America First politics that saves money and reduces the trade deficit somehow"

What if we gave $100 billion in indirect fires to Ukraine just to see what it's like when the good guys overmatch the bad guys for a change

h o w

The odds started at zero. They havent gone anywhere from that. We were never getting these checks bc they were fake to begin with.

BREAKING: The 21-year-old man shot dead after entering Mar-a-Lago with a shotgun and gas canister on Sunday was an “outspoken” Christian, a strong Trump supporter, and obsessed with the cover-up of the Epstein files, according to people who knew him. trib.al/tHO6gez

Alright look, if you are an elite academic who jumped ship to an equally cushy endowed chair in Canada in early 2025 *while having multiple columns written about how you felt you just had to go* then you don't get to be included by default in the 'we' involved in shaping the future of the country.

Holy fucking shit they weren’t kidding about da blizzard

I am starting to perhaps……. maybe…….. possibly………. wonder if the MAGA movement may not care about women’s sports as much as they claimed in the run-up to the 2024 election……… will need to conduct further research

I lay like this with my cat like six times a week

Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, appears to have deleted his tweet after these Democrats responded

Extremely predictable (in fact, predicted by basically everyone) but still a little shocking that Team USA had its best Winter Olympics ever and the Trump administration didn’t celebrate any of the winners until the men’s hockey team, which they are celebrating A LOT

the old guy choking the teenage girl is apparently Quakertown Police Chief Scott McElree. share.inquirer.com/xBXG16

One time I got a threat from Mike Lee and all my friends were like “yeah but he’s a moron that doesn’t count”

Wait a minute, the journalist class is circling the wagons over one of their own quote-tweeting *chris brunet* to add some more of her thoughts on a Rothschild conspiracy theory??

I wrote about joy and resistance and Alysa Liu and Bad Bunny. dansinker.com/posts/2026-0...

the funny thing is this is true for journalists across the political spectrum.