Guys is Talarico going to win

American politics is bananas. I can’t believe there is a whole generation growing up to think that it’s normal for known criminals to win party nominations and public office.

humanity's enduring desire to make Little Guys is truly wonderful This is a clay pig. It has an angry little face with furrowed brows, pointing down and a huge curved back that leads seamlessly into the top of the head (no neck) like it's rearing up to charge. A very round piggy.

"This is the PERFECT TIME to panic!"

It doesn't matter why the Choctaw word for Irish is Ailish: it just matters that we remember

I saw a discussion of weight and mortality statistics from yesterday and wanted to reiterate that the actual studies say overweight is healthier than underweight, normal weight, or obese

What's going on at the White House

1/WHO's IHR Emergency Committee has issued formal recommendations for the Bundibugyo virus PHEIC. Yesterday's press briefing gave the most complete picture yet of what's happening on the ground. Full update thread 🧵 #EbolaOutbreak

Conservatives are incapable of understanding the truth, and the truth is this: they are the decadent elite that cause the collapse of the polity that they keep fretting about. it's them, it's always been them.

Extra inning in the Braves-Nats game and the Nats just scored two runs

WH still doing a lot of chest-beating talk, but the GOP couldn't even pass a bill opening a women's museum, a bill funding ICE and the ballroom, or stop bills to end the Iran War this week. This is how every trifecta I've covered dies — they stop being functional majorities.

So has any member of Trump's Lionel Hutz fan club actually been disbarred yet

I don't know if this would be good or not, but I do know it would be funny

to put this on main feed: 1) this specific data center actually did completely fuck the local water supply during construction 2) that this didn't immediately get them crushed in court and forced to provide everyone with infrastructure for clean water is bad 3) that it's a data center is incidental

All joking aside, where the hell is Tom Kean? Everyone has a camera in their pocket; it seems impossible that someone could vanish off the face of the earth

Very good. It would be better if it was a 1,776% tax rate though

one of the defining crises of pretty much the entire developed world is no one being willing to tell the electorate to eat their vegetables and pick one of increased immigration of working age pop, increased taxes, or decreased pensions.

The person who originated this claim (Gregory Clark, 1986) walked it back when it was revealed that he came to this conclusion was because he was uncritically reading 13th century manorial records What those record actually reflected was labor *owed to the lord*, not the peasant's total labor

This is going to be impossible to explain to most people. But we really should have an update on this. Because it is likely KEY to the decision he just made to immunize himself from tax charges going forward.

Ds outvoting Rs without a single vote from Fulton is kind of insane

In the Public Service Commissioner race last year, Waites successfully disqualified a candidate due to residency concerns, lost the subsequent runoff, and Hubbard ended up winning the seat in the general

GA Primary Results (thread) With 27% of results in, Keisha Lance-Bottoms has a big lead (68%), with Thurmond and Esteves both at 13% On the GOP side, Jones is at 36% and Jackson is at 34% For US Senate (GOP), Mike Collins is at 41% followed by Dooley at 25%

I don't really have an opinion about Arsenal but I'm glad Manchester City didn't win again. I'm also pleased to see Chelsea is out of the top six.

After a mammal is a juvenile, they are an adult. But what are they after they are an adult? In seven species of mammal, including humans, life has a third act for females. We are underreacting to menopause.

Primary Election Day is tomorrow in #Georgia. If you're not in line by 7 PM you'll have to wait for November to make your voice heard (or earlier than that if some races go to a runoff). Anyway, make sure you go through the entire ballot for judges, too

This is the most sardonically funny thing I've seen in ages. The NYT knows precisely why most people are visiting their site now and they're using news as a "loss leader" for crossword and Wordle addicts.

Eh screw it: this is Sam Moyn in 2024.

Democrats should be saying anybody who takes this stolen money will see the government coming after them to claw it back.

Lifetime ban from MLB games for these folks. That's how you address this with the seriousness it deserves.

"People who left the study were actually miscoded as getting divorced." retractionwatch.com/2015/07/21/t...

New Byrd bath results: Senate Judiciary and Budget Ds successfully argue that the ballroom provision violates the third prong of the Byrd rule — having matter outside of the Judiciary Committee’s jurisdiction. This is fixable, but only if Rs *severely* curtail the money’s flexibility.

So it turns out if you go cybernetic in Stellaris, then there's a risk that your species will invent the War Thunder forums.

"Hantavirus isn't real" i assure myself as I close my eyes and crawl into the rat's nest

nope. none of that is true. try again

we're bringing cybernetics back, baby

what i think @hurricanexyz.bsky.social is dead-on in highlighting here is that the VA supreme court ruling was a violation of the VA constitution itself, which quite explicitly notes that the power of the people to reform their constitution is sovereign and inalienable

Amazing that Musk fucks up the novel this much—I suspect he hasn’t actually read it—like the literal central theme of the book is the “hard men of Gondor” are insufficient to the task, multiple characters basically turn to camera and say this

My only contribution to fertility discourse (ugh) is that although there have been many attempts, I don't believe there is a consistent method for governments to encourage people to have more kids than they want. So a lot of the public discussion is just verbal masturbation

i genuinely think he ought to be impeached, like, today, for saying that he doesn't believe her but granting her clemency anyway, this is an indefensible abuse of this power. it'd be bad if he *did* believe her, but it's worse that he doesn't even pretend to.

It's pretty weird that when, say, Jared Polis does something shitty, he becomes "Democrats" in the Discourse, but when AOC, Pritzker, or Mamdani does something well liked, they only represent themselves, they don't become a synecdoche for the party. Do Republicans do this? If not, why not

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I'm playing EU3 as Castile and Ukraine exists in 1486 but it's a one-province country north of Transylvania, bisecting Hungary. It's allied with Austria, so it may survive. England is a Habsburg country, France is in a personal union with Castile, and Urbino has annexed most of Brittany.

Many people have a vested interest in pretending otherwise, but the US research university is globally dominant to an almost unbelievable degree. The typical state university is a football team stapled to a R&D lab with a budget bigger than the entire nation of Belgium.

Not easily undone, or redone either. North Carolina has been building this capacity for 70 years, on the back of another 50 years of relatively (for the South) intensive public education investment. Trump & co. simply don't have the ability to think on these timescales

I’m a broken record, but it’s facially insane that the SCOTUS’s position is that the interest of a political party—an entity with no special constitutional protection—in gerrymandering is more important than black people’s right to vote, which we have several constitutional amendments addressing

I just hope all the "Trump low prices Harris high prices" are happy right now

not for nothing, but the dems continuing to be in lockstep on affordability messaging for months is likely going to start being very, very relevant this summer

While BioNtech & Moderna become household names because of their Covid vaccines, those emerged from different projects: finding ways to treat the most challenging cancers. They hypothesized that we could vaccinate patients against their own tumors, & evidence is mounting that they were right! 1/n 🧪

I am very tired of the stupid-savvy 'oh you think politicians were honest before Donald Trump' take, like yes there has in fact been a qualitative change in the way modern american politics have been conducted that is largely attributable to him, and is bad.

Oh, it's worse than that. He's asking for European naval power! There's only two problems with that: 1) They don't have the naval power. Their combined navies are a fraction of the US navy, considerably less than we're already using there. 2) This isn't a problem to be solved with more naval power.