Wordle 1,781 5/6 ⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜ ⬜🟩⬜🟨🟩 ⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟨🟨⬜⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Connections Puzzle #1059 🟨🟪🟨🟨 🟨🟪🟨🟪 🟦🟩🟪🟩 🟩🟪🟩🟩 Taking the week off. Play nice, everyone.

The Ohio Supreme Court has ruled that a major utility company does not need to refund customers nearly $75 million after being accused of overcharging to support two unprofitable and scandal-ridden coal plants. ohiocapitaljournal.com/2026/05/04/o...

Under Trump, immigration enforcement outsourced cruelty. PAXIS.app fact-checked this: ICE hired MVM, a contractor accused in court of torture and abuse, to track undocumented children as “wellness checks.” Kids became targets. Harm got hidden and scaled. FIGHT ICE: www.gofundme.com/f/PAXIS

Wordle 1,780 5/6 🟨⬜🟨🟨⬜ 🟨🟨⬜🟨⬜ ⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 -- Connections Puzzle #1058 🟪🟩🟨🟨 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟩🟨🟩🟩 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟪🟪🟪🟪 -- NAME O' THE DAY* Dr. Albert Pepper, who retired from the Fresno #California Unified School District to teach at Fresno Pacific University *From The #Fresno Bee, June 17, 2010

Democrats treated Giuliani badly? 📌 According to the Washington Post, Trump instructed his aides not to pay Giuliani’s outstanding legal fees. White House officials were even told not to put through any of Giuliani’s calls.

JOHN Shaft www.youtube.com/watch?v=NlMT...

The Trump administration has taken over full control of what appears on National Park Service websites. For decades, park staff managed their own sites, working closely with local communities and tribal nations to tell the stories of the places they know best. That’s over now.

This Ohio county put a ban on wind and solar. Will voters reverse it? ohiocapitaljournal.com/2026/04/30/t...

Todd, the strip club lunch buffet is not really “a restaurant”

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“The goal of ICE is not to make communities safer,” Stanley writes, “ICE’s mission is to reinforce a distinction between ‘us’ and ‘them.” www.arcurrent.com/editorials/2...

⚡️Poland's prime minister condemns NATO 'disintegration' as Trump says US will further reduce troop presence in Europe.

A Los Angeles police officer cited @shoton35mm.bsky.social, Investigative Reporter with @lataco.bsky.social for allegedly stepping into the roadway during May Day protests outside the MDC. "If you don't sign, you go to jail," one officer told Ray as he handed him a citation.

Yesterday, LAPD officer Cisneros Escoto jabbed me in my chest w/ her baton when I calmly asked for her serial number. I was asking for her serial number because a few moments earlier she shoved me with her baton while I filmed an arrest. This happened while LAPD kettled mostly press.

Wordl 1,779 4/6 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟩⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟩🟩⬜⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 -- Connections Puzzle #1057 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟨🟨🟨🟨 -- NAME O' THE DAY* Derail Easter, motorman on the Loop elevated rail whose #train collided with another and jumped the tracks leaving eight injured *From the #Chicago Tribune, Sept. 3, 1978

Mary this is literally how vaccines are supposed to work.

AMEN! Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/02/o...

Wordle #1,778 5/6 ⬜⬜⬜🟨🟨 🟨⬜🟨⬜⬜ 🟨🟩⬜🟩⬜ 🟨🟩🟩🟩⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 -- Connections Puzzle #1056 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩 -- NAME O' THE DAY* Zacki Quddos, a bank teller in downtown Alameda #California *From the #LosAngeles Times, March 30, 1993

And of course it’s the fifth circuit that decides for women everywhere in the country, Mifepristone no longer available unless you can pick it up in person. Reminder: in Dobbs, the court said this should be up to each state. That’s not what this does. www.washingtonpost.com/health/2026/...

people all over the world starting to understand how it is possible to bankrupt a casino

its friday! a good day to refrain from doing a fed post

Took a video of this cool shell formation on my beach walk. If all of you repost it as many times as you can maybe some journalists will see it and do something about it

CA auto dealers who facilitate CA residents registering their cars in Montana are now under the gun for tax evasion. So far, 14 dealers + clients have been charged; more to come. They're in the wealthiest areas: Beverly Hills, Costa Mesa, Van Nuys, San Diego, Irvine, Santa Monica + Newport Beach.

An intense hailstorm in Springfield, Missouri, on April 28 killed an emu at the zoo, injured some drivers, knocked out power to thousands and damaged hundreds of vehicles and even some aircraft. Read more: https://wapo.st/4uFlqo3

Wordle 1,777 3/6 ⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜ 🟩🟨⬜⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 -- Connections Puzzle #1055 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟪🟪🟪🟪 -- NAME O' THE DAY* Lightfoot Honker of Dillon #SouthCarolina; "Lightie" was the widow of Harry Honker. *From The Charlotte #NorthCarolina Observer, Feb. 9, 1976

Canada, if you’re reading this: today would be a fantastic day to mount your surprise attack and begin taking large swaths of American territory. A heavy incursion originating from Alberta or Saskatchewan would catch us totally off guard. We would not be prepared. Idaho could be yours within days.

I've been thinking lately about the countless activists during the Civil Rights era who fought for the Voting Rights Act — including my friend Mickey. He was my protector. I want to share a little bit more about what he meant to me.

To be clear about what just happened: The Trump administration sent armed FBI agents to abduct a 78-year-old doctor and former federal public health worker from his home and stripped him because the brainwashed right-wing base, hopped up on a literal conspiracy theory, wants scalps.

For more info: www.science.org/content/arti...

i was told by john roberts and sam alito that racism is over so i won't worry about white republicans in the south jumping over themselves to end black political representation wherever they can

Pentagon officials, mum for weeks on the cost of the war in Iran, have made their first public estimate: $25 billion so far. But what does a cost on that scale really mean?

Wordle 1,776 5/6 ⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜ 🟩⬜⬜⬜🟨 🟩🟩🟩⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Connections Puzzle #1054 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟨🟨🟨🟨 NAME O' THE DAY* Juneau County Sheriff Lyall Wright, acquitted in the 1930 slaying of a district attorney, but did time for helping three deputies pull off a 1933 bank job *Various #Wisconsin newspapers

Donald Trump is the crassest, most crude, and needy person to ever do diplomacy.

Thanks for telling us it's his face. It's hard to tell one end from the other.

Wordle 1,775 4/6 ⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜ 🟩⬜🟨⬜⬜ 🟩🟨⬜⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 --- Connections Puzzle #1053 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟪🟪🟪🟪 --- NAME O' THE DAY* Peter Wacker, who sought $1,500 from Allegheny County for the loss of his icehouse after an escaped murderer (who’d poisoned ...

ATTN: Mansfield #Ohio

And all these ... and the many more examples it would be easy to dig up.

Wordle 1,774 4/6 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜🟩⬜⬜ ⬜⬜🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 -- Connections Puzzle #1052 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟦🟦🟨🟦 🟪🟦🟦🟦 🟦🟦🟪🟦 🟦🟨🟦🟦 -- NAME O' THE DAY* Chief civilian director of the Independent Investigations Office of #BritishColumbia Ronald McDonald *From the Kelowna (B.C.) Capital News, Oct. 8, 2020

Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/26/o...

Since Trump is out here denying he is a rapist, a reminder that a judge said he absolutely was one

I think the lesson we've all learned from the #WhiteHouse #CorrespondentsDinner is that the federal government should build a #ballroom at every public school in this country.

Wordle 1,773 5/6 ⬜⬜🟨🟨⬜ 🟨🟩⬜⬜⬜ ⬜🟩⬜⬜🟨 ⬜🟩🟩🟩⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 -- Connections Puzzle #1051 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟪🟩🟩🟩 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟩🟩🟩🟩 -- NAME O' THE DAY* Clarence "Classy" Bourgeois, witness to a hole-in-one at the Palmetto Pines #Golf Course in Parrish #Florida *From The Brandenton Herald, 1968

It was chaos inside the Washington Hilton ballroom, but not for one man who stayed in his chair, picking at a salad as people ducked for cover. Michael Glantz, a top agent at Creative Artists Agency and a guest at the White House correspondents’ dinner, said that he wanted to see what was happening.

As Ukraine burns, Trump displays a White House photo with Putin during an active war. The image pairs a convicted U.S. president with a leader under ICC warrant, signaling proximity as allies question U.S. reliability. theintellectualistofficial.substack.com/p/as-ukraine...

Commentary: Republican Ohio Supreme Court makes Ohio first in nation to allow political endorsements from judges

If you were horrified watching elected leaders run & scramble because of gun violence, just imagine how my daughter Jaime felt in school running from an active shooter before she was killed. Now, become a part of the solution & only vote for people determined to address gun violence in America.

📌There should be a proposal to immediately build "large, safe and secure ballrooms" at every school in America to keep our children safe from shooters.

Wordle 1,772 3/6 🟨⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜🟩⬜🟩⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 --- Connections Puzzle #1050 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟪🟪🟪🟪 --- NAME O' THE DAY* Kay Lackey, an assistant regional director in the #SEC ’s #NewYork office. Of course she’s only an assistant. *From Newsday #LongIsland, Sept. 21, 2004

For the first time in modern history, the United States is no longer classified as a liberal democracy, and data shows changes under President Donald Trump’s second term are accelerating a pattern seen in democracies that later failed. theintellectualistofficial.substack.com/p/for-the-fi...