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It's absolutely infuriating that blue-state governors do not see this as a once-in-a-generation opportunity to launch their schools into the stratosphere. And I don't mean that in a greedy way. I mean that they could actively work to save US higher ed AND make their schools even better.

it is genuinely insane that a couple weeks ago in his trans piece toby wrote "they may come for the sikhs next," people told him he was being hysterial, and then immediately after they started coming for the sikhs

I know Vegas likes to do big pregame productions but I really have no idea what they were going for.

I think a Hurricane would beat a Knight IRL.

OK, wtf is going on with the hockey right now?

This 1 million times. The cultural block to not consider other places as just as real and politically complex as your own is a poison that keeps us from understanding the world as it is and thus responding to that reality. Instead we get myths, legends and tragedy.

The "Rosie the Riveter" campaign recruited women to work jobs supporting US troops during WWII. Jennifer McMullen, now 101 years old, was one of them.

fark.com/14090660 --Fark headline: If you're looking for leftist influencers you should follow on social media, the Whitehouse.gov website has a convenient list of influencers and their offenses broken down for you

I have received video of Seth Moulton being loudly booed at Boston Pride.

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I'm sure this is nothing to worry about www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

www.jezebel.com/tegu-lizards... Simpson's did it!

You get to keep it like the chairs if you buy floor seats at WrestleMania.

I just want to point out to any game three Knicks ticket holders that “JEFF-REY EP-STEIN” reads out beautifully to a classic five clap crowd chant

Oh, don't make this sound like a moral victory for just being competitive against Germany who hardly look like world beaters. #USMNT

www.salon.com/2026/06/06/p... I'm definitely atheist and not agnostic, but then again neither are religious faiths. I don't really define myself but what I don't believe in.

Hegseth aligning himself rather directly with the soldiers *defending* the beaches at Normandy, who were, and you might find this surprising, not the Americans or Canadians or British, but rather, and this is interesting, the

You might say US/Germany on 6/6 is an explosive fixture.

This sort of grotesque, juvenile and disrespectful (and ignorant--the Germans weren't the ones storming the beaches!) analogy is precisely in character with what *everyone* knew Hegseth to be. Keep the focus here where it belongs--on the 50 Senators who knowingly approved the horror.

what did he know

The Smithsonian Institution's Robert F. Smith Center for Digitization and Curation of African American History is hosting free public events in Buffalo and Niagara Falls through June 20.

www.rochesterfirst.com/webster/webs... Life isn't worth living in Webster either. #ROC

I feel like the White House UFC fights should go back to the crazy no holds barred original lack of rules.

Can’t be repeated enough…

Labor movements in Brazil, South Korea and South Africa grew rapidly when unions helped confront authoritarianism. @stephenlerner.bsky.social and @josephamccartin.bsky.social ask what those histories mean for U.S. unions in the Trump era.

⚡️Putin meets former German Chancellor Schroeder, Kremlin says. Russian President Vladimir Putin held a private meeting in Moscow with former German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder, a longtime associate of the Russian leader, the Kremlin said June 5.

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Nearly 1/3 of disabled voters face barriers to casting their ballots. President Trump's executive order attacking mail-in voting threatens one of the few accessible ways to participate in our democracy for millions of disabled voters. We're suing to block the executive order.

"I don't understand the need for wifi passwords" is an interesting take dad.

Binghamton downtown is a million times better than Rochester downtown and I feel sad.

You know what tho

"Kansas City went 17 years without a municipal jail." "FIFA will leave and the jail stays in our community." "That's not a World Cup investment for our City; that's a permanent expansion of incarceration disguised as event planning." #Missouri #USA #Incarceration #Sports

good morning mr president, we have those ai generated photos of you with a sexy shackled grey alien like you asked for sir