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🚨BREAKING: Democrat Marisa Sweeney has won her race for State Assembly in the 25th district in New Jersey, flipping the Morris County-based seat for the first time since 1977.

なんだかうんざりだ。

Our School of Information Sciences is running four searches, and we can hire more than four candidates. Here’s the first link, for a job that might appeal to people working in history of information, history of science, or digital humanities. +

Check your ballot Seattle friends. You can also sign up for alerts so you know when it’s been counted or if there are any issues.

Life would be a lot easier for me if I just cared less.

We're excited to announce the winner of the 2025 National Translation Award in Prose: SAND-CATCHER by Omar Khalifah, translated from Arabic by Barbara Romaine, pub. Coffee House Press @coffeehousepress.bsky.social! literarytranslators.org/winner-of-20...

The fuckers got away with it. The company. The people who made the decisions. All of them. They got away with killing hundreds for the sake of a few cents per share of increased earnings. 🤬

9:30 pm. Pouring rain. A mostly empty skating rink, and “I’m not in love” is playing. A whole mood

Easily several hundred people have packed into this plaza in Chicago's North Center tonight in response to ICE abducting a daycare worker early this morning. This is a neighborhood that has largely been spared until now from the "Midway Blitz" terror campaign. But everyone knows someone affected.

That’s the second reported and sourced story on US soldiers not being fed today

We're launching a new imprint to publish the very best East Asian comics: Takumigraphics! Head to Fantagraphics.com/Takumigraphics for more information and follow us on Instagram at @takumi_graphics for updates ❤️

"Running list of German support organizations for your kit bags," said a US Army website in Germany about the government shutdown. It was a list of local food banks

Getting the results for a curriculum-related survey that we sent out last week and so far the best feedback, that I will surely take to heart, is "I don't like school"

Hope to see you in San Francisco!

Beshear: Let me be clear. The president has both the funding and the authority to fund snap during a shutdown. In fact, every other president in every other shutdown has done so. People going hungry in this instance is a choice that this president has made.

This was horrific to watch. Agents entering a daycare, wrestling with and abducting a teacher in front of small screaming children. I just… what the fuck are we doing here.

Other than having to listen to the two young women in their early 30s discussing their love lives right behind me LOL waiting for my doctor’s appointment in style

Tonight, it’s a little easier to go to sleep with a smile on my face 😌

BREAKING: Mississippi Democrats have now flipped two state Senate seats—putting them on the verge of breaking the Mississippi GOP's supermajority. Theresa Gillespie Isom has defeated Republican opponent Charlie Hoots, who she leads in the current vote tally by about 2-1.

Ah, schadenfreude. The sweetest emotion 😘

BREAKING: Colorado voters approved a ballot measure that would raise state income taxes on higher-earning households to fund free meals for all public school students. Follow AP for live updates.

This is the second most promising set of results. We need progressives and leftists to run for these school board and LIBRARY BOARD seats. www.librariesforthepeople.org

Democrat Wins 2nd Term in Cleveland Ohio;

Breaking News: California voters agreed to aggressively redraw the state’s congressional district lines to wipe out as many as five Republican seats, according to The Associated Press, delivering a major victory for national Democrats. nyti.ms/3WAARih

HISTORY MADE: Congrats to the next mayor of Albany, @dorceyformayor.bsky.social She will be the first Black mayor in the city’s history.

Congratulations to Eileen Higgins for advancing to a run-off in Miami’s Mayoral race! It’s been 28 years since Miami last elected a Democrat as its Mayor and tonight’s result shows Miami is on the path to getting the leadership it deserves.

BREAKING: Democrat Sean Ryan is elected mayor of Buffalo, defeating Republican James Gardner. Follow for live updates.

Congratulations Maine! Maine voters have rejected Question 1, protecting access to absentee voting across the state. Last election, more than 40% of Mainers chose to vote absentee. And Maine abroad voters need absentee voting. VoteFromAbroad.org @demsabroad.bsky.social #DemsAbroad

The Ballotpedia page updates have begun as we start to see results across the country. We will be updating the thread below with noteworthy results: 🧵

Plenty of vote outstanding, but the most eye-catching early CO election results may be in Aurora, where two D-affiliated candidates lead their R-affiliated opponents, including Danielle "Complete Gang Takeover" Jurinsky.

Looks like the Dems will pick up 12 seats in the VA House of Delegates, which will go from 51-49 to 63-37 D-R. That's an honestly shocking result.

Welp. That was fast.

Democrat Michelle Wu has been re-elected Mayor of Boston.

BREAKING: Pennsylvania voters approve to retain three state Supreme Court justices, NBC News projects, preserving Democrats’ 5-2 majority on the state’s high court.

well, well, well...

Breaking: Democrats flip two Public Service Commission seats in Georgia, the first victories in 25 years.

NEW: Decision Desk has called New Jersey governor for Sherrill. election-night.decisiondeskhq.com/date/2025-11...

Breaking: Ghazala Hashmi wins Virginia Lieutenant Governor race, flipping the seat from red to blue. (Source: @decisiondeskhq.bsky.social)

The House of Delegates flips are coming in Virginia Kimberly Pope Adams wins after coming up just short in 2023 This district south of Richmond was heavily targeted by Dems They were able to get out there voters in this district with a large Black population

Abigail Spanberger, a former congresswoman and CIA agent, will be the first woman to serve as governor of Virginia, following a streak of 74 men. Spanberger's campaign was laser-focused on attacking President Trump's policies. nyti.ms/498lHIB

well, well, well.

Don't mind me, just working on a project I have no authority to execute and too little information on to shape a proper proposal. Another day in the life

I just voted in my county election! #Colorado

Sam Corcos, who entered government with DOGE earlier this year, decided to kill DirectFile after one meeting with with tax software lobbyists. www.wired.com/story/doge-d...

So glad to share with you the inaugural special issue of Feminist Translation Studies 'Translating with the Earth: Gender, Feminism and Eco-Translation' www.tandfonline.com/toc/rftr20/2/1 @olgacastro80.bsky.social @ftnetwork.bsky.social @womenintranslation.bsky.social @drpaulinehenry.bsky.social

This happens almost every night when I want to brush my teeth

The kids are all waxing nostalgic about 2016 memes and I just don’t how to feel about that. Not nostalgic, anyway 😂

Takeda’s dengue vaccine has demonstrated strong protection against infection and hospitalization for seven years, marking the longest efficacy reported among any available dengue vaccines.