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This has not gotten much attention, but it should.

Virginia under Youngkin returned to an insanely harsh system where people convicted of any felony lose their voting rights FOR LIFE.

Dems' win this week mean they'll get to advance a constitutional amendment to end lifetime disenfranchisement.

sorry i didn’t realize how many of you were not already burdened by this knowledge.

In the 70s I used the word 'wok' which my uncle successfully challenged even though his wife had several of them.

I do think yesterday’s results reinforced the dynamic that while much of the American leadership class is chickenshit, most of the electorate is not

hire all the fired political teen vogue writers and make a new magazine call teen rogue.

we’ll all subscribe en masse

I've replaced gerontocracy with mortocracy.

Teen Vogue Is Folding Into Vogue.com According to Condé Nast’s announcement, the outlet will keep its “unique editorial identity and mission.”

Condé Nast finally achieved its dream of wrecking Teen Vogue and killing its politics section.

www.thecut.com/article/teen...

Red Trump-style graphic with images of Donald Trump and Andrew Cuomo. At the top it says, "I'm going to pick [Cuomo]." - Donald Trump, 60 Minutes Interview, 11-2-25 Then beneath it TRUMP ENDORSES CUOMO

Congratulations, Andrew Cuomo!

I know how hard you worked for this.

New Pentagon memo dictates how transgender troops must look to defend their service “This administration is desperate to distract from the reality that these service members have impeccable records and that there is no reason whatsoever to separate them from military service,” attorn...

Their cruelty knows no bounds.

Pete Hegseth’s Pentagon has ordered trans military members to appear at their separation board hearings in drag, dressed and groomed to the standards of their sex assigned at birth and not their gender identity.

www.advocate.com/news/pentago...

A dear friend once told me that the fridge is where you keep the leftovers until it's time to throw them out.

CSX Train Derailment in Virginia Puts Chickahominy River at Risk - Inside Climate News A train derailment last Saturday dumped coal and diesel fuel into wetlands near the Chickahimony River in Virginia, and nearby residents and environmentalists worry that the contaminants could flow in...

"But the 4,000 gallons of diesel fuel and about 4,000 tons of coal that spilled into wetlands between the tracks and the river have proven difficult for environmental personnel to access to cleanup."

Racist Influencers Using OpenAI's Sora to Make it Look Like Poor People Are Selling Food Stamps for Cash Folks looking for evidence of SNAP recipients as welfare queens have no shortage of AI generated schlock to use as justification.

Again, this precise use case is why these systems exist-to proliferate people’s racist (transphobic, misogynistic…) imaginary at scale. This should not be seen as a “misuse” but rather the product being used exactly as intended.

A Pro-Dominion Grassroots Group Has Financial Ties—to Dominion - Inside Climate News Supporters of the Virginia Energy Reliability Alliance were out in force at an air permit hearing last month for the utility’s controversial natural gas “peaker” plant in Chesterfield County. Dominion...

"What Archer didn’t say was that the Virginia Energy Reliability Alliance is funded by Dominion."

Gunboat diplomacy used to be about bananas rather than oil.

“.. A top US military official has ordered the national guards of all 50 US states .. to form ‘quick reaction forces’ trained in ‘riot control’, including use of batons, body shields, Tasers and pepper spray, according to an internal Pentagon directive ..”

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Wolf succeeded in an era when the hour long TV drama had been declared dead because of the economics of syndication. "Law and Order" was literally law for 30 minutes and order for 30 minutes so it could be syndicated in half hour chunks.

Food bank director: “for every meal that a food bank provides, the SNAP program provides nine. There’s no way we can meet that gap.”

The city I used to live in got Flock imposed upon them because some private entity donated it to them and the city council had no mechanism for turning it down.

I made an image of all the art posted by US DOL on X since approximately Labor Day

A photo of an ice agent shooting a flashbang at a pastor

A close up of the ICE agents pants which shows a stain.

An ICE agent shot a pastor in the face with a flashbang and also possibly came in his pants...

Mulan: if you think women are people.

Well, that's who he is and has ever been.

I personally love putting toothpicks and wood glue into larger holes into which the current screw cannot fit.

So did "All Men are created equal", but that wholly failed at the "All Men" phase, let alone, any women whatsoever.

I had a tutor in England in 1981 who had a small glass case in which was a used crushed filterless cigarette with all the red lipstick which Bette Davis had smoked in his flat.

My life will never be this small; I don't care how many studio apartments I've lived in (many).

I am completely certain he's white. No black person could be allowed to live thereafter.

Of course, they can just say 'fuck you' and thereafter we can tell them they're no longer tax exempt. Let's see how that goes. I think there will be a fair amount of stuttering, "But. TJ". And we will have to inform them that he's been dead for 199 years.

Wait, first can they tell us how much the white supremacists have cost them?

Defund them at the state level. That is all.