‘The Right to Vote Is Not Absolute’: GOP Bid to Steal North Carolina Supreme Court Election Heard by Court of Appeals Read more here.

On Friday, lawyers for Griffin laid out their case for retroactively disqualifying 65,000 ballots, disenfranchising tens of thousands of registered voters and overturning the election results and Riggs’s victory. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

DOJ Designates Posting Photos Of Balding Elon Musk As Domestic Terrorism  WASHINGTON—Warning that the charge carried a five-year mandatory minimum sentence, the U.S. Department of Justice declared Friday that the distribution of images featuring a balding Elon Musk constituted an act of domestic terrorism. “For the benefit of all Americans, anyone who posts or reposts photos from Mr. Musk’s PayPal days will be prosecuted for terrorism,” […]

“Anyone who likes or replies to the photos will be treated as a terrorist sympathizer. If you possess these images, delete them now. Elon Musk is a patriot with a great American hairline.”
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This will be Paul Weiss' most enduring shame. Performatively denouncing an honorable man and a former partner in order to please an autocrat.

"Paul Weiss has acknowledged the wrongdoing of its former partner Mark Pomerantz."

New York Judge Strikes Down State’s Voting Rights Act Read more here.

An appellate court in New York reversed a lower court overturning the state’s John R. Lewis Voting Rights Act (NYVRA) — a law that grants voters additional protections not covered by federal law. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

What's Up? Misery folks. Misery is up.

Photo: Mayor Brandon Johnson Announces Passage of Budget, Highlights Significant Investments in Chicago’s Future.

Today we passed the 2025 Budget which invests in youth employment, mental health, community safety, and affordable housing—all without raising property taxes or cutting services! We’re also returning a record $570M TIF surplus to schools & parks. Thanks to my City Council colleagues!

Whether it's climate change or COVID, the scientists who step up and speak out on behalf of our research communities take great risk for a chance at advancing understanding of our work beyond the Ivory Tower.

I want to thank Dr. Lynn Carter, Dr. Peter Hotez, and of course @michaelemann.bsky.social

There are roughly 330M people in this country, and I realized this morning that for less than the cost of a cheap cup of coffee a day, a S. African billionaire was able to buy the Presidency, and in effect — the country. It’s both embarrassing and sad that, not only was it easy, but it was so cheap…

Warming Centers: The Chicago Department of Family & Support Services activates warming areas at the City’s six community service centers when temps are 32˚F or below. 1. Englewood Center: 1140 W. 79th St. 2. North Area Center: 845 W. Wilson Ave. 3. Garfield Center: 10 S. Kedzie Ave. 4. South Chicago Center: 8650 S. Commercial Ave. 5. Martin Luther King Center: 4314 S. Cottage Grove 6. Trina Davila Center: 4312 W. North Ave. To find the closest warming center and hours of operation, residents can contact 3-1-1 via phone OR online at 311.chicago.gov The following are also available during hours of operation: - Chicago Park District locations -Chicago Police Districts -Chicago Public Library locations Note: The Water Works locations is closed. Warming Center Locations available Wednesday, December 11 & Thursday, December 12

Prepare for the cold! 🌬️ Chicago urges residents to take precautions as temps drop and wind chills hit below zero overnight (Dec 11-12). Check on loved ones, neighbors, and those in need. DFSS expands outreach for the unhoused.

Find Out Why Health Insurance Denied Your Claim You likely have the right to access records that explain why your insurer denied your claim or prior authorization request. Use ProPublica’s free tool to generate a letter requesting your claim file f...

I don't know who needs to know this, but Pro Publica has an online thing that will format a letter to your US health insurance company to demand the records behind a claim denial. (which the insurance is then legally required to provide in most cases)

projects.propublica.org/claimfile/

It says a lot about pandemic denialism that across the U.S., there’s a stronger network of comic shops that require masks than healthcare providers.

We shouldn’t accept that a CEO killer must get a national manhunt when cops don’t solve most murders at all. A migrant teenager was just murdered in NYC, cops just killed a guy here — the lives of these other people are worth just as much as that CEO.

Happening now at Washington Square Park: A United Healthcare CEO shooter lookalike competition, including people who intentionally and unintentionally dressed the part.

Welp...now that I've done work and avoided work and joined the newest hellscape in the last 4 hours...time to go back to bed and or finish the new Lohan Christmas movie.

This is going to save hospitals a lot of money !

www.pennmedicine.org/news/news-re...

I know a lot of folks have some smoke for Mayor Johnson, but I believe he's one, if not the most progressive leaders we've got right now, and that's exciting to me. Who else is reforming the criminal justice system like this??

Lol watched and finished now. So much insight. I love trying to psychoanalyze the people in my little box.

Ah yes...the crippling desire to be known and also hidden in the motherfucking shadows once more compels me.