Katy Drake Bettner

Ohhhh Meriko. You would be so proud. She spent the summer as a camp counselor at a LARP camp.

The 17 year old: “Curious for life. If I don’t get one new fact a day I will shrivel up and die.”

Meanwhile, Ted Cruz

A magazine list showing #37, Zohran Mamdani, age 11, asked for Books, FIFA 2003 and SimCity 3000 video games.

we’re about to find out if loving SimCity makes you a better mayor

Mamdani was asked in 2002 by NY Mag what he wanted for Christmas and said SimCity 3000

NO KINGS Mckinney · No Kings **In America, we don’t put up with would-be kings.** NO KINGS is a national day of action and mass mobilization in response to increasing authoritarian excesses and corruption from Trump and his allie...

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Over 1,400 No Kings events are planned in all 50 states and abroad. We truly have the opportunity to make June 14 (the day of Trump’s military birthday parade) one of the biggest days of mass protest of our lifetimes, but we need everyone who's able standing with us: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i...

Let me say this again for the folks in the back.

HOLY. SHIT.

RETRANSMISSION: 2024 Presidential and Senate Results Called Into Question as Lawsuit Advances NEW CITY, NY / ACCESS Newswire / May 29, 2025 / Aseminal casequestioning the accuracy of the 2024 Presidential and Senate election results in Rockland County, New York, is moving forward. In open cour...

Typical drop-off rates run 1-2%. Gaps of 23% or -9% are surprising and could indicate that votes were miscounted.

finance.yahoo.com/news/retrans... RETRANSMISSION: 2024 Presidential and Senate Results Called Into Question as Lawsuit Advances

This is a highly unusual phenomenon that was repeated across the state and across the country. Rockland County is the first county where it is being formally investigated.

The high drop-off rate = the presidential candidate far outperformed his down-ballot counterpart.
Democratic drop-off is negative (-9%): 9% of Harris' totals are below the Democratic Senate candidate.

A large negative drop-off indicates "underperformance" by a candidate = the candidate received fewer votes than is typical & could signify votes are missing from the candidate's totals.
Republican drop-off (23%): 23% of Trump's totals in Rockland County exceed the 2024 Republican Senate candidate.

Drop-off is a measure of the difference between the presidential candidate and a major down-ballot candidate of the same party. A large positive drop-off indicates an "overperformance" by a candidate, meaning the candidate received more votes than is typical.

10000% agree. My car was towed and sold to cover unpaid parking tickets. Even when I was approaching bottom I would leave my car in garages or on a street rather than drive it home while drunk.

So apparently in the UK, the national Police Chiefs Council is being told to confiscate phones and laptops after a pregnancy loss. In case you think it is escapable.

Just signed.

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Starved for Care People are starving to death in local jails across the U.S., even as for-profit providers are often paid millions for their care. Who is dying, and why?

People are starving to death in local jails across the U.S., even as for-profit providers are often paid millions for their care. Who is dying, and why?

The husband got himself banned from the PoE2 community on Twatter😂. That’s my man.

@rollingstone.com wins

Welp, looks like I know what I’ll be doing after work!

Exciting to find out if it is legal to somehow constructively detain someone in a rube goldberg machine designed so that they cannot file for habeas relief

Book: LAMB by @theauthorguy.bsky.social

Series: YEARS & YEARS

Feature: WOMEN TALKING

Documentary: THE GRAB

Album: GRACELAND

It’s been lost in the tariff news but the fact that the U.S. government can accuse you of a crime and send you to an El Salvadoran prison without trial, is legitimately scarier than the most hyperbolic claims of fascism made by the left during the election.

MAGA love to sling around the phrase "cultural Marxism" about anything they don't like, but then literally attempt a Maoist cultural revolution by attacking the civil servants and academics and resigning them to manual labor.

What is “something I’ve been missing since birth” for 300 please.

The one with the pitchforks?

looking at the screen with dead eyes whenever I stumble across a new legacy media piece like

Are Monsters Having Their Moment? As Monster Attacks On the Rise, We Asked the Monsters to Tell Us More

"The fear among academics and lawyers now talking on the record on just about any topic that involves the federal government or the White House is really extraordinary and worrisome, and getting worse, it seems to me, every week. Dissent by an establishment figures becoming verboten in the US" https://bsky.app/profile/ericlipton.nytimes.com/post/3lmhvhstn6c2z

Post promoting an interview with Chris Rufo and his "crackdown on higher education" on NYT's "The Daily" podcast.

Within less than 24 hours of each other. I wonder if they even realize these are connected.

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