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brb, renaming my Roomba "Trump." Oh no... Trump is stuck on a cliff! His left wheel is stuck, his dust bin is full, and he ended the job stuck.

I mean yeah it’s an authoritarian takeover but can we take some comfort in the fact that the people doing it are INSANELY stupid?

In the summer of 1950 most US newspapers ran an AP story about how race had become the main issue in the upcoming Georgia governor's race. Segregationist Herman Tallmadge, governor from '47 to '55 and then a Senator until 1981 made a name for himself by refusing to "apologize for being a white man."

What once was largely limited to Stormfront and the fever swamps of the internet just a few years ago is now accepted discourse from the White House.

The Beacon of Democracy Goes Dark For nearly 250 years, America promoted freedom and equality abroad, even when it failed to live up to those ideals itself. Not anymore.

The Beacon of Democracy Goes Dark, via @anneapplebaum.bsky.social in @theatlantic.com

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Google at its peak was basically the best information retrieval system in human history and they and every competitor decided going from there to “you didn’t want answers you wanted half-assed auto-complete 80%-wrong hallucinations” in a few years was the right idea

Ohio House passes bill requiring public schools show ‘Baby Olivia’ video to students in grades 5-12 • Ohio Capital Journal The Ohio House voted 58-26 to pass a bill that would require Ohio public schools to show a video produced by an anti-abortion group about fetal development to students.

The Ohio House voted 58-26 Wednesday to pass a bill that would require Ohio public schools to show a video produced by an anti-abortion group about fetal development to students. ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/11/19/o...

The Ohio legislature passed SB 293, the bill that takes away the 4-day acceptance window for absentee ballots. It heads to the governor's desk now, our last chance to protect Ohio voters against this harmful & unnecessary change.
Call Governor DeWine now to urge him to veto SB 293! bit.ly/MikeDeWine

The anti-choice activists don't like the fact that Ohio reasonably voted to preserve access to safe and legal abortion care, so they're playing the long game again and hoping this indoctrination pays off in several decades.

I always caution people to append the phrase "in mice" at the end of any miraculous medicine story since we can make mice do, basically, anything biologically.

This is different. While it is a study in mice, the mechanism has little to do with mice's uniquely malleable biology.

Ohio Republicans want public schools to teach positive impacts of Christianity on history • Ohio Capital Journal A pair of Ohio Republican lawmakers want public schools and public universities to teach the positive impacts of Christianity on American history. No other religion is mentioned in the bill, named…

A pair of Ohio Republican lawmakers want public schools and public universities to teach positive impacts of Christianity on American history. No other religion is mentioned in the bill, named the Charlie Kirk American Heritage Act ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/10/09/o...

Ohio family farmers describe life under Trump tariffs: 'We're in a hell of a mess here.' • Ohio Capital Journal Chris Gibbs farms more than 500 acres of corn, soybeans, wheat, and alfalfa hay in Shelby County, along with a 90-head cow-calf operation. The Trump tariffs are shrinking incomes and exploding…

Commentary: Chris Gibbs farms 500 acres of corn, soybeans, wheat, and alfalfa hay in Shelby County and a 90-head cow-calf operation. The Trump tariffs are shrinking incomes and exploding expenses for farmers, he says: “We’re in a hell of a mess here" ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/09/30/o...

Ohio Republicans just dropped a bill to insert Christianity into public schools. LGBTQ+ communities should be alarmed. 'HB 486 whitewashes history and leaves out queer communities and other faiths.'

Ohio Republicans just dropped a bill to insert Christianity into public schools. LGBTQ+ communities should be alarmed.

‘HB 486 whitewashes history and leaves out queer communities and other faiths.’

thebuckeyeflame.com/2025/09/30/o...

September 30, 2025 Last Thursday, September 25, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth suddenly announced he was calling about 800 of the nation’s top military generals and admirals, along with their top enlisted advisors, to m...

September 30, 2025

I don't think we'll ever get another sentence which sums up everything the New York Times embodies quite like "Some legal experts have called it a crime to summarily kill civilians".

The Untold Saga of What Happened When DOGE Stormed Social Security DOGE has ignored urgently needed reforms and upgrades at the Social Security Administration, according to dozens of insiders and 15 hours of candid interviews with the former acting chief of the agenc...

The DOGE team was acting like “a bunch of people who didn’t know what they were doing, with ideas of how government should run — thinking it should work like a McDonald’s or a bank — screaming all the time,” former SSA Commissioner Leland Dudek said.

"Just the other day, I was in the audience at Lincoln Center when Justice Amy Coney Barrett said, while promoting a new book, that she doesn't think the United States is in a constitutional crisis," Farias told us. "Today, the Supreme Court, without offering a single line of reasoning, more or less declared that the Fourth Amendment, which protects everyone from unreasonable searches and seizures, nonetheless allows the Trump Administration to arrest and detain anyone who looks Latino, citizen or not, on account of the language that they speak or the kind of jobs they do. The ruling putatively covers the Los Angeles area, but the effect could be national," he continued. "If that's not a constitutional crisis, then what is?"

The New Yorker asked me “how bad” today’s Supreme Court ruling was. I boiled it down to one paragraph:

link.newyorker.com/view/5bda429...

Paris said au revoir to cars. Air pollution maps reveal a dramatic change. Air pollution fell substantially as the city restricted car traffic and made way for parks and bike lanes.

“Over the past 20 years, Paris has undergone a major physical transformation, trading automotive arteries for bike lanes, adding green spaces and eliminating 50,000 parking spaces.

Part of the payoff has been invisible — in the air itself.”

Leadership, strategy, real action, common sense. #Paris

August 8, 2025 (Friday) During the 2024 presidential campaign, Donald Trump vowed he could stop Russia’s war on Ukraine with a single phone call.

August 8, 2025

Federal judge quickly rules in favor of Planned Parenthood in suit over Medicaid funding • Ohio Capital Journal The federal government cannot withhold Medicaid funding from Planned Parenthood for at least the next two weeks, after a district court judge issued a temporary restraining order the same day the…

The federal government cannot withhold Medicaid funding from Planned Parenthood for at least the next two weeks, after a district court judge issued a temporary restraining order the same day the organization filed a lawsuit. ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/07/08/r...

In hindsight, should we ever have trusted him? He gives me Newsom-vibes now - opportunistic, will say whatever he thinks the political winds support. We cheered when he was running because he trained that sharp tone on his opponent.

This is the Washington Post - today - describing the fact that RFK Jr. does not believe that HIV is the cause of AIDS.

It is not controversial at all. It is a fringe, extremist conspiracy based in science denial and it is objectively false.

Ohio House, Senate budgets eliminate agency tasked with campaign finance oversight • Ohio Capital Journal The Ohio Senate has approved a state budget eliminating the Ohio Elections Commission. Negotiators from the House and Senate still have differences to hammer out, but both chambers advanced proposals…

The Ohio Senate has approved a state budget eliminating the Ohio Elections Commission. Negotiators from the House and Senate still have differences to hammer out but both chambers advanced proposals that axe the independent state campaign finance watchdog ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/06/17/o...

Republican lawmakers in Ohio to propose total abortion and IVF ban • Ohio Capital Journal Ohio Republican lawmakers are planning to introduce a bill that would completely ban and criminalize abortion, IVF and some forms of contraception.

Ohio Republican lawmakers are planning to introduce a bill that would completely ban and criminalize abortion, IVF, and some forms of contraception ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/06/17/r...

The Alt National Park Service account. 887 thousand followers. "The officla 'Resistance' team of the U.S. National Park Service. Our Website: www.ourparks.org

The Alt National Park Service account calls itself the official "resistance" team of the US National Park Service. With 887k followers, is one of the biggest accounts on Bluesky. It is the 11 most followed account according to some trackers.

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Ohio lawmakers to introduce bill banning abortion, criminalizing the procedure Republican lawmakers in Ohio are planning on introducing a bill on Wednesday that would ban almost all abortions and criminalize the procedure.

The Ohio Republicans are really going to do this? Going full in on fetal personhood and overturning the will of the voters?

Post from "alt national park service" account reading "From coast to coast, city streets to small town squares, you showed up. And it mattered. Honored to announce: 12.1 million in attendance." The 12.1 million figure is 300 percent more than every estimate produced by experts and scholars who carefully went through nationwide reports.

I know a lot of folks like this account. But this is a wild, and unhelpful, exaggeration--it's a resistance version of sean spicer. It veers into #resistanceporn and trades accuracy for clout, like other "blue maga" grifters on here. Pls consider finding other sources of inspiration/news/motivation

Why is germ theory in the same air quotes as "miasma theory," I ask as a historian of medicine who is very very tired

Ohio Senate passes budget containing slate of anti-LGBTQ+ attacks The budget includes language to erase trans identity, ban youth access to LGBTQ+ books and defund homeless shelters that support trans youth.

Ohio Senate passes budget containing slate of anti-LGBTQ+ attacks.

The budget includes language to erase trans identity, ban youth access to LGBTQ+ books and defund homeless shelters that support trans youth.

thebuckeyeflame.com/2025/06/11/o...

Hegseth orders Navy to rename ship honoring gay rights activist Harvey Milk Pete Hegseth has ordered the Navy to strike the name of gay rights activist Harvey Milk from one of its ships, orchestrating the change amid Pride month celebrations.

And Trump supporters wonder why, as a gay man, I don't want anything to do with them?

"A DOD official said the decision's timing, during Pride month, was intentional."

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