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Five Ways Tuesday’s Results Will Affect Voting Rules and Democracy From felony disenfranchisement and mail voting to mid-decade gerrymanders, Tuesday delivered verdicts on election law across these five states.

Virginia's Senate Majority Leader told Bolts that the legislature will advance a constitutional amendment in January to let Virginians vote once they're released from prison.

The state constitution currently strips people of their voting rights for life.

Most of the hearing was routine. At one point, however, Straw's attorney, Christopher Parente, lodged a largely symbolic objection over his client having to turn in his passport, calling him a "boring suburban dad" and saying his whole reason for going to the protest in the first place included objecting to the government checking people's passports and papers. Parente said it wasn't fair for Straw "to sit here now and ask him to turn his passport over to the government for no reason other than they think they can," adding that "landscapers arrested by ICE cannot stand up to the government." "Mr. Straw can, and your Honor can, too," Parente said. Assistant U.S. Attorney Sheri Mecklenburg said the passport was about bond conditions, not about what ICE is doing on the streets, and that defendants have turned in their passports "in every case I've had for 19 years." After McShain decided Straw did not have to turn in his passport, Mecklenburg said she'd drop the requirement for all defendants to ensure Straw was not receiving special treatment.

I’m going to think about watching this moment unfold in real time for a long time.

for all the horrors coming out of Chicago and its metro area, the principled courage of everyday people, in the face of such intimidation, never ceases to astonish. www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/12/k...

UK sentences Chinese scammer after record-breaking Bitcoin seizure Police seized 61,000 Bitcoin from Zhimin Qian, 47, as part of a years-long money laundering investigation.

Police seized 61,000 Bitcoin from Zhimin Qian, 47, as part of a years-long money laundering investigation.

Show Up Toronto: November 11, 2025 Hi friends and neighbours, Winter has arrived with a vengeance, and with it always comes the reminder that not everyone gets to stay warm indoors. The city...

This week's Show Up Toronto newsletter is out! There are SO many ways to mobilize against Bill 60 and I hope you find something that works for you. The city is getting hella organized buttondown.com/showup/archi... #toronto

South Korea indicts ex-leader Yoon on charges of aiding the enemy Yoon Suk Yeol ordered drone flights over North Korea to create pretext for martial law, prosecutors allege.

Yoon Suk Yeol ordered drone flights over North Korea to create pretext for martial law, prosecutors allege.

That’s before I reckon with the ethics of using a thing for ghost efficiency that is pretty societally devastating.

And on a final personal note, I don’t want to become stupid before my time. I really don’t. I will keep mucking about so that I can keep mucking about, for as long as possible.

real psycho shit

Celebrating tonight’s results by going out and getting really vaxxed

New York City map of which areas voted for Cuomo and which for Mamdani.

New map of the cool parts of NYC just dropped.

So many people were detained extrajudicially, were tortured, or died because of Dick Cheney. You can't get to the danger we're in now without everything he did. The weapons he helped forge are ones we need to take away from U.S. presidents forever.

Why All Vaccines Should Be Free | The Tyee COVID-19 normalized vaccination for adults, and we should go further to protect people from shingles and RSV.

I cannot agree more! The cost of making all vaccines free will be completely offset by lives saved and all the morbidity & hospical costs averted

Why All Vaccines Should Be Free

@crof.bsky.social

thetyee.ca/Analysis/202...

أنا اسمي زهران ممدان وعم رشّح حالي لأكون العمدة الجديد في مدينة نيويورك

New! Teen Photography Kits NYPL’s Teen Photography Kits are professional-grade camera kits that teens can borrow for a week at a time from participating libraries.

This is a cool project that NYPL is offering: Teen Photography Kits - www.nypl.org/education/te...

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Boston Police Can No Longer Use Facial Recognition Software | Built In Boston The law makes it illegal for city officials to “obtain, retain, possess, access, or use” facial recognition technology, acknowledging that it “has the potential to harm communities of color who are al...

Some good news!

“Boston City Council has voted unanimously to ban its government from using facial recognition technology, including the police department, making it the largest city on the East Coast to do so.”

www.builtinboston.com/articles/bos...

(Tattoo artists are, as a whole, *incredibly* up on extremism symbols and emerging dogwhistles; as I said in another subthread, if I can't tell if a thing is an emerging dogwhistle, I will often go look at tattoo message boards because they know their shit incredibly well.)

Caveat: I am white.

No. Not all 7 criteria.

If settling for 6 out of 7 and if restricted to the US, I'd start with Carrboro, NC, or Somerville, MA.

I'd prioritise my search around places that invest heavily in bike-friendly and free public transit because those two could be indicators of other criteria on the list.

A lovely person in a green floral dress wearing a pearl necklace with a classic blue-and-yellow straw hat delivers public comment at ABQ city council, with engaged onlookers behind them. Reader, I married them.

Just saw @alymay.bsky.social's comment at ABQ City Council urged the council to take up ranked choice instant runoff voting for future elections, not just for the cost savings, but because competing to be ranked voters second and third choice makes elections policy-responsive, less about personality

My mom is in the hospital and was completely unresponsive for almost 24 hours but just opened her eyes and told my brother to "Shut up." So there's still some fight left in this world, people.

A request for weather interested volunteers!

Met Eireann would like to rescue millions of weather observations taken in Ireland over many decades that are still stuck on paper. #WeatherRescue

Anyone can help: www.zooniverse.org/projects/met...

Some Ralph Lauren models wearing a Native American belt buckle and pin. Also photos of Native American repoussé pin and handmade silver rings in different styles.

Native American silver cuff bracelet, rings, and belt buckles decorated with turquoise stones.

Native American cuff bracelets and pendants, many decorated with turquoise stones.

Native American squash blossom necklaces.

Some things I saw recently that I think are cool (Native American jewelry edition):

— Neil Zarama. New Ralph Lauren collab coming (IG whirlinglog_and_arrow)
— Troy Oviedo (IG troyoviedo) 😮‍💨
— Falcon Trading Company (IG ftcjewelry)
— Samuel Sumpter (IG nabaahii_bizhiil_creations)

Show Up Toronto - October 7, 2025 Hi friends and neighbours, Not much of a preamble today, as I'm feeling under the weather. For folks who have joined recently, thank you and welcome! A quick...

The October 7th edition of the @showuptoronto.ca just went out! Includes actions you can take to support the Canadians detained from the Sumud flotilla and dozens of events across the city on housing, disability justice, Bill 33, and the environmental crisis. buttondown.com/showup/archi... #toronto

As a theoretical cosmologist, I'm frequently asked "what is the benefit of the work you're doing for people's lives?" Nothing I work on makes money or cures disease.

There are a few different answers one can give, at various levels of "convincing" / "actually relevant to why the work is done."

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I thought this was a pretty cool natural arrangement of these Grammatophora sp. diatoms.
#marineplankton 🦑

screenshot of Cyd's old poetry website, showing a poem page with a white background Header: Cyd Harrell (poet) in large green underlined Courier font poem (all in Courier) Mt. Constitution: From the Summit Some morning when mist is thin like pale tea, you will reach a forest where moss is so shrill a silver green and the blue of spruce limbs vibrates so loud and low that, as quiet steeps you in the damp your soul dissolves, finds mine suspended there; looking down, I read it in the leaves. footer (in sans serif italics): Cyd Harrell, 1989. Published Oxygen Quarterly No. 19. Further rights reserved. Home Email me.

sometimes I think about bringing back my old website...

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