Nick Harper, he/him

Running for Congress on a platform of sneaking into Polymarket HQ and unplugging all their stuff. Overflow crowds at a local Knights of Columbus hall roar with delight as I promise to pour Florida's Natural Grapefruit Juice (with pulp) into the USB-C port of every computer in the damn place.

tl;dr takeaways:

- Turnout is up, we may see 2026 general election turnout exceed 2018, which had the highest turnout rate since 1914
- Democrats are more enthused (adding to the mountain of evidence)
- Early voting predictive
- Republicans may have hurt themselves by adding mail ballot burdens

Exactly right.

The Civil Rights Division was able to show that it took exhaustive (and exhausting) work to litigate even the most obvious violations of the voting rights protections in the 1957 and 1960 acts, which ultimately convinced Congress and then SCOTUS that a much broader law was needed.

Cannot, or will not?

Wright County prosecutors allege off-duty Hennepin deputy raped woman he met at bar Charges say Jared Sprunk assaulted the woman at a home in St. Michael.

An off-duty Hennepin County sheriff’s deputy met a woman at a bar and raped her at a Wright County home, according to prosecutors.

“When I think about navigating the start of the year here, especially in our hometown in Minneapolis, the thing that we have kept front and center every single day is the safety of our team.” – Target CEO Michael Fiddelke

“Evangelicals are missing from the halls of power. That’s a problem. The lack of evangelical Christians at America’s most prestigious institutions fuels mistrust.” Excerpt From “Opinion | Evangelicals are missing from the halls of power. That’s a problem.” Aaron M. Renn The Washington Post https://apple.news/ATJF-eGWhQMuuXvLnrj0ugQ This material may be protected by copyright.

Congratulations, WaPo, you did it, you published the worst take

Four Democrats voted for the DHS appropriations bill yesterday that keeps funding ICE as a violent, law-breaking, unaccountable agency:

Cuellar
Davis
Golden
Perez

NEW: Federal judges have spent months ordering ICE to give detainees a chance for release in bond hearings.

Now, they're worried that the bond hearings themselves — conducted by Executive Branch immigration judges — are a farce.

www.politico.com/news/2026/03...

A post on X from the betting platform Polymarket that says “BREAKING: Anthropic CEO says Claude may or may not have gained consciousness, as the model has begun showing symptoms of anxiety.”

Literally as I’m arguing with someone about whether AI companies are misleading people into believing their technology possesses God-like super-intelligence I see this monstrosity

Excellent NYT video analysis finds that the bombing of scores of schoolchildren in Iran came amid other US strikes in the vicinity:

www.nytimes.com/2026/03/05/w...

Yo brother, legal team confirmed that we can't work with minors rn

Your head of Standards reasoning sucks. Get a new head of Standards.

Damn, you guys are really bad at your jobs

It’s not disingenuous to point out that the NYT did not run a single front page story of the Minab bombing. You don’t dispute this claim because it’s true. And the story that you reference on your webpage does not attribute blame to US/Israel and frames it as an allegation by “Iranian state media”

Everyone involved straight to The Hague

“I have usernames older that you” is WILD, but after thinking about it, I do have a few pretty old usernames that are like… 20 years old.

David Ellison Just Shared His Vision For CNN Post-Merger — And It’s Raising Eyebrows While Ellison said CNN's editorial independence won't be compromised, people weren't entirely convinced by his explanation.

“It’s maintained at CBS, it’ll be maintained at CNN.”

But, of course, it has not been maintained at all at CBS.

www.huffpost.com/entry/paramo...

US asked Ukraine for help fighting Iranian drones, Zelensky says Ukraine's president says Kyiv will only help if doing so does not deplete its own air defences.

w e a s k e d w h o f o r w h a t n o w

Exclusive: US investigation points to likely US responsibility in Iran school strike, sources say U.S. military investigators believe it is likely that U.S. forces were responsible for an apparent strike on an Iranian girls' school that killed scores of children on Saturday but have not yet reache...

"US investigation points to likely US responsibility in Iran school strike, sources say"

What does this imply for those of us who are not Christian, and who labor under the assumption that we're protected by the First Amendment?

flames, side of face etc

This shows the sort of data that Proton Mail, which prides itself both on end-to-end encryption and that it's only governed by Swiss privacy law, can provide to third parties. In this case, the FBI. @evystadium.bsky.social has more.

Scoop by @josephcox.bsky.social: www.404media.co/proton-mail-...

Supreme Court Continues to Shoot Self in Foot in Second Amendment Cases US v Hemani, case about gun rights of drug users, shows the Supreme Court's Second Amendment standard is comically unworkable.

to figure out whether a prohibition on drug users possessing guns that passed in 1968 is still legal in 2026, one must figure out how drunk the Founding Fathers got in 1776 --the Supreme Court, basically

ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/us-v-...

Dot plot chart from the Pew Research Center titled "Women are more likely than men to say pornography is morally unacceptable." The chart shows the percentage of men and women in 22 countries who consider viewing pornography morally unacceptable, based on the Spring 2025 Global Attitudes Survey. In every country shown, women are more likely than men to hold this view. The gender gap ranges from +6 percentage points in Nigeria to +22 points in South Korea and Spain. Countries with the highest overall disapproval rates include Nigeria (82% men, 88% women), Indonesia (81% men, 90% women), and Mexico (53% men, 74% women). Countries with the lowest rates include Japan (13% men, 27% women), Germany (21% men, 36% women), and the Netherlands (20% men, 33% women). The U.S. shows 47% of men and 58% of women viewing pornography as morally wrong (the U.S. used the term "morally wrong" rather than "morally unacceptable"). Only statistically significant differences are shown. This question was not asked in India.

New survey from Pew Research seems to explain a hidden reason that Republicans have been attacking adult entertainment: It's their new women's outreach effort.

After school boards and trans sports have fizzled, they are trying to reach women by bashing porn. www.pewresearch.org/religion/202...

Quick reminder that everyone already knows her replacement will be as vile and dead inside as she is. It's ok to just...savor these moments. Let yourself have it. Let everyone have it. This is joy, and it doesn't last long. Don't make it shorter.

mullin is if anything even more drunk and incompetent than noem, and also a sitting senator, so i think we really are seeing Not Enough Guys theory operationalized at the highest levels

🚨 GIRD YOUR LOINS: Public hearings for Mayor Frey's nominations for reappointment of Community Safety Commissioner Todd Barnette, City Atty Kristyn Anderson, & COO Margaret Anderson Kelliher could happen as early as April. Committee of the Whole will set dates at next meeting.

LOL bye