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A Minnesota Lawmaker and Her Husband Are Lying in State. Next to Them: Their Golden Retriever.

I think it is always worth mentioning that Melissa Hortman and her husband Mark were killed with their beloved dog Gilbert: www.nytimes.com/2025/06/27/u...

We are seven months in, and the speed with which vital civic institutions are capitulating to authoritarian demands we once would have regarded as inconceivable in an established liberal democracy is jawdropping. I hadn't thought I was polyannaish about America, but it's really stunning.

When everything is on fire, it’s hard for stories like this to break through. But these kind—of Kennedy circumnavigating even Trump’s effort to moderate his extremism, that name and explain the motivations behind the bureaucrats enacting Kennedy’s anti-vaccine policies—are I think, so important.

YouTube video by Indivisible Hillsboro No Kings THANK YOU HILLSBORO! YOU WE'RE 🔥🔥🔥 #indivisible #resist #nokings #bluecrew #hillsboro

For all of you out there on 6/14, and all of you that couldn’t make it but wanted to — This is for you. Thank you for your strength, your grace, and your courage.

#NoKings #indivisible #resist #bluecrew

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Just saw someone walking down the street wearing a twin flames hoodie & immediately thought of @leahsottile.bsky.social!

me dropping a hint to my parents about what i want for my birthday

YouTube video by Administration for Children and Families (ACF) LIHEAP Heating Assistance

Cold weather is here, and the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program can help you pay your heating and energy bills if you’re struggling to afford higher costs this winter.

Learn more about the program here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Jyc...

on “Wonderful Christmastime,” Sir Paul McCartney set out to make a timeless christmas classic and also to figure out what every button on his synthesizer did, and he absolutely succeeded at one of those things

Leash your dog. Yes, you. Yes, your sweet dog. Leash your dog. Not only because of the harm it could do, but because you have no right to put other people through the stress of not knowing what it will do. EVEN IF you can predict your dog (you can’t), other people shouldn’t have to rely on it.

New. Hampshire.

headline: Boeing Company's Rich White to speak at Edmonds Chamber Community Update event

sorry the Boeing Company’s who now

Seen but not heard: The New York Times failed to quote trans people in over 60% of 2023 stories on anti-trans legislation A new report from Media Matters and GLAAD finds that The New York Times excluded the perspectives of trans people from two-thirds of its stories about anti-trans legislation in the year following public criticism for its handling of the topic. Media Matters previously reported that the Times helped fuel a right-wing anti-trans panic in 2022 by platforming anti-trans extremists, painting rising transgender identification as a social contagion, and fearmongering about the costs of transgender acceptance.   In February 2023, the paper received two separate open letters: one from a coalition of 150+ organizations and leaders, including GLAAD, and a separate letter signed by hundreds of Times contributors that criticized the outlet's contributions to a deadly anti-LGBTQ culture war. The newspaper attempted to conflate both efforts, dismissing all criticisms of its coverage as merely “protests organized by advocacy groups.” Between February 15, 2023, when those letters were separately delivered to the Times, and February 15, 2024, the Times published at least 65 articles that mentioned U.S. anti-trans legislation in either their headline or lead paragraphs. We counted how often the paper quoted openly trans or gender-nonconforming sources, cited anti-trans misinformation or talking points without context or adequate fact-checking, and accurately represented the records of anti-trans figures mentioned in its stories. Our findings:  66% of the articles did not quote even one trans or gender-nonconforming person. 18% of the articles quoted misinformation from anti-trans activists without adequate fact-checking or additional context. 6 articles obscured the anti-trans background of sources, erasing histories of extremist rhetoric or actions.

Media Matters and GLAAD looked at a full year New York Times coverage of anti-trans legislation:

🔴 Two-thirds of stories didn't include trans voices

🔴 18% quoted misinformation without adequate fact-checking

🔴6 articles obscured the anti-trans background of sources l

My sympathy to all the people who work in state legislatures drafting bills, who will now be asked to spend much more of their time drafting bills that are blatantly unconstitutional under existing law, but hey, who cares?

When you finish try extraordinary (Hulu) cuz your last two recs have been two I’ve really enjoyed!

Four years ago today: Trump intentionally stifled COVID testing because he thought having low case numbers would help his reelection www.npr.org/2020/03/12/8...

That Oscar song performance from Ryan Gosling is your reminder that he was part of The All-New Mickey Mouse Club alongside Justin Timberlake, Britney Spears, and Christina Aguilera. 🤣

It’s so good!

US folks: the USPS free covid test program is ending this Friday 3/8, so if you haven’t already requested your tests for this cycle, definitely do it now: special.usps.com/testkits

Library Fees? No Problem. Just Show Us Your Cat Photos. A program this month encourages library patrons in Worcester, Mass., who have lost or damaged books or other items to reactivate their accounts. All they need is a picture of a cat.

The Worcester Public Library in Massachusetts announced that people who have lost or damaged a book can bring a picture of a cat this month to one of its branches and get their library cards reactivated. The program, which it calls March Meowness, has generated hundreds of returns.

now this is some phenomenal writing

as media implodes remember to save PDFs of all the stories you’ve written on staff or freelance. some “cost-cutting measure” could pull your bylines at any moment. don’t lose your work!

He's not legally allowed to run a university.
He's not legally allowed to run a charity.
Now he's not legally allowed to run a business in New York.
Yet he wants America to put him in charge.

🎉🎉🎉

‘Rap Sh!t’ Canceled at Max The comedy from creator Issa Rae starring Aida Osman ran for two seasons on the streamer.

Real talk: At what point do we say "enough" and just cancel MAX the same way it's cancelling all these shows we were enjoying?

My Year in Reading My Favorite Book All the Sinners Bleed by S.A. Cosby S.A. Cosby writes Southern noir that I cannot get enough of. In All the Sinners Bleed, Titus is doing his best to serve his community, deal with hi...

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The people who made a world that despises children are blaming their children for choosing not to bring children into a world that despises children.

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the Claudine Gay plagiarism story reminds me of that one time we pretended that email server practices were critically important, for about three months