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In culture war backlash, Democrats sweep school boards The party recruited and invested in school board races to oust Republicans. It worked.

www.politico.com/news/2025/11...

#caturday

Much of the non-US media is reporting the COP30 outcome as a "catastrophe" for the climate & the world.

Review: 'Gendertrash from Hell' Makes Trans History Feel Brand New Gendertrash from Hell manages to take the words of the past and make them feel as if they were written yesterday.

"Trans people are often told that ‘we have always been here’, but it's rare to see that laid out in a way where we feel lifelike. It's one thing to show idealized images of past figures; it's another to make them feel real."

For real @theneedlenews.com (thank you!!)

ok so the bike work is paying off!

Please dont scroll past this
This is a cry from a desperate mother in Gaza
My daughter Alma is hungry, sick, and losing her strength.
Every night she asks for food I cannot provide
Your compassion could bring her a meal, warmth, or a chance at life
Please, if your heart still feels, help us survive

dudes rock

New York will always be a city of immigrants. When we protect the communities who keep this city running and uphold our sanctuary laws, we create a future that’s safer for every New Yorker.

This piece!!!!!
"Summers is a tax this society places on women. He is their extra cost of doing business. And most men are willing to let them pay it. After all, most men know the tax means that they too can benefit as long as they retain some professional power."

New Jersey may stop paying federal taxes under new governor Gov.-elect Mikie Sherrill said on a podcast with Jon Stewart it's a "great idea."

““If they’re not gonna run the programs, then what are we paying them for?” she said. “It’s like, you know, you’re paying us for a service and they’re not delivering. So let’s stop paying for it.”

👀 @mikiesherrill.bsky.social goes there …

Also certain classes of people could self-select into professions that were compatible with florid unmanaged ADHD, in jobs that essentially don't exist anymore.

gonna score some four and start conversing with the better angels

Need that shit that Sherman was Burnin’

Lol we also got Lane Kiffin shit going on??? A feast of takes for the lords and ladies this weekend

Where my Hoe-berths at

Shot + chaser

Queens men meet — Queens Daily Eagle The first man from Queens to be elected president and the first Queens resident to be elected mayor of New York City met for the first time in the Oval Office on Friday.

The Queens Daily Eagle remains undefeated.

🧵 We are, in fact, doing the thing again for @onesimplewish.bsky.social. In 2024, the kind people of this community put the money cannon on blast to help grant $75K in wishes for children in foster care. Toys, tech, a suit for job interviews. Here we go again! 👇
www.onesimplewish.org/giving/megwa...

Want some dopamine hits? Go through this list and make a disadvantaged kid's day.

The No Country for Old Men pic look like a hardcore band reunion where u gonna die in the pit on a Tuesday nite.

New Save Collective plans to continue holding future events and organizing gamers. The fight for these communities online is far from over. “Gaming wasn't kind of a random genre that we chose,” says Siggelkow. “We've been tracking anti-immigrant myths and disinformation digitally for years. We really grounded this campaign in a lot of data and research. This really is a space that is critical for immigration narrative.”

I spoke with people role-playing ICE raids in video games to help educate people on their rights and what to do in real-life situations. Tonight, they're holding an event in Fortnite www.wired.com/story/activi...

but enough about the polycule

[David Bowie voice]
IT TOOK THEM MINUTES
IT TASTE LIKE CARDBOARD
HEAVEN KNOWS
SHED TAKE ANY CARBS BUT
[singers]
ALLLLLLLLLLLLLLL NIGHT
[Bowie]
SHE WANTS THE BIG AMERICANS

None other than beloved character actor Richard Kind

Heritage also understood that time-pressed reporters were already adopting the horrid he-said/she-said style that plagues journalism today. If we got wind that some world-class Brookings scholar was due to release a book on, say, national health insurance that made an original contribution to knowledge in the field, someone at Heritage would quickly draft a short paper rehashing the same old talking points attacking national health insurance that had been around forever and release it the same day as the Brookings study. More often than not, we would get a story in the Washington Post the next day saying little more than this: “Today the Brookings Institution published a book, 3 tears in the making, advocating national health insurance, and the Heritage Foundation released a report on the same subject saying it would bankrupt the nation and lead to a deterioration in health quality.” Reporters never distinguished between the quality of one study and the shallowness of the other; they both got conflated and prevented the other side from getting traction on an issue.[vi] This method still works today.

Revealing piece from Bruce Bartlett explaining how even back in the 1980s, the Heritage Foundation understood how to play the news media in ways other think tanks didn't:

brucebartlett.substack.com/p/my-days-at...

Oh you wanted to do things? Well let me tell you something PAL you will NOT get to do things you fool, you absolute moron. Im a Democrat, why do you hate me

BILLS UPDATE

It is cool that we have created a system where the kind of person who makes a career of denying people their humanity can exist and thrive.

This story is nuts.

"ICE agents then surrounded the judge’s car and demanded everyone to exit the vehicle, threatening to smash in the windows if they did not comply."

It’s widely known (and, I think, pretty uncontroversial) that learning requires effort — specifically, if you don’t have to work at getting the knowledge, it won’t stick.

Even if an LLM could be trusted to give you correct information 100% of the time, it would be an inferior method of learning it.