In the first few weeks of October, three national pollsters asked three different questions about transgender issues, and all three landed in the same place from different angles: the anti-transgender ads this year may be backfiring on Republican strategists.
Last week the Portland Police made a huge deal about a K9 killed in the line of duty apprehending a dangerous suspect.
Turns out that K9 was shot and killed by...the Portland Police
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hooooly shit new hardest quote dropped. in response to being asked how they would like to die: “sex while skydiving, viking funeral when we hit the ground.” - @erikaishii.bsky.social#gamechanger
For decades, reporters have treated hours-long voting lines as a “normal” feature of Election Day instead of investigating why some Americans consistently face greater barriers to the ballot…
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The Trump administration is now refusing payouts for US soldiers who died in the US-Israeli war against Iran "because it isn't a war." Libby Klinner, widow of 33-year-old Maj Alex Klinner, says the US Air Force deemed her ineligible for additional benefits following her husband's death because
In 1976, during an unforgettable episode of her syndicated television variety show Dolly!, Dolly Parton welcomed her close friends and fellow music icons Emmylou Harris and Linda Ronstadt to share the stage.
This is what the growth of surveillance is going to bring. Not safety from crime, but new, non-criminal acts redefined as criminal so as to give the police an excuse to exercise power.
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The Cleveland Public Library's union voted overwhelmingly, 97%, to authorize a strike, which will happen in August if the administrators continue to stall contract negotiations.
As an author whose work is carried by those libraries, I whole-heartedly endorse the library workers.
Police murdered a Black man in the street in Madison WI today. Shot point blank in the head while on the ground, tased, and surrounded by four cops. It looks like an execution. Multiple videos circulating online. Things are about to get very bad here.
So Weird Al turned down an AI ad and also the Riyadh comedy festival and the lesson is Weird Al has more integrity than the vast majority of entertainers
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"When activists n Ireland heard that Peter Thiel’s secret club, Dialog, was planning to meet n the Irish countryside, they launched a campaign to stop it. They succeeded"
PEOPLE OF IRELAND CAME THRU & SHOWED THIEL THE DOOR: DON'T LET THIS PASS W/O THEIR PROPS
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While we’re on the subject, I also think it’s weird freak behavior to be an adult who makes Hating Children For Merely Existing their entire personality.
🚨VICTORY: Supreme Court holds that federal Election Day statutes do not prevent Mississippi from counting absentee ballots postmarked by Election Day but received afterwards
A huge victory for our clients and the Elias Law Group team. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
'Israel continues to commit genocide by deliberately targeting Palestinian children in Gaza' - United Nations
There it is in black and white, 30% of all deaths in Gaza have been of children, this is not war, this is genocide, it is deliberate. Well, @andyburnham.bsky.social, over to you.
Dustin Nolan, Emmy winning anchor at KWQC TV6 in the Quad Cities, quit live on air Friday. "We have to be more than sanitized news because it makes people feel uncomfortable. The facts matter." He did not name his reasons. He did not have to.
Portland folks: there's an all ages micro-music festival tomorrow with a book fair! 12 noon to 10 PM tomorrow, proceeds will go to good causes including Portland's bail fund!
Deets in link
Just to give a heads up, our last hearing is in 3 days and the trial is in 11 days so I’m going to be posting our legal fees more.
Very sorry if it’s annoying but we need your help to not only win but also survive past this unjust prosecution. Thank you for understanding. tinyurl.com/katandre
You don’t hate country music, you just hate the same 100 songs of bootlicking corporatized trash about saluting the flag while drinking a beer in your truck at a football game next to your pretty silent wife in daisy dukes who also knows how to fish.
Just so yall know, I’m going to be kind of annoying about our legal fees on all my socials til the trial I’m sorry
But we are doing an all-day livestream fundraiser on May 23rd! So that’ll be fun :)