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i realize today’s The Discourse seems to be sparked by a governor’s race and state taxes, but whatever i’m tired and my back hurts shut up

nobody wants my democratic tax plan but it’s literally two sentences and solves many problems:
1 treat all income as wage income for tax purposes
2 double the standard exemption

if you need a reason to boycott chili’s other than the shitty food, high prices, terrible way they treat their staff in general, or general woo-girl-margaritas vibe, they are now openly anti-trans.

SCHUMER: "We have sent the president a very strongly worded letter about his sun-blocking. We have many questions. We're holding his feet to the fire."

Eyeing Voting Rights, Liberals Aim to Secure Wisconsin’s Supreme Court through 2030 - Bolts After flipping the court in 2023, Wisconsin liberals now hope to expand their majority on a body that could be a critical backstop for voting rights during the next presidential election.

NEW: Believe it or not, it’s that time of year: the Wisconsin Supreme Court election is next month.

Liberals have a huge opportunity: if they win, they can lock down the majority of this court thru 2030.

That means they’d have it in the next presidential race, a big democracy guardrail.

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these fuckers just live high on their own supply don’t they

why this kid look like winnie the pooh

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The level of misinformation spread by proponents of heliocentrism, many of whom are professional astronomers and many of whom have fancy letters and affiliations affixed to their names, is really demoralizing. — Ajesse Singali, writing about the trial of Galileo, 1633

@benappel.bsky.social: don’t let this thing that didn’t happen to me happen to other people it never actually happens to

it is a an iron (the bottom of it) in front of pile of folded shirts and it looks like a shark CHORES

This scares me way more than the movie

if anyone needs me i'll just be over here using this bag as a toy

Friday Venn starring RFK, Jr, Male Strippers, and In-N-Out

Trump hates when anyone but himself gets media attention, even bad media attention.

I have been thinking a lot about "elite impunity" and what exactly that means. I think for it to make sense, it must be laid alongside state violence. See the care and concern for Larry Summers alongside the brutal violence against Nurul Amin Shah Alam.

Gas price at my neighborhood @kwiktrip.bsky.social before Tuesday's State of the Union address: $2.50/gallon.

Gas price at my neighborhood Kwik Trip today, two days later: $2.80/gallon.

Just a coincidence, I'm sure.

Here’s the thing about folks speedrunning the creative process with AI:

I could go to the beach every morning and put a grain of sand in a cup. They’d take their cup to the beach and fill it one day; but the point isn’t to have a cup of sand. It’s to fill my life with a thousand trips to the beach.

The Conservative Proposal To Take Money from Poor Single Moms and Give It to Married Couples The Heritage Foundation has an idea: Take from the poor and give to the rich

Too many women in the workforce and delaying or foregoing childbearing? The Heritage Foundation has a plan for that. And it is the opposite of Robin Hood: It's a huge cash transfer from poor single moms to to wealthier married parents.
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Weekend at Bernie’s, but Bernie is Trump and the two people propping him up are the NYT and Washington Post

I Caught POLITICO and the New York Times Laundering Pink Slime "News" How the sexist backlash to AOC and Gretchen Whitmer at the Munich Security Conference led me to a scammy "local news" outlet pushing a coordinated right-wing narrative

Interesting post about the coordinated anti-AOC smear campaign. It's 2016 again! Fake local news outlets on Facebook getting picked up until eventually it winds up in the Washington Post.

Here’s the 2026 Summerfest lineup! Organized by date, time, and stage! The 2026 Summerfest lineup! Organized by date, time, and stage! June 18-20, June 25-27, and July 2-4!

I've once again fulfilled my solemn duty of organizing the Summerfest lineup into an easy-to-read format. The Spin Doctors go on at 7:30.

Ald. Dimitrijevic Issues Objection to Wisconsin Electric Power Company proposal  

"data center customers [should] pay 100% of all incremental and fixed costs required to serve them, with no cost shunted to other customers...the PSC adopts enforceable, long-term protections so QI ratepayers are not left responsible if data center plans change."

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This is what Ring cameras are for, not the surveillance state

“Outsider peace duo” is a wild way to spell “two unqualified Trump sycophants”

Almost the entirety of the gap between Fuentes and Rufo is that Rufo hates Muslims more than Jews & Fuentes is the opposite

Btw, the reason all these rich guys are having to turn to AI assistants to run their lives is that they don't realise how reliant their predecessors were on the invisible labour of women.

As per usual, we owed the feds and way overpaid the state because Wisconsin refuses to fully fund public education. The refund is nice, Robin, but I know it’s at the expense of my special ed students

Gonna tell my grandkids it’s called Fat Tuesday because it was invented before Ozempic

media orgs please use alt text challenge 2026

especially an image like this, with white text over a grayscale photograph