A small black cat laying on her back on a wood floor, four paws curled up adorably as she looks at the camera. How is this comfortable? It can’t be, but she does this all the time.
My silly cat Fry laying on her back, as she does.
The fact that there was a correspondent nicknamed the “Scud Stud” is a bit of trivia that has lived rent-free in my head ever since.
Age verification? My first gaming console was an Atari 2600.
The editorial eye is never so keen as in the moment after one posts.
Highlighting the speaker who stood in front of the Surprise mayor and told him to consider what the Mayor of Ohrdruf must’ve thought before he died by suicide: “He might have thought ‘how is this my fault I had no jurisdiction over this’ maybe he said ‘this site was not subject to local zoning.’”
Some local activists cautioned against overinterpreting Wambsganss’ loss as a national political signal, arguing instead that it reflected distinctly local fallout from her role in contentious school board fights that reshaped public education politics in North Texas. In 2020, Wambsganss co-founded Southlake Families PAC to back school board candidates who pledged to root out critical race theory, which centers on the idea that racism is systemic in the nation’s institutions, and what they described as “woke” diversity initiatives in local schools. She later expanded that work as director of Patriot Mobile Action, the political arm of a right-wing Christian cellphone company, which poured hundreds of thousands of dollars into school board races across the region, helping elect slates of anti-DEI Republicans. Wambsganss’ campaign to put “God back in schools” helped elevate her to national prominence, with frequent appearances on Steve Bannon’s “War Room” podcast and other conservative media. But in more recent elections, opponents say, the policies she championed — including aggressive curriculum battles, book bans and public funding for private Christian schools — triggered resistance not just from Democrats, but also from independent and Republican parents who said the fights sowed division and instability in high-achieving suburban school systems. Laney Hawes, a parent of four in one of those districts and a co-founder of the Texas Freedom to Read Project, said many in Tarrant County had come to see Wambsganss as “the villain of public education.” While Hawes said she was energized by the outcome, she warned that the result was being read too broadly outside the region. “This win was about parents’ coming together from every notch on the political spectrum and trying to protect our children and our community,” Hawes said. “Even Republicans and moderates were pissed off at her.”
Some important context for anyone writing about that Texas special election shocker
Do it! Just saw it tonight and it was fantastic!
They keep dropping Epstein stuff at the end of the day on Fridays hoping to bury it and it just gives people all weekend to read it lol
Thank god for small favors
I am a Californian who voted for him for gov (thanks, Rs, for running the most cartoonishly unqualified weirdos against him) and not only do I NOT want him as pres, I am sure he will not play outside of whatever pundit bubbles think it is a good idea for him to run. Just no. Absolutely not.
Californians are NOT going to vote for Gavin Newsom. They're telling you now, with YEARS to go before the election. Fair warning. Please support better candidates, there will be many to choose from.
I've seen some folks giving into doomerism by citing the US's history of paramilitary violence shutting down fair elections in the South, and I want to add some historical context to support Jamelle here (as an historian of Reconstruction paramilitary violence)
The SPEAKER implies.
The LISTENER infers.
The DUDE abides.
ForwardBlue facebook ad suggesting that people sign up with them to register for the next No Kings day, which they are not involved in.
Please be aware that contrary to their fundraising ads, @forwardblue.bsky.social has no relationship with the No Kings mobilizations, no record of doing anything in support, no inside information, and is ignoring requests to cease advertising that suggests they are involved.
Why is she dressed like Gozer the Gozerian?
Masked federal agents removing crates of belongings from the ICE shooter's home
It should be bigger news that masked agents were filmed hours ago removing potentially inculpatory evidence from the ICE shooter's house, clearly lacking evidence tags or chain of custody stickers.
Before we have word on whether he underwent a toxicology screen at the hospital following the killing
For Californians receiving scary mailers about Sacramento raising gas prices from “Californians for Affordable and Reliable Energy,” that group is primarily funded by the oil and gas industry (which I guess I didn’t need a Google search to figure out, lol).
"Paywalled" is the word you're looking for. They didn't turn it off. The only thing that changed is X now explicitly makes money off CSAM.
Make it viral.
Emily Heller, an eyewitness, is speaking out to set the record straight. Officers were screaming at Renee Nicole Good, “Move, move, move.”
So she moved, and they shot her multiple times? Then Noem and Trump branded her a domestic terrorist. Does everyone see how absolutely insane that sounds?
ABSOLUTELY THE FUCK NOT
Was just coming here to recommend this! (It got me through 2020.)
Have you read Becky Chambers? The Monk and Robot series is a good one if you’re looking for thoughtful fiction about characters who are essentially good without being unrealistically extraordinary.
As a complete stranger with only this post to go on, this sounds like a him problem and not anything you did. I’m sorry he made you feel this way.
When I was in kindergarten (admittedly not in LA) I walked to school two blocks away with another kindergartener (mid ‘70s). If my kids had run around the way I did in the ‘80s I’m sure some “helpful” neighbor would have had CPS on speed dial.
This! When my kids were in elementary (and even middle school) it was very clear that most parents viewed walking to school without parental supervision as super dangerous.
Just in case any journalist or editor reading this is tempted to minimize Trump's Reiner post because it's a "showbiz thing" and "real" stories are happening: No. It's a President thing and a decency thing, and if you don't understand that those things are newsworthy, you are failing in your duties.
Small black cat yawning as she sits on a pile of folded laundry.
Completed the most important part of holiday prep today: picking up a refill of my migraine meds.
I am deeply unsurprised that this unpleasant individual who thinks women on the internet owe him time and attention when he demands it is an AI bro. 🙄
