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SHOULD THE U.S BLOT OUT THE SUN AND USHER IN AN AGE OF ETERNAL DARKNESS? - Gallup 2/20/26-3/5/26

NO - 41%
YES - 38%
UNSURE - 21%

This will get recounted and challenged for sure, and the lead could change, but as of right now two voters just decided the direction of the #ncga Senate. #ncpol

With 95% of precincts reporting, Phil Berger still losing to Sam Page.

A victory by Page changes the nature of NC politics, period.

Senator Phil Berger is on razor-thin margins to lose his senate seat.

The current count is 12,965 for Sam Page and 12,793 for Phil Berger with 2 precincts remaining.

I have absolutely no idea what Trump is trying to accomplish in Iran, or how he plans to accomplish it, and the fun thing is that neither does he!

That's why the constitution does not give the President the authority to launch wars without Congressional approval.

For those wondering, Hotchkiss was explicitly founded as a feeder school for Yale which banned women until the 1970s.

Graham Platner is in every reasonable definition an elite cosplaying as a member of the working class, something Trump did to remarkable effect.

It's all vibes for y'all out there

Letter of Support to the NC General Assembly Distraction-Free Schools NC is a movement of parents, educators, school leaders, community members, and medical / mental health professionals who are united in calling for policy changes to address th...

If you’re in NC and concerned about the overuse of digital tech in schools, please consider signing this petition urging the NCGA to adopt a statewide bell-to-bell cell phone policy. The bill passed last July was among the weakest in the country. We believe students deserve stronger protections.

Poem text of The Patience of Ordinary Things by Pat Schneider

A beautiful piece on a hard day.

The Iran war is going to fuel a new level of anti-semitism

What "it's a distraction" people fundamentally need to understand about fascism is that fascism's entire mode of operation is diverting popular anger/anxiety/despair into channels of violence against the Other (both internal and external).

It's not flailing, it's the whole strategy.

things every single republican president of your lifetime has done

- started a war in the middle east
- completely destroyed the economy

I'm seriously starting to question the credibility of the FIFA Peace Prize.

It is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.

Chapter 1 of Moby Dick, page 1 The phrase ‘Call me Ishmael’, the first sentence of the book, is highlighted in blue, with careful highlighting on the very big C at the start. Above this, written in ballpoint pen ‘His name’

Love the glimpse into the beautiful mind that notated this used copy of Moby Dick I got

Why do I have to pretend that I'm going to print something in order to save it as a PDF. Why do I have to engage in a little ruse.

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If you are wondering what words the all-male Congress found so "blasphemous" that they felt compelled to literally scrape them off the monument, they were: ''Woman, first denied a soul, then called mindless, now arisen, declared herself an entity to be reckoned.''

this is exactly why I am absolutely not willing to overlook anyone who was once “advocating for ending USAID” as merely committing a little oopsie-daisy-booboo, by the way

glasses with little cameras in them are not wearable tech they're pervert glasses

I wish people understood how much unseen labor goes into every visible ounce of activism

and how much labor by so many people towards change is deliberately invisible and never meant to be known

Reading American history will break your heart a thousand times but it will also fill you with such admiration and awe for all the people who were excluded from the protection of America’s founding principles and fought to promote, protect and expand them anyways

Imagine if they got more competitive about curing diseases or some shit like that instead of this stupid shit that sucks

Devastated to learn that Univ of Texas at Austin is closing the American Studies dept. The years I spent there earning my PhD were formative, making me the teacher, thinker, and writer I am today. I've passed on what I learned at UT to thousands of students over the past 20 years. Just awful.

A benefit of free buses I hadn’t heard enough about until this piece from @galvinalmanza.bsky.social

A real opportunity was missed in not calling this “Terminal Degree”

white dudes in Callaway hats doing this are a five alarm fire for the GOP

The $38.3 billion they are going to spend for interment camps could fund the annual budget of NASA, the EPA, and all clean energy R&D at the Department of Energy—combined.

RFK Jr. made promises to get his job as health secretary. He's broken many of them In his confirmation hearings, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told U.S. senators that he would not cut funding for vaccine research or change the nation's official vaccine recommendations. He did both.

In his confirmation hearings, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told U.S. senators that he would not cut funding for vaccine research or change the nation's official vaccine recommendations. He did both. n.pr/46QDn9p

This is EXACTLY right

RFK Jr and the MDs and PhDs he hired to follow his orders—Drs Prasad, Bhattacharya, Høeg, Kulldorff, Oz, & Makary—have been hugely successful at rapidly dismantling the US vaccine system & at discouraging vaccine R&D (including mRNA vaccine R&D)