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Sure, let's just add that to the pile. It's frankly the most impactful timing the union could achieve.

Wannabe tyrant desperate.

Edit: Replaced the source with better one.

Forecasters expected the country's gross domestic product — the total value of goods and services produced in the U.S. — to come in at 2.6% in the three-month period ended in September, according to a survey of economists by the data firm FactSet. The latest GDP figure is down slightly from the second quarter's growth of 3%.

Elections for state supreme courts have finally begun to receive more of the attention they deserve, but thousands of other judicial elections in the United States—which have an enormous impact on how justice is dispensed—remain largely overlooked.

More than 200,000 people had canceled their digital subscriptions by midday Monday, according to two people at the paper with knowledge of internal matters. Not all cancellations take effect immediately. Still, the figure represents about 8% of the paper’s paid circulation of 2.5 million subscribers, which includes print as well. The number of cancellations continued to grow Monday afternoon.

This is the craziness we face in Texas in one tidy package. There are a lot of well-meaning public servants below the state level. (And yes, I know this could easily trigger ACAB responses, but I like to reserve those for when someone is actually being a bastard. It's not like we're lacking opportunity.)

Mrs. Hedge and I are trying to figure out the best way to psychologically prepare ourselves for a 2nd Trump term . . . any suggestions for this would be greatly appreciated. 😵‍💫😵‍💫

I really wish every part of this was somehow surprising.

Today, the Biden-Harris Administration announced that NOAA is designating 4,543 square miles of coastal and offshore waters along 116 miles of California’s central coast as America’s 17th national marine sanctuary. Chumash Heritage National Marine Sanctuary will conserve the area’s diverse range of marine life and celebrate Indigenous peoples’ connections to the region. It is the third largest sanctuary in the National Marine Sanctuary System.

“The recent decision by commissioner-appointed committee members has outraged not just our community, but the country as a whole,” said Teresa Kenney, a Montgomery County resident and founder of the Village Books store. “Nowhere in the approved policy is it under the committee’s purview to determine whose history is fact or fiction.”

I haven't donated money, but I can confirm that the messages are constant and very pleading in tone. Honestly they turn me off from donating at all.

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I have no words.

A hopeful and unexpected drop in U.S. drug overdose deaths appears to be gaining speed. Fatal overdoses are down 12.7%, according to data released this week from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. It marks another significant improvement from last month, when surveys showed roughly a 10.6% drop in fatalities from street drugs.

This year’s flu shot will be missing a strain of influenza it’s protected against for more than a decade.

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If Roberson’s execution goes forward, he will be the first person executed on the basis of the Shaken Baby Syndrome hypothesis in the history of the United States.

On Monday, the Rutherford County sheriff’s office released a statement confirming that it had arrested an armed suspect for making threats against Federal Emergency Management Agency employees but had concluded that the suspect had acted alone and that there were not “truck loads of militia” targeting relief workers.

If passed, the measure would give authority back to local governments to enact or change laws on rent control. For advocates, passing Proposition 33 would be a critical opportunity to address California’s housing crisis head-on. For the real estate industry, defeating Proposition 33 would mean maintaining the status quo in a market that has made billions for corporate landlords.

Tenants at four Omaha-area apartment complexes voted to unionize this summer, and they all share a common landlord: Minnesota-based Elevate Living.

The first time many Americans heard about Springfield, Ohio, came during the September 2024 presidential debate when Donald Trump falsely claimed that Haitian immigrants in the city were eating other residents’ cats and dogs.

When tornadoes swept through Rockdale County, Georgia, this past spring, residents complained they had little warning. There was a similar silence when Buffalo, New York, was buried in multiple feet of snow in 2022. In Maui, Hawaii, and Paradise, California — the sites of the two deadliest wildfires in modern U.S. history — survivors believe a lack of warning contributed to the loss of dozens of lives.