The U.S. government and the right-wing media ecosystem are sowing unfounded doubt
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The U.S. government and the right-wing media ecosystem are sowing unfounded doubt
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“The Supreme Court on Wednesday hollowed out a landmark Civil Rights–era law that has increased minority representation in Congress and elsewhere”
— AP News
A key provision of the 1965 Voting Rights Act sought to ensure that racial groups could not be denied political representation through gerrymandering along racial lines. We, the Conservative Justices on the Supreme Court, believe that this law is both unnecessary and unconstitutional. If anything, drawing districts to combat racism is the real racism.
The problem with the Voting Rights Act, as it is written, is that it allows states to draw district boundaries so that certain racial groups have a better chance at equal representation. In Louisiana, for example, where Black people make up roughly a third of the population, the congressional maps were specifically drawn so that a third of the districts were majority Black. Does that seem fair to you?
The world is not your aquarium
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The good-vs-evil paradigm of most pop-culture storytelling is a relatively recent effort to promote social cohesion
- by Aeon Video

Everything that involves skill requires practice. Use the AIR method – awareness, isolation, repetition – to improve
- by Craig Ogden

One school of training is highly personalised, technical and data-driven. The other is the one that wins marathons
- by Michael Crawley & Geoff Burns
While testifying to Congress on Wednesday, War Secretary Pete Hegseth lobbed threats and brushed off queries about civilian harm.
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“Gasoline prices in the United States rose on Tuesday to their highest level in four years as peace talks between the United States and Iran appeared at an impasse.” – New York Times
Here at the Department of Energy, we want to reassure Americans that, while the war we’ve already won shows no signs of ending and oil prices remain over $100 a barrel, we are taking decisive action to ensure that, under no circumstances, Americans will ever need to drive a fuel-efficient vehicle.
We’ve heard your complaints about the high price of gasoline. Don’t worry. We’re prepared. We’ve been hoarding oil in underground salt caverns for exactly this kind of unpredictable situation: where we flagrantly start a war with the world’s fifth-largest oil producer that controls access to 20 percent of global supply, which disrupts global supplies.
In fact, we’ve already begun releasing oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, which we’ve been kind of obsessed with maintaining since the 1970s energy crisis, which also coincidentally had to do with Iran.
A provision unrelated to domestic spying got the hard-right GOP members on board — but it won’t work in the Senate.
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Minneapolis activists are accusing a local House candidate of “cosplaying” as a protester, blurring the line between solidarity and opportunism.
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As we migrate more projects to GitLab on git.drupalcode.org, we have discovered improvements to make in the mapping of Drupal.org project maintainers to GitLab’s project members, ensuring that it is a 2-way synchronization.
The next time you update maintainers for your project on Drupal.org, this will update all maintainers’ access in GitLab. Please review project members in GitLab, and under Activity, the Team events. Syncing is now more thorough, so there might be more maintainership and member changes than you expect.
In the next few days we plan to bulk update GitLab project members for all projects that have maintainers with “Maintain issues” on Drupal.org, granting them the project planner role in GitLab. This will enable more access for them to manage issues and merge requests in GitLab.
We reviewed all the mappings and have settled on: