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The Supreme Court yesterday heard arguments on a Maryland case in which a group of parents and a rightwing “parents’ rights” group are suing the Montgomery County School Board over the optional inclusion of LGBTQ+ friendly story books in the reading curriculum.

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The Trump administration’s war on immigrants and its war on science have converged in the case of Kseniia Petrova, a Harvard scientist who was doing groundbreaking work on medical imaging that “could lead to breakthroughs in cancer detection and research into longevity.” But for the last two months she’s been locked up in an ICE detention facility in Louisiana, because she when she flew back to the US from France in February, she failed to do the proper customs paperwork to declare some...

5 days ago | wonkette.com | Doktor Zoom

The Wisconsin state supreme court on Friday held that Gov. Tony Evers acted legally when in 2023 he used a goofy quirk in the state’s veto law to extend an increase in school funding every year for the next 400 years. Wisconsin law allows governors to partially veto parts of bills, so Evers cleverly crossed out numerals in the effective date of the funding increase to make it last until 2425.

6 days ago | wonkette.com | Doktor Zoom

Somebody must have snuck into David Brooks’s home and left Tracy Chapman’s first album on autorepeat, because three months of Donald Trump’s second term have that icon of staid, muddleheaded center-right “moderation” Talkin’ ‘Bout a Revolution.

6 days ago | wonkette.com | Doktor Zoom

Vice President Human Pile Of Butthair says that the Trump administration is very close to a “trade deal” with the United Kingdom, or at least an agreement that would remove or reduce the tariffs Donald Trump wants to put on the UK. The UK actually buys more stuff from the US than the other way around, so even under Trump’s weird imaginary logic for tariffs, there’s not much reason for tariffs anyway, or at least less reason than for other countries.