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1 day ago | wonkette.com | Doktor Zoom

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.

1 day ago | wonkette.com | Rebecca Schoenkopf

Hey hey, get Wonkette in your box! Good morning, it’s time for tabs! You know who else did disastrous tariffs? That’s right! Hitler. (The Atlantic) Hey, how’s the economy? Is it “good”? Here’s six charts of … oh dear. (Senate Banking Democrats) Tesla knows who is to blame for its net profit dropping 71 percent this quarter. It is … no seriously, it is Donald Trump. (Wall Street Journal) Supreme Court is piiiissed.

2 days ago | wonkette.com | Rebecca Schoenkopf

Even though the Trump administration wants to shut down the US Department of Education and is slashing funding for education and science across the federal government, the White House has also drafted an executive order that would mandate schools integrate artificial intelligence in K-12 education, because all our kids need to learn about the technology that will replace them.

2 days ago | wonkette.com | Doktor Zoom

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.