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Log Cabin Republicans Officially Drop the ‘T’ From LGBT

“Log Cabin Republicans, the nation’s largest group representing gay conservatives and their allies, will no longer advocate for transgender rights,” NOTUS reports. “Ross Hemminger, the group’s president, wrote that the organization’s board of directors voted to narrow its national advocacy focus on issues relating to sexual orientation and conservative values. The group will now focus […]

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Behind the Blog: Early Birthday Reflections

Behind the Blog: Early Birthday Reflections

This week, we discuss our party and panel coming up, and do some light reminiscing.

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Text • Athena Scalzi

The Big Idea: Suyi Davies Okungbowa

In times of turmoil, where is our caped crusader to save the day? Heroes are good, villains are bad, and real life people are a whole lot more complicated. Author Suyi Davies Okungbowa examines this idea further, showing how people, while sometimes heroic, also contain multitudes and aren’t just one thing. Follow along in the […]

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CNN: The average cost of packing a school lunch has risen by almost 11%. It's going to cost you almost $4,000 a year to feed your kids for school lunch

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CNN: The price for school supplies is up almost 8% since last year

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Fox: 41% of adults are extremely or very concerned about affording groceries

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Text • Dave Fields

New York Has $19 Billion Dollars In Unclaimed Funds

Soon 2026 will be over and done with and you could end up missing out on some money that is owed to you. Continue reading…

Racket
Text • Keith Harris

Let’s Talk WFH in This Week’s Open Thread

Let’s Talk WFH in This Week’s Open Thread

As we do every Friday, we're turning Racket over to you, the readers.

Defector
Text • Tom Ley

Seattle Times Dipshit Quits Because His Editors Were Smart Enough To Spike His Stupid Columns

Seattle Times Dipshit Quits Because His Editors Were Smart Enough To Spike His Stupid Columns
People sometimes wonder what editors do. It's a fair question to ask, given how difficult it is to read a column or blog post and be able to discern exactly how much influence an editor did or did not have over the final product. It's easy to assume that editors don't do muc...

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Text • Patrick Redford

Tadej Pogacar Returns To The Scene Of His Arrival

Tadej Pogacar Returns To The Scene Of His Arrival
Before Tadej Pogacar became a hypertuned killer on a bike, before he won any of his record-tying five Tours de France, before he was able to push the boundaries of the volume and variety of races that any single rider could win, he first had to break through. He did so seven...

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Text • Luis Paez-Pumar

And Now, A 2026-27 Premier League Preview In Five Storylines

And Now, A 2026-27 Premier League Preview In Five Storylines
It feels like the World Cup just ended, and yet somehow, some way, the Premier League is already back. England's top flight kicks off on Friday with defending champi—oops, I mean attacking champion; sorry Mikel—Arsenal taking on newly promoted Championship champion Coventry ...

Political Wire
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Meta’s Big Reckoning Is Here

Meta is in court again over child safety, and this time it’s a landmark case that could force significant changes to core features of Facebook and Instagram.

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Fox: Darline Graham's admission that she is not informed on national security has drawn questions about her readiness for the Senate

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Vivek Ramaswamy has spent nearly $700,000 on private jets for campaign events.

Many of the flights were within Ohio and lasted just 30 minutes.

Political Wire
Text • Taegan Goddard

Trump Threatens Lawsuit Over Report He Doesn’t Like

“President Trump has opened a new front in his campaign to intimidate political foes, threatening a prominent liberal think tank with a $5 billion defamation lawsuit over a report concluding that his deployment of the National Guard to cities across the country has had little effect on reducing violent crime,” the New York Times reports. […]

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Text • Brian Fitzpatrick

Realizing Scalia’s vision: state originalism centers as legal civics education

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Text • Ross Guberman

Six justices, five techniques: writing lessons from the 2025-26 term

Photo taken on Feb. 25, 2022 shows the U.S. Supreme Court building in Washington, D.C.,
Photo taken on Feb. 25, 2022 shows the U.S. Supreme Court building in Washington, D.C.,

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CNN Debunked RFK Jr.'s $20 Meal And He's BIG MAD About It

RFK Jr. has chosen the hill he wants to die on, and it's a squirt of ketchup. Recently, Trump-era Secretary of Health Robert F. Kennedy Jr. launched his YouTube cooking series, The Real Food Show, where he tries to prove to Americans that they can eat nutritiously without ...

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Summer Friday: Elie Mystal; Kimberlé Crenshaw; Mason Williams; Rossana Rosado

On this Summer Friday, we've put together some of our favorite recent interviews, including: Elie Mystal, justice correspondent and columnist for The Nation magazine and bestselling author of Bad Law: Ten Popular Laws That Are Ruining America (The New Press, 2025), looks ...