The programs Roosevelt put together may not have met a Platonic ideal of modern progress, but they saved American democracy itself.

A teacher is disappointed with Gov. Kevin Stitt after one of her summer classes was canceled due to House Bill 1775, which bans educators from teaching certain concepts of race and racism.

The day after the November 2020 election, the chairs of the Republican, Democratic, and Libertarian parties of Maricopa County, Arizona, initiated a routine but important process to safeguard our democracy: a post-election audit. Per state law, after almost every countywide election in Arizona,1 a multiparty audit board must conduct a hand count of ballots from a sample of randomly selected voting precincts and compare them with the results from voting machines. The hand counts in Arizona’s most populous county, home to Phoenix, started the Saturday after the election and wrapped up two days later. Not a single discrepancy was found. Six-plus months later, Maricopa County’s ballots are still being counted — but by another group entirely. For the past five weeks, workers from Cyber Ninjas, a small private cybersecurity company based in Sarasota, Florida, have gathered in an arena to re-recount all the ballots — nearly 2.1 million — at the behest of the state’s Republican senators. Auditors have reportedly scanned ballots with UV lights to look for secret watermarks that conspiracy theorists believe then-President Donald Trump’s Department of Homeland Security placed on legitimate ballots to differentiate them from fraudulent ones; they’ve also inspected ballots for traces of bamboo to determine if they were imported from Asia. The process was supposed to be completed by May 14, but workers were unable to finish the count in time, so the state Senate has extended its lease at the arena through the end of June.

The embattled Florida right-winger called for violence the day after a mass shooting in San Jose.

Having learned precisely zero lessons from the Capitol riot, the troubled congressman whipped up a Georgia crowd on Thursday night.

Videos show officer Evan Solano confront the driver of a white SUV with his gun out. The Police Department's Bureau of Internal Affairs is investigating the May 21 incident.

Victorian attempts to veil the meanings of crude ancient Greek words are set to be brushed away by a new dictionary 23 years in the making. It is the first to take a fresh look at the language in almost 200 years. The new dictionary’s editors “spare no blushes”, Diggle said, when it comes to the words that “brought a blush to Victorian cheeks”. The verb χέζω (chezo), translated by Liddell and Scott as “ease oneself, do one’s need”, is defined in the new dictionary as “to defecate” and translated as “to shit”; βινέω (bineo) is no longer “inire, coire, of illicit intercourse”, but “fuck”; λαικάζω (laikazo), in the 19th-century dictionary translated as “to wench”, is now defined as “perform fellatio” and translated as “suck cocks”.

The corrections department has spent more than $2,000 on ingredients to make cyanide gas, the same used in Auschwitz

New South Wales Deputy Premier John Barilaro has sued YouTube comedian Jordan Shanks-Markovina for defamation over two videos he alleges were part of a smear campaign against him. In a case filed in the Federal Court on Thursday, Mr Barilaro said Mr Shanks-Markovina – also known as Friendlyjordies – defamed him in videos titled bruz and Secret Dictatorship, which were published on YouTube in September and October last year. It is alleged the hurt and harm is aggravated by Mr Shanks-Markovina engaging in a “vile and racist attack” against Mr Barilaro’s Italian heritage, including calling him a “conman to the core, powered by spaghetti”, “greasy Ned Kelly”, and a “big, fat wog cock”.

The congressman is reportedly running to assist Ron DeSantis, who would be considered the Republican frontrunner if the former president does not run

Virginia Christine Lewis Brown, who allegedly yelled "No vaccine!" as she drove through a vaccination tent, was arrested for “placing the lives of seven workers in danger,” the Blount County Sheriff’s Office said.

"We should have 'constitutional carry' in Texas," Abbott told North Texas radio host Rick Roberts in April.

A pop genius’s political poetry sets the record straight.

Amazon, rather than allowing its employees to take bathroom breaks or form a union, has found a new solution to its overwhelming number of workplace crises: A depression closet!

Andrew Frame was excited.  It was Saturday night two weeks ago, and Frame, the CEO of the crime and neighborhood watch app Citizen, was on Slack, whipping himself and his employees into what he'd later call at an all-hands meeting a "fury of passion" about a wildfire that had broken out earlier that afternoon in Los Angeles' Pacific Palisades neighborhood.  Citizen had gotten a tip that the wildfire was started by an arsonist, and Frame had decided earlier in the night that the fire was a huge opportunity. Citizen, using a new livestreaming service it had just launched called OnAir, would catch the suspect live on air, with thousands of people watching. Frame decided the Citizen user who provided information that led to the suspect’s arrest would get $10,000. Frame wanted him. Before midnight. As the night wore on, Citizen got more information about the supposed suspect. They obtained a photo of the man, which they kept up on the livestream for large portions of the night. More information trickled in through a tips line Citizen had set up. "first name? What is it?! publish ALL info," Frame told employees working in a Citizen Slack room who were working on the case.  "FIND THIS FUCK," he told them. "LETS GET THIS GUY BEFORE MIDNIGHT HES GOING DOWN."

After a year of being harassed by condescending bird nerds, I was out for blood — or at least one stupid warbler — at the Mass Audubon Bird-a-thon.

Immortal Vampire, Union Leader, Enemy of Fascists

A documentary about the development of a Holocaust video game has people questioning how far is too far when making historical games.

No, Alice B. Toklas didn't invent pot brownies. But her cookbook does include a recipe for Haschich Fudge, and the overall collection is a window into her Parisian life with Gertrude Stein.

The insurance startup is walking back tweets saying its AI-trained facial recognition could detect fraudulent claims.