Evil Elon is that it again…

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Elon Musk is funding antisemitic ads targeting Muslim and Arab American voters in Michigan, aiming to suppress Democratic turnout by highlighting Harris’s pro-Israel positions and her husband's Jewish identity.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/elon-musk-funds-most-cynical-super-pac_n_670ef96be4b0c5b8c0afcc86

Hello, Virginia followers.

I would like to inform you that early voting is tremendously easy here. Literally all you have to do if you're registered is go on this website, (https://www.elections.virginia.gov/casting-a-ballot/early-voting-office-locations/) select your county, and go to the address of the Register's office that's listed with your ID. That's all you need. They'll hand you an early voting ballot then and there.

Torrent.

PSA

You ever see these fuckers? Kill these fuckers. Spotted Lanternflies, one of the worst invasives around right now.

don't let it happen to you

What if Trigger Warnings Don’t Work? | The New Yorker
https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-columnists/what-if-trigger-warnings-dont-work

...among people who said they believe that words can cause harm, those who received trigger warnings reported greater anxiety in response to disturbing literary passages than those who did not. (The study found that, among those who do not strongly believe words can cause harm, trigger warnings did not significantly increase anxiety.) Most of the flurry of studies that followed found that trigger warnings had no meaningful effect, but two of them found that individuals who received trigger warnings experienced more distress than those who did not. Yet another study suggested that trigger warnings may prolong the distress of negative memories. A large study by Jones, Bellet, and McNally found that trigger warnings reinforced the belief on the part of trauma survivors that trauma was central (rather than incidental or peripheral) to their identity. The reason that effect may be concerning is that trauma researchers have previously established that a belief that trauma is central to one’s identity predicts more severe P.T.S.D.; Bellet called this “one of the most well documented relationships in traumatology.” The perverse consequence of trigger warnings, then, may be to harm the people they are intended to protect.

Trigger-warning studies, however, have revealed that giving trigger warnings does not seem to result in recipients choosing to avoid the material. Instead, the warned individuals tended to forge ahead. If those suffering from P.T.S.D. were responding to trigger warnings by opting out of reading or discussing the flagged content, then, as McNally has pointed out, that would be concerning from a mental-health point of view, because the clinical consensus is that avoiding triggers worsens P.T.S.D.