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Screenshot of part of the above NYT article. Text reads: One was Maj. Kara Corcoran, 40, who led an infantry platoon in combat in Afghanistan. On the day of her hearing, she was five days short of the 18 years of service she needed to secure her pension and health care benefits for herself and her two daughters. The government struck half of her character witnesses, arguing that her competence had been established. The question for the board was not whether she was a good soldier, but whether she had gender dysphoria. The three board members concluded that she did and kicked her out, but they recommended that the Pentagon make an exception and allow her to receive her retirement benefits. She is still waiting on a final ruling from the Army. "People need to know that this whole thing is cruelty," Major Corcoran said in an interview. "It was intentionally designed to hurt us."
Unprocessed Ballots Status | 2026 Primary Election | Califor... Cumulative Total Number of Processed Ballots Total Number of Processed Ballots from the Last Report County Ballots Voted at a Voting Location Vote-By-Mail Ballots Received on or Before Election Day Vote-By-Mail Ballots Received after Election Day thru E+7/Ballots Forwarded by Other Counties https://dp.electionresults.sos.ca.gov/unprocessed-ballots-status Provisional Ballots Conditional Voter Other* Registration Ballots Estimated Total Ballots Remaining Last Report Next Results Expected Ballots Left to Cure 6/5/26 6/10/26 Humboldt 19,377 7 35 18,981 1,717 286 0 125 21,144 2:46 5:00 159 PM PM 6/5/26 6/8/26 Imperial 18,604 4,217 0 3,000 980 70 30 130 4,210 5:21 PM 5:00 PM 260 6/8/26 6/10/26 Inyo 5,979 177 0 0 6 23 24 0 53 1:41 5:00 PM 18 PM 6/5/26 6/8/26 Kern 94,143 14,279 0 49,400 10,200 215 490 1,200 61,505 5:01 PM 5:00 PM 500 Kings 22,111 4,248 0 0 0 3 57 7 6/4/26 6/9/26 67 4:38 PM 5:00 PM 6/3/26 6/8/26 5:00 191 Lake 5,531 0 0 9,973 786 186 0 21 10,966 2:29 88 AM 6/5/26 6/9/26 PM Lassen 7,310 0 0 0 0 38 10 40 88 7:10 5:00 PM 50 PM 6/8/26 4:51 5:00 6/9/26 Los Angeles 2,090,485 192,832 0 140,000 0 1,100 7,000 3,000 151,100 10,400 PM PM Madera 23,220 4,193 0 8,740 390 6 30 265 9,431 6/5/26 6/9/26 4:30 5:00 PM 85 PM 6/8/26 6/10/26 Marin 59,615 15,456 0 36,335 6,682 12 421 50 43,500 4:35 PM 3:00 PM 2,770 6/8/26 6/18/26 Mariposa 6,753 242 0 0 6 0 0 0 6 11:37 3:00 64 AM PM 6/3/26 6/11/26 Mendocino 9,177 0 0 15,148 866 558 0 0 16,572 12:21 4:00 233 AM PM 6/5/26 6/9/26 Merced 30,776 5,556 0 12,453 2,515 20 160 546 15,694 4:12 5:00 PM 149 PM Modoc 2,689 489 0 0 20 10 4 44 78 6/5/26 6/9/26 5:32 5:00 PM PM 20 Mono 3,370 858 0 0 180 0 30 10 220 6/5/26 6/9/26 5:43 5:30 PM PM 25 Montere…
Unofficial Election Results Unprocessed Ballots Status It typically takes weeks for counties to process and count all of the ballots. Elections officials have approximately one month to complete their extensive tallying, auditing, and certification work (known as the official canvass). Every active, registered voter was sent a vote-by-mail ballot. Vote-by-mail ballots postmarked on or before Election Day and received by the county elections official no later than seven days after the election will be processed and can be counted. In processing vote-by-mail ballots, elections officials must confirm each voter's registration status, verify each voter's signature on the vote-by-mail envelope, and ensure each person did not vote elsewhere in the same election before the ballot can be counted. Other ballots that are processed after Election Day include provisional ballots (https://www.sos.ca.gov/elections/voting-resources/provisional-voting) (processed similar to vote-by-mail ballots), conditional voter registration provisional ballots, and ballots that are damaged or cannot be machine-read and must be remade by elections officials. The below Unprocessed Ballots Report features unofficial county updates on the number of outstanding ballots that still need to be processed during the official canvass. This information is required to be reported by county elections officials on the second day after Election Day and an updated report is required on each day the official publicly releases updated election results. State law requires county elections officials to report final official results to the Secretary of State by July 3, 2026. The Secretary of State has until July 10, 2026, to certify the results of the election. For the most up-to-date vote counts before the statewide certified results are published, you may contact a county elections office (http://www.sos.ca.gov/elections/voting-resources/county-elections-offices/) directly. County Estimated Unprocessed Ball…
Photo of a sample ballot from California's June 2, 2026 primary. It displays two pages, or one very long page, of candidates for governor. There are 3 columns, with up to 21 names in each, a total of 61 names plus a write in spot. Sorry I'm not transcribing all the names.
Screenshot of a rockruff in Pokémon go showing only one evolution option, Dusk. This was caught in late 2025.
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“Do the people of the state of Missouri approve the act of the General Assembly entitled ‘House Bill No. 1 (2025 Second Extraordinary Session),’ which repeals Missouri’s existing gerrymandered congressional plan that protects incumbent politicians, and replaces it with new congressional boundaries that keep more cities and counties intact, are more compact, and better reflects statewide voting patterns?”
Screenshot of NPR's transcript: DETROW: You know, I want to end with this we're trying in this conversation to get a sense of the big picture here, but we all tell the story piece by piece, story by story, and at times, some context gets lost there. I'm curious, like, Jasmine, what to you is a dynamic that you're seeing that's hard to convey in a single story that you file? GARSD: I think the escalating nature of what is happening. It is escalating. I mean, I have been covering this from city to city for the last year, and I think, you know, it's easy to see this as, you know, these operations travel from city to city, state to state. It's always kind of the same. It's not. They are getting heavier handed. You know, we are now seeing, you know, a memo that was leaked that agents can go into people's homes without a judicial warrant. We are now seeing 2,500 agents deployed into the city. There is now talk of the Insurrection Act. And, you know, to put it more bluntly, you know, in a city not so far away from you, there are children who are hiding in their homes. And so, I mean, this isn't a static situation. This is a situation which, as a reporter who's been covering this for the last year, feels like it is devolving. DETROW: That was NPR's Jasmine Garsd and Kat Lonsdorf.
Screenshot of a Facebook post from Rand Paul in 2021. "the NIH sent over $800,000 to study whether Japanese quails are more sexually promiscuous on cocaine. I think we could've simply polled the audience... and of course found they are..."
Article snippet screenshot: "OPM Director Scott Kupor said the essay questions are optional and give candidates an opportunity to provide additional information about themselves. "We have been very clear that hiring decisions cannot consider political or ideological beliefs," Kupor said in an emailed statement to The Post. "The plan prohibits any ideological litmus tests and reinforces the nonpartisan character of the federal workforce." "The question is one of four that the Office of Personnel Management said in June must appear on nearly all government job applications as part of its new Merit Hiring Plan. Smith said she understood why applicants for other types of government jobs would be asked to express their support for administration policies. "But for a journalism job, it's just inappropriate," she said."
A sentence about "similar choices" is highlighted in screenshot excerpt of a Washington Post article: The order from Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to target those critical of Kirk, former defense officials and congressional Democrats say, reflects a deepening alarm over the former Fox News personality's stewardship of the military, whose personnel are expected to remain loyal to the Constitution, not any one party or president. Since taking office, Hegseth has routinely subverted those norms saying as recently as last week that the nation's generals and admirals should quit if they don't support the Trump administration's bid to impose what opponents say are regressive policies on the armed forces. Troops faced similar choices - get in line or get out - under the Biden administration's coronavirus vaccine mandate, resulting in the dismissal of thousands.
Text from p9 of the report about calculating glyphosate absorbed per day using a method from France's ANSES. Highlighted sections paraphrased: In the highest exposure scenario for a child, we got 0.0000048 mg/kg/day. According to ANSES, the safe level is up to 0.1 mg/kg/day. However, they have questions about the methodology.