The National Basketball Association (NBA) announced on Aug. 16 that it wouldn’t be scheduling games on Election Day for the upcoming 2022/23 season. Instead, all 30 of its teams will play the day before (Nov. 7) as part of a “Civic Engagement Night” to raise awareness for the election. This announcement, which Shaquille Brewster of NBC News first reported, is part of the NBA’s ongoing efforts to increase civic participation within its fanbase.

So if you or I had worked for the government and, upon leaving, squirreled away a few top secret nuclear documents in a Six Million Dollar Man lunchbox that we kept under a basement foosball table, we’d be sitting in brightly lit rooms asking if we could please get some unscented udder cream for our serially brutalized nipples. It’s unlikely we’d be able to trot out numerous contradictory excuses for our crimes and have roughly a third of the nation believe them.

Ukraine’s position as one of the largest providers of exported grain has generated fears from the outset that Vladimir Putin’s illegal and unprovoked invasion would lead to food shortages in countries around the world. Those fears haven’t been helped by scenes of fields in the east of Ukraine pitted by thousands of artillery strikes, or news of farmers in the north dying after striking mines left behind by withdrawing Russian forces.

Teachers have earned less than other workers with the same education levels for decades—but it’s getting worse. “On average, teachers earned just 76.5 cents on the dollar compared with what similar college graduates earned working in other professions—and much less than the relative 93.9 cents on the dollar that teachers earned in 1996,” the Economic Policy Institute reports.

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Getting back to meeting in person can be difficult for most of us.

If you follow trans rights and trans news regularly, you’ll likely experience a number of ups and downs when it comes to good news versus bad news. Republicans are pretty much always at the helm of pushing violent, dangerous anti-trans ideologies and bills, including access to sports, health care, and even bathrooms and locker rooms.

As hurricane season creeps up on Atlantic coastal communities, New Orleans is flooding once again. Jezebel reported on Thursday that Louisiana’s Republican Attorney General Jeff Landry has once again pushed the Louisiana Bond Commission to “delay a $39 million future line of credit for the New Orleans Sewerage & Water Board,” the first time being in July.

Since the onset of the novel coronavirus pandemic, the federal government has allowed U.S. businesses to verify potential and current employees’ work eligibility documents remotely, including through email and fax.

Late Night Snark: Biden’s BFD Edition

“President Biden signed the Inflation Reduction Act—a huge achievement. It makes the single-biggest investment in addressing climate change ever. While I’m here, I should probably talk about some of the other existential threats facing our nation: the enormous gaps in wealth and income, the threats to our democracy. But I really think one of the most serious issues facing our country today is just how big a dick Ted Cruz is.

I think it’s fair to say that most people in the Black, brown, Indigenous, and LGBTQ+ communities have long believed that there is scant difference between the ideologies of Republicans, the right-wing media, and the Ku Klux Klan. History proves it, and present-day commentary verifies it.

A new video from The Daily Show with Trevor Noah places right-wing media talking heads—like Tucker Carlson and Greg Kelly—alongside GOP elected officials—like Rep.