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Honestly, that’s how the right did things. There was a thing where they asked Congress people why they voted the way they did, and the Congress people said that they were responding to the phone calls and comments they got [at least for things that weren’t directly paid for, I assume]. The Congress people said they got an average of four right wing message for every one leftist message. Fox News gets them agitated and angry and they call their Reps to see demand action. The left falls down on that follow through. We need to keep up the pressure. 5calls is a good place to start.

Because Trump is now a lame duck. The smart people are moving on within the next eight months, using their contacts to find a safe landing space. The ones who hang on until the end will have less job opportunities.

they’re working in a landscaping company, or working in a hotel

He’s just pissed because he likes to use underpaid immigrants at his hotels and golf courses.

Illegally stealing water from aquifers, illegally discharging waste, increase pollution, hasten climate change, raising the temperature in the surrounding countryside by several degrees, corrupting local and state politics, not paying taxes, literally stealing every piece of knowledge, art and literature ever made by the entirety of mankind, all so that they can get rid of jobs, hallucinate answers and enable technofascist billionaires.

Or you can listen to Bernie himself.

The lack of punishment is ridiculous.

The ability to be elected to office even with felony convictions is a safeguard. If you were barred from office if you had a felony, then this government would just keep charging everyone it hated with felonies, hoping either for a conviction, the person to go bankrupt and give up, or create enough smoke that the potential constituents don’t vote for them.

I mean, you know Ken Paxton would’ve had Talarico and O’Rourke up on charges, and enough Texans are Fox addicts that they’d have either eventually gotten a conviction for something or at least discouraged people from voting from them. And you know Trump would be relentlessly going after AOC, Omar, Sanders, Mamdani, etc.

The victory marks a major political shift for the three-member Railroad Commission of Texas, which regulates the state’s massive oil and gas industry, overseeing everything from pipeline safety to natural gas rates. […] Despite his victory, Republicans will retain a 2-1 majority on the commission, meaning Rosenthal will face limits on his ability to implement his priorities without support from his Republican colleagues.

It’s his safe space.

No, asshole, we want generational change. GTFOH.

Over the past three years, as mail volume continued to plummet and annual deficits ballooned, the Postal Service started consolidating the processing of first-class mail at larger regional plants instead of at smaller hubs closer to local post offices. Then, in a little-noted switch that mostly took effect after the 2024 election, the agency cut the frequency of mail pickups in half at many post offices 50 miles or more from these processing plants, from twice daily to once.

The changes often added a day or more to delivery time and, most importantly for ballots, pushed back postmarking, which doesn’t happen until mail reaches the regional centers.

I knew that they had switched postmarking to the regional centers, and that they wanted to do more processing at regional centers. I hadn’t put those two facts together. Nor did I know that they had decreased pickup frequency.

Convenient how these past-minute changes only affect a heavily Democratic area, and gives plenty of room to allege “irregularities” when poll workers are directed to a place they’re not familiar with that was set up at the last minute. Not to mention the confusion amongst everyone who’s going to show up at the wrong place and have voting take significantly more time than they anticipated.

Hey, you know a little variety is kinda nice sometimes!

Behind closed doors, very little of this went over well with the state’s other Republican Party bigwigs, many of whom were furious at Ramaswamy for doing something that could imperil the elections of others on the Ohio GOP ticket

Yeah, they didn’t care about the ad, just that it could drag them down with him.

I mean, what else can they do but keep on? They’ve lost a lot of the American public, but if they lose the American Congress, that’ll really start to hurt.

Same reason a bunch of Trump officials will start leaving next year (for personal reasons, to spend more time with their family, to pursue a wonderful opportunity, etc): if they leave now, it’s easier for them to line up jobs elsewhere in the right-wing universe. If they wait until after Election Day, there’ll be a bunch more people competing for the same positions. This way, they can get in early.

the meeting was speedily publicized by the White House with photos and a video, without consent of the participants, and less than two weeks away from the midterm elections.

Imagine being so naive to believe that it wouldn’t be politicized - or that the White House believed in consent.

So? It’s better than the shit the Republicans have passed.

Chance would be a fine thing.

The and is in a heavy solid wood cradle that allows the globe to be spun in any direction. The dimwits tried picking it up and carrying it and couldn’t keep it up (probably office staff instead of military personnel, lol) so they dropped it instead. The globe crashed down into the twisty-pin thing at the bottom that helps it rotate and the globe broke.

We have anticipated shenanigans in this election because we always experience shenanigans in elections in Texas

Doesn’t speak well for the people running the elections then, nor the people who put them in place. Perhaps they should just change over the entire government there.