A few quick things from me, now back to work.
BREAKING: The Arizona House has voted to REPEAL the 1864 abortion ban. Three republicans joined democrats to kill it. It goes to the senate next.
— Mueller, She Wrote (@MuellerSheWrote) April 24, 2024
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Breaking: The MAGA Supreme Court majority appears ready to rule that the right to “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness” doesn’t extend to women with pregnancy complications or who otherwise need abortions.
This is horrifying, and it is because of Donald Trump. pic.twitter.com/LYXeFXkFRp
— Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) April 24, 2024
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🚨BREAKING: Federal Court BLOCKS new Montana voter suppression law. Congratulations to the ELG team who litigated the case and our clients.https://t.co/LdvgGBYvbU
— Marc E. Elias (@marceelias) April 24, 2024
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I was hoping our breakup would never become public. We had such a great thing while it lasted James. I will miss the time we spent together. I will miss our conversations. I will miss the pet names you gave me. I only wish you the best and hope you find happiness. https://t.co/PwxF3XnaPV
— Jared Moskowitz (@JaredEMoskowitz) April 24, 2024
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Deeply saddened by the passing of Congressman Donald Payne Jr., a good friend, highly effective public servant and compassionate leader.
My prayers and support are with the Payne family and his loved ones during this difficult time.
May he forever Rest in Peace.
👑👑👑🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾 pic.twitter.com/QXWkJPhzGv
— Hakeem Jeffries (@RepJeffries) April 24, 2024
Update: mistermix and I posted within 2 minutes of each other, so I pulled mine for awhile. I see that he covered the AZ 1864 bill, too, but I’m leaving that in anyway.
jackmac
Gateway Pundit filing for bankruptcy. Ha!
https://www.washingtonpost.com/style/media/2024/04/24/gateway-pundit-bankruptcy/
And how did I get to be first (FRIST)?
HumboldtBlue
I mentioned this in an earlier thread, but more details have emerged.
WaterGirl
@jackmac: I don’t follow Gateway Pundit. Guessing he’s a bad dude, why don’t we like him?
hells littlest angel
@WaterGirl: You don’t know of Jim Hoft, the Dumbest Man on the Internet? Oh, how I envy you.
coin operated
@WaterGirl: Nicknamed SMOTI for “stupidest man on the internet”. He was truly cringeworthy.
I see hells got there first.
The Kropenhagen Interpretation
In other Supreme Court news, they recently heard a case on whether municipalities can punish people for being homeless.
Is existence without property or a patron illegal under the capitalist rule that supplanted our democracy? Stay tuned to find out.
WaterGirl
@hells littlest angel: I do not! Counting myself lucky.
@coin operated: ditto. :-
edit: now I’m tempted to google, but I am going to resist.
WaterGirl
@The Kropenhagen Interpretation: I saw that earlier today and I was horrified. Next thing you know, we’ll be putting people in jail because they are poor.
Oh, wait, we already do that with people who can’t afford bail.
New Deal democrat
Per CNN, a Pew Research Center poll found a huge disparity among different ago groups with regard to the U.S. providing military aid to Israel to help in its Gaza war. The first figure below is the percent strongly or somewhat in favor. The second is the percent strongly or somewhat opposing:
18-29: 16% 45%
30-49: 26% 40%
50-65: 43% 30%
Over 65: 57% 21%
Among all age groups about 50% favored providing humanitarian aid to Gazans, with 20% opposed.
At some point in about 10 years there is going to be a decisive turn against support for Israel in the U.S., with the change happening the proverbial “one funeral at a time.”
Jay
@WaterGirl:
https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/The_Gateway_Pundit
The Kropenhagen Interpretation
Bail or fines or late fees, which are important to create an inescapable feedback loop. Then there are the disruptions to employment…
smith
@The Kropenhagen Interpretation: So, what are they going to do, give them free room and board in jail? Or fine them and then throw them in jail if they don’t pay? Or reestablish poor houses? Or maybe just provide them with cyanide pills so nobody has to look at them anymore?
ETA What a dystopian world we’ve suddenly come to inhabit. Making it a crime to be poor, and sentencing women to death if their pregnancy goes wrong.
patrick II
Yesterday, “The Special Report” with Brett Baer showed the thousands of Trump fans carrying signs down the city street (unidentified) while Brett was discussing the Trump trial. They never said which city, street, or year so technically they are not lying, just grossly misleading their viewers.
Rocks
@WaterGirl: I’m sure Samuel Alito already has case law from the 1600s to justify his position.
The Kropenhagen Interpretation
@smith: We could simply build more housing, but that threatens the property values of home owners. Since that’s the primary avenue people use to build wealth and availability brings down expense property value, that has never been deemed an acceptable solution.
The practice of land ownership is the problem.
smith
@patrick II: I’m sure they’re still running video of Portland being burned to the ground.
waspuppet
“Cool! Three whole Republicans voted to repeal the 1864 law! They’re cool and normal now! Now we can forget all that unpleasantness and get back to the real issues: Joe Biden’s age and the price of eggs last year.”
—The New York Times tomorrow
Jackie
@WaterGirl: Gateway Pundit is a proud MAGA “news” blog.
Trollhattan
Once-lost to history Klimt painting sells for $32 million. A lovely portrait, not quite complete when the artist died (just months before WWI ended).
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-68886196
waspuppet
@smith: The Republican “solution” to any problem is “make it as difficult and dangerous as possible to be a person suffering from said problem, and people will magically decide not to suffer from that problem anymore. It even “works” with things that aren’t problems, like being Black or gay.
Trollhattan
@WaterGirl: “Stupidest Man on the Internet” prize winner.
Baud
@patrick II:
Those are MAGA who died of injecting bleach protesting from heaven.
Dangerman
Quick Cheat Sheet.
WG: “Pull my post?”
Sure, no problem.
TFG: “Pull my finger?”
NO!
Jackie
I so love Moskowitz! And, I’m so grateful for Marc Elias’ dogged fights for state’s democracy!
Belafon
@The Kropenhagen Interpretation: They keep building more housing around here in the DFW area, but what they aren’t doing is building houses most people need or can afford. They build huge ones, like 3000+ sqft, and because it doesn’t really cost that much more to build one that big, the 2200 sqft ones are nearly the same prices. It’s done in part to keep the wrong sort of people out of the neighborhoods.
The Kropenhagen Interpretation
Offer valid for all Republicans, not just supporters of the repeal, due to the transitive property.
Republicans only need one iota of decency among thousands of elected officials to merit the media defending them.
Jay
@The Kropenhagen Interpretation:
Trial after trial has shown that if you give unhoused people as little as $11,000 with no strings attached, within 6 months, 80% to 90% are housed, employed and have a savings account.
Most of the unhoused are just people who had “that bad 2 weeks*” that turned into a spiral.
*also know as The Precariate, people who are one or two paychecks away from broke. Eg. they lose their job, can’t find another one in two weeks, waiting for UI to kick in, get evicted,…….
The Kropenhagen Interpretation
@Belafon: They could build more diverse types of housing for sure, though any sort of building should ultimately create more availability. If more well-heeled buyers scoop up fancy new houses, most will have homes they leave behind.
There’s a lot more that can be done. Making it easier for non-family groups of prospective roommates to share homes designated as single-family dwellings would be huge.
I’ve seen the same thing. Maybe we could do that for everyone, regularly.
Baud
@Jay:
WaterGirl
@smith: Yep. It can feel overwhelming. Sometimes I have to take a deep breath and remind myself that we have to fight that much harder for everything in November.
It’s not too late to turn things around, but I think it might be if we don’t win in November. And by win, I mean fucking crush them. White house, House, Senate, even key statehouses and judicial retention races.
Another Scott
Obligatory …
Mike Luckovich – ICYMI.
Cheers,
Scott.
cain
@HumboldtBlue: What about if your door gets sucked out into the atmosphere?
WaterGirl
@Jackie: Yeah, I needed some good to offset the shitty from this morning. Rage in small doses can be motivating, but too much will drag you down. That’s my thinking, at least.
Jackie
More good news from the Biden-Harris administration:
cain
@The Kropenhagen Interpretation: I feel like soon everyone is going to be a fugitive from government.
WaterGirl
@The Kropenhagen Interpretation: If a few more Rs in the other AZ chamber will vote to repeal the fucking law, and it’s repealed, I will give them all praise.
cain
@Belafon: Literally building homes so that hedge funds can by them.
Another Scott
ICYMI, Defense.gov list of items in first tranche for Ukraine.
Cheers,
Scott.
cain
@Another Scott: I assume the idea is that we give them all our weapons and we buy all new ones for us? Correct?
David 🏀Caitlin Clark🏀 Koch
@jackmac: run the gubmint like a business
WaterGirl
@Another Scott: That was fun. (click to see bigger version)
The Kropenhagen Interpretation
@cain: I actually don’t. I’m really optimistic about the election this year.
I like to look at “who appears to have changed their minds?”
’08 I see Dems fired up and people distinctly fed up with R failures. ’12 I see a lot of pushing, but all the usual suspects. ’16 I see young men who had always been supportive of Democrats having something against Hillary specifically. ’20 had people unusually appalled at Trump, aside from the usual suspects.
What am I seeing this year? Suburban moms who had always been very muted in their politics far more openly political and incensed about the abortion decision.
I still plan to do my typical volunteer action, all of use who are able will have to work hard. But I think we can bring about a blowout this year.
danielx
@WaterGirl:
I’m surprised you haven’t run across him before, he’s a long time professional conservative dipshit.
https://www.mediamatters.org/gateway-pundit/jim-hoft-dumbest-man-internet
Jackie
@WaterGirl: I agree. A 15 week abortion law isn’t great, but it’s far better than the 1864 archaic law that goes into effect in a month!
Then comes Roemember 5…
Another Scott
@cain: Nah. Only what they can use, etc.
I don’t want to get caught speculating and mis-remembering again, but I think the text of the Supplemental talks about what he can and must do with the $60.mumble B. Congress always has a say.
Don’t expect a bunch of B2’s to be flying over Kyiv as a result of this Supplemental.
Slava Ukraini!!
Cheers,
Scott.
David 🏀Caitlin Clark🏀 Koch
What have we come to when a single woman can defeat America’s team like a pitiful, helpless giant.
Jackie
@WaterGirl: 🍿🍷😁
Jackie
@David 🏀Caitlin Clark🏀 Koch: The Cowboys suck. America’s team is Taylor Swift’s team!😉
BUT, good for Caitlin Clark!!!
(I say that as a diehard Seahawks fan)
prostratedragon
What is the one thing forbidden in the city of Mahagonney? trailer from Teatro Regio di Parma (cc is in English).
geg6
@jackmac:
Heh.
Villago Delenda Est
Donald Payne Jr. wore pinstripes well. For his fashion sense alone, he will be missed.
scav
The Victorian workhouse as a plan for the homeless and other underserving is probably waiting in the GOMAGA back pocket. Split up those worthless families as a precondition to getting relief. See also the Marshalsea prison where debtors ended up incarcerated and had to pay for everything (including the right to get out and actually earn some money).
David 🏀Caitlin Clark🏀 Koch
He doesn’t get enough credit for all victories he’s piled up.
The Kropenhagen Interpretation
Now let’s be fair. He barely gets any at all.
Jeffro
this is true (and used to be even more true in the past) except now:
This whole thing is one of the many side effects of far too much concentrated wealth. Tax the rich, heavily, progressively, and now.
Jeffro
@David 🏀Caitlin Clark🏀 Koch: it’s almost like it’s time for a new “America’s Team”
JPL
@Another Scott: I’m not sure that he still lives there, but when first hired by the AJC he moved next door to a friend of mine. She sold her house a few years after.
Villago Delenda Est
@jackmac: Over at Yr Wonkette, which is still awaiting a judgement payment from SMOTI, there is much rejoicing.
The Kropenhagen Interpretation
Worse still; these companies will buy up property and leave them vacant, often for years, to keep up the price of their remaining properties. That goes for commercial space too.
Ownership of a resource should not confer control over other people. This all about aggregation of power.
JPL
@The Kropenhagen Interpretation: omg Truer words were never spoken
prostratedragon
@Jeffro:
Can be a stage in a land assembly process.
Jay
@Baud:
Not the least bit surprising.
Here in Canada, (That Socialist Hellhole up North of You Guys), despite dozens of studies proving the positive impact of “free money” programs getting the unhoused housed and into a much more stable situation,……..
Not one Province or Territory has adopted it as a program, not even as a trial program. Despite demonstrating that it would significantly reduce the costs of existing social welfare programs and reduce the unhoused population by 80% to 90%, the Governments would for some reason keep unhoused people on the streets and in the revolving door of shelters.
And don’t get me started on UBI.
The Kropenhagen Interpretation
The only land assembly process I want to hear about involves space dust and gravity.
ETA: Or a legitimately affordable housing complex, but that ain’t happening.
Old School
@David 🏀Caitlin Clark🏀 Koch:
Good for her I guess, but I wouldn’t suspect March is a big month for sales of football jerseys.
Jeffro
OT but I just want to mention that both my RWNJ dad and right-leaning mom reached out last night in a tizzy about “all these college protests” (both of my kids are in college)
Mom texted about it, and I told her that at our local university, there had been a couple of small protests, none violent, that were already over and done with a couple of days ago. Me: “Certain media outlets (hint hint) are really trying their best to make it look like everything is aflame, as usual. There’s nothing going on here or anywhere else in VA, though”. To which she responded, “Good” and that was that.
My dad actually called me out of the blue and hit me with a RWNJ conspiracy theory that I had not heard before: that it was “odd” how “all of these protestors seem to have the same tents, same signs, same slogans…it’s almost like they’re all receiving instructions and getting their gear from the same place.” (Soros? Putin? Both?? who knows?). So – no joke – I told him, “I think the ‘same place’ is called REI? The protestors are all at Ivy-league universities and probably shop at the same high-end stores?” That seemed to settle him down some.
It’s just so easy to push these folks’ buttons, though! A couple of college protests, enough Fox News hosts whispering in their ears, and they are convinced that…Hamas?…Soros stooges?…???…have taken control of the country, or something? Sharia law is just around the corner??
Wacky stuff!
The Kropenhagen Interpretation
It’s a livelihood…
Melancholy Jaques
@David 🏀Caitlin Clark🏀 Koch:
He gets net negative because of the people who complain he took too long and the people who are angry that he did not deliver 100% of what they wanted.
The Kropenhagen Interpretation
@Melancholy Jaques: Those people likely have worthwhile goals and a little learning to do on matters of pragmatism.
I save my opprobrium for the media who work day and night to ensure people are focused on trivialities and centrists who can’t be bothered to learn who is doing what.
Uncle Cosmo
@Jackie: 1 Moskowitz >> N Moscow Half-Wits
where N is a suitably gigundous integer.
Jay
@prostratedragon:
after the Crash of 2008, many Hedge Funds and others figured out that the price/cost differential between rent and property values made being a Slumlord immensely profitable.
Also, in many places globally, it’s more profitable to manage a property as an Airb&B, than as a long term rental.
Jay
@prostratedragon:
It is, in a way. They buy up entire neighborhoods, usually 2bdr/3bdr 1 bath, maybe an onsuite “starter homes” in the older subdivisions, (that arn’t being built anymore).
They turn them into rentals, usually under an incorporated sub.
They don’t have to worry about having a mortgage and get major reductions on interest rates, if they have to finance even a portion. They also pay cash to the sellers.
Because it’s all under an incorporated sub, these “starter” homes will never come on the market ever again, because there are 50-500 all held under one title.
Nelle
@Jay: I walked by a house in my neighborhood (a few blocks away) and complimented the woman putting things in her car on her blossoming tree. “Oh, I don’t live here. It’s an Airbnb.” I was startled as it is such a residential area. I went to look at the AirBnB site and they are scattered through the next neighborhood as well. These aren’t exactly cheap houses (well, not to me, anyway).
Jay
@Nelle:
AirBnB’s run the gamut, everything from a fold out couch in somebody’s unfinished basement to a multimillion dollar mansion.
Here, the most common ones are 1br/2br/3br downtown apartments, where a 1 week stay=one months rent. AirBnB’s are now regulated here, they have to be registered, owned, not rented, pay a higher property tax rate, and density is regulated, (number of AirBnB’s in a neighborhood).
A big scam here is renting an apartment, and then turning it into an unregistered AirBnB. So for $3.5k down for a 1br, (1st and last,+ damage deposit), you can “earn” $1.5-$3K a month profit until you get caught, if you get caught.
gwangung
@Jeffro: Something to keep an eye on for electoral politics. It’s a chance for Rs to stir shit, and for the most part, it’s a plus for conservatives.
Martin
@HumboldtBlue: Getting a refund may not be your best course of action. The refund on that flight booked a month before won’t come close to what it’ll cost to get on a plane leaving in the next hour on another airline. If they can get you on another flight, it’s probably the better route.
Bill Arnold
@Another Scott:
Mmm. The 155mm Dual Purpose Improved Conventional Munitions (cluster munitions) will impose an immediate slowdown on Russian meat-wave advances in Eastern Ukraine.
Dan B
In news from the state of my youth, Ohio has closed the Marital Rape loophole. Moving slowly into the 20th Century.
Martin
@Jay: We’ve got some cities doing it. The state just tiptoed into a pilot.
I think we have 12,000 people in various UBI programs right now. Not a lot in a state of 40M, but it seems to be slowly growing despite the pressure of Covid coming off.
Jay
@Bill Arnold:
And in the last tranche, the long range version of ATACMS, were provided under the listing, “additional missiles for HIMARS”.
BR
@Martin:
I’m seeing a lot of UBI pilots making a common mistake, which is targeting only those who would otherwise need or qualify for some existing social safety net program (like SNAP, CHIP, or really anything else). This then makes the whole thing seem like yet another welfare program (to those who oppose it) rather than what it really is meant to be, which is *universal*. Middle class folks can benefit from it too, and understanding how is just as important.
Citizen Alan
@David 🏀Caitlin Clark🏀 Koch: I never forgave the Cowboys for firing Jimmy Johnson.
Martin
@Jeffro: You should have leaned into the Soros thing, that the Jewish cabal was organizing the ‘antisemitic’ protests.
Martin
@BR: Yeah, but I think it’s working okay here because homelessness is such a pervasive problem and the cause is so widely understood (3 million housing units short). And CA isn’t exactly opposed to welfare. I mean, we put undocumented residents on Medicaid and even my racist neighbors can’t be bothered to complain about that.
In the backdrop of all the other efforts in the state, I’m not even sure how the state would take up the program. I think the biggest impediment is that if the state wanted to put the money in everyones hands and then claw back through taxes on upper income brackets, it can’t do that without federal taxes taking a good chunk of it, and having CA funding the federal government is already happening a little too much.
smith
Chickens, finally flapping homeward.
ETA They also indicted 11 fake electors and named TFG as an unindicted coconspirator.
p.a.
Is this new? CNN: Meadows, Giuliani, Epsthyn (sp) indicted in Az fake elector casy. DonnieDumbo unindicted cocons
ETA so close! 2nd post on it.
JWR
NBC got a brief interview with Pastor Mike at Columbia U and they asked how he would deal with the protestors. He said the university should immediately call in the city cops, maybe even the national guard, to deal with this “out of control'” situation. He was literally shaking with indignation! And I was reminded once again how sad it must be to live in his sorry, dreary, Nixonian little world.
Villago Delenda Est
The theofascists don’t really object to the content of Sharia law, just the branding.
Jeffro
@Martin: I was surprised he didn’t ask, “So…who owns REI?”
NotMax
@Martin
A few years ago on the return leg of the NY trip (NYC to Maui), one stop) at LAX, arrived at the airport in plenty of time, sidled up to the self-serve kiosk, punched in the appropriate info and was greeted by a “See service desk” screen.
Waited patiently in line, got up to the desk. Attendant there, upon being presented with all the documentation, agreed that I was me but yet I couldn’t be because “the computer” kept showing I was in Chicago. Took the better part of 45 minutes to untangle that mess and ended up being rebooked on completely different flights.
Sister Golden Bear
And in the latest newsworthy event of the day, Meadows, Giuliani and other Trump allies charged in Arizona 2020 election probe (gift link).
NotMax
Misplaced parenthetical above in #89. What is described all took place at the NY airport.
(NYC to Maui), one stop) at LAX = (NYC to Maui), one stop at LAX)
Sister Golden Bear
@The Kropenhagen Interpretation: Obligatory:
smith
@Sister Golden Bear: Wow, I hadn’t seen the full list. This is Georgia-style justice. I hope Jack Smith also has another tranche of conspirators to deal with after he disposes of TFG.
Another Scott
Meanwhile, … GovExec.com:
(Emphasis added.)
[ chef’s kiss ]
The USPS is in a tough spot, but it’s an essential service. It shouldn’t be run like a service that makes a profit; it should be run like an essential service.
I fail to see how DeJoy’s “efficiencies” – like moving a letter across town an extra thousand miles, or having it sit in post offices – makes any sense. Since he took over, we routinely see mail trucks running in our neighborhood and making deliveries after 8 PM. The folks in the trenches are working like mad, but mail is still very late. It’s backwards.
Grr…,
Scott.
Hoppie
@Belafon: Depending on the day, I can see three to six cranes out our seventh floor condo window (in Hillcrest, San Diego). Almost all the new housing here is multi-family, with a percentage requirement for “affordable” based on total zoned approval.
piratedan
@smith: here’s the link to the actual indictment. (fingers crossed it doesn’t screw up)
https://mcusercontent.com/cc1fad182b6d6f8b1e352e206/files/fa85cddf-ccc6-7dee-dd58-ff5e80d53b15/Indictment.03.pdf
Mayes must have shown cause and documents in order for a Grand Jury to sign off on this.
Jackie
Hopefully, Wisconsin and Philadelphia will follow suit! Sadly, Georgia won’t be joining them, I’m pretty confident.🤪
sab
@Another Scott: My lawyer was complaining about this. They used to be able to count on a cross town letter arriving next day. Now it may take a week. So anything important has to go FedEx, at $10+, instead of under $1.
After being a lifelong Republican now he isn’t one.
smith
@Jackie: The ones that haven’t acted yet are WI, PA, and NM.
Sister Golden Bear
@Jeffro:
We just need to actually eat one billionaire to make our point. /s
Jackie
Follow up to the AZ State House members who voted to appeal the archaic abortion ban:
I hope this doesn’t cow the few possible State Senate Repugs from voting to appeal next week!🤞🏻
NotMax
@Another Scott
Monthly bill for the auto loan took 12 days to arrive in April, leaving just barely enough time to write a check and send it out to be credited before (one hopes) the deadline at the end of the month.
Luckily, have been making accelerated payments all along so technically the monthly amount due was zero.
Jackie
@smith: New Mexico! I knew there was one other state!
I do get credit for WI and PA, though!😁
smith
@piratedan: Interesting that names of seven of the indictees are redacted (the ones in the WH cabal), but I guess their identities are clear from the context. I wonder what Jenna Ellis is going to do, since she already pleaded guilty in GA. Chesebro is an unindicted co-conspirator, so his willingness to sing apparently helped him dodge this bullet.
Jay
https://www.azcentral.com/story/opinion/op-ed/laurieroberts/2024/04/23/turning-point-usa-smith-asu-fake-elector-embarrassment/73424327
WaterGirl
@smith:
I hope Jenna Ellis comes to regret that she basically flipped off the prosecution after they allowed her to plead to something ridiculously light in GA.
She was supposed to write a letter of apology, and her letter was the equivalent of the 8-year-old boy who is supposed to tell his sister he’s sorry: “sor-rrry” in the most disingenuous tone possible.
And then even before the ink was dry on her deal, she basically said publicly that Trump had won the election and flipped them all off.
brantl
@WaterGirl: He’s an arsehole’s arsehole. Look him up, as long as your gag reflex is under control. He looks like an uncircumcised Putz, and it’s truth in advertising.
Martin
@Another Scott: When Ms Martin was gearing up for her cancer surgery she had order a prescription for a medication she was supposed to start taking 48 hours before the surgery. A week out from when she was supposed to take it she get a notification from the pharmacy its shipped via express mail. It shipped from Downey, CA, destination central Orange County, CA. 27 miles. It took all 7 days to arrive. Among places those pills went – Bakersfield, St. Louis MO, Ontario CA, Phoenix, LA, and finally here.
We were convinced watching it that there was some bug in the system – that it was picking up other packages, but when we got it, there were signs it had actually made that journey.
Ironcity
@Dan B: Late not be too hasty… maybe the 19th to match my favorite, Virginia. “Here a Lee, there a Lee, everywhere a Lee a Lee.”
piratedan
@smith: what is also interesting is that the former state chair and vice chair of the GOP are on the list of those indicted.
wjca
Yet another deservedly great day for Texas.
Uncle Cosmo
Um, no you do not:
You got the name of the state wrong, fer dogsake – that’s a 9th-grade Civics level fail. With so many on this blog from the Pittsburgh area, I’m shocked none of them has jumped on you wearing golf spikes by now.
Jackie
@Uncle Cosmo: They knew what I meant and they love me 😊🥰
frosty
@smith: I read earlier on this here blog that PA wrote their fake electors up with a caveat that let them off the hook, so no indictments there. Wisconsin admitted in a legal statement that it was a con, so they avoided an indictment too.
Villago Delenda Est
@Sister Golden Bear: Elno, please.
sdhays
@Another Scott: As far as I’m concerned, first class mail is no longer an option. If I have to send a letter, I have to spend $5 on certified mail so I have some guarantee it will actually arrive.
I have no idea if the DeJoy plan actually has merit; a bunch of people seem to think it does. But there can’t be any question that it’s been a failure, so at best, he and his management team simply aren’t competent to correctly implement it.
Another Scott
OpenThread – One for the knitters…
😀
Cheers,
Scott.
JAFD
Donald Payne Jr. was my Congressman for the past two years (?? Was in Albro Sires district (now Menendez the younger’s), boundaries shifted a few blocks in 2021 reapportionment, putting me in the 10th)
Never met him. He didn’t make headlines, good or bad. Did his job, represented his constituents. RIP
Don’t know who’s likely to replace him, primary is in June but nominations now closed. This is not the ‘bluest’ district in the US, but we’re up there. Will pass news on here.