Showing up now, leaving shortly after the election…
Earth will have a temporary 'mini moon' for two months https://t.co/U6GMsxtXQP
— The Associated Press (@AP) September 28, 2024
Rep. Clark: Donald Trump and JD Vance fail to recognize the issues that families care about. We don't even trust JD Vance to order donuts, we certainly don't trust him to take seriously lowering costs for families pic.twitter.com/FcxJeq12zg
— Kamala HQ (@KamalaHQ) September 26, 2024
Union Women Get It Done! And we’re going to get it done for VP Harris!
Join us on October 1st as we talk about what’s at stake and the crucial role that women will play in this election ??https://t.co/rd5NJOiXQI pic.twitter.com/uqeXGCy1iN
— AFL-CIO ? (@AFLCIO) September 26, 2024
Emgage Action, one of the nation’s largest Muslim American voter mobilization groups, has endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris' presidential bid.https://t.co/5l1oy9oT1J
— Joey Cappelletti (@Cappelletti7) September 25, 2024
Magic Johnson: I am endorsing Kamala Harris. She's ready. She can bring the country together. She's fighting for women so they can have the right to choose. She's working to bring down grocery prices. The plan she has for the country is wonderful pic.twitter.com/JUPWifIIsd
— Kamala HQ (@KamalaHQ) September 27, 2024
Show and Tell: Biden-Harris Administration Edition.
Here are a few mementos Cabinet members are remembering our Administration’s accomplishments by. pic.twitter.com/SQkfg2CDLa
— The White House (@WhiteHouse) September 27, 2024
Baud
That’s no moon.
HinTN
“BOOM” – That’s a great segment. Thanks and good morning.
narya
Some fun signs for Harris: this and this.
Bupalos
Proud of our party, and we’re going to have a great shot to win. I know it’s demoralizing to feel like this should obviously be a blowout, to look at how close this election is and despair about American citizens. But this is actually a really tough time for democracy globally, a lot of world-historical forces are hitting at once. When you pull back and look at history, we’re entering an economically, technologically and climatically destabilized era where everything stacks up for authoritarianism. And we’re still fighting and still winning.
Freemark
@Bupalos: Yep, the ‘interesting times’ curse. What can you do; we just have to keep working until things get boring again.
RevRick
Just to be technical and pedantic about it, but Project 2025 doesn’t eliminate NOAA. It just reduces it to a data collection agency which will sell the information to businesses. How that might impact the Weather Channel or major metropolitan TV stations, who knows? But it will definitely affect smaller markets like Chattanooga and Fargo.
Freemark
I know Republicans look at Russia and get jealous of its oligarchy but getting rid of NOAA is just insane. I have heard them mention this in the past and their plan is just to ‘privatize’ it not ‘actually’ get rid of it. Because charging ridiculous amounts to individuals and local, state governments for information they need to respond to potential disasters is a pretty awesome business model. With the side benefit that climate change will no longer exist so everything will be safer.
rikyrah
Good Morning Everyone 😊 😊 😊
Baud
@rikyrah:
Good morning.
HinTN
@Freemark: It’s the side benefits that make the deal sweet.
lowtechcyclist
@Baud:
That’s no
GoodnightMoonHumboldtBlue
All I know is none of the house around me are floating, so all good in the North Woods.
sab
@Freemark: American Thatcherism.
Tony G
@Freemark: My understanding of their “logic” for kneecapping NOAA is something like this: 1) Climate change is a HOAX!!!! That is one of basic tenets of their dogma, and must not be questioned. 2) One of the factors that NOAA uses to predict the trajectory of hurricanes is the evidence of a changing climate. 3) Therefore NOAA must be crippled (or eliminated altogether) because the evidence that NOAA uses is double-plus ungood. It is impeccable logic.
TBone
@Freemark: today’s Heather Cox Richardson gets into it about NOAA and Project 2025. 💙
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/september-27-2024
citizen dave
@Bupalos: Thanks for this. I was particularly low a week ago Thursday morning (no particular reason, just woke up that way). Whatever will be–we don’t know the results until November. I’m in the state now of, either we keep winning via ballot box, or the fight for sanity/democracy/freedom will go to new levels. I have to believe the vast majority of citizens want those things.
Jeffg166
I found out this week I could make ice cream using a food processor. I made strawberry ice cream today. It’s very rich. A quart of heavy cream with a half of cup of sugar dissolved in it. I cooked two quarts of strawberries with a cup of sugar and after the heavy cream was frozen over night it was chopped up. Added the strawberries to pulsed with heavy cream to get a smooth consistency. It’s now in the freezer firming up.
There are videos on YouTube to do this.
SiubhanDuinne
Love love love ❤️ ❤️❤️ the Cabinet Show-and-Tell. What a wonderful idea — I hope the Harris-Walz administration continues the tradition!
TBone
@Jeffg166: 👍🥰
https://www.americastestkitchen.com/articles/3370-recipe-no-churn-blender-ice-cream
Another Scott
@Tony G: Also too:
It’s stupid. Imean, it says right up at the top is the purpose of the Constitution is, among other things, to “promote the general welfare.” But the lawyers tell me that that’s “dicta” that doesn’t mean anything. On the gripping hand, “dicta” about the all-powerful free market and the rightful place of old white men being at the top of the political, economic, social, and educational order overrides everything else, so … :-/
It’s Calvinball. They want what they want, logic doesn’t matter.
Eyes on the prizes.
Forward!!
Cheers,
Scott.
TBone
After watching I Am Not Your Negro last night, I was extra happy to see the new lawsuit for defamation and use of hate speech filed by Haitian groups.
https://www.rawstory.com/donald-trump-2669287440/
Punching back!
Starfish
@TBone: Republican governors slow roll the disaster recovery and then blame the federal government for being slow to respond.
Companies like Walmart and Home Depot prepare, and then people on the ground think “Gosh, capitalism saved us.” Then, the out of state churches show up. Then the out of state construction scammers show up. “Sure, we will cut the tree that fell on your house for thousands of dollars that you have to pay up front.”
Ramalama
Earth unveiling a new mini moon is just baby steps for revealing more hidden moons. Because brand ID takes time, and also the universe thinks we’re all late-adopters.
Harrison Wesley
As Helene reminded us, the only thing that will stop a bad guy with a NOAA is a good guy with a Sharpie.
hells littlest angel
Showing up now, leaving shortly after the election…
The Federation’s election observers will have a big say in whether we are invited to join.
bbleh
Oh sure, we’re supposed to believe that an interstellar-observation-spacecraft-sized “asteroid” just HAPPENS to show up for JUST long enough to see whether we finally doom ourselves as a species.
I guess this is the sort of thing that passes for “reality TV” among superintelligent extraterrestrials.
hells littlest angel
@Bupalos: Unfortunately, when there are half a billion climate refugees 20 years from now, authoritarianism is going to be even more appealing our worst natures.
TS
My bold – What a polite write up from the Washington Post – wonder how they would phrase MVP doing something similar.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/elections/2024/09/27/trump-watches-100000/
He seems unable to stop – guess this is his fundraising to pay the lawyers – are Presidents exempt from the tax laws?
Baud
@bbleh:
The Real Housewives of Planet Earth.
Baud
@TS:
That’s how they always do be.
Omnes Omnibus
@Another Scott: Lawyers don’t call the preamble to the Constitution dicta. They do recognize that since at least 1908, the Supreme Court’s view of the preamble is that “that preamble indicates the general purposes for which the people ordained and established the Constitution, it has never been regarded as the source of any substantive power conferred on the government of the United States, or on any of its departments. Such powers embrace only those expressly granted in the body of the Constitution, and such as may be implied from those so granted. Although, therefore, one of the declared objects of the Constitution was to secure the blessings of liberty to all under the sovereign jurisdiction and authority of the United States, no power can be exerted to that end by the United States, unless, apart from the preamble, it be found in some express delegation of power, or in some power to be properly implied therefrom.” Jacobson v Massachusetts, 197 U.S. 11.
IOW, the preamble does not confer power on the government, it provides direction as to how the government should use the power delineated in the body of the Constitution.
Starfish
I have been intentionally avoiding news on the hurricane because it is a disaster that I can do nothing about. This story about all the impacted states and the number of people that have died so far was well done.
KatKapCC
@narya: Sign-in required on the first link, FYI.
catclub
No fighting forest fires. No FEMA after a hurricane.
NO GPS. No National parks. No department of agriculture and farm subsidies. No NIST.
Tell that to all the industries that use NIST standards for metrology.
HumboldtBlue
If you need a laugh, Emily Catalano…
catclub
@TS: The Bulwark is pointing out a slight inconsistency (surprise!) in Trump selling extremely pricey items while also saying the economy is terrible and nobody can afford bacon.
TBone
@HumboldtBlue: 😍
I needed that, a few things have gone spectacularly wrong in the last half hour here at home.
Nukular Biskits
OH, FFS.
https://x.com/tatereeves/status/1840038704175333554
Shit like this makes me want to leave this state behind so badly …
TBone
@Nukular Biskits: I am sorry about tater eeves, giving virtual hugs to you.
I just read his wiki 😤
TBone
@Starfish: right you are 🤬
BR
From the annals of wtf polling, NYT’s latest
random number generator“poll” has Harris winning in Wisconsin but losing the youth vote by 18 points.narya
@KatKapCC: sorry! I’m a member so didn’t realize that. Dunno how to fix either, so apologies!!
KatKapCC
@narya: No worries :) It’s the account holder who has to change that setting. I think a lot of Bluesky users are unaware that it defaults to not letting non-users see their posts.
KatKapCC
@catclub: That would be a good question for a reporter to ask him. “If the economy is so terrible and no one can afford anything, who exactly is buying these overpriced watches that look like they came out of a gumball machine in Liberace’s house?”
Baud
@BR:
That makes sense.
HinTN
@Nukular Biskits: There’s just as many damn kids going WOKE in Mississippi as there are anywhere else. They just want the gullible to ship their dollars there with their kids
Sister Golden Bear
@TS:
Experts: Trump’s “Swiss Watches” Are Chinese Crap
Definitely not a money laundering scheme (you can pay for them with bitcoin)….
TBone
@KatKapCC: 😍 this could describe so many of the rethuglican “policies” also too.
Steve LaBonne
@Sister Golden Bear: This is my shocked face.
Dorothy A. Winsor
@TS: If the trading cards and shoe money weren’t so penny-ante, it could be a form of bribery too
Steve LaBonne
@BR: I don’t understand how any respectable pollster is willing to release a poll with obviously off the wall crosstabs.
TBone
Major Conservative Poll Cited by Media Secretly Worked With Trump Team
Leaked emails reveal the truth about Rasmussen Reports—and the way the Trump campaign is breaking election law.
https://newrepublic.com/post/186444/conservative-poll-rasmussen-secretly-worked-trump-team
Steve LaBonne
@Dorothy A. Winsor: If the son of a bitch somehow manages to win the election, Truth Social stock will be the obvious conduit for bribery.
gwangung
@BR: Um, wot?
Can anyone say that this passes the sniff test????
Anoniminous
@Steve LaBonne:
1. They aren’t respectable – their Statistical Analysis is laughable
2. Money – they don’t get paid if they don’t provide fodder for the InfoTainment Mediums
allium
It’s not a moooooon…
Anoniminous
From Prof. Altemeyer’s book <a href=”https://theauthoritarians.org/”>The Authoritarians </a>
“One thing has struck me as I’ve studied Double Highs [The Dominating Authoritarian Personality.] They’ve usually combined the worst aspects of being a social dominator with the worst aspects of being a high RWA. Thus we saw that when it comes to prejudice, they pack an extra load of hostility toward their many targets. And they’re just as power hungry as the rest of the social dominators are, rather than being uninterested in personal power as ordinary RWAs are. But when they land in between ordinary dominators and ordinary high RWAs, they usually land closer to the worse outcome.”
Remind you of anyone?
Sure Lurkalot
@Starfish: From your link
I understand how people with little money, health issues, even pets might have few options to escape a coming cataclysmic event and Faith’s level of willful disregard shouldn’t surprise me at this point but my fucks left to give are scraping the bottom of the barrel.
Central Planning
@catclub: The simple (ha!) solution Is to make those things illegal.
If forest fires are illegal, government will have to put them out. Same with national disasters. FEMA will just be enforcing the “no disasters” law
Anoniminous
@gwangung:
An earlier Sienna/FTFNYT poll had Trump getting 30% of black males …. based on 3 responses.
Anoniminous
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Ella in New Mexico
I’m feeling pretty optimistic about the election, but it’s hard when you hear what people who support Trump are willing to believe and say and you wonder if this really represents enough votes in November to win.
This cannot represent 50% of America.
Baud
@Anoniminous:
I think Trump will win 124% of the black vote.
@Ella in New Mexico:
He won’t get over 50%.
Splitting Image
@BR:
I dunno. For the segment of the youth vote that has access to a landline and is willing to talk to the New York Times, that might even be accurate.
Baud
@Splitting Image:
“What is this box that’s intermittently making noise at regular intervals? Is it the fire alarm?”
Ishiyama
@Omnes Omnibus: In modern parlance, the Preamble functions as a mission statement. Glorious vision with no substance. The Ninth Amendment, on the other hand, means far more than the Justices will ever accept.
Anoniminous
@Baud:
At least. He may get as much as 329% of the black vote in Mississippi.
@Splitting Image:
Land line customers are now concentrated in rural hick areas where the average IQ is somewhat below the average body temperature so no surprise they’re going for Trump
JPL
Since trump is attending the Bama/GA game tonight, I hope his handlers told him to cheer for Bama.
Harris has an ad buy making fun of trump that is suppose to air, according to Greg Bluestein
JPL
duplicate
Kelly
Well of course. After all the nation’s forest lands belong to white guys in the timber industry. The nation’s grasslands belong to white guys in the beef industry. The nation’s health care belongs to white guys in the insurance industry. White guys are trying their damndest to own education.
Note: I’m an old white guy
Nukular Biskits
@TBone:
What’s so bad is that about half the damned state continues to support this f’ing moron.
TBone
Gritty’s response was “I literally live here.” But I need to know why he is wearing business attire!
https://x.com/chefbriere/status/1836861205622968601
Any guesses?
Also, we are celebrating the tonic masculinity of The Phillies team along with the NL East win!
Doc Sardonics
JWR
The latest from PBS is pretty good:
Definitely worth a watch. (But not a Trump watch!) I seem always to miss first the opening 45 minutes, to this morning, when I only missed the first 20, but I’ll get it right someday. And oh dear Lord puhleeze let Ms. VP take this one in a landslide, because another T term would truly be a disaster! In the next episode they cover the Vance-Walz campaign.
Citizen Alan
@Ella in New Mexico: I hate these people. I despise people who have gleefully chosen ignorance as a life style choice.
TBone
@Nukular Biskits: 💔 I wish there were a magic wand I could wave to change that. Since that’s not the case, we must hold hands and persevere through this together. I’m holding your hand, and I’ll bet all the other jackals are too.
lowtechcyclist
@allium:
I don’t know if it’s a moooooon or not, but I saw an anti-Alsobrooks commercial and a Cinnamon Toast Crunch commercial, and I killed the tab when the Geico commercial started.
trnc
Also, kinda hard to take seriously the thing about law enforcement when they explicitly endorse the convicted felon who asked the SC for criminal immunity.
Citizen Alan
@Nukular Biskits: Not just that, but more than half the state supported Tater over the most popular Democratic gubernatorial candidate of the last 30 years. There is no universe in which Mississippi goes blue in my lifetime at any level. Move to Fresno, NB! It’s like living in a really big Tupelo, MS except with great amenities and a Dem supermajority running the state.
TBone
@trnc: that immunity request is an admission of guilt on its face. I will never get over that fact.
Nukular Biskits
@Citizen Alan:
I am so fucking tired of the elected “leaders” of this state deliberately making us the laughing stock of the rest of the country, keeping us mired in the past, and using the power of their respective offices to keep the status quo; i.e., white “Christian” male patriarchy.
And, as much as it pains me to say this, in their defense, it’s the voters of this state who keep putting these belligerently ignorant, hateful jackasses in office.
My significant other and I have talked about moving to CA once I retire.
Nukular Biskits
@TBone:
Misery loves company! 🤣
TBone
@Nukular Biskits: here, have a ridiculously cute penguin while we persevere:
https://digbysblog.net/2024/09/27/friday-night-soother-273/
Pesto Change-O magic wand!
TBone
My most affectionate fur baby Noah had bloody diarrhea this morning. I actually photographed a cat turd today. I don’t have favorites among my three familiars, but if I did, it would be my chonky Noah the Love Cat. He has the disposition of a golden retriever puppy at all times. Stool sample bagged, vet appointment scheduled. Trying not to freak out (he had a sarcoma tumor removed a few years ago). 😣 Shitty morning.
Jeffg166
A dentist complains about men licking his fingers:
https://www.instagram.com/reel/C-35jbvP9UA/?igsh=dTQzZ25qMXp4OWR2
Dmbeaster
@hells littlest angel: The “moon” is Trump’s escape vehicle after he loses. Won’t need that confiscated passport.
wjca
@TBone:
How voluntary is the fasting, if you’re stuck on your roof due to flooding? Still, if you’re waiting for rescue that your governor has unnecessarily delayed, I guess that counts as voluntarily on his part.
TBone
@Jeffg166: 😆😆😆
TBone
@wjca: this is why Humboldt’s comment at #35 is so apropos today.
cain
@Sure Lurkalot: I hope insurance will help out.
Starfish
@Sure Lurkalot: That’s the thing about hurricanes. Sometimes people prepare for a storm that fizzles out, and they wonder “Why did I spend all that time preparing?”
In one of the earlier threads Nukular Biskits is talking about Camille. Camille was before my time, and I was a nosy child who loved asking people about things that happened before I was born.
With Camille, the models predicted that it was going to land elsewhere, so there were people throwing parties at their beach houses on the Mississippi Gulf Coast. That storm killed 259 people. It killed off the tung oil trees that were important to places that made paint so it reshaped the economy
The models are now more accurate than they used to be, and states need to have proper plans for evacuating people who are poor and vulnerable like hospital patients, prisoners, and people in retirement communities.
What Have The Romans Ever Done for Us?
@Ella in New Mexico: I heard a segment on NPR a few months back with a historian. He said elections are almost always close in the US. He tried to think of an election that would have obviously been a blowout and he figured US Grant’s first run would obviously have been such a blowout. Most of the Confederates were still barred from voting and he was the hero of the Republic. The Johnson administration that preceded him had been a disaster and he was running against a NYC White supremacist so he figured if any election in US history would have been a full on 20 point or more blowout that had to be it. Grant won by about 5%, although he won the electoral college in a landslide. So… popular vote blowouts are rare in American politics, unfortunately. Even when there’s no earthly reason they should be particularly close they are closer than you’d expect.
Baud
@What Have The Romans Ever Done for Us?:
In the modern era blowouts, the winner got 60% of the vote.
wjca
Slightly off-topic but,
In August, Californians were donating $1 million a day to the Harris campaign. I doubt the pace has slackened since.
wjca
Nobody visits anymore
Liminal Owl
@TBone: oh no! Hoping it’s something minor.
Starfish
@TBone: Oh no. I hope he is okay.
rikyrah
Susan Edelman (@SusanBEdelman) posted at 11:02 AM on Sat, Sep 28, 2024:
New: Mayor Adams’ girlfriend who was promoted by DOE chancellor David Banks is now the subject of multiple ethics complaints for luxury trips and accused of having a $221K “no-show job.”
w/@deirdre_bardolf
https://t.co/A1F84bkl0c
(https://x.com/SusanBEdelman/status/1840059461043425692?t=6kj2Al_1ka1yTHHQ-JNOpA&s=03)
rikyrah
@TBone:
🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽
TBone
@Liminal Owl:
@Starfish:
Thank you very much. I suspect it is viral because hubby has been caring for neighbors ‘ golden retriever puppy and puppy’s mama reported diarrhea this week also. Noah’s sister Katrina has a tummy vomiting issue as well.
But the blood. I am praying that he ate something red that I am unaware of!
TBone
@rikyrah: 💜 thank you!
Harrison Wesley
@Dmbeaster: If it was designed by Musk, there’s going to be a tub containing a yooge hunk of rotting flesh floating around our galaxy.
StringOnAStick
@TBone: Diarrhea from a viral or bacterial infection can involve blood, so it may just be that your baby got a big dose of it. Here’s hoping it’s something that will pass.
rikyrah
Huh???
Eric Adams Crime Family (@TownTopics2024) posted at 11:51 AM on Sat, Sep 28, 2024:
🚨🚨🚨 BREAKING NOW: 4 sources tell me 1st Dep Mayor Sheena Wright and Chancellor Banks hastily getting married this weekend in order to use Spousal privilege that protects private conversations between spouses and prevents one spouse from testifying against the other in court
(https://x.com/TownTopics2024/status/1840071818784145689?t=8k994MPigS3iT_-MGrfaSQ&s=03)
allium
@TBone: ooh, stealing “tonic masculinity”.
allium
@lowtechcyclist: – that’s fair, but that’s the only ad in the video.
hueyplong
@Splitting Image: You’re giving off a serious 1936 Literary Digest vibe there.
3Sice
Somebody needs to roll significant recovery resources into western NC and eastern TN.
It’s a hot mess. Roads out, massive flood and wind damage, no power, no water, no comms, etc.
The fiber backhaul got washed out – so throwing a genset on cell towers is pointless.
TBone
@StringOnAStick: 💜 thank you, I am getting better able to breathe normally instead of catching my breath now.
TBone
@allium: it’s a thing now, popularized by Tim Walz!
lowtechcyclist
@What Have The Romans Ever Done for Us?:
1964 was the first Presidential election I paid attention to. LBJ won the popular vote by 61.1% to 38.5%.
In 1972, Nixon won by 60.7% to 37.5%.
In 1984, Reagan won by 58.8% to 40.6%.
I’d call those all blowouts, and they were three of the first six Presidential elections I was meaningfully aware of. And before that, there was Roosevelt winning in 1932 and 1936 by 57.4 – 39.6 and 60.8 – 36.5, and Ike in 1956 by 57.4 – 42.0. And all three elections of the 1920s were blowouts as well.
Maybe my POV is overly influenced by the fact that half the Presidential elections from the time I was 10 to the time I was 30 were blowouts, but it’s hard for me to think of them as a historical rarity. Especially when you go back another nine elections, and you add five or six more blowouts, depending on whether you call Ike’s 1956 margin a blowout. (I would.) So that’s eight or nine blowouts in a 15-election stretch. That’s a lot of blowouts.
They are rare now, of course, but that’s another story.
Rose Judson
@rikyrah: Good god, you’d get laughed out of the writers’ room if you tried to get that plot twist put into a TV script.
Geminid
The race to succeed Rep. Abigail Spanberger made national news in a weird way. Republican candidate Derrick Anderson’s campaign posted a photo of Anderson with a woman and three happy children posed just like a typical candidate family pic. But Anderson is single and these were a friend’s wife and kids. Rolling Stone reported on this and now DougJballoon has posted on it. Eugene Vindman, the Democratic candidate in the Seventh, has not commented and likely will not I think.
But Vindman did post abotut a canvassing event where Delegate Joshua Cole participated, and that was a good thing.
Last November, when Vindman and VoteVets staged a shock-and-awe campaign launch, Cole wondered who Vindman was and noted that he had never seen Vindman in the district. Then, various Vindmans jumped on Cole and that excited a small brouhaha. But now it appears the candidate and the 35 year-old Delegate have patched things up.
The 7th stretches along the I-95 corridor from Dumfries south to Fredericksburg and west to the Blue Ridge, with two thirds of its population living near I-95. Spanberger won by 4.2% in 2022, and Republicans consider it a potential pickup.
wjca
But does it protect conversations from before they were married? The lawyers may know, but to this non-lawyer is seems like an utter abuse of the concept. If it’s allowed, I forsee lots of criminals diving into marriages of convenience.
Fortunate that, in this case, they’re not reactionary Republicans. So the current Supreme Court (if they somehow got there) won’t automatically protect them.
Baud
@Geminid:
Maybe they’re swingers.
TBone
Regarding the NYC plot twist, of course Jane’s Addiction came to mind. But I found this delightful video 🎶 over at Susie Madrak’s
https://youtu.be/N8hSQ1hfOkQ
Villago Delenda Est
Dear Magic:
Shut up and dribble
Signed, Tucker Carlson.
Geminid
@Baud: There are a lot of jokes, the most common being, “That may not be Anderson’s wife but how do we know those aren’t his kids?”
Vindman has a good national network and VoteVets is promoting him heavily, so he’s got a big war chest. But he and his brother Alexander attract a lot of animus because of their role in the first Trump Impeachment, so Anderson is getting hate donations but still has raised much less.
I haven’t heard ads for either candidate, but it looks like Spanberger is emptying her Congressional office account because i keep hearing ads about constituents she’s helped and encouraging people to contact her office if they need a hand. Spanberger gets in a few words at the end. She’s running for Governor next year and is getting her name out in Northern Virginia
She seems to be fairly well-known in Central Virginia already. At least, my friends in Charlottesville all know about Spanberger and they usually pay little attention to politicians outside their district. They all like her too, even though they run from moderate to very liberal.
TBone
Oops wrong thread
Msb
@Bupalos: well said.
Msb
@TBone: I’m so sorry to hear this and hope you get good news from the vet.
Ksmiami
@TBone: my husky had something like this several years ago so I gave him plain yogurt and chicken and rice w carrots for a week and whatever it was went away
The Lodger
@Geminid: All Eugene Vindman has to do is make another ad with Alex and say, “This is really my brother.”
Geminid
@The Lodger: Eugene Vindman seems like a decent candidate. I wasn’t sure if he had retail politicking skills but he seems to do Ok. At least, he gets around and his social media posts show him listening intently to to district residents at various community functions.
VoteVets is sponsoring some events, and this is a veteran-heavy district with a lot of active-service military as well. Vindman is a retired JAG lawyer who served with the Infantry before the Army sent him to law school. Anderson was Green Beret and earned a law degree at Georgetown after he left the Army. Vindman is a SUNY-Binghampton grad, while Anderson is a Virginia Tech grad which is worth some votes around here.
The district is mostly new because of redistricting; 30% of voters were in the old 7th CD and 70% were in the 5th and 10th CDs to the north. I live in the southwestern corner of the 7th, which used to be in the 5th. Plus, there a lot of people new to the area itself. Vindman’s financial edge could help here. I expect I’ll start hearing Vindman ads soon on WTOP, the DC all-news station.
Bill Arnold
@TBone:
They [P2025 authors who use the phrase “climate change alarm industry”] should be pithed kept separated from the levers of power by any means necessary and sufficient. (If they died in a fire I would smile.)
divF
@Jeffg166: I froze about 10 lbs of fresh pitted cherries during the height of the season a couple of months ago. I think you’ve just told me how I’m going to use some of them. More will go into puff pastry filling (the latter is also sitting in the freezer).
Bill Arnold
@bbleh:
It’s cover for the real observation spacecraft. (Stealthed, but operating such that no observers see occultations is increasingly difficult; camera density is increasing rapidly.)
Geminid
@Bill Arnold: Last year I when I was looking up Ukraine news on Twitter, I would follow anti-Ukraine commenters back to their Twitter accounts in order to get an idea of where they were coming from. I found that many of them warned about the “Climate Hoax.” A lot of them were also into crypto-currency, and a lot were anti-vaccers too. A sort of “Know Nothing” coalition with a lot of organized influence supporting it, I think.
Another Scott
@Omnes Omnibus: Thank for the correction.
I hope the bigger point I was trying to make stands (that many members of Congress and certain judges are more than happy to ignore the plainly-stated purpose while turning their favorite cultural touchstone into a third rail to try to stand in the way of promoting progress).
Cheers,
Scott.
moops
ugh. canvasing voters in Pittsburgh. remarkable how disengaged people are.
Jeffro
Rep Clark is one of Froette’s favorites, and she HOWLED when I relayed the “we don’t trust JD to get donuts” remark to her. =)
Back from OC folks and lemme tell ya, I have NEVER been so waterlogged in all my life. Holy cow.
Jeffro
ie, homeschool kids with their RWNJ parents standing right next to them as they take the “poll”
“tell ’em again how you don’t want no ‘woke’ in the White House, Jedediah!”
Geminid
@Jeffro: There’s more rain coming tomorrow, I heard up to 2 inches here, then more on Monday.
Bill Arnold
@Geminid:
This is generally a good idea with any twitter account. It used to be possible to use twint (a tool) to grab a hundred tweets of tweet text to skim, but Musk broken that.
A few days ago I replied politely to an anti-Ukraine sea-lion on twitter/X, after first determining that they were firmly neo-Nazi or closely adjacent; that was my choice in this instance.
Jeffro
@Geminid: I’m good with it coming here…’cause I’ll be indoors, instead of standing around at an outdoor music festival going, “wow, I am DRENCHED!”
anyway…here’s hoping it goes well, flooding is limited, people stay safe, etc.
Ruckus
@Freemark:
They are the party of screw everyone besides us – a lot. And even screw those in their party that don’t have the money to live like they do only slightly less.
So the party of the monied assholes.
Geminid
@Jeffro: That’s too bad. If you want a nice dry place to go on a weekend, check out the Green Valley Book Fair over in Mount Crawford. It’s a nice ride this time of year.
Ruckus
@Nukular Biskits:
I was born in Los Angeles a rather long time ago and have lived in NorCal, in South Carolina, have traveled to 48 of the states (not to Alaska or Wyoming) and am back in SoCal. As crowed as it is, it is still a very nice place to live.