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Yeah I think anything mirroring the ongoing research event from last season is paywalled. They may be at a point where they're doubling down on whales to maintain their profits.

Sinema avoided a primary by disaffiliating with the party, but if she runs she'll have a Democratic opponent in the general election. https://www.politico.com/news/2023/01/23/gallego-bid-sinema-senate-run-2024-00078976

yeah lightning gotta strike twice, first to trigger the encounter and then again to overcome the catch rate feels a bit like a chore tbh

The article says the Wikipedia page was last updated in 2011.

congrats reg date twin

How rare is kecleon? I saw one at the airport two weeks ago that I whiffed and it ran away, and I haven't seen one since.

Speaking of which, he's also a movie star: https://variety.com/2023/politics/news/george-santos-anthony-devolder-hannah-montana-kitara-revache-1235497159/

https://twitter.com/CongressmanRaja/status/1616165071230767104

it's alito bit suspicious

lol imagine only having a couple-seat majority and immediately after one guy is out with serious injuries, you end proxy voting https://twitter.com/SpeakerMcCarthy/status/1616054040068071424

https://twitter.com/SCOTUSblog/status/1616154337335443493

https://twitter.com/kkondik/status/1615895437562478595

one member out of commission tbd, one member is "Kitara Ravache" such a super extra-thin majority heading into the debt ceiling fight now imagine if Buchanan rage quit entirely because he got rat-rucked out of ways & means

https://twitter.com/tarapalmeri/status/1615375513375105024

Kari Lake: the perfect candidate for a three-way race https://twitter.com/yvonnewingett/status/1615090660348133377

Laxalt had probably the best chances out of the whole gang just based on candidate quality, but NV was a rare statewide ticket-splitter with the Republicans flipping the Governor's office and losing the Senate. I don't think that discrepancy can be accounted for by a lack of investment alone.

Murkowski is an active, incumbent member of his conference (in a state that routinely votes for moderates over partisans - Peltola, the 2010 Murkowski write-in, governors, coalition conferences in the statehouse). You don't sacrifice actual for potential. Especially when the potential is crazy dogshit-tier quality. The whole narrative of this past cycle was that Democrats stayed home but independents showed up and voted for moderates, and the crazies all severely underperformed. Throwing Murkowski under the bus to gamble on Blake fucking Masters (or Herschel Walker) was never the rational gambler's choice. McConnell was the only stakeholder on either side whose predictions weren't embarrassed by the end results, and because he's always playing the long game (keeping in mind in the immediate term the Senate minority is the only minority conference with a veto), it frankly sets them up for a healthier, functionable majority in the better-than-not odds that they flip the chamber in 2024 because they don't have to take ownership of the extremism and crazy (and whatever Herschel Walker is). Imagine if Roy Moore beat Doug Jones in the special - yes they wouldn't have lost the seat for the rest of the cycle but there'd have been an extra year and a half of Senate Republicans having to own an actual pedophile in the public conscious every single day. It's like that, without the baggage they can focus on the offense against Tester, Manchin, Brown etc.

I remember working tangentially on deepfake issues a couple years ago and that was super landmark. Whether or not something is legal or regulated doesn't indicate whether its moral or ethical, particularly when it's something so new that the lawmaking process hasn't caught up to it yet (or that the relevant stakeholders haven't negotiated an agreement on a bill for the legislature to pass). I don't really know the status of deepfake laws across the country currently, but whether there are statutes or judicial precedents on the books, it's still all super new and subject to change. Same thing here.

what if the messaging turns into "they planted classified documents to justify a fake special counsel in order to block us from investigating them"

Schumer will do whatever he can to try to help conservative Manchin win reelection in conservative WV, including in a primary, just like McConnell did whatever he could to save idiosyncratic moderate Murkowski in idiosyncratic moderate Alaska.

Re special counsel: lol

These discoveries are going to get more fast and furious in the coming years. On top of better ability to spot exoplanets, we now have the tech to determine the chemical compositions of their atmospheres just by looking at their light wavelengths with the Webb telescope. Legit like the smelloscope from Futurama.

by... protecting their members...