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Are you talking about the pre-invasion war? Or something else?

Action on... ethnic cleansing? I think that's conflating two issues.

To the extent that Ukrainians in the occupied/annexed territories are forcibly relocated and integrated into Russia, yes.

My understanding was that his goal was to fracture NATO prior so that it wouldn't get involved in his plan for regime change and/or annexation. But then it snapped back and clearly did get involved.

To be fair I think it 100% is a proxy war at this point, but I don't think that diminishes the agency of Ukraine.

nothing super-substantive but it appears Ukraine began the Kherson counteroffensive today.

rpgamer raises a fair issue to the extent we'd like to make the format enticing for lapsed users, so maybe it is worth the discussion in toonami-ville

Thanks MD! I apparently had two orders left so was able to lock that in.

The redirects self-delete after 30 days, but probably more applicable is that volunteers can toggle whether the redirect generates. This might be a "keep it off" context.

ANYWAYS Not technically a real 2022 cycle election, but entirely possible that Sarah Palin is so unpopular that the Dem candidate wins the ranked choice special election to finish Don Young's term in Alaska.

I had a follow-up post per rpgamer's suggestion that got wiped when I flipped between tabs (basically that I could envision ways to streamline discussion threads while keeping premieres single), but I was gonna say I had set up this thread in the Toonami club section to hash out internally how you guys want it to be structured to get the most value out of the folder: https://unevenedge.com/topic/58796-toonami-tune-up/

oh man you look so horrible in pink but yeah, I still haven't announced we're formally revamped yet with eblasts and social media posts etc., so if there are kinks to work out let's work'em out.

These are "bipartisan" commissions, not "non-partisan". So they're inherently trying to protect their own and boost their edge. In NY's case, one of the fatal flaws was that each party has equal representation and there was no way to break a deadlock. So the Dems proposed one thing, the GOP proposed another, and then when the two partisan plans were both voted down in the first round, the GOP commissioners just walked away rather than do a required second round of maps. The new process requires two rounds of commission maps before the legislature can do its own thing with a supermajority vote, and because the GOP commissioners left the table, there never was a second round before the legislature drew its own maps. If it sounds built-to-fail, it pretty much was. All that being said, there are a lot of philosophical questions regarding what makes a map good. Should all the districts be maximized to be competitive in the general election? Should districts be maximized to represent communities of interest? Like those are two basic questions, but given our practical realities they lead to completely opposite results.

Yeah it's a mess, and that's without even getting into the built-in implosion of the redistricting commission, where there was no way to break a partisan tie and the GOP representatives (one of which who was planning to run for state Senate himself) just walked away from the table. Almost like it was set up to fail so they could sue when the legislature inevitably stepped in... 🤔🤔

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SCOTUS never got involved in NY's lawsuits. The state Republican party sued over the Congressional and state Senate maps, and they forum shopped for a receptive judge by filing in Steuben County. That judge held that the congressional map was statistically an impermissible gerrymander and that supermajority Democrats impermissibly violated the new state redistricting process by overstepping the redistricting commission, and ordered the legislature adopt new maps with a bipartisan vote. The appeals court overturned in part, I think on the procedural violation (and also on the "bipartisan vote" remedy because that's not a real thing he could order), which would have locked in the Senate map and only required a rewrite of the Congressional map. So then it moves up to the actual Court of Appeals (that's NY's high court; the trial court is called the Supreme Court), and in a 4/3 decision written by the Chief Judge and Cuomo flunkie, they agree with the trial judge that the maps are constitutionally flawed due to the procedural and order a special master (it was an expert who worked on PA's maps) to redraw them both in a really short time frame. They say the Assembly map is procedurally flawed too but because the GOP never sued, it falls outside the scope of their authority to force a redraw. Anyways, the two maps were redrawn and the June primary was bifurcated - that's why Congress and state Senate primaries were yesterday. A separate suit was brought against the Assembly map and the courts said it was too late for this year but that map will get redrawn for the next cycle. On the whole, it was probably for the better from a precedent/good government standard, and I personally think the Senate map was a major improvement, but the practical impact was that incumbents were smushed together (like Nadler and C.Maloney) and everything is a painful mess. The other practical impact, on the Congressional level, is that instead of a 20D/4R/2 map, it's a 16D/6R/4 map. That's four pure swing seats in NY alone out of 40 seats nationally. In isolation, it is arguably a good thing in the long run. However, when you compare it with OH's legislature willfully disregarding it's high court (for an 11R/2D/2 map) and Florida's high court disregarding it's own caselaw (for an 18R/8D/2 map), its hard to feel like being forced to do something approximating the right thing isn't self-defeating. In your own case though, your new district is a few points more Republican than it was before.

oh pooh beat me

Nabs is right, charter schools are quasi-public, quasi-private schools. They're funded through public schools dollars, but they're unrestricted by all the obligations real public schools have (ex. teachers' union contracts, a legal obligation to teach kids). So for example, they can cut labor costs that real public schools can't, and they can kick out all the poor-performing students to goose their numbers. They can be an outlet for high achieving students in truly struggling districts, but it's basically to the detriment of everyone else in the system.

I'm testing plugging the main community clubs right into the forum list for convenience. Can you screencap what it looks like when you click on it, for science?

Using the outdoors seems nice when I'm stuck indoors, but my old-lady-palace was so overgrown that once I'm out there working in futility on reclaiming it I just kinda give up after a while. Protip: don't plant an aesthetically pleasing plant if it also happens to be an incredibly invasive vine with roots and shoots that span the entire property, because once you let it go it's already too late.

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In targeted races, yeah. But I don't believe the Dems were running any adds against her in her race. There'd be no point because there are like ten Democrats in Wyoming and half changed their registration to prop her up in her race.

I meant a kamikaze run in the general, not in the primary. But given her policies don't differ from her colleagues, I'd venture that that's because primary voters value tone and tribalism over actual policy.