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KS has judicial retention elections and all but one on the high court are up for retention. Their next step is going to be to try to vote them all out to force a remake of the court to overturn the 2019 decision the old fashioned way. Party's not over unfortunately.

They intentionally scheduled the referendum for primary day (when there were only high profile GOP races) instead of the general election because they thought it would help them sweep the vote.

They followed in Gorsuch's footsteps, which he did probably just to show "hey, extreme textualism isn't inherently GOP conservative I'm totally not a hack you guys"

"An oil-field worker and alleged recruiter for the far-right Three Percenters militia, Reffitt is said to have driven from Texas to Washington DC and led fellow Three Percenters up the main staircase to the Capitol building. "According to court papers, he had told fellow members of the militia that he planned to drag US House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi out of the Capitol building by her ankles, "with her head hitting every step on the way down". totally not a failed insurrection (***colloquially speaking) though

I didn't know there was a shiny variant until after thale fact. I coughed up coins for remote passes and did the six raids I can see from home, because I couldn't be bothered to leave the house but now I have no coins. I'm undecided on the new incense feature. The spawns I got in the couple days before the weekend seemed generic and not different from the regular spawns (though I'm aware the hsuian birds are in the pool). The share feature seems a bit over the top. Is there any reason to cram to catch 20 incense spawns in one go?

happy birthday jayrider take it easy

AC stopped being cold and started being smelling funny. rip

Please keep pisspants drama out of my thread.

I think the coalition met the urgency of their shared goal in 2018/2020. The problem is once they accomplished their shared vision (Trump out) and they faxed a blank slate, their differences started to outweigh their facial commonalities. Then the build back butthole type fiascos make more sense.

I mean I don't have like a written job posting. But think like cross-folder, "general" community bona fides, can be trusted with user data, values some degree of continuity/staff collaboration but also has some new energy/ideas, closes the toilet lid when they're done peeing so the cat doesn't accidentally take a swim trying to get up to the window, etc. It's not urgent (especially if the self-run groups take some of the burden on katt and I) but there's a few people I've got an eye on not just for this question but in terms of helpers/mods/volunteers in general. This transition is giving us an opportunity to work with more/new people on all sides and get a better sense of who is interested in the community generally, so we'll see. It's a slow-burn thing.

I've been looking for someone credible/neutral who might have interest for like three years. katt everytime someone nominates her without asking her first:

i want to post pictures too

She did not testify that Donald Trump choked out his driver. She testified that she was told a story, and no one has refuted that she was told that story under oath. The facts of the story don't speak to the honesty of the witness, it's a secondhand retelling. It doesn't matter whether the story she was told that she is retelling was presented to her literally or hyperbolically, what matters is that she said she was told a story by one firsthand witness as to his state of mind (that he intended to go and was upset that he was stopped) and that a second firsthand witness did not dispute it at the time of the telling. The literal facts of the story are irrelevant, the corroborated facts about his known state of mind are what's important, given he went back and sat in the dining room alone watching it on TV for the next two hours with no phone records while Mike Pence and all of Congress were evacuated, some evading "seditious conspirators who hadn't met the necessary triggers yet to be labeled insurrectionists" by meters or seconds (aka why it's just a failed insurrection/seditious conspiracy). The materially relevant aspects of the story she retold (i.e. his state of mind, his intent, and the denial) were corroborated by multiple more witnesses per the last committee hearing, and we've also discovered the Secret Service mysteriously lost all their records of that specific timeframe.

happy birthday ric

proud to say that I hit 2.5 of my 4 benchmarks

I don't think "disarray" is the right framing. The coalitions I think are contextually different, in part because the Electoral College and geographical advantages minimize what Republicans need to win while maximizing what Democrats need to win. So that means like the Republican coalition is much narrower, because it only needs a smaller cohort to win power, and is more effectively purging it's outlying members because it can. Meanwhile the Democratic coalition is a much broader tent, so it's always prone to a lot of natural disagreement but everyone needs to stay in that tent to break even. There are localized examples of "disarray", like GA statewides will be real interesting to see how Republican voters act, given Kemp and Raffensperger are probably more dangerous to maga than a Democrat Trumpistas can easily vilify. But I think the Mastriano-type GOP Christian Nationalist candidate is going to be the new norm more and more.

I heard on the radio that the Ukrainians damaged the major bridge crossing on the Dnipro River that Russia uses to supply the Kherson urban area. Not totally destroyed, but unable to shuttle military supply convoys to the west bank. As Russia grinds its way through in the northeast, I think this is probably where there will be a lot of activity soon, fighting for the western bank.

the follow-up will be that they were also trying to find a way to write off the sandwiches as a charitable donation

was the boy Ukrainian? then the Russian robot has a motive

I cleaned out the sidebar now that it's resolved, so as not to distract from the actual topic carry on edit: i posted this before i realized someone moved it to GD, i put it back in CE

That one was 120 pages long and had a bunch of drama in it, I'd rather you make a clean v3 if that's cool

I don't know if I actually touched the grass or not

rules that I definitely didn't break, right? RIGHT???? I went to a yankees game once around that same time period. and I fell asleep a couple innings in and woke up when it was time to go.

one time (of the three times) I hit the ball, i was running from first to second and the other kid had picked up the ball and just stood there and looked at me smugly. so with my expert knowledge of the rules at the time (which was just something like "the running part is tag but it's the ball that's "it"), I brilliantly just stepped around him, stepped back, and kept running as he continued to just stand there and not touch me with the ball. when I made it back to home plate, the coach said something like "good job, but don't do that" and I was legitimately pissed because i strongly felt i definitely did the right and correct thing in the absence of any additional information.

when i did junior pee wee, i caught the ball once except instead of my glove, i caught it with my eye socket