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There are like a dozen candidates, largely all credible. There is no incentive for anyone to drop out because the primary is ranked choice, and because it's an odd-year election so barely anyone has to give up one office to run for another. But it creates the problem that they're still all sucking oxygen from each other in the media.

sorry

kid won a slot in the pre-K lottery

happy birthday @JehutyNinja and/or @Judy

happy birthday @no members to show!

I think on lithium you could delete as long as there were no direct replies, i'd be fine if it did that

we had an issue where OPs nuked entire threads by deleting their original post, I don't think they ever reprogrammed that

there's an argument to be made that because the federal appellate courts are divided into circuits and below that they are divided into districts, an emergency injunction pre-trial should only apply to that judge's own district

Republicans spent four years going to the same judge in some podunk corner of Texas over and over to get national injunctions to stop Biden policies and now they've suddenly decided turnabout isn't fair play.

Summary of the mixed bag of proposals that might go into the Republican tax bill: https://www.npr.org/2025/05/12/nx-s1-5389644/trump-student-loan-program-forgiveness-overhaul

Yeah, NY has "fusion voting" which means candidates can run on as many ballot lines and be endorsed by as many parties as they want. Want to run on a line with a gimmicky name? Just gotta collect the petitions and you can!

Trump endorsed Lawler and Blakeman for re-election despite their interest in a gubernatorial bid to clear the way for Stefanik.

the short of it is that fast-track totalitarian overhauls tend to backfire monkeypaw style Mao's "great leap forward" probably led to more human death and suffering than any other single event in history

He's running in the Dem primary and on an independent line. Adams isn't even bothering with the primary, just running on his own made up line.

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guys the election was literally six months ago

my undergrad capstone course was about various efforts by totalitarian governments to create utopias, and the dystopias that resulted