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I watched today's Nintendo direct. Idk, maybe I'm at a point in life where I can't keep up anymore. I feel like the switch 1 could have five more years of life in it. I was real intrigued that their way to prevent scalpers is to open up pre-orders first to Nintendo online subscribers with a certain threshold of game activity. Probably more intrigued about that than having to start over a whole console.

It was the global covid eco penalty combined with the biden-too-old. Just enough people stayed home.

Idk that this is what he had in mind when he declared today was liberation day

for supporting LGBT rights, the usual

Mallory McMorrow running for US Senate in Michigan. She went viral in 2022 responding to a Republican calling her a groomer, and she was important in helping flip the MI Senate to Dem control in the 2022 elections.

case dismissed with prejudice https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/mayor-eric-adams-case-dismissed-prejudice-despite-trump/story?id=120410419

they are kind of leaning in on the voter ID passing and ignoring that they bombed out in the race https://www.newsweek.com/elon-musk-reacts-susan-crawford-winning-wisconsin-supreme-court-election-brad-schimel-2053978

They're still contesting the NC court seat that the Dem incumbent won in November

republicans won this though

MEANWHILE IN THE HOUSE https://thehill.com/homenews/house/5226248-house-cancels-votes-gop-rebellion/

how about this then

This is the House, so the seats are up every two years. The takeaway though is that the Republicans are horrendously underperforming in specials by like over 15 points, meaning anything they won be less than 15 points is at risk prior to the midterms. I would assume, all things equal, that they won't perform as poorly in the actual midterms but it's still a terrible data point for that party for the next year and 7 months until then. It's gonna yo-yo back and forth as random counties' results are added in. Saw that Milwaukee is telling people to stay in line while they can print more ballots, so that won't even be counted until the end. Best to just check in in a couple hours, unless you just drip feed off the tension.

FL repubs were sounding the alarm and the national party jumped in at the last minute

Their standard 30-point margins were cut in half:

here's the link https://www.senate.gov/legislative/floor_activity_pail.htm he just beat the strom thurmond record so it won't be much longer

yeah martyring this guy seems like a brilliant idea

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/01/us/politics/maryland-man-deportation-error-el-salvador.html

Biden was president tho

https://www.newsweek.com/louisiana-voters-jeff-landry-constitutional-amendments-2052722

we haven't talked about it since last time this issue came up last Trump term and it wasn't a super serious/in-depth Convo but at the time KN wasn't going to host the site if he was liable for anything anyone said ever

if section 230 goes, so too goes us

How long until they actually say the title of the game on sale, because they know the title won't draw eyeballs

This is an absolute fucking disaster https://www.npr.org/2025/03/28/nx-s1-5343963/trump-firings-board-members-appeals-court