Raptorpat

Dem enthusiasm may very well drop down to earthly levels after the convention and Trump's campaign may find a way to unflip the canoe, but don't count out nothing changing and the bottom completely falling out from under the Trump campaign. The dream there would be "ex-Senator" Ted Cruz.

If I fully comprehend, assuming the Grad PLUS loans aren't eligible and I only count the backlog interest on my direct unsubsidized loans, it would still be about $10.5K in forgiveness based on my current balance. A few K more if the capitalized interest that converted into principal counts too.

https://studentaid.gov/manage-loans/forgiveness-cancellation/debt-relief-info

good news

https://x.com/NateBlanchett/status/1821616354371289569

the article you linked said something like 6K soldiers, so that's serious manpower

Happy birthday @Yumudas Beegbut!

I fell asleep listening to his press conference, and my brain woke me up because it heard the reporters asking him a question and thought there were people in the office

https://www.marquette.edu/news-center/2024/new-marquette-law-poll-national-survey-finds-harris-leading-trump-and-outperforming-biden-against-trump.php

analysis here: https://understandingwar.org/backgrounder/russian-offensive-campaign-assessment-august-7-2024

https://abcnews.go.com/US/despite-new-criticism-trump-told-walz-2020-happy/story?id=112616502

under-discussed race from yesterday's primaries: The incumbent flipped this conservative seat in 2022 through a combination of a moderate campaign, an arch-conservative opponent (who took the incumbent R's slot in the open-party primary), and 2022 being a Dem-leaning election cycle. And Marie Gluesenkamp Perez is going to face that same arch-conservative again. Assuming these numbers hold, she'll have won the open primary with just under half the votes which puts her in a great spot to hold the seat in November.

I'm not actually sure why, tbh. I don't think he didn't express interest, he was one of the three finalists who did an in-person interview. If he wasn't interested he'd have pulled a Cooper and dropped out of the running early.

From everything I read, the real choice was between Shapiro and Walz, and Kelly was a distant third but ahead of all the other contenders.

fetterman apparently said as much to the campaign team beforehand, does that make him antisemitic

happy birthday @SnapItCrackItPopIt!

lol https://www.military.com/daily-news/2024/08/06/tim-walz-who-spent-decades-enlisted-soldier-brings-years-of-work-vets-issues-dem-ticket.html

ok

https://x.com/IATSE/status/1820922924850708755