Raptorpat

phillies was definitely a unique brand of energy

yes Fran Drescher is the current president of SAG-AFTRA

SAG-AFTRA is circulating a petition. As of right now at 9,969 signatures out of a 10k goal.

ftfy

tangential to the war, there was a massive multi-country prisoner swap between Russia, US, and others. https://x.com/POTUS/status/1819035443930800616

he immediately began by pointing out they were a half hour late because they couldn't get their equipment running, but allegedly it's because there was a half hour standoff over whether the journalists could real-time fact check

I watched the full 34 minutes (the trump team cut the hour quite a bit short) and it was pretty hostile I think the "open air" racism campaign begins today

yerite

https://x.com/wontpacdown/status/1817953425558270183

Slightly different. NY requires the state constitutional convention ("concon") ballot question every 20 years. It started out with general public support, our state constitution is horribly long with a lot of old/outdated/irrelevant content. But there are a lot of important protections in there too so all the institutional stakeholders from across the spectrum universally opposed it and collectively ran scorched earth campaigns against it.

There are several conservative efforts to trigger a constitutional convention that are surprisingly far along, the plan being to take advantage of the fact that post-2010 Republicans have controlled a disproportionate amount of state legislatures. Here's an article from 2022: https://www.businessinsider.com/constitutional-convention-conservatives-republicans-constitution-supreme-court-2022-7

now HERE's the nightmare fuel https://www.commoncause.org/our-work/constitution-courts-and-democracy-issues/article-v-convention/

Fox News interview didn't go well https://x.com/harryjsisson/status/1818030161734025467/

Roy Cooper out of the veepstakes https://x.com/RoyCooperNC/status/1818080476273201442

A. 2/3 of both houses of Congress propose an amendment, and then 3/4 of state legislatures ratify the amendment B. 2/3 of state legislatures vote to convene a constitutional convention

the terms would be staggered, so one seat would become vacant every two years like clockwork. haven't seen any proposal text itself, just the Biden WaPo op-ed, so not sure how the transition would work. would be funny it they just phased out the next longest-serving justice every two years until the cycle completes, in which case the first three out the door would be Thomas, Roberts, and Alito.

happy birthday ric

happy birthday @jayrider128 now let's all get in line to bite your shiny metal ass

https://x.com/selina_dedalus/status/1817624852276424868

happy belated birthday @renjifan and @Mini_ghost420

Aktshually that's the French flag

https://x.com/Scaramucci/status/1816928720894169307

https://x.com/JaxPeel/status/1816644750855807295

I didn't think his oval office speech was halting, I just had to jack the volume up from 16 to 50 to hear him