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Ken Buck signed the Democrats' Ukraine Aid discharge petition before his resignation took effect, and his signature counts until his replacement is elected.

because they hate it

I amend my above post by subtracting one more repub

With Buck gone after today, the GOP has like a two seat majority. The next special election is Tim Kennedy (D) from NY at the end of April, with two GOP seats to be filled later in May and June. So the GOP conference isn't going to swiftly replace him. I'd expect either another months-long shitshows, or Johnson cuts a deal with them Dems to get us through the year. Longer shot would be a Dem-controlled House.

happy birthday @thee2TONfist and @UncomfortableGoatee your mum must have been so proud to have twins

In 2019, NYS pass the farmworker fair labor practices bill or whatever it is called after 30 years of attempts going nowhere. The farmers are still fighting the rollout, claiming that requiring farmer workers be paid minimum wage and overtime etc. will drive up costs and put them out of business. I don't doubt that it will drive up costs, but at the same time, if agricultural output costs what it does because farmworker are paid substandard wages to work 7-day weeks with no time off etc., that just says to me that we've been paying a discount on our food that subsidized by the laborers themselves. Which is really, genuinely unjust. Even moreso when many of these workers are villainized as "illegals" despite being the only ones willing to do the work for that pay. So then it begs the question - what is the real cost of food? How much more is it really worth, and how many more people would be unable to afford the true cost? And you can work that up the supply chain. How much more would restaurant food cost if you were charged the real cost of the food and restaurant workers weren't also paid a sub-minimum wage subsidized by tips? If every worker through the process were paid what they're worth, food prices would shoot up and I don't think the added economic activity created by raising those wages and benefits would cancel it out. It would really force us to reevaluate our economic relationship to food and how we make it affordable across the economic spectrum. But as long as farmworkers are treated as second class - like in our own labor laws, we continue to put that conversation off.

I think there is definitely room out there for a conversion about the "real" cost of food to the extent that food prices are artificially low due to the underpayment of labor, from the farm to the restaurant.

i am gonna snog @romana

happy birthday seight! our pride and joy

Putin wins election with 87% of the vote. Also:

hindsight-when-it-no-longer-matters is 20-20

happy birthday @KH868 don't conquer us in the robot revolution

very happy you got your money back very unhappy to have to think about the chair of justice

happy birthday doomer

i am flopped on the bed and there are two cats within inches of my head and my butt that we weren't here before me

relevant

Happy birthday @Neko!

i have a pokemon trainer account because my gmail is tied to the original account I used for a literal day at launch and the only way to untether it also blacklists the email from the game. too annoyed to use a burner gmail.

happy birthday @BunnyBomber!

To run in the special for the rest of the 2024 term, yes. But she's rolling the dice on only running in the primary for the general election.

She announced today that she's not running in the special to not resign her seat, but still running in the primary. Polis scheduled the special for the same day as the primary for the general elelction, which is a thing that frequently happens in this situation. Realistically, the winner of the special and the primary are typically the same person. It's possible for a split where someone wins race A and she wins race B, but not likely. https://coloradosun.com/2024/03/13/lauren-boebert-special-election-ken-buck/

Woah woah woah she has to resign her seat to join the special election?

... technically... that is worse than someone too comfortable to socialize in the bathroom

i just open them with my camera i think?

States can exempt themselves from dst but they can't exempt themselves from standard time, Florida wants dst for tourism market.