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If there's a way to test for competency without public humiliation, that'd probably be the way to do it. People age differently and I just don't think it's fair to set an arbitrary cut-off. NY has a 150 year old requirement to kick judges off the bench when they hit 70 years old, but judges on the state Court of Appeals and state Supreme Court can apply to an administrative review board to continue to serve in two-year increments until they're permanently cut off when they hit 76 years old. I think that 70 years old is an embarrassingly low cut-off (particularly for a judge), but there is a routine process to recertify the older judges in that 70-76 range.

I am conceptually opposed to term limits and age limits for different reasons (though i bounce back and forth a lot), but leaving it as is requires politicians and judges to be more willing to step in when their colleague is clearly unable to adequately perform their job.

IN THE LAUNDRY ROOM

https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2023/09/29/congress/stopgap-fails-00119129

How do people feel about ranks? The ASMB ones were supposed to be a limited run. The pre-IPB UEMB ranks are still in the system unthreaded. We could do something different. Or we could go back to special ranks only.

Wouldn't be surprised if Gavin Newsom appoints or announces a replacement today. Edit: ok, maybe not today - that's probably too soon. But like by next week. I feel like I read somewhere that Republicans have to approve replacing her on the now-deadlocked Judiciary Committee. Which unless Mitt Romney has a "I believe in comity and I'm retiring anyways" moment, means the judicial confirmation train goes back to relying on Kamala to break every single procedural tie vote.

I think when we got our candy it was still in the wrapper

I don't have a more appropriate place to share this https://twitter.com/mkraju/status/1707169355648127096?s=20

Why would they need a new trade organization? I would think the MPA would handle the issue. Is there anything precluding streamers from joining the MPA? Not really sure the employer-side politics.

https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2023/09/27/sen-tuberville-says-military-not-equal-opportunity-employer.html

The Senate passed a bipartisan stopgap bill but McCarthy feels compelled to ignore it while his conference fails to agree on a bill of their own. https://thehill.com/homenews/house/4225849-mccarthy-told-conference-he-wont-allow-vote-on-senate-stopgap-gop-lawmakers/

Happy birthday maiden! @theironmaiden

Are they going to wait for SAG-AFTRA to resolve or are they starting immediately?

But wait - there's more! https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/russian-black-sea-commander-shown-working-after-ukraine-said-it-killed-him-2023-09-26/

🔥 https://twitter.com/SenFettermanPA/status/1706688702422880672?s=20

Since Fetterman, Dem Senators Brown, Welch, Baldwin, and Tester have all joined the call to resign. Welch is another '22 freshman and Brown, Baldwin, and Tester are all up in '24 so it kind of makes sense so far. Edit: apparently Sens Casey, Warren, and Rosen too. I think the floodgates are open. Edit x2: I stopped looking for names but just saw the headline that Corey Booker also joined the list, which is relevant because he's NJ's other US Senator.

are you the Nigerian prince

So a few days ago, Ukraine launched a big missile strike that took out the Black Sea Fleet's HQ in Sevastopol. Ukraine announced that they took out 34 Russian officers in the strike, including Admiral Viktor Sokolov, the commander of the Black Sea Fleet. https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/ukraine-says-russian-black-sea-fleet-commander-killed-no-comment-by-moscow-2023-09-25/

https://twitter.com/JohnFetterman/status/1706336631383343568?s=20

Menendez not resigning, which is not exactly a surprise. https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/sen-bob-menendez-facing-corruption-charges-rebuffs-calls/story?id=103463381

https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/business/story/2023-09-24/writers-strike-over-wga-studios-reach-deal-actors

the story about the un-green-let series finale is absurd https://www.vice.com/en/article/nn9d9b/nickelodeons-angry-beavers-nearly-ended-by-making-the-main-characters-realize-they-were-going-to-die-922

https://twitter.com/erikka2ks08/status/1705602169431310621?s=20

this is *just* today so far

Fetterman is the first Dem Senator to call for resignation. https://twitter.com/SenFettermanPA/status/1705662182434734108?s=20