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https://www.npr.org/2021/06/11/1004860843/moderate-democrats-flex-their-power-in-the-senate-making-progressives-impatient Who are the moderates? There is a small group of moderate Senate Democrats who have largely avoided choosing a side when it comes to eliminating the filibuster, which requires 60 votes to proceed on most legislation. But others object to partisan legislation on a case-by-case basis. Swing-state freshman Sen. Mark Kelly, D-Ariz., and Sen. Maggie Hassan, D-N.H. — both up for reelection next year — are among the few who have refused a position on the filibuster in recent months. Others, like Sens. Jon Tester, D-Mont., Chris Coons, D-Del., Tom Carper, D-Del., and Angus King, I-Maine, all voted against instituting a $15-an-hour federal minimum wage. Others have quietly avoided commitments on legislation such as the For the People Voting Rights Act and the finer details of the negotiations on an infrastructure package. Manchin and Sinema have given other Democrats who may share their views consistent political cover to dodge questions and refuse firm commitments on legislation. The razor-thin majority in the Senate means that as long as one Democrat is willing to publicly block a bill, nobody else has to join them unless they want to. ..... ^^^ There's plenty of Dems in the Senate who don't want to eliminate the filibuster bc they don't want to do all the things that they should be doing for us. They don't have to explicitly say any of that because Machine & Sinema are doing that loudly and proudly, so they can just sit back and chill and let them take all the heat, but even if the Dems had twelve more Senate seats (62) they would still not be able to pass good legislation w their filibuster-proof majority bc it isn't just those two who oppose any of the good things that might come out of eliminating the filibuster. Also...Joe Biden. Joe Biden opposes eliminating the filibuster. He isn't pressuring his Senate to get rid of it, not publicly. He says that he wants to reform it, to salvage it so we can still have a filibuster, and appears willing to sacrifice everything we want to protect it, waiting forever on ten good Republicans to show up and vote for the Democrats' agenda.

Happy birthday, zorak mothr

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My house including the walls is damn near covered in spiders and slugs. Can't put anything on the towel rack in the bathroom because it'll get coated in slug slime. Fuck

An extremely detailed and realistic Donald Trump mask and wig/costume. Gotta maximize my minutes

Any sugar-free chocolate treats?

Who is that?

Been rewatching What We Do in the Shadows lately before starting the new season. Is there a better show on tv? I don't think so.

My brain read BREAKING NEWS: Sniper

AEW makes me laugh a lot. Adam Cole with the fake rage against the machine theme song trying to be his group's x-pac. Never seen this guy before this but it's pretty funny how famous and immediately over he is, thinking about like people invested in WWE watching this going hrmm.... Black's entrance is much better without tony talking through it, but it was weird hearing complete silence from the 4 man booth for like 30 consecutive seconds since there's always constant chatter. They were clearly ordered not to speak during his entrance whatsoever the way talking ceased the moment it went to his music. I hope one time the lights come back on and Black is tripping in the dark or still scrambling to his spot. JR's endless fuckups are fine because they make me laugh, "RTF." His shitty attitude sometimes is also funny. Punk on commentary was pretty good, he seemed excited and talked a ton over the fozzy singalong and everything making a lot of jokes. So andrade is done with chavo and sticking with his other new manager named Jose who he threatens and abuses. Ok.. Is he going to get Ric Flair out of all this? Ric Tully Arn all on the same show... Tully is my favorite manager, just a very menacing, somewhat demented seeming old man who high fives his guys win or lose but either way he doesn't really have to do anything. Thinking about him fighting Sting in an actual match is hilarious these men are 60. RTF crushed that spike piledriver. Is the pinnacle over now..? That looked like a badly blown table spot. Excal tried to save it with "this is a lucite table" idk maybe. Why not just put him through it not-longways and just do a normal announcer table breaking spot. Kinda looked like shit. Punk is one thing but it is very surreal that Bryan Danielson is in AEW right now.

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For the first time I was a couple pounds under instead of a couple pounds over (one of the key weight thresholds that determine the volume of plasma they remove from you) so it went quicker since I didn't have to give as much. This would usually pay less as larger people are able to make more money per $ due to donating more plasma (and taking a longer time to do so) but for rn it was still a flat $100. Feels good to be helping people during a pandemic with my bodily fluids somehow, and I appreciate the opportunity for $ from a non labor employer. I have developed some "superficial thrombophlebitis" on the same ide of my body as my donor arm. These are several little red blood clots visible beneath the skin on my hands and feet. Just like little red dots. Google says it's usually fine and goes away without incident in a couple weeks and lists recent injections as a common cause. Slight risk of serious complications beyond that. I'm not going to worry about it. Might switch up and try the other side for some balance, just wanted to avoid scarring that arm but o well Couple dots on the heel of my foot that I had been sitting on

That show was so good. Norm was great in that setting, plus the freaky intern breakout character, all of it

My favorite thing about Al Snow is all the many jokes throughout Mick Foley's first book like "it was the worst pain I had ever felt while not watching an Al Snow match"

Gonna say probably not since there's like a million similar-looking Samoans in that family and he was 18 at the time and not at all involved in wrestling beyond his family connection. That is a very 2003 list of Sunday Night Heat All-Stars... Meeting Booker is cool though, at least.

Sounds like he earned himself some Head. Maybe it's just the name of the city that makes it memorable but it seems like WWE was there all the time back in the day. Like damn near every few months they were once again coming to you live from Wilkes-Barre, PA

I still think Bray is the natural choice to take control of the dark order and finally do something with it, unless they just plan on letting it dissolve its way back to just a tag team, which I also wouldn't have a problem with. Idk though, they already got Malachi Black doing that sort of character on his own, so giving the dark order to bray would provide him with a little more to do out the gate other than just being another brooding solo guy trying to jostle for position among this stacked roster. Can Tony Schiavone please just go away forever? Or at least off of commentary and just stick to microphone holding? Their commentary is pretty bad overall but he absolutely ruins it for me.

There's some rom hacks that explore some of these questions and scenarios, if you ever wanted to play a pokemon game with some weirder and darker stuff than Nintendo would ever allow

Mr Watts said law enforcement didn’t have the same tools at its disposal to fight domestic threats. “We developed an entire architecture that was focused on a group or relatively defined group, I should say, al Qaeda and then it spawned the Islamic State, so we had a terrorist designation. That we just do not have in the domestic space and it perplexes our ability because that brings up laws and procedures.” “It’s been the crux of the debate since January 6th; what are Americans, you know, willing to let American law enforcement do to protect them? It’s just not very clear,” he continued. ..... Jesus Christ this is terrifying. No, no more powers for cops, feds, and the surveillance state. Fuckin MSNBC loves having these FBI and CIA swamp goblins on, always to talk about how they need more power, more money, more weapons and tools to spy on and suppress people at home and abroad. Their "abilities" and operations need to be scaled far back, not this Do The War On Terror But Against "Radical" Americans bullshit. Anyone who thinks this will only be used against the right is dripping in clown paint. These people, these entities are not our friends, they have demonstrated this over and over

Yes and they both are, I just said that?

"The GOP has gone so far to the right since the days of W, Cheney, and Rumsfeld, Trump makes W Bush look like a bleeding heart liberal! What, just because Trump didn't start any new wars that means something? He's a racist! He's a far right wing nationalist who whipped Americans into a racist jingoistic furor during his presidency! Not like W Bush at all!!!"

....by the liberals.

Not painful at all except for the needle insertion. You have to keep the blood pumping by squeezing a foam rubber thing constantly so your hand might get pretty tired, but the more you do that the quicker it takes. If you just sit there and don't pump at all it takes twice as long.

Yeah it's totally predatory, always has been. $20-$100 for a plasma donation that is sold for hundreds or thousands. The Red Cross recommends donating plasma only once a month, but these places let you do it 2x a week with a day in between visits infinitely. There are regulars who come in and know all the nurses and have their usual chair. I read that frequent donors have lower quality plasma bc fewer proteins in the blood and stuff (this is something they prick your finger and test for before every donation), I'm sure those exploited lifers are less healthy in some intangible way because of all their many constant donations. I'm not really worried about it in the short term but yeah, it's not something I would do regularly for years. It's probably fine though.