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Early voting surges in battleground states as Democrats outpace GOP gains
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outpacing 2018 in total ballots cast so far, but not by percentage of registered voters, which I guess means millions more eligible voters have registere here since. But nearly tripling Democratic primary ballots cast since 2024 and more than double 2018 is a good sign.
https://www.houstonchronicle.com/projects/2026/texas-midterms-early-voting-turnout/
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Trump again invokes claim he has the ‘right’ to run for third term as president
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the legal hippthesis hypothesis is for the house to vote him in as speaker of the house and then the figurehead president and VP resign.
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Republican Mayor Physically Charges at Resident as He Loses It
well the left made him do it. so the violence is their fault. obvious, really.
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Days Before Midterms, US Supreme Court Lets New Hampshire Bar Student IDs for Voting
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Most US states have a voter ID law.
https://www.ncsl.org/elections-and-campaigns/voter-id
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voter_identification_laws_in_the_United_States
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Trump Asked Google To Rename Atlantic Ocean ‘Trump Ocean’
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surely he would rename it to District of Trump. Washington, DT.
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What movie terrified you as a child? Or what character?
The Crate, from Creepshow.
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Justice Elena Kagan accuses Supreme Court’s conservative majority of undermining democracy
She said the loud part out loud?
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Hugging Face CEO warns that Netflix's OpenAI hack documentary isn't accurate
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Natural language searches in Google worked much better before A I than they do now.
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Yo, I’m at the pizza place. Y’all want anything?
He's dating Pizza Tran
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Stone Deaf FX is Closing
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I personally go for the dedicated way pedal. I do occasionally use the tone knobs on the guitar, but I'd need an extra hand to replace a wah pedal with the knobs! 😅
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DOJ’s “Noncitizen Voters” List Filled With People Born in America
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I'm having a problem with the vote counter, sir.
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US bars Microsoft, Adobe, and major IT firms from green card program for skilled foreign workers | TechCrunch
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It just depends on which "Americans" for whom you're expecting them to do a good job. The effects you're predtwill probably make quarterly Lines Go Up, and therefore are good for a targeted subset of Americans.
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Plex vulnerabilities being exploited in the wild to drop a cryptominer
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The fragility of local streaming without internet, even with a lifetime pass, is why I left Plex.
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Is there a really premium/good sleeping mask/blindfold with Bluetooth?
what Bluetooth feature(s) do you want in a sleeping mask?
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As Republicans face scary midterm polls, Ted Cruz blames ‘transgender witches’
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Why not Zoidberg?
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Former TX House Speaker Is Latest Republican To Cast Doubt On Anti-Trans Ads, Says They’re “Not Resonating”
Sure would be nice if a current rep was saying this.
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Is there a really premium/good sleeping mask/blindfold with Bluetooth?
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In for a pound en junk
oh, yeah I get that.
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When No ID Means No Internet: Age Verification and the Right to Access Information
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Specialized forums still exist.
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When No ID Means No Internet: Age Verification and the Right to Access Information
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corporate owned and centralized social media is a net negative.
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TIL the US Military operates a massive non-profit "socialist" grocery chain called the Commissary. It is taxpayer-subsidized and sells goods at cost
During the first year of Obama's first term, with the push for the ACA, conservative pundit Bill Kristol got trapped by Jon Stewart into admitting the US government can run a first class health care program, but only for the soldiers because the rest of the public doesn't deserve it.
