I think this is an excellent idea. Red v. blue maps should basically be outlawed. Our lives are not a football game (one based on the Electoral College, yet.) Not to mention the problem of both parties having lost their traditional meanings and the large number of people who register as Independents.
The issues we’re facing are far bigger than any political party.
It’s why I’ll be a president for all Americans — Democrats, Republicans, and Independents alike — because I believe we must work together if we’re going to get anything done.
Voting after Sunday church services, known colloquially as “souls to the polls,” is a tradition in Black communities across the country, and Pastor Bernard Clarke, a minister since 1991, has marshaled the effort at St. Philip for five years. His sermons on those Sundays, he said, deliver a message of fellowship, responsibility and reverence.
“It is an opportunity for us to show our voting rights privilege as well as to fulfill what we know that people have died for, and people have fought for,” Mr. Clarke said.
“Politics is as much irrational, emotive factionalism as anything else. But liberals only seem capable of understanding it as an orderly marketplace of ideas and contort themselves in pretzels to preserve the fiction that voters’ commitments are rational.” https://t.co/TRqRdA90Su
Blogging changed the media business for the worse, and the devolution continues.
"If the New York Times didn’t exist, conservatives would have to create it, because much of the right is more interested in how the Times covers the news than the news it delivers."https://t.co/BxqOY0XOFF
struck me that Yglesias is really onto something here with a single quip; made me thing along the lines of "post pandemic, are we just going to get back on the same productivity-and-huge-corporations rule the world hamster wheel?"
also, unanimous decisions are typically arranged for the first majority decision by a newbie, but this was 7-2
Breaking Away from Norms and Traditions, Justice Breyer Does Not ‘Respectfully’ Dissent Against Justice Barrett’s First Majority Opinionhttps://t.co/pwBJLSaRN2
...He told people he was encouraged to come to Texas to file for the seat by members of Trump's entourage and that he had come from Mar-a-Lago and would be returning there after...He said Cruz “wanted to see him in Congress,” as well...
“Rodimer initially tried to file to run on Wednesday afternoon in Fort Worth. When he realized he needed to file in Austin, which is several hours away with traffic, he chartered a plane to take him there.” https://t.co/vNLVxF7ptP
Since Black Lives Matter protests gained national prominence following the 2014 police killing of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo., the movement has spread to hundreds of cities and towns across the U.S. Now a new study shows police homicides have significantly decreased in most cities where such protests occurred.
Facebook gave $250,000 in 2018 to help fund Weave, Brooks' project at the Institute. A few months later Brooks began promoting Weave in the Times. He never disclosed the FB money, his salary, or other funders. Weave received just over 1.5 million in 2018, the latest $$ available.