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Tuberville staffer asks anti-abortion groups to float primaries against Republicans who oppose military holds
  • This... doesn't seem like it would work - "Senator blahdeblah voted for 300 military promotions and also abortions are bad and for some complicated reason we can't explain in a 30-second clip those two things have something to do with each other, so anyway please vote for me, a sentient pair of truck nuts, instead"

  • Democrats say they won’t save McCarthy Speakership
  • Well that's why they demand the Republicans hold up their end first - the would-be Speaker and a couple of his/her allies sign a discharge petition to implement whatever it is they agreed to, and only after that passes do the Democrats support them.

  • Democrats say they won’t save McCarthy Speakership
  • An under-appreciated point here is that with McCarthy gone, the math for somebody else to become Speaker is that much harder, and the odds of that person needing to rely on Democratic votes - and to make major, major concessions to get them - commensurately higher; in other words, just because McCarthy wouldn't make a deal with Democrats to remain Speaker, it doesn't mean that somebody else won't eventually make one to become Speaker.

  • A riled Trump sounds off outside the New York fraud trial that accuses him of lying about wealth
  • I think the judge gives him an extremely stern last-chance warning tomorrow and if he does it again, he gets cited for contempt. Doesn't have to be much, chuck him in a private cell in the Manhattan Detention Center for 1 night with Secret Service outside the door, but it seriously hurts the rule of law to have him able to get away with this sort of crap with no consequences.

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  • There's legitimately not enough space for everyone to bring a carry-on, especially on smaller planes; until that changes, carry-on fees are as good a way to allocate that space as any.

  • Gaming out Matt Gaetz’s bid to oust Kevin McCarthy
  • The other side of the argument is that McCarthy is the GOP’s greatest fundraiser, and getting rid of him would help Democrats take back the House. No replacement for McCarthy would have the same set of relationships and the donor network and political operation.

    This is, to me, the winning argument - it hurts them politically, both by taking away their best fundraiser and by replacing him with somebody who's likely to be even more extreme and so do even more dumb things the Democrats can campaign against. A McCarthy replacement is even likely to shut down the government in 45 days than McCarthy is, and for Democrats that's probably a good thing - Republicans screwing up air travel right before Thanksgiving and taking away government employees' paychecks right before Christmas.

    Is it good for the country, maybe not, but Republicans losing the House in 2024 will do several orders of magnitude more good for the country than whatever harm might be done by that short-term idiocy.

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    GOP senators say they won't stop Democrats from replacing Feinstein on Judiciary Committee
  • My point is that the likelihood of the Democrats immediately turning around and using that new standard themselves is quite high here. It would be equivalent to what would happen if Thomas or Alito dies in the next few months and the Democrats promptly announce that they're going to go ahead and confirm his replacement in an election year just like Republicans did for Ginsburg, except with the actuarial odds of a 90 year old instead of a 75 year old.

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    GOP senators say they won't stop Democrats from replacing Feinstein on Judiciary Committee
  • Chuck Grassley is 90, and he was just re-elected in 2022, which means he'll still be there when he's 95. The life expectancy of a 90-year-old man is 3.72 years. And, thanks to Senate seniority bullshit, he's on Judiciary.

    So it is more likely than not that Grassley will keel over (or resign) before he completes his term, which means that breaking this precedent now would have almost certainly backfired on them in the next few years.

  • Sen. Dianne Feinstein, an 'icon for women in politics,' dies at 90, source confirms
    abc7news.com Sen. Dianne Feinstein, an 'icon for women in politics,' dies at 90, source confirms

    Senator Dianne Feinstein's career was filled with firsts, including first woman mayor of San Francisco and one of two of the first women elected to the U.S. Senate from California.

    Sen. Dianne Feinstein, an 'icon for women in politics,' dies at 90, source confirms

    Senator Dianne Feinstein's career was filled with firsts, including first woman mayor of San Francisco and one of two of the first women elected to the U.S. Senate from California.

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    Starfield Bug Forces Players to Change Gender to Fire Guns
    www.404media.co Starfield Bug Forces Players to Change Gender to Fire Guns

    Starfield players looking for how to fix a bug that breaks guns figured out changing their character's gender is a solution.

    Starfield Bug Forces Players to Change Gender to Fire Guns

    Starfield players looking for how to fix a bug that breaks guns figured out changing their character's gender is a solution.

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    Italians cope with invasion of blue crabs this summer
    www.boston.com Italians cope with invasion of blue crabs this summer

    The predatory blue crabs are devouring stocks of eels, clams, and mussels and wreaking havoc on fishing nets.

    Italians cope with invasion of blue crabs this summer

    The predatory blue crabs are devouring stocks of eels, clams, and mussels and wreaking havoc on fishing nets.

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    UPS reaches contract with 340,000 unionized workers, averting potentially calamitous strike
    apnews.com UPS reaches contract with 340,000 unionized workers, averting potentially calamitous strike

    UPS has reached a contract agreement with its 340,000-person strong union Tuesday, averting a strike that had the potential to disrupt logistics nationwide for businesses and households alike.

    UPS reaches contract with 340,000 unionized workers, averting potentially calamitous strike

    UPS has reached a contract agreement with its 340,000-person strong union Tuesday, averting a strike that had the potential to disrupt logistics nationwide for businesses and households alike.

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    UPS reaches contract with 340,000 unionized workers, averting potentially calamitous strike
    apnews.com UPS reaches contract with 340,000 unionized workers, averting potentially calamitous strike

    UPS has reached a contract agreement with its 340,000-person strong union Tuesday, averting a strike that had the potential to disrupt logistics nationwide for businesses and households alike.

    UPS reaches contract with 340,000 unionized workers, averting potentially calamitous strike
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