simplejack

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 8 hours ago (2 children)

As a nearly 80 year old man who is likely eating a fistful of pills every morning, he might want to ensure that the FDA is still regulating that stuff.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 9 hours ago

Or how Congress works.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

Does it matter? Powell’s term ends in a year and a half, and then Trump gets to pick a train wreck chair that we would be stuck with for 4 years.

Also, he claims he doesn’t want to give Powell a 3rd term.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 13 hours ago

Republicans also like to defund public schools and or encourage people to go to religious private schools. That way they’re either too dumb to vote for policies, or too indoctrinated to vote for the candidate that isn’t promising Christian nationalism.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

Now it’s >95%

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago (5 children)

People are doom scrolling because The NY Times model has Trump at 90% likelihood, and Nate Silver thinks they probably have the best model right now.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 days ago

Mods might be trying to consolidate duplicate stories from multiple publications and or encouraging people to use the mega thread.

They’re probably trying to keep information consolidated and easy to parse.

[–] [email protected] 124 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Trans woman that is, at this time, likely going into the MAGA fire. We need to support the shit out of her.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 2 days ago

Also, the governor practiced some pretty aggressive voter intimidation. Cops straight up knocking on supporters doors. Dude is scum.

 

And in case anyone is wondering who is probably calling in these threats to close polls, Biden won this district 308k votes to 58k for Trump.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

Or put another way, they look your 15in mobile computer with a few hours of battery life, made it small enough to fit in your pocket, and extended battery life for an entire day.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

Or is a testament to how effective rich authoritarians have been at keeping much of the public uneducated and or fed misinformation.

 
 

The American debates had me thinking about this one.

 

Sorry for using MSNBC’s media player. No other decent hosts right now. I’ll change the URL if we can find a better source.

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