Turns out mortgages and imminent children do not pay for themselves, so I'm very in the market for short-term work, particularly editing work, if anyone has it! I'm available until late October when all the lawyering starts
let us never forget that minnesota captured the colors of a virginia unit at gettysburg and to this day tells virginia to fuck off whenever they ask for it back
I'm told
@ossoff
is watching returns w/ his campaign team, but not his wife, Dr. Alisha Kramer. She is an OB-GYN and working an overnight shift, so she'll have to get the news b/w patients.
#gasen
#gapol
And a very special shout-out to my man PVT Marshall Sherman of the 1st Minnesota Volunteer Infantry. Who captured the regimental colors of the 28th Virginia and brought them home to Minnesota where they will stay until the end of time.
republicans back at work trying to make sure future elections are sufficiently rigged, democrats making sure they take a couple of weeks to destress, read a good novel, just really recenter and practice gratitude
Georgia House Speaker David Ralston says he is open to considering removing elections oversight from the Georgia Secretary of State’s office. He says that would not need a constitutional amendment.
#gapol
#ElectionTwitter
@JordyFuchs
Fox's Jeanine Pirro says the deplatforming of Parler, a haven for white supremacists, "is akin to a Kristallnacht," an infamous night of Nazi hate crimes against Jewish people.
My parents texted me on a Saturday morning within like two minutes of each other telling me to call my mom and they did not pause to think this would clearly make me assume that someone died
Judges have now found that Republicans in Alabama, Louisiana, Georgia, South Carolina, and Florida all used their redistricting power to discriminate against Black voters after the 2020 census
NEW — The U.S. is rejecting over 90% of Afghans who were not evacuated last year and who are now seeking to enter the country on humanitarian grounds, government data show.
They include family members of translators who helped the U.S. fight the Taliban.
europeans looking at american social policies: the way you treat your working people is disgusting
europeans refusing to give me american working people the only compensation they're legally allowed: that's praxis baby
WILD in Michigan: advocates submitted a record number of signatures to put an abortion rights measure on the ballot, & Bureau of Elections confirmed it should qualify. But Republicans on Board of Canvassers just refused to allow that, throwing measure off:
my dream bf:
- commander of the armies of the north
- general of the Felix legions
- father to a murdered son
- husband to a murdered wife
- will have his vengeance regardless of timing
My dream bf
- 6ft
- $300-500K total comp
- very ambitious & driven
- 27-33yo
- brown eyes
- loves nyc
- rlly funny but a bit weird
- rlly kind & has a moral system
- not trust fund baby (self made)
- good taste
- good listener & planner
- loves running & reading
- loves me a LOT
Anna Sorokin, known for taking hundreds of thousands of dollars from friends and businesses while posing as a German heiress, says she's trying to move away from the "scammer persona" and plans to launch a collection of NFTs.
if for any reason it had been a BLM group or something trying to storm the Capitol with the entire Senate inside there would be scores of people dead on the steps. Hundreds.
EXCL: Tottenham have agreed a deal to sign Chelsea striker Beth England. Move believed to be worth £250k, surpassing the previous record between two WSL clubs. England said goodbyes to Chelsea team-mates on Friday. More here:
Ohio Senate candidate Michele Reynolds used the phrase "Jew you down" in a book she wrote and said Jews have a reputation for "not wasting resources."
In a statement, her campaign said the statement came out of respect for Jews' reputation for "solid money principles."
The Collins-Manchin or Manchin-Collins group will be meeting with Biden econ advisers in coming days, per both Collins and Manchin
Also, they are now calling themselves the Common Sense Coalition (which is what Collins called a different version of themselves in the past)
Spanberger on the Dem caucus call: We lost races we shouldn’t have lost.
Defund police almost cost me my race bc of an attack ad.
Don’t say socialism ever again.
Need to get back to basics.
(Is yelling.)
pelosi and schumer are just so wildly unequipped at every level to meet this moment and i'm SO ANGRY at how little even BEING IN THE CAPITOL WHILE IT IS SACKED can change their minds
Republicans convinced many people in Florida that JOE BIDEN was a looney tunes Maduro-in-waiting while he was going around loudly proclaiming his love for cops