Nick Harper, he/him

Our team as it stands could fuck up a baked potato, so let's not get cocky

I also don't think it has anything to do with there being a "well-organized minority." She simply was more preferred by a larger number of voters than Wilson, which STV gives an advantage to.

The only thing this shows is that Forney would have lost were our RCV races were plurality block voting.

That's a totally different question than whether she would have been elected or not under a districted RCV.

I think you seem confuse as to how votes for park board at-large are counted. Forney keeps winning because she's popular. If anything, she's a poster child for why moving to at-large would dilute minority voice.

Also the comparison under the state VRA claim isn't "does at-large RCV give representation that's better than at-large first past the post". It's "does at-large RCV dilute representation compared to districted RCV" and the answer almost certainly would be "yes"

I agree with both of your points, and yet they are both wholly irrelevant to the discussion.

No? Not under how Minneapolis does citywide RCV seats? That's not how at-large park board seats work, for example.

Idk where you’re getting the idea that RCV/STV precludes any vote dilution claims??

The “not inconsistent with constitution or statute” effectively already incorporates it.

Yes, the Callais case could undermine federal vote dilution claims, or even effectively preclude state VRA vote dilution claims as well, depending on how bad the outcome is.

State VRA does not require a group to win all the seats. It merely requires a protected group’s vote from being diluted.

It absolutely is

What if Dems ran on sacrificing James Carville's human rights?

Oh my god that is so much money to manufacture consent for something that so many people do not want, and on which they have bet so much money and infrastructure. Holy shit. The popping of this "AI" bubble is gonna be such a nightmare.

In the lawsuit, Garza alleges Bally said Campbell's makes "highly processed food" for "poor people" and made several derogatory comments about Indian employees, calling them "idiots." "We have s--t for f**king poor people. Who buys our s--t? | don't buy Campbell's products barely anymore. It's not healthy now that I know what the f—'s in it," part of the recording said. "Bioengineered meat -- I don't wanna eat a piece of chicken that came from a 3-D printer."

Campbell's soup VP caught on tape trashing his own brand. Oof. www.clickondetroit.com/news/local/2...

Launching the Genesis Mission By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1.  Purpose.

"the president has directed the Department of Energy to launch an AI project called the genesis mission" sounds like something out of a technothriller

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Good news, this is probably illegal under the state voting rights act

People are always like real job stability is in medicine or the law, but the most secure job is actually white guy writes op-eds about how he’s sick of the minorities.

The Feds Want to Make It Illegal to Even Possess an Anarchist Zine Daniel Sanchez is facing federal charges for what free speech advocates say is a clear attack on the First Amendment.

An alarming development. The way was paved with the criminalization of various Islamic materials post 9-11.
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ham. bye. easy decision.

The number of ways this is disgraceful behavior from the Secretary of Defense is...a lot.

Service members do have a duty to refuse illegal orders

All Americans have a 1st Amendment right to say that out loud.

IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF VIRGINIA ALEXANDRIA DIVISION UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, V. JAMES B. COMEY, JR., Defendant. Criminal No. 1:25-cr-00272-MSN OPINION AND ORDER GRANTING MOTION TO DISMISS INDICTMENT ECF NO. 60) On September 25, 2025, Lindsey Halligan, a former White House aide with no prior prosecutorial experience, appeared before a federal grand jury in the Eastern District of Virginia. Having been appointed Interim U.S. Attorney by the Attorney General just days before, Ms. Halligan secured a two-count indictment charging former FBI Director James B. Comey, Jr. with making false statements to Congress and obstructing a congressional proceeding. Mr. Comey now moves to dismiss the indictment on the ground that Ms. Halligan, the sole prosecutor who presented the case to the grand jury, was unlawfully appointed in violation of 28 U.S.C. § 546 and the Constitution's Appointments Clause. As explained below, I agree with Mr. Comey that the Attorney General's attempt to install Ms. Halligan as Interim U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia was invalid. And because Ms. Halligan had no lawful authority to present the indictment, I will grant Mr. Comey's motion and dismiss the indictment without prejudice.

IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF VIRGINIA NORFOLK DIVISION UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, V. LETITIA A. JAMES, Criminal No. 2:25-cr-00122-JK W Defendant. OPINION AND ORDER GRANTING MOTION TO DISMISS INDICTMENT (ECE NO. 22) On October 9, 2025, Lindsey Halligan, a former White House aide with no prior prosecutorial experience, appeared before a federal grand jury in the Eastern District of Virginia. Having been appointed Interim U.S. Attorney by the Attorney General just two weeks before, Ms. Halligan secured a two-count indictment charging New York Attorney General Letitia James with bank fraud and making false statements to a financial institution. Ms. James now moves to dismiss the indictment on the ground that Ms. Halligan, the sole prosecutor who presented the case to the grand jury, was unlawfully appointed in violation of 28 U.S.C. § 546 and the Constitution's Appointments Clause. As explained below, I agree with Ms. James that the Attorney General's attempt to install Ms. Halligan as Interim U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia was invalid. And because Ms. Halligan had no lawful authority to present the indictment, I will grant Ms. James's motion and dismiss the indictment without prejudice.

BREAKING: Judge rules Lindsey Halligan's appointment was not valid, thus, she had no authority to present the James Comey or Letitia James indictments and the indictments are dismissed without prejudice.

Damn, like at least switch hands or different pens or use cursive once in a while or something lol

Wanna know how bad the Arizona legislator's petition forgeries were? Here's the examples from the Austin Smith indictment.

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If you think Thanksgiving turkey sucks, I promise you, *promise you*, it’s a skill issue.

What a terrible day to be literate stylized like 80s chrome and neon blue and pink

Now why would you go and share a thing like that and ruin my perfectly good evening

Meta buried 'causal' evidence of social media harm, US court filings allege - The Economic Times Meta reportedly halted internal research into the mental health impacts of Facebook and Instagram after finding causal evidence of harm. Internal documents revealed users reported lower depression and...

“Meta shut down internal research into the mental health effects of Facebook after finding causal evidence that its products harmed users’ mental health, according to unredacted filings in a lawsuit by U.S. school districts against Meta and other social media platforms.”

i have a similar rule for friends and colleagues: engage in human trafficking up to sixteen times, that's all well and good. seventeen? you done crossed a line, son.

“The filibuster used to help us to obstruct civil rights progress and the filling of judicial vacancies, but its current role in slowing our authoritarian agenda shows its time must be up.”

Some of us have been advocating this going back since chatGPT launched. It also has other benefits: correcting someone else's work is actually a really good way to learn something yourself.