chris

SO THATS WHY ETHAN'S LAYOUT IS THAT

sometimes when some major news happens i'll set my entire steam layout to Bluey and use that to break the news to people. most recently i did this with the smiling friends discontinuation

2016 Pres: 58.0-34.5 Trump
2020 Pres: 52.6-44.3 Trump
2022 Gov: 49.7-45.8 Cox
2024 Pres: 53.2-43.5 Trump

Mark Fisher, Constitution Party candidate for Harford County Executive in 2006; Mark Fisher, annoying racist state delegate from Calvert County; and Mark Fisher, Howard County perennial candidate have never all been in the same room at the same time, just saying…

also, i generally agree, but might be a little more bullish on dem flip opportunities here given that it looks very, very likely that republicans are nominating Dan Cox for governor again. if not Cox, then a 76 year old Ed Hale, a "lifelong Democrat" who flipped to the GOP last year

FYI, as of this afternoon, Senate District 5 is no longer uncontested. The Carroll County Democratic Central Committee nominated someone to run as the Democratic nominee in the general election

IIRC HD-33C was also a Harris-Hogan district, so that makes it extra surprising that Rs wouldn’t field a candidate here

correct

Benson's been absent for every day of the session (why would Ferguson name an 84 year old as the senate's majority whip?), so if anyone's whipping senators on this issue, it's been Ferguson and Nancy King - both of whom oppose mid-decade redistricting.

“I think that’s right,” said Sen. Cheryl C. Kagan (D-Montgomery County), vice chair of the Senate Education, Energy and the Environment Committee, of the current state of affairs. Kagan said she is generally supportive of the idea of drawing maps that eliminate the last Republican congressional district — the congressional map currently favors Democrats, who hold seven of the state’s eight U.S. House seats. “If I had a magic wand, I would like an eight-to-zero map,” Kagan said. But she said the state is “supremely unlikely” to contribute toward a national majority for her party, which has to be weighed against the threat of losing one or possibly two seats to Republicans, making Maryland “detrimental to the cause of winning a Democratic majority.” “There’s an opportunity cost to this issue, because the time that we’re spending debating district lines should more wisely be spent on jobs, economic development, the climate crisis, civil rights, voting rights, health care, education and our budget challenges,” Kagan said. “There are so many public policy issues in front of us. At some point, this feels like a risky distraction.”

Notably, one of the five who support it is Joanne C. Benson, the majority whip of the Maryland Senate. Likewise, one of the 10 who oppose it, Cheryl Kagan, told Maryland Matters in NOVEMBER 2025 that she supported mid-decade redistricting. marylandmatters.org/2025/11/16/w...

Any word on Del. Bouchat? I saw the conservative blog The Duckpin report a few days ago that he had dropped out of the race to run in 2030, but haven't seen anyone else say anything yet

I saw her change her website layout to her "For Congress" layout earlier last week, and when I checked again this weekend, it was back to her "For Delegate" layout. Guess that explains why the mayor of Edmonston filed to run today

Wikipedia blacklists Archive.today, starts removing 695,000 archive links If DDoSing a blog wasn't bad enough, archive site also tampered with web snapshots.

The headline does not convey how completely batshit this story is. The Archive Today (archive.ph etc) admin weaponized the site's captcha to attack a blogger who wrote about them and *altered archived screenshots* as part of the attack.

arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...

MD-06

@boltsmag.org @taniel.bsky.social MD has now banned counties from entering into 287(g) agreements

thats right

Maryland Primary Delayed 3 Weeks to Give Brooke Lierman More Time to Explain to Voters What a Comptroller Is ANNAPOLIS, MD – The Maryland Court of Appeals has ruled that the state’s 2022 primary election will now be held on July 19, a delay of 3 weeks, in order to give candidate Brooke Lierman…

the Takoma Torch is satire, but i'd be lying if there wasn't a sense of truth to this takomatorch.com/index.php/20...

yet another instance of "Nobody Knows What A Comptroller Is" i can add to my collection (of one instance)

i still personally believe that Carl "Cornbread" Anderton went unchallenged for so long (after being elected in 2014, he never faced another challenger) is because Dems really liked him

one of two Harris-Republican districts in the state, the other being District 33B, which Harris won in 2024 by an even wider margin (D+8.2) than she did in District 38B (D+7.1)! Dems have really good nominees in both, with the nominee in this district being Josh Hastings, a county councilmember

not was that SCOMD was 6R-1D at the time it ruled that decision, it also said that districts that go over water are A-OK bsky.app/profile/chri...

nodding my head

a frog wearing a pair of glasses

tumblr and yahoo *concurrently*, just a way of hiding that he was some comcast executive

yooooooo

A screenshot an article on Gov. Parris Glendening's proposed congressional redistricting map of The Baltimore Sun newspaper, January 25, 2002. A section of text in the article is highlighted: "But Senate President Thomas V. Mike Miller, the lone dissenting vote on a five-member panel that crafted the proposal, said the map should have helped fellow Democrats even more."

The congressional redistricting plan proposed by Gov. Parris Glendening in January 2002.

It's time that you look around on who's around you
Before you figure that you're not alone, ask: "What Mike would do?"

an angle a lot of the Annapolis Press Corps™️seems to be missing in this protest, though, is that Ellis is a potential candidate for MD-05. Ellis has yet to file for re-election to his own seat, and with three weeks left to file, might this be the rollout of Ellis's campaign?

knowing Ferguson, Ellis will be removed from this committee after this year's session at a minimum. after all, he removed another pro-redistricting senator, Clarence Lam, from leadership before this year's legislative session!