Haitian woman, 31, dies alone at Pittsburgh bus stop days after ICE released her to the streets far from home to perish. Rest in power, Daphy Michel: migrantinsider.com/p/the-loneso...
There'll be a contested primary in May between William Forbes (see above) and Cindy Burbank, who is accusing him of being a plant and seems to favor the Osborn strategy.
Dan Osborn is hoping to win the Nebraska Senate race as an independent this year, after losing by 6 in 2024.
Will there be a Dem nominee in the race? Dems are accusing the GOP of having recruited a Dem to run in the Senate primary—the candidate, Forbes, attends anti-abortion events.
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My note on FL having banned RCV gives this shades of of what Bolts reported on a few years ago in Memphis — which is the biggest city that has a fully one-round system in the nation (and there, too, the context is the state has banned RCV) boltsmag.org/memphis-mayo...
Tomorrow is Saturday so it must be... an Election Day?!
That's right, there's an interesting legislative special election happening in Louisiana. Be sure to check back!
boltsmag.org/whats-on-the...
Also note that these are ostensibly nonpartisan elections.
Candidates have partisan attachments (=e.g. outgoing mayor is running for Congress as a Republican), but doing the 'over/under'-performance analysis for any local election gets complicated. I prefer to do that systematically in leg races.
Note that a one-round election with no primary or RCV (or anything to mitigate the FPTP of it all) is a pretty poor system.
But Republicans (against whom it backfired here as you can see how they split the vote) have banned ranked choice voting in Florida: floridaphoenix.com/2024/09/11/f...
A Democrat has won the mayor's seat in Boca Raton... by one vote:
Since January, election officials in Washington D.C. have gone out across the city to educate residents on ranked-choice voting, ahead of the district’s first elections using the new voting method.
“Any mail that’s getting dropped into a blue box is not getting postmarked on the same day, and likely not on the day after either,” says the leader of a postal workers’ union.
This could have tremendous implications for voting:
This is a big deal for NC. This guy was the most powerful politician in the state.
Will a younger and even more radical Republican replace him? Or will Democrats pick up enough seats in the fall to force some moderation?
Breaking news: A jury convicted people who protested outside an ICE facility in Texas of providing material support to terrorists, and other charges in a closely watched case in which the gov't argued the protesters were "Antifa". www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
Final count (before a recount): The state senate president of NC, Phil Berger, lost his primary by 23 votes. ncnewsline.com/2026/03/13/n...
ICE just paid over $145 million for an 835,000-square foot warehouse near the Salt Lake City airport.
The mayor’s spokesperson said she “has made it clear that this kind of facility has no place in Salt Lake City.”
www.sltrib.com/news/2026/03...
The notorious sheriff of NC's Alamance County, who has long drawn scrutiny for his racist statements and practices, has drawn a challenger.
Local officials are confirming that Shannon Long has made it onto the ballot as an independent. alamancenews.com/elections-di...
(No Dem candidate here.)
No, DA races are almost always partisan (with some exceptions).
Quite the stat: Across the *ten* DA elections happening in Georgia this year, *none* will feature a contested general election between the major parties. (As in, in none of the ten races did both a D & R file.)
Three of the 10 races will have a primary; the other 7 drew just one canidate.
Question this Sunday is — who gets above 10% in the first round in each city: That's threshold after which you can stay in the runoff.
And, what alliances are made after? E.g.: Center-left & radical left have lost all semblance of civility, but if they can't fix it, that's a lot of cities lost.
Of major cities, the left is defending Paris, Lyon, Marseille (the three biggest cities of the country), the first two against the right & the third against the far-right. As well as Bordeaux, Nantes.
The right is defending Nice from the far-right & Toulouse + Le Havre from the left.
On Sunday, it's the first round of the French MUNICIPAL elections — every commune/city is voting for mayor.
The stakes are delayed until the runoffs, a week later, but we'll still know a lot more this Sunday.
Judge VanDyke's opinion was so offensive that 29 of the Ninth Circuit's senior and active judges, including a few Trump appointees, issued these rebukes:
This is a difficult read but you should do it. 😟
12 percent of people on death row in Alabama are Muslim, per the article.
Alabama Senator Tuberville posted today that Muslims are the enemy.
Please read this piece about how his state of Alabama is treating Muslim prisoners. boltsmag.org/alabama-exec...
WIRED named the DOGE operative accused here of planning to take Social Security data to his new job. It's John Solly, and he works for the government contractor Leidos, a company that has millions in contracts with SSA.
read more here:
An Ohio poll has Democrats leading by 10 in the upcoming governor race and by 4 in the Senate race (that’s the Sherrod Brown race). theoec.org/wp-content/u...
Wild:
A lot of explanations of how that works in this Virginia article, occasioned by the governor ending state contracts while local contracts remain in place for now: boltsmag.org/virginia-spa...
