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drray23's JournalRegarding the DOJ suing Georgia for their election laws
If I understand correctly when something like that is contested, a judge will usually grant a stay to stop the new law from going into effect until all legal challenges are exhausted. Does this mean that even if the DOJ does not win outright, it can run the clock until the 2022 elections where they would have to use the previous laws if the new one has a stay on it?
procedural question regarding bills.
So if we have this so-called bipartisan bill on infrastructure and it passes house , gets put up for vote in senate and goes down because repubs renege on it, can we reintroduce
the original Biden proposal as part of the reconciliation package ?
I assume a new bill would have to be written, pass house and senate ( with 50 votes under reconciliation) . Hopefully that's plan B if the deal is actually scuttled.
hydrangeas.
We have several hydrangeas in our yard. We are in southeastern Virginia. After hurricane Isabel in 2003 they stopped flowering. At that time yard got flooded but it did not kill the hydrangeas.
For the first time in 18 years , one of them is putting out a flower. We had tried fertilizing, weeding around it, etc.. in the past and could never get them to flower again even thought they put out a robust foliage. Not sure what changed. The only thing I can think of is that we now have chickens that we let roam and they maybe picked bugs around it and pooped there fertilizing it ?
Why is Adam Schiff saying it will take a decade
to clean up the justice department in the wake of the revelation that they were spying on him, his staff and potentially others? Is not it just a matter of firing anybody who was nominated by Trump ? Just fucking clean house.
that electric f150 is amazing
Rachel is having an extensive report about it and is interviewing the chief engineer, a women who migrated to the country.
That might be my next vehicle when I have to replace mine next year. 0 to 60 in 4.4 seconds, 400 miles range, half a charge recharge in 15 minutes.. insane torque ( like all electrics) , can be used as a backup generator if your house loses power..., etc..
That thing might be a game changer.
The consequences of a robust foreign policy.
Over the past few days we are starting to see what a competent administration conducting the foreign policy of the United States can do on the world stage.
No bluster, quiet and effective pressure using means we may never know. The outcome is Vladimir Putin having to back out twice in a week. First he pulled his troops back from the border with Ukraine, tonight he let Navalny be treated by civilian doctors.
None of these results were obtained via tweets or stupid comments. Just quiet, effective soft power application.
The adults are back in charge.
another euphemism. putting a suspect in a prone position.
In practice this means throwing the person on the ground face first and then yelling don't resist when they wriggle in pain.
nobody is commenting on the obvious racist trope that windsor, pd officer used
He said, you are fixing to ride the lightning son.
In the south , white people addressing black people by the moniker boy or son is an obvious racist trope. Not to mention he threatens to kill him in the same breath.
This is a few minutes from my house , I am so infuriated especially given that I already see rwingers making excuses. I almost got into a fist fight earlier today because of one such remark by some clueless asshole thinking I was a kindred spirit ( I am white) .
regarding Boulder shooting.
The way they handled this press conference is disgraceful. So apparently the only death that matters is that of the police officer. They did not even deign to say how many other victims.
They were lying to the press saying they dont know. It has been three hours.
Then they said they want to notify families first. That argument makes zero sense since they werent asked to name victims, just comfirm the extend of the shooting.
Its another instance were authorities are more interested in parading in front of cameras and congratule each other rather than inform people.
Senator Warren's testimony about her brother who died of covid
is very poignant . She is talking to Nicole Wallace about him.
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