That ship sailed with Bush v Gore.

I went to TSC several times my first year in Texas, mostly for hay and pellets for the rabbitry. And we were not rural. Not exactly downtown on an acre, but in that suburban interface, it was the only realistic choice. I’ll certainly not shop there again. Like, I’ve never set foot in a Hobby Lobby, and the last time I got Chick-Fil-A was in high school, I don’t buy Domino’s. It is very easy to vote with one’s dollars when alternatives exist.

I don’t see Biden stepping aside. This is somewhat of a milquetoast piece that ignores the absurd amount of legwork that would need to be done. It’s not just a vote at the DNC; it’s turning a battleship around in terms of communications against a guy who would paint it in a particularly vile way as weakness. Which is to say, fucked either way.

The only way this conceivably happens is Biden dies before the election, which I’m sure there are contingency plans for, but that is the ultimate in-case-of-emergency-break-glass situation.

These thinkpieces about how Biden turned in a poor showing (he did) that also ignore that Trump was abysmal … I don’t know what to make of that. Biden was low energy and a bit rambly, but he at least allowed the truth to come out of his mouth once. That should not be the bar, but with the candidates we have, it has to be.

I cannot understand how anyone watches Trump and thinks “this guy gets me.” He’s not the second coming of Christ, he’s the second coming of P.T. Barnum.

This is not a case of great editing … solid reporting, good numbers, takes a turn in the last graf and then summarily falls off a cliff. You can’t claim a trend, show one data point and then run the tagline.

There’s a certain level of amusement in trying to picture what those college end-of-party conversations that turn into breakfast at Denny’s look like for conservatives. I enjoy a good, heated argument, but you don’t bond over those except under very specific circumstances one doesn’t run into at that time.

Here’s the original Rolling Stone report

I didn’t hit a paywall, but here’s an archive link in case that’s my Firefox extensions.

Which is particularly acute in the case of Argentina.

I have to respect the restraint the retired judge showed here. I don’t find it appropriate, but it’s professional, unlike Cannon.

Has there ever been a left-wing austerity programme? This is anti-labour bullshit every fucking time.

The only anchors I’ve spent any time with were at WHSV, and this was 2002. Remarkably normal people, but as journalists, they knew how to party. Still not a Sinclair outlet, so I guess there’s that.

Tread lightly with the impact of this. Medical debt already doesn’t affect credit scores.

Egregious clickbait hed. I don’t care the source, “than you might think” works psychologically on, well, more levels than you might think.

Throughout this election, and honestly, past it wouldn’t be bad, wherever you are in the world, this phrase should be a red flag that you’ve run headlong into bullshit.

That aside, Nature, are you OK? Journal articles tend to have as theses shit that isn’t somehow both obvious and vacuously true then not backed up by the passive voice, the gold standard for scientific literature. “The beaker was observed …”

Such freedom, being able to change your mind whenever your cult leader tells you to.

Thanks for the catch!

Bold statement of American values, Nikki. Surely, this will improve international respect for the U.S.

Dehumanization is a central pillar of several playbooks. None ends well.

I’m glad the feds dropped this case and New York picked it up for the simple reason that a pardon could only come from the New York governor. It’s not in the president’s power to pardon state convictions, which may be important going forward.

YouGov and Morning Consult’s polls are outside the realm of “useful” in terms of political reporting.

Thing about court cases is it doesn’t matter what the public thinks about a jury decision. That’s what elections are for; here, the determinations of exactly 12 people are all that counts.

Here’s the one useful graf in the entire story:

A Reuters/Ipsos poll conducted between Thursday and Friday found that 5 percent of Republicans and 21 percent of independents said they are much less likely to vote for Trump because of the jury’s ruling. Meanwhile, 30 percent of Republicans and 13 percent of independents said the verdict made them much more likely to vote for Trump. However, the majority of Republicans (55 percent), independents (58 percent), and Democrats (58 percent) said the verdict didn’t change their minds on whether or not to vote for the former president.

Given the narrow outcomes in swing states in 2020, that 5% drop in GOP support is much larger than it sounds. Like, more than 11,000 votes that will need to be “found.”

That said, national polls are functionally useless for presidential elections on account of the Electoral College. All registered Republicans in California could abandon Trump without moving the needle on the election outcome; how that 5% is distributed among states and territories is the news, but with this sort of sample size, further breakdowns would have minimal or zero confidence.

WCPP grants are doing some amazing things throughout the West; even for those who don’t give a shit about wildlife, drivers are avoiding crashes.

It’s truly unfortunate that the matching requirements are in place for those least available to come up with them and seemingly flies in the face of Biden’s Justice40 initiative, which is supposed to ensure disadvantaged communities receive disproportionately more federal funding in situations like these.

Still, some progress is better than no progress.

Rules for thee but not for me.