Many people (including the Big Bang Theory) have noted that if Indy hadn't gone after the Ark, the Nazis still would've found it, still would've opened it and still would've gotten their faces melted off.

However, it occurs to me that this goes one step further...
...if he hadn't gotten involved, instead of transporting the Ark via submarine, they likely would've simply flown it directly to Berlin (which was the original plan)...meaning Belloq wouldn't have had time to convince the powers that be to re-route it to a remote island.
In other words, without Indy getting involved, the Ark likely would've ended up melting off the faces of Hitler and his entire High Command all in one shot, potentially ending WWII right then and there.

#DamnYouIndy!
Alternatively, if Indy had never traveled to Nepal to find Marion, the Nazis may never have found her or the medallion at all & would've spent the rest of WWII fruitlessly digging up half of Cairo.

#DamnYouIndy!

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Jul 25
📣 Here's an updated version of my Dem Senate challenger filibuster reform candidate status list.

--Of the 15 races where the Dem nominee is known, at least 12 support eliminating the filibuster entirely; at least 1 more supports reforming it. Image
--Of the 31 candidates running to flip Senate seats where the Dem nominee is unknown:

--at least 12 support eliminating the filibuster
--at least 3 others support reforms of some sort

I still don't know the stances of the other 18 candidates (including 2 known nominees).
The list will be cleaned up quite a bit next week after Kansas & Missouri have their primaries, and then in 2 weeks when Wisconsin has theirs.
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Jul 23
😳😳😳 My wife spied this hornets nest under our roof overhang today. About a foot in diameter. Image
It wasn’t there less than a month ago. These suckers work FAST.
For what it's worth, the best way to defeat wasps is to help flip the Michigan legislature blue this fall: secure.actblue.com/donate/bluemi2…
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Jul 17
I mostly agree w/this thread. I *list* extreme long shot seats for *statewide* races since most people know that a Dem winning in, say, SD is almost impossible, but I still emphasize the more winnable seats. For district-level races, however, I try to stick to competitive seats.
…or at least *potentially* competitive seats. I also include the PVI rating for every district-level race to give people some idea of how tough each district is. Generally I stick to D/R +10 or less, with a few exceptions.
Now there are *other* arguments for helping long shots—building turnout for *their* race can help boost Dem turnout for a winnable *statewide* race, for instance. Just don’t donate to a Dem in an R+30 district thinking that THEY’RE gonna win, outside of an extreme scenario.
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Jul 17
@clearchats @PalmerReport As noted, there’s around 80 House races considered either competitive or potentially competitive. Here’s half of them… secure.actblue.com/donate/housebl…
@clearchats @PalmerReport …and here’s the other half. I’ve included the PVI rating for each at the links so you have a better idea of which are the most competitive: secure.actblue.com/donate/housebl…
@clearchats @PalmerReport The PVI ratings aren’t perfect since they only include the *district* demographics, not the quality of the candidates/etc, but they provide a pretty good baseline. As @PalmerReport notes, a fantastic candidate *may* be able to overcome an R+10 district but there are limits.
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Jul 15
📣 JULY UPDATE: County-level COVID-19 vaccination rates by partisan lean:
acasignups.net/22/07/15/july-…
America, July 2022.
It may look like nothing's changed, but both the correlation (R^2) and slope angle have continued to increase.

I expect both of them to see another small bump as the first batch of 6mo - 4yr old children get their 2nd/3rd vaccination doses over the next week or two:
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Jul 15
Annnnnd there he goes: Manchin Van Pelt yanks (most of) the football away...again.
acasignups.net/22/07/15/annnn…
As an aside, for everyone who said Dems were suckers for giving up their leverage on Manchin by voting for the Infrastructure Bill before the BBB bill passed: Manchin's erratic behavior should prove that he would've just as easily let the BIF die as well if he had to.
Splitting the larger bill in half as leverage to get him to vote for one before agreeing to the other made sense on paper, and I supported it at the time, but it assumed that Manchin wouldn't have just said "then neither one passes." I'm now convinced that he would have.
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