First federal judge born in the 1990's has positively medieval views. ballsandstrikes.org/nominations/jo… x.com/USCourtsMOED/s… Good old "moderates" Susan Collins and Lisa Murkowski voted to confirm this guy. senate.gov/legislative/LI…

Fun fact (well it's not actually fun) but the US is an extreme outlier when it comes to burials. Virtually everywhere else that has burials has only rented plots. Across Europe after a set number of years, they dig you up, dig deeper, rebury you and put a new grave on top.

https://twitter.com/vanillaopinions/status/1759727868353929533

In impoverished Manila where space is limited and owning a grave plot is limited to the wealthy they remove what's left of your remains are exhumed about 5-8 years. Then your remains are put in a body bag and tossed out. dailysabah.com/world/asia-pac…

Oddly enough Kathy Hochul did better than Cuomo in either of his reelection bids in New York's 20th Congressional District, which is located in the state's capital district. Though both significantly underran Dem pres nominees, who handily won this district from 2012-2020. I don't have the Obama numbers offhand but Biden carried it by 20% and I imagine Obama won it by about the same.

the legal expert has logged on. With Trump fatigue setting in, they're making up a scandal to get mad about.

Watching the Rankin/Bass Hobbit movie which surprisingly isn't terrible. It's kind of charming. The soundtrack is certainly something.

I GOT A 98 ON MY PAPER I wrote about one of my favorite historical figures - Howard Hughes.

The lowest resolution on Jedi Survivor's Performance mode on PS5 is 648p and even it still can't maintain 60fps. It's unacceptable how publishers are forcing developers to put out unfinished games. This game is being sold at $69.99 on all three platforms. How did we get to a point where it became acceptable to release games in such a state and demand so much money for them?

Guy who has spent 50 years doing this stuff is now telling us he's concerned about gender nonconformity among young people. Back in the 70's the evangelicals denounced KISS as satanic

I don't really understand how government works in the Land of Oz. The "Wizard" presumably not involved in the day to day governing of the Emerald City. Speaking of which is the Emerald City a municipality or a city-state? Munchinkland is ruled by a Mayor. Is that Mayor nonpartisan or do they belong to a political party?

I just feel like Disney is making these live action remakes/reboots in a factory somewhere. They're churning these things out at incredible pace. We know there's gonna be a live action Frozen down the line.

The NC Supreme Court ruling wouldn't have happened had Dems spent as much money on the two seats that were up last year as they did in the WI SC Race. North Carolina is an extremely winnable state for Democrats but the party must take it seriously. You can't expect a win if you're not willing to spend what it takes.

All 157 seats in the Mississippi House of Representatives are up this year. Just 14 will have both Democratic and Republican candidates running in the general election. Another 13 will have at least one major party candidate running against a third party candidate. It's deeply unhealthy for democracy when over 80% of seats go unconested.

This is so silly. Sorry is there a requirement that the President has to do events before 10 am? These arbitrary rules no one has heard of before is dumb. Each President is different and therefore has a different schedule.

https://twitter.com/JimVandeHei/status/1651883849834536960

George W. Bush was an early morning guy. He'd be down to the Oval Office by like 7. Not every President is the same.

Comparing swing district Dems to their GOP counterparts is just night and day. Elissa Slotkin carefully avoids associating with her party's left flank. Whereas someone like Molinaro has no problem cozying up to the right wing of his party.

https://twitter.com/RepMolinaroNY19/status/1651344411370954765

it's why the class of 2018 Dems have largely succeeded. They've demonstrated sharp political instincts. Swing district Republicans on the other hand seem very comfortable sticking their hands in a blender.

I love when Bond films have a lame villain. The Living Daylights is a solid movie dragged down by its villain, who is more embarrassing than menacing. Tomorrow Never Dies is also like this. Jonathan Pryce plays a megalomaniacal Steve Jobs.

Let's not try and memory hole how bad the Bush years were. The country was in terrible shape in 2004. We were bogged down in two wars, the government was spying on people without warrants, paranoia was rampant, etc.

https://twitter.com/PatrickRuffini/status/1650548713369088015

The Bush administration got on TV and lied to the public to justify an invasion of Iraq.

Garbage disposal is one of my favorite topics because the future of it remains pretty bleak. Unfortunately there is little incentive to rethink how we get rid of things. Sorting garbage for recyclables is too expensive. cnbc.com/2021/05/29/can… The problem is compounded that most products that are marketed recyclable aren't.

Note that I did not actually say anything critical of Harris yet received this deranged response anyways The cult surrounding Harris is less about her and more about being angry at the party's left flank for existing. They don't really care about Kamala Harris. The real Kamala Harris does not hate Bernie Sanders or AOC.

Governor @jaredpolis came tantalizingly close to carrying Colorado's 5th District, which is located entirely within El Paso County. Bennet did 2% better than Biden here compared to his one point improvement. Rep. Doug Lamborn easily won reelection. @jaredpolis Lamborn took below 50% in his most recent primary. Definitely something to watch.

The future of NC if Mark Robinson becomes Governor is bleak. Companies and young professionals will look elsewhere because nobody wants to live in a state where the Governor believes millions of people should not have rights. Mark Robinson is an ardent anti-semite, homophobe, islamaphobe, sexist, and the list goes on. Anybody who supports him is a bad person. He is demonstrably unfit to hold office.

My neighbors had a couple huge trees chopped down and they're trying to get rid of the big chunks by .... burning them in their front lawn. 😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫 I'm not an expert on trees but it strikes me as unwise to do being do this