Within twenty-four hours of Republicans getting crushed in elections they’d convinced themselves were winnable, Fox News deployed the counter-move. Not denial—the losses were too visible …
“We’re done allowing rapists to walk free,” an outraged protester told 2 News Oklahoma. “We’re done seeing the people in charge allowing this to happen.”
Tell #Democracy Minister: its time to scrap First Past the Post
First Past The Post undermines our politics.
It leaves most of us with representatives not of our choosing - depriving us of a say in how our lives are governed. It delivers chaos and instability in our #politics.
The government has set out to address the crisis of trust in politics. #Westminster’s broken voting system stands in the way of that mission
Our election results are more distorted than ever, leaving millions of people without a voice.
Tuesday, Republicans got crushed in elections across New Jersey, Virginia, and New York. Not close races. Not razor-thin margins. Massive defeats in states they’d convinced themselves were winnable…
ICE Is Arresting American Citizens—and Lying About It
A recent report from ProPublica documents the detentions of some 170 American citizens by Immigration and Customs Enforcement during its anti-immigration operations. But the implications of the report go considerably further, suggesting an agency completely out of control and flouting the Fourth Amendment at every turn.
The report is a harrowing demonstration of ICE overreach. It puts the lie to the declaration of the Department of Homeland Security spokesperson that “we don’t arrest U.S. citizens for immigration enforcement.” The facts on the ground tell a very different tale.... newrepublic.com/article/202672… #ICE #americancitizen #arrest
I've gotten cremation vaults, and Sunday I took care of moving the cremains in, while Vik's mom was easy, he'd already spread about half her ashes, so splitting her between two spreader urns and the vault was easy, him not so much. Vik was a fairly large gentleman, and that means a lot of cremains, I'd thought that once unsealed there'd be enough room in the back to shift him around to fit in the vault, but nope, had to scoop a fair amount into a bowl in order to fit his bag in, then add the cremains back in and re-seal.
The white is his mom's cremains, and the blue is him and Panta, it felt like they should be buried together.
It seems with how much Panta meant to him, it was only right to bury them together.
Speaking of burial, that'll be Tues. I haven't told his family, I have a very, very small social battery, and doing this, I'm really not going to be up for being around people, I'm barely up to it on a good day, and that's not going to be a good day obviously. We're not doing a graveside service, this is just a basic burial, places them in the grave, and I'll likely help Arlen fill it in, I mean at his age he prolly shouldn't be digging graves, so I'm certainly going to offer to help fill it in, I've already offered to arrange for someone else to open, but he insisted on doing it himself. I won't chase his family away if'n they show up, and they have access to this blog, but I'm definitely not going to feel like being around people. Its kinda funny, he always said he was an introvert, and yet he was on a bowling team, active part of the pen club scene out here even helping with the convention, was at least part of events related to Ingress at one time even taking part in a big event here, active with WikiTree and other genealogy sites, and more, so much that I doubt I've contacted them all. Me? I'm a happy hermit, I'll just stay home, read and watch... well, more listen to TV, and that's it. I don't think he could really be counted as an introvert...
There might be a memorial in the future, a lot of people would certainly like it, but I've been leaving that up to his family, at least the organization, and I haven't heard anything on that front.
We'll also need to pick out a headstone, plan is to get a double headstone, but use it a bit non-standardly, with his mom's name top center, his name lower left, and a blank spot for me on the right for when my time comes. Well that, or put my name without a date now, but that seems a touch morbid to me.
We've also scheduled an appointment with a lawyer to get the probate matter settled, 18th we'll see about getting that rolling so it goes to court.
@Xoa Gray Its even dumber than you think, Texas legislators did it in a special session IIRC, California did it using a ballot initiative, but apparently according to Republicans they're seizing power from the people.
@Xoa Gray Not sure, after all the Dems suffer from being realistic, and every level of government is Republican there, so a law suit would be a lost cause.
Probably. Though the more the state does things like this, the more likely it is that Texas won't stay red for long. While it's lawmakers are largely republican right now, the red majority there isn't as big as it used to be.
Ceisler defeated incumbent Sheriff Fred Harran, promising to end an agreement with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement the Republican signed this year.
All three of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court justices who sought reelection Tuesday will get another term, ensuring Democratic jurists keep their majority on the presidential battleground state’s highest court.
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in reply to 🌴 Seph 💭 👾 • • •First past the post is an aberration. But so are all the other methods we use or have used so far.
We have the technology, we should finally implement proper elections with as many rounds as there are candidate pairs.
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