Ernest

I’m preaching to the choir here, but Philip Labes has some very poignant protest songs. This recent one is about this headline: https://youtube.com/watch?v=Xj0A2PTolCc

(six, the other three are doing God’s work. giving district judges terms like “Calvinball” they can cite)

I get that the reference wouldn’t have parsed without saying “the nine” though, haha

that’s what I thought

is there anything preventing the usual cracking/packing tactics from being used? Create enormous completely red districts consisting of large swaths of rural areas, and then split the urban areas amongst their surrounding rural areas just enough to have a relatively safe win. Yes, the districts would be ugly as hell (and vary hugely in size), but assuming we’re okay with gerrymandering that was probably to be expected already

but that sounds like “sewer”

(you’re probably looking for “plaintiff”)

unfortunately, it’s a disturbingly common belief that if you split your ticket like that it means you’re being “reasonable”/“moderate”/“centrist”.

wait until you hear about the number of people who don’t turn over their ballot in elections where the choices don’t fit on one side…

reading their scathing dissents is one of the things that helps me stay sane; god bless the work they do–I don’t know how I’d put up with going to work having to deal with blatant gaslighting for the rest of my life

Alternative link corroborating the original article: https://www.govtrack.us/congress/votes/119-2025/h175

I’m not sure what’s going on with the first link, but that website is impossible to navigate for me.

Not sure what’s going on with that website–maybe it going down earlier messed things up? Here’s another (much easier to read) source which corroborates the original article: https://www.govtrack.us/congress/votes/119-2025/h175

no, the vote was whether to ignore the impeachment, so “no” is the correct vote here

yeah, I did check dates after, my irony circuits were just too fried when I first read it >.>

It looks like that’s indeed the case, and they’ve been around long enough that Handmaid’s probably wasn’t that well-known at the time. Still, the irony is off the charts… have they considered changing their logo to the traditional four-armed rotationally-symmetric sacred Buddhist symbol? >.>

naming your company fucking “Gilead” is some torment nexus-ass shit