Finally something Mississippi is doing better on than West Virginia.

Massie was the sole Republican to oppose the motion, along with all Democrats.

Surely other primaried Republicans see the writing on the wall in terms a post-Trump future for the Republican Party and could have distanced themselves from Trumpism with this vote for a potential return to politics in 2028?

It’s like if a shooter claims that they aren’t responsible for someone’s death because they only pulled the trigger and the gun’s mechanism did the rest; AI does not and cannot have a will of its own and a separate law shouldn’t be needed to assign responsibility for its actions.

There’s also the people who are unreligious or otherwise neutral on social issues, but entirely willing to toss minority rights and environmental protections under the bus when promised with tax cuts.

Their heroism will never be forgotten

Except by Republicans, who pretend to care about crime while simultaneously supporting the pardoning of the hundreds of violent criminals who stormed the U.S. Capitol Building.

Problematically developed with Claude, and perhaps other AI tools given the agents.md file.

Visited a Buc-ees for the novelty of it, but didn’t otherwise get gas or anything else there to avoid supporting such a conservative-leaning business.

Just block the tankie instances and move on; no need to generalize.

Which makes linking to it directly all the more important (if linked to at all). News portals make it harder for readers to distinguish tabloid journalism from regular journalism.

MSN articles always list the source at the top, in this case ‘Irish Star’.

The bottom of the barrel in terms of being journalistically worthwhile, but still better to link to the original article instead of the MSN portal.

It’s literally all it takes, about 12 million a year for the entire country.

In the case of Mississippi at least, one of the main Democratic PACs did invest an extra $1.2 million into its Senate race a few weeks before the election, without which the Republicans would have likely won that race.

The average voter in Mississippi is not going to be swayed by the issue of climate change, but will be swayed by excessive inflation on groceries fueled by unchecked consolidation and price fixing in the meatpacking industry.

The Republican solution of ‘letting the free market decide’ by consumers switching to substitute products if price rises and new market entrants motivated by increased profits to disrupt incumbents doesn’t work given that demand for beef is relatively inelastic and it is difficult for smaller meatpacking companies to effectively compete in that market.

Affidavit ballots broke for Democrat Scott Colom by a 69%-29% margin in the U.S. Senate race in Lafayette County, Mississippi, the home of the University of Mississippi.

Overall, Colom won all votes cast there against incumbent Republican U.S. Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith by a far narrower 49%-48% margin, figures that Lafayette County reported today show.

The fact that it’s the home of the University of Mississippi and the vote there was still that close demonstrates just how many people vote purely on forcing their religious values onto others and listening to lies about immigrants rather than informing oneself about just how corrupt the Trump administration has been, something the broader Republican Party is complicit in for continuing to ride along on his coattails.

Also the ones running the country torturing and murdering protestors—along with women as an entire social class—for deviating from traditional values.

My heart weeps for the Iranians,

Iranian citizens are being shackled just as much by their own government as by the impact of Trump’s illegal war. Two wrongs don’t make a right, and Iranians deserve liberation from both.

At the end of the day Star Wars is just a movie franchise; the Trump administration has directed the committal of actual, real-life violence and discrimination.

Many schools wouldn’t be able to afford Kagi just for their students to search the web though; DDG would be much more viable for that purpose.

Relying on a single party to be the standard bearer for their policies would be dooming those policies half of the time; cherry picking favorable candidates from both parties moves the overton window for an issue in their favor. If anything, that agreement is then celebrated as a rare instance of bipartisanship while congresspeople debate other issues.

Just like with the oil lobby and AIPAC, the tech lobby hedges their bets by lobbying members of Congress in both parties to ensure their preferred legislative outcomes regardless of the broader political landscape.