In Blow to Trump, Indiana Rejects GOP Gerrymander
But in the end, the vote wasn’t even close: 31-19, with 21 Republicans joining all 10 Democrats in opposition. In fact, more GOP Hoosiers voted against the measure than for it.
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what's fun about MrHamSandwhich was that it was jury nullification. They didn't even argue he didn't do it.
Is that true? Why on earth would it be a thing that juries are not supposed to know?
Is that what all that intimidating talk from judges is about "taking direction from" judges about? Because the language the judge was using in the court during jury selection seemed to indicate they were trying to put the notion of jury nullification right out of anyone's head...
Juries really aren't there to decide whether or not it was appropriate to do a crime. They're there to decide if a crime happened or not.
I don't know that it's a good thing, but it would make it hard to to get convictions for people that are likeable or who have good excuses, or are some sort of "pillar of the community" type. A judge would probably tell you that those things are meant for sentencing.
Jury nullification is a byproduct of a couple other rules.
- jury verdicts can't be appealed based on outcomes
- double jeopardy isn't allowed
- jurors can't be held responsible for verdicts
This means that if a jury returns not guilty, it's over, which is what allows jury nullification. It's not brought up because it's technically a subversion of the process. It also has historically been problematic, and got people guilty of lynching off. The preferred alternative is an affirmative defense.
Juries are given very detailed instructions that are agreed upon by both sides and the judge. How these are worded is generally as critical as any testimony during the trial. These instructions generally a sort of flowchart of questions that determines the verdict. Jury nullification requires explicitly ignoring those instructions.
no. no it did not.
also the "victim" being a broken-dick fuckwit didn't really help either.
Didn’t the founding fathers rebel to strip exactly this kind of thing?
At what point can this just be thrown out with prejudice, is that not a thing?
Trump's return to MAGA rallies is a flop
Trump's return to MAGA rallies is a flop
Republicans have reason to worry if this is how Trump campaigns in 2026Sophia Tesfaye (Salon.com)
I don't even know if it is the cheapest option, and what the quality is, but I just searched Amazon for "pencils bulk", and you can buy 1000 pencils for $51.34 - top of the result list.
That's about a nickel a pencil. Or about $1.89 for 37 pencils, LOL.
People could give up a non-existent habit of buying 10,000 pencils a month and still not make up for the increase in health insurance costs that they are now facing thanks to Republicans who want to throw many of the country into absolute misery...
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I still find it hilarious that something like avocado toast (and arugula, lol. And Dijon mustard) has ended up as a shorthand for snobbish effete youngsters who probably also drink their tea with a pinky in the air, but are unable to afford housing and healthcare and childcare, because they are just bad at managing their money and blew it all on these luxury items etc....
I mean, avocados spread on toast. Soooo elitist.
He said the stupid pencil thing again, too.
I mean, FFS. Does he have any idea what pencils even cost? And has he been told people are just using a crazy amount of them in school?
This is like the "boomer math" thing with large screen TVs, avocado toast, lattes, and Netflix dialed up to eleven. I just looked on Amazon, and you can buy a box of 576 of them for $35.99. That's about 6 cents a pencil. Enough pencils for one child to use 37 of them per year for ten years and still have some left over.
Does he think people are coming up short on things like health care because they chose to buy more pencils (and dolls) for their kids?
Dude, me too. I read that quote and knew he talked specifically about pencils and dolls some time ago and thought it was just them adding it in for context on his previous statements about affordability/austerity.
This dude is completely cooked.
“They want us to go to batteries!” he jeered. “We don’t have battery content. So let’s go to batteries according to these morons that were in our country.”
What is battery content? Does he mean the raw materials to make batteries?
We are in an age of portability, EVERYTHING uses batteries these days.
And if we don't have the raw materials to build batteries, then we need to negotiate equitable trade deals with other nations. That's why we use diplomacy, and don't just impose our will on other nations.
How did we end up up with the most ignorant person in America as our president?
The prevailing working theory is that it is the raw materials to make batteries. Remember when he was all concerned about "Rare Earth?"
I mean, I love me some Rare Earth: I Just Want To Celebrate, Im Losing You, Get Ready...great stuff, go listen on Spotify right now! But I don't think that's what he was mumbling about.
We're in an age in which abundant natural sources of power are easier and easier to get electricity from and batteries keep getting better. Imagine telling someone in 1500 that you could store the power of a water wheel, and use it for your furnace or to replace your horse, and it's at your demand.
Even with fossil fuel generation, batteries help solve one of the major pain in the ass problems: that input has to equal output. Grid scale batteries mean you can make a day's power when it's convenient for the generation side rather than having to have capacity and the labor to spin it up on standby.
We should have been the leaders in all of it. Hell on the academic research side we were a major player until this year. But we've spent the 21st century waffling between going all in on oil and trying to compromise our way into slowly weaning off it.
We seriously need the capacity to make long term investments in industries with capacity to cause long term global changes if we want to be a major power rather than just a collapsing empire. This wasn't something nobody expected to happen. Carter put solar panels on the white house roof. Everyone knows fossil fuels are categorized as nonrenewable. This was as telegraphed as a bombing run after several days of dropping flyers warning of the need to evacuate.
Probably the shortest answer in this case is: "reality" television.
Pedonald was given that stupid game show to host. People think that reality television is real. People then think he's a bigly important successful bidness man, and kuntry shud b rhun lik a bidness.
Trump marched onstage insisting he was ready to make America “affordable again,” a line crafted to evoke Reagan-era economic populism that instead conjured Jimmy Carter calling for personal austerity. Trump declared he had “no higher priority” before launching into his usual misdirection by blaming the rising cost of living on his predecessor, Joe Biden.
Keep blaming Biden! Despite assurances things would be fixed as early as the first day, the USA is still not in that great of a shape. How many people will allow Trump to quit taking accountability? Every day that we get more into a Trump presidency it should be harder and harder to blame your predecessor.
If Biden left this country in such a shambles that even the almighty Trump is unable to right the ship, then why the heck did the Donald say he could?
Our gullible countrymen ate it right up and a good amount continue to do so. Mortgaging your future to own the libs.
Keep blaming Biden!
They ALL fucking do it. I just saw that stupid bitch Noem start off one of her non-answering "answers" with some bullshit about Biden. Thankfully the piece of shit got immediately called on it.
Q: Why are you breaking the law when it comes to immigration enforcement?
A: Well, President Biden....
That stupid SpokesBarbie Karoline does it, too. Same with Mikey Johnson, and on and on.
And I only wish it was confined to Republicans, but it doesn't stop there, sadly. Lots of so called independents, centrists and leftists, do it too.
Yep, I think that's a factor too. I remember telling some bible-banger the stats on the drop-off in xtianity back in the mid-00s, and he didn't believe me. I just casually mentioned that about 80% or just under are xtians in America, and dropping. He claimed it was more like 95+%, LOL. I sent him some links, showing how it was trending down by about 1% per year, and he practically broke out in a sweat, visibly, talking about it ever after that.
He was in a real spiral over xtians not being the majority at some future point.
Gee, I wonder why that is? No one is going to take his little book club away. The real concern is not having his views being constantly centered every day, with xtians being given special treatment and politicians constantly wearing their xtianity on their sleeves (he called Democrats "Demoncrats" but pretty much all of them are xtian as well and will tell you so at every opportunity) and so on.
I wonder how people like him are dealing with xtianity now hovering in the low 60s. I suspect that white panic and xtian panic is a driving force for a lot of the worst impulses of conservatism...
Revealed: Israel Used Palantir Technologies In Pager Terrorist Attack In Lebanon.
The United Nations at the time noted that the attacks “constitute war crimes of murder, attacking civilians, and launching indiscriminate attacks, in addition to violating the right to life” adding that, “Around 500 people suffered severe eye injuries, including a diplomat. Others suffered grave injuries to their faces, hands and bodies” and that “It is also a war crime to commit violence intended to spread terror among civilians, including to intimidate or deter them from supporting an adversary, A climate of fear now pervades everyday life in Lebanon”.
At the time, when asked about the attacks, former CIA director Leon Panetta said, “I don’t think there’s any question that it’s a form of terrorism”.
Now, a new book quietly reveals that Israel carried out the terrorist attack with the help of the AI surveillance firm Palantir, led by Alex Karp and Peter Thiel.
Revealed: Israel Used Palantir Technologies In Pager Terrorist Attack In Lebanon.
A New Book Quietly Reveals That Israel Used Palantir In It's Terrorist Attack On Lebanon.The Dissident
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Trump's SAVE tool is looking for noncitizen voters. But it's flagging U.S. citizens too
"I was confused because I have a passport. I've been voting for almost 10 years. Why is this happening now?" Nel recalled in an interview with NPR. "My first thought was something is going on in terms of wanting to adjust and change who is registered to vote."
An election worker raises a U.S. flag while assisting voters at a polling station in Las Vegas on Election Day, Nov. 5, 2024.
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Other eligible Texas voters received the same notice, though official numbers are not yet known.
Their experience underscores concerns election experts have had about the reliability of SAVE, which the Trump administration has turned into a controversial citizenship lookup tool. While the changes to SAVE have made the tool more accessible to states, the overhauled system has been widely criticized for being rolled out without public notice, congressional input or transparency about its accuracy.
U.S. backs Japan in dispute with China over radar incident
It marks the first time the U.S. criticized China for aiming radars at Japanese military aircraft as the diplomatic spat between Beijing and Tokyo shows no sign of easing.
The United States has for the first time criticized China for aiming radars at Japanese military aircraft during a training exercise last week, about which the Asian neighbors have given differing accounts amid escalating tensions.
The run-in near Japan's Okinawa islands comes after Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi set off a dispute with Beijing last month with her remarks on how Tokyo might react to a hypothetical Chinese attack on Taiwan.
China claims democratically governed Taiwan and has not ruled out using force to take control of the island, which sits just over 62 miles from Japanese territory and is surrounded by sea lanes on which Tokyo relies.
"China's actions are not conducive to regional peace and stability," a State Department spokesperson said late Tuesday, referring to the radar incident.
Two of Trump’s peace deals at risk as fighting surges in Congo and at Cambodia-Thailand border
At least two of several agreements aimed at ending global conflicts that President Donald Trump has hailed as evidence of his negotiating prowess are in trouble and at risk of collapsing.The Associated Press (NBC News)
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'I love an underdog': Trump-Zohran Mamdani voters are at the center of an unexpected relationship
The Oval Office meeting between Mamdani and Trump last month turned heads, with some observers stunned at what a warm reception the right-wing Republican president gave to the democratic socialist mayor-to-be. But in New York City, this wasn't so surprising to Rodriguez. And he wasn't alone.
NBC News exit polling from the November vote showed 9% of 2024 Trump voters who showed up at the polls backed Mamdani, a phenomenon highlighted by one voter's "MAGA for Mamdani" T-shirt that went viral in the run-up to Election Day. Trump himself was fascinated by the development, citing the statistic to reporters following his meeting with Mamdani.
"A lot of my voters actually voted for" Mamdani, Trump said. "One in 10, and I'm OK with that."
Mamdani and his allies see their success winning over a segment of Trump voters as a sign of how other Democrats can win back parts of the electorate that spurned the party for Trump in 2024, including young men and immigrants who felt the party was unresponsive to their needs. But Republicans who spoke to NBC News said that while they were surprised by both the number of Trump-Mamdani voters and the congeniality of the president's meeting with the mayor-elect, they did not feel as if Mamdani unlocked a road map to reconfigure the electorate.
Election results live updates: Mamdani beats Cuomo for NYC mayor as Dems win Va., N.J. governor, NBC News projects
Voters across the country are heading to the polls today for a slew of key off-cycle races, including governor's races in New Jersey and Virginia and the New York City mayoral election.NBC News
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Mamdani and his allies see their success winning over a segment of Trump voters as a sign of how other Democrats can win back parts of the electorate that spurned the party for Trump in 2024, including young men and immigrants who felt the party was unresponsive to their needs. But Republicans who spoke to NBC News said that while they were surprised by both the number of Trump-Mamdani voters and the congeniality of the president’s meeting with the mayor-elect, they did not feel as if Mamdani unlocked a road map to reconfigure the electorate.
Republicans: no no no no, Democrats don't try this!!! Trust me bro I'm totally looking out for you. Don't try this. Keep moving to the right, keep chasing our voters I swear it will work next time! Don't give up now! (Hehehe suckers...)
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A Democratic mayor for Miami is not just Trump backlash – it’s a seismic shift
Eileen Higgins’s win has reset the city’s political landscape in some ways not seen in 28 years, and in others not at all
Miami's new mayor, Eileen Higgins, hailed it as "a new day" for the city after the Democrat ended three decades of Republican rule on Tuesday night in a stunning election triumph.
In reality, the result is more of a seismic shifting of sands given the magnitude of her victory over the Donald Trump-backed Republican candidate, Emilio González, in the most populous city in Miami-Dade county, which the president won in 2024 by 12%.
Higgins won the run-off with almost 60% of the vote, according to preliminary results reported Wednesday by the Miami Herald. More than just further evidence of a growing national backlash against Trump's policies on the national stage, particularly immigration, her win has reset Miami's political landscape in a manner not seen in some ways in 28 years, and in others not at all.
Eileen Higgins becomes Miami’s first Democratic mayor in 30 years
In stunning upset victory, Higgins also becomes first woman in post and first non-Hispanic candidate since 90sRichard Luscombe (The Guardian)
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Not to sound negative, but they're going to cheat more. There was a guy that said he's being turned away to vote in Texas even though he's a US citizen.
Trump's SAVE tool is looking for noncitizen voters. But it's flagging U.S. citizens too
"I was confused because I have a passport. I've been voting for almost 10 years. Why is this happening now?" Nel recalled in an interview with NPR. "My first thought was something is going on in terms of wanting to adjust and change who is registered to vote."
An election worker raises a U.S. flag while assisting voters at a polling station in Las Vegas on Election Day, Nov. 5, 2024.
earlierOther eligible Texas voters received the same notice, though official numbers are not yet known.
Their experience underscores concerns election experts have had about the reliability of SAVE, which the Trump administration has turned into a controversial citizenship lookup tool. While the changes to SAVE have made the tool more accessible to states, the overhauled system has been widely criticized for being rolled out without public notice, congressional input or transparency about its accuracy.
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This may bite them in the ass, especially in Texas,
Or not, an example Ted Ceuz is the most reviled poltican in Texas and keeps being reelected.
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Good luck getting a city of ex-Cubans that despise everything about communism and stan capitalism harder than your average white guy to get behind your wishes.
ETA: A recent article that paints a vivid perspective around this.
Miami Is Cuba Backwards
“In Miami, Trumpism is just as overwhelming, and as fundamentalist, as Castroism is in Cuba.”Abraham Jiménez Enoa (Tr. Lily Meyer) (The Dial)
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I think you overestimate the class consciousness of the average American voter. Biden didn't get "pathetic votes", he got the most votes of any president ever. Even just proportionately, all the presidents in the last century with a clear majority win have been neolib types.
People don't want to eat the rich, people wanna eat hamburgers and play video games. You and your little online message board friends (myself included) want to eat the rich, and if you spend all your time here you might fool yourself into thinking the average American has a somewhat elevated class consciousness. They do not.
My work brings me in contact with all sorts of people across all strata of life. The average person just kinda muddles through life, they don't really spend any particular length of time thinking about anything really, whatever their favorite diversion is perhaps (games, sports, TV, movies, etc.).
I personally talked to a surprising number of people who, after the election, thought Biden was the candidate in 2024. People genuinely just do not care. They have basically no media literacy, no knowledge of current events, no general practice of critical thinking.
We're not gonna get a progressive president before the general class consciousness shifts significantly. What we can get is an FDR type who will at least talk to the progressives at the table, and then get progressive to the table.
Slow and steady, comrade snail.
I think you underestimate the class consciousness of the average US American.
Most people who can vote, don't vote. Give them a progressive candidate, not some obvious corporate puppet, and people will elect them.
Because Bernie isn't a democrat. He's a progressive.
Democrats want people that are corrupt and favor policy for rich people and big businesses
That's not true. The majority of US Americans want to stop supporting the Israeli genocide. The vast majority of US Americans want to stop the climate catastrophe. Polls show this.
Yet the vast majority of "elected" representatives continuously vote on these issues against their constituent's wishes.
Give the voters an actual progressive, and they'll come out of the woodworks to elect them
The majority of US Americans want to stop supporting the Israeli genocide. The vast majority of US Americans want to stop the climate catastrophe.
Those aren't really progressive positions though. Progressives hold them, but so do many, many other people. You can't use that as evidence for a broader progressive sentiment.
He still got the most votes of any president ever. He got double the votes of Bernie in the primary.
The people want neolib bullshit. It's stupid of them to want, but it is what they want. We gotta change their minds on a massive scale before we can expect them to change so drastically.
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chatgpt favored a few articles in its training data that used "its not x – its y" more than others. it was sheer accident and coincidence to begin with, but is now being cemented into the language by chatgpt's relative ubiquity and a feedback mechanism where new training data contains this artifact, increasing its favorability in subsequent models. I'm not saying that the phrase didn't exist before chatgpt. it’s not a seismic shift in language patterns – It's a feedback mechanism. The same feedback mechanism causes it to prefer "it's not" vs "it isn't" despite there being no grammatical distinction between them. "It's not" was presumably slightly more popular among the training data it (or rather, its trainers) happened to favor during initial training.
edit: it now serves as an effective shibboleth.
Price of a 'bot army' revealed across hundreds of online platforms worldwide
Price of a 'bot army' revealed across hundreds of online platforms worldwide
The first global index tracking real-time prices for buying fake account verifications on 500+ online platforms in every country has been launched by a team at the University of Cambridge.University of Cambridge
After NPR and PBS defunding, FCC receives call to take away station licenses
After NPR and PBS defunding, FCC receives call to take away station licenses
NPR and PBS stations targeted by group involved in Carr’s news-distortion probes.Jon Brodkin (Ars Technica)
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From the article:
A conservative group yesterday urged the Federal Communications Commission to take licenses away from NPR and PBS stations and let other entities use the spectrum. The request came from the Center for American Rights (CAR), a nonprofit law firm that has played a prominent role in the news-distortion investigations spearheaded by FCC Chairman Brendan Carr.
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“If PBS and NPR cannot prove a viable long-term business model as national networks—and if their individual affiliates cannot show long-term business models in each market—then this Commission needs to consider whether those channels (i.e., that spectrum) will become available in the near future for other potential licensees or uses,” the group said.
From me:
So it's up to us to help our local PBS and NPR stations stay financially viable for the long term. Put a donation on autopay, an amount you can afford monthly. Those of us who already do, should see if we can raise it at all. I know NPR and PBS aren't far enough left for some lemmings, but they're a fuck of a lot better than the fascist alternative.
"Super secure" MAGA-themed messaging app leaks everyone's phone number
"Super secure" MAGA-themed messaging app leaks everyone's phone number
You can be, do, and have whatever you want, except for not spilling user informationEric Daigle
Late night infomercials with high pressure sales tactics are where the real innovation is!
The Trump-UN Gaza plan is no path to peace. Here’s a better way.
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/40157655
by Huwaida Arraf
12/10/25#HuwaidaArraf is a human rights attorney and organizer with the Freedom Flotilla Coalition.
In late November, the United Nations Security Council endorsed the “Comprehensive Plan to End the Gaza Conflict” which includes President Trump’s 20-point framework.Washington and Jerusalem celebrated it as a breakthrough. In reality, it represents one of the most dangerous recent efforts to make international law irrelevant, installing a neo-colonial trusteeship run by those who have armed, funded and politically shielded Israel for decades.
Despite media hype, the October “ceasefire” was never a true ceasefire at all. Israel has since bombed homes and schools, killing more than 300 Palestinians, injuring hundreds more and demolishing civilian infrastructure. It is still blocking desperately needed humanitarian aid.
The Trump-UN Gaza plan is no path to peace. Here’s a better way.
by Huwaida Arraf
12/10/25#HuwaidaArraf is a human rights attorney and organizer with the Freedom Flotilla Coalition.
In late November, the United Nations Security Council endorsed the “Comprehensive Plan to End the Gaza Conflict” which includes President Trump’s 20-point framework.Washington and Jerusalem celebrated it as a breakthrough. In reality, it represents one of the most dangerous recent efforts to make international law irrelevant, installing a neo-colonial trusteeship run by those who have armed, funded and politically shielded Israel for decades.
Despite media hype, the October “ceasefire” was never a true ceasefire at all. Israel has since bombed homes and schools, killing more than 300 Palestinians, injuring hundreds more and demolishing civilian infrastructure. It is still blocking desperately needed humanitarian aid.
The Trump-UN Gaza plan is no path to peace. Here’s a better way.
Trump’s plan demands full Palestinian demilitarization while imposing hardly any limitations on Israeli military power.Huwaida Arraf, opinion contributor (The Hill)
The horrific attack in Australia is a reminder to reject hate, division and anyone co-opting trauma
- YouTube
Auf YouTube findest du die angesagtesten Videos und Tracks. Außerdem kannst du eigene Inhalte hochladen und mit Freunden oder gleich der ganzen Welt teilen.www.youtube.com
Lets put this in perspective, without knowing the motivations of the attack, blaming pro-Palestine sentiment is like blaming pro-Quebec sentiment for a Quebecer shooting up the British Bake Off.
It's just patently absurd to blame an entire group for the actions of a single person acting alone when they're actually connected to a group or movement, let alone just some stranger with a similar background.
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My grandparents built air raid shelters in the NE of France. Hunkered down and basically waited out ww2.
I figure I'll be doing something similar but just a little more prepped than a stock room full of canned goods.
2002: Last.fm and Audioscrobbler Herald the Social Web
2002: Last.fm and Audioscrobbler Herald the Social Web
Following in Amazon's footsteps, two student projects independently use 'collaborative filtering' to bring recommendations and social networking to online music; soon they will join forces.Richard MacManus (Cybercultural)
Uranus and Neptune might be rock giants
Uranus and Neptune might be rock giants
A team of researchers from the University of Zurich and the NCCR PlanetS is challenging our understanding of the solar system planets' interior.University of Zurich (Phys.org)
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Iceland joins boycott of Eurovision 2026 in protest at Israel’s involvement
Iceland joins boycott of Eurovision 2026 in protest at Israel’s involvement
Iceland joins four other nations in a boycott, after the organiser declined to hold a vote over Israel’s involvement.Al Jazeera
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in reply to usernamesAreTricky • • •So 45% of the constituents, 22% of the representatives.
Sounds to me like they approved a GOP-gerrymandered map.
Cricket@lemmy.zip
in reply to Hawke • • •That's not what that sentence is saying. Note the "party-affiliated" qualifier. I checked and according to the first search result I found 25% of Indiana voters are registered Democrat, 31% are registered Republican, and 44% are "unaffiliated".
Source: independentvoterproject.org/vo…
Indiana Voter Registration Statistics
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in reply to minorkeys • • •Hawke
in reply to Cricket@lemmy.zip • • •That is exactly what the sentence is saying, unless you have reason to believe that the politics of the “unaffiliated” are drastically different from the affiliated. Going by your logic you would need to assume that the 44% unaffiliated are all republicans, which is very unlikely.
Certainly it seems to be close to the presidential election results over the last 20+ years, at 58-40-2 for republican-democrat-other, respectively.
Edit: and indeed, if you add up the 2024 congressional results you get 58-39-3 percent.
politics of a U.S. state
Contributors to Wikimedia projects (Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.)tauisgod
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in reply to usernamesAreTricky • • •Jesus the quotes in this article are a real bleak loom into how fucked we are as a country:
and also:
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in reply to Pacers31Colts18 • • •Serinus
in reply to the_q • • •Because semis put a ton of wear and tear on roads and Indiana is a huge bottleneck between the Northeast and the North/Northwest.
If only there were a better way to move freight from one dedicated location to another dedicated location. If we could basically teleport goods between Chicago, Atlanta, Kansas City, and Dallas, THEN we'd be able to have semis (or even smaller trucks) only handle the more local portions, and we'd save easily billions on road maintenance.
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in reply to jballs • • •I love how it papers over the fact the Republicans in Congress have abdicated all duty and made their own leader a king.
Also, I would hazard that heritage action is some bullshit foreign account? Maybe Nigeria?
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in reply to usernamesAreTricky • • •No matter how you look at it, this is a headline that contain the words "Trump" and "blow" in the same sentence.
Nice little bonus that it happens to be a situation where cheeto mcpedo doesn't get his way.
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in reply to Lost_My_Mind • • •"Cheeto McPedo"
Brilliant, I'm definitely copying it
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