In either case, Republican or Democratic power grab, the voters of Kentucky are deprived of a meaningful say in who represents them.
Disagree. In both cases, KY residents get senate representation, and in both cases it’s fair. Only in the current situation, where McConnell is dead but not dead on paper, are the voters unrepresented.
It’s basically the movie Dogma, but the demon is McConnell.
They only had 400k in Israel bonds? Seems like they were already functionally divested.
C’’mon, cholesterol and old age.
In what, a time machine? You posted this two hours before the timestamp.
I did not know that about Monroe. Crazy that three of the first five presidents died on July 4.
I think you may be underestimating the size of cities. Even San Francisco, famously small for a major city, is 15 times (at approx. 30k acres) the size of the physically largest data center in the US (Switch Reno Tahoe) at 2,000 acres. That’s still just 1/7th the size of Manhattan.
I won’t argue that 2,000 acres isn’t huge for a data center, but just trying to put numbers to the argument.
In the link OP blx@piefed.zip provided, if you click on “options” you can see the color palette changing in real time.
I know nothing about palette shifting (other than how to spell it correctly), but if I’m not mistaken two things are happening in the original image.
The fact that the artist can do both at the same time is, frankly, astounding.
Hot damn! Thank you friend. Best $1.99 I’ll spend all day.
I’d love this image (and others like it) as a phone background.
It’s like when Twitter went downhill, everyone moved to [next corporate owned thing, yet to be enshittified. Anything but the fediverse.]
to be clear, that’s an inevitability, not a specific wish
Why not? I’m actively rooting for it.
Well, not to put too fine a point on it, but there are no non-felons in prison. But there are those in county jails awaiting trial who are not yet convicted (or will be found not guilty) of a crime, and your point is an important one.
Important distinction, the census counts the prisoners as residents of the county in which the prison sits. The prisoners are almost always already residents of the state. It’s called prison gerrymandering, and it unfairly advantages the county and districts in which the prisons lie, almost always rural and almost always to Republican advantage.
I mean, if responding to my comment about removing some people for “their own safety,” then sure, there are better places that prisons.
But really what I was saying is there are people who do and will continue to be violent toward others, and prisons probably are the right place for them.
But I’m in full agreement that the US incarcerates far far too many people that don’t fit into that description.
Certainly cutting back 9 out of 10 prisons is a good idea. I don’t object to the idea that there is a certain amount of people who need to be removed for their own and the public’s safety.
Not only do I think non-incarcerated felons should have the right to vote, I think currently incarcerated should as well. Hell, set up a voting location in the prison.
“Broken clock” is probably like “Play it again, Sam” or “Luke, I am your father.” Phrases you think were said but never actually are.