I have nothing to base this on but anecdata, but I think that if Michigan used ranked-choice voting McMorrow could have stayed in and would have won the primary. Somewhat comfortably even.
Ian Campbell
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Keweenaw born and raised; Michigan alum x 2; historian of the Russian Empire at UC Davis. Happiest in the kitchen or on a trail. Personal account; opinions my own.
[out of breath] i saw the signal in the sky, i came as soon as i could, here, the meme
The Wall Street Journal@wsj.com · 2d agoSarah Trone Garriott, the Democratic nominee for Iowa’s Third Congressional District, is one of a number of Democratic candidates who view politics as an extension of faith.
I can knock this one out with a question that should produce even more discourse: was Tolstoy a good person?
BeijingPalmer@beijingpalmer.bsky.social · yesterdayalright let's do real discourse: five books *by bad people* that are still good or great books V.S. Naipaul, A BEND IN THE RIVER Allison Pearson, I DON'T KNOW HOW SHE DOES IT Kevin Myers, WATCHING THE DOOR Yukio Mishima, CONFESSIONS OF A MASK Neil Gaiman, BRIEF LIVES.
Local wives are calling this “maybe the dumbest thing [I’ve] ever fixated on.”
Centurions
Draft ten real players from a decade of football and chase a 100-point season.
centurions.futi.live
Did we know before that Eddy is single because he’s a widower or is this new lore?
LRT: there is exactly one good TikTok account and it’s Taste Buds.
Taste Buds going out one last time with their guy Kinley, who we meet through one of the episodes and becomes a recurring presence, before he moves back to Bhutan has me crying in the fucking club 💔
I don't "support Spain" and I don't "support Morocco" and it's not an Israeli plot nor is it a epic decolonial or colonial struggle nor is it generic great replacement nor is it Muslim hordes get over yourselves.
(Reassuringly) the president has the zoomies
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3d agoSen. John Kennedy on Trump's blatant reflecting pool lies: "The president says it was caused by vandals. I don't know if he really believes that or it's part of his political messaging or he's just thinking out loud ... he grows anxious when he has an unexpressed thought."
How annoyed are you, as a pitcher, when they let a position player pitch and he does a better job than you?
This thing where I’m on the shelf for a week every month with a new calf strain is getting quite old
you should be in jail, but instead you are describing an incredibly common abuse dynamic where the victim tries to keep the abuser happy to avoid another explosion this guy makes me sick
The Bulwark@thebulwark.com · 3d agoRep. Max Miller: "These are incredibly serious criminal accusations. If these accusations were true, I would be in jail — I would be. My former wife would not have been offering to cook me dinner and inviting me to playgrounds. Think about that."
Maybe my favorite thing about cats is when they’re napping or zoned out and you touch them and they make that little “brrrrrp” noise.
It makes me so happy to make my kid's birthday dinner every year. Everything is changing, he's growing, he doesn't need me as much -- and that shift to not being as needed is a really heavy one.* But every year I get to do this for him.
What’s great fun is that both this and the post it’s responding to (collegiality concerns hide bias) can be true!
Robert Farley@drfarls.bsky.social · 4d agoEh………… I have watched perfectly good candidates verbally knife themselves in soft interview contexts by saying things that made very, very clear that they would struggle to play well with others. Matters a lot in a small department. I don’t know if that’s “collegiality,” but it’s something.
Christ almighty, it’s almost as expensive to restock a broken fridge as it is to buy a new fridge. I hope it will be a while before we have to do this again.
Sure, let’s challenge strike three on the last out of a 13-1 ballgame. Whatever.
Surely someone somewhere in the legal system can ask her, under oath, about this statement.
Sarah Posner@sarahposner.bsky.social · 5d agoat a press conference earlier this month, announcing the indictment against Hearn, Pirro "claimed to have witnesses who saw 'a violent effort to rip up the sealant from the bottom of the pool,' which she believed was with 'his bare hands, both hands.'" talkingpointsmemo.com/morning-memo...
Looking at busier than ever schedule for this year and thinking of becoming an Overnight Oats Pervert
GO AGS
Tom Bogert@tombogert.bsky.social · 6d ago🇺🇸🔴 BREAKING: Middlesbrough is finalizing a deal to sign USMNT wingback Max Arfsten from the Columbus Crew, per sources - Fee up to $7.5m (incl. add-ons) - Crew retain significant sell-on % - Arfsten expected to travel to complete move in coming days/week www.nytimes.com/athletic/748...
My bar trivia team got this image put on t-shirts.
Pandy Fackler@thatbrenna.bsky.social · last wk.A bar sign in Japan
Seen a camo “God, Guns, and Diapers” diaper bag at the airport
AI generated podcast pitch based on an AI generated summary of my book
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