gotta say I’m pretty glad I do not store ANYTHING related to my dissertation on Vanderbilt metal at this time
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okay friends it's been a truly joyful 48 hours going to log off again for a while. love you all
Oh, I forgot until now: Tricia Cotham, the North Carolina lawmaker who notoriously flipped parties and joined the GOP to give them the votes to ban abortion in North Carolina, has been defeated by a Dem challenger.
this election has proven that voters of america are hopelessly out of touch with editorial boards all across the country.
oh my god is that jeff flake on nbc he looks like a corpse
does anyone want to take guesses as to the lean of the provisional ballot electorate in Mississippi in the Callais backlash year
Scott Colom has just pulled ahead of Cindy Hyde-Smith in Mississippi. By 28 votes. Over 95% of the vote has been counted.
okay well it may not last but uhhhhhhhhhh
if she won by 280 votes, it is genuinely plausible that the voters of sewanee made the difference here?
Nashville Banner@nashvillebanner.bsky.social · last wk.Republican Rep. Scott DesJarlais lost his bid for a ninth term representing Tennessee's 4th Congressional District in a shocking upset by Democratic nominee Victoria Broderick. With 100 percent of the vote counted, Broderick won by 280 votes. ✍️ @stelliott.bsky.social
JUST IN: Democrats have won control of the state government of Wisconsin. For the first time since 2010. They have flipped the state Senate & flipped the state House, and kept the governorship. Among the thingS they're likely to do: repeal Scott Walker's restrictions on collective bargainins.
In a shocking upset, Democratic tech support professional Victoria Broderick has narrowly defeated longtime incumbent Republican U.S. Rep. Scott DesJarlais in Tennessee’s 4th Congressional District.
Victoria Broderick Flips 4th Congressional District Blue
Fayetteville Democrat beats longtime Republican incumbent U.S. Rep Scott DesJarlais
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James Talarico is forecast to win by a greater margin in Texas than Chuck Schumer won in 2022 in New York.
i probably gotta go to bed but it's very difficult to let this go
Keep watch, dear Lord, with those who work, or watch, or weep this night, and give your angels charge over those who sleep. Tend the sick, Lord Christ; give rest to the weary, bless the dying, soothe the suffering, pity the afflicted, shield the joyous; and all for your love's sake.
With a decent number of votes still to be counted, Jerri Green has surpassed Karl Dean's vote count in 2018, which was the strongest recent performance by a Democratic candidate for governor in Tennessee.
lmfao I'm sorry are the current texas numbers the numbers with ZERO VOTES IN FROM AUSTIN?
I cannot allow myself even a glimmer of hope on this one
Radley Balko@radleybalko.bsky.social · last wk.!!!!!!
With 93% of the vote counted in #NC06, Cyril Jefferson (D) leads Addison McDowell (R) 50.4–49.6%. Silver Bulletin gave Republicans a 98-in-100 chance of winning here.
NEW in Bolts: Virginia voters passed Amendment 3 on Tuesday, restoring voting rights for people with felony convictions upon release, and codifying the end of Jim Crow-era disenfranchisement rules.
Virginia Topples Its Jim Crow-Era Lifetime Ban on Voting - Bolts
Virginia voters have toppled one of the nation’s harshest felony disenfranchisement schemes, ending a Jim Crow-era policy of exclusion that has blocked millions of people from voting since 1902. Voter...
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