Steve in Chicago
IT Professional. Friend of democracy. If you're not going to heaven, why only miss it by an inch?
- We’re waking up to serious localized flood damage around Charlottesville. A 12-year-old was swept away in floodwaters. Everything else is just property damage, and pales in comparison.
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- So sorry to hear you and your neighbors are going through this. It all underlines that we need a robust government response to disasters and it shouldn’t be conditioned on the political leanings of an area or who lives there.
- BREAKING: The Episcopal Church has announced it will end its decades-old partnership with the government to resettle refugees, citing moral opposition to resettling white Afrikaners from South Africa who have been classified as refugees by the Trump admin. religionnews.com/2025/05/12/e...
- Absolutely hating that the administration forced their hand and made them abandon helping ALL refugees because they would have had to help white Afrikaaners.
- It’s actually insane that there’s an argument happening here over whether the plane grift is “corruption” What are we even doing?
- Beyond that, it's an absolutely insane security risk on many levels. He's accepting a plane that a foreign nation outfitted for him -- so many opportunities to hide eavesdropping equipment, especially considering how much communications gear is on the plane...
- Also, there are a lot of electronic counter measures built into the existing Air Force 1 planes and they're apparently armored and designed to survive a nuclear blast...
- Trump's job approval is in potential "blue wave" territory www.gelliottmorris.com/p/trumps-app...
- Also looking at the specifics of HOW districts were gerrymandered. Having fewer competitive seats mutes what could have been wave elections. Looking at the Cook PVIs, it looks like Republicans tried to draw to a R+10 where they could do so, assuming that's a safe threshold.
