US Politics September 2023 - education-getting, income-having, Bible-readin church-goin MOTHERF*****

I made the mistake of giving Jon Tester $20 and now I am being deluged with some of the worst email subject lines in the history of written English.

The problem with political emails is that they are protected speech in the USA, so its dicey for service providers to take any independent actions that limit them.

No. Anti-spam laws are strict, and more importantly spam complaints can be traced back to the email service provider and damage their overall sending reputation. Any ESP worth their salt will have terms of use that prohibit sending emails to people who didn't grant permission to be added to a mailing list. Email is not like other communication channels (e.g. text messages) which are not regulated in the same way.

Granted, many political organizations may be using providers that explicitly cater to political emails and don't crack down on spam as much. But you can still mark their emails as spam and Gmail will start blocking the sender if they get enough complaints.

Yeah, speaking as someone who runs a subscription email newsletter, the regulations are really strict. I have readers all the time who accidentally unsubscribe from the email (unfortunately easy to do) and the only way they be added back is if I send them a resubscribe link and they confirm it. I can't just add back someone who unsubscribed, even if they send me an email requesting it.

only way they CAN be added back...

You know Enrique Tarrio is fucked when his *defense* tells the judge his sentence shouldn't be more than 15 years. I bet he's real proud now.

A panel of federal judges rejected Alabama’s latest congressional map on Tuesday, ruling that a new map needed to be drawn because Republican lawmakers had failed to comply with orders to create a second majority-Black district or something “close to it.”

In a sharp rebuke, the judges ordered that the new map be independently drawn, taking the responsibility away from the Republican-controlled legislature while chastising state officials who “ultimately did not even nurture the ambition to provide the required remedy.”

The legislature had hastily pushed through a revised map in July after a surprise Supreme Court ruling found that Alabama’s existing map violated a landmark civil rights law by undercutting the power of the state’s Black voters. The revised map, approved over the objections of Democrats, increased the percentage of Black voters in one of the state’s six majority-white congressional districts to about 40 percent, from about 30 percent.

Trump judges too.

That old three-fifths math still sticking around

Tarrio gets 22 years. Good riddance.

bye, fucker

This fucking piece of shit, a Miamian.

The kind of sentence Hitler should have had for the Beer Hall Putsch

holy fuck

That Alabama map was such a fuck you. Republican legislatures are completely unhinged, they don't give a fuck, they'll pass any old thing they want. So that even all these Republican judges are going, uh, tone it down there fellas. (Not ALL the Republican judges, obviously. Some of them are batshit too.)

Retain power at all costs is the mantra.

Because they know that if they lose it, they'll never get it back.

Even sympathetic judges don't like their orders being ignored.

Meanwhile my state rep of Tennessee Three fame announced yesterday she's running against Marsha Blackburn for Senate next year. Blackburn has responded with a website that is kind of the definition of "don't threaten me with a good time": https://www.radicalgloria.com/

Obviously a long shot to actually win the race — Blackburn won by 11 points in 2018 — but I think it's a smart move by Gloria and the state party to capitalize on the celebrity of the Tennessee Three. She'll be able to raise a ton of money for her own campaign but also for other Dems in TN, and in general it will be the highest-profile statewide race the Democrats have managed in years.

Also just nice to see the state party really embrace and get behind an outspoken progressive on a statewide ballot instead of pretending they can win by running milquetoast moderates.

Pretty real

Spoken like guy who tried to take another man’s pants off in front of children. https://t.co/6URv6vusq8

— Rep. Gloria Johnson (@VoteGloriaJ) September 5, 2023

"When they go low, we go down low."

lol yeah that Faison guy famously had a meltdown at a referee at a high school basketball game and did indeed try to pull the ref's pants down on the court. It was all filmed, of course.

(he's a member of the GOP House leadership team, naturally)

an unsuccessful pantsing

How Marsha Blackburn ended up in the Senate is baffling to me. She's stupid and vicious, and, well, never mind, I just answered my own question.

Read that as “Failson”

^^^^could be an important campaign nickname

someone was joking the other day about starting a band called Rhonda Santis, and although everyone laughed i couldn't help but think it would be a long-expired reference by the time any music actually got performed, and desantis is just on his way out.

i wonder if he fucked up badly enough to lose his florida gig too?

We floated Rhonda Santis on here a few months ago but it was deemed bad and wrong.

xp Dems'd presumably have to run someone other than Charlie Crist, for starters

SOTO, OR GTFO

SOTOMENTUM

Clinton Tyree is tanned, rested and ready.

WHO LET THE SOTOGS OUT

i'd buy a zine of interviews with people who got RBG tattoos after she died

https://i.imgur.com/VE3TnE9.png

Forever 666

the executive of my department has an RBG travel mug. god, why cant i just quit my job and mass produce dumb shit that stupid people want to buy?

If you will it, it is no dream.

dumb shit? mugs are very useful things! I use one every day.

A survey of media coverage over the past 24 hours shows that the extraordinary RICO indictment of over 60 protestors opposing the creation of a “police training” facility in Atlanta has been met with conspicuous silence by several major media outlets, namely MSNBC, CNN, The Washington Post, CBS News, ABC News, and NBC News.

From Adam Johnson substack

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2023/09/06/atlanta-cop-city-rico-racketeering-indictment/

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/05/us/cop-city-atlanta-indictment.html
https://apnews.com/article/atlanta-cop-city-protests-rico-charges-3177a63ac1bd31a1594bed6584e9f330
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/61-indicted-racketeering-charges-georgia-stop-cop-city-movement-rcna103561
https://www.cnn.com/2023/09/06/us/cop-city-protesters-indicted-rico/index.html
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-66732274

I think when people say things like that what they really mean is "It's not blowing up my timeline." Which it probably isn't, because it's a somewhat esoteric local issue as far as most of the country/world is concerned. (I mean, I think it's big important news because of the clearly dangerous use of RICO to try to shut down a protest movement. But I'm not surprised most people don't find it gripping.)

He mentioned no Washington Post article in email sent earlier today, and Washington Post article got posted today possibly after his email

Very odd that a substack writer who mostly comments on media was able to get his piece up a few minutes before the outlets who probably had to contact sources and such

President Joe Biden’s Interior Department on Wednesday will cancel oil drilling leases that the Trump administration sold in Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, according to two people knowledge of the plan.

feels like this back & forth has been happening my entire adult life

We floated Rhonda Santis on here a few months ago but it was deemed bad and wrong.

― Beyond Goo and Evol (President Keyes), Wednesday, September 6, 2023 11:16 AM (four hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

lol I see a band is coming to Madison that is called "Ritt Momney", wtf is this trend

do people really think DeSantis has no political future? kinda seems that way right now but I won't get my hopes up.

Rauner isn’t the only former mega-DeSantis donor who’s refused to open his wallet for DeSantis. Of the 50 donors who gave at least $160,000 in the years leading up to his 2022 reelection campaign, only 16 — less than a third — provided funds to the super PAC Never Back Down...

Big donors seem to recognize that he's a big pile of dogshit

How did anyone think a guy who started his guvner campaign with a commercial about being a stan for Trump was going to beat Trump?

could maybe see talking yourself into it when DeSantis won re-election by 15 points in 2022 and all the Trumpy folks massively underperformed, but yea even then a lot of political writers I trust were saying this guy was absolutely gonna flounder on the national stage

the theory is he pulled the alarm to give himself and other democrats more time to review the bill, right? to make sure the republicans didn't sneak something in?

i know he is denying it, but if this is what happened, it doesn't seem so bad.

I mean i dont think its a big deal but we dont have to make stuff up to defend him

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i1nqw7KfhXQ

Feel like you people are talking about this story more than Fox News.

I doubt it

omg george… pic.twitter.com/bVOlLIhhlB

— ettingermentum (@ettingermentum) October 1, 2023

i forgot he was still in congress

has some nerve making fun of anyone else's embarrassing moments tho i'll tell you what

Newsom picks Laphonza Butler. She seems cool. It’ll kind of suck if she totally rules and then we wind up with Adam Schiff.


https://www.politico.com/news/2023/10/01/newsom-senate-pick-butler-00119360

This is important:

The announcement was expected to come Monday, and an adviser to the governor, Anthony York, told POLITICO that Newsom is making his appointment without putting limitations or preconditions on his pick running for the seat in 2024. That means Butler could decide to join the sprawling and competitive field of Democratic contenders seeking to succeed Feinstein, with special elections now layered on top of the March primary and November runoff.

Uber and Airbnb consultant, we've really got to raze Silicon Valley and salt the earth.

http://sternburgerwithfries.blogspot.com/2019/08/another-former-seiu-official-is-on.html

xpost one of the Belgian news sites said Newsom could pick British tabloid favourite Meghan Markle for the Feinstein seat.

This is the main issue with nearly every left of center politician in California— they’re often corporate ghouls. The idea of Newsom running for president is sickening to me, that some here would cheer that move is just more evidence that the country is fucked.

could have been worse though, see above

It's October, I just turned on the TV, and Nancy Mace is on The View claiming New York & California allow abortions at 9 months.

of course!

Any pushback?

Whoopi had words for her that I didn't quite hear because I was already on ilx.

It escalated quickly because just prior to that Mace was talking about how she was a teenage survivor of sexual assault who went from being a Waffle House waitress to the first female graduate of The Citadel who was mad about not getting gun control or female rights bills passed to the outburst I just described within 30 seconds.

Mace is such a weirdo. She'll probably have an MSNBC show in a few years.

Just getting all the paperwork done here, checking the correct boxes and such.
US Politics October 2023: "They were crying. People who have never cried before."