BURNPIT: U.S. Politics, August 2022

pass. https://t.co/1XHwOkJYah

— Monica Lewinsky (she/her) (@MonicaLewinsky) August 30, 2022

We’ve terminated college accreditors that allowed colleges – like ITT and Corinthian – to defraud borrowers.
@usedgov will also publish an annual list of colleges that leave students with unmanageable debt so that students can avoid these programs.

— President Biden (@POTUS) August 29, 2022

seems good!

Those shitty for-profit colleges are/were all over Virginia. Virginia’s state laws were notoriously lax and during the 2000s they sprang up like weeds and died just as quickly after the Great Recession.

50 pro-worker actions by the Biden administration:

https://www.epi.org/publication/biden-first-18-months/

alaska's congressperson is a democrat

Breaking: Mary Peltola (D) defeats Sarah Palin (R) in the #AKAL special election.

— Dave Wasserman (@Redistrict) September 1, 2022

I was waiting to see how that came out. A pleasant surprise.

What's the over/under on how long it takes Grizzly Mama to claim fraud?

whoa

was that expected??

it was ranked choice for the first time, so i think nobody really knew, but it seems like a surprise to me.

probably the begich (the other republican, who didn't make it into the run off) would have beaten peltola. but it was palin vs a democrat, and 50% (!!!) of begich voters refused to rank palin second.

Voters who went for Nick Begich split as follows in the final round of ranked choice voting:

50% Palin
29% Peltola
21% exhausted ballots

I recreated what we were shown here: pic.twitter.com/wikJGjdWcd

— Taniel (@Taniel) September 1, 2022

All three are running again in November, right?

alaska's congressperson is a democrat

Breaking: Mary Peltola (D) defeats Sarah Palin (R) in the #AKAL special election.
— Dave Wasserman (@Redistrict) September 1, 2022
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Wednesday, August 31, 2022 7:07 PM (forty minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

You love to see it

I really do

I know Palin is a god awful candidate but wow

damn, that is some good ol' fashioned good news, and i also love to see it

Lol

The amount of land mass represented by House Democrats just went up by 104%. #AKAL

— Dave Wasserman (@Redistrict) September 1, 2022

Hell of a thread eh Joe

Police in Columbus, Ohio shot and killed an unarmed black man who was laying in bed today. They shot him within one second of opening the bedroom door. His name Donovan Lewis.

— Erick Bellomy 🏳️‍🌈 (@erickbellomy) August 31, 2022

Quite the trend in O-HI-O

Got A Thread For That: Ongoing U.S Police Brutality and Corruption Discussion Thread

Belongs here too

Yeah, but this thread's probably getting locked tomorrow.

Why is everyone so mean?? US Politics: September 2022