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Map of estimated turnout of the adult population in the 1940 US Presidential Election. The strong effects of Jim Crow voting restrictions & poll taxes are visible (see the WV/VA border!), with less than 10% of the adult population voting in some Southern counties (dark orange):
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% who believe, in hindsight, that past Israeli governments were right to allow/encourage West Bank settlements, by voting intention:
🔴Democrats: 3%
🟢Joint List: 16%
🟢Ra'am: 24%
🔴Yashar: 40%
🔴Yisrael Beteinu: 53%
🔴Together: 54%
🔵Shas: 80%
🔵Winter: 81%
🔵UTJ: 81%
🟣Reservists/Economic: 82%
🔵Likud: 88%
🔵Otzma: 92%
🔵RZP: 100%
via IDI, Oct. 5-8
I donated $100 to Adam Hamilton for US Senate in Kansas, join me here:
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This national precinct map of where Trump 2024 or Republican party registration is stronger is a good marker for ancestral D/R places.
Praying that Alito respects the precedent of “no take-backsies”
Politico: Samuel Alito says he won’t retire during lame duck session
US Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito said he plans to stay on the court through next year
“I intend to stick around through this term,” Alito, 76, said in an interview with Bloomberg News
politico.com/live-updates/20…
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Saturday will be one of the hottest days of the year for the entire Bay Area. Downtown San Francisco is forecast to reach 94°F in the afternoon, while Ocean Beach, just over 6 miles to the west, is expected to be in the low 60s.
The Outer Sunset and Outer Richmond could briefly climb into the 80s around noon before the sea breeze kicks in during the afternoon.
Welcome to Indian Summer.
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Kentucky's constitution makes it very hard to create a new county. Technically you could do it but it would look like this
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In this era of artificial intelligence, it is becoming urgent to distinguish human art from what machines produce. There is an ontological difference, even before an aesthetic one, between art and what a machine can generate through statistical calculation based on millions of images created by others. Algorithms lack the spark of humanity. For this reason, the Church wishes to renew an alliance with artists and cultural institutions to safeguard our humanity.
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Germany:
Berlin:
Regional election 2026:
Second Votes (=PR):
Blocs.
As You can see on the legend i put the BSW into the right bloc. Otherwise the map would be even redder.
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The Green Party might actually flip a state legislative district for the first time in...who knows when? Certainly hasn't happened in 10 years.
A chaotic three-way race has emerged in Hawaii's #HD14 (Lahaina) between a Democrat-turned-Republican incumbent, a Democrat, and a Green Party candidate who has attracted a LOT of union/progressive support.
Pure toss-up here, expect chaos.
SLEW RATING: Toss-Up
TN-93 State House race has NO candidates on the ballot, winner will be a write-in.
The incumbent Democrat was the only person to run, but he only submitted 24 valid signatures (he needed 25 to get on the ballot), and then he died. From @ballot_access:
