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DzynKingRTR said:
As predicted there are a bunch of runoff elections here in Georgia. I was a bit surprised that the democratic governor race was decided and not close at all.

Former tennessee coach Derek Dooley is in a runoff for senate on the republican side.

Looks like former barn coach and Florida resident tubby will be the next governor of Alabama
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the republican run-offs for governor and senate are going to be a clown show of folks trying to out maga each other

based on the little i have seen of him, dooley truly seems like a simpleton. it will be interesting to see if that helps or hurts him
 
92tide said:
the republican run-offs for governor and senate are going to be a clown show of folks trying to out maga each other

based on the little i have seen of him, dooley truly seems like a simpleton. it will be interesting to see if that helps or hurts him
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If he is a simpleton he will fit right in as a member of Congress. After all we are concerned about those islands tipping over, and don't forget about World War Eleven! I watched a documentary on that the other day. Wow what a conflict.
 
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DzynKingRTR said:
I believe Dooley actually has a law degree.
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Dooley is smarter than most of congress already.

Georgia is #26 out of 194 law schools, solid.

Derek Dooley holds a bachelor's degree in government and foreign affairs from the University of Virginia and a Juris Doctor (J.D.) degree from the University of Georgia School of Law.
His educational and early professional background includes:
  • High School: Graduated from Clarke Central High School in Athens, Georgia.
  • Undergraduate: Attended the University of Virginia, where he walked onto the football team as a wide receiver, later earned a scholarship, and graduated in 1990.
  • Law School: Earned his law degree from the University of Georgia in 1994.
  • Early Career: Briefly practiced law at the Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough firm in Atlanta before transitioning into a 28-year career in college football and NFL coaching.
 
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Asking Black athletes to sacrifice for the greater good could reshape college sports and national politics alike. But it won’t be so easy.

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The gerrymandering rush has been speedy, calculated, and legal, prompting no shortage of concern from politicians and voters. On Tuesday, the NAACP announced an effort to do something about it. In a press conference, NAACP President and CEO Derrick Johnson urged Black athletes and fans to boycott state-funded universities in the Deep South, in an effort to exploit one of the region’s biggest weaknesses: its passion for college sports. Flanked by members of the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC), Johnson said: “No one Black should be on a playing field of institutions that’s living off of our labor and yet in states that are seeking to reinstitute a sharecropping reality.”
 
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Huckleberry said:
The Atlantic gift link

Hit Them Where It Hurts​

Asking Black athletes to sacrifice for the greater good could reshape college sports and national politics alike. But it won’t be so easy.

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The gerrymandering rush has been speedy, calculated, and legal, prompting no shortage of concern from politicians and voters. On Tuesday, the NAACP announced an effort to do something about it. In a press conference, NAACP President and CEO Derrick Johnson urged Black athletes and fans to boycott state-funded universities in the Deep South, in an effort to exploit one of the region’s biggest weaknesses: its passion for college sports. Flanked by members of the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC), Johnson said: “No one Black should be on a playing field of institutions that’s living off of our labor and yet in states that are seeking to reinstitute a sharecropping reality.”
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Hahaha, like any premier athlete is going to turn down seven figures because the NCAA told them to...
 
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Huckleberry said:
The Atlantic gift link

Hit Them Where It Hurts​

Asking Black athletes to sacrifice for the greater good could reshape college sports and national politics alike. But it won’t be so easy.

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The gerrymandering rush has been speedy, calculated, and legal, prompting no shortage of concern from politicians and voters. On Tuesday, the NAACP announced an effort to do something about it. In a press conference, NAACP President and CEO Derrick Johnson urged Black athletes and fans to boycott state-funded universities in the Deep South, in an effort to exploit one of the region’s biggest weaknesses: its passion for college sports. Flanked by members of the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC), Johnson said: “No one Black should be on a playing field of institutions that’s living off of our labor and yet in states that are seeking to reinstitute a sharecropping reality.”
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For information purposes, Axios reported of the 61 Black House members noted in Congressional Research Service Summaries, there are 30 Black lawmakers representing majority white Districts, 25 are Democrats and five are Republican .
 
92tide said:
the republican run-offs for governor and senate are going to be a clown show of folks trying to out maga each other
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Before anyone knew who he was , WSB’s Shelley Wynter defended Rick Jackson from Bert Jones attack ad accusing Jackson of supporting Gender reassignment surgery for preteens through Jackson’s Doctor Health Registry. Little did anyone know at the time Jackson was a billionaire that hired a slew of attack dogs and bought every available political ad time on local Radio and TV. I’m so tired of hearing those ads. Especially the ones featuring the offensive ads of the Diner waitress and her ‘be still my Heart’ line or the Chinese Vape ads. Did you know JACKSON was an orphan that was gifted $100 by a stranger one Christmas Night? . The sleaze and cringe are palpable.

#Deported or Departed
 
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CrimsonJazz said:
I was thinking the same thing; this has already been adjudicated by SCOTUS so this feels kind of pointless.
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There are good judges in the 11th Circuit who want to be on record making the right decision. Their only remaining strategy is to utilize all the time one the clock.

When you really think about it there are probably fewer than a dozen people who are making windfall changes in how America operates. That is not democracy by any measure.
 
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I don't think the situation with Alabama's maps is the same as what is happening in other states. This is not a mid-cycle redistricting attempt; this fight has been going on for over 5 years, since the last census. The state-drawn maps are the blatantly racist ones, and the courts had to force the state to use a more fair map. Now the state is trying once again to use its racist map that has already been struck down multiple times in federal court over the years.

I doubt the current SCOTUS will care, though. All they are concerned with is pushing the Epstein Administration's racist agenda to send this country back to a pre-civil rights movement mentality. It is what MAGA has been all about from the very beginning.
 
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CrimsonNagus said:
I don't think the situation with Alabama's maps is the same as what is happening in other states. This is not a mid-cycle redistricting attempt; this fight has been going on for over 5 years, since the last census. The state-drawn maps are the blatantly racist ones, and the courts had to force the state to use a more fair map. Now the state is trying once again to use its racist map that has already been struck down multiple times in federal court over the years.

I doubt the current SCOTUS will care, though. All they are concerned with is pushing the Epstein Administration's racist agenda to send this country back to a pre-civil rights movement mentality. It is what MAGA has been all about from the very beginning.
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The Court is still following the fiction that you can gerrymander for political purposes but not for racial. It sure is hard to see a distinction between the situation in AL and LA, though...
 
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Most people have no idea what President Trump’s new election-mail Executive Order USPS rule actually does.

1. Plain English: it creates a chain-of-custody system for mail ballot envelopes in federal elections.

2. Not the vote, the envelope.

3. Under the proposed USPS rule, states using mail-in or absentee ballots for federal elections would have to use standardized ballot envelopes:

-Official Election Mail logo
-Automation-compatible design
-Unique Intelligent Mail barcode
-USPS review of envelope/barcode placement

4. That means the ballot envelope becomes trackable.

5. States or election mailers would also submit key data through a USPS portal:

-Voter name
-Voter address
-Outbound envelope barcode
-Return envelope barcode
-Originating election office state

6. So officials can know: this ballot envelope was sent out, and this return envelope came back.

7. USPS would review outbound ballot mail before accepting it.

-Is it in the right envelope?
-Does it have the proper barcode?
-Is it going to someone enrolled on that state’s mail-
ballot participation list?

8. If not, the mailing goes back to the election mailer to fix.

9. The broader Executive Order also directs DHS + SSA to help create State Citizenship Lists using federal citizenship, naturalization, SSA, SAVE, and related data.

10. Those lists go to state election officials before federal elections.

11. Important: states still run voter registration. The federal list does not register anyone by itself.

12. Bottom line: this is not “tracking your vote.”

13. It tracks the envelope, creates a sent-vs-returned audit trail, helps flag discrepancies, preserves ballot-envelope records, and leaves states responsible for their voter rolls.

14. Chain of custody is not suppression. It is basic election accountability.

15. I used “proposed rule” because USPS has not finalized the rule yet.

16. The proposal says it applies to general, special, and runoff federal elections, not primaries or UOCAVA military/overseas ballots, and it requires unique barcodes on outbound and return envelopes.

17. The rule would require voter name/address plus outbound and return envelope barcode data through a USPS portal, with updates allowed until the last day ballots may be mailed under state law.

18. It also says USPS does not alter voter eligibility or manage state voter rolls.

19. The EO separately directs DHS/SSA to create State Citizenship Lists and directs DOJ enforcement and five-year preservation of participation records, excluding cast ballots.

20. There is one more thing it does, all I'll say is, watch out ballot mills.
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https://twitter.com/x/status/2061144857427476864

I dunno, this one has "free beer tomorrow" vibes, but I can't quite put my finger on why.
 
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