I have a feeling people are going to care about this mid-term
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The most important mid-term of our lives!
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Quoting this for posterity.
hold out til they unlock the 10x match
I mean, itâs a bit of a forgone conclusion that when one party wins the presidential election, the opposing party wins congress in the mid-terms.
Assuming there will be mid-term elections.
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Itâs interesting that as MAGA as our small town is, somehow our mayor is a Democrat (who won re-election last year). I guess the distinction between R and D doesnât mean as much at the ultra-local level.
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Maybe this should be Democrats do the darndest things. I hope a flat out nicotine ban would fail as prohibition never works but reasonable sin taxes seem effective in curbing use without generating a violent black market.
Generate business for the new pot industry by making the competition illegal for a while?
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Happy Thanksgiving to those who celebrate it, happy harvest day if you are in the US and think that Thanksgiving is a problematic celebration of colonialism, and happy day to quietly be thankful that your country is run by people under 60 for those elsewhere.
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This is just wrong on so many levels.
Payout was $13M but Massachusetts caps payouts to only $1M
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Only 15,000 people voted yesterday in Atlantaâs city council runoff. With 500,000+ registered voters, thatâs pretty sad.
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Biased headline: âActress Annette Bening Pushes Sex Changes for Minors Outside SCOTUSâ
âŚso, she was actually performing them right there outside the SCOTUS building? 
Thatâs quite the protest!
We donât have a thread for âThings the Government Does Rightâ, so Iâll put this here.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/06/business/economy/fred-economic-data-fandom.html
FRED had 15 million visits last year.
You can buy FRED swag if you visit St. Louis. Apparently, âKeep it Real, unless it is Nominalâ qualifies as humor to an economist.
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LOL, thatâs pretty damn funny.
It took me a bit to realize that the two people on bottom are in an ad, and not in fact part of the Assad family.
detaileded for size
Per Jamie Dupree
Adam Schiff could get sworn in to the U.S. Senate three times in the next four weeks.
- Today, by Newsom appointment
- After Schiffâs special election victory is certified on Dec. 13 to fill the Dianne Feinstein term
- On Jan. 3, 2025 for a full 6-year term
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Dammit, Dan!!! You foreshadowed the future!!! 
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That was playing the long game.
For a country that talks so much about religion, Americans donât know much about religious beliefs other than their own (and arguably are dubious on their own religion). See
or the results page after
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