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There are five other seats (Stampin, Bintulu, Petra Jaya, Bandar Kuching, and Sibu) with populations above the national average, so we shall see if those come up in the final report.

Rumors already spreading of ten new seats for Sarawak. Miri and Hulu Rajang were reported on earlier, all the densely populated seats mentioned above except Petra Jaya have been namechecked as seats to be carved up, two more (Baram and Kapit) are similar to Hulu Rajang, and Kota Samarahan and Serian I honestly have no clue about, they're not especially overpopulated or rural. We shall see.

On the state assembly front, GPS secretary-general Alexander Nanta Linggi says the Sarawak government is putting in a proposal for four new state seats to be added within the existing parliamentary constituencies of Kanowit, Kapit, and Hulu Rajang, all underpopulated, on grounds of their being large and rural. Nanta being the MP for Kapit has nothing to do with this at all, oh no.

Strengthens the case for Kapit being broken up – this would bring it up to four state seats to be broken into two parliamentary seats of two state seats each. Hulu Rajang we all knew was coming. It seems probable that two seats are being added to Kanowit which would allow it to be broken up too, and the newly enlarged PDP might be getting away with a few extra seats out of all this.

It's suspicious but I don't think that's enough evidence to conclude there was an error.

Haley couldn't even clear 40% in Travis but she somehow got 65% in a deep red rural county whose neighbors went for Trump by insane margins?

The "Joe Biden is Hamas" lady now blaming us for the dead hostages. We are so hostile that just the other day the House passed a bill making military funding contingent on Israel spending, placing Israel's security above our own, yet still most of Israeli society thinks we're horrible. Why is this? How much more of a sugar daddy must we be before this country is finally thankful?

https://twitter.com/CarolineGlick/status/1791491736121843847?t=PBBUi0pDc0frnP6Et...

How many times are you going to pretend this joke of a failed politician turned pundit is worthy of a diplomatic incident with a nuclear ally?

For those who don't get it, Caroline Glick is a far-right columnist and social media figure, not an Israeli official. This would be like France expelling the US ambassador over Rush Limbaugh insulting them during the Iraq War.

GOP no votes - Davidson, MTG, Massie
Dem yea votes - Cartwright, Craig, Cuellar, Davis, Frankel, MGP, Golden, Gottheimer, Landsman, Moskowitz, Pallone, Peltola, Scott, Soto, Suozzi, Torres

I understand most of the Democratic defectors on this vote (particularly in the NY area and FL), but I really don't understand the Blue Dogs. Is this really that salient of an issue in some of those districts? Or is it just an easy way for some of them to burnish their bipartisan credentials in tougher districts by voting against the President on a bill that will never become law?

It's an easy way to take batting practice against the Squad and the campus mobs, as well as push back against an unpopular President who they might want to distance themselves from in swing districts, all the while knowing that Schumer won't even let it come to a vote so there's no risk of it passing.

I wonder how deep and wide such ridiculousness will be accepted and repeated by the trump cult.
Hilarious.

Voted Sarbanes and Mathias.

No, I would say its more like 19th century imperialism than a genocide. Does not make the invasion any less bad though as we don't want to return the world to how things were in the 19th century

     I think this is the key here. If this is a genocide then every war of conquest can be considered a genocide, which cheapens the term to a dangerous extent when it should be reserved for a certain class of exceedingly gruesome actions. I voted no because I don't think Russia's view of this conflict is consistent with the essentially 20th century worldview that one must adopt to see it as a genocide in the proper sense.

Not yet. But I'd say Lumine said it best if given the option for something besides yes or no for genocide.  The trajectory of what's going on and Putin's stated reason to Mr. Carlson still tip it to genocide in my eyes on a binary.

There should be an investigation into whether management coerced their actions.

I'd be looking at the state of Alabama itself, though I'm not sure what federal remedies are available against the state if that were the case.

The repeal of Section 14(b) of Taft-Hartley needs to be a top priority for the next Democratic trifecta.

What would happen if they started denying accounts to gun store owners?

Not sure what it's going to take for this to penetrate the outer membranes of your skull, but again: he was not fired for his political beliefs, he was fired for making offensive public statements inconsistent with the mission of his employer.
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This.
He oddly labeled a huge segment of people as possible "racists, homophobes and bigots."
And then added additional nauseous wording to his tweet, to just make it very weird ("they want to control us").
Why would a large company want someone like this in their upper management team?

“What if, and hear me out on this one, it’s actually the progressives who are the racists, the homophobes and the bigots, and they just use those lables [sic] on the rest of us because all they really want to do is control us?”

The statements were not made while he was an employee.  That, to me, is highly relevant.  His position was not a political position, it was not public employment, and it was not a position like, say, law enforcement, where the very appearance of bias is something that can jeopardize one's credibility.

If we want to "go there", how long should it be before this year's Ivy League grads get their first professional job once people find out they were part of the "From the River to the Sea . . ." crowd?  Would it be right to assume the worst of these students and simply not hire them for their issues positions, even in positions that were not political or ideological? 

In a job like being the manager of First Avenue, the manager's politics should have nothing to do with it; only his conduct as an employee should matter. 

It dawns on me here that lots of people who are all in on this would be bent out of shape if a person of color were fired from a job after an old criminal arrest were discovered, even if it were a misdemeanor or a drug felony that was old and the person passed pre-employment drug screening.  Most people here would be upset; they would be going on and on about systemic racism and not wanting to give someone who's changed a chance because of their past.  And I generally agree with that, but you have a Forum full of people that would likely be upset if a person were fired from First Avenue for prior felony, but who are fine with firing this person who has committed no crime at all.