u/paxinfernum

I know liberals have been pretty strong about defending voting by mail, and conservatives now view it as inherently corruptive, but stepping back from that debate, I think a larger issue for me is how do we prevent coercion inside the home.

If a women is afraid of her husband, isn't it incredibly likely he'll just fill in her voting card and make her sign it?

I'm not saying I'm against mail-in ballots, but we have to acknowledge that progressives fought hard for anonymous voting specifically because it allowed people to be free from coercion. Women in particular were often subject to the coercion of their husbands in the era before anonymous voting, and mail-in voting is most definitely not anonymous.

I have never found a good movie version of some classics, like The Time Traveler or 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea.

In the case of 20,000 Leagues, it's just got a lot of content to get through, and for The Time Traveler, I think no writer has been willing to embrace that it's more of an existential horror novel than adventure.

So I'm curious. What are your favorite adapatations that did justice to the original?

Elon Musk is currently living in Texas and giving billions to a Wisconsin-based political group that is trying to repeal Alaska’s ranked choice voting. Should things like this be allowed? Shouldn't state elections be entirely down to in-state interests and donations?

I know the CDC has only linked salmonella to Chipotle's jalapenos at this point, but I've felt bad this week (getting better), and it's the one connection I can recall. I haven't had lettuce recently. But I did have a couple Coney's from Sonic with jalapenos last week.

The post is question is something that's been making its way around right-wing social media. Trump even reposted it to basically say that the Supreme Court is wrong in their decision to uphold birthright citizenship.

In the video, Dan MacClellan, who is a scholar of the Bible but also an language expert demonstrates that conservatives are misreading the sentence involved and furthermore, completely ignoring the surrounding conversation that shows the amendment was clearly understood to be giving citizenship to children of immigrants.

Came across this interview between Hemant Mehta (Friendly Atheist) and Rep. Jared Huffman (D-CA) talking about his upcoming book No Prophets.

Around the [22:00] mark, Huffman drops an interesting piece of behind-the-scenes congressional gossip about how the January 6th Select Committee report was actually put together.

According to Huffman:

• The committee’s staff had written a prominent, standalone section analyzing the role of Christian nationalist groups leading up to Jan 6th.

• Both Democrats on the committee and Rep. Adam Kinzinger wanted the section included in the final 845-page report.

• Rep. Liz Cheney single-handedly vetoed the entire section.

• Huffman claims Cheney refused to sign off on anything that she felt would "offend decent Christians around the country."