Yesterday, I got an email from DLCC (not unusual, but this one had some statistics.) DLCC works with Democrats in or runnung for State legislatures. Yes, I realize that this effort doesn’t affect Congress. But it does affect out bench for Congress. So it’s still good to know that we won more than 30 special elections this year. Three of then have flipped Republican seats (one of those flips, in Iowa, broke a super-majority). Five seats that we won for already Democratic seats have kept our supermajorities in those bodies. Also yesterday, this showed up at DU to remind us, I guess that irony is not dead.
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From Wonkette – regarding Epstein – very gossipy but with evidence. Feel free to grab a barf bag – or just to ignore. One thing that is positive in this whole mess is that sane people and MAGAts now more or less agree that teen girls are not women but children. For most of history, girls were considered to be women the instant they began to menstruate. Juliet Capulet was 13. Yes, that’s fiction, but no one questioned it. Margaret Beaufort was thirteen when she gave birth to the baby who became Henry VII of England (and a Trumpian ruler he was too – he lacked the appeal to any of the public, but at that time, it wasn’t needed.) One queen in Europe married into the throne at the age of 6 – at least that marriage was not immediately consummated.
I apologize for two from Wonkette in one day. I certainly didn’t plan it. Both just went where others didn’t.
Hoo Boy! Kudos to Iowa – or at least to the Johnson County Board of Supervisors in Iowa. (I would like to set his mind at rest a little about the Evergreen shooting that day – the shooter killed himself, but only injured three students, all of whom are alive the least I heard, although one is probably still in critical conditions. Another was struck by the shooting but suffered minor injuries and is out of the hospital. A third was not injured by the shooter but suffered injuries while fleeing the scene. He was treated at the same hospital as the other two and released also.
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