germany has a federal government: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federalism_in_Germany

my first thought was “this headline is missing a ‘man,’ man.”

my kid who is potty-trained gets a bath every other day. the one in diapers gets one every day, because diapers. when they figure out how to not soil themselves, they get the carrot of less frequent baths.

i mix apple cider with seltzer and a splash of vinegar. 

“it did happen”

based on actual votes, she’s among the 20 furthest left congressional representatives out of 437 ranked by https://voteview.com/congress/house/-1/text so it’s not outlandish to suggest that she’s a progressive. 

the more correct description would be “this shit happens in every election; primary winners should expect that a small fraction of disillusioned voters will defect to the other party, and in 2016 specifically the number of primary voters who did so was (a) nothing out of the ordinary and (b) not *the* reason clinton…

i was just coming down here to say that line is the best. 

“[smith is] in a different league entirely as far as name recognition and draw.”

1. i love chimichurri sauce, but there’s no reason to slight worcestershire sauce. 

well said mr. jackson. rip to the gift. i liked a lot of his tracks, but the one i always think of first is “deep in the jungle” off melodica:

wait, so dna tests are capable of determining blackness? i thought from the is-warren-native-american debacle that dna tests don’t prove anything. 

“who else would be doing traffic stops?”

user name checks out. 

jfc, their case must have been monumentally weak if they couldn’t even convince thomas/kavanaugh/barret to join them. 

Despite the fact that someone else won the French Open (Barbora Krejčíková), the focus remains on Osaka.

reese: “Dominicans represent every color and shade imaginable.”

Shapiro and his team launched an investigation into how the attacker came into possession of duplicate keys for the apartment, the woman was moved to a hotel, the company brought her mother in from Australia, paid for her medical needs, and paid for the woman and her mother to travel back home. The monetary cherry on…

i think anyone who wants to come live in the u.s. should be allowed to do so, provided (a) they are not a felon, (b) they are not a terrorist, (c) they have been vaccinated or already contracted and gotten over covid-19, and (d) they promise to pay taxes.

given our electoral standing at present including the structural problems that democrats face (which are not only unlikely to be solved given the senate’s refusal to elide or end the filibuster to pass voting rights legislation, but will worsen due to census-spurred redistricting being undertaken in gop-controlled…