No, it will take 4. In the case of a tie, Pence is a tie-breaker vote, and he will obviously vote to appoint.

And they’ve said things like that before. Then they capitulate when they get the right offer.

I’m looking for hope anywhere right now, and this gave me some. Thank you.

DO NOT GIVE UP HOPE

This is a very interesting point that I hadn’t thought of before. It is kind of insane that there’s a job at the highest level of our government where people work until they die.

I am just going to say this but she should have retired in 2014 when the Dems still held the Senate and she knew she had end stage pancreatic cancer. She was an icon but that doesn’t mean she didn’t fuck us totally by not stepping down. 

Yes! In my work in healthcare, I will be literally assaulted and my only recourse is to calmly diffuse the situation and then explore with the medical team if there is something we can do within the bounds of ethics to calm the patient down. As much as it sucks, the idea that I could get amped up and fight back in…

They’re not even first in first responder deaths. Most years EMTs are MURDERED more on the street than Police Officers. And they’re defenseless. To say nothing of firefighters that come damn near close, also sometimes beating officer deaths. But when you include retirement deaths from cancer and other occupation…

And once again let’s remind everyone that statistically being a police officer is not nearly as dangerous as many other professions. 

Beth’s explaner worries me because it’s more than two sentences and requires the person listening to have a basic understanding of causality. So, it’s not likely to actually convince anyone who needs convincing. 

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Thanks for this Beth. I’ve had to endure a weekend of armchair-epidemiologists on social media passing this around and I was looking forward to finding out how this was being misinterpreted (almost everyone sharing it was basically using the “let young, healthy people do whatever they want, this isn’t a deadly…

Assassin’s Creed Origins is much better than Odyssey in little details like that.

Jesus CHRIST Ubisoft, what the hell is wrong with you?! I went into this article assuming it would just be a case of them using something a graphic or imagery similar to the raised-fist in a poorly thought out or negative context that somebody should have noticed and scrapped ahead of time. But the fact that the whole…

I’m finally playing Assassin’s Creed Origins (yes, not the last one, but the one before that). One of the things I noticed is that after a battle, left over enemies take their fallen comrades into their camps instead of leaving them lying around. Never seen that in any game before.

Qualitatively different when you cast a black character as a white guy, I think.

HBO Max due to contract issues

I’m torn on this one. Security experts have been calling out TikTok for months now, so banning it, or getting it out of Chinese control isn’t unwarranted. However, his insistence that the Treasury gets a piece is pure corruption.

This might literally just be happening because k-pop teens on TikTok embarrassed him.

This was a wasted opportunity to finally get some answers on what happened to Skeeter.