I can’t believe there’s no photos

Shame.

Suozzi NY-03 Apologized, regrets vote

Henry Cuellar TX-28 pardoned for bribery by trump

Don Davis NC-01 no primary, no challenger

Laura Gillen NY-04 primary challengers https://www.govtrack.us/congress/members/laura_gillen/457010 https://ballotpedia.org/Nicholas_Sciretta

Jared Golden ME-02 not running for re-election

Vincente Gonzalez TX-34 primary challengers https://www.govtrack.us/congress/members/vicente_gonzalez/412725 https://ballotpedia.org/Etienne_Rosas

Sorry this is bad paste from my spreadsheet, and doesn’t include the links.

But only two of these even have primary challengers.

How so?

I fly enough to hit “gold” status on major airlines, and have seen the transition from the shit-show that was TSA initially into a universally smooth and fast process.

I think a lot of people don’t truly know the chaos that was pre-TSA screening. Do you recall being stuck in an aircraft at the gate, because the airline had to unload luggage for a passenger that hadn’t boarded?

For a long time after 9/11 the only airport operating smoothly was DCA (Congress uses DCA)

But for the last dozen or more years, things have only gotten smoother, everywhere.

I passed through JFK screening in less than 22 minutes a few weeks ago.

Nah, typical 2A “enthusiasts” care a lot more about whether that person was carrying a firearm legally, under whatever applicable laws. In some states, that is no law at all. In MN, it’s a permit.

Granted, a lot of Republican gun owners would make a racially biased assumption that a Somali migrant is less likely to have a proper permit, and those same folks have a lot more benefit-of-doubt for fellow white males.

But, in my lived experience as a strongly left-leaning person embedded quite deeply in US gun culture, all of those folks would see themselves in the shoes of any man, of any race, in Pretti’s situation.

You might not think that’s any better than a racial bias, because it’s an in-group bias.

The trick to getting people to be outraged about your murder hasn’t much to do with being black or white or brown

It’s mostly about the murder being on-camera, from multiple angles, filmed by people and released to public scrutiny immediately

As well as it being very extremely clear that it was an unnecessary killing, a deliberate murder.

So, if you’re gonna get killed next week, please make sure there are plenty of witnesses with cameras all around you.

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Seventy comments and not one soul has defended Perl…

Does an invasion/attack by one NATO member trigger an Article 5 response against that country by the remainder of NATO?

I am sure that this scenario has been imagined before (ahem Greece v. Turkey)

Yes absolutely Alder (the “security volunteer”) was wrong and wholly responsible for his actions.

He fired his weapon and killed a person. He is responsible for that action.