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For #Caturday today I am celebrating the Old Man Cat. He's cranky, but he still demands cuddles.
Love him!
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Karoline Leavitt said that the ballroom will be a "much-needed and exquisite addition" to the White House, seating up to 650 people.Randy DeSoto (The Western Journal)
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Two senior Indian officials said that there had been no change in policy, according to the NYT report.Reuters (DAWN.COM)
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TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Several major Israeli sports websites were hacked overnight in a coordinated cyberattack that broadcast messages of support for Gaza and condemned Israel’s ongoing genocide.Tasnim News Agency
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Chargers LB Denzel Perryman arrested on weapons charges and remains in jail
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A senior Israeli official said earlier this week that Israel and the U.S. increasingly agree on shifting from a partial hostage deal approach to one requiring a full hostage release, Hamas' disarmament and Gaza's demilitarizationLiza Rozovsky (Haaretz)
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Except that's not how the House of Representatives work.
The House represents the People in Congress, which is why each State has a certain number of Representatives based on population/ Census.
The Senate represents the State in Congress. That's why every State from... California to Rhode Island... has two Senators. Each State is treated equally. It's also why DC has Representatives and so does Puerto Rico, Guam, and American Samoa, but they don't have Senators because they're not States.
Let's also not forget that our Country is not one monolithic Country. We are a Republic of 50 sovereign States.
I'm not defending anything but until our constitution changes that's what we've got.
Also, you mention it was a system designed to ensure slavery could continue. I disagree.
Of course our Constitution considered slaves to only be 3/5 of a person (and thus had less representation in Congress), once the 14th amendment was ratified the 3/5ths compromise was nullified.
You are conflating the electoral college with Congress. One has absolutely nothing to do with the other except the electors are the sum of our Senators (100) and Representatives (435) + 3 electors for the District of Columbia.
That's what historically (prior to the 14th amendment) been used to ensure that slave states had more power and sway than non-slave states.
Now, I don't disagree with your opinion that what we have today fucking sucks. But I'm going to call bullshit when I see it and when someone espouses that someone in Wyoming has more proportional representation than someone in New York well that's just plain bullshit.
Wyoming has (1) Representative in Congress. (1) Representative for The People.
@gme You started this by talking down to me about the house of representatives after I mentioned the senate.
Also, equating ovaries to womanhood when responding to a trans woman is certainly a thing you chose to do, my dude.
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I wasn't talking down to you. Nice of you to infer intent from a couple of bytes of UTF-8 encoded text.
My reply to you was in response to this statement:
Imagine telling someone that they deserve the same representation in the senate as a couple acres of empty land.
In fact I made a conscious effort not to assume you were talking about the electoral college in case you were meant to say the House (because you used the word "representation").
The Electoral College doesn't represent our votes when we go to the polls, it represents our State's votes. Which is why it's up to our States to choose the electors they want to send.
And being trans has absolutely fuck-all to do with any of this. Jesus. Until you just posted that I had no idea any of you were trans and frankly I could give a shit.
And I'm sorry sister but not everything is about you.
When I said if I had ovaries I'd say the exact same thing it's because I have testicles. I was talking about myself. A statement (and fact) that had fuck-all to do with any of you.
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Dan Quinn says he's glad Terry McLaurin remains a presence at Commanders camp amid contract dispute
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Luka Doncic agrees to a contract extension through 2028 with the Lakers, committing to his new team
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Aaron Glenn gets emotional as the reality of being the Jets' head coach 'hit me pretty hard'
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“NEW BOMBSHELLS IN THE RUSSIA COLLUSION HOAX”
The fucking capitalist parasites at #manchesterairport are now charging a MINIMUM OF £5 JUST TO STOP AND DROP SOMEONE OFF, even if you only star there for 10seconds
and if you dune call them and pay it in the same day, you'll be charged a £50 penalty
what fucking c*nts.
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Fans of art nouveau design may be surprised to learn that the Prints & Photographs Division has more than a dozen striking images by the man widely credited as the originator of the style -- Czech artist Alphonse Mucha -- in the collections.The Library of Congress
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Bloomberg journalist Jason Leopold reported this morning that the president’s name has been redacted from more than 100,000 documents the FBI has on child-sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein.John Stoehr (Alternet.org)
The politically divided state of New Hampshire has adopted legislation banning sex change surgeries and puberty blockers for minors The law applies to all surgical and chemical procedures intended toAnugrah Kumar (The Christian Post)
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