The Electoral College system has screwed Democrats (and, arguably, the country) on two elections.

Close call on the last one.
Time to do away with it, but we probably wouldn't be able to get the votes for the next couple of decades. But there does seem to be a way to make the Electoral College more democratic: the National Popular Vote interstate Compact.

"Young voters blocked the 'red wave'. Biden must deliver on student debt cancellation"

An intriguing article on how a more forceful stand on student debt cancellation would further energize young voters, and clinch the Senate race in Georgia for Warnock. Its also suggesting that Biden use a different tactic to achieve debt cancellation.

Well, I guess its official; my Maga-Qanon-loving cousin has been on FB, professing her undying love

for Ron DeSantis. And she lives in Tennessee.
"...this very night, before the rooster crows, you will deny me three times.”
No doubt, tfg woke up last night and called Malignant in the room down the hall.
"Did you hear a bird? I heard a bird. Made this awful sound THREE TIMES! Never heard anything like it!!"

I had watched two seasons of the Netflix series 'After Life', and was pleased to see a third.

Ricky Gervais' character is a pr..ck, and we try to overlook it, because, (1) he's a funny pr..ck and (2) his wife died, and he is still intensely in love with her. In the third series, he redeems himself, and in a way that feels strangely realistic.
Oh, and as a bonus, if anyone liked his 'Derek' series, he has kept most of the actors and their characters with him in 'After Life'.

So, in today's lexicon, a 'Fiscally-Conservative' Republican .......

is one who refuses to PAY for the abortion that he wants his girlfriend to get?

One of those theonion.com posts that seem TOTALLY possible!

An inspiring anti-fascist song, sung by two Iranian women without hijab:

Its starting to dawn on me, how a couple of my MAGA relatives have been dealing with the news

about their fuhrer's onslaught of legal problems. THEYRE NOT LISTENING TO THE NEWS!
Now, mind you, the couple that I'm still on speaking terms with, aren't among the ones who are threatening to riot in the streets. But their hero's transgressions ARE causing them some misgivings.
And they have told me bluntly, that "I quit listening to the news, its too depressing."
It may spell trouble for Fox, but, more importantly, it may spell trouble for the Republican Party. If their constituents aren't watching the news, then their messaging is not getting out. If they can't get out their message, then those constituents are going to sit home on election day.
Anyway, that's what I have observed, and that's my prediction. Not a riot in the streets, which some leaders seem to be encouraging, but a general desertion of the voting booths.

I know that folks here are elated at the prospect of Bloated Tick behind bars, but ....

and believe me, I hate to present this possibility -- is this when we find out that he wrote himself a pardon??
He knew full well that the missing documents wouldn't go unnoticed. And he still refused to return them, even after DOJ officials talked to him and his lawyers about the boxes of documents in the basement that he still possessed.
He may be dimwitted; but he knows how to stay out of jail.
So, I want to hear the opinions -- can TFG pull out a 'Get Out of Jail Free' card??

Holy crap! Flooding in Death Valley??

It was not called 'Death Valley' because of dangerous floods! At least, not until now.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/aug/10/death-valley-floods-climate-crisis