Oof:
«On Monday, the AP fired James LaPorta, the investigative reporter responsible for that story….
It is unclear who edited LaPorta’s reporting in question or whether they faced any discipline for the error.»
https://www.thedailybeast.com/ap-fires-reporter-behind-retracted-russian-missiles-story
«…and a general indifference by Russian commanders toward getting the details right doomed what many thought would be easy advance on Kyiv.»
https://www.businessinsider.com/russian-ew-campaign-in-ukraine-undermined-by-electronic-fratricide-2022-11
WSJ with some numbers:
«Republicans have won nearly 5.5 million more votes in House races than have Democrats, a tally by the nonpartisan Cook Political Report finds, as many voters were motivated by anxiety over high inflation and a low opinion of President Biden’s response.»
https://www.wsj.com/articles/why-independent-voters-broke-for-democrats-in-the-midterms-11668249002
Emphasis mine. Horseshit WSJ’s (probably). I believe a lot of us are unthinking racists, in that we parrot the thoughts placed in our heads by more clever racists.
«Nationally, Republican candidates this year had the advantage of a favorable voter mix. Some 49% of midterm voters were Republicans, and 43% were Democrats, a 6-point GOP advantage, AP VoteCast, a large survey of the midterm electorate, found.»
«Undercutting the GOP advantage was that independents favored Democrats by 4 points nationally, the survey found, and by a far more substantial 18 points in Pennsylvania, 28 points in Georgia and more than 30 points in Arizona.»
«Jennifer Borzone, 52, a stay-at-home mother in Phoenix, said she voted for Mr. Trump in 2016 and couldn’t remember whom she voted for in 2020.»
COULDN’T REMEMBER???
GTFO.
«In North Carolina, Republicans outnumbered Democrats by 7 percentage points in the midterm voter pool, and the victorious GOP Rep. Ted Budd limited his loss among independents to 9 points, a narrower deficit than for many other GOP Senate candidates.»
Thanks, fellow Tarheels. We could’ve had a well-qualified senator, but now you’ve given us a putz.
«There was no fraud in the 2020 election widespread enough to change the result,
federal officials have said»
HEY, #WSJ!! You could’ve just struck that last part, right??
«Independent voters have been an essential ingredient in both parties’ successful campaigns to win control of the House. Republicans carried independents by 14 points in 1994 and by 19 points in 2010, when they claimed the speaker’s gavel, Mr. Winston said. Democrats won independents by 18 points in 2006 and 12 points in 2018, years when they reclaimed control of the House.»
The mushy middle!
Update: why I called the WSJ’s editorializing horseshit:
Republicans may had a red wave in NC, but nationally, looks like Cook’s “red ripple” scenario is what happened. Fetterman in PA, of course, but also OH-13 was *D+5*, according to https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/11/08/us/elections/results-ohio-us-house-district-13.html.
Sigh….
Ok, it’s a red year in NC, but, seriously, Dems: judgeships matter. These folks are going to be making rulings on election law.
«It’s the second election in a row Republicans have swept the statewide judicial races. Democrats held six of the seven Supreme Court seats heading into the 2020 elections. But after Republicans won all three races in 2020, and then both seats this year, the court will now have a five-seat GOP majority.»
https://www.newsobserver.com/news/politics-government/election/article268185877.html#storylink=cpy
North Carolina’s abortion rights saved by one seat in the state house of representatives. (Probably.) Elections matter.
https://www.newsobserver.com/news/politics-government/election/article268204282.html
This is good:
I just subscribed to Platformer. We’ll see how this plays out. https://www.platformer.news/?utm_medium=web&utm_campaign=pss
Oh, look, somebody had a thought four years ahead of me and better, besides.
#twitterpocalypse #mastodonScaling
«Maybe having a team of moderators living in multiple time zones should just be considered the “cost of doing business” when running an instance. Like security features, it’s not a cost that pays visible dividends every single day, but in the event of a sudden coordinated attack it could make the difference between a good experience and a horrible experience.
Perhaps more instances should consider having paid moderators. mastodon.social already pays its moderation team via the main Mastodon Patreon page. Another possible model is for an independent moderator to be employed by multiple instances and get paid through their own Patreon page.»
https://nolanlawson.com/2018/08/31/mastodon-and-the-challenges-of-abuse-in-a-federated-system/
https://carlchenet.com/get-your-rss-feeds-to-mastodon-with-the-feed2toot-bot/
Maybe I should try this, instead, but GEEZ, why is this so hard?
Here, Read This 