it’s amazing how many of those profiles have a sentence like this:
He voted against certifying the last election and signed on to an amicus brief urging the US supreme court to throw out valid electoral votes.
i think i got the numbers from the senate stuck in my head, and didn’t fully realize how many in the house voted against certification:
In a vote Wednesday evening, 6 Republicans in the Senate and 121 in the House backed objections to certifying Arizona’s electoral outcome, while 7 Senate Republicans and 138 House Republicans supported an objection to certifying Pennsylvania’s electoral outcome.
(erg. that should have been a reply to mindysan33. sorry! )
eta:
Dan Meuser… said he would enter the race if Jordan couldn’t muster enough votes. “I’m considering it because I’m not gonna let this kindergarten continue. I’ll do it."
A draft version being circulated for feedback says in part that universities may not spend public money on activities that “advocate for diversity, equity and inclusion” or “promote or engage in political or social activism.”
It says political or social activism is “any activity organized with a purpose of effecting or preventing change to a government policy, action, or function, or any activity intended to achieve a desired result related to social issues, where the university endorses or promotes a position in communications, advertisements, programs, or campus activities.”
Social issues are defined as “topics that polarize or divide society among political, ideological, moral, or religious beliefs, positions, or norms.”
“I can’t think of anything that doesn’t,” said Gerard Solis, general counsel for the University of South Florida. Speaking to USF’s faculty senate on Thursday, he questioned whether that wording could prohibit commentary surrounding events like Black History Month or even American Pharmacists Month, which is observed in October.
The document is “absolutely horrific” and goes beyond what the legislation required, said Andrew Gothard, president of United Faculty of Florida, the statewide faculty union.
“It limits ways for students to be active members of society and speak their minds, regardless of where they fall on the political spectrum,” he said.
for desantis, et.al. that is the main feature, the purpose to these fascist “laws”. don’t think. don’t speak. don’t act. and above all, don’t say gay. it’s the floridumbass way.
so anything related to lobbying or petitioning government as well as “social policy”
from the one box:
Critics say a proposed regulation is too broad and could inhibit free speech
how brave of the editors. i mean good on them for reporting on it, but still… in this case, “experts”, “reasonable people”, or even just “the regulation will.” there’s really no need for them to couch obvious facts
Former “Dancing With the Stars” host Tom Bergeron reunited with dancer and franchise veteran Cheryl Burke on the latter’s “Sex, Lies, and Spray Tans” podcast (via Entertainment Weekly) and reflected on his tumultuous exit from the long-running ABC reality competition series. Bergeron was the original host of the program and led the show for 28 seasons. He parted ways with “DWTS” after the 2019 season because the show executives did not listen to his advice about staying out of politics and cast Sean Spicer, the hugely controversial former press secretary for President Donald Trump, to compete.
“In the summer of 2019, I had two lunches — one with that showrunner person and another one with his boss,” Bergeron remembered. “I said, ‘Well look, 2019 is the threshold to an election year in America, we are a very divided country. Just nobody, of any party, don’t go there — just make us the wonderful escape from all that divisiveness for two hours a week.”
“And then a few weeks later, I get a phone call,” he continued. “And they rundown the list of who is going to be on the show, and this former showrunner says to me, ‘You might want to sit down for this last one.’ And then they told me who it was, the former press guy for Trump. I said, ‘Guys, this is exactly what we said we wouldn’t do. Don’t go there. This is not the right time, play to our strengths, be the show that gives people a break from all this bullshit.”
I don’t know anything about Bergeron’s politics, but DWTS has been my guilty pleasure for over a decade now. I don’t know why he was let go, but it certainly wasn’t for the quality of his work or anything he did or said on the show. He was replaced with Tyra Banks, who I like, but who did not do a good job. She has now been replaced with Alphonso Ribeiro, who is doing fine. I’m glad to hear Bergeron had some common sense about such things. I love the show, but the political “celebrities” they’ve had have never been a good idea. They’ve had three, not counting Jerry Springer. They are Tom Delay, Rick Perry, and Sean Spicer. Always a right winger trying to soften their image, I guess.
For some reason there are all these things that seem obvious to everyone except the people who go on tv and write op-eds, and then we try to retcon that they were unforeseeable instead of replacing those people.
Word is Emmer failed to get the 117 votes in the closed door vote to see how many would support him on the floor. If we get a vote today, he will almost certainly fail. The MAGA wing refuses to support him.
i mean good on them for reporting on it, but still… in this case, “experts”, “reasonable people”, or even just “the regulation will.” there’s really no need for them to couch obvious facts 
