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We had an amnesty deal forty years ago. The democrats slowly clawed it back until we got the mess we are in now. If there was one thing you could blame the turmoil we've had the past ten years on, it's the inability of the democrats to adhere to the immigration deal they made back in 1986. Immigration put Trump into office twice.

Alaska uses ranked choice voting for statewide races. So, we won't have the results until at best the end of the week, probably monday or tuesday. But, its looks that the Republicans will hold it unless those who voted for the other Republican candidate ranked the Democrat candidate second. There were two Republicans , a Democrat and an independent on the ballot, the survivors of the primary which had sixteen candidates. As for Mississippi, I have no idea what the delay is.

I've been holding off in saying this until I had a better look at the seat gains. From what I see, the "Blue Tsunami" was probably the worst thing to happen for progressives. A milder blue wave would have been better in that the extra gains are for the most part, normie democrats with a good number being blue dog types. AOC is just seeing the same thing I see, Jefferies gets the speakership without a single progressive caucus member vote. She has to play in if she is even going to maintain what influence she had before the election. You cannot make demands without leverage. The slimmer the margin, the more potential for AOC to get concessions. We all saw how much Johnson had to cave in to various elements of his party because he had such a slim margin. Jefferies can do whatever he wants, and doesn't need AOC and her block of votes to do it.

We actually don't know how easy it was to do. The technology has only been around about ten years. The technology is very valuable as it detects malfunctioning at early stages. It use to be the minor leaking in the system would not be detected for a couple years when the problem became full system failure and required major repair. I remember it use to be my local grocer had a problem with a unit it was out of service for a week or two. Now you never see a unit out for more than a day. Having the units connected to the internet just makes it easier to monitor in a central location.

It's the control circuits that are connected to the internet to allow large grocers to detect equipment malfunctions and monitor temperatures. Overall it saves them as they can immediately respond to a breakdown and not rely on individual stores detecting the breakdown and requesting a repair crew. The repair crew could be on their way before the store realizes they have a problem.

Landlords get a bad reputation because bad actors drive the news cycle and are what generates internet traffic and thus generates profit. You only hear about the bad ones, and for the most part it's the worst ones as their story is more engaging.

Three days is what it would take to initially recover from a very extensive cyber attack. Just imagine the chaos created by a general outage of internet/communication infrastructure. There may be a plan for recovery, but it would take a few days to implement. This preparation would lessen the impact of the outage.

The connectivity allows the corporation to respond quickly to equipment malfunction. A unit malfunctions, they can assign a repair crew and have the store quickly move the product out of the unit within minutes. The flaw is on the company who makes the controllers, they failed to test how secure their units were. Connecting to the internet isn't the problem, the problem is the failure to realize the internet is not secure. I'm willing to bet there are probably more security functions on my phone than were on those refrigerator controllers.

It's the company's 80th anniversary this year. And the usual, the Today show producer lied about what the interview was for, and once the cameras are rolling the "gotcha" happens. The repeated harping on the same question is a clear indication this was a set-up. And the media people wonder why they are so despised.

Won't matter. There are enough moderate Democratic senators to get another Trump nominee like Barrett in. While Alito backers won't like it, they are smart enough to realize that is the best they will get.

Bathroom and locker room sharing by gender identity with no alternative cis gender restricted facilities.

The Biden administration Title IX rule is one of the reasons anti-trans sentiment has grown in the US. It gave school administrators the ability to completely ignore parents' concerns and implement policies with zero parental input.

States decide if they will use the SAVE system to find non-citizens that are improperly registered. Most states do this because it is an easy way to keep their voter registration clean. The SAVE system has been used for years(over 40 years) for this, but was revamped by the Trump administration to use more federal government data sources. The main part that the original judge questioned when they made their initial decision was the use of the Social Security database, the most comprehensive database the government has. As far as being flawed, most cases it is people who gain citizenship and fail to inform the SSA of their change of status. Since Social Security is available no matter your immigration status, many people don't think they have to tell the SSA they are now citizens. The state runs their list through SAVE and the person gets flagged as a non-citizen.

FIFA women's world cup next year. Brazil is hosting. Mega hit probably already recorded and video in the works.

I think many people forget that RCP just consolidates all polling and presents an average. If you look at the underlying polls, three of the four have Flannagan up with one tied. All have the candidate numbers well within the MOE of the poll. Makes sense to score this as a toss up at this point. Maybe the polls will firm up after the debates, if Tafoya agrees to any.

He said applicants, so it implies at least twice.

Not according to the Biden administration and the US press. They dragged everyone who said it was a recession.

JBS also processes chickens, pigs, sheep and salmon, along with beef. The parent company, JBS N.V., is probably the largest owner of meat processing companies in the world.

No, as China is also pushing their own AI program. Some in intelligence have speculated China is secretly fueling the current anti-AI wave in the US to slow our progress in AI.

There isn't. The federal government has zero say as to how primaries are held. Primaries are actually run by the states at the behest of the political parties and fall exclusively under state law. Primary elections have only been around since the 1910's.

No, they dropped the Trump stuff because it totally relied on Cohen's testimony, which they determined to be probably not entirely true. This is just confirmation of what they suspected back in 2022. This could just be his own personal closure for that chapter of his life since he no longer is able to make money off of it.

She started Mothers Demand Action, a organization based on Mother Against Drunk Driving but aimed at countering NRA lobbying on gun laws. That was a dozen years ago and she stepped back from leadership there in 2023 and the organization is part of Everytown for Gun Safety. She is still considered a voice in the suburban moderate mom crowd and still is on the advisory board of Everytown for Gun Safety.

Prisons have a store, usually they are buying cigarettes and snacks. That pay rate is actually on the upper end of the range for prison work. At least they are indoors and aren't on a roadside maintenance crew.

Most likely anything beyond one year would require an actual law passed by the city council. As it is now, there barely enough council support to get some of the more basic parts of his agenda through the council.

Mostly it would be for the occupation. It would not be difficult to land and overrun the country, that is what the current US forces are built to do. The hard part is maintaining control of an area once it's taken and the advance moves on. Remember, Iran has been a training ground for many organizations that are considered to be terrorist groups. The expectation is there will significant Iranian forces who will just go underground and make select small attacks behind the frontlines, and in many cases these actions could cause significantly more casualties than the actual frontline fighting. This has been the long history of war in the middle east, easy initial victories followed by long unsuccessful campaigns to maintain control.