This is what ranked-choice voting is designed to do. In Alaska’s gubernatorial race, the Republican vote has split three ways, meaning that when all is said and done the lone Democrat will win—in a state that went for Trump by 13 points two years ago. The purpose of RCV is to elect Democrats. You’d think my fellow Alaska voters would have figured that out by now. Guess not.

There is this misconception that I am against the players and I am for the owners in the next CBA negotiations.. I am actually FOR the 95% of players that DO NOT get represented well enough by the MLBPA. Yes, I know the owners are basically only wanting a Cap because it will help increase their profits, but it will also help the mid-tier players more and the small market fan base WAY MORE because it will create more income for those guys and a more competitive balance in the league.

APOLOGIES IN ADVANCE TO ANY TENANTS READING THIS, BUT I’M NOT STAYING QUIET. I’ve housed you for four years at $1,750 a month. You’ve never been late. You’ve never trashed it. You’ve been a solid tenant. Then I sent the renewal: rent’s going up $275. YES. You’ve paid me almost $84,000 over four years. That money covered the mortgage (which I’m still on the hook for if anything goes wrong), property taxes that keep rising, insurance premiums that have jumped hard, maintenance and repairs that cost more every year, and all the other costs of keeping the place habitable and legal. The equity and any portfolio growth come from the capital I put in, the risk I took, and the fact that I own the asset, not from the rent check itself. You’re the one writing the check every month for the right to live there. At the end of it, you own nothing because you didn’t buy it, finance it, or take on the ownership risks. I did. If the roof fails, the HVAC dies, a pipe bursts, taxes go up again, insurance spikes, or you leave and it sits vacant, that’s on me. A $275 increase isn’t “because the market lets me.” It’s because the costs of providing the housing have gone up, insurance, taxes, labor, materials, compliance. Recent data shows typical homeowners paying ~$1,380 a month just in maintenance, taxes, and insurance on top of the mortgage, with insurance up sharply over the last several years. Apartment owners have been keeping only about 11 cents of every rent dollar after debt service, operations, taxes, and the rest. Expenses have often risen faster than rents. Stop treating landlords like a free housing subscription that never has rising costs. The rent pays for the use of the property and the service of ownership. The equity belongs to the person who bought it and bears the risk. If you want a version where some of the money eventually becomes yours, buy your own home.

We have continued to dig into the root cause here and would like to offer an update. Our engineering team discovered that the spike that triggered the incorrect enforcement was primarily in the account’s “reading” behavior. Specifically, our network security systems detected the use of a Claude tool reading profiles, posts, and hashtags, the rate of which sharply increased (~4x volume) in intense bursts on October 17. These abrupt, high-volume, sequential requests in a short period resembled automated bot traffic rather than an ordinary human browsing our systems. This activity caused our automated protections to incorrectly take the No Kings Instagram account offline. An automated re-review of the removal action an hour later recognized that shouldn’t have happened and restored the account. It unfortunately took additional time for us to straighten out the situation with admin access to the IG account. We want to reiterate our sincere apology for the error.

I don’t know what is worse. That Abdul El Sayed was asked point blank by a Michigander if he would disavow the Muslim Brotherhood and spent three minutes REFUSING TO DO SO… Or that a room full of Democrat socialists cheered as he did so.

The Democrats have led the charge on this type of censorship!! They’ve gone to bat repeatedly at almost every level of government to argue that content that’s vaguely political aka “harmful to children” should be censored/banned. This is the world that *YOU* want to live in.

No, it 100% is not, and that is a good thing.

Katie Zacharia has a law degree from Pepperdine University. When the New York Times wrote about Jill Biden calling herself a doctor, they reported that criticism of her was "blatantly sexist and underscored the way men often dismiss women's credentials."

I’ll take @ellalangleymsic over Kacey Musgraves any day. And if I’m choosin’ Texas, I’ll take Ken Paxton over James Talarico.

🚨BREAKING: GOP lawyer Cleta Mitchell and convicted election denier Tina Peters are pushing a scheme to have Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick seize voting machines, as part of a broader effort for the Trump administration to interfere with the midterms. democracydocket.com/news-ale…

Went to Costco for groceries, walked past the cheese aisle, and checked Tillamook myself. Yeah… it's on the package. Done with them.

JUST IN: Flock Safety demands the removal of a vibecoded map exposing the locations of 300,000+ surveillance devices nationwide.

a certain cub has these numbers in high leverage this season .268/.375/.634 170 wRC+.... you are probably going yeah that's PCA... no his are better. this cub.........is Ian Happ.