SLX 🇪🇺

Personal account - Stefan LX. RT's not endorsement. European by choice.

[SLX 🇪🇺 @TheExceptionGG]

After the announcement of the EU-US "deal" on tariffs, it's become clear that a change to a firmer, more clear-eyed leadership in the #EU needs to come. Someone needs to show their audacity to come out and say

"This is my leader @vonderleyen, and I'm ambitious for her"

[Lawrence Mower @lmower3]

Outgoing Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick launched a consulting firm to help clients with next year's legislative session.

But there's a two-year ban on lobbying for officeholders. 🤔

By @haajrahgilani:
https://t.co/6tX4IUIYKx

[Florida Data Geek ✝️🇺🇦🇬🇱🎃 @MappingFL]

In 1875, the Ku Klux Klan enacted the Mississippi Plan, which violently suppressed votes in state elections and drove out the last of the Reconstruction Government

https://t.co/5NVgT5rPgV

Now, Scott Colom will become the 1st Black Senator from Mississippi since reconstruction

[CNN @CNN]

Scott Colom will defeat Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith in a major upset to become the first Democrat that voters in deep-red Mississippi have elected to the chamber in more than four decades, CNN projects. https://t.co/LIrSavsJ01

[Zachary Donnini @ZacharyDonnini]

PROJECTION: Scott Colom defeats Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith in a historic upset in Mississippi, which Trump won by 23 points in 2024. The state’s last Black Senator was born a slave, and its last Democratic senator was a segregationist.

[Acyn @Acyn]

CNN PROJECTS THAT SCOTT COLOM WILL WIN MISSISSIPPI.

[Brandon Presley @BrandonPresley]

I’ll keep saying it until hell freezes over.

[SLX 🇪🇺 @TheExceptionGG]

@TheDeepsouthDem @pe_tsar Unless it was satire it was just literally not understanding how geography/law works. These counties are in state boundary region so they will always go to the same districts unless they are split Memphis-style.

[Atlanta Black Star @ATLBlackStar]

A Memphis reporter was let go just days after questioning Marsha Blackburn about Black residents, and the timing has viewers demanding answers.
https://t.co/Vj0XpSfElz

[SLX 🇪🇺 @TheExceptionGG]

@phillylefty @kkondik Winning it is hard but possible, but it won't give them chance to redraw. Rs can simply go out of state and deny quorum (just like Ds did before) and unlike Ds, Rs have unlimited money (from Musk) to stay out of state.

[PatriotTakes 🇺🇸 @patriottakes]

Wow

[Acyn @Acyn]

Raskin: Well, AOC and I have a $50 gift ban bill, which has been on the back burner for years under the Republicans.

In Congress, we are all governed by a $50 gift ban. And we can’t accept anything much more than a baseball cap. And most people are scared to do that. We just don’t take gifts.

Meantime, at the Supreme Court, they’re collecting hundreds of thousands or millions of dollars in so-called gifts from people who have a tremendous interest in the work of the Supreme Court. They take trips around the world. They take luxury vacations. They get, in Justice Thomas’s case, a $400,000 recreational vehicle, a motor coach.

I think Justice Thomas also picked up private school tuition for a great-nephew. I mean, just outrageous things. Members of Congress would go to jail for any of those things, and they’re just doing it.

So the $50 gift ban applies to Congress. It theoretically applies also to people in the executive branch, and it must apply to people in the judiciary, in the Supreme Court

[Florida Data Geek ✝️🇺🇦🇬🇱🎃 @MappingFL]

The reason Mississippi is taking so long is because of a large number of people needing to use provisional ballots after the SOS incorrectly flagged people to be removed from the rolls

Don't direct your anger at county clerks and poll works - direct it to the TOP!

[Christopher Hooks @cd_hooks]

Paxton famously did this with a much more substantive issue: he refused to defend the Texas Ethics Commission, which was seeking to hold his donors accountable, in court.

[SLX 🇪🇺 @TheExceptionGG]

@walkeri141 No, it hasn't been called not because Hinds could be red, but that no one is 100% sure that there are no ballots in red areas left. Even the local officials there don't know how many ballots are left in their areas, so can one blame the national networks?

[Max Blau (maxblau.bsky.social) @MaxBlau]

A Republican member of the election board in Forsyth County, Georgia, challenged dozens of midterm ballots, claiming four were cast by dead people.

@Propublica found all four are alive.

My latest, w/@DougBockClark and @msweetharris: https://t.co/xzHlRaXhHv #gapol

[Holly Bullard @HollyBullardFL]

This was not a secret; many of us were pointing out IN AUGUST that Amendment 3 may back communities into a corner to allow data centers

[Jason Shelton @jasonformiss]

Mississippi “conservatives” have been fighting this moment for over 130 years … expect them to make it more difficult to vote, not easier, when the legislature returns to session.

[Mohammed Khader @MohammedKhaderr]

Mississippi is the poorest state in the nation, and Mississippians have the lowest average credit scores in the nation.

Watson knew that using Experian to effectively disenfranchise people would impact this election. He has no place in any elected office or position of power.

[sтevan ⚕️🧼 @ImStevan]

they literally changed their name and will be forced to change their constitution and STILL not be able to join. it is kind of a miracle that they're still pursuing membership at this point

[Jonathan Allen @alldspeed]

"District 5, which includes Jackson State University, accepted 181 affidavit ballots and rejected 482."

If Michael Watson intended to disproportionately disenfranchise young voters such as college students, then the 26th Amendment can enter the chat.