So Sanchez and his minority Socialist government are now puppets of Catalan nationalists in order to hold onto power.
That will also likely lead to a further backlash to the PP and Vox from Spanish patriots.
What could have happened here in the UK in 2015 had Ed Miliband led a minority Labour government reliant on SNP support has now literally happened in Spain
That door swings both ways. 2017 May coalitioned with the DUP.
Unless they have air superiority. So - when will the F-16s actually turn up?
They are currently in hangars in Skrydstrup, Denmark and Charleroi, Belgium.
The plan of record was to deliver 6 this year, 8 in 2024 and 5 in 2025. That 6 this year is looking very unlikely. I expect there is a great deal of arguing about money going on behind the scenes.
How may US states would vote against abortion if they had a vote on it like Ohio did yesterday?
Probably Alabama, Arkansas, Indiana, Kentucky and Louisiana, Mississippi, North Dakota, South Carolina, Tennessee, Utah and West Virginia and maybe Missouri, South Dakota and Texas
How may US states would vote against abortion if they had a vote on it like Ohio did yesterday?
Probably Alabama, Arkansas, Indiana, Kentucky and Louisiana, Mississippi, North Dakota, South Carolina, Tennessee, Utah and West Virginia and maybe Missouri, South Dakota and Texas
The UK’s largest commercial news publisher Reach has announced massive further redundancies, with 450 jobs going.
The restructure will see the publisher merge print and digital teams on its national and regional titles in a drive toward “future audience-led publishing”. Some of the newer regional “Live” websites are to be closed.
The UK’s largest commercial news publisher Reach has announced massive further redundancies, with 450 jobs going.
The restructure will see the publisher merge print and digital teams on its national and regional titles in a drive toward “future audience-led publishing”. Some of the newer regional “Live” websites are to be closed.
The UK’s largest commercial news publisher Reach has announced massive further redundancies, with 450 jobs going.
The restructure will see the publisher merge print and digital teams on its national and regional titles in a drive toward “future audience-led publishing”. Some of the newer regional “Live” websites are to be closed.
Second World War tweets from 1939 @RealTimeWWII · 3h Adolf Hitler is beginning a speech in the Bürgerbräukeller beer hall, Munich, to celebrate anniversary of attempted Nazi coup (the "Beer Hall Putsch") in 1923. In the pillar behind him is a concealed bomb, set to go off in just over an hour.
The UK’s largest commercial news publisher Reach has announced massive further redundancies, with 450 jobs going.
The restructure will see the publisher merge print and digital teams on its national and regional titles in a drive toward “future audience-led publishing”. Some of the newer regional “Live” websites are to be closed.
No money in news generally, but you really do need local news. If for nothing else it actually helps with a sense of local community in this disconnected world. And people really need to know what is going on!
How may US states would vote against abortion if they had a vote on it like Ohio did yesterday?
Probably Alabama, Arkansas, Indiana, Kentucky and Louisiana, Mississippi, North Dakota, South Carolina, Tennessee, Utah and West Virginia and maybe Missouri, South Dakota and Texas
I was going to say "the Confederacy" but then I saw the Dakotas.
Florida and Virginia are also pro choice on abortion
I saw that (Florida) earlier and I don't know how to interpret it. Is it:
1. A real phenomenon. It is pro-choice 2. A mirage. It is pro-life but appears pro-choice temporarily until court cases are resolved 3. An artefact. It is a measurement error
How may US states would vote against abortion if they had a vote on it like Ohio did yesterday?
Probably Alabama, Arkansas, Indiana, Kentucky and Louisiana, Mississippi, North Dakota, South Carolina, Tennessee, Utah and West Virginia and maybe Missouri, South Dakota and Texas
I was going to say "the Confederacy" but then I saw the Dakotas.
Florida and Virginia are also pro choice on abortion
I saw that (Florida) earlier and I don't know how to interpret it. Is it:
1. A real phenomenon. It is pro-choice 2. A mirage. It is pro-life but appears pro-choice temporarily until court cases are resolved 3. An artefact. It is a measurement error
Probably 1, lots of rich liberals in Florida and it is a swing state not a solid red state
So Sanchez and his minority Socialist government are now puppets of Catalan nationalists in order to hold onto power.
That will also likely lead to a further backlash to the PP and Vox from Spanish patriots.
What could have happened here in the UK in 2015 had Ed Miliband led a minority Labour government reliant on SNP support has now literally happened in Spain
I do enjoy your ignorance of Spanish politics. Sanchez has done a deal to get elected PM, not for a programme of government. Junts has no power to bring him down once he is PM. They cease to have leverage over him. Hence the hard bargaining now. The Spanish system is not comparable to the UK’s.
No surprise that the 'states rights' thing was bullshit from the start.
J.D. Vance, the Ohio GOP senator, says Republicans need to shift their approach on abortion and begin to embrace federal legislation -- namely a 15-week ban with exceptions.
How may US states would vote against abortion if they had a vote on it like Ohio did yesterday?
Probably Alabama, Arkansas, Indiana, Kentucky and Louisiana, Mississippi, North Dakota, South Carolina, Tennessee, Utah and West Virginia and maybe Missouri, South Dakota and Texas
I was going to say "the Confederacy" but then I saw the Dakotas.
Florida and Virginia are also pro choice on abortion
I saw that (Florida) earlier and I don't know how to interpret it. Is it:
1. A real phenomenon. It is pro-choice 2. A mirage. It is pro-life but appears pro-choice temporarily until court cases are resolved 3. An artefact. It is a measurement error
Probably 1, lots of rich liberals in Florida and it is a swing state not a solid red state
Possibly, but rich people tend to be older people and hence less likely to be pregnant/impregnate somebody. Plus the influx of Hispanics who tend to be Catholic would make it more anti-abortion. It could be part of the trend where the US is becoming less religious, but...
...well in the end if it's happening, it's happening. Reality does not bend to my will. But it does puzzle me.
No surprise that the 'states rights' thing was bullshit from the start.
J.D. Vance, the Ohio GOP senator, says Republicans need to shift their approach on abortion and begin to embrace federal legislation -- namely a 15-week ban with exceptions.
All I say say is Marge Greene did a really long thread this morning with her analysis of what went wrong and how to fix it and I hope every Republican candidate follows her advice to the letter. https://twitter.com/RonFilipkowski/status/1722261902183813504
The UK’s largest commercial news publisher Reach has announced massive further redundancies, with 450 jobs going.
The restructure will see the publisher merge print and digital teams on its national and regional titles in a drive toward “future audience-led publishing”. Some of the newer regional “Live” websites are to be closed.
No money in news generally, but you really do need local news. If for nothing else it actually helps with a sense of local community in this disconnected world. And people really need to know what is going on!
How to fund it though?
Internet killed classified ads which paid for local journalism.
Pick up a local paper 30 years ago and there was pages of the stuff - 2nd hand cars, jobs etc etc..
Note that young people are pulling away in droves from Biden according to this week's Siena college poll. They want to live under Trump's authoritarian government.
The UK’s largest commercial news publisher Reach has announced massive further redundancies, with 450 jobs going.
The restructure will see the publisher merge print and digital teams on its national and regional titles in a drive toward “future audience-led publishing”. Some of the newer regional “Live” websites are to be closed.
No money in news generally, but you really do need local news. If for nothing else it actually helps with a sense of local community in this disconnected world. And people really need to know what is going on!
How to fund it though?
Internet killed classified ads which paid for local journalism.
Pick up a local paper 30 years ago and there was pages of the stuff - 2nd hand cars, jobs etc etc..
I think it's dead. Even I get most of my news for free. The government funding local democracy reporters was a good idea, but I don't think it will save things.
How may US states would vote against abortion if they had a vote on it like Ohio did yesterday?
Probably Alabama, Arkansas, Indiana, Kentucky and Louisiana, Mississippi, North Dakota, South Carolina, Tennessee, Utah and West Virginia and maybe Missouri, South Dakota and Texas
So Sanchez and his minority Socialist government are now puppets of Catalan nationalists in order to hold onto power.
That will also likely lead to a further backlash to the PP and Vox from Spanish patriots.
What could have happened here in the UK in 2015 had Ed Miliband led a minority Labour government reliant on SNP support has now literally happened in Spain
I do enjoy your ignorance of Spanish politics. Sanchez has done a deal to get elected PM, not for a programme of government. Junts has no power to bring him down once he is PM. They cease to have leverage over him. Hence the hard bargaining now. The Spanish system is not comparable to the UK’s.
He cannot get a majority for legislation through without Catalan nationalist support given the PP and Vox as the Opposition will now vote consistently against him
Note that young people are pulling away in droves from Biden according to this week's Siena college poll. They want to live under Trump's authoritarian government.
Under 30s voted for Biden over Trump in 2020 and on the latest poll more of them prefer RFK to Biden or Trump
How may US states would vote against abortion if they had a vote on it like Ohio did yesterday?
Probably Alabama, Arkansas, Indiana, Kentucky and Louisiana, Mississippi, North Dakota, South Carolina, Tennessee, Utah and West Virginia and maybe Missouri, South Dakota and Texas
Suella has unstoppable momentum at the next Tory leadership contest.
Does she have any chance of getting into the final 2 among MPs?
It's a sad reality that she has been the only person prepared to call out the complete double standards of the policing of the anti lockdown marchers and the black lives matter protesters.
Liberty involves grey and not black and white answers and compromise and shit like that.
And it seems today's social media kids can't abide that kind of messy uncertain world.
Like Fukuyama and the late J G Ballard, often praising each others' works, he seems to think that in the end people will find liberal democracy too boring and rebel.
West Virginia became a state when it seceded from the rest of Virginia, because the mountaineers refused to leave the Union.
State motto: Montani semper liberi
(One of the saddest things in the US is the damage done to the people of West Virginia, much of it by opiods, recently.)
As to para #1, more or less. Caveats are > West Virginia never seceded from Virginia, not the way VA seceded from USA, by UDI = unilateral declaration of indepencence. > Instead, when VA seceded, Unionists quickly declared and established an alternative "loyal" state government, whose writ ran northwestern part of state on or near Ohio River and Pittsburgh, and in Arlington just across the Potomac from Washington DC. > Then the loyal, Unionist state government of Virginia gave its consent, as per the US Constitution (sorta) for separation of West Virginia, which was agreed to by US Congress. > This was confirmed by popular vote in new WVa. > However, boundaries of new state went considerably beyond Unionist area, to the east and south; in fact, in many counties number of votes counted either for or against was zero - because no election was or could be conducted by a parcel of Yankees. > In this context, worth noting that available evidence suggests that more men from what is now West Virginia joined the Confederate Army than did the Union Army > Why under these circumstances, was WVa created in the first place? Appears to be two main reasons: 1. Creating 5 electoral votes for . . . wait for it . . . Abraham Lincoln in 1864; and 2. Safeguarding the main line of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, a vital transportation artery from Eastern Seaboard to the Ohio River; indeed boundaries of WVa were expanded as far east as Harper's Ferry expressly for this purpose.
Also worth nothing, that in aftermath of Civil War at same time as Reconstruction further South, the only way that Republicans could win any elections in West Virginia, was by disenfranchising former Confederate soldiers and officials - only way they could beat the Democrats of that era.
Suella has unstoppable momentum at the next Tory leadership contest.
Does she have any chance of getting into the final 2 among MPs?
It's a sad reality that she has been the only person prepared to call out the complete double standards of the policing of the anti lockdown marchers and the black lives matter protesters.
Depends which Tory MPs are left after the election.
So Sanchez and his minority Socialist government are now puppets of Catalan nationalists in order to hold onto power.
That will also likely lead to a further backlash to the PP and Vox from Spanish patriots.
What could have happened here in the UK in 2015 had Ed Miliband led a minority Labour government reliant on SNP support has now literally happened in Spain
That door swings both ways. 2017 May coalitioned with the DUP.
The DUP are Unionists
British nationalists: 'the Tories were puppets of British nationalists in order to hold onto power', is what you mean.
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The plan of record was to deliver 6 this year, 8 in 2024 and 5 in 2025. That 6 this year is looking very unlikely. I expect there is a great deal of arguing about money going on behind the scenes.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/46353827290/?locale=en_GB
Second World War tweets from 1939
@RealTimeWWII
·
3h
Adolf Hitler is beginning a speech in the Bürgerbräukeller beer hall, Munich, to celebrate anniversary of attempted Nazi coup (the "Beer Hall Putsch") in 1923. In the pillar behind him is a concealed bomb, set to go off in just over an hour.
1. A real phenomenon. It is pro-choice
2. A mirage. It is pro-life but appears pro-choice temporarily until court cases are resolved
3. An artefact. It is a measurement error
J.D. Vance, the Ohio GOP senator, says Republicans need to shift their approach on abortion and begin to embrace federal legislation -- namely a 15-week ban with exceptions.
"We can't give into the idea that the federal Congress has no role in this matter," he told us
https://twitter.com/mkraju/status/1722371723868156346
...well in the end if it's happening, it's happening. Reality does not bend to my will. But it does puzzle me.
All I say say is Marge Greene did a really long thread this morning with her analysis of what went wrong and how to fix it and I hope every Republican candidate follows her advice to the letter.
https://twitter.com/RonFilipkowski/status/1722261902183813504
Internet killed classified ads which paid for local journalism.
Pick up a local paper 30 years ago and there was pages of the stuff - 2nd hand cars, jobs etc etc..
"Progressives dream of tyranny
Millions of young people identify with movements that repress the freedoms they take for granted.
By John Gray"
https://www.newstatesman.com/comment/2023/11/post-democratic-government-wang-huning-china
And it seems today's social media kids can't abide that kind of messy uncertain world.
https://twitter.com/RepMTG/status/1722257481605448152
Note that Pew numbers cited are from 2014.
State motto: Montani semper liberi
(One of the saddest things in the US is the damage done to the people of West Virginia, much of it by opiods, recently.)
It's a sad reality that she has been the only person prepared to call out the complete double standards of the policing of the anti lockdown marchers and the black lives matter protesters.
> West Virginia never seceded from Virginia, not the way VA seceded from USA, by UDI = unilateral declaration of indepencence.
> Instead, when VA seceded, Unionists quickly declared and established an alternative "loyal" state government, whose writ ran northwestern part of state on or near Ohio River and Pittsburgh, and in Arlington just across the Potomac from Washington DC.
> Then the loyal, Unionist state government of Virginia gave its consent, as per the US Constitution (sorta) for separation of West Virginia, which was agreed to by US Congress.
> This was confirmed by popular vote in new WVa.
> However, boundaries of new state went considerably beyond Unionist area, to the east and south; in fact, in many counties number of votes counted either for or against was zero - because no election was or could be conducted by a parcel of Yankees.
> In this context, worth noting that available evidence suggests that more men from what is now West Virginia joined the Confederate Army than did the Union Army
> Why under these circumstances, was WVa created in the first place? Appears to be two main reasons:
1. Creating 5 electoral votes for . . . wait for it . . . Abraham Lincoln in 1864; and
2. Safeguarding the main line of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, a vital transportation artery from Eastern Seaboard to the Ohio River; indeed boundaries of WVa were expanded as far east as Harper's Ferry expressly for this purpose.
Also worth nothing, that in aftermath of Civil War at same time as Reconstruction further South, the only way that Republicans could win any elections in West Virginia, was by disenfranchising former Confederate soldiers and officials - only way they could beat the Democrats of that era.