Engineer on @googlechrome. Involved in CSS and W3C standards. Previously @mozilla, @w3ctag. Mastodon: @dbaron@w3c.social
Rockville, Maryland, USA
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
In spiraling constitutional crisis in WV, the state’s Supreme Court grants a writ of mandamus to its own Chief Justice to halt the partisan impeachment proceedings against her. courtswv.gov/supreme-court/d…
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Ah, indeed, that's what the discussion says.
I'd been thinking they would have had one in Vince (2005), but I guess it wasn't quite close enough and was clearly not headed towards Madeira.
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I don't think tropical storm warnings for Madeira happen often.
#Leslie is the tropical cyclone that's been wandering around the Atlantic for weeks. Track forecasts for the last few days have been unclear, leading to interesting quotes from the forecasters who had to make them.
A Tropical Storm Warning has been issued for Madeira Island (north of the Canary Islands) in the far eastern Atlantic Ocean due to #Leslie. Tropical-storm-force winds are expected early Saturday morning. Full advisory: hurricanes.gov
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
The return of the world’s longest flight econ.st/2CHxn6y
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
I had a very weird day yesterday nymag.com/intelligencer/2018…
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
I took a deep dive into the #GAGOV race, looking into the long-running war over voting rights between @staceyabrams and @BrianKempGA in the state: talkingpointsmemo.com/featur…
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
Video of the GOES-E 1-minute enhanced infrared satellite imagery showing Major Hurricane Michael making landfall in Florida as a Category-4 hurricane. Please visit hurricanes.gov for more information.
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
North Dakota has no voter registration, so proof of identity makes sense.
But Republicans made it so that one's address had to be a residential address instead of a P.O. box knowing full well that Native Americans on reservations rely exclusively on the latter in large numbers
SCOTUS just upheld voter ID law in North Dakota that could disenfranchise thousands of Native voters & cost Heidi Heitkamp her Senate seat. "The risk of disenfranchisement is large" RBG writes in dissent motherjones.com/politics/201…
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
As @pemalevy reports, ND GOP wrote voter ID law after Heitkamp won her Senate election by 3,000 votes with strong Native support. Tribal IDs, which use PO Boxes for addresses, are not valid IDs under the law, "a specification that seems designed to disenfranchise Native voters"
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
SCOTUS just upheld voter ID law in North Dakota that could disenfranchise thousands of Native voters & cost Heidi Heitkamp her Senate seat. "The risk of disenfranchisement is large" RBG writes in dissent motherjones.com/politics/201…
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Increasing the number doesn't require a constitutional amendment; term limits would. So increasing the number is much more realistic. (I recommend 13.)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_… has a bunch of history. (Having the monarch (threaten/offer) to help out in 1910-1911 seems to have been important, and something that won't work here.)
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I was thinking more like the sort of crisis that leads all the Democrats to resign en masse to make it clear that the current system isn't a fair democracy, setting clear conditions for what would allow them to resume participation.
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There's quite an air quality gradient in the south bay right now (screenshot of purpleair.com/map#9/37.4147/…).
Noticing increased smoke in the East Bay? There is currently a fire in Solano County. GOES East satellite imagery shows smoke being carried by northeasterly winds.
#cawx
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Senate reform is disallowed by Article V.
I don't think a convention under the existing framework makes sense. It requires a convention, separated from the framework for amending the current constitution, after a major constitutional crisis.
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
1/15 I’m going to say this, because I want it out there and I want a record of some kind that I said it publicly. Today, with the President and Senator Grassley rolling out the “George Soros” conspiracy, that’s an escalation. A terrifying sign.
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L. David Baron @dbaron@w3c.social retweeted
I can’t fact-check this. I can’t. Because it neither exists nor even bears any colorable relationship to anything that exists. It’s just spun out of thin air.
Trump just making stuff up: "Every single Democrat in the U.S. Senate has signed up for the open borders - and it's a bill. And it's called The Open Borders Bill. What's going on? And it's written by - guess who - Dianne Feinstein."
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But at least it doesn't tax businesses in San Francisco on goods they ship to outside the city or services they provide to those outside the city.