Democracy DocketBad ballot design doesn’t just confuse voters, it sways elections.
https://www.democracydocket.com/analysis/how-ballot-design-impacts-election-results/
https://www.democracydocket.com/analysis/how-ballot-design-impacts-election-results/
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Judd Legum“I’ll tell you why I like the cigarette business. It costs a penny to make. Sell it for a dollar. It’s addictive. And there is fantastic brand loyalty.” — Warren Buffett, 1997
Qasim Rashid, Esq.As a human rights lawyer who has done extensive immigration work, let me make something absolutely clear.
Asylum is legal immigration.
There's no "port of entry" requirement.
There's no "visa" requirement.
There's no "first country" requirement.
You enter the United States, and you apply for asylum.
Because asylum is legal immigration. Period.
Period.
Kashmir HillThis is absolutely insane. A mom was prevented from taking her daughter to a Christmas show at Radio City Music Hall because she works for a law firm litigating against the venue's parent company. They spotted her with facial recognition technology according to this report: https://www.nbcnewyork.com/investigations/face-recognition-tech-gets-girl-scout-mom-booted-from-rockettes-show-due-to-her-employer/4004677/
GeraldineHonestly moving to Mastodon from the bird site feels like I just switched to PBS after years of exclusively watching a reality TV show called, I don't know, EXTREME HATEFEST: ORGY ISLAND or something.
Like, yeah, of course it's going to be a little jarring but trust me it's better this way.
Ryan Schultz#JohnMastodon is proof that things *CAN* go viral here on Mastodon, but the key is that *YOU* are the algorithm. The reason that the John Mastodon meme showed up on other people's timelines is because so many users boosted the posts.
The lesson here is: please don't just favourite something if you really enjoyed it; BOOST it so that other people can enjoy it, too! This is the only reason why I bother to create as large a social graph as I can on Mastodon—to act as an amplifier. You can, too!❤️😉
Taylor LorenzHow The Washington Post has used flight data:
* To track a former president's emergency landing (in 2022): https://wapo.st/3HGp8IA
* To map out how military helicopters flew over George Floyd protests (in 2020): https://wapo.st/3V3WRie
* To raise questions about Musk's flights (in 2019): https://wapo.st/2RmjE7X
* To investigate The Post's owner Jeff Bezos (in 2018): https://wapo.st/3YmLt3M
* To document extravagant trips on the taxpayer dime (in 2017): https://wapo.st/3HMh9d0 via @drewharwell
Plane carrying Donald Trump made emergency landing in New Orleans after engine failure over Gulf of Mexico
A plane carrying former president Donald Trump suffered engine failure late Saturday evening over the Gulf of Mexico, forcing the pilot to make an emergency landing in New Orleans shortly after taking off from the city.