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At least Oregon doesn't have enough money on hand to try to bail these people out when their houses burn down. By all means, please continue to vote for the political party that will cause your house to burn down and has dismantled the agency responsible for helping you after it does.

Nah. Mamdani will easily win.

The wholesale distributors claim the law is unconstitutional because, as it’s structured, it gives regulatory authority over the fee schedule and collection not to the state’s environmental quality department but to a private entity — the Circular Action Alliance, or CAA — a nonprofit based in Washington, D.C.

Twenty multinational corporations in the food, beverage, retail and consumer goods industries, including Amazon, CocaCola and Nestle, formed the alliance in 2022. It oversees similar recycling fee programs that are rolling out as a result of new policies in California, Colorado, Maine and Maryland.

OK, seems easy enough to solve. Have one employee in the environmental quality department direct the CAA's operations in Oregon.

Here's the actual complaint underlying the legal complaint:

Eric Hoplin, the wholesaler association president and CEO, said in a statement on the group’s website that Oregon’s law is unfair because it shifts undue burden for disposal costs to distributors who don’t get to make packaging choices.

“Rather than encourage sustainability through a uniform and transparent system where compliance burdens are shared across industries, Oregon chose to shift the burden to the parts of the supply chain that have little to no control over decisions to design, reduce, reuse or recycle a product,” Hoplin said.

I'd expect distribution is the only part of the system that falls under state law, since these items are mostly manufactured elsewhere. Seems like an $8 trillion industry could bring some pressure to bear to help reduce their costs.

Yep, I do the same. Zero reason to show up on time to chain theaters.

This guy continues to act on a regular basis, but it's almost all IMDb 2.0-4.9 garbage made for Tubi, like Andy the Talking Hedgehog (2.1) or The Three Dogateers (2.9). A decade or two ago he was at least getting guest roles on network TV (most recently he was in six episodes of Supergirl 10 years ago), but now he's apparently exclusively in animal (mostly dog) movies and God movies.

A couple years ago he did somehow manage to get a guest role in one episode of The Curse (Paramount+), which is the most notable thing he's done since that Supergirl gig.

Yes

I'm saying they don't reward or punish it because they're too apathetic to care, so you might as well do everything you can to resist authoritarianism.

Partisans do pay attention and see this as putting up a fight. And turning out your base is the most important thing you can do in a mid-cycle election.

Washington has a bipartisan redistricting commission by state constitutional amendment. They would need the cooperation of Republicans to reconvene the bipartisan redistricting commission, then the cooperation of Republicans to gerrymander away eastern Washington (the areas they come from). It won't happen. They may be able to make a purple district more safe.

The bipartisan commission does give a disproportionate voice to Republicans relative to actual apportionment in the state legislature by giving each of the top two parties two seats (with a nonvoting chair), but it's a direct result of the unambiguous wording of the amendment. There would need to be another amendment to update that commission's composition.

The better strategy at this point is to draw a clear and simple distinction that the everyone can easily understand - the Democratic party doesn't redistrict without a new census and they don't ever say they're drawing districts just to disadvantage...

Hello, I'm the average voter, and I just fell asleep when you said "mid-census redistricting" and something about tyrants.

This is a losing strategy. The other strategy is probably also a losing strategy, but at least it's going down swinging. The single greatest thing Democrats could do to get people in a voting booth is run on an anti-corruption, progressive economic agenda and show some backbone.

At what point along the "trying to murder you" timeline is it OK to respond in self-defense?

Do you think the American tradition of democracy has not been permanently damaged and will not continue to be permanently damaged by Republicans in the future? These are completely legal tactics as adjudicated by the Supreme Court. There are no prizes for going high except watching the country descend further into authoritarianism.

I mean, I just ran the same test and I have 900 Mbps WiFi with 5 ms ping and symmetric upload for $70 per month for life. But importantly I also don't fund a Nazi polluting the night sky.