Mostly because the progressives didn’t control them in the early 1900s, so they don’t have legislature-bypassing initiatives, and even in states where you do have that, it’s expensive to get one through.

While I’ve known that for a while, a lot of the press was in utter denial months after he gave this money, as with this NYT article dated December 10, 2022

Four states don’t use first-past-the-post for legislative elections. In particular:

• Alaska - uses a top-4 primary + ranked choice general
• Maine - uses ranked choice voting
• California & Washington - use top-two primaries (note: CA can be top-3 if there is a tie for 2nd place)

If a third party wanted to succeed, they would put significant resources into winning legislative and congressional seats in those places. I don’t see any of them actually doing that though.

They wanted to redact witness names before releasing it.

An archived copy shows

J.D. Vance Freaks Out Over the Slightest Pushback in V.P. Debate

Because the old folks who own stuff grew up during a period of ever-rising crime rates as cases of mild lead poisoning from gasoline caused a huge increase in violent crime. They don’t get that it’s somewhere around as safe as it was during the 1950s.

Pretty much.

Doesn’t help that the Internet Archive is hosted in a cool-looking building in San Francisco

And that means Liberal, no matter how neutral they might be.

He was

director of the White House Presidential Personnel Office

For context, US emissions are about 6 billion tons per year. There are real reasons to disagree with Gaza policy, but the greenhouse gas emissions you’re talking are quite tiny by comparison

No matter how many men you put in front of standing desks, or how fancy an AI you give them, they can’t make an egg. Clearly should be many millions per egg.

/s

A trillion here, a trillion there, pretty soon you’re talking about the kind of money his backers hope to loot

They’re not explicit, but when you see for example, Rick Jeffares having run for office and never managed to get a single dark-skinned person standing with him, it’s blindingly obvious what’s going on.

It has a first-mover problem: the states which do it effectively hand the presidency to the party that a majority of their residents don’t want to hold power.

That’s why the national popular vote interstate compact is built the way it is.

The problem is that their vision of “done right” is to block non-whites, non-males, and non-their-kind-of-Christian from voting.

Letting them have it be their version “done right” means that they get their way forever and trample the rights of other Americans.

Pretty much. Only way to stop it is for Democrats to have an overwhelming win so that things don’t come down to corrupt officials in a few states.

There isn’t a rush to do it; the problem is that their plan is to invent nonexistent problems and refuse to certify at all.

Remove them from office or change the law so that office they hold does exist or change the power the office holds so it can’t do the kinds of things they want to do.

Take away their power to destroy trust, which is what they’re there for.