@memeorandum@universeodon.comBernie Sanders to force disapproval votes over U.S. arms sales to Israel (Calen Razor/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2026/03/19/congress/bernie-sanders-israel-disapproval-votes-weapons-sales-iran-war-00835517
http://www.memeorandum.com/260319/p54#a260319p54
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.dewiki_rfa: Wikipedia RfA voting network (2013)
The set of all votes on Requests for Adminships (RfA), from 2003 to May 2013, represented as a directed, signed network in which nodes represent Wikipedia members and edges represent votes.
This network has 11381 nodes and 198275 edges.
Tags: Social, Relationships, Signed
https://
@memeorandum@universeodon.comTrump's DHS pick Mullin advances by one vote after Sen. Fetterman votes yes (NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/trumps-dhs-pick-mullin-advances-one-vote-sen-fetterman-votes-yes-rcna264207
http://www.memeorandum.com/260319/p56#a260319p56
@Techmeme@techhub.socialNetflix adds a real-time voting feature for its Star Search reboot, available on mobile, smart TVs, and streaming devices, but not on a browser (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/20/netflix-is-rolling-out-a-live-voting-feature/
@hikingdude@mastodon.social1/ Last year I had to spend time with someone who votes far-right.
I could have avoided all political discussions but I gave it a try - knowing about the risc!
At some topics I said: I don't want to discuss that, I have a strong opinion there but let's skip that please.
At other topics, the discussions got heated until I said: waait. We don't need to fight. We agree to disagree. But none of us can change it. Our duty is to vote, not to fight each other. And I d…
@cdarwin@c.imProgressive lawmakers are demanding that the Democrats use the upcoming government funding deadline to reduce DHS’s ability to wreak further havoc.
“I just don’t understand how we provide votes for a bill that funds the extent of the depravity,”
Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) told CNN Thursday.
#DefundICE #Make5Calls
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialNetflix adds a real-time voting feature for its Star Search reboot, available on mobile, smart TVs, and streaming devices, but not on a browser (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/20/netflix-is-rolling-out-a-live-voting-feature/
@gfriend@mas.toBackbone test.
(They have the votes; do they have the spine? Pressure from us helps strengthen theirs.)
"Senate Democrats alone can halt funding for ICE. So far, the Democratic leadership has not stepped up. Only enormous pressure from their constituents will force them to show any backbone."
@sjn@chaos.socialRE: #AI?
How easy will they get their ROI whe…
@tokensane@mastodon.me.uk“Multiple exclamation marks,' he went on, shaking his head, 'are a sure sign of a diseased mind.”
― #TerryPratchett, Eric
“I WILL NEVER (EVER!) ENDORSE ANYONE WHO VOTES AGAINST “SAVE AMERICA! ! !”
― Donald #Trump
@benb@osintua.eu
@pavelasamsonov@mastodon.socialRE: https://social.growyourown.services/@FediTips/116087724209677173
New p-hacking technique just dropped: reset the votes until you get a chunk that confirms your priors.
@primonatura@mstdn.social"Ocean Twilight Zone Protection Gains Ground as Global Conservation Body Votes for Safeguards"
#Conservation #Oceans #Environment
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.dedigg_votes: Digg story votes (2009)
A bipartite network between users and stories on digg.com from 2009. Each user node connects to all story nodes on which that user voted. Edges are timestamped.
This network has 142962 nodes and 3018197 edges.
Tags: Economic, Preferences, Multigraph, Timestamps
https://netwo…
@chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.caIt is frustrating every single time that I see the popular votes versus seats won in Canadian elections.
Especially when you have a party like the Bloc Quebécois who run only in Québec, pull 1.2 million votes in that province, and receive 22 seats in the House, yet the NDP pulls 1.2 million across Canada and gets 7 seats.
All our system does is reward density, rather than delivering actual representation.
But someone please tell me how 'ranked ballots' will fix this*
#ProportionalRepresentation #ElectoralReform #Canada #CanPoli #CdnPoli
@steve@s.yelvington.comWait wait. DNR guy's name is Killmaster?
https://www.savannahnow.com/story/news/environment/2026/02/10/georgia-house-votes-to-expand-feral-hog-trapping/88553220007/
@aardrian@toot.cafehttps://furry.engineer/@notthatdelta/115906156652610253
More than 10 times the vote count and the trend continues.
96% no, 4% yes, 5,229 votes.
ht…
@servelan@newsie.socialTrump Tariffs Face Rebuke as Johnson Fails to Block Votes | Financial Post
https://financialpost.com/pmn/business-pmn/trump-tariffs-face-house-rebuke-as-johnson-fails-to-block-votes
@simon_brooke@mastodon.scot"The #Labour party won one third of the votes (34%) in an election in which under two thirds (60%) of the electorate voted. Only one in five (20.4%) registered electors in Britain support this government. It has no mandate to do anything. If it tries to do anything radical, then, as Thatcher did with the poll tax, it will find the difference between Westminster games and real politics.
T…
@fanf@mendeddrum.orgfrom my link log —
Votes for children! Why we should lower the voting age to six.
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2021/nov/16/reconstruction-after-covid-votes-for-children-age-six-david-runciman
@metacurity@infosec.exchangeIt's official. Mountain View is ditching its Flock contract.
https://padailypost.com/2026/02/24/mountain-view-council-votes-to-get-rid-of-license-plate-cameras/
@inthehands@hachyderm.ioFor what it’s worth, we have a system in MN that’s not too far from this: if you’re not already registered to vote, you can show up on election day with one from a limited set of approved gov-issued photo IDs, •or• proof of residence such as a utility bill plus a registered neighbor who will legally vouch for you.
The result? We have some of the highest voter turnout rates in the country (often •the• highest), and just •vanishingly• small rates of fraudulent / illegal votes (because the consequences for such votes are just as severe as ever, not changed at all by the ease of same-day registration).
@memeorandum@universeodon.comSenate votes to begin marathon debate on SAVE America Act (Alexander Bolton/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/5788105-senate-save-america-act-debate/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260317/p97#a260317p97
@vosje62@mastodon.nlGreen Party wins Gorton and Denton by-election | UK News | Sky News
https://news.sky.com/story/green-party-wins-gorton-and-denton-by-election-13512774
'The Greens, who had earlier said they were "very confident of a win", received 14,980 votes to claim a majority of more than 4,000 votes.
Reform picked up 10,578 votes, while Labour received 9,364 votes.'
@sascha_wolfer@fediscience.orgI will be helping as an electoral assistant in the 2026 state #elections in Baden-Württemberg on March 8th.
This also includes counting the #votes on election night, and I really really hope that won't be too depressing.
#ltw26bw
@davej@dice.camp“We don’t agree with Pauline, but equally, we can’t tell HER that! Oh, what a pickle!”
The #LNP saddles up for a long quest into the wilderness, in search of a spine.
https://www.abc…
@benb@osintua.euORBÁN'S LAST CHANCE: BUYING VOTES before elections in "EXTREME ALERT" mode: https://benborges.xyz/2026/02/03/orbns-last-chance-buying-votes.html
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialCPB board votes to dissolve the 58-year-old organization following the rescission of all federal funding by Congress at the behest of President Trump (Cameron Coats/Radio Ink)
https://radioink.com/2026/01/05/corporation-for-public-broadcasting…
@NFL@darktundra.xyzNFL insiders rank head coach hires: John Harbaugh among 4 to receive first-place votes https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7034727/2026/02/10/best-nfl-head-coach-hires-2026-harbaugh/
@cdarwin@c.imA Swiss canton has suspended its pilot of electronic voting after failing to count 2,048 votes cast in national referendums held on March 8.
Basel-Stadt announced the problem with its e-voting pilot, open to about 10,300 locals living abroad and 30 people with disabilities, last Friday afternoon.
It encouraged participants to deliver a paper vote to the town hall or use a polling station but admitted this would not be possible for many.
By the close of polling on Sunday, its …
@pre@boing.worldLook, it's quite simple: The government has to post on the child-porn nazi troll misinformation site because that's where all the child-porn loving nazi trolls are and they want their votes!
It doesn't matter that the posts which counter to the misinformation are algorithmically suppressed because, um... Because if the mind of even on nazi child-porn loving troll can be changed then magnifying their world-view and indulging their frame of reference will have been worth it.
#twitter
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.dewiki_rfa: Wikipedia RfA voting network (2013)
The set of all votes on Requests for Adminships (RfA), from 2003 to May 2013, represented as a directed, signed network in which nodes represent Wikipedia members and edges represent votes.
This network has 11381 nodes and 198275 edges.
Tags: Social, Relationships, Signed
https://
@stefan@gardenstate.socialThe studio is good. But I also hate when Hollywood votes for stuff just because it's about themselves. Also Seth Rogan is really good at being gracious.
#goldenglobes
@memeorandum@universeodon.comBOOM: Senate Votes to Block Private Equity from Buying Homes (Matt Stoller/BIG)
https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/boom-senate-votes-to-block-private
http://www.memeorandum.com/260314/p31#a260314p31
@johl@mastodon.xyzopenchaos is a self-evolving open source project. Every week, the community votes on PRs, and the winner gets merged.
https://www.openchaos.dev/
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.dewiki_rfa: Wikipedia RfA voting network (2013)
The set of all votes on Requests for Adminships (RfA), from 2003 to May 2013, represented as a directed, signed network in which nodes represent Wikipedia members and edges represent votes.
This network has 11381 nodes and 198275 edges.
Tags: Social, Relationships, Signed
https://
@nohillside@smnn.chIn UK sollen Jugendliche im Internet besser geschützt werden indem man ihnen die Verwendung von VPNs verbietet. #keinePointe #security #online
@memeorandum@universeodon.comHouse Republican absences make it harder to deliver Trump's agenda (Kadia Goba/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2026/01/15/house-republicans-missed-votes/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260115/p113#a260115p113
@chiraag@mastodon.online @steve@s.yelvington.comGeorgia Republicans want more people killed with stolen guns.
https://www.savannahnow.com/story/news/politics/state/2026/01/14/savannah-senator-says-its-ordinance-reduced-gun-thefts-by-30-perc…
@inthehands@hachyderm.ioRE: https://mstdn.social/@NSalwen/116060789482624866
Yup, good point. Pretty sure the Republicans could get the necessary D votes to do this.
Whining about TSA and FEMA being held hostage to the fight over ICE and CBP? Fine, release them. Rs can do that AFAICT.
@raiders@darktundra.xyzPossible path to Bill Belichick's snub, including 2022 class, comments by Deion Sanders https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7007952/2026/01/29/bill-belichick-hall-of-fame-ballot-votes-scoop-city/
@Jyoti@mas.toTHEY WILL RUE THE DAY THEY STRUCK ME FROM THE SOCIOLOGY ACADEMY!
RUE, I SAY! RUEEEEEEEEE!
@scott@carfree.cityHeadline: “$1 million to help people pay rent amid immigration surge”
14th paragraph: “the Minneapolis Police Department has amassed $4.3 million in overtime so far this year”
That’s municipal priorities in the U.S. for you.
https://hachyderm.io/@rationaldoge/1160…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialA US House committee votes to subpoena a journalist after he posted a biography of the alleged Delta Force leader who led the Caracas operation in Venezuela (The Washington Post)
https://wapo.st/3NzELX8
@cdarwin@c.imA "war powers resolution" gives lawmakers an opportunity to demand congressional approval before any further attacks are carried out.
The Senate resolution,
and a similar bill being voted on in the House later this week,
face unlikely paths through the Republican-controlled Congress
and would almost certainly be vetoed by Trump even if they were to pass.
Nonetheless, the votes marked a weighty moment for lawmakers.
Their decisions on the five-d…
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.dedigg_votes: Digg story votes (2009)
A bipartite network between users and stories on digg.com from 2009. Each user node connects to all story nodes on which that user voted. Edges are timestamped.
This network has 142962 nodes and 3018197 edges.
Tags: Economic, Preferences, Multigraph, Timestamps
https://netwo…
@jerome@jasette.facil.servicesIt’s what I believe since the beginning of the Iran bombardment.
Trump thought he could do like Venezuela. Quick change of power, put an ally in place, no occupying military force needed. Looks like a hero. That’s what he wants for Cuba too.
But now he’s in deep shit. Every day the war continues without a change of power, he looks like a loser. War is not popular and oil price is skyrocketing, the entire opposite of what the game plan was to get mid term votes.
@cowboys@darktundra.xyz3 Cowboys named to AP's All-Pro second team https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2026/01/10/cowboys-all-pro-voting-george-pickens-brandon-aubrey-kavonate-turp…
@Sustainable2050@mastodon.energy @inthehands@hachyderm.ioAmy Klobuchar couldn’t get a majority of the DFL straw poll vote in South Minneapolis — a measly 30% — and she is •running unopposed•.
Shades of 2024 when a strong “uncommitted” primary vote for unopposed Biden presaged electoral disaster.
Minnesotans, use this to light a fire under her. Harangue her office. And hey…maybe field a primary opponent. Freak her campaign and the State DFL the absolute fuck out.
It’s a win if we get a better nominee •or• if we get her to show a little more fight again ICE and Trump.
https://minnesotareformer.com/briefs/klobuchar-overwhelmingly-wins-dfl-caucus-straw-poll-but-many-submit-protest-votes/
@memeorandum@universeodon.comGOP revolt sinks effort to block votes on Trump's tariffs (Politico)
https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2026/02/10/congress/gop-revolt-sinks-effort-to-block-votes-on-trumps-tariffs-00775107
http://www.memeorandum.com/260210/p180#a260210p180
@NFL@darktundra.xyzPossible path to Bill Belichick's snub, including 2022 class, comments by Deion Sanders https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7007952/2026/01/29/bill-belichick-hall-of-fame-ballot-votes-scoop-city/
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.dedigg_votes: Digg story votes (2009)
A bipartite network between users and stories on digg.com from 2009. Each user node connects to all story nodes on which that user voted. Edges are timestamped.
This network has 142962 nodes and 3018197 edges.
Tags: Economic, Preferences, Multigraph, Timestamps
https://netwo…
@steve@s.yelvington.comBe clear on the distinction between voter fraud and election fraud. Voter fraud doesn't make economic sense. One vote. Severe consequences. But election fraud, the preferred playground of Republican crooks, is dangerous. Buying votes. Fake ballots. Bogus petitions. Wholesale fraud.
@Techmeme@techhub.socialMemo: JPMorgan's asset management unit cuts ties with proxy advisory firms to use its AI-powered Proxy IQ platform to assist on US votes, an industry first (Jack Pitcher/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/fi…
@benb@osintua.eu🇭🇺 ORBAN promises WAR on HUNGARY if it votes for the OPPOSITION! #shorts: https://benborges.xyz/2026/02/11/orban-promises-war-on-hungary.html
@cdarwin@c.imHouse GOP searches for votes to reopen government with razor-thin majority
The House returns to Washington this week
with plans to find enough votes in the narrowly divided chamber
to reopen the federal government,
which has been partially shut since early Saturday morning
after funding lapsed.
It won’t be simple:
Many House Democrats do not plan to support the deal Senate Democrats struck with the White House.
House Minority Leader Hakeem Je…
@vosje62@mastodon.nlPortugal elects Socialist Party’s Seguro as president in landslide | #AlJazeera
#Elections #Portugal
@memeorandum@universeodon.comSenate Dems threaten wave of war votes to force Iran hearing (Connor O'Brien/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2026/03/09/congress/senate-dems-threaten-wave-of-war-votes-to-force-iran-hearing-00819064
http://www.memeorandum.com/260309/p145#a260309p145
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.dedigg_votes: Digg story votes (2009)
A bipartite network between users and stories on digg.com from 2009. Each user node connects to all story nodes on which that user voted. Edges are timestamped.
This network has 142962 nodes and 3018197 edges.
Tags: Economic, Preferences, Multigraph, Timestamps
https://netwo…
@memeorandum@universeodon.comSenate votes to limit Trump on Venezuela (Connor O'Brien/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/01/08/senate-votes-to-restrict-trump-on-venezuela-00716127
http://www.memeorandum.com/260108/p98#a260108p98
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.dedigg_votes: Digg story votes (2009)
A bipartite network between users and stories on digg.com from 2009. Each user node connects to all story nodes on which that user voted. Edges are timestamped.
This network has 142962 nodes and 3018197 edges.
Tags: Economic, Preferences, Multigraph, Timestamps
https://netwo…
@cdarwin@c.imThe Senate passed a bill Thursday aimed at boosting the supply of housing and bringing down prices,
marking a rare bipartisan breakthrough on a major issue.
The ✅ "21st Century ROAD to Housing Act",
written by Sens. Tim Scott, R-S.C.,
and Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass.,
won 89 votes.
Ten senators voted against it.
Scott is the chairman of the Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee,
and Warren is the ranking member.
@memeorandum@universeodon.comHouse votes to revive Obamacare funds as senators plot a scaled-back bill (NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/house-votes-revive-obamacare-funds-senators-plot-scaled-back-bill-rcna252889
http://www.memeorandum.com/260108/p139#a260108p139
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.dedigg_votes: Digg story votes (2009)
A bipartite network between users and stories on digg.com from 2009. Each user node connects to all story nodes on which that user voted. Edges are timestamped.
This network has 142962 nodes and 3018197 edges.
Tags: Economic, Preferences, Multigraph, Timestamps
https://netwo…
@servelan@newsie.socialTrump’s surgeon general pick, Casey Means, still lacks votes for confirmation - POLITICO
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/02/26/surgeon-general-casey-means-vaccines-nomination-rfk-00801331
@cdarwin@c.imShawn Harris here.
Tonight we got more votes than any Republican in the special to replace MTG.
Pls help me win the runoff
https://s4-g.org/w
@cdarwin@c.imA special election for the successor to Marjorie Taylor Greene’s congressional district in Georgia on Tuesday
will be a test of Donald Trump’s sway, and may provide a rare opportunity for Democrats in a deep-red pocket of the southern state.
Republican former prosecutor Clay #Fuller is likely to come out of Tuesday’s jungle primary,
-- in which the top two candidates go to a runoff regardl…
@NFL@darktundra.xyzThree voters turned NFL MVP race upside down: How Justin Herbert and Josh Allen helped Matthew Stafford win
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/nfl-mvp-cl…
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.dewiki_rfa: Wikipedia RfA voting network (2013)
The set of all votes on Requests for Adminships (RfA), from 2003 to May 2013, represented as a directed, signed network in which nodes represent Wikipedia members and edges represent votes.
This network has 11381 nodes and 198275 edges.
Tags: Social, Relationships, Signed
https://
@memeorandum@universeodon.comCapitol agenda: GOP pushes back on Trump (Mia McCarthy/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2026/01/09/congress/gop-pushback-trump-votes-health-care-war-powers-00718544
http://www.memeorandum.com/260109/p34#a260109p34
@cdarwin@c.imDonald Trump said that his party should seize control of elections in ‘at least 15 places’
and brazenly repeated a number of blatant lies about his electoral history in Minnesota and Georgia
during a Monday phone interview with a right-wing podcaster who briefly served in a top FBI role last year.
Trump, who continues to falsely insist that he won the 2020 election despite having lost to successor-turned-predecessor Joe Biden by wide margins in both the popular and electora…
@inthehands@hachyderm.ioPeople are •way• too focused on the personalities and inner thoughts of politicians, like politics is basically People magazine except with votes — and not nearly focused enough on when and where and how politicians are points of leverage, and tools we use for exercising our power.
My spicy take is that while many politicians are hideous people, in the median they’re actually much better humans beings than we tend to imagine — and that doesn’t matter, because they are leverage points in a system and not protagonists in a novel.
@cdarwin@c.imWhen Trump criticized a ruling from a so-called “Obama judge” in 2018,
Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. responded that “we do not have Obama judges or Trump judges, Bush judges or Clinton judges.”
But the data suggests that in the 13 appellate courts, there is increasingly such a thing as a Trump judge.
The president’s appointees voted to allow his policies to take effect 133 times and voted against them only 12 times.
Ninety-two percent of their total votes were i…
@memeorandum@universeodon.comCongress Faces War Powers Votes in Wake of Iran Strikes (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/28/us/politics/congress-war-powers-votes-iran.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260228/p42#a260228p42
@cdarwin@c.imProgressive lawmakers are demanding that the Democrats use the upcoming government funding deadline to hopefully reduce the Department of Homeland Security’s ability to wreak further havoc.
“I just don’t understand how we provide votes for a bill that funds the extent of the depravity,” Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) told CNNThursday.
“I know we can’t fix everything in the appropriations bill but we should be looking at ways we can put some commonsense limitations on their ability to…
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.deelec: Wikipedia adminship vote (2008)
A network of votes on Request for Adminship (RfA) elections from a 2008 snapshot of Wikipedia. Nodes represent editors, and a directed edge (i,j) indicates that editor i voted on editor j. Edge sign indicates the direction of the vote: positive = for, and negative = against. Edges are timestamped.
This network has 7118 nodes and 103675 edges.
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@netzschleuder@social.skewed.dewiki_rfa: Wikipedia RfA voting network (2013)
The set of all votes on Requests for Adminships (RfA), from 2003 to May 2013, represented as a directed, signed network in which nodes represent Wikipedia members and edges represent votes.
This network has 11381 nodes and 198275 edges.
Tags: Social, Relationships, Signed
https://
@memeorandum@universeodon.comThune: 'Not even close' to enough votes to change filibuster rule to enact voting reform (Alexander Bolton/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/5732146-senate-filibuster-rule-thune/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260210/p146#a260210p146
@cdarwin@c.imThe Corporation for Public Broadcasting has voted to dissolve after Republicans rescinded $1.1B at President Trump’s behest.
This ends the 58-year-old agency that distributed federal funds to NPR, PBS and more than 1,500 local public radio & television stations. https://apple.news/AXdo2-zPuRCiJSiIVd3
@memeorandum@universeodon.comHouse votes to revive Affordable Care Act subsidies (Peter Sullivan/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/01/08/house-pass-aca-obamacare-subsidies-extension
http://www.memeorandum.com/260108/p166#a260108p166
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.deelec: Wikipedia adminship vote (2008)
A network of votes on Request for Adminship (RfA) elections from a 2008 snapshot of Wikipedia. Nodes represent editors, and a directed edge (i,j) indicates that editor i voted on editor j. Edge sign indicates the direction of the vote: positive = for, and negative = against. Edges are timestamped.
This network has 7118 nodes and 103675 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Signed, Timestamps
@memeorandum@universeodon.comShutdown likely to continue at least into Tuesday (Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/01/31/shutdown-tuesday-house-votes-00759001
http://www.memeorandum.com/260131/p68#a260131p68
@cdarwin@c.imJames Talarico’s victory in the Democratic Senate primary race in Texas
was powered in part by a sizable advantage among Latino voters,
a sought-after group that Democrats are hoping to win back.
Latino voters, historically a Democratic-leaning group,
have been slowly shifting to the right, including a significant move toward Trump in 2024.
This year’s midterm elections will be closely watched to see whether these voters who were moved to support Republicans tw…
@cdarwin@c.imIn today's Texas Senate primary election, Republicans are measuring the potency of Trump’s Make America Great Again movement against old-guard conservatism. Democrats, meanwhile, face a choice between two progressive “powerhouses” with different theories of how to fight – and how to win – in the Trump era.
The fiercely competitive races have left Democrats unusually hopeful about their chances in a state that hasn’t elected a Democrat statewide since 1994, while Republicans fret th…
@cdarwin@c.im @netzschleuder@social.skewed.deelec: Wikipedia adminship vote (2008)
A network of votes on Request for Adminship (RfA) elections from a 2008 snapshot of Wikipedia. Nodes represent editors, and a directed edge (i,j) indicates that editor i voted on editor j. Edge sign indicates the direction of the vote: positive = for, and negative = against. Edges are timestamped.
This network has 7118 nodes and 103675 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Signed, Timestamps
@memeorandum@universeodon.comSenate votes down resolution to prevent Trump from continuing war with Iran (Chris Stein/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/04/us-israeli-iran-war-senate-vote-congress-prevent-trump
http://www.memeorandum.com/260304/p128#a260304p128
@memeorandum@universeodon.comHouse Oversight panel votes to subpoena AG Pam Bondi in Epstein probe (Danya Gainor/CNN)
https://cnn.com/2026/03/04/politics/bondi-epstein-files-subpoena-oversight-committee
http://www.memeorandum.com/260304/p123#a260304p123
@cdarwin@c.imYou see some effort on the part of Congress to assert itself in the realm of war.
But it failed predominantly on party lines
Republicans predominantly were supporting the president and whatever it happens to be that he would like to do.
Moderate Republicans and Republicans who are in less safe districts were and are more likely to at least stand up a little bit to the president,
but there’s a very small number of them.
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.deelec: Wikipedia adminship vote (2008)
A network of votes on Request for Adminship (RfA) elections from a 2008 snapshot of Wikipedia. Nodes represent editors, and a directed edge (i,j) indicates that editor i voted on editor j. Edge sign indicates the direction of the vote: positive = for, and negative = against. Edges are timestamped.
This network has 7118 nodes and 103675 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Signed, Timestamps
@memeorandum@universeodon.com2 votes: NC GOP Senate leader Phil Berger in virtual tie with Sheriff Sam Page (Raleigh News & Observer)
https://www.newsobserver.com/news/politics-government/election/article314893604.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260304/p13#a260304p13
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.deelec: Wikipedia adminship vote (2008)
A network of votes on Request for Adminship (RfA) elections from a 2008 snapshot of Wikipedia. Nodes represent editors, and a directed edge (i,j) indicates that editor i voted on editor j. Edge sign indicates the direction of the vote: positive = for, and negative = against. Edges are timestamped.
This network has 7118 nodes and 103675 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Signed, Timestamps
@memeorandum@universeodon.comHouse GOP searches for votes to reopen government with razor-thin majority (Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2026/02/02/house-gop-funding-bill/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260202/p20#a260202p20
@cdarwin@c.imFrom polling and special elections over the past year, we’ve seen two important trends:
Democrats are strongly over-performing in general elections (to the tune of 10-15 points),
and Democratic leadership is incredibly unpopular, even among Democratic voters.
This combination means that there will be a lot of support
— in enthusiasm, money, and votes
— for primary challenges to Democratic incumbents,
and the usual Democratic fretting about electability …
@memeorandum@universeodon.comMike Johnson told not to count on Dems' votes to end shutdown (Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/01/31/mike-johnson-democrats-shutdown-jeffries-ice-dhs
http://www.memeorandum.com/260131/p59#a260131p59
@memeorandum@universeodon.comClinton contempt votes will hit the House floor next Wednesday (Meredith Lee Hill/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2026/01/29/congress/bill-hillary-clinton-contempt-of-congress-vote-00755863
http://www.memeorandum.com/260129/p122#a260129p122
@memeorandum@universeodon.comDemocrats say they have the votes to subpoena Lutnick in Epstein probe (Hailey Fuchs/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2026/02/27/congress/dems-will-force-lutnick-subpoena-vote-00803881
http://www.memeorandum.com/260227/p61#a260227p61
