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House Republicans on Thursday abruptly canceled a vote on a resolution directing Trump to withdraw U.S. forces from Iran or win approval from Congress to continue the war,
after it became clear they lacked the votes to defeat the measure.
The retreat was a striking setback that exposed fractures within the G.O.P. over the conflict at a moment when the party has begun pushing back forcefully on Trump and his agenda.
It also marked the latest embarrassing blow to Speaker Mike…

GOP Pulls Measure on Trump’s War Powers in Iran, Lacking Votes to Defeat It
House Republican leaders abruptly scrapped a planned vote on a measure to direct President Trump to end the conflict or win authorization for it, amid party defections and absences.

digg_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…

(and vote for all the sessions that look most exciting to you, whatever they are, because we generate the schedule tomorrow night and after that your votes won’t help shape the time assignments any more)

Colombians voted in a presidential runoff election on Sunday
According to preliminary results, a hard- right White House-backed conservative has a razor-thin lead.
With 99.99% of votes counted,
Abelardo de la Espriella had won 49.66%, according to data from the national registry office.
De la Espriella claimed victory and said he would govern for "all Colombians."

Colombia election: Hard-right candidate claims victory
Right-wing presidential candidate, Abelardo de la Espriella, won 49.66% of the Colombians' votes, according to preliminary results. Outgoing President Gustavo Petro said "neither candidate can be declared president."

Trump bleeds votes in Congress to keep Iran war going (Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/05/20/trump-iran-war-powers-vote-house-golden-bacon
http://www.memeorandum.com/260520/p124#a260520p124

New NERDS publication on right-wing votes and bike network delays
https://nerds.itu.dk/2026/07/17/new-nerds-publication-on-right-wing-votes-and-bike-network-delays/

@… I'm genuinely sorry that we can't please everyone.
I rarely look back at historic shots of the front page, today I found one from February 2026, maybe the last Wayback Machine capture before new Reddit became more AI-scrape-resistant:
Hi Friends!
296 votes, it rose to 302. A photograph of the Linux mascot was amongst FreeBSD's top…

"Church of England votes against plan to rewild 30% of its land by 2030" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jul/14/church-of-england-votes-against-rewild-land-2030

Church of England votes against plan to rewild 30% of its land by 2030
Campaigners criticise C of E for failing to show moral leadership as one of country’s biggest landowners

My takeaways:
1. Don’t even try me with your “both parties are the same” BS.
2. Don’t even try me with your “support all Democrats all the time no matter what” BS.
3. We need to make Democrats a •lot• more afraid of getting primaried.
4. Above all, we need to stop imagining the politicians are the leaders of social change. We need to fight every day, in every place we are, to create a reality where trans people are safe and politicians are scared of casting votes like this before we even target them.
2/2

Here we go.
#MigrationMoralPanic ##UKPol
Andy Burnham votes in favour of controversial asylum reforms amid rebellion - Manchester Evening News
https://www.

Andy Burnham votes in favour of controversial asylum reforms amid rebellion
Andy Burnham has voted in favour of asylum reforms which aim to cut the number of asylum appeals being granted

American Medical Association Votes to Put More Plant-Based Food on Doctors’ Plates https://vegconomist.com/politics-law/american-medical-association-votes-put-more-plant-based-food-doctors-plates/

American Medical Association Votes to Put More Plant-Based Food on Doctors' Plates - vegconomist - the vegan business magazine
Neal Barnard, MD, president of the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, said, "The old adage, 'Physician, heal thyself,' now really means something.

"A Purr-fect Library Program: From Seven Cats to 1,800 Votes"
https://uncommonwealth.lva.virginia.gov/blog/2026/07/13/a-purr-fect-library-program/
"What happens when a group of cat-loving librarians starts wishing for a libra…

Another long day at the polls yesterday. Arrived 5:50 am, left at 9:10 pm (polls open 7 to 7). 704 ballots cast at my precinct. Steady all day. I don’t think anyone waited more than 5 minutes to check in.
Unfortunately, GA is one of the very few states that requires runoffs in races where nobody got 50.0001% or more of votes in a given race, so we’ll do this all again in 4 weeks.
Still an important job and I’m happy to do my part.

Cassidy flips as US Senate votes to advance resolution limiting Trump war in Iran • Louisiana Illuminator
https://lailluminator.com/2026/05/19/repub/cassidy-iran/

elec: 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

Eurovision is so confusing this year. I'm happy Bulgaria got the votes. I hate the (measly but vocal) pro-Russian propaganda in Bulgaria against the "eurogay", "satanic" contest (yeah, that's a real thing). I love that even though I had my doubts about the Bulgarian entry, the votes proved me wrong. I fucking hate holier-than-thou mass murderers whose actions shit directly on their own artists who are striving to be part of Europe and its values.

Israeli firm BlackCore also suspected of meddling in NYC, Scotland votes, French official says
https://www.reuters.com/world/israeli-firm-blackcore-also-suspected-meddling-nyc-scotland-votes-french-2026-06-11/

hells yeah #NYCPol

El Cerrito is ending its Flock contract! “Ultimately my biggest concern is the federal government could access the data.” -Mayor Pro Tem Rebecca Saltzman
https://contracosta.news/2026/05/06/el-cerrito-votes-to-end-flock-contract-ca…

I’ve now written two essays this year on the U.K. Labour Party’s errors of strategy, which is not a lot, but is still more than I’d have expected.
The one from yesterday is about why their policies lost them stacks of votes.
The other one was about why they picked those policies in the first place
https://www.

The Gist: Britain, the Ungoverned Country
The Labour Party's problem since Kier Starmer was elected was that it fed itself disinformation and pooped disaffection. This is the Gist.

The Senate succeeded in advancing legislation Tuesday to force Donald Trump to withdraw from the Iran war,
Since Trump ordered the attack on Iran at the end of February, Democrats have forced repeated votes on war powers resolutions that would require him to either gain congressional approval for the war or withdraw troops.
Republicans had been able to muster the votes to reject those proposals,
-- but Louisiana Sen. Bill Cassidy
— fresh off a primary election loss in…

Senate advances bill aimed at ending Iran war as Cassidy, after primary loss, flips to support it
The Senate advanced legislation Tuesday that seeks to force President Donald Trump to withdraw from the Iran war, as a growing number of Republicans defied the president's wishes.

American Bar Association votes to eliminate DEI rule for law schools (Karen Sloan/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/american-bar-association-votes-eliminate-dei-rule-law-schools-2026-05-15/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260515/p120#a260515p120

Seeing political ads for Lindsey Graham in Texas. Wondering whether his ad buyers are incompetent or his campaign is so desperate that it is trying to get votes and donations from Texans?

Evidence of the pain I felt of not being able to vote Green on the constituency ballot (the new boundaries moved me from Glasgow Kelvin to Glasgow Central).
"One thing really worth pointing out is that Glasgow Central constituency vote figure....What happened there? Well, by regional list vote result, that was the third best Green constituency in the country. In other words, it’s the best constituency they didn’t stand a local candidate in."

SP26: Patterns of Party Popularity
It’s all well and good looking at the headline figures, but you’ve got to get right down into the thick of support and swings – in both votes – across constituencies to rea…

Do not become her, and do not fall for this right-wing ploy.
The Republicans have tried the same ratfuckery here in MN: they paid random stoner dudes to run as pot legalization candidates in order to siphon votes from Democrats. And don’t get me started on Jill Stein.
Don’t fall for it.
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:hf7ezrajxadu7v3tzcyij424/post/3mmat6bx7is2j

Ireland has some excellent writers.
"It seems that losing colonial control of Egypt has not stopped Denial flowing through the British body politic." -- @…
#TLDR: #MorganMcSweeney

RE: https://mstdn.social/@MaryAustinBooks/116936000385533547
Best be ready to back up those words with more than votes or they're gonna get ignored.

Great thread on cast iron skillets.
And lower down they mention cast iron woks.
I would put my votes in for cast iron griddles and dutch ovens as well.
https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:pkakkdcfdr6inetyj737kzpd/post/3mlwkjixdpk2u

Der Fisher (@blackholefun.bsky.social)
Every time I see people posting on the internet about cast iron skillets, I am reminded that people genuinely seem to think they're mystical objects that either must be babied or need incantations to work properly. All of these conversations miss why your grandparents had a badass cast iron skillet.

"EU votes to end illegal logging agreement with Liberia"
#EU #EuropeanUnion #Liberia

EU votes to end illegal logging agreement with Liberia
The European Parliament has voted to end its forest governance agreement with Liberia, citing years of unmet reform goals.

wiki_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://

Princeton faculty votes to require proctoring in all in-person exams starting this summer, reversing an 1893 policy amid concerns about AI-fueled cheating (Douglas Belkin/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/us-news/education/prin

https://rs.bot/dw2Qkw

NDAA 2027 should get ZERO votes.
Join 109 people. A $1.1 trillion Pentagon budget, an unprecedented U.S.-Israeli military partnership expansion, more dangerous provisions, plus the attachment of the… Sign and Resistbot delivers your letter in minutes.

🚨 New paper on #cycling #politics: Right-wing Votes Relate to Delays in Bicycle Network Development
…

All hail the spineless cowards.
☑️ Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-LA)
☑️ Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY)
I wonder what quid pro quo they're getting from the MAGA douchebags to bend over for Trump.
Congressional Republicans are such colossally unprincipalled losers.
☑️ Caving to Trump, 2 Republicans Change Their Votes on Iran War Powers Resolution | Truthout

Caving to Trump, 2 Republicans Change Their Votes on Iran War Powers Resolution
Tim Kaine, the lead sponsor of the blocked resolution, said the vote was held to “appease [Trump’s] temper tantrum.”…

"Until now, the record for most spending per vote was held by Mayor Daniel Lurie, who paid $156.14 for each of his first-choice votes in the 2024 mayoral race. But there’s a big difference: Lurie won."
(He had much worse opposition! It was a terrible field.)
https://

$211 per vote: How Saikat Chakrabarti spent $8.8M on his congressional run
Connie Chan spent $25.09 per vote. Scott Wiener spent $61.24. Saikat Chakrabarti spent...a lot more than that.

Switzerland votes 'no' in referendum on population limit (Victor Jack/Politico)
https://www.politico.eu/article/switzerland-votes-no-in-population-limit-referendum/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260614/p36#a260614p36

Looking like a return to tradition: the European core votes for its neighbors, and the outer fringes vote for their diasporic concentrations. Australia is, of course, a huge wildcard. I wonder what the popular vote will look like! #eurovision2026 #eurovision

The US democracy is dying fast under Trump.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/jeff-landry-louisiana-elections-suspended-60-minutes_n_6a0263b5e4b088000126c859

45,000 Votes Will Be Discarded In Louisiana. Gov Says It's 'Not A Big Deal.'
The voters whose ballots will be discarded likely think it IS a big deal.

Democratic Socialist Janeese Lewis George maintained her lead in the Democratic primary for D.C. mayor Wednesday evening
as the city’s Board of Elections released tallies of newly counted mail-in ballots.

The Associated Press has not projected a winner in the race.
Estimates show tens of thousands of mail-in votes remain uncounted.

But some political experts said the path to victory for Lewis George’s chief Democratic opponent, former D.C. Council member Kenyan R. McD…

Lewis George maintains lead in D.C. mayor’s race as count continues
The democratic socialist’s double-digit lead stayed roughly even as the elections board reported about 7,000 additional mail-in ballot votes Wednesday evening.

digg_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…

Bears board of directors votes to explore Indiana as priority location for new stadium https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7335935/2026/06/05/chicago-bears-stadium-indiana/

EU votes to end illegal logging agreement with Liberia https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2026/06/eu-votes-to-end-illegal-logging-agreement-with-liberia/

EU votes to end illegal logging agreement with Liberia
The European Parliament has voted to end its forest governance agreement with Liberia, citing years of unmet reform goals.

Prof Sir John Curtice, on the English council election results based on key wards:
"A sharp fall in Labour's performance is accompanied more often by an above average Green performance than it is by a strong Reform performance."
"It should be remembered that Labour may often lose seats to Reform because it is losing votes to the Greens, while the Conservatives are losing votes to Reform. The net effect can be that Labour end up losing a seat to Reform."

Elections 2026 live:Votes being counted in some English councils with first election results due overnight
Dozens of councils and mayor's offices are up for grabs in England, while people in Scotland and Wales have been choosing who should run their national parliaments.

Community Votes to Deny Water to Nuclear Weapons Data Center https://www.404media.co/community-votes-to-deny-water-to-nuclear-weapons-data-center/

"We’re told that only an SNP majority justifies another vote. Why? Why do SNP votes matter more than Green votes? That shouldn’t stand. It’s not democratic. Why are we adhering to some abstract commandment, like members of a crank cult? The people didn’t vote for this arbitrary rule. Why are we bound by the events of the past? Yes, an SNP majority was the route to the 2014 referendum. But so what? Times change." -- Neil MacKay quoted by Oor Lesley Riddoch

Seven seats left to be distributed from the list votes. All from Highland.
The end result could be beautiful, or a total disaster. I feel ill.

Louisiana governor: Discarding 45,000 votes 'not a big' deal and 'not my fault' (Jim Saksa/Democracy Docket)
https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/louisiana-governor-discarding-45000-votes-not-a-big-deal-and-not-my-fault/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260512/p58#a260512p58

elec: 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

I voted for him.
These quick vote AGM options, by which Boards encourage members to not read the materials and follow their lead, they should be banned.
"About 95% of votes were cast in support of Nationwide’s pay report, which was recommended by the board, after the building society nearly doubled the pay of Debbie Crosbie, the chief executive, to £4.7m."
A mutual??????
Nationwide customer vows to fight on after failed attempt to join board | Nationwide | Th…

Nationwide customer vows to fight on after failed attempt to join board
James Sherwin-Smith says he will launch fresh campaign for change at the building society after losing vote at AGM

I've been playing with the Oireachtas API to see who's voting for what, and thought I'd try to see who's skipping votes. Here's a list of those missing more than 1/3 in 2025 (Holly Cairns: maternity leave; John McG leas ceann comhairle, RBB ill, Catherine C campaigning)
#mastodaoine

"Church of England votes against plan to rewild 30% of its land by 2030"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #England #Environment

Church of England votes against plan to rewild 30% of its land by 2030
Campaigners criticise C of E for failing to show moral leadership as one of country’s biggest landowners

elec: 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

Seattle City Council votes 9-0 to enact a one-year moratorium on new large data centers and study their impact; Mayor Katie Wilson is expected to sign the bill (Greg Kim/The Seattle Times)
https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/

House leaders to absentee members: "You've got to come" (Andrew Solender/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/05/14/mike-johnson-jeffries-kean-wilson-house-votes
http://www.memeorandum.com/260514/p150#a260514p150

Soon after Trump took office, the lead prosecutor, Jorge Matos, was told by a supervisor to take the investigation no further
“Before the election, it was definitely full steam ahead,” said one person familiar with the case.
“After the election, that all changed.”
https://www.

Prosecutors Had a Drugs-for-Votes Scheme “Locked Up.” Under Trump, They Were Told Not to Pursue Charges.
Before the 2024 election, federal prosecutors were "full steam ahead" looking into how a prison gang in Puerto Rico gave drugs to inmates if they voted for a GOP gubernatorial candidate. After Trump’s election, the investigation evaporated.

Swiss vote against proposal to cap population at 10 million by cutting migration, projections say - BBC News
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c20ygjem17zo

Swiss vote against proposal to cap population at 10 million by cutting migration, projections say
Not all votes have been counted, but the current trend suggests 55% of participants voted against the proposal.

wiki_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://

There are always surprise wins
https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:pruto64zme7b7pmxnporm4tm/post/3mmlitura3s22

Gavan Reilly (@gavreilly.com)
Little bit of electoral history made yesterday… As far as I can make out, independent John O’Leary won the fewest votes of *any* candidate in the history of Dáil elections. O’Leary - who regularly contests elections well outside of his Cork home - won 7 votes in Dublin Central.

To me, the most disturbing part is how news outlets keep reporting as if elections are decided by donations rather than votes. Almost like they think we believe every ad we see, so the most ads win.
Ken Paxton Scrambles to Win Back the Big-Dollar Donors
#PeopleOverPACs #MoneyInPolitics #DarkMoney https://ground.news/article/major-gop-donors-revolt-with-revelation-they-cant-stomach-trump-candidate-report

I'm really angry that Reform is sneaking into the Scottish parliament via the list votes.
We really have to make some radical changes to that ridiculous system.
Also: a pox on the head of anyone daft/evil enough to give their second vote to Reform 🤘🏼

Senate Republicans blocked an attempt by Democrats on Thursday to
stop a Trump administration pilot program for Medicare
that uses artificial intelligence to approve or deny physician-ordered care. 
The vote on a resolution to invoke the Congressional Review Act (CRA)
and end the program
failed on party lines, 46 to 50.
CRA votes need a simple majority to pass. 
Last year, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) launched an experiment t…

Puerto Rico Lawmakers Call for Investigation Into Alleged Drugs-for-Votes Scheme After ProPublica Report (Raquel Rutledge/ProPublica)
https://www.propublica.org/article/puerto-rico-trump-drugs-votes-prisons-elections-jenniffer-gonzalez-colon
http://www.memeorandum.com/260508/p66#a260508p66

Okay, I need the prog supervisors to have a charter amendment ready to go to require BOS confirmation for mayoral appointees that fill vacancies. If it doesn't have six votes now, so be it, just have it ready for that final vote the minute Chow/Gee or Brooke are seated. It is very unusual and obviously prone to corruption that SF lets its mayor fill vacancies unilaterally

London Breed said she’d appoint Stephen Sherrill to curry favor with Bloomberg, 2 former staffers say
Former staffers' statements are first on-record allegations of compromised appointment process of Stephen Sherrill by London Breed.

digg_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…

The media I'm following show 70 constituency seats called; presumably the list votes have all been tallied, so the list seats ought to be all allocated as soon as the last constituencies are called.
I can see that Skye, Lochaber and Badenoch is still pending; where are the other two?
#ScotPol
#Holyrood2026

There are a lot of possible explanations for this:
Maybe the people who aren’t interested in AI also happen to vote for more sessions. (At a quick prod at the data, penalizing votes from people who voted for large numbers of sessions does not seem to change the conclusions above, but I haven’t investigated this thoroughly.)
Maybe AI is a more fragmented topic due to its newness, and interest has not coalesced, leading to a large number of small sessions. (But again, •total• votes for AI, including the whole long tail, were proportionally smaller.)
9/

Prosecutors Had a Drugs-for-Votes Scheme "Locked Up." Under Trump, They Were Told Not to Pursue Charges. (Raquel Rutledge/ProPublica)
https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-doj-puerto-rico-election-fraud-prison-drugs-votes
http://www.memeorandum.com/260505/p29#a260505p29

digg_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…

With only half of eligible voters turning out in Highlands and Islands, a massive 3,677 of them threw away their vote on 12 tiny "parties" and two independents, at least 3 of which were obviously created to disable votes that could have been given to real parties.

Senate Republicans on the Armed Services Committee
have killed two election-related amendments from Michigan Sen.
Elissa Slotkin, brushing aside her attempt to write explicit new limits on military involvement in U.S. elections.
The proposals came during markup of the Fiscal Year 2027 National Defense Authorization Act
and went down on party-line votes, prompting Democratic warnings of a dangerous gray area heading into November.
In a statement posted by Senato…

House votes to rebuke Trump over war with Iran (NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/house-votes-rebuke-trump-war-iran-rcna348281
http://www.memeorandum.com/260603/p97#a260603p97

Friends, EDF Action Votes here.
We’re sounding the alarm about Donald Trump’s cuts at NASA, NOAA, and FEMA.
He fired dozens of scientists
and decommissioned satellites that tracked climate and weather patterns
— including burning one up in the atmosphere.
Our ability to track the weather,
prepare for natural disasters,
and support science is being taken from us.
We have to protect NASA, NOAA, and FEMA’s weather prediction capabilities,
…

I just gave to EDF Action Votes!
EDF Action votes is doing everything they can to elect environmental champions who will take climate action.

GOP-Led House Votes to Limit Trump's Iran War Powers (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/politics/gop-led-house-votes-to-limit-trumps-iran-war-powers-3d9d0fac
http://www.memeorandum.com/260603/p98#a260603p98

digg_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…

The US Senate passed legislation to fund Donald Trump’s controversial immigration crackdown early on Friday morning,
ending a partial government shutdown that has lingered since February.
The 52-47 vote on funding for US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS)
passed with no Democratic support at 5am,
after a marathon session of votes to knock down proposed amendments.
Senator Lisa Murkowski of Alaska was the only …

Louisiana sued for suspending active election, nullifying votes to draft GOP gerrymander (Yunior Rivas/Democracy Docket)
https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/louisiana-sued-for-suspending-active-election-nullifying-votes-to-draft-gop-gerrymander/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260430/p136#a260430p136

elec: 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

Switzerland’s right-wing SVP party is urging voters to “send a clear signal” to policymakers to curb what it calls “overwhelming” population growth.
If Swiss voters back the population curb proposal, the country’s Federal Council and parliament will have to roll out measures to curb population growth until 2050.
Immigration systems would be tightened if the population exceeded 9.5 million at any point over the next 24 years,
with asylum and family reunification programs fir…

Switzerland is voting on whether to cap its population at 10 million. Here's what to know
Switzerland votes on a population cap that could tighten immigration and put its EU free-movement agreement under pressure.

Casting Her 10,000th Vote in a Row, Collins Sets a Senate Record (Carl Hulse/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/05/us/politics/susan-collins-votes-streak-senate.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260605/p61#a260605p61

GOP leaders cancel Friday votes as House agenda hangs in balance (Meredith Lee Hill/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2026/06/25/congress/no-house-votes-friday-00975820
http://www.memeorandum.com/260625/p76#a260625p76

Racism Is Invisible To Sam Alito,
Because It’s His Own Worldview
https://www.techdirt.com/2026/06/29/actual-racism-is-invisible-to-sam-alito-because-its-just-his-own-worldview/

Actual Racism Is Invisible To Sam Alito, Because It’s Just His Own Worldview
A month ago, I wrote that the Supreme Court’s six conservative Justices have exactly one consistent rule on whose votes count: Black people’s votes shouldn’t count. The pattern wa…

Senate passes $70B bill to fund immigration enforcement, without limits on Trump 'anti-weaponization' fund (NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/senate-votes-immigration-enforcement-trump-anti-weaponization-fund-rcna348611
http://www.memeorandum.com/260605/p13#a260605p13

Lawmakers Ask DOJ Watchdog to Investigate Alleged Drugs-for-Votes Scheme After ProPublica Report (Raquel Rutledge/ProPublica)
https://www.propublica.org/article/puerto-rico-trump-drugs-for-votes-doj-inspector-general-investigation
http://www.memeorandum.com/260526/p27#a260526p27

Peru’s presidential runoff is too close to call as ballots continue to be counted from Sunday’s election between
Keiko Fujimori, daughter of former dictator Alberto Fujimori,
and leftist lawmaker Roberto Sšnchez.
Peruvian election officials say final results could take up to a month to confirm.
Peruvian economist and public policy expert Gustavo Guerra-García Picasso says
“democracy has been undermined”
by Fujimori and her right-wing coalition, and that

Peru Votes for President Amid Trump’s “Unprecedented Program of Aggression” Against Leftists in Region
Peru’s presidential runoff is too close to call as ballots continue to be counted from Sunday’s election between Keiko Fujimori, daughter of former dictator Alberto Fujimori, and leftist lawmaker Roberto Sánchez. Peruvian election officials say final results could take up to a month to confirm. Peruvian economist and public policy expert Gustavo Guerra-García Picasso says “democracy has been undermined” by Fujimori and her right-wing coalition, and that “reforms must be implemented …

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Senate votes to block Trump from resuming Iran war (Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2026/06/23/senate-votes-block-trump-resuming-iran-war/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260623/p102#a260623p102

The Senate voted Tuesday to block Donald Trump from resuming the war with Iran,
setting up a potentially contentious fight with the White House.

The Senate passed the resolution 50-48, with four Republicans joining Democrats to support the measure.
Two Republican senators
— Mitch McConnell (Kentucky) and Dave McCormick (Pennsylvania)
— missed the vote, allowing the measure to pass.

Sens. Susan Collins (R-Maine),
Bill Cassidy (R-Louisiana),
Lis…

Senate votes to block Trump from resuming Iran war
The Senate passed the first war powers resolution since the start of the Iran conflict, but Republicans argue it does not have the force of law.

Senate votes to halt Iran war despite Trump's push for peace deal (Connor O'Brien/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/06/23/senate-votes-halt-iran-war-00972648
http://www.memeorandum.com/260623/p99#a260623p99

House votes against extending controversial wiretapping law set to lapse Friday (Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2026/06/11/house-vote-fails-extend-controversial-wiretapping-law/?pwapi_token=eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJyZWFzb24iOiJnaWZ0IiwibmJmIjoxNzgxMTUwNDAwLCJpc3MiOiJzdWJzY3JpcHRpb25zIiwiZXhwIjoxNzgyNTMyNzk5LCJpYXQiOjE3ODExNTA0MDAsImp0aSI6IjdiYjkxOWZlLWY4NDctNGU1NS1iNjY5LTUwMjBmZmYzMmI1ZSIsInVybCI6Imh0dHBzOi8vd3d3Lndhc2hpbmd0b25wb3N0LmNvbS9uYXRpb25hbC1zZWN1cml0eS8yMDI2LzA2LzExL2hvdXNlLXZvdGUtZmFpbHMtZXh0ZW5kLWNvbnRyb3ZlcnNpYWwtd2lyZXRhcHBpbmctbGF3LyJ9.o1X4qrEbFFs_pdc0lZUqQZmG2preVZ6SAF1rkLSzkRk&itid=gfta
http://www.memeorandum.com/260611/p69#a260611p69

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Leftist congressman Roberto Sanchez was closing in on conservative
Keiko Fujimori in Peru's presidential race on Monday
as official vote-counting continued into a second day,
sending markets and ‌mining stocks lower.
With about 94% of votes tallied, Fujimori's tally slipped to 50.01%,
while Sanchez's total rose to 49.99%.
Voters cast ballots in the election on Sunday against a backdrop of a rightward shift in Latin America.
Sanchez has …

TEAM, WE WON!
It’s Dr. Richard Pan
-- pediatrician and Democrat running for Congress in
California’s 6th District.
𝗘𝗹𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗿𝗲𝘀𝘂𝗹𝘁𝘀 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗶𝗻: 𝗪𝗲 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗮𝗱𝘃𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗼 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗚𝗲𝗻𝗲𝗿𝗮𝗹 𝗘𝗹𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝘁𝗼 𝘁𝗮𝗸𝗲 𝗼𝗻 𝗠𝗔𝗚𝗔 𝗥𝗲𝗽𝘂𝗯𝗹𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗻 𝗞𝗲𝘃𝗶𝗻 𝗞𝗶𝗹𝗲𝘆 𝗶𝗻 𝗖𝗔-𝟬𝟲.
Voters now have a clear choice.
My opponent has proudly branded himself a “MAGA Champion”
and votes with Donald Trump 98% of the time.
Make no mistake:
Kiley will be a reliable vote for the MAGA agenda in Congres…

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Why California Takes So Long to Count Votes (The Atlantic)
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/2026/06/california-election-2026-governor/687494/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260610/p106#a260610p106

Court’s leniency paves the way for fourth presidential bid by Le Pen
Far-right leader Marine Le Pen says she’ll run for the French presidency next year
-- despite being sentenced Tuesday to wear a court-ordered electronic monitor for embezzlement.
The decision by the 57-year-old veteran of three presidential races sets up a fourth campaign like no other:
potentially seeking votes while subject to the monitoring and a judge’s determination of how, and for how long, th…

House Republicans, with the help of four Democrats, voted Thursday to approve legislation that would
slash nutrition assistance for millions of young children and pregnant and postpartum women,
even as food prices continue to rise nationwide and earlier GOP cuts to federal aid take hold.
In a 213-210 vote, largely along party lines, House lawmakers passed an appropriations bill that would fund the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) and other agencies for the coming fiscal …

House GOP, With Help of 4 Dems, Votes to Take Food Aid From Millions of Women and Kids | Common Dreams
"While working families struggle to feed their families, Republicans are cutting funding for fruit and vegetable vouchers for women, infants, and children," said Democratic Rep. Rosa DeLauro.

I'm on your team forever -- It's now clear that we do not have the votes necessary to advance ... (Tom Steyer)
https://tomsteyer.substack.com/p/im-on-your-team-forever
http://www.memeorandum.com/260609/p126#a260609p126

Almost four months ago Tom Kean Jr, a Republican, vanished from public view.
He missed more than 100 votes,
all while continuing to collecthis full taxpayer-funded salary of $174,000 along with excellent benefits.
The only explanation given for his absence was a cryptic statement from his office in late April saying he was dealing with a “personal health matter”.
Kean’s father, former New Jersey governor Tom Kean Sr, further told CNN in May that his son was battling…

Tom Kean got months of paid sick leave – after voting against it for others
The congressman spent four months mysteriously away from work, but he doesn’t seem to think his constituents should get mandated sick days

Maine Dems plot response if Nebraska GOP tweaks Electoral College votes (Holly Otterbein/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/06/07/maine-democrats-nebraska-electoral-college
http://www.memeorandum.com/260607/p48#a260607p48