Any military 'geeks': Can someone explain D-day to me?

Why didn't the battleships and heavy cruisers just carve a path across the beach and up to the cliffs before the troops landed?

toon: Maybe a second term isn't such a good idea

Don't pull teeth in Alaska while riding a hoverboard

Deplorable Collins (R, GA) speaks about JFK and RFK, Jr

Some street art by Greg Goya

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6 opinions on SCROTUS ballot ruling

State of the Union for Women

Red State AGs Keep Trying to Kill Ballot Measures by a Thousand Cuts

Red State AGs Keep Trying to Kill Ballot Measures by a Thousand Cuts - Bolts

When a coalition of voting rights activists in Ohio set out last December to introduce a new ballot initiative to expand voting access, they hardly anticipated that the thing to stop them would be a matter of word choice.

But that’s what Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost took issue with when he reviewed the proposal’s summary language and title, then called “Secure and Fair Elections.” Among other issues, Yost said the title “does not fairly or truthfully summarize or describe the actual content of the proposed amendment.”

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These Ohio advocates aren’t alone in their struggle to actually use the levers of direct democracy. Already in 2024, several citizen-led attempts to put issues directly to voters are hitting bureaucratic roadblocks early on in the process at the hands of state officials.

Arkansas organizers have been stonewalled by their attorney general, who has rejected language for ballot proposals to expand medical marijuana and increase government transparency. In Nebraska, a lawmaker behind a law sending more public money to private schools has leaned on the secretary of state to block a ballot referendum attempting to repeal it.

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Pete Buttigieg on 'Tell Me More' with Kelly Corrigan

I missed this when it first aired Nov 13, 2023.
video runs 25:51 and seems much shorter

https://www.pbs.org/video/pete-buttigieg-3birzx/

BBC: Trump says he would 'encourage' Russia to attack Nato allies who do not pay their bills

Donald Trump has said he would "encourage" Russia to attack any Nato member that fails to pay its bills as part of the Western military alliance.

At a rally on Saturday, he said he had once told a leader he would not protect a nation behind on its payments, and would "encourage" the aggressors to "do whatever the hell they want".

Members of Nato commit to defend any nation in the bloc that gets attacked.

The White House called the comments "appalling and unhinged".

Nato chief Jens Stoltenberg said any suggestion that "allies will not defend each other undermines all of our security", putting soldiers from Nato countries at risk.

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https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-68266447