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chris @chris12902.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

This poll is junk. It doesn't even use the official wording of the ballot question, and the wording it does use ("eliminate the requirement that X") affects the way people answer.

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chris @chris12902.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

my guess is that the four-year extension he signed last year has to do with it, and that the ravens are desperate for a center after losing all of our centers to long-term injuries. is he any good?

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chris @chris12902.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

bemused by the potted plant

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chris @chris12902.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The thing I've noticed with these UMBC polls over the past few years is that they always nail the percent the GOP candidate is going to get, but always miss the Democratic margin by several points. If this is really all Cox is getting, that is *apocalyptic*

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chris @chris12902.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I know about Jerry Donald, but what other Dem nominee are you confident in to have Dems favored in 2/3 seats? I personally have Jesse Pippy and April Miller winning re-election

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chris @chris12902.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

people always talk about the Wisconsin senators hating each other. but could you *imagine* Cruz and Talarico as a delegation?

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chris @chris12902.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

get on retroachievements

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chris @chris12902.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Ok its done en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael...

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chris @chris12902.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

LETS FUCKING GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

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chris @chris12902.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

bsky.app/profile/nfln...

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chris @chris12902.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I was in the Navajo Nation last month and saw more signs for the two candidates running for president there than I saw any signs for congress or, hell, any of the AZ statewide races (I saw one sign for Kris Mayes and that was it, nothing for Hobbs or Fontes)

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chris @chris12902.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

the people have forgotten Joshua4Congress

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chris @chris12902.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

oh for sure, Sinclair Broadcast Group and its far right CEO have been essentially swiftboating Moore on this for the past several months now

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chris @chris12902.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

i know signs are a bad indicator but i saw SO many signs for Callie Barr when i was driving through the UP two weeks ago

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chris @chris12902.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

i just read through the article, and it looks like Flippo has a Bronze Star, but not a Bronze Star with "V" device like he claimed during his 2026 congressional campaign. i'm not sure i'd call this stolen valor

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chris @chris12902.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Moore didn't receive his Bronze Star until his LG resubmitted the paperwork for it in 2024, 10 years after his retirement from the Army. that's not stolen valor, and i wouldn't call it that if that's the situation Flippo is in

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chris @chris12902.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

well, it depends. Moore's lt. gen. told him that he had earned a Bronze Star for his service in Afghanistan and encouraged him to include it in his WH Fellowship application, and Moore failed to correct journalists who referred to him as a Bronze Star recipient (which he later apologized for)

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chris @chris12902.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

is this like a Wes Moore situation where he earned the Bronze Star but wasn't awarded it until much later? or did Flippo not earn it whatsoever and just lied about having it?

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chris @chris12902.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

(looks at my other planned rewrites of wikipedia articles of politicians whose careers started in the 1970s) Uh oh

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chris @chris12902.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

i was planning to do a DYK for Paul Wiedefeld a year or so ago ("Did you know... ...that while Paul Wiedefeld was general manager of WMATA, there was a website that tracked when the Metro was on fire?") but i forgot how long it takes for editors to do a Good Article review and gave up on it

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chris @chris12902.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

sure this article's gonna take me probably a week to rewrite but its worth it because i get to put maryland DYK trivia on the wikipedia main page 😃

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chris @chris12902.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

evidently i learned nothing from having to painfully go through every newspapers.com archive to find articles about J. Joseph Curran Jr. when i rewrote his entire wikipedia article in april because i'm already back doing it again for a different maryland politician

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chris @chris12902.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

ive harvested at least four more watermelons since this post, all have been smaller than these two but i still have six more in the garden 🥴

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chris @chris12902.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I've heard that Mercury Opinion has a text-only poll of MD-01 in the field, but it only asked topline who you're voting for in the general election and nothing else so it's kind of junk

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chris @chris12902.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

another restaurant owner in the district was telling me how Canadian tourism to International Falls has been down big in "recent years"... and he was telling me this just two days before the tariffs kicked in

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chris @chris12902.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I was just in MN-08 too, the park ranger at Voyageurs was alluding to how DOGE cut the park's staff by 25% and as a result they're forced to put all of their resources into the lake part of the park instead of everything within (the first trail I went to was, no exaggeration, covered in poison ivy)

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chris @chris12902.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

(for what it's worth, here was the route i took through michigan. saw enough AES signs along the way to tell me the hype on the ground is real, especially since i saw hardly any signs for Rogers)

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chris @chris12902.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Callie Barr also had a surprising amount of signs all around the UP to make me think MI-01 will be closer than people think (Bergman probably still favored though)

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chris @chris12902.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

i was just in MI-04 last week (finishing up a roadtrip that had me going through most of Michigan) and based on what i saw around Holland, Huizenga is running scared. dude had big red signs at every other intersection along the main highway

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chris @chris12902.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

cool, here's his record: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Governo... but, record aside, if Moore runs and gets the nomination he's going to get swiftboated à la John Kerry. David Smith, the CEO of Sinclair Broadcast Group and owner of The Baltimore Sun, have been trying to do so for the past few months now

en.wikipedia.org

Governorship of Wes Moore - Wikipedia

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chris @chris12902.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

i have another watermelon that’ll be ripe tomorrow it’s so over

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chris @chris12902.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

he moved the tunnel across the room and to the doorway to try to block me from putting their gate back up

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chris @chris12902.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

and it’s not even my biggest one good lord

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chris @chris12902.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

first melons of the year! the one on the left weighs 28 pounds

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chris @chris12902.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Hazard County i've always called it

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chris @chris12902.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

and that's that! three weeks of travel condensed into 39 posts. here's my dirt wall updated with all the samples i gathered on this trip. i don't think i've ever shared this here, so i've attached a photo from before

A map of the United States on a green wall. Several locations are marked on the map with bottles of dirt or sand.

A map of the United States on a green wall. Several locations are marked on the map with bottles of dirt or sand. New bottles are added to locations in West Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, Utah, Colorado, Nebraska, South Dakota, North Dakota, Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Michigan.

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chris @chris12902.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

and here’s the rest of michigan

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chris @chris12902.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

and here’s pictured rocks

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chris @chris12902.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

went underground again. sorry

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chris @chris12902.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

worth mentioning that all of Hogan's SCOMD appointees had to be confirmed by the Maryland Senate, which has a Dem supermajority

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WIRED @wired.com · 04/09/2026

More than 200 people in roles such as engineering, finance, and communications will now be represented by the Communication Workers of America. www.wired.com/story/wikipe...

wired.com

Wikipedia Workers Unionize for the First Time

More than 200 people in roles such as engineering, finance, and communications will now be represented by the Communication Workers of America.

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chris @chris12902.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

The MD Supreme Court's decision appears to have been 5-2, with Gould (Hogan appointee) and Harrell (who was subbing in for Biran, another Hogan appointee) dissenting. The court's two Dem appointees, Watts and Killough, were joined by three Hogan appointees including the chief justice

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