More: Although Montana's measure was the first to reach voters directly, the state is the second overall to try the maneuver " after Hawaii, where the governor signed similar legislation in May. Rather than directly restricting political spending, both versions would remove that power from the state corporate statutes that authorize companies, trade associations, and other "artificial persons" to operate in the first place.

Supporters say the strategy is crafted to avoid clashing with the Citizens United v. FEC ruling, which held that corporate election spending is protected by the First Amendment. But business groups, GOP politicians, and other opponents insist it will crash into the "unconstitutional conditions" doctrine, which prevents states from hinging the exercise of one right on the surrender of another.

NC's gerrymandering this year totally backfired. In both national and state level elections. I assume there will be a recount because the race was very close but as it stands currently that hag Virginia Foxx AKA "Satan's Meemaw" has lost her race. They tried to dilute Greensboro's blue voters with a bunch of red Appalachian counties and instead Greensboro may have just helped liberate the mountains.

The good new just keeps on coming:

"A day after Democrats won the House majority, Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., told his staff in a phone call this morning he will not stay on as Republican leader in the new Congress, according to four sources on the call."

More: Promises to improve the cost of living, protect Medicaid, deport only "the worst of the worst" and end foreign conflicts were not kept. Instead, masked federal agents terrorized our cities and killed innocent people, millions of Americans have lost health care coverage, and tariffs coupled with a needless war have made our economy worse.

Now, a historic Election Night has shown just how much they overplayed their hand. Even before midnight, it was clear that the midterms were a bloodbath for Republicans everywhere " an overwhelming repudiation of Trump and the party who has explicitly and implicitly supported him along the way. It was a blue tsunami, beyond Democrats' wildest dreams and Republicans' worst nightmares.

More: In a 50-page opinion, U.S. District Judge Mustafa Kasubhai ruled that ICE repeatedly violated an existing court order governing warrantless immigration arrests in the Beaver State, with inaccurate reports, missing records and accounts that did not match what actually happened.

The judge's loss of confidence in the agency was so pronounced that he withdrew the usual presumption that government officials have properly performed their duties.

"This presumption no longer holds for defendants," Kasubhai wrote. "Defendants are held to the same expectation as any other litigant before this court. One must earn credibility by acting with integrity."

The ruling means ICE must now provide plaintiffs challenging its arrest practices with a much broader collection of records, including administrative arrest warrants, supporting evidence, documents given to detainees and body-camera footage from civil immigration arrests conducted since Sept. 1. The agency must also turn over previously disclosed material without redactions and repeat the court's instructions to relevant employees every 30 days.

Voted weeks ago. We could see historic change in NC today.

Not gonna hold my breath waiting for it though.

...but could it be because no one was looking for it the reason we are find it now?

I certainly won't mourn the loss of any Trump voters from the electorate.

Good news if true but I'm pretty sure we'll never hear a word about this again after the election is over.

More: It didn't take long after Trump's second win for Leyva to realize that he had been duped. First, he said, Trump seemed to obstruct the release of the Epstein files, which didn't live up to the MAGA-sphere hype when some of them were finally made public. Then the president did something he had said he wasn't going to do: start a war. Leyva now spends nearly twice as much on gas as he did last year"sometimes it costs him $300 a week. I ran into him outside a home-improvement store in Scottsdale, where voters will decide one of the nation's competitive congressional races. I asked whether he was planning to vote. "Hell no. I don't think it matters," he told me as he loaded blinds into his gleaming Toyota pickup. Trump was supposed to be different, Leyva said, but it turns out that he's just as bad as every other politician. Leyva doesn't think that he'll ever vote again.

Go team algae!

I'd bet on a private company getting there before any nation. So much money to be made out there eventually.

Hardly. We'll see a manned mission sometime in the next 20-30 years. Mars is the stepping stone to the riches of the asteroid belt.

Nice Freudian slip headline.

More: "Veterans know what real leadership looks like: you take care of the people under your command and you keep politics out of the mission," said Jose Vasquez, U.S. Army veteran and executive director of Common Defense. "Right now, nearly 8-in-10 veterans and military families say they're being left behind, and active-duty troops are telling us that politicization is pushing them toward the exit. That's not a talking point; it's a readiness crisis."

And service members have not been shy about admitting which leaders they blame. According to the poll, "Roughly 50 percent of veterans and active-duty service members said they disapproved of Trump as commander-in-chief, while 47 percent said they approved of him. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth had a similar approval rating. Roughly 45 percent of respondents said they approved of him, while 50 percent said they disapproved. Another 56 percent said they approved of senior uniformed military commanders, such as top generals and admirals, while 27 percent said they disapproved."

Of course he'd have tried to bomb Saigon. Fyucking idiot.

Who pays for a $1B riot?

Certainly won't be the people who created the conditions that led to the riot. The French should have dusted off their guillotines.

"I should have punched you 40 years ago"

This sad, pathetic excuse for a man has always hated his daughter.

If Musk was any character from the movie Real Genius it'd be Kent.

They must be planning something so awful and/or stupid that General Sylvia felt compelled to object.

Something tells me Republicans won't have a problem with this illegal immigrant with no passport or visa.

More: Seven months ago, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court objected to search filters that let intelligence analysts pull Americans' messages from intercepted data without the approvals, written justifications, or records the law requires. The court approved another year of surveillance anyway. The ruling has never been made public, and Senators Ron Wyden of Oregon and Adam Schiff of California say the administration's own deadline for releasing it passed in September.

The program, Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), lapsed in June after Congress failed to renew it, though collection continues under the court's March approval. The administration's own public documentation says rulings like this one are reviewed for public release "within 180 days of issuance." That window closed September 13, even as intelligence officials press lawmakers to reauthorize the program by the end of the year.

Wyden, the longest-serving member of the Senate Intelligence Committee, and Schiff, the former chair of its House counterpart, say the administration owes Congress an explanation for the delay, and the names of the officials responsible, by November 6.

"If this administration won't follow this simple statutory directive," the senators told Director of National Intelligence Jay Clayton and Attorney General Todd Blanche in a demand letter obtained exclusively by WIRED, "it is unclear why Congress or the American people should trust this administration to follow any of the other legal limits to Section 702."

They are terribly sorry that they got caught.