In addition to the 2 resolutions with an election between, the GA also has to pass a bill to put the referendum on the ballot. See 2024's HB 558 legacylis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp...

Has anyone asked how the bill would take effect before July 1 without an emergency clause that would take R votes?

Forget the usual "likely voter/registered voter split" argument: fewer than 95% of respondents in this poll are *registered* voters--764 out of 809.

Why would anyone take a poll lead seriously where 5%+ of respondents aren't even registered?

(Asked as a likely Spanberger-er.)

I'm old enough to remember when Don Jr. said Biden would cause WW3 by doing this.

(He said it in November last year. thehill.com/policy/defen...)

@bradkutner.bsky.social Neither Taylor nor Jones knew about Code § 19.2-294? Virginia can't prosecute anyone the feds prosecuted first. www.wvtf.org/news/2025-06...

I don't know if the chart is accurate, but if it is, the pattern of orange versus blue is less interesting on a day-to-day basis than on a month-to-month basis in what it implies about the mating patterns of American heterosexuals. Straight Americans copulate mostly between Halloween and Christmas?

The past is never dead. It's not even past.

Middlesex, which hasn't been a county since 1965. Napoleon, who was defeated by Wellington and von Bluecher in 1815 and by Ridley Scott in 2023.

It's like the Labour Party just got word of the message Democrats used when they lost the White House to Trump and Labour is now stroking its collective beard and nodding, looking thoughtfully in the distance as if oblivious of the actual outcome.

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Alternatively, it's missing George Clooney being the only one facing backward, staring at Julia Roberts: i.ytimg.com/vi/7JPZv29Jg...

If you zoom out far enough, it's Charles III's official portrait: upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en...

Judge Boasberg's hearing today on the Alien Enemies Act highlights that according to this Administration, it's OK if the Secretary of Defense tells a journalist beforehand exact times F-14s will be over Yemen, but when an ICE flight left TX is a state secret that can't be shared with a federal judge

no idea who made this but it’s genius