Unfortunately, the Kansas legislature is still controlled by republicans, including a supermajority in the Senate (which from what I could find only had one seat up this year--not sure how that works) BUT they no longer hold a supermajority in the House, where Dems flipped 20 seats!

I think the tech broligarchs have convinced Dump that he can live forever if he makes sure they keep getting moar funding and data centers so AI can find the secret immortality sauce or make AI robots and upload their minds to them, or whatever the hell it is they believe they're going to do. So now he's got this giant bunker and full hospital and god knows what else in there where he's planning to live for the foreseeable future.

So theoretically it could work if you have proper python modules for the TTS? There's a command option to specify the TTS model. Just speculating.

Is python supported?

Check out lue: https://github.com/paulilaaso/lue

terminal-based , TTS, various formats supported. I've used it and it works on my system. (edit: I see you're on android, so not sure if that's supported. It's python.)

Wow, I didn't know this backstory. That's amazing!

Yeah, so if they're threatening new members to make them vote for Jeffries in January, just imagine how strongly they're threatening anyone right now who even thinks about running against him, to make sure he'll be the only choice.

Notice how these assholes have no problem playing hardball against their own side while meekly going along with the other side. Like on the Hegeth impeachment vote. If they really wanted to get the job done on impeaching him, they'd have made damn sure they had the people there to vote. Which means they didn't want to, or they didn't want to do it now when it was a repub who introduced the bill, or some other shit reason. Just shows what their agenda really is, no matter what they pretend it is. At least this guy is brave enough to reveal their duplicity, then the people can be the ones primarying them next time.

Replace it with "Esteemed guests" or similar, for the same level of formality.

🎉 🥳 🎈 🎈 🎈 🥂 Woo hoo!

From https://www.congresscountdown.com/info/speaker-election

The Speaker of the House is elected by the full House on the first day of every new Congress

If the new members couldn't vote, there would be no reason for them to be threatening Don Leonard. I had to look up how it works because there's a lot of confusing statements in different news articles. The process is different between the House (all members vote) and Senate (each party elects their own majority leader), but in both cases the newly elected members will also be voting, once the new session starts in January with the new Congress.

They're up every 2 years, it can happen if a good candidate is found and supported in their districts.

I think I read that it will be next week, so there's not much time. [edit: I also just heard on a podcast that they won't vote until January, so ... I would like to get a clearer answer on this too!] The problem is no one has said they would run against him. Of course why would they have when the Establishment have all decreed that he's The One since well before the election.

But that was before the Blue wave and all these new members coming in. The times have changed and, the terms have changed, but the Establishment hasn't realized that yet--but they're about to Find Out. I'll just say that even if Jeffries does still get it this session, he'll have a LOT of pressure on him to perform and go along with what progressives want because now they have a lot more power than before, and they'll have time to get someone else ready to run against him next session. And since he's basically a capitulator I have some confidence the progressive wing will be able to get his cooperation on a lot of stuff. But we'll see.

Meanwhile I'm a lot more confident about Schumer getting ousted than I was a couple days ago. 🤞

From the article: "Roughly 40 Democrats would need to vote for someone else in order to prevent Jeffries from taking the gavel."

From another article: "Democrats have now flipped over 40 House seats."

🤔

He could tell them go ahead and primary him--they just gave him a fantastic campaign slogan. "The Establishment hates me" or "The Establishment told me not to represent YOU"

Definitely check him out, he got elected the same time as Warnock. Look at his record, watch some of his speeches. He's great.

I hope every incoming rep-elect tells them to fuck off with this mafia shit and speaks out to the media about the threats they're being subjected to.

Jon Ossoff

Yes, it does look like that! "Talk to the hand, God."

Re the thumbnail: "Here we observe the christofascist in its natural environment, identified by its unique prayer pose, not seen in other species." They always hold one hand up like that like they're making an antenna that channels the god energy down to the earth to complete the circuit that makes the magic spell happen.

That's good news! Timothy Snyder has just done a whole series of talks with existing and newly elected congresspeople that are really good, called Now We Act. He's asking all the right questions and pointing out that not only do the people want accountability, affordability depends on accountability and they are intertwined.

Here's his interview with Chris Van Hollen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7kvYxsRiJmE Mark Kelly's is also good. I've just watched a few so far but I'm starting to feel a sense of hope watching this series.

So I'm really glad to hear that Van Hollen may come around and be willing to do it, after saying he wasn't considering it earlier. Not only would he be good at the job, but hey it's the ones who are reluctant that make the best leaders since they're not doing it out of ambition but out of a sense of duty.