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2026-07-16 17:25:22 UTC

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No. Article 1 § 3 ¶ 1 is exactly on point and the elections clause is not. The National Archives even handily highlights the 'chosen by the legislature thereof' for the historical change, hyperlinking to the 17th Amendment talking about the two options.
https://archives.gov/founding-docs/constitution-transcript#1-3
States may determine the time, place, & manner; but the choice between immediate elections and interim appointments comes from the constitution text itself.
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#ConstitutionalLaw #USLaw

2026-07-16 15:59:08 UTC

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To understand this fully, you have to remember that the U.S.A. didn't start out as a democracy, any more than the U.K. was a democracy in the latter 18th century.
In the century and a bit when we were having progressivism and Reform Acts and whatnot, the U.S.A. was having its own democratic reforms, of a system that was originally designed by people deeply suspicious of that.
The 17th Amendment (q.v.) was one such reform.
#ConstitionalLaw #history

2026-07-16 15:45:57 UTC

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No. It would have been article 1 section 3, were it not for those pesky kids and their 17th Amendment. (-:
Which was as recent as 1913.
This is not a states rights thing. It's a long history of unforseen consequences of the original indirect design. Direct universal suffrage elections were not the norm back when the constitution was created; not here, not there. Compare the Electoral College.
@npub1mmh…80qm
#ConstitutionalLaw #USLaw #USPolitics

2026-06-27 19:52:39 UTC

I thought that #ElonMusk causing 14 millions deaths was yet another piece of social media bullshit, propagated via the usual nonsense of anonymous sourceless screenshots.
It isn't. It's a study in next month's #TheLancet, a collaboration between Brazilian & Spanish universities.
https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(25)01186-9
It does not include other Department of Dodgy life-affecting consequences such as cuts to aviation safety at the FAA, NOAA cuts, cuts at the NIH, and others.
#USPolitics #DOGE #TrumpDeaths

2026-06-21 13:27:53 UTC

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I think that you'll enjoy #CountBinface's own observation in another interview from that night about what we used to do to floppy discs in the 1990s.
https://youtube.com/v/l5W1OQJj0xk
#UKPolitics #ReformUKLtd #RestoreBritainLtd

2026-06-19 12:54:59 UTC

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There is a suggestion in the comments section of this video that the #CountBinface Party be renamed 'Refuse'.
https://mastodon.scot/@JdeBP/116776847428636964
#UKPolitics
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2026-06-19 12:48:02 UTC

Most political commentators treat @npub1pam…jaj4 as a bit of fun. Also: One quickly learns that the person under the costume is quite sharp and makes some relevant points under the guise of comedy.
However, Jon Craig of Sky News, supposedly a political commentator for over 20 years, acts like a pompous blustering fool. Mind you, xe did once work for the #DailyExpress.
https://youtube.com/v/MCCVt8IhJkA
#CountBinface #UKPolitics #Makerfield

2026-02-07 12:38:15 UTC

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More direct hyperlink:
https://thenational.scot/news/25834517.full-secret-notice-peter-mandelson-just-sent-uk-media/
#TheNational #IPSO #PeterMandelson #UKPolitics #EpsteinFiles #DonaldJTrump

2026-02-03 19:39:25 UTC

Damn!
Happily searching the #EpsteinFiles for bizarre inclusions of computer software stuff (e.g. Adobe Flash README, #NetBSD, Python), I tried looking up qmail.
I stumbled upon #PeterMandelson e-mails that the journalists won't find because one has to understand Received: headers to know whom they are from, and the base64 encoding of the body hides the text from the search engines.
https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%209/EFTA00754474.pdf
#UKPolitics

2025-10-07 11:48:24 UTC

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People don't realize how far gone this is.
A state of emergency was declared, under several provisions of federal law, half a year ago.
I stopped counting how many emergencies had been declared. But back in May 2025 it was in the double digits.
https://mastodon.scot/@JdeBP/114269041345118934
The tariffs, the National Guard mobilizations, and other stuff, have all been done through emergency powers.
#USPolitics #DonaldJTrump #USLaw #MartialLaw #EmergencyPowers #fascism

2024-10-19 06:30:51 UTC

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As @cstross has pointed out, you then have Vance to worry about.
By the way: #DonaldJTrump dying before 2024-11-02 has different consequences to xem dying before the Presidential election on 2024-12-17 (if I have my "first Tuesday after the second Wednesday" right) which in its turn differs from the farcical situation of xem dying in the 5 week window after winning the 2024-12-17 election (c.f. discussion in the hyperlinked thread).
https://mas.to/@Barbramon1/113306868053951013
#USPolitics

2024-09-06 10:06:52 UTC

Imagine a person from the past visiting the present.
S.F. people generally overestimate the culture shock. People from the past accommodate the present all of the time, after all.
Funnily enough, all of the old people did *not* have to die off to let us switch to fuel in litres and decimal coinage. (-:
But imagine someone from the 1920s coming to the 2020s and finding that *Labour* is concerned about Russia funding and supplying the propaganda for the *Conservative* Party.
#UKPolitics

2024-08-11 08:49:51 UTC

Andrew Kerr and Mary McCool of #BBCNews present Scotland's lack of involvement in the #EnglandRiots as some sort of great mystery …
… yet name the English Defence League as soon as the piece gets past the first quote.
People dressed in the English flag, shouting about how the non-English are bad, associated with the people in C4's RUK exposé talking about "proper English" things.
And 2 professors and an expert journalist cannot figure out why this is unattractive in #Scotland‽
#UKPolitics

2024-08-07 22:53:31 UTC

It is a total non-surprise that the fascist criminal gangs failed to turn up in #Birmingham *again* today.
They have yet to turn up in Birmingham and the West Midlands in this supposed "U.K." rioting that #BBCNews and others have misportrayed it to be.
They didn't turn up in #Bristol today either, according to the Bristol Cable, and it almost goes without saying that Scotland and Wales are still not parts of this.
#UKPolitics #UKRiots