Jake Walker
@Jake_W
"I may not make an honest buck, but I'm 100% American." E Orthodox Inquirer. GA Southern History MA & BA. Avatar: Rep. Charles Pelham. Malem fero malis.
When the world is going to hell around you, but you live in North Dakota.
When SCOTUS likely rules on Humphrey's Executor next term, that opinion's gonna look interesting, particularly if Alito (!) does as he has in the past and declines to join Thomas in calling for HE to be totally overturned.
The Louisiana counties remind me of the state's 1920 results. Deep dissatisfaction in Acadia with Woodrow Wilson's disagreements with Georges Clemenceau combined with anger over the sugar tariffs he signed into law resulted in the region mostly jumping ship for Harding in 1920.
How every predominantly Catholic county voted in the 2024 election
Grover Cleveland-George McGovern voter in West Virginia
Asked Dad his thoughts on the Georgia Senate race. He thought Derek Dooley was an odd choice for a candidate. He seemed more favorable to Brad Raffensperger than I'd guessed he would be. He was open to most other names. Interesting.
I remember a similar incident where some fans at a Maple Leafs game in Toronto weren't allowed to hold up a sign saying hello to their hometown of Dildo, Newfoundland. cbc.ca/news/canada/ho…
The true nature of bird migration was finally understood in western science thanks to the discovery of this stork in Germany which was still alive despite having a central African hunter's spear through its neck
share your favorite piece of bird lore
With Roy Cooper running for Senate I think it’s worth pointing out how much the country has changed on the one issue that single handily won him the governorship nearly 10 years ago
The most insane election result in Georgia in 2024 was a Democrat losing Harris +69 Clayton County in a (technically nonpartisan) state Supreme Court race because he *forgot* to campaign in the minority parts of Atlanta.
In case you too were born in the 1980s and need to feel ancient.
Judge Divine is the first federal judge born in the 1990s (which also means I'm now older than a federal judge)