Bucks county is a weird place. When you hear stories about the place, you would think it's some sort of MAGA stronghold.

Yet, Bucks went blue for the 2016 and 2020 presidential elections, blue for the Governor's race, and blue for the US senate race.

The worst part about Mastriano running for US senate is that I am going to have to see his signs littered across Philly again.

So he can lose by like 15 points again?

And even if he does run for US senate, I doubt he makes past the primaries.

We really need to put as much research as possible into bacteriophage therapy. It may be our only hole in stopping superbugs in the future.

But Russia really won’t benefit from this. Urals is still selling much lower than Brent or WTI and cutting oil production will only hurt their own revenues.

This is a pretty big victory. While the GoP controlled state senate will still make it difficult to pass things, the democratic controlled state house will ensure that "sneaky" ballot questions won't make their way on the ballot during off-year primary election cycles.

Near-northeast is like 95% democrat.

That contract that Biden negotiated and eventually forced on the railroad workers really wasn't that good. Go on r/railroading and they'll explain more. The "sick leave" that the workers got was a joke and was not what the union asked for. If Biden was really pro-union or pro railroad workers, he would've let them strike.

Conservatives from both the House and Senate near unanimously voted to prevent the strike and force the deal through to the workers.

Both the title and the tone of the article present an anti-union bias, even if that tone is subtle.

When did BBC become so anti-Union?

He would be a massive hypocrite if he wasn't.

Pretty good for me. I got my job back as a library assistant, I'm getting my Master's degree in Library Science in a few weeks, and I'm currently in the hiring process of becoming a full-time librarian.

So basically, I'm just about to take the biggest step in my life and career at this point, so it is very exciting for me.

Hmm wouldn’t Iran be upset that Putin feels this way?

Yeah Oil isn’t really that rare of a resource at the end of the day. Although it is funny that back in the 70s-80s the fear with fossil fuels wasn’t so much environmental but rather we would soon run out of fossil fuel sources.

Never Forget that Tom Farley was the one who enabled this idiot to run his “Philly Fighting COVID” program, and essentially gave the keys to the city’s initial vaccine drive to this scammer. And he kept defending this decision even though it was pretty obvious early on how terrible of an idea it was.

Thank God he resigned after he got busted for disposing the remains of the MOVE bombing victims.

I mean the question is why? If Serbia decides to do something stupid, NATO will just smash whatever attack force that they use.

Tito may have been a dictator, but the Balkans did have some semblance of stability when he ruled Yugoslavia. One of the few “good” dictators in human history.

It is kind of funny to see that there are some pundits who seem to think that this is a genius move by Putin:

https://oilprice.com/Latest-Energy-News/World-News/Putin-Bans-Oil-Sales-To-Countries-That-Comply-With-G7-Oil-Price-Cap.html

... and unsurprisingly, it's a right-wing blog that wrote this article.

Wouldn't surprise me if within the next 10 years, Pennsylvania reopens the ever-burning mines of Centralia to "create jobs."

Pretty glad that our house uses natural gas heat. While gas heat has gone up as well, it's still cheaper than electric heat and heating oil.

Yeah, conceding is just a sing of courtesy. Shapiro is Governor no matter what.

He would've been far more sinister than that. He literally wanted to end democracy in Pennsylvania. Plus an abortion ban just leads to a slippery slope of other things getting banned i.e., birth control. I don't think people realize how off the rails the guy is.

Somewhat serious, it would probably lead to a civil war in this country. I mean even now; the man hasn't conceded even though he has lost the election by over 14 points (so a landslide). His family and supporters still think that "God will lead him to victory."

But the nightmare scenario is that he would do a lot of unpopular things in the state, particularly for Philly, its suburbs, and Pittsburgh. He puts a sycophant in as the election general, does everything in his power to make PA unwinnable for Democrats. Kills the public school system. Philly and Pitt get pissed, and do a coup either with soft power to remove him from office, or literally is removed from his seat from Harrisburg. Chaos ensues since the GoP gets mad. Civil War 2.0 follows. US gets balkanized.

So in many ways, Shapiro's win saved the country. But like I said, this is just a what if nightmare scenario. There is a reason why Mastriano lost by the margin he did.

He lost by a landslide and the GoP establishment is probably going to stay as far away as possible from him. It was an embarrassing defeat and regardless if he concedes or not, Shapiro will be the governor in January.