A Forbes article about a father who killed eight children, with an embedded prediction widget inviting people to speculate on whether "Congress will pass new gun safety legislation before 31st December 2026"

ghoulish

The state Senate Education will consider a bill today introduced three days ago to force schools and colleges to classify sports teams by sex while privatizing enforcement through lawsuits.
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At this point no but hey who knows, things change quick depending on what's on the table

Pre-canvassing bill here --
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Electronic filing bill here -- www.palegis.us/legislation/...

ICYMI: The House State Government Committee passed two bills earlier today with bipartisan support to allow counties seven days of pre-canvassing of mail-in ballots and require the electronic filing of campaign finance reports. They move to the full state House.

Garrity’s lobbying work draws scrutiny in Pa. governor’s race Her work for a defense contractor involved influencing policy, but she never registered as a lobbyist. Critics say she may have met the legal threshold.

Stacy Garrity has taken credit for federal laws benefiting her company, which sells materials used in arms manufacturing. Ethics experts say she may have broken (mostly self-enforced) lobbying law; her campaign says that misunderstands her job's duties.
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The Internet's Most Powerful Archiving Tool Is in Peril As major news outlets cut off the Wayback Machine, journalists and advocacy groups are rallying to protect the Internet Archive’s vast collection of web pages.

Individual journalists of all stripes are pushing back on efforts by news publishers to prevent WebArchive aka The Wayback Machine from archiving work done by reporters they employ. As someone who often uses the archive, I whole heartedly agree.
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PA governor race: Garrity trails Shapiro 10-to-1 in fundraising Stacy Garrity, Pennsylvania’s Republican gubernatorial candidate, raised just $1 million to Josh Shapiro’s $10.5 million.

The top line? Shapiro is ahead in fundraising in a big way -- partially because some conservative groups see Garrity's challenge as a lost cause. You can read the whole analysis, done with @jaxonwhite.bsky.social here:
www.spotlightpa.org/news/2026/04...

Crypto entrepreneurs, trade unions, a January 6 defendant, a turkey farmer, an influential nursing home owner and an AI-enabled defense contractor are a small sampling of the donors @spotlightpa.org identified on Josh Shapiro and Stacy Garrity's campaign finance reports.

should I use Polymarket to bet on how likely Congress is to ban stock trading

Pennsylvania's budget included $50 million to help pull off some of the America 250 sporting events this year. Policymakers say they will be an economic boon. Economists are less sure.

Kellan White, a senior advisor to Stanford's campaign, said in a brief phone call that he used Claude to shorten answers he wrote for the survey to cut down on the length. "I am famously long winded," he joked.

AI in politics: At the bottom of the final answer to the last question of Philly congressional candidate Ala Stanford's candidate questionnaire for an urbanist PAC is a Claude tag.
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And Gov. Josh Shapiro brought in $10.5 million and has $36 million on-hand.

All fair points! I'd just note that the article in question was attempting to summarize a dozen+ races and not focusing on just Vitali.

News: Pennsylvania state Treasurer and GOP gubernatorial Stacy Garrity raised $1 million since the beginning of the year and moves forward with $1.5 million in cash on-hand.

Apologies, I was unsure what you were driving at

The original proposal in question was turned into a Senate GOP transit counter offer. I am sure the House could just revert to a prior printers number to get this bill back but theres a preference to keep a bill so close to the finish line on call if needed.

How PA lawmakers use 'vehicle bills' to fast-track deals ‘Vehicle bills’ allow top Pennsylvania legislators to reach sensitive closed-door deals, then quickly make them law.

I haven't seen it referenced in a memo! But the stripping out of ideas is not an uncommon phenomena because of the practice of vehicles bills.
www.spotlightpa.org/news/2025/07...

If you have an allegation you'd like to make about Vitali's challenger you are welcome to use your voice to do so, but a clear motive doesn't equal evidence.

Pennsylvania legislative primaries to watch in 2026 We talked to insiders, candidates, and more to build this list of the May primaries likeliest to shape the PA House and Senate.

With the primary slate in Pennsylvania (almost) set, here is a set of interesting, competitive, or otherwise noteworthy state legislative primaries to watch:
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Inbox: Gov. Josh Shapiro has signed SB 1218 into law, allowing Philadelphia liquor license holders to apply for a permit to stay open as late as 4 a.m. between June 11 to July 20 this year alongside the World Cup, All-Star Game and America 250 events.

PA court ends mandatory life for 2nd-degree murder The outcome could fundamentally change the lives of more than 1,000 people currently serving life sentences without the possibility of parole.

News: The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has struck down a state law mandating life sentences without parole for individuals found guilt of second degree murder -- i.e., being a getaway driver in a fatal robbery. Via @dtohl.bsky.social
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Flips from 2024->2026

Barton N->Y
Jones (York) N->Y
Klunk Y->N
Krupa Y->N
Ortitay Y->N

Plus by my count four lawmakers who were yes who retired

R yes votes: Barton, Bonner, Delozier, Emrick, Flick, Flood, Fritz, Gaydos, Heffley, Hogan, Jones (York), Kutz, Labs, Mackenzie, Major, Mako, Marcell, Mehaffie, Mihalek, Mustello, Nelson, Pugh, Ryncavage, Shaffer, Tomlinson, Williams

D no votes: Burns

Otherwise Ds yes, Rs no.

Yesterday, the Pennsylvania House passed a bill 127-72 to repeal a state law that defines marriage as between one man and one woman. That's 6 fewer yes votes than when the body passed the same bill last session.

The time is up to the permittee, is my understanding from the language and conversations
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GODDAMNIT

News: A bill to allow Philadelphia bars, restaurants and other liquor license holders to apply for a permit to stay open for an extra two hours every day during America 250 celebrations this summer is on its way to Gov. Josh Shapiro's desk. It was introduced just 12 days ago.

Damn thats good company!