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Prompt 11: World Building, First Person What if World of Warcraft took a different turn with its inspiration? What if the game was actually based entirely around science fantasy, particularly cyberpunk? I was a cheesy bitch and did The Modern AU(™). For a long piece, use what skills you’ve learned and practiced to narrate AS your character in this different world.

What would their occupation be? What is the world like? Factions? Races? Conflicts? Try to write about a normal or abnormal day for your character in this world—is their name different too? Write in your character’s perspective, and take on a very in-depth look of a different personality and worldview.

[I was very cheesy and went balls deep into a Modern AU story to exercise a more modern narrative style. Lots of references to others and events from World of Warcraft roleplay or Thanidiel’s background, try to catch them all. alsoimsorrythiswassolong.

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“Alright, alright. Just, shut the fuck up for, like, I don’t know, an hour. Ethan, cradle your beer, you’re good at that. Elena… I don’t gotta tell you shit.

Let’s start with… the beginning.

So, let’s just get this shit out of the way. Auberry, up in Fresno County, California. Small-time fucking town. My dad was a new recruit to the police department, there. First-generation son to some Lithuanians that couldn’t read shit for English. My mom is a Mono Indian, from the Big Sandy Rancheria next door.

1990, Dad knocked her up when she was in town. I was the result, that she passed right back to Dad. Grew up happy without her, ran around just fine with myself, my Staffordshire, Ted, and all of the neighborhood backdoors left open. Grandparents were out of the picture by then, and Dad had shit hours, so it was up to the Abuelas and Grandma Sallys. Suited all of us just fine.

One day, Dad gets shot up breaking up a domestic dispute. I was six. And as much as we all want to think about those crazy stories up on Reddit and Facebook, no one fucking walks away from a hunting rifle. His coworkers stopped by, took me to the tribe headquarters in town to figure out what to do with me. Off to Big Sandy they sent my ass. I hear the Grandma next to us took Ted.

As much as I want to say things got more chill from there, it didn’t. See, my mom was half-white, already. Mix that with some straight-out-of-Europe dude, and you get a blue-eyed blonde haired kid running around with the Mono. Mom didn’t want me either, and she made that damned clear to the elders, so I was back to being a community effort on a new Grandma’s sofa.

Bless Grandma, she tried. Fed me. Taught me a handful of Monachi. Taught me how to fucking read and write English. Driving, eventually. Hooked me up with a new dog too when I got there, Tamuapaya, albino-assed thing. All of the good parental shit you’re supposed to do, with everything she had.

I ended up as black of a sheep as it gets, though. Scraped with the other kids whenever we crossed each other, dogs got in on it too. Adults couldn’t fucking stand me outside of Grandma ‘cause I didn’t think they deserved anything but lip. And, let me just say, it’s fucking awkward when you realize you’re a fag, hours out from a real city. I was never really accepted with them outside of cook-outs, but that was when you had to take everyone registered in the tribe.

Eventually, I get old enough to start itching to work. So I start the uphill battle of doing the most shit possible small-jobs for the most shit payout for these folk, and as you two know, I am stubborn as fucking shit about my work. So I did every bit of work they pissed at me, with fucking excellence.

Then that got too small when I was like, fifteen, and wanted some real fucking cash. The other black sheep got me then, and let me know it was easy money running drugs between us, peeps at the Casino, Auberry, and Fresno. Next thing I know, I’m sitting in a truck bed heading to Fres’ at 1 A.M. in the morning to pick up with them.

Didn’t take long for Grandma to figure out I wasn’t running off to catch friends at Auberry. She switched me more times than I can remember to try to beat it out of me. Didn’t work, and she didn’t have any full-on proof to get others in it, either - hid the FUCK out of the cash and what we were distributing.

So, eventually, I’m like… seventeen? And I’m passing crack to this military guy visiting relatives in Auberry and wanted some fun up by the Casino. And when he puts the cash in my hand and I put the bag in his, he doesn’t tell me to fuck off. He gives me a good look, asks how old I am, I tell him, and he asks me what the fuck am I going to do out here for another seventy years. I don’t even get to answer when he tells me I should get the fuck out of here, go talk to a recruiter at Fres’.

That got me thinking, so a year later, I’ve found all of my documents and shit in Grandma’s house. I have a pile of cash. And I want to get the fuck out of this shithole. I stuff it all into my backpack, I go with the boys to Fres’. I dump off all of my shit into Christian’s bag; free myself of it. I take a bus to get my ass right to the opposite end of the city. Spend my night in a homeless shelter with my backpack underneath my shirt and sweater, my arms wrapped around it, sleeping on my stomache, and a switch under the extra jacket I was using a pillow.

Next day, I get a free gym trial. I shower and make myself look as respectable as I need. After that, I open up a Bank of America and drop the eight-k. I had into my first savings. I keep three-hundred on me, I grab some Burger King, and I make my way to the Army recruiter.

Guy helps me get set up because it’s like the third time in my life I’ve done paperwork excluding the bank, which did like… everything, for me. After that, it’s floating between the shelter, gym, and getting odd jobs helping at taquerias and panaderias, with their dishes or pushing garbage and carts around for a month. Taking all of those damned test and then waiting for them to process. Grabbed an iPhone 3G during the wait, that was pretty cool.

Fort Jackson for a year, as it goes. Nothing significant in the grand scheme of things; shit was fresh hell, but nothing I couldn’t handle. For the most part. Met Casey there. My age. Actually graduated H.S., attending community nearby for sports medicine. It would still be another two years before fags could be open in the military, but we… got together. When we could. You could—… it was dating. We started dating when I was in B.C.T. And made it work after that.

After basic, I get hauled off all over the place. Okinawa, Hawaii, Ansbach. Mid-2011, they let us be out and loud in the U.S. military. Bad move for my career, but, first thing I did when I took my leave is fuck Casey and ask her to marry me. No ring or any big romantic gesture, we didn’t work like that. She said, yeah, sure. The process went underway, it’s all done by the time I’m heading back to like, Fort Irwin.

We’re separated for a while, then, like, she graduated, because she was a lot fucking smarter than me. And she started living with me on base. Which is fucking awesome. It’s not what I asked for, because she had all of this potential to work with back at home. But, hey, she wanted to travel too. We had our years, we were fucking twenty-years old. I let her come.

So we fucked around in South Korea, Alaska, Italy, it’s almost a blur after everything. Eventually, I get put out in Camp K.A.I.A. in Afghanistan. She’s back in Kansas, ‘cause, naturally, they’re hesitant on letting me drag a U.S. civy out there of all bases. It’s seven months into my deployment, she wants to visit and I let her.

April 28th, 2014. I took her out, a bit south of the airport in city proper for a meal, in the early morning. We were eating lamb korma with turnips— I still can’t fucking handle smelling and eating lamb. Or any soft fucking food: deuces to mashed potatoes and bolognese. God.

So we were eating—… we were eating that. And there was an airplane with a fucked engine that had been making its way towards the airport. It didn’t get close to the runaway. It veered and dropped, right into the city. The wing went right through our building.

I was sitting northward. She was sitting southward. My mind slowed down time, and I watched the way all of this debris and broken cable and a fucking airplane slammed into her back. She hits the table and it’s shooting off. All I see is blood and curry everywhere, then it hits me, too.

I wake up in the hospital two days later. My head feels like shit because my brain got ping-ponged. A sheet of metal opened up my torso from collar to hip, and a piece of flying drywall smashed my right cheek and orbital socket. They couldn’t save the eye. The ceiling falling after meant some heavy shit landed onto my left hand. They couldn’t save that either. And they couldn’t save Casey. She died on contact.

—I’m fine, by the way. Just pass over the whiskey. I’m not finished.

Cutting that long story of recovery short, I stabilize. They get to Landstuhl in Germany. Eventually, I end up back in the States. Sans eye and hand. A little ugly, now, too. Medical discharge. Sucks, but I’m hooked up with a nice prosthetic, at the least. That all takes about eight months to wrap up - not a lot of interest in keeping an uneducated, handless, soldier around.

And, you know, that’s where you come in, Ethan. I don’t think Elena knows this part about us, so bear with me. Ethan, here, was my Sergeant for a damned while. His ass phased out in ‘13. We always got along great, he kept up with us babies even when he was out. Group texts were a great invention; Snapchat groups even better. Now we both get to see all of the stupid shit the rest of those idiots are doing on deployment.

Ethan is basically like my fucking dad. So when fates aligned and I was in the Brooklyn military hospital, he started driving down from his apartment in the city, seeing me about once a week on his weekends. Then, when I was out, he offered me a place to stay, no costs. Naturally, I fucking took it. The last thing I was going to do now that I was out, was gonna walk my ass back to the Mono in that Cali shithole. Not fucking smart to be alone after the shit that had happened.

And, honestly? It worked really well. I used the time he’d be gone with his job at the nearby library to do… basically all of the adult shit I didn’t do in the military. Got my license, borrowing the car from his coworker and our close friend, Esther (nice girl, did volleyball and track for high-school and college, then decided she liked things quiet). Took the bus to therapy with a guy through the V.A., ‘till I grabbed a beat up 2009 Chevy truck from Craigslist. Eventually, started classes for a G.E.D. too. Collected my military checks, saved it all and got pocket-money with a part-time at some flower hippy’s cafe—and, you know, I never realized how fucking hard it is to make legit money in the ‘real world’ until then. Ethan, you’re a fucking saint. Like, three-hundred or whatever a week? Chump ass change compared to when I bounced with the kids in Fres’.

All of that good shit. Plus, it was nice that we both had a drinking buddy. And we both had a way of navigating each other’s bullshit well. Like, Elena, you just heard my wife-story. And you’ve heard about the fire, too. It’s not the fucking same, but it worked out that we had about an inkling of what to do when the other dude’s fucked up.

Eventually, it’s the day for appointment hell. Check up, physical therapy, actual therapy, then likely, a stop by the pharmacist. It’s like, early ‘16, at this point. And before we even get started, the doctor sits me down. Starts talking about this experimental stem-cell research, for organ implantation. Taylor says it’s not at a complex enough stage to restore my hand, but my eye and facial scars would be within the window of possibility. Gives me a card for a Brianna Lalwani-Jindal if I’m interested in volunteering for it.

I get through the day. I finally catch a meal at Jersey Mike’s, and after me and Ethan talk about it over some Coors, like if I wanna do it and how it feels fucking weird, to like, erase what happened to Casey through this, I say, sure, I’ll call. It’s like, eight P.M. She answers like four seconds before it just shoots to her voicemail. The bitch fucking slurs out like she snorted too much Vico, “—yeah, I know I’m fucking late, I’ll be there, I prooomise.”

So me and Ethan pick our jaws off the floor hearing this shit and I’m like, “Nah, Tony Dawson. Doctor Taylor Woodson at the Brooklyn V.A. Hospital referred me to you, about your research trials with the organ implantation. Lalwani?”

There’s a gasp, a lot of shuffling, and a lot of me and Ethan passing around another beer can between us. Then she really starts spilling and it becomes a game of my fucking brain trying to comprehend this Indian accent mixed with that lightspeed fucking way people from those big cities talk, like “Oh shit, okay, okay, okay. Yeah, you’ve got me. Where do you live? What are you missing? When can I meet you? Tomorrow?”

So I tell her about my fucked-up face, but really, I want to know what the fuck I just got myself into with this chick. I don’t get the chance, she blurts out over me, “Sounds great! EYE will see you later, Tony. Tomorrow. Four P.M., Just… show back at the Hospital. We’ll find a vacant office. Ciao.” Then the fucker hangs up. Eventually, we decide that I should probably text the number back, at least. My ‘See you then.’ gets back a kissy-face and ‘I like coffee.’ Subtle.

A vanilla latte and unsweetened black tea, fifteen minutes of us wandering the Hospital, thirty minutes of her talking my ear off about a bunch of medical-scientific garbage, then five minutes of us filling out all of the paperwork, and I was Bri’s new, shiny, case study.

Skipping over all of the shit she ran my face through, we’ll sum it up as: I need contacts and I fucking hate it, but she did what she set out to do. The meetings themselves, were more interesting. I don’t know if she like, fucking sensed that I’d let her get away with her shit. But I’m going to assume that, since she still has her fucking job.

It got unprofessional, pretty fast. Like, beyond what she already hit me with. I’m not sure what got into me, honestly. I hadn’t even considered another girl since the crash. But I spent our introductions looking at her like a piece of meat whenever her back was turned. First real meeting, she’s prodding me about all of my personal interests and shit in some fucked small talk, starting to get into my dating life. I take a risk and just drop straight out that I dig chicks.

She gets a bit quiet, which doesn’t make much of a difference because it’s clear already that she’s a fucking loudmouth. But she gets curious, and keeps looking at me after that the whole time I’m there. Then the meeting after that, we ended up on some fucking talk about blindfolds for some reason, and let me just say that she got a little too into that before we started talking about how, like, I needed to turn down my drinking.

So the whole time I’m letting her and the other doctors Frankenstein my face, there is sexual tension to cut with at every goddamned interaction to be had. It never gets anywhere, because neither of us are fucking stupid. But, just, Jesus Christ.

Cut to a year later at the end of 2016. My face is put back together. Getting used to fucking contacts, getting used to checking my emails for interview requests out of the wazoo for five-hundred documentaries and news sites, after her team’s paper on me came out. By all accounts, I’m looking good and so is the implant. She’s onto new volunteers, my appointments are getting passed to another doctor on her team and stretched out to semi-annuals. That should be the end of the story.

But, uh, couldn’t get her out of my head, frankly. Not for a lack of trying, either. By now, I was really amping the weights at gym to try to get my energy out. Quit the hippy cafe and lined up a new job in armed security. Did my registration for online classes at the community, for a Statistics program. Eventually, it’s like, I don’t know, two months, after the last time I saw her. Ethan drags me out to a bar. Ethan fucks off. I meet a girl, some rich one, named Valencia. We get to talking, for like, fifteen minutes. Next thing I know, I’m texting Ethan I’ll show up later and I spent the night at her place.

It’s fucking great, Valencia’s fucking great. But I’m texting Bri the next afternoon at Starbucks that I want to see her that goddamned night. She shoots me the address of another bar, says to bring friends. Naturally, that means I tag in Ethan and Esther. We show up, she has good ol’ Elena here.

Everyone clicks just like that. And that’s fucking great. Lots of material to work through, especially when Bri started going on about how she and Elena met; some wild case when she was a med. student and the Roma communities in the whole state were having outbreaks. Apparently Elena helped with her outreach a lot, a sort of guide between worlds. Then the two quiet girls started going on about their herb gardens, not to even mention all of the stupid military stories me and Ethan had. We hung out for a long ass while. Eventually, we’re all back at Bri’s place. And our BOI Ethan, here, finally communicates what’s up to you and Esther. So Esther ‘takes you two out to for fast food’ and out of our hairs.

Shit takes even shorter than Valencia. Bri locks the door, we fuck. Then I wake up in the morning, wake her up for another fuck. We sleep around, get some take-out for a late… brunch… hang out, I end up taking her with me to that huge football party Tim was hosting and meeting up with the whole friend group. Then it’s just straight back to her place for a repeat performance.

So, basically, it went from zero to like we had always been fucking dating. I practically moved in with her after the first two weeks. I know all of my stuff ended up in there by the fourth month. Then we put me on the lease entirely sometime during the seventh month when she was renewing it. It all flowed natural as shit too, I didn’t even know how ‘fast’ we were going ‘till about the third time I was throwing shit I needed into boxes to toss at Bri’s and Ethan called me the fuck out when he asked: I just said it’s convenient with how much closer to work she is.

And I know a lot of people were, and still do, giving me shit about it, or just about the whole relationship in general. Apparently we talk too hard at each other and act too casual for it to be serious. Looks like some sorta fling, especially considering our ‘differences’ as people put it. You know, racist people, or people who think I’m fucking stupid ‘cause I got a gun in the drawer.

But lemme just say that I think it takes some real fucking balls in a person, where the first time she ever woke up to me having a PTSD episode, is to slide her ass out of bed, rummage through my coat for my medication, and slap my benzos in front of me with leftover tea and a Crunch bar. All without a single word. It takes real balls, any other person, after getting that from her, is just a discount bitch.

It’s not all her pampering me, either. I realized quick she’s a ‘talker’ with her research. If she isn’t with one of us, she’s locked in the bedroom with a stack of journal articles and a Macbook talking off Luke’s ears like he can fucking bark back. So I started reading everything she had and really going over her team’s paper on me, plus whatever the fuck else her scholar databases had, and a lot of Dictionary.com. And, one weekend, she’s complaining to me over coffee and tea about her shit, I pop that shit right back at her, her jaw drops, she probably shits herself a little. And, from then on, I’m her new interactive rubber duck. And people think I’m fucking dumb.

I mean, not to mention all of the random shit I pay for that bitch, with all of the money I’ve been getting lately between disability, financial aid, and work.

So, we’re basically to the present now. There isn’t much detail to fill in after that besides that life is pretty fucking great and Bri is pretty fucking great, from then to now, the middle of Year of Our Lord, 2018. Which takes us to the crux of this whole ass speech I’ve been going on.

Now you two know my life-story. What I wanna know, now that we’re all open and drunk here, is your fucking thoughts on if I’d be making the best, or the worst, decision of my life if I asked her to hitch with me. I’ll be fucking real; I don’t fucking know what it’s like to make a good choice besides like, I don’t know, where to buy my graphics cards.”

I watch the two shitfaces in front of me process what the fuck I just said. Elena brightens like the Irish daisy she is, pressing her hands together, abso-fucking-lutely wiggling in her seat. Her purple scarf slides off the back of the chair in the process. Ethan is still stretched out across the whole damned table like he’s gonna pass out, with the dopiest smile stretching across his face, but as usual, he’s the ‘loud’ one of the two and starts to talk over Elena’s vague ‘Oh… oh…!’

“Dude? That’s… that’s great. That’s really fucking great. I… Man. Fucking, just fucking go for—”

“So are we just a homeless shelter now, or like, is this a reverse Alcoholics Anonymous?” The door slams shut, Luke is rushing off of the couch, and all four of us are just JEERING (barking) Bri’s name back at her, like it makes it fucking better that these idiots are still in the apartment.

“I was thinking homeless shelter and giving them the living room.”

“Cool. Maybe the floor’ll delay Ethan breaking his back another day.”

“Hey… hey, man. I ain’t that old.”

“Oh! Don’t say that - what if it does happen?”

Twiddle Gray and Twiddle Orange are both looking at me funny right now, considering what was cut into, and Bri is starting to pick that up as she’s putting her keys and shit away.

“So! What were you all talking about? Are you finally leaving me?”

“Food, actually. We were thinking that Himalayan place you like. They can eat the basic bitch shit, I was gonna grab us fried okra and tandoori.”

“I hope you aren’t expecting me to pick my ass up from the couch, now. That shit, ain’t happening. Long day working with by-the-book dunderfucks.”

The Twiddles give each a look, then, and then Ethan launches in.

“Nah… naaaaah. You know what? You sit there. You hang out. The three of us will walk down, sober up.”

“With how you made my fucking apartment smell, not sure if that’s gonna happen. But ‘kay. Have fun, leave me all alone. After I just came back from work. A l o n e.”

The three of us are already draining our waters and grabbing our jackets and wallets. I push Elena towards the door and Ethan is right after her as I shoot back at her,

“Shut the fuck up, you whiny bitch. Thirty minutes. You’d be spending it ignoring us and doing your shitty Buzzfeed quizzes anyway.”

“I mean - you’re right. But you’re still leaving me alone. Shit friends. Shit girlfriend,” she sighs, “What a shit life.”

Elena is the one pushing me through the door now by my arm, forcing me and Ethan’s fat asses into the hallway as she tries to assure Bri.

“It’ll be fast! I love you!”

“Awh. That’s cute.”

The door slams shut.

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How Many State Legislatures Are Controlled By Republicans

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How Many State Legislatures Are Controlled By Republicans

Ballotpedia: Majority Of State Legislatures Are Republican Controlled

Election 2020: can the Democrats win the Senate? | The Economist

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The results of the last election solidified a trend that state legislatures were becoming more Republican.

In the 2020 general election, 5,875 state legislative seats in 86 legislative chambers were up for regularly scheduled elections. Roughly five percent of them, 315, flipped from one party to another.

The majority of the 315 68 percent, or 215 in total flipped from Democrat to Republican. Whereas 78 Republican seats, 24.8 percent, flipped to Democrat, according to an analysis published by;Ballotpedia.

On Nov. 3, the net change was Republicans gained 141 seats, Democrats lost 133 seats, and independent and third party candidates lost eight seats.

At least one seat flipped parties in every state holding regularly scheduled state legislative elections except for Hawaii, Ballotpedia reports.

The percentage of state legislative seat flips in 2020 represents a 38 percent decrease from 2018, when 508 seats flipped party affiliations.

New Hampshire saw the most flipped seats of 50, resulting in both chambers of its General Court changing from Democratic to Republican control.

As of November 2020, three-fourths of states have governors and legislatures of the same party, a sign that ticket-splitting may be waning nationwide, the National Conference of State Legislatures reports.

Gop Holds Line In State Legislatures Dealing Blow To Democrats

Democratic hopes of claiming control of state legislative chambers across the nation crashed into an immovable Republican wall in key states on Tuesday, a substantial blow to the partys chances of wielding more influence in the decennial redistricting process ahead.

Instead of big Democratic gains, early election results appear to show Republicans picked up enough seats to win control of at least two legislative chambers, the New Hampshire state Senate and the Alaska state House, where Republicans appear to be in a position to break a bipartisan coalition that ran the House for the last two years.

Early election results showed Republicans leading in the battle for the New Hampshire House of Representatives.

Thousands of ballots are left to be counted, and Democrats still have a chance in Arizona, Pennsylvania and Michigan. Democrats held out hope of recapturing the Minnesota state Senate, where each party appeared to be on track to lose two incumbents to rival challengers.

We’ve had several key red to blue flips and are incredibly proud of all the history-making candidates we elected tonight. We always knew this would be tough we’re running on extremely gerrymandered maps, said Christina Polizzi, a spokeswoman for the Democratic Legislative Campaign Committee . But this election is far from over and we don’t yet have the full picture of our results. There are millions of votes yet to be counted and we are going to make sure we count every one.

Republicans Hold Majority State Legislatures Potentially Giving Them An Advantage In Redistricting Process

After several important victories in the 2020 elections, Republicans could potentially control even more state legislatures than they did a decade ago and gain an even bigger advantage in the upcoming redistricting process.

The GOP flipped both legislative chambers in New Hampshire and the state House in Alaska while Democrats failed to regain control of a single state legislative body anywhere in the country. That means Republicans could potentially exit the 2020 cycle with majorities in 62 of the countrys 99 state legislative bodies.

Republicans previously flipped 19 state legislative chambers in 2010 and left the midterm controlling 58 of the countrys 99 state legislative bodies.

Democrats spent hundreds of millions of dollars in efforts to flip legislative chambers across the country.

We were able to overcome more than half a billion dollars of liberal spending. It was quite a success for us, and quite an epic embarrassment for Democrats, Republican State Leadership Committee Deputy Executive Director Dave Abrams told the Daily Caller.;

Jessica Post, President of the Democratic Legislative Campaign Committee, told The Atlantic that It turned out we hit a different electorate than everyone was expecting. Its not just Democrats who were turning out.

The recent victories could give Republicans an advantage in the redistricting process.

A 2019 analysis found that a majority of states congressional maps fall under the purview of the state legislators there.

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Table : Cnalysis State Legislative Chamber Ratings

As our ratings indicate, Republican-controlled chambers are more competitive than those held by Democrats. While Republicans hold an advantage in the number of chambers they control, the certainty of Republicans maintaining such a lopsided control of chambers is not assured. Of the competitive chambers that Republicans control, most are closer to the Toss-Up category than the competitive chambers Democrats control. Excluding the Likely chambers where the chances of a chamber flipping are possible but slim there are 11 competitive chambers remaining: nine held by Republicans, and just two held by Democrats.

This is largely due to the so-called blue wave of 2018, where Democrats had a net gain of 65 state Senate seats and 240 state House seats in the midterm elections. Given what might be a more even-handed electoral environment well see in a presidential election year compared to a midterm election, which almost always delivers rebukes to incumbent presidents, we will likely see far smaller net gains for either party.

Of the 17 competitive state legislative chambers, nine are in states where there is not a state government trifecta: The Minnesota House and Senate, the New Hampshire House and Senate, the Alaska House, the North Carolina House and Senate, the Michigan House, and the Pennsylvania House.

So overall, the Republican goals in state legislatures are to:

Create more Republican trifectas and create divided governments in Democratic trifectas.

Gop Now Controls Majority Of State Legislatures In Battleground States

As politicos sift through the results of the 2020 election, one issue has received little attention. And given its importance, I find that surprising.

Im referring to the GOPs majority control of state legislatures.

Prior to the election, Republicans held majorities in;59 chambers;and Democrats, in 39.;

Although the map looks very much the same following last weeks election, voters in New Hampshire managed to turn both their House and Senate red.

A closer glance at the post-election partisan legislative control map above shows that the GOP;controls the state legislatures in many of the battleground states.

This includes Arizona, Florida, Georgia, Michigan, New Hampshire, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. Texas is apparently part of this group as well .

Moreover, in 2021, Republicans will hold 27 governorships compared to the Democrats, with 23.

A trifecta refers to single-party control of a states governorship and both chambers of its legislature. As a result of the 2020 elections, Republicans won trifectas in New Hampshire and Montana. According to;Ballotpedia, If control of Alaska does not change, Republicans will have 23 trifectas , Democrats will have 15 trifectas, and 12 states will have divided governments .

Why does it matter if Republicans control the legislatures in the majority of states, particularly in the battlegrounds?

Last Wednesday, Harris spoke with Mother Jones Ari Berman to discuss the issue.

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In Practically Every State One Party Now Holds All The Legislative Power And Once They Get It Theyre Keeping It

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In the 1990s and 2000s, party control of the Indiana House vacillated between Democrats and Republicans several times. Today, the idea of a Democratic majority in Indiana seems like a dim memory.

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Indiana Legislative Insight.

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There was a time in the recent past when compromise was not a curse word, says Lena Taylor, a Democratic state senator in Wisconsin. Now, she says, people are locked into their voting patterns.

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The Big Sort

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Political Party Strength In Us States

Political party strength in U.S. states is the level of representation of the various political parties in the United States in each statewide elective office providing legislators to the state and to the U.S. Congress and electing the executives at the state ” rel=”nofollow”>U.S. state governor) and national level.

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Map : Control Of State Legislative Chambers

The term trifecta is used by analysts to denote states where both chambers of the state legislature and the governorship are controlled by the same party. Map 2 shows the states that have either Democratic or Republican trifectas versus those where there is some split in power. Republicans have 20 trifectas, Democrats have 15, and 14 states are split. Again, Nebraska is excluded, but functionally the state could be counted as one where Republicans control both the governorship and legislature.

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For even more election coverage, visit;MultiState’s 2020 State Elections Landing Page,;your source for up-to-date and accurate election results and analysis. Bookmark our page for updated maps on partisan breakdown of state governors and legislatures post-election, plus analysis on the races and key ballot measures from our MultiState Insider blog.;

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So Much Changed In Statehouses This Week Heres What It All Means

Democratic gains in state-level races could lead to policy change and more fights with the Trump administration.

Since 1990, Arizonas Republican-controlled government has cut taxes every year but two, said David Lujan, a former Democratic member of the state legislature who now leads the Arizona Center for Economic Progress, a Phoenix-based think tank.;

Lujan said Democrats may be able to block new tax cuts for corporations and wealthy people and push more money to schools or other services. One of the biggest things youll see with Democrats is blocking some of those special interest tax breaks that weve seen year after year, he said.

In Montana, where Republican U.S. Rep. Greg Gianforte won the governors race, the GOP is poised to maintain control of the state House and Senate. That would make it easier for Gianforte to act on his campaign promises, such as protecting gun rights and cutting taxes.

Montana Republicans may also be able to advance policies blocked by Democratic governors in the past. For instance, Democratic Gov. Steve Bullock last year vetoed a bill that would have required medical intervention for infants born after a failed late-term abortion. Gianforte said in a debate this fall he would have signed that bill.;

Democrats gains in Arizona wont mean much, as Arizona is among the states that rely on independent commissions, rather than the legislature, to draw district lines.;

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Republicans have more vulnerable state legislative chambers than Democrats.

Nationwide, Democrats are currently projected to have a small net gain in state Senate seats, whereas Republicans are projected to have a small net gain in state House seats.

Very few new state government trifectas are going to be created this year.

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As Washington Stews State Legislatures Increasingly Shape American Politics

From voting rights to the culture wars, state legislatures controlled by Republicans are playing a role well beyond their own state borders.

By Michael Wines

With the release of the 2020 census last month, the drawing of legislative districts that could in large part determine control of Congress for the next decade heads to the nations state legislatures, the heart of Republican political power.

Increasingly, state legislatures, especially in 30 Republican-controlled states, have seized an outsize role for themselves, pressing conservative agendas on voting, Covid-19 and the culture wars that are amplifying partisan splits and shaping policy well beyond their own borders.

Indeed, for a party out of power in Washington, state legislatures have become enormous sources of leverage and influence. That is especially true for rural conservatives who largely control the legislatures in key states like Wisconsin, Texas and Georgia and could now lock in a strong Republican tilt in Congress and cement their own power for the next decade. The Texas Legislatures pending approval of new restrictions on voting is but the latest example.

He added that the aggressive role played by Republican legislatures had much further to run.

The next battle, already underway in many states, is over the drawing of congressional and state legislative districts. Republicans control 26 of the legislatures that will draw political maps, compared with 13 for Democrats.

A Decade Of Power: Statehouse Wins Position Gop To Dominate Redistricting

Democrats spent big to take control of state legislatures but lost their key targets. Now theyll be on the sidelines as new maps are drawn.

Protestors march in front of the Capitol in Austin, Texas, on Wednesday to demand all votes in the general election be counted. Texas Republicans will have total authority over the drawing of as many as 39 congressional districts in the state. | Jay Janner/Austin American-Statesman via AP

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Heres something else Republicans can be happy about after Tuesday.

An abysmal showing by Democrats in state legislative races on Tuesday not only denied them victories in Sun Belt and Rust Belt states that would have positioned them to advance their policy agenda it also put the party at a disadvantage ahead of the redistricting that will determine the balance of power for the next decade.

The results could domino through politics in America, helping the GOP draw favorable congressional and state legislative maps by ensuring Democrats remain the minority party in key state legislatures. Ultimately, it could mean more Republicans in Washington and in state capitals.

After months of record-breaking fundraising by their candidates and a constellation of outside groups, Democrats fell far short of their goals and failed to build upon their 2018 successes to capture state chambers they had been targeting for years. And they may have President Donald Trump to blame.

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The Battle For The State Legislatures

Theres a lot at stake on the federal level this year: the presidency, the Senate, and the House are all up for grabs. While there has ;been considerable attention and speculation dedicated to these larger races, the upcoming state legislature elections have not received the same level of consideration.

With more than 5,000 districts at stake this year, there are many opportunities at the state level for either party to maintain or improve their advantage. We at CNalysis acknowledge the importance of these elections; we are currently casting ratings for most of these districts 5,233 to be exact as well as their respective state legislative chambers.

Overall, Republicans control 58 chambers, and Democrats control 40. Again, this tally excludes Nebraska.

Women In State Legislatures 2021

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15;women serve as presidents of senates or presidents pro tempore:Karen Fann

7 women serve as speakers of state houses:Louise Stutes Laurie Jinkins

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Democrats Map To Take Back State Legislatures

The Democratic Party and DLCC flipped eight state chambers in 2018 and broke Republican supermajorities in three other states. Post says theyre planning to expand on that in 2020, with a targeted list of 12 states:

There are two big things that could make a difference for Democrats in 2020: increased fundraising and galvanized progressive groups. 2018 showed the blue wave was real, and Democrats need to build on that to do well in 2020.

The DLCC is already planning to match its Republican counterpart the RSLC in fundraising: theyre planning to match the RSLCs $50 million fundraising goal. Thats a significant increase from the $35 million the DLCC spent in 2018. Theyve also increased staff and resources exponentially from past years but in 2020, theyll be joined by a lot of other progressive groups spending money focused on flipping state legislatures.

Gubernatorial And Legislative Party Control Of State Government

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Gubernatorial and legislative party control of state government refers to the role of political parties in the power dynamic between state legislatures and executives. Below, we examine the partisan affiliation of the 1,972 state senators, 5,411 state representatives, and 50 state governors across the United States.

Partisan breakdown of state governments

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The following maps display current state government trifectas as well as historical trifectas leading up to the 2010, 2012, 2014, 2016, 2018, and 2020 elections. Use the buttons below to select a map.

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Voter Registration And State Political Control

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The state Democratic or Republican Party controls the governorship, the state legislative houses, and U.S. Senate representation. Nebraska’s legislature is unicameral, i.e., it has only one legislative house and is officially non-partisan, though party affiliation still has an unofficial influence on the legislative process.

The simplest measure of party strength in a state voting population is the affiliation totals from voter registration for the 30 states and the District of Columbia as of 2019 that allow registered voters to indicate a party preference when registering to vote. 20 states do not include party preference with voter registration: Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Hawaii, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, North Dakota, Ohio, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Vermont, Virginia, Washington and Wisconsin. The party affiliations in the party control table are obtained from state party registration figures where indicated. Only Wyoming has a majority of registered voters identifying themselves as Republicans; two states have a majority of registered voters identifying themselves as Democrats: and Kentucky .

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Smart Activity Tracker with Wrist-based Heart Rate Plus GPS

GPS tracks distance and pace while mapping out your run or walk

Swim-friendly, sleek band is comfortable to wear all day, and the always-on touchscreen display shows your stats, even in sunlight

Measures steps, distance, calories, floors climbed, activity intensity and heart rate on your wrist

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How about we begin... what treadmill highlights should you pay special mind to when purchasing a treadmill.

1. The Motor

Luckily, most treadmill engines on significant treadmill brands are great. The normal range in drive is 2.25 to 3.5. There are lower and higher engines, yet that is the regular range for private treadmills. 2.5 to 3.0 pull engines ought to be more than adequate. I'm a major person so I incline toward 3.0 strength engines.

Would it be a good idea for you to get a non-mechanized treadmill?

I wouldn't. Non-mechanized treadmills are a lot less expensive, however paying a couple of hundred additional dollars for an engine is justified, despite all the trouble.

2. Running Area

Treadmill running territories go from 55 creeps to 60 inches in length and are normally 20 inches wide. In case you're taller than 6 feet, take a gander at a 60 inch long running region. In all honesty, I wouldn't consider a treadmill with a running zone shorter than 60 inches, however I'm more than six feet tall.

Attempt a treadmill at an exercise center or retail location to perceive what the correct length is for you. In the event that 55 inches works, that opens up more treadmill purchasing alternatives for you.

3. Padding

Treadmill innovation is amazing, and it's especially great where padding is concerned. You can get treadmills that really empower you to modify the measure of padding. You pay more for this element, however it's quite cool.

Toward the day's end you need a treadmill with some padding, yet not all that much. I compare a lot of padding to running on the shoreline. An excessive amount of padding does not reproduce running on asphalt. All things considered, in the event that you have joint issues, at that point additionally padding might be the correct approach. Like I stated, there's nobody measure fits-all treadmill. That is the purpose of this treadmill purchasing guide article.

4. Speed and Incline

What's your running routine? Do you run and do HIIT? Or then again, do you keep running at an enduring even pace? Or on the other hand, possibly you're a walker? Treadmill speeds for the most part run from 10 to 12 miles for every hour. In the event that you're a sprinter, at that point search for a treadmill with top paces of 12 miles for each hour or more. In case you're a walker or jogger, 10 is more than adequate.

The grade component is additionally vital. It's a smart thought to slant your treadmill somewhat so as to adjust for the reality running on treadmills is simpler than on asphalt. The purpose behind this is two-overlap:

No wind opposition, and all the more significantly

The running surface moves so you don't use as much vitality since you don't have to push forward.

I by and large slope a treadmill 1.5 to 4 degrees. I'm not into soak slant climbing, yet on the off chance that you will be, you may like to get a slope mentor. A grade mentor slants up to 20 or even 40 percent. Something else, most treadmills slant from 10 to 15 percent which is more than adequate for most preparing regimens.

5. Fan

Do you get excessively damp with sweat and hot when running? Assuming this is the case, consider a cooling fan. There are numerous treadmills with a cooling fan so it's not elusive.

6. Collapsing Feature

There are 2 sorts of collapsing treadmills:

Level collapsing treadmills, and

Upstanding collapsing treadmills.

A level collapsing treadmill creases level to the ground so it's anything but difficult to store under a bed.

An upstanding collapsing treadmill creases vertically for simple stockpiling in a storage room.

In this way, know where you'll be putting away your treadmill so you realize what sort of collapsing treadmill to purchase.

On the off chance that you won't store your treadmill, at that point clearly you needn't bother with the collapsing highlight. In any case, you may later on so it doesn't hurt. All things considered, a collapsing treadmill's casing sturdiness may not be very as solid as a non-collapsing treadmill.

Despite whether you purchase a collapsing treadmill or not, guarantee your treadmill has wheels. Wheels are critical for moving your treadmill around. Most treadmills have wheels, yet I would twofold check in any case.

7. Most extreme Weight Capacity

It's difficult to tell whether a treadmill's edge is great. Be that as it may, one approach to decide if a specific treadmill has a great edge is weight limit... the higher the better. Most treadmills have weight limit maximums in the scope of 250 to 300 pounds. That is the reason treadmills with a most extreme client weight of 350 pounds or higher are an appealing alternative.

I'm not saying to just take a gander at treadmills with a 350 pound or higher weight limit; however it's one thought to consider.

8. The Warranty

I favor treadmills with a lifetime guarantee on both the edge and engine. Obviously, these treadmills are increasingly costly. Lifetime guarantees disclose to me that it's a quality machine by and large. There are special cases no doubt.

9. Fancy odds and ends

Since such a large number of treadmills offer a similar list of capabilities, your treadmill purchasing choice may come down to the fancy odds and ends.

What are treadmill fancy odds and ends?

They are every one of the additional items, for example, music framework, magazine perusing rack, graphical screen, water bottle holders (search for bigger water bottle holders), iFit coordination, and generally speaking plan.

10. Free Shipping

Transportation can be costly. I wouldn't abstain from purchasing the ideal treadmill if free sending was excluded, yet it's unquestionably something to search for on the grounds that it can spare two or three hundred dollars. All else being equivalent when looking at two treadmills, clearly you'll run with the treadmill that offers free delivering to your home.

In the event that you live in Alaska, Hawaii, or outside of the USA, make certain to ask cautiously about the expense of delivery. Try not to accept any "free sending" offers incorporate you.

11. Cost

No treadmill purchasing aide would be finished without remarking on cost.

Treadmill evaluating differs hugely from two or three hundred dollars to $10,000 or more. Build up a financial plan before you begin your exploration. By and large $750 to $2,500 will get you a not too bad treadmill for your home.

12. Search for a Treadmill Sale or Discount!

Last, however not least, dependably search for the best treadmill deal so you can get a rebate.

Where would you be able to discover extraordinary treadmill arrangements and limits?

If you are finding treadmill on discount prices in United Arab Emirates then you should go with SportsPlanetAE online shopping store. Here you can find treadmills sales, discounts and lot’s of offers. So don’t wait any more and visit SportPlanet online store.

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Best Way to Shop Treadmill Buying Online Guide

When you will put in a couple of hundred or a couple of thousand dollars on exercise gear, it's a great plan to decide the accompanying:

Treadmill highlights you need

Getting as quite a bit of your needs and needs inside your financial plan.

Finding the correct treadmill for you requires look into. Luckily the web makes inquiring about a lot simpler than pre-web days. There's a wide range of data on treadmills on the web. This article "The Smart Shopper's Treadmill Buying Guide" is one more piece of data which I trust encourages you purchase the ideal treadmill that meets your needs, needs, and spending plan.

Just honestly, there is nobody ideal treadmill for everybody. Rather, the purpose of this shrewd customer's treadmill purchasing guide is to caution you to the key highlights to search for when purchasing a treadmill.

We should begin... what treadmill highlights should you pay special mind to when purchasing a treadmill.

1. The Motor

Luckily, most treadmill engines on significant treadmill brands are great. The normal range in pull is 2.25 to 3.5. There are lower and higher engines, however that is the normal range for private treadmills. 2.5 to 3.0 torque engines ought to be more than adequate. I'm a major person so I incline toward 3.0 pull engines.

Would it be a good idea for you to get a non-mechanized treadmill?

I wouldn't. Non-mechanized treadmills are a lot less expensive, however paying a couple of hundred additional dollars for an engine is justified, despite all the trouble.

2. Running Area

Treadmill running zones territory from 55 creeps to 60 inches in length and are normally 20 inches wide. In case you're taller than 6 feet, take a gander at a 60 inch long running zone. To be perfectly honest, I wouldn't consider a treadmill with a running zone shorter than 60 inches, yet I'm more than six feet tall.

Attempt a treadmill at an exercise center or retail location to perceive what the correct length is for you. On the off chance that 55 inches works, that opens up more treadmill purchasing choices for you.

3. Padding

Treadmill innovation is noteworthy, and it's especially amazing where padding is concerned. You can get treadmills that really empower you to change the measure of padding. You pay more for this element, however it's truly cool.

By the day's end you need a treadmill with some padding, yet not all that much. I compare a lot of padding to running on the shoreline. An excessive amount of padding does not recreate running on asphalt. All things considered, in the event that you have joint issues, at that point all the more padding might be the correct approach. Like I stated, there's nobody estimate fits-all treadmill. That is the purpose of this treadmill purchasing guide article.

4. Speed and Incline

What's your running routine? Do you run and do HIIT? Or on the other hand, do you keep running at an enduring even pace? Or on the other hand, possibly you're a walker? Treadmill speeds by and large range from 10 to 12 miles for each hour. On the off chance that you're a sprinter, at that point search for a treadmill with top paces of 12 miles for every hour or more. In case you're a walker or jogger, 10 is more than adequate.

The grade component is additionally essential. It's a smart thought to slant your treadmill somewhat so as to make up for the reality running on treadmills is simpler than on asphalt. The explanation behind this is two-crease:

No wind obstruction, and all the more essentially

The running surface moves so you don't use as much vitality since you don't have to move forward.

I by and large grade a treadmill 1.5 to 4 degrees. I'm not into soak slant climbing, yet on the off chance that you will be, you may want to get a slope mentor. A slope mentor slants up to 20 or even 40 percent. Something else, most treadmills slant from 10 to 15 percent which is more than adequate for most preparing regimens.

5. Fan

Do you get excessively damp with sweat and hot when running? Provided that this is true, consider a cooling fan. There are numerous treadmills with a cooling fan so it's not elusive.

6. Collapsing Feature

There are 2 sorts of collapsing treadmills:

Level collapsing treadmills, and

Upstanding collapsing treadmills.

A level collapsing treadmill overlays level to the ground so it's anything but difficult to store under a bed.

An upstanding collapsing treadmill creases vertically for simple stockpiling in a storeroom.

In this way, know where you'll be putting away your treadmill so you recognize what sort of collapsing treadmill to purchase.

On the off chance that you won't store your treadmill, at that point clearly you needn't bother with the collapsing highlight. Be that as it may, you may later on so it doesn't hurt. All things considered, a collapsing treadmill's casing toughness may not be very as solid as a non-collapsing treadmill.

Notwithstanding whether you purchase a collapsing treadmill or not, guarantee your treadmill has wheels. Wheels are imperative for moving your treadmill around. Most treadmills have wheels, yet I would twofold check at any rate.

7. Most extreme Weight Capacity

It's difficult to tell whether a treadmill's edge is great. Be that as it may, one approach to decide if a specific treadmill has a fantastic casing is weight limit... the higher the better. Most treadmills have weight limit maximums in the scope of 250 to 300 pounds. That is the reason treadmills with a most extreme client weight of 350 pounds or higher are an appealing alternative.

I'm not saying to just take a gander at treadmills with a 350 pound or higher weight limit; yet it's one thought to consider.

8. The Warranty

I lean toward treadmills with a lifetime guarantee on both the casing and engine. Obviously, these treadmills are progressively costly. Lifetime guarantees disclose to me that it's a quality machine by and large. There are special cases certainly.

9. Extravagant accessories

Since such a significant number of treadmills offer a similar list of capabilities, your treadmill purchasing choice may come down to the fancy odds and ends.

What are treadmill fancy odds and ends?

10. Free Shipping

Delivery can be costly. I wouldn't abstain from purchasing the ideal treadmill if free sending was excluded, however it's certainly something to search for on the grounds that it can spare two or three hundred dollars. All else being equivalent when looking at two treadmills, clearly you'll run with the treadmill that offers free dispatching to your home.

In the event that you live in Alaska, Hawaii, or outside of the USA, make certain to ask cautiously about the expense of delivery. Try not to accept any "free transporting" offers incorporate you.

11. Cost

No treadmill purchasing aide would be finished without remarking on cost.

Treadmill evaluating changes massively from several hundred dollars to $10,000 or more. Set up a financial plan before you begin your exploration. By and large $750 to $2,500 will get you a better than average treadmill for your home.

12. Search for a Treadmill Sale or Discount!

Last, however not least, dependably search for the best treadmill deal so you can get a rebate.

Where would you be able to discover incredible treadmill arrangements and limits?

If you are looking to buy treadmill online on discount prices in United Arab Emirates and Dubai then you should come to here and get you best treadmill on discount prices. You can also get the your favorite brands treadmill price from SportsPlanetAE.

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why are californians (esp. northern californians) so weak? Feel free to add

Californians in general

talk shit about in-n-out get hit

also true for starbucks (which is greater than dunkin in coffee and food apart from donuts)

“ummmmm why isn’t everyone a vegan/vegetarian???? vegetables are cheap and fresh there is literally no excuse” we have the central valley

“is this gluten free?” it’s water you tell me

die when humidity is above 20%

die when temperature is below 65 (excluding sierra nevada areas)

my sister when shopping for winter clothes for college: “what are show shoes anyways? and why do people bowl so much?”

“you need to be accepting of others’ opinions!!!” considering you cut me off to begin with, you clearly aren’t listening to yourself

likely to pay extra for stuff (esp. if you’re used to seeing houses sold “starting from the low $600,000″)

hardest part of the drought for people was taking 5min or less showers when they’re used to at least 45min ones

cannot go in ocean without acclimating to water and/or wetsuit

our current comes from alaska so it’s not our fault

interesting, useless factoid: alaska does not have many (possibly any) males strippers so they have to fly in strippers from california. you’re welcome alaska.

illegal to eat oranges in your bathtub?

idk if it’s still true, but actual illegal activity for a hot minute here

technically took part in the American Civil War but tbh not that much (there is kinda a lot of space and milage between CA and the south)

Southern Californians

have fun with your fucking DESERT

don’t have air conditioning in every house in LA like what the fuck

people are assumed to share their pool with their neighbors

it actually gets hot there what the fuck

Northern Californians

use “hella” unironically

when driving from san fransisco a few weeks ago, i saw an ad for fast internet that said “hella connected” and had..... some produce (an apple?) on it

die when temperature > 85 degrees

exception: we can withstand temperatures up to 90 when wind is at least 5mph or humidity < 5%

have to deal with tourists in san fransisco

it’s nearly always cloudy (but not rainy) in SF

the cable cars are an actual form of transportation and commute

“san fran” or “cali” = sign you are not from california

the bush man (before he died :( rip in peace) scared the shit out of y'all like....... there is pretty much no grass at all.......what can you expect here.......

fog

people who sleep on pizza my heart and boudin’s smh

boudin’s has okay clam chowder according to my mom (ex new yorker) but their bread bowls.....holty shoit.... just trust me

warning: we do not have *real* southern food (no good cornbread in restaurants, limited sweet tea,

“i don’t get it how could you carve a tunnel into a tree?” bro..... dude...... brah....... have you SEEN a fucking redwood????

sometimes they smell like cream soda 16/10 trees i loev

camping tip: redwood smokes hella but does in fact burn

“do you surf to school????” we don’t even have beaches my dude

we have rocks and tidepools but you have to dig for sand

takes at least 6hrs to go anywhere out of state (excluding hawaii)

kids in high school are like a normal high school but extra nerds (silicone valley) and popular kids (LA is at least in california)

plays green day constantly on the radios “to support local music” and has no idea why they would be political

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An Election Day Success – The New York Times

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Good morning. The U.S. sets another daily virus record. American Airlines will begin filling its planes. And Colorado offers a model for voting smoothly in a pandemic.

Voters didn’t have to wait in long lines. Turnout was high. And results were available shortly after the polls closed.

Sounds almost too good to be true, doesn’t it?

It’s not. It is a description of yesterday’s primaries in Colorado.

The state avoided the miserable lines that voters in Georgia and Wisconsin recently endured — lines that are a waste of time and, even worse, a health risk during a pandemic.

And unlike in Kentucky and New York, Colorado didn’t take a week or more to count its ballots. It began counting before Election Day. After polls closed, at 7 p.m., people quickly knew that John Hickenlooper had won the Democratic nomination in a closely watched Senate race.

Colorado accomplished all of this thanks to a universal system of voting by mail, which began in 2014. The state sends a ballot to every registered voter weeks before Election Day. Voters can return the ballot by mail, so long as it arrives by Election Day, or can drop it off at any one of dozens of voting centers.

People can also vote in person, but fewer than 6 percent of voters do so in a typical election, said Amber McReynolds, the former head of elections in Denver, who now runs Vote at Home, an advocacy group. The atmosphere at Denver polling places yesterday, she told me, was “calm as can be.”

Hawaii, Oregon, Utah and Washington also created universal vote-by-mail systems before the pandemic struck. In all these states, turnout has increased, with no net benefit for either party. Many other states are trying to expand mail voting this year, although often without universal mailing of ballots or as many drop-off locations as Colorado has.

In other political news:

Amy McGrath, a well-funded former Marine fighter pilot, defeated Charles Booker, a progressive state lawmaker, in Kentucky’s Democratic Senate primary. She will face Mitch McConnell in November.

Oklahoma voters approved expanding Medicaid coverage to at least 200,000 lower-income adults, effectively overruling Republican lawmakers who have opposed the move.

Lauren Boebert, a gun-rights activist who has flouted pandemic restrictions and praised the pro-Trump QAnon conspiracy theory, unseated fellow Republican Representative Scott Tipton in a Colorado primary.

They support vote by mail, federal action on the pandemic, extended jobless benefits and the George Floyd protests. Meet the 6 percent of Trump voters from 2016 swing states who said there was “not really any chance” they would support him again.

FOUR MORE BIG STORIES

1. A mushrooming outbreak

The United States announced more than 48,000 new coronavirus infections yesterday, another daily record and an increase of 80 percent in the past two weeks. Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation’s top infectious disease expert, warned the Senate that the number could soon reach 100,000 a day if the country does not act quickly.

In other virus developments:

European countries began allowing visitors from outside the E.U. today, but excluded most Americans because of the U.S. outbreak. Here’s a guide for travelers.

Joe Biden accused President Trump of having “surrendered” to the virus. Biden said that, if elected, he would give Fauci an “uncensored platform to speak directly to the American people — whether delivering good news or bad.”

2. A divide among airlines

American Airlines will begin filling its planes to capacity again today, joining United Airlines, which was already doing so. The other two largest U.S. carriers — Delta and Southwest — have committed to keeping some seats empty through September.

It’s still not clear how easily the coronavirus spreads on airplanes: They have better air circulation than typical indoor spaces, but people can be packed tightly. For that reason, some epidemiologists are worried that American and United are prioritizing profits over safety.

“From an economic standpoint, it makes perfect sense,” Janet Baseman of the University of Washington School of Public Health told me by email. “From a public health standpoint, it is problematic because there is no hope of physical distancing.” She added: “If I were to hop on a plane (which I will not be anytime soon unless it is absolutely necessary), I would choose a carrier that would allow more space.”

3. Russia’s growing aggression

The list of recent Russian aggressions is reminiscent of the Cold War, David Sanger and Eric Schmitt write. In addition to the bounty program on U.S. soliders in Afghanistan, there have been cyberattacks on Americans working from home and Russian jets flying off the coast of Alaska to test air defenses.

A family’s perspective: “If it does come out as true, obviously the heartache would be terrible,” said the father of a Marine who was killed last year in an attack that may be related to the bounties.

For more: On today’s episode of “The Daily,” one of the reporters who broke the news of the program discusses what we know now. In Opinion, Susan Rice, the former national security adviser, asks, “Why does Trump put Russia first?”

4. A chilling effect in Hong Kong

China’s crackdown on Hong Kong has already begun to have an effect, with several major pro-democracy groups disbanding on the same day that Beijing passed a new security law. “Hong Kong people understand this means the end of the ‘one country, two systems’ model for the territory, and we are now reduced to being a city like on the mainland, like Shenzhen or Shanghai,” Joseph Cheng, a political scientist, told The Times.

The next step? People in Taiwan fear that China’s move against Hong Kong does not bode well for them, The Times reports from Taipei. “There is a high possibility of conflict,” a worried Taiwanese lawmaker said.

Here’s what else is happening

IDEA OF THE DAY: Black and white

The Times will not be capitalizing the word “white.” As Dean and Phil explained: “There is less of a sense that ‘white’ describes a shared culture and history. Moreover, hate groups and white supremacists have long favored the uppercase style, which in itself is reason to avoid it.”

In The Atlantic, the philosopher Kwame Anthony Appiah has argued for capitalizing both “Black” and “white.” Neither is a literal description of skin color, he writes, and neither is a “fully formed and stable social category.” Both encompass a varied group of cultures.

Citing the work of Sally Haslanger, a fellow philosopher, Appiah concludes: “Racial identities were not discovered but created, she’s reminding us, and we must all take responsibility for them. Don’t let them disguise themselves as common nouns and adjectives. Call them out by their names.”

More on race: The Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Isabel Wilkerson compares American racism to the Indian caste system in a new article for The Times Magazine. “Their hierarchies are profoundly different. And yet, as if operating from the same instruction manual translated to fit their distinctive cultures, both countries adopted similar methods of maintaining rigid lines of demarcation and protocols,” she writes.

PLAY, WATCH, EAT, GRILL

It’s grilling season

With the long weekend approaching, you may be itching to bust out the grill. Melissa Clark’s recipe for chicken thighs — coated in a balsamic vinegar glaze and spiked with ginger — is the perfect solution. The charred peaches glazed with honey butter work just as well as a dessert as they do a side dish.

Down to Gorky Park

If you’re of a certain age — say, between 40 and 60 — you may need to hear only a few bars of the whistling at the beginning of the song to recognize it: “Wind of Change,” a 1990 hit by the German heavy-metal band Scorpions. It turned into an anthem for Eastern Europeans welcoming the end of the Soviet Empire.

The journalist Patrick Radden Keefe has long been obsessed with a rumor that the C.I.A. wrote the song, and he chases it down in an eight-episode podcast. The full podcast is now available, and I recommend it. It’s full of entertaining mini-histories of spying, diplomacy and pop music. “On the one hand, this is an investigative story about Cold War espionage, but on the other hand, it’s about these ’80s hair-metal guys who are inescapably absurd,” Keefe told my colleague Hilary Moss.

Return of the Kentucky elk

In 1997, on the grassy slope of a reclaimed mine, an elk stepped onto Kentucky soil for the first time in more than 150 years. Though the area was once full of wildlife, land development and hunting eliminated many buffalo, river otters, bald eagles and elk.

Read about how the state rebuilt its elk population, using old coal mines.

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Butter Gritty, radish stink, goatnapping: News from around our 50 states

Alabama

Decatur: More than 800,000 gallons of untreated sewage spilled from the city’s utility plant and eventually reached the Tennessee River during two days of heavy rains, documents filed by Decatur Utilities show. Disclosures filed with the Alabama Department of Environmental Management reveal that about 8 million gallons of raw sewage have escaped the Decatur Utilities sanitary sewer system this year in 81 overflows, The Decatur Daily reports. The largest discharge happened last week when rain overwhelmed old pipes, and sewage began pouring from a manhole near the utility’s headquarters. It took the city-owned company more than 40 hours to stop the overflow. Decatur Utilities told the Environmental Department the heavy rains caused the problem, though the newspaper says similar companies in neighboring communities reported few to no sewer overflows during the same period.

Alaska

Anchorage: An air carrier that suffered a cyberattack has experienced more disruption than initially projected, according to a company announcement. The RavnAir Group on Dec. 20 experienced what it called a “malicious” cyberattack on its information technology network, Anchorage television station KTVA reports. The company canceled some Alaska flights of Dash 8 aircraft and said passengers could expect more schedule changes. This week the company announced the disruption was worse than initially reported. Restoration of systems could take up to a month, the company said. Additional flight cancellations and delays are possible for the group’s three airlines, RavnAir Alaska, PenAir and RavnAir Connect, the company said. The company is working with the FBI, a cybersecurity company and others to restore systems.

Arizona

Tucson: Three mountain lions found feeding on human remains near a popular Tucson hiking trail have been killed, authorities said Wednesday. They were not suspected of killing the person but were determined to be a danger to the public because they showed no fear of officers trying to remove the remains, the Arizona Game and Fish Department said in a statement. The area in the Coronado National Forest was closed for a day while officials attempted unsuccessfully to trap the mountain lions. The medical examiner will work to identify the name and cause of death for the person found Tuesday morning off the Pima Canyon Trail. The trail at the base of Mount Lemmon was reopened Wednesday, ahead of a planned Jan. 14 reopening, after authorities decided there was no danger to the public.

Arkansas

Little Rock: A judge on Thursday ordered the city to reinstate a police officer who was fired for fatally shooting a black motorist. Pulaski County Circuit Judge Tim Fox reversed the Little Rock Civil Service Commission’s ruling upholding the termination of Officer Charles Starks over the fatal shooting of Bradley Blackshire. Starks fired at least 15 times through the windshield of a car Blackshire was driving in February. Starks and another officer were attempting a motor vehicle stop at the time. Police commanders fired Starks in May, saying he violated department policy. Fox upheld the commission’s ruling that Starks violated policy requiring officers to move out of an oncoming vehicle’s path if possible rather than fire. But the judge said a 30-day suspension and reduction in salary to an entry-level officer are more appropriate sanctions.

California

Corona: A Southern California quarantine zone has been expanded in an effort to stop the spread of a disease that threatens the state’s multibillion-dollar citrus industry. The addition of 107 square miles encompassing the cities of Corona and Norco and part of Chino followed the discovery of a dozen trees with citrus greening disease in Corona, The Press-Enterprise reports. The quarantine zone now covers 1,127 square miles in parts of Riverside, San Bernardino, Los Angeles and Orange counties. The quarantine forbids movement of fruit, citrus plants or foliage, but the fruit can be consumed on properties where it was grown. Citrus greening disease is also known as Huanglongbing or HLB. It is spread by a tiny, aphid-like bug called the Asian citrus psyllid. Infected trees develop mottled leaves, produce deformed fruit and eventually die.

Colorado

Denver: Two affiliated organizations with ties to hospitals and insurance companies have launched a six-figure public relations ad blitz against the creation of a “public” health insurance option in the state. The campaign began in December and comes ahead of the 2020 legislative session, which begins next week and is expected to feature an intense battle over how and whether to create the public option, the Colorado Sun reports. The so-called public option, as proposed by Gov. Jared Polis’ administration, would actually be run by private insurance companies that would offer plans with government oversight. The plans would be available at first only to people who buy coverage on their own, without help from an employer. But Polis administration officials have said they hope to expand the public option to small employers within a couple of years.

Connecticut

Hartford: The state’s Department of Consumer Protection is urging consumers to do their homework before signing a contract with a gym or health club. Commissioner Michelle Seagull says better health is often a New Year’s resolution, and there tends to be a spike in new gym and health club memberships in January. “But sometimes the excitement of working out wears off after a few months, and consumers are stuck in health club contracts that they just don’t use,” she says. “That’s why we’re encouraging consumers to do their homework and to be smart before making a commitment.” Connecticut law requires health clubs to have contracts in writing. The consumer protection department urges consumers to read them closely and know how much they will pay, when the bill will come in and what the cancellation policy will be. The department also recommends reading online reviews, talking to current customers and visiting the club in person.

Delaware

Middletown: The 2020 Hummers Parade went off without a hitch Wednesday following last year’s controversy, though parade watchers said it was not as good as past years and had far fewer marchers. Accompanying this year’s parade was a group of more than 50 protesters holding signs decrying racism. Hundreds more lined the streets to watch the annual parade that drew national scrutiny last year for a float depicting kids in cages that many deemed offensive. The loosely organized parade is a spoof of the Mummers Parade in Philadelphia, and floats often satire top news stories of the past year. The parade was led by unofficial Grand Marshal Jack Schreppler, who held an original American flag with 13 stars. About a dozen and a half small groups and a few lone individuals paraded through downtown Middletown on New Year’s Day. The most popular topic depicted this year was the Delabear from earlier this winter.

District of Columbia

Washington: An apparently intoxicated man fell onto the tracks of a Metro station, causing some of the first delays of the new year, according to authorities. The man fell early Wednesday morning and was taken to a hospital with injuries not considered life-threatening, news outlets report. The fall is being investigated as an accident, according to a Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority statement that says the man appeared to be “under the influence.” The man’s identity wasn’t immediately released.

Florida

Deland: Fifteen cars were shot at while driving along Interstate 4 and Interstate 95 in Central Florida, authorities said Thursday. No injuries were reported, and the damage from the Wednesday shootings appears to have been caused by a BB or pellet gun, according a statement by the Volusia County Sheriff’s Office. The vehicles hit in the shootings were near Deltona, DeLand and Daytona Beach, according to a statement from the sheriff’s office. Witness accounts of the suspect vehicle vary. An investigation was ongoing.

Georgia

Brunswick: The state’s waters are closing to shrimp fishing Jan. 15, but whelk season opens the next day. The annual shrimp fishery closure aims to allow shrimp to reproduce in large enough amounts and grow to large enough size to hopefully provide for a good shrimp harvest in the coming year, The News reports. The shrimp fishery tends to reopen in late May or early June, depending on conditions at the time. Meanwhile, the state’s whelk season is to open at 7 a.m. Jan. 16 and run through 8:15 p.m. March 31. Regulatory requirements for whelk trawls include the use of minimum 4-inch stretch mesh trawl gear and a certified turtle excluder device. Fishermen also need a state commercial fishing license with a whelk endorsement.

Hawaii

Honolulu: Hawaiian Telcom painted over an unauthorized mural on one of its buildings by renowned marine artist Robert Wyland. The artist acknowledged he did not have permission to spray-paint the Maui building, The Honolulu Star-Advertiser reports. The life-size image stretching 65 feet depicted a female humpback whale. Wyland said he apologized and hoped Hawaiian Telcom would not paint over the mural he created during work over two days. “I apologize for not running it up the food chain,” he said Monday. “I’m so passionate. I swear to God I don’t think about those things. I kind of painted it and look for forgiveness later.” Hawaiian Telcom never received a direct apology from Wyland, the company said.

Idaho

Carey: State land management officials have secured a conservation land use easement on the Cenarrusa Ranch ensuring the land in that area is not developed. The Bureau of Land Management and The Nature Conservancy in Idaho finalized the easement in the Pioneer Mountain foothills near Carey after years of discussion, The Times-News reports. The easement ensures protection of about 13 square miles of land including sage grouse habitat and migration corridors for wildlife, officials said. One of the longest pronghorn migrations in the west, a 160-mile journey crosses the ranch and includes grouse breeding grounds, land officials said. The easement is also expected to bring new recreation opportunities including more than 3 miles of access routes, officials said. “It’s the kind of place that makes Idaho Idaho,” Nature Conservancy Conservation Manager Tess O’Sullivan said.

Illinois

Chicago: The city seems to have closed out 2019 with a drop in the number of homicides for the third consecutive year, police say. Preliminary numbers Tuesday showed there had been 490 homicides in 2019, making it the first time the yearly number has dipped below 500 since 2015, when it was 491. The number of homicides in 2019 dropped 13% compared to 2018, when there were 565 homicides, according to police statistics. The declines happened across the city, including in historically high-crime areas. Police have credited the city’s dip in crime to the use of technology used to predict where shootings might occur, while experts also credited anti-violence programs that offer jobs and gang conflict mediation.

Indiana

Indianapolis: The city is a bombed-out disaster area in an upcoming G.I. Joe comic book. Being depicted as a war zone is less than flattering, but writer Paul Allor isn’t picking on the city. He lives here, and the story presents Indianapolis as putting up a fight against the bad guys of Cobra – long-running nemesis of the G.I. Joe team. Unfortunately, Cobra rules the world in Allor’s story. The organization has no problem making a cautionary example of Indianapolis. “Cobra essentially wipes the city off the map,” Allor said. What’s left? Downtown’s Soldiers and Sailors Monument, at least, is seen on the cover of “G.I. Joe” No. 5, scheduled to arrive in stores Jan. 8. And a survivalist biker gang, the Dreadnoks, is hanging out at the Indianapolis Art Center. Broad Ripple resident Allor also incorporates a reference to Guilford Avenue’s multicolored “rainbow” bridge.

Iowa

Fruitland: A service club intends to build a memorial for veterans in this Muscatine County community. The Fruitland Community Lions Club wants to place it near Fruitland Community Center instead of at a cemetery. A club committee decided the location near the center would allow more people to see it and would deter vandals, the Muscatine Journal reports. The committee worked with Louisa-Muscatine High School art students to devise a manageable and affordable design. It will have black granite walls with seating, a flag and lighting. Each veteran will have two lines on the wall, enough room to list names and service information, for $100. The memorial can fit 400 names. “We don’t want to leave someone off just because there’s no room. We’ll find room – we’ll buy more granite if we have to,” says Janina Hawley, the committee chairwoman.

Kansas

Wichita: The state has been able to reduce its carbon-dioxide emissions for a 10th straight year largely due to the rapid adoption of wind energy and a slow move away from coal-powered electricity. About 36% of all electricity produced in Kansas is from wind, the highest percentage of any U.S. state, the Kansas News Service reports. In 2019 alone, Kansas saw four new wind farms, adding enough capacity to power 190,000 homes for a year. In 2017, about half of Kansas’ total carbon-dioxide emissions came from burning fossil fuels, such as coal and natural gas, to create electricity. Plant upgrades and federal environmental regulations since have forced coal plants to clean up what was coming out of their smoke stacks. Carbon-dioxide emissions contribute to global warming.

Kentucky

Ashland: The city is hosting a dedication ceremony for several new statues, including two of Roman deities. Ashland’s Friday festivities will include a lighting ceremony, catered food, live music and a presentation by the artist, Gines Serran-Pagan, The Independent reports. The bronzed clay and fiberglass statues of Venus, Vulcan and the concept of Genesis were commissioned by an anonymous donor who hoped to memorialize three distinct parts of their hometown, according to the newspaper. “I am so grateful that Serran-Pagan’s magnificent statues will be part of Ashland’s riverfront landscape,” city manager Mike Graese said. “The generosity of the donor is, in my opinion, reflective of Ashland’s giving spirit. Mayor Steve Gilmore said he’s confident the statues will draw tourists from all over.

Louisiana

Baton Rouge: Authorities announced Thursday that a man has been arrested in connection with the deaths of three homeless people. Jeremy Anderson, 29, was arrested and charged with two counts of first-degree murder and one count of second-degree murder, Baton Rouge Police Chief Murphy Paul told news outlets at a press conference. Paul said evidence found inside Anderson’s home helped link him to the murders. The first two killings happened Dec. 13 when Christina Fowler, 53, and Gregory Corcoran, 40, were found fatally shot underneath an overpass, huddled in blankets beside an empty shopping cart. On Dec. 27, investigators discovered 50-year-old Tony Williams shot to death on the porch of a vacant home about two blocks away from where Fowler and Corcoran were found. Paul said Anderson lives two blocks away from where both shootings occurred.

Maine

Freeport: Coastal Maine has a lot of seaweed and a fair number of cows. A group of scientists and farmers think that pairing the two could help unlock a way to cope with a warming world. The researchers – from a marine science lab, an agriculture center and universities in northern New England – are working on a plan to feed seaweed to cows to gauge whether that can help reduce the greenhouse gas emissions that contribute to climate change. About a quarter of the methane in the country comes from cattle, which produce the gas when they belch or flatulate. The concept of feeding seaweed to cows has gained traction in recent years because of some studies that have shown its potential to cut back on methane. One of the big questions is which kinds of seaweed offer the highest benefit to farmers looking to cut methane, says Nichole Price, a senior research scientist at Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences in East Boothbay, Maine, and the project’s leader.

Maryland

Annapolis: The governor has indicated he’ll continue to allow refugees into the state. The Capital Gazette reports Gov. Larry Hogan’s office released a letter Wednesday that was sent to the Trump administration. The letter said the state would continue to accept properly vetted refugees. The White House had set a Jan. 21 deadline for states and cities to decide whether they would continue to allow refugees to settle within their jurisdictions. “We are willing to accept refugees who the federal government has determined are properly and legally seeking refugee status and have been adequately vetted,” Hogan wrote in his letter. “This, as you know, is different from any kind of ‘sanctuary status’ for those in the United States unlawfully.” Maryland has accepted nearly 10,000 refugees under Hogan’s leadership since 2016. But the Republican was among 31 governors who wanted to refuse Syrian refugees in 2015 out of fear of terrorism.

Massachusetts

Boston: The state is extending its electric vehicle rebate program. Republican Gov. Charlie Baker and Lt. Gov. Karyn Polito announced the rebates were being extended Wednesday to last through at least Dec. 31, 2021, and the administration will make at least $27 million available per year in 2020 and 2021. The program was phased out from Sept. 30 through Tuesday because a rapid growth in applications caused a lack of funding, Baker and Polito said, but the funding plan they proposed for an extension was largely adopted in a recent supplemental budget. Since 2014, the state has allocated more than $31 million for the effort, to incentivize the purchase of more than 15,000 electric vehicles and reduce the state’s greenhouse gas emissions by an estimated 39,000 metric tons annually, Baker and Polito said.

Michigan

Delta Township: The community has solved an olfactory mystery that could be dubbed “The Case of the Rancid Radishes.” Residents called officials in Delta Township last month, concerned about a smell they thought might be natural gas or sewer leaks. Township Manager Brian Reed and his staff got to the, well, root of the problem: rotting radishes in nearby farm fields. To be more precise, it was the unseemly smell of decomposing daikon radishes, a Japanese root vegetable. They had been planted in fields in the township and surrounding areas as a cover crop after a wet spring. The radish variety is among those recommended by natural resources officials to plant during such periods – not to harvest but to decompose in a bid to nourish the soil, aerate it and prevent erosion. Decompose they did, and when temperatures rose in December the scent permeated the air. The stench should subside with consistently colder weather.

Minnesota

Minneapolis: State Attorney General Keith Ellison on Thursday called for the Minnesota Board of Public Defense to examine the process that led to the suspension of Hennepin County’s chief public defender, saying he believes Mary Moriarty was targeted for speaking out against racial bias in the criminal justice system. Separately, law clerks and lawyers in Moriarty’s office wrote to the board in her defense, praising her leadership and commitment to clients and calling for her reinstatement. And dozens of public defenders and public interest attorneys outside Minnesota signed onto a letter objecting to her suspension. Moriarty, appointed in 2014, was put on paid leave last week. She said officials expressed concerns about her management style, what they called inflexibility with other criminal justice officials and confrontations on the issue of racial inequality. They also questioned a series of tweets about historic lynchings in the Deep South, she said.

Mississippi

Hattiesburg: The Hattiesburg Cultural Center hosted a jazz brunch Wednesday in honor of Jeanette Smith, a prominent leader in the city’s civil rights movement in the late 1950s and early 1960s, WDAM-TV reports. She was 78 years old when she died in Atlanta in 2018. Her late husband, Dr. C.E. Smith, also was instrumental in Hattiesburg’s civil rights movement. Both of them served as the president of the Forrest County NAACP, which they joined in 1959. The center plans on hosting the brunch again next year to honor those who have made a difference for the civil rights organization, according to the station.

Missouri

Jefferson City: The state’s levees need to be strengthened and repaired, especially in rural areas hit hard by prolonged flooding in 2019, according to an advisory group appointed by Gov. Mike Parson. St. Louis Public Radio reports the Flood Recovery Advisory Working Group on Tuesday released its report on ways to address flooding in the state and improve flood recovery. Parson signed an executive order in July creating the 24-member advisory group. Record flooding early last year and in the summer overtopped and breached dozens of levees along the Missouri and Mississippi rivers. Some parts of western Missouri experienced flooding for up to seven months. Rebuilding in flood-prone areas has led to repeated damage, said Dru Buntin, deputy director of the Missouri Department of Natural Resources.

Montana

Helena: Wildlife officials have opened the permit lottery for non-motorized watercraft on the Smith River in central Montana. Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks annually awards floating permits to groups of up to 15 people to access a 59-mile section of the Smith River east of Helena. Applications must be submitted by Feb. 13 with a $10 non-refundable fee. The permit drawing is scheduled for March 2, officials said. The state regulates the river to combat overcrowding and allow users to take quality, multiday floats, park officials said. About 10,070 people applied for private floating permits last year, and about 1,300 were awarded, officials said. People can also buy a chance to win a super permit for $5 until March 12, officials said. That permit allows floaters to pick any day they want to take the river trip, park officials said. The entire float trip usually takes about four days and begins near White Sulphur Springs, officials said.

Nebraska

Brownville: Federal inspectors plan to review how well a nuclear power plant handled a water service safety problem blamed on a silt buildup from the Missouri River, which overwhelmed or broke through levees last spring. The Cooper Nuclear Station near Brownville was operating on full power Dec. 6 when employees detected that water wasn’t flowing through a pipe connected to one of the plant’s two safety generators, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission said in a news release Thursday. The generators weren’t running because they are designed to kick in and provide power for the plant’s cooling systems only when all five lines that power the plant are knocked out. If needed, the other generator was available, the NRC said. The plant generated power throughout the problem.

Nevada

Carson City: The state Supreme Court has ruled that workers’ compensation rates for injured inmates are set at inmate pay rates instead of the minimum wage. Inmate Darrell White was assigned to the Forestry Division when he suffered a finger injury that left him temporarily disabled for 144 days in 2016, the Nevada Appeal reports. White filed for workers’ compensation disability benefits at the minimum wage set in the state Constitution after his release, but an appeals officer ruled that state law sets the amount of compensation at the average monthly wage the prisoner actually received when the injury occurred, officials said. White argued his compensation should be set at the constitutionally guaranteed $7.25 an hour. Court officials argued compensation should be about 50 cents a day, or $22.93 each month, based on what he was actually being paid.

New Hampshire

Dover: The City Hall clock tower, which officials say has lost its sheen and is sorely in need of a significant cosmetic overhaul, will be getting a full facelift ahead of the city’s 400th birthday celebration in 2023. City Manager Mike Joyal says the 80-foot tower needs a lot of work to get it in show-worthy condition for the city’s big birthday bash, the bulk of which will be celebrated during a 10-day schedule ahead of July 4, 2023. The historic bell atop the tower was rung July 4, 1976, to celebrate the nation’s bicentennial, according to city records. After that, Joyal says, as far as he has been able to determine, the last time the bell was rung was Sept. 11, 2001. The significance of the bell to Dover’s history makes it a must for ringing on the city’s 400th birthday, according to Mayor-elect Robert Carrier.

New Jersey

Howell: A man who set off fireworks near a movie theater as his friend made a marriage proposal created panic among moviegoers who mistook the fireworks for gunshots, leading to 911 calls and an evacuation, authorities said. Howell Township police responded to the Xscape Theater about 6 p.m. Wednesday and soon learned the theater manager had confronted a man who had lighted fireworks outside another business near the theater, authorities said. The remnants of the fireworks were located, and it was determined that no shots had been fired. A 23-year-old Lakewood man told police he had set off the fireworks as part of his friend’s marriage proposal at the other business. While noting there was no intent to cause panic at the theater, a post on the Howell police Facebook page stated that “obviously this was a very poor decision rather than an overt act.”

New Mexico

Santa Fe: A newly forged steel instrument that can pinpoint the path of stars and planets across the night sky using the naked eye is a throwback to the years just before the advent of telescopes, returning stargazers in the hills of northern New Mexico to the essentials of astronomy in the past. Installed at St. John’s College by graduates, the device is a remake of long-lost originals devised by Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe in the late 16th century to chart the location of stars and the orbits of planets. It consists of four interlocking rings – forged of precision steel and aligned with the north star and equator – combined with a sliding viewfinder that is moved by hand to measure angles between the any celestial object, the horizon and the equator. Lengthy, painstaking measurements from such an instrument in the late-1500s allowed Johannes Kepler to show that Mars revolved in an elliptical orbit around the sun.

New York

Victor: The top Republican in the State Assembly was charged New Year’s Eve with driving while intoxicated in his state-issued vehicle, just a week after he wrote a newspaper column warning citizens against getting behind the wheel drunk. Brian M. Kolb, a Republican from Canandaigua who represents a district just outside Rochester, was arrested near his home after what he called a “lapse in judgement.” Authorities said they were called to a crash in Victor just before 10:30 p.m. after a vehicle ran into a ditch. Kolb was found to be the driver of the 2018 GMC Acadia that crashed in front of his home. An Ontario County sheriff’s deputy administered field sobriety tests, which Kolb failed, before taking him to jail. While there, authorities said a breath test indicated Kolb’s blood-alcohol content was over 0.08%, the legal limit for driving in New York.

North Carolina

Raleigh: The state says it has secured an agreement with Duke Energy to excavate nearly 80 million tons of coal ash at six facilities. The Department of Environmental Quality said in a Thursday press release that it will be the largest coal ash cleanup in the nation’s history. It also settles various legal disputes between Duke and parties that include environmental and community groups. For decades, coal ash has been stored in landfills or in ponds, often near waterways into which toxins can leach. Duke Energy will remove coal ash from the Allen, Belews Creek, Cliffside, Marshall, Mayo and Roxboro sites into on-site lined landfills. “This agreement is a historic cleanup of coal ash pollution in North Carolina,” said Frank Holleman, senior attorney at the Southern Environmental Law Center.

North Dakota

Mandan: Authorities say an ice jam along the Missouri River near Mandan is causing water to rise, threatening property along the shoreline. Morton County officials say water in the Square Butte Creek area along Willow Road and Rosy Lane has risen approximately 18 inches since Tuesday. Commission Chairman Bruce Strinden toured the area Sunday afternoon. He says residents may want to move items from low areas. Authorities say they are working with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to hold back on increased releases at Garrison Dam until the ice jam issue has been resolved. The Corps had increased discharges from the dam earlier in the week and planned another increase Thursday.

Ohio

Cleveland: A ban on single-use plastic bags took effect Wednesday in Cuyahoga County, though the ban won’t be enforced with fines until July 1. Despite the long roll-out, most Giant Eagle grocery stores in the county eliminated the bags beginning New Year’s Day, Fox 8-TV reports. The company will have reusable bags for purchase, and customers will receive fuel perks for every reusable bag used. A few suburbs opted out of the ban, and Cleveland also opted out until July 1 to give a working group time to study the impact of reducing plastic bags on businesses. Some state lawmakers and business groups say such local bans make it harder for grocers and other businesses to operate, and proposed bills would prohibit local governments from forbidding the use of plastic bags. But Gov. Mike DeWine opposes those efforts, saying it would be a mistake for state lawmakers to override local government decisions.

Oklahoma

Sand Springs: A man stole a pickup truck with a sleeping passenger and a goat inside it and drove it all the way from Missouri to Oklahoma before releasing the terrified victim and animal and eventually being arrested, authorities say. According to an arrest report, two men in the truck parked outside an adult video store in Carthage, Missouri, early Wednesday morning. The driver went inside the store, and the passenger fell asleep. When the passenger awoke, a masked man was driving the truck and pointing a gun at his head, Tulsa TV station KOTV reports. The carjacking suspect, 40-year-old Brandon Kirby, drove from Missouri through Kansas. During the 130-mile ordeal, Kirby took methamphetamine, pistol-whipped the victim and continually threatened him, according to the arrest report. The Sand Springs Police Department said on Facebook: “OK 2020, it only took you 4.5 hours to get weird. Let’s slow down on the carjacking-goatnapping calls for the remainder of the year.”

Oregon

Salem: The number of nonaffiliated voters in the state has increased by nearly 60,000 since the beginning of this year, according to the Oregon Secretary of State’s office. As of last month, there were 951,908 nonaffiliated voters in Oregon – an increase of almost 7% since January 2019. The increase of nonaffiliated voters is largely due to the state’s “motor voter” law, passed in 2016, which automatically registers eligible Oregonians as nonaffiliated voters when they register with the Oregon DMV. “There are at least 300,000 new registrants since 2016 because of OMV (the Oregon Motor Voter Act),” says Paul Gronke, a political science professor at Reed College and political director of DHM Research. “And 80% or more of these did not respond to a postcard allowing them to affiliate.”

Pennsylvania

Harrisburg: The butter sculpture for this year’s Pennsylvania Farm Show was unveiled Thursday, featuring three of the state’s professional sports team mascots. This year’s sculpture, crafted from about 1,000 pounds of donated butter, shows Gritty, Swoop and Steely McBeam, mascots for the Philadelphia Flyers and Eagles and the Pittsburgh Steelers. The Farm Show in Harrisburg, which calls itself the country’s largest indoor agricultural event, includes 12,000 competitive exhibits and draws about 500,000 attendees every year. It runs from Saturday through Jan. 11. Admission is free, but parking in Farm Show Complex lots is not. After the show ends, the butter sculpture will be taken to a farm in Juniata County to be converted into energy through a methane digester. New to the show this year are hard cider sales, an expanded rabbit competition and a waterfowl habitat with live ducks in the poultry area. There also will be a demonstration by people with bows riding horses.

Rhode Island

Providence: The state’s residents must now have health insurance or face a penalty on their taxes. The taxation division released a list of tax changes taking effect Wednesday, including the new health insurance mandate. Residents who do not have minimum essential coverage in 2020 and do not qualify for an exemption will face a penalty next year when filing a state tax return for 2020. A federal appeals court ruling this month in New Orleans struck down the Affordable Care Act’s requirement that people have health insurance, leaving President Barack Obama’s signature health care law in legal limbo. Rhode Island’s General Assembly passed legislation that was signed by the governor to enact the requirement and penalty in the state, with an effective date of Jan. 1, 2020.

South Carolina

Charleston: The state’s Department of Natural Resources is calling for citizens to recycle used oyster shells and discarded Christmas trees through programs aimed at boosting estuary health and promoting growth of marine life. The state is continuing to expand its oyster recycling and restoration program, where South Carolinians and restaurants can drop off used oyster shells, especially after events such as oyster bakes and holiday parties, The Post and Courier reports. The recycled shells are reintroduced to local waters, where they provide a surface for new oysters to grow, natural resources officials say. Live oysters then filter water, protect against erosion, and attract fish and other sea creatures to their reefs. The state’s Coastal Conservation Association and Natural Resources Department collectively donated more than $100,000 in equipment to pick up and transport the shells, the newspaper reports.

South Dakota

Sioux Falls: South Dakota’s minimum wage is increasing slightly with the the start of the new year. The state’s minimum wage is now $9.30 per hour – an increase of 20 cents from 2019. Workers who receive tips are seeing their minimum wage rise to $4.65 per hour. The increases are part of a voter-approved measure in 2014 to raise the minimum wage, which was $7.25 an hour at the time, to $8.50 an hour. KELO-TV reports the minimum wage will continue to increase at the rate of the cost of living measured in the consumer price index. The state’s minimum wage was below $4 until 1992. The $7.25 minimum wage was set in 2010.

Tennessee

Memphis: Elvis Presley’s Graceland is planning an auction of artifacts to be held during the late entertainer’s 85th birthday celebration Jan. 8. All the items up for auction Wednesday come from third-party collectors but have been thoroughly researched and certified by Graceland Authenticated, according to a news release from Elvis Presley Enterprises Inc. The mansion and all artifacts in the Graceland Archives continue to be owned by Lisa Marie Presley and are not for sale. The 288 artifacts include a golf cart, clothing, jewelry, autographs, concert memorabilia and Hollywood items. In addition, several Graceland experiences will be auctioned, with the proceeds benefiting the Elvis Presley Charitable Foundation. Items to be included in the auction were announced Monday along with registration information. The catalog is available at Graceland’s official online store.

Texas

Dallas: A judge on Thursday sided with a hospital that plans to remove an 11-month-old girl from life support after her mother disagreed with the decision by doctors who say that the infant is in pain and that her condition will never improve. Trinity Lewis had asked Judge Sandee Bryan Marion to issue an injunction in Tarrant County district court to ensure that Cook Children’s Medical Center doesn’t end her daughter Tinslee Lewis’ life-sustaining treatment. Texas Right to Life, an anti-abortion group that opposes the “10-day rule” and has been advocating for Tinslee, said the girl’s mother will appeal the judge’s decision. Doctors at the Fort Worth hospital had planned to remove Tinslee from life support Nov. 10 after invoking Texas’ “10-day rule,” which can be employed when a family disagrees with doctors who say life-sustaining treatment should be stopped.

Utah

Salt Lake City: Operators of a copper mine have announced plans to extend operations by using an experimental method of extraction they say is safe despite concerns about potential groundwater contamination. The Salt Lake Tribune reports that officials with the Lisbon Valley Mine are seeking permits for an acid-based extraction method that involves pumping diluted sulfuric acid underground in San Juan County northeast of Monticello. The new process could extend the mine’s lifespan for at least another 25 years, officials said. Environmentalists have raised concerns about long-term water contamination for nearby residents reliant on groundwater for drinking and livestock. The Lisbon Valley Mining Company has managed the mine since 2008 when its former owner declared bankruptcy three years after opening, officials said.

Vermont

St. Albans: The Vermont attorney general’s office sued the state’s largest dairy operation Thursday, alleging the farm built a 90,000-square-foot barn addition and a 10 million-gallon manure pit without the required permissions. Attorney General T.J. Donovan said the expansion of the Lumbra Farm in Berkshire between 2016 and 2017 qualified as a large farm operation under state regulations, but it was done without the required permits and planning input from the Agency of Agriculture, Food and Markets and state environmental officials. Donovan did not allege that the additions to the farm contributed to the water pollution woes that have plagued the state, but because the expansions were done without the needed permits, there was no way to determine if water qualify was affected. Vermont has been struggling for years to improve water quality in Lake Champlain. Agricultural pollution is considered one of the largest sources of that pollution.

Virginia

Richmond: The state has executed nearly 1,400 people in its 412-year history – more than any other in the nation. But as a new Democratic majority prepares to begin the legislative session, some see an opportunity to end executions in Virginia. A bill to abolish the death penalty has been filed by Del. Lee Carter, a Democrat from Manassas, and several additional bills are expected. The push is backed by Virginians for Alternatives to the Death Penalty, along with some powerful voices: loved ones of murder victims. Thirteen family members sent a letter to the General Assembly in November asking lawmakers to abolish the death penalty. No death sentences have been imposed in the state since 2011, and only three people remain on Virginia’s death row. Since the Supreme Court reinstated the death penalty in 1976, the state is second only to Texas in number of executions, at 113.

Washington

Yakima: The state’s snowpack is less than a year ago, and officials say it’s similar to the start of 2015, the state’s last big drought. The Capital Press reports the statewide snowpack is 47% of normal. It was 46% of normal at this time five years ago. “It’s very reminiscent of 2015, but this year we are way behind on mountain precipitation,” says Scott Pattee, state water supply specialist for the Natural Resources Conservation Service in Mount Vernon. “It’s worrisome. It’s the third-slowest start in snow accumulation statewide since the 1990s, and we had one of the driest Novembers on record.” The biggest concern is that the five mountain reservoirs serving the Yakima Basin are significantly behind in recharging, and 130% to 135% of normal snowfall is now needed in the Upper Yakima to get it back to normal by April 1, Pattee says.

West Virginia

Charleston: Gov. Jim Justice on Thursday tapped the director of a General Motors dealership to lead the state’s Division of Motor Vehicles. Everett Frazier, who has worked in the auto industry for more than three decades, will start as DMV commissioner Monday, according to a news release from the Republican governor. “My goal is to treat everyone who comes through the door of the DMV as a guest,” Frazier said. “I am looking forward to being part of a team that will maximize the use of technology to make the DMV more efficient and customer-friendly.” Justice said Frazier’s experience in the auto business includes 25 years of managerial positions, most recently as the director of operations at the Thornhill GM Superstore in Logan County. Frazier has also resigned as a member on the state’s pharmacy board to assume the new DMV role.

Wisconsin

Madison: A conservative law firm on Thursday asked a judge to find the Wisconsin Elections Commission in contempt and impose $12,000 a day in fines until it immediately purges more than 200,000 voters from the rolls, a move Democrats are fighting in the key battleground state. A judge last month ordered the purge of voters who may have moved and didn’t respond within 30 days to notification sent by the elections commission in October. The bipartisan commission has deadlocked twice on attempts by Republicans to do the purge immediately while an appeal to the court order is pending. Rick Esenberg, leader of the conservative Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty that brought the lawsuit, said the commission must purge the voters now. The judge in December ruled that the commission was breaking state law by not removing voters who did not respond to the October mailing asking that they confirm their address.

Wyoming

Casper: The state’s population increased slightly in the second half of 2018 and first half of 2019 after three years of decline. Census figures released this week show Wyoming’s population grew by 1,158 between July 2018 and July 2019. The state’s total population of 578,880 remained below a peak of 586,000 in 2015. The Casper Star-Tribune reports the latest numbers were recorded before a coal company’s bankruptcy in 2019 furloughed hundreds of workers at two major coal mines for four months. Hard times in the coal, oil and natural gas industries caused many people to leave Wyoming starting in 2015. State economist Wenlin Liu says growth in the energy and construction industries accounted for Wyoming’s recent population increase. Liu says Wyoming’s that recovery now shows signs of slowing, with recent lower job growth and rising unemployment. Wyoming remains the least-populated state in the U.S.

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Mountaineering calendar: when to climb the world’s greatest mountains

We’ve a created mountaineering calendar of the world’s greatest mountains and the optimal time of year at which to climb them, listed month by month.

Since I first started climbing, I must have spent hours typing “when is the best time to climb…” into search engines and then crawling through websites to find the key piece of information I needed. Only when I have a date in mind can I start to think about the practicalities of actually trying to climb a mountain (i.e. booking time off work, flights, budget, gear etc).

To solve this problem once and for all, we have put together a mountaineering calendar of the world’s greatest mountains and the optimal time of year at which to climb them. Drawing on Adventure Consultants’ expedition calendar, we list the world’s major mountains and ranges month by month.

The list is not entirely inclusive as it would take too long to list every mountain on the planet. Likewise, to avoid repetition we list select mountains in a range, considering the world’s 100 highest mountains lie within the Himalaya and Karakoram ranges. We have also excluded winter ascents from the list because, well, if you’re that guy, you probably don’t need a calendar.

Finally, the mountaineering calendar is an evolving project so please make any suggestions in the comments below and we’ll continue to add mountains and ranges over time.

A 2019 print version of the below calendar is available to buy on Lulu.com.

JANUARY

DATE MOUNTAIN NOTES 1 Aconcagua, Argentina Seven summits. Highest non-technical mountain in the world. 1 Mount Kenya (south-face), Kenya Seven second summits. Best time to climb south face. 1 Chimborazo, Cotopaxi and Cayambe, Ecuador Farthest point from Earth’s core. Dry period with low winds. 1 Puncak Mandala, Indonesia Seven second summits. January is dry season in Papua Province. 1 Mount Tyree, Antarctica Seven second summits. 6-31 Vinson Massif, Antarctica Seven summits. 16-30 Carstensz Pyramid, Indonesia Seven summits (Messner list). Can be climbed year-round but January is dry season in Papua Province.

The year-round Mount Whitney is the highest summit in the contiguous United States (i.e. excluding Hawaii and Alaska) as well as the highest peak in the Sierra Nevada. It looks intimidating on first view but the popular Mount Whitney Trail starts at an elevation of 2,550m (8,360ft) meaning the summit can be reached in just a day (albeit a challenging one). Most hikers prefer to ascend between late May and October while mountaineers prefer the months of January and February as they provide exceptional training ground for those looking to gain experience in winter conditions.

FEBRUARY

DATE MOUNTAIN NOTES 1 Antarctic Peninsula voyages, Antarctica Possible ship-based expeditions to the Antarctic Peninsula. 1 Kilimanjaro, Tanzania Seven summits. A popular month to climb due to moderate conditions. 1 Antisana, Ecuador Ecuador’s 4th highest and most challenging volcano. Best time to climb. 14 Mount Cameroon Race of Hope, Cameroon West Africa’s highest mountain. 26 North Pole skiing expedition, Arctic Departs late February (56 days).

Kilimanjaro is Africa’s highest mountain and one of the seven summits. It is also a year-round trekking mountain. It is most popular in February but July too is an excellent time to visit as the climb can be combined with safari and wildlife spotting.

Antisana offers something different to Ecuador’s three higher and more popular volcanos. It requires some technical skills with a challenging bergschrund near the summit. Although it’s a year-round mountain, February is driest and least windy.

MARCH

DATE MOUNTAIN NOTES 6-20 Ojos del Salado expedition, Chile / Argentina Seven second summits. 25 First Everest expeditions begin, Nepal Seven summits. Eight-thousanders. Highest mountain in the world. 27 Everest base camp treks begin, Nepal Trek to the base of the highest mountain in the world.

“Those who travel to mountain-tops are half in love with themselves, and half in love with oblivion.” – Robert Macfarlane

APRIL

DATE MOUNTAIN NOTES 1 Mount Cook & Southern Alps, New Zealand New Zealand’s highest mountain. Good time to climb in the Southern Alps. 1 Canadian Rockies, Canada Best month for winter mountaineering. 1 Everest expeditions begin, Nepal Seven summits. Eight-thousanders. Highest mountain in the world. 1 Everest / Lhotse combined expeditions begin, Nepal Seven summits, eight-thousanders. 1st & 4th highest mountains in the world. 1 First Manaslu expeditions, Nepal Eight-thousanders. 8th highest mountain in the world. Pre-monsoon expedition. 1 First Makalu expeditions, Nepal / China Eight-thousanders. 5th highest mountain in the world. Pre-monsoon expedition. 1 Kanchenjunga expeditions begin, Nepal / India Eight-thousanders. 3rd highest mountain in the world. 2 Attempts on Annapurna I usually begin, Nepal Eight-thousanders. 10th highest mountain in the world. Arguably most dangerous eight-thousander. 8 Lhotse expeditions begin, Nepal Eight-thousanders. 4th highest mountain in the world. 12 Ama Dablam expeditions begin, Nepal Exposed technical Alpinism at altitude. 13 Shishapangma expeditions begin, China Eight-thousanders. 14th highest mountain in the world. 14 Greenland crossing, Greenland Expeditions begin. 15 Alaska Range, USA Climbing season begins. 16 Dhaulagiri expeditions begin, Nepal Eight-thousanders. 7th highest mountain in the world. 23 First Mera Peak expedition, Nepal Nepal’s highest trekking peak. 23 First Baruntse expedition, Nepal 7,000m+ non-technical climbing. 26 First Island Peak expedition, Nepal Ideal first Himalayan climb.

The Everest massif includes Lhotse (centre), the impressive Nuptse ridge (right) and Mount Everest itself (left). Lhotse and Everest can be climbed together as part of a “combo climb”. The routes follow the Khumbu Icefall up to camp four where they part. Despite how it looks in the photo above, the Nuptse ridge is the lowest peak at 7,861m (25,791ft) while the others are both eight-thousanders and the highest and fourth-highest mountains in the world.

MAY

DATE MOUNTAIN NOTES 1 Central-European Alps, Europe European Alpine season begins. 1 Mount Toubkal & Atlas Mountains, Morocco Climbing season begins. 1 Sierra Nevada, White Mountains & Cascade Range, USA California fourteeners. California climbing season begins. Mount Whitney is the tallest mountain in contiguous USA. 1 Colorado ranges, USA Colorado fourteeners. Colorado climbing season begins. 1 Mount Rainier & Cascade Range, USA Climbing season begins. 1-31 Inca Trail, Peru Best month for hiking Inca Trail and visiting Machu Picchu. 2-31 Denali expeditions begin, USA Seven summits. Colder in early May. 13-25 Everest summit bids, Nepal Seven summits. Eight-thousanders. Highest mountain in the world. 14 Mount Logan expeditions begin, Canada Seven second summits. 15 Nanga Parbat attempts usually begin, Pakistan Eight-thousanders. 9th highest mountain in the world. Never climbed in winter. 16-25 Lhotse summit bids, Nepal Eight-thousanders. 4th highest mountain in the world. 21 Bolivian Alpine season begins, Bolivia 6,000m peaks of the Andes. 30 Mount Gunnbjorn, Greenland Highest mountain in Greenland.

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JUNE

DATE MOUNTAIN NOTES 1 Scandinavian Mountains, Norway / Sweden / Finland Scandinavian mountaineering season begins. 1-15 Mount Gunnbjorn, Greenland Highest mountain in Greenland. 1-30 Denali expeditions, USA Seven summits. Most successful summits in mid-late June. 1-30 Bolivia Alpine season, Bolivia 6,000m peaks of the Andes. 10 Mount Kenya (north-face), Kenya Best time to climb north face. Seven second summits. 11 Gasherbrum I, II & Broad Peak expeditions begin, Pakistan / China Eight-thousanders. 11th, 12th & 13th highest mountains in the world. Climbing season in the Karakoram begins. 12 K2 expeditions begin, Pakistan / China Seven second summits. Eight-thousanders. 2nd highest mountain in the world. Never climbed in winter. 15 Three-thousanders in Japan, Japan Climbing season begins in Japan.

The Gasherbrum group of mountains is located in the Karakoram mountain range of the Himalayas on the Pakistan-China border. The group includes three of the 14 eight-thousanders, Gasherbrum I, Gasherbrum II and Broad Peak, as well as the unclimbed Gasherbrum VI. Nearby is the imposing K2, the second-highest mountain in the world. The majority of expeditions on these mountains commence in June with summits taking place in late July / early August.

JULY

DATE MOUNTAIN NOTES 1 Mont Blanc and Alpine four-thousanders, France / Switzerland / Italy Best time to climb in the European Alps. Alpine four-thousanders. 1 Canadian Rockies, Canada Climbing (dry) season begins. 1 Kilimanjaro, Tanzania Seven summits. Weather is cooler and dry – good time for climbing and wildlife spotting in Tanzania. 1 Eiger, Switzerland Great north faces of the Alps. 1 Matterhorn, Italy / Switzerland Alpine four-thousanders. Great north faces of the Alps. 1 Chimborazo, Cotopaxi and Cayambe, Ecuador Farthest point from the Earth’s core. Driest month although possibility of strong winds. 1 Bolivia Alpine season, Bolivia 6,000m peaks of the Andes. 9 Mount Khuiten and Tavan Bogd range, Mongolia Remote mountaineering. 11 Elbrus expeditions begin, Russia Seven summits. 11 Dykh-Tau expeditions begin, Russia Seven second summits. 16-31 Carstensz Pyramid, Indonesia Seven summits (Messner list). Can be climbed year-round but July-August is the peak season in Indonesia. 23 Alpamayo, Artesonraju & Peruvian Andes, Peru Best time to climb is in late July / early August.

“It’s a round trip. Getting to the summit is optional, getting down is mandatory.” – Ed Viesturs

AUGUST

DATE MOUNTAIN NOTES 1 Mont Blanc and Alpine four-thousanders, France / Switzerland / Italy Best time to climb in the European Alps. Alpine four-thousanders. 1 Eiger, Switzerland Great north faces of the Alps. 1 Matterhorn, Italy / Switzerland Alpine four-thousanders. Great north faces of the Alps. 1 Elbrus expeditions, Russia Seven summits. 1 Dykh-Tau expeditions, Russia Seven second summits. 1 Bolivia Alpine season ends, Bolivia 6,000m peaks of the Andes. 15 Everest autumn summit season, Nepal Seven summits. Highest mountain in the world. 30 Cho Oyu expedition begins, Nepal / China Eight-thousanders. 6th highest mountain in the world.

The towering and near-symmetrical pyramidal peak of the Matterhorn is one the Europe’s (and perhaps the world’s) most iconic mountains. The summer months of July and August are without doubt the best time to climb.

The formidable North face of the Eiger has made the mountain world famous, often because of tragic summit attempts. Known as one of Alpine ‘big three’ alongside the Matterhorn and Mont Blanc, the Eiger is also best approached in July and August.

SEPTEMBER

DATE MOUNTAIN NOTES 1 Second Manaslu expedition, Nepal Eight-thousanders. 8th highest mountain in the world. Post-monsoon expedition. 1 Second Makalu expedition, Nepal / China Eight-thousanders. 5th highest mountain in the world. 1 Khan Tengri, Kazakhstan / Kyrgyzstan Best time to climb in the range. 14 Himlung & Saribung, Nepal Late season mountaineering. 15 Pamir Mountains, Afghanistan / China / Kyrgyzstan / Tajikistan / Uzbekistan Best time to climb in the range. 24 Second Mera Peak expedition, Nepal Nepal’s highest trekking peak. 24 Second Baruntse expedition, Nepal 7,000m+ non-technical climbing.

“Mountains have a way of dealing with overconfidence.” – Hermann Buhl

OCTOBER

DATE MOUNTAIN NOTES 1 Tian Shan, China, Kazakhstan / Kyrgyzstan / Uzbekistan Best time to climb in the range. 1 Meru Peak’s Shark’s Fin One of the hardest routes in the world. First climbed in October 2011. 15 Ama Dablam, Nepal Exposed technical Alpinism at altitude. 21 Cholatse, Nepal Exposed technical Alpinism at altitude.

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NOVEMBER

DATE MOUNTAIN NOTES 1 Patagonia, Argentina / Chile Climbing season begins. 1 Monte Fitz Roy & Cerro Torre, Argentina Ascents usually begin in November. 1 Cordillera Paine, Torres del Paine, Chile Ascents usually begin in November. 1 Pico de Orizaba and Iztaccihuatl, Mexico Dry season begins in November through to March. Pico de Orizaba is the highest mountain in Mexico & the third highest in North America. 1 Mount Cook & Southern Alps, New Zealand New Zealand’s highest mountain. Southern Alps climbing season begins. 1 Antarctic Peninsula voyages, Antarctica Possible ship-based expeditions to the Antarctic Peninsula. 10 Three Peaks Nepal, Nepal Three moderate-altitude summits in one expedition. 16 South Pole skiing expedition, Antarctica Polar skiing expedition (67 days). 23 Vinson Massif, Antarctica Seven summits. 24 Aconcagua expeditions begin, Argentina Seven summits. Climbing season in surrounding Andes range begins.

In a cold and windswept corner of Argentine Patagonia sits Cerro Torre with its terrifying serrated summits. Since it was first (supposedly) climbed in 1959, the mountain has been dogged by controversy thanks to disputed summit claims, questionable climber ethics and the contentious use of bolts. Patagonia is famous for its tempestuous weather, so even during the summer months of November, December and January, the conditions can be torrid.

DECEMBER

DATE MOUNTAIN NOTES 1 Mount Cook & Southern Alps, New Zealand New Zealand’s highest mountain. Good time to climb in Southern Alps. 1 Monte Fitz Roy & Cerro Torre, Argentina Good time to climb. 1 Cordillera Paine, Torres del Paine, Chile Good time to climb. 1 Antisana climbs begin, Ecuador Ecuador’s 4th highest and most challenging volcano. Ecuadorian Alpine season begins. 1 Pico de Orizaba, Mexico Best month to climb . Highest mountain in Mexico & the third highest in North America. 1 Antarctic Peninsula voyages, Antarctica Possible ship-based expeditions to the Antarctic Peninsula. 1 Mount Tyree, Antarctica Seven second summits. 1 Aconcagua, Argentina Seven summits. 4 Vinson Massif, Antarctica Seven summits. 15 Cordillera Central, Colombia Best time to climb in Colombia.

“Mountains are not fair or unfair, they are just dangerous.” – Reinhold Messner

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