‘An unmitigated s–t show fever dream’: Louisiana enters election chaos

Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry’s abrupt decision to postpone the state’s House primaries just days before voting was scheduled to begin has sent Republican officials scrambling. Local election heads are convening open meetings to educate voters about the change, which Landry triggered immediately after the Supreme Court ruled earlier this week that its map was unconstitutional,…

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Bruce Blakeman’s Kafkaesque Albany sojourn

DAYS THE BUDGET IS LATE: 31 BLAKEMAN’S DAY IN COURT: Republican gubernatorial candidate Bruce Blakeman’s battle to access the state’s new public campaign finance program made its way to an Albany County courthouse this afternoon. The legal fight is over hypertechnical matters like whether duplicate copies of a “PCF-22” form submitted separately should be considered…

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Where NASAs Dragonfly mission is going, We dont need roads

By trading wheels for helicopter blades, NASA is upping its game for the Dragonfly mission, a flying machine intended to explore Titan, an icy moon of Saturn.  The team has started assembling the honeycomb panels for the aircraft’s main body, completed a series of drop tests on the parachute system, and demonstrated that its compact…

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