I feel sorry for any US residents whose SSN actually does end in the four digits "9999." Like having the phone number 867-5309.

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I don't usually get to see the s

Philadelphia City Council has ten councilmembers from geographic districts and seven "at large" members who are elected by the entire city. Two of those seven seats are reserved for members of the minority party. And yes, those are the two third party "Working Families Party" candidates pulling ahead of the Republicans, with 98% of the votes from the Republican-majority district already counted.

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I'm not able to figure out what's going on in Virginia state senate. They must have done a major redistricting, so the district numbers don't correlate at all.

For context:

Pennsylvania Supreme Court is a referendum on abortion rights, and some mighty red counties are swinging blue so far.

Digging a garden teaches you a lot about life.

Usually what seems like a massive immovable rock when your spade first hits it is actually a lot of smaller rocks packed together. With patients and persistence, you can remove them, one at at time.

But sometimes it a big root of some tree that died of a disease your digging just scattered all over the place.

Life is like that sometimes, too.