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One of the things I’ve always loved best about The Downballot is our vibrant community, which first sprang into being more than 20 years ago when we were still known as the Swing State Project. I get a ton of joy—and learn so much—from the folks who participate in our comments section and on our Discord server. So I was particularly delighted last year when one of our most loyal users, BucksCountyDem, told me that he wanted to organize a fantasy football league for fellow community members on Discord. It turned out to be a smash success, so the league is back —and looking for new participants! If you’d like to play, all you need to do is join our Discord server. Since you’re a paid subscriber, you already have access. Just click the button below to connect. (If you’ve never used Discord before, it’s also very intuitive. Think of it like a private chat with multiple rooms for different topics.) Join The Downballot's Discord server And even if you’re not into football, the Discord is...

  Join Sustainable Middleborough for 2 events this week: 1     Monday, August 3, 7 pm. Kearsarge Energy will be on the Select Board agenda to answer the board’s questions about safety of a proposed 4.99 MW storage battery on Jericho Road. Some of our members spoke at the last meeting during a long and at-times heated discussion and were quoted in the Nemasket Week’s reporting . Please join us at Town Hall Monday night if you can. Sustainable Middleborough has been advocating for a large-scale storage battery since 2019. Battery storage is a key piece of managing our town’s energy supply, costs, reliability, as well as the emissions produced by the energy we use. To learn more, see our letter to the Select Board, attached. Tuesday, August 4, 6-7 pm. Our Weatherization Navigator Hayden Kane and entomologist Juli Gould will present an evening of storytime, crafts, and native-seed planting at the children’s library, 102 North Main Street . Bring your children and gr...

  This Weekend in Politics, Bulletin 431 Ron Filipkowski Aug 2     … Rep. Max Miller (R-OH) posted a video today that he was not dropping out of the race despite horrific domestic violence and child abuse allegations made by his former wife Emily Moreno , who is the daughter of Sen. Bernie Moreno (R-OH). His statement was widely criticized on social media for making him sound even more guilty by adopting typical abuser language. It also prompted his former father-in-law to finally issue a statement denouncing Miller. … Miller said his ex-wife “struggled with significant mental health challenges.” He added, “If I had assaulted her, would she have offered to cook me dinner 6 days later?” On the allegations he scalded her chest by throwing boiling water at her: “Horseplay in our kitchen. It was not boiling. She was laughing during it.” … As far as his comment about making dinner 6 days after she was abused, anyone who has worked with domestic violence victims, has been...