Thanks for organising!

1. A never-before nominated classic


2. A renomination from a while ago


Pick 3 to come later.

Stage 6  »  Pau  ›  Gavarnie-Gèdre

Quick update. First stage for GC favourites, with TCAT climbing the mighty Tourmalet, and unsurprisingly it went to Tadej Pogacar, with Jonas Vingegaard best of the rest. Isaac del Toro got best of the rest of the rest, then, ahead of Evenepoel, Seixas, Lipowitz, Ayuso and Skjelmose.

So today mostly set the stage for who's going to round out the top 10 in the general classification, with people like Johannessen, Carapaz and Pidcock now delayed by 5 or more minutes from the bulk of the other top 10 contestants, and Cian Uijtdebroeks (BDC) unfortunately withdrawing outright after reportedly surviving a couple of day with a fever. That sadly makes it two TCAT retirements through illness, with Arnaud De Lie (CJO) bowing out early too.

Another stagewin for the Mençeis, who gain slightly on Cyclohexane in the overall standings and also match their number of all time stage wins (19).

Standings after stage 6:

Pos	±		Team	Pts Ove	Pts Today
1st	(=)		Maritiimi-Maxhestic Mençeis (MMM)	2887	+768
2nd	(=)		Cyclohexane (CHX)	2766	+742
3rd	(=)		Gordon Hiatus Support Team (GHS)	2680	+697
4th	(=)		Els Talossaes Rexhital (REX)	2610	+709
5th	(=)		Esqipă Velocostă (EVC)	2503	+647
6th	(=)		Velociposse Florencia (VFL)	2446	+651
7th	(=)		Cézembre Caçeirs dals Mailintzarăs (BDC)	2244	+557
8th	(=)		Cézembre Fieschā (CFA)	1977	+634
9th	(=)		Naziun Cjovani (CJO)	1769	+479

Coming up, two sprint stages in a row. Will Kooij (BDC/GHS) confirm the stage win he got on stage 5, will Kanter (CHX) do one better, will Pedersen (REX/VFL/MMM) suddenly find more raw speed in these flat sprints, or will Philipsen (VFL) redeem his weak showing two days ago?

Party leader nominations closing on July 15th. The initial plan is to then close nominations with each candidate open to questions from members. Voting by the membership to follow.

Folks interested in joining the party please feel free to state it here or message via PM.

Quote from: Bråneu Excelsio, UrN on Yesterday at 04:33:05 PMI'll start nominating songs from bands from my city.

Nice to have you participate again!!

(Only we are starting with 3 songs per person for now. There will be room for a 4th pick or more if there are still spots left on saturday. So I will only count the first three, unless you want to drop one of these for now.)

Great work @Glüc !
Thank you for keeping the tradition alive.


I'll start nominating songs from bands from my city.

Plastilina Mosh - "Let U Know".

Jumbo - "Siento que" (I feel that...")


Migajas (crumbs)(Mee-gah-has) - "Solitario" (Lonely)

Migajas - Huesos (Bones)


The thing about Migajas is that I found that band in a reddit group about bands from Monterrey and I really really liked Migajas. Later I found that that the videos from that band are all made by students of mine. It's weird but cool being a fan of stuff made by old students of yours.
Migajas has a very sad sound as and I love that lol.

Tagging some frequent contributors who may or may not be interested in nominating songs again

@Sir Lüc @Erschéveþ da Schir @Bråneu Excelsio, UrN @þerxh Sant-Enogat @xpb @Placiej @Munditenens Tresplet

(Of course I'm forgetting people and new participants are very much welcome too.)

Earlier today, I informed party members within the party's Discord that I am resigning as leader of the Green Party effective once a new leader is selected. In a separate motion, I have invited party members to determine interest in a new leader. I will not be standing in that contest, nor will I make any endorsements or effort to influence the race, and I will be leaving the party at the end of this Cosa.

It has been a genuine honor to serve as your leader and I am deeply grateful for your loyalty during admittedly difficult times. But it is now time for the party to chart a new path forward.

Once a new leader is elected I will request that the moderator settings be updated.

Breneir

Quote from: Baron Alexandreu Davinescu on July 08, 2026, 02:39:38 PMColegas:

We are a few years away from our fiftieth anniversary as a country.  Very few nations of our size make it to such a point, and I think we should try to think ahead and plan something big for that event (26 Dec 2029).

I call for His Majesty to establish a Royal Commission on the subject, intended to span the time up until that point.  I believe His Grace should chair the commission himself, if he is so willing, since it's a perfect role for our term-spanning head of state.  I hope that other party leaders of good character are willing to join or delegate others to the commission.

@King Txec , what do you think?

Great idea. I'll give it some thought as to how best to structure a Royal Commission.

-Txec R

An oldie but a goodie - from a ZRT election campaign 14 years ago

I had written an update, but then I accidentally clicked something and then upsettingly, it was gone, so you get the short version:

There was a sprint. Kooij won, Kanter came second. Veistroffer was solo in front of the peloton for most of the day. De Lie already abandoned in stage 3.

GHST scored the most points. Menceis remain in the lead.

Standings after stage 5:

Pos	±		Team	Pts Ove	Pts Today
1st	(=)		Maritiimi-Maxhestic Mençeis (MMM)	2119	+187
2nd	(=)		Cyclohexane (CHX)	2024	+309
3rd	(+2)		Gordon Hiatus Support Team (GHS)	1983	+344
4th	(-1)		Els Talossaes Rexhital (REX)	1901	+249
5th	(-1)		Esqipă Velocostă (EVC)	1856	+216
6th	(=)		Velociposse Florencia (VFL)	1795	+205
7th	(=)		Cézembre Caçeirs dals Mailintzarăs (BDC)	1687	+278
8th	(=)		Cézembre Fieschā (CFA)	1343	+84
9th	(=)		Naziun Cjovani (CJO)	1290	+56

Tomorrow a big day for climbers and GC contenders: it's Tourmalet day!