Wrong-Wingers are pulling out all of the stops against ballot drop boxes and mail-in ballots and much more, alleging that they are all means for Democrats to rig elections. They are failing to build an actual campaign, while claiming that they will have 100,000 volunteer poll watchers. Then when they lose bigly, or indeed even beforehand, they are going to claim that the November elections were rigged, and fire off lawsuits and calls for insurrection in all directions.
Don’t worry, we’re on all of it. Nevertheless, we all know to buckle up and buckle in and buckle down and don’t buckle under pressure, and so on.
Marc Elias Says Extremist Republicans Have Intricate Plans to Disrupt the 2024 Elections!
Attorney Elias succinctly sums up the planned attacks on our Democracy in an article he recently wrote in Democracy Docket:
In its short time, the new RNC voter suppression team has sued several states to undermine free and fair elections and plans to deploy 100,000 volunteers and operatives to oversee the vote casting and counting process. The team will partner with right-wing voter suppression groups that are suing to purge voters and harass and intimidate election officials.
Lara Trump has insisted that as a part of its voter suppression efforts, the RNC is recruiting people who can “physically handle the ballots.” While it is possible that the former failed singer is simply clueless, it is also possible that the RNC plans on infiltrating election offices. We need to be prepared for the worst.
Literally the first sentence of my most recent piece is "Donald Trump and his Republican allies have no intention of accepting the outcome of a free and fair election."
When Trump Attacks Our Elections, We Will Have No Excuse
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Sunday show hosts keep asking Republicans if they'll accept the election results, and their answers indicate they won't unless Trump wins. It's just not a sustainable situation for democracy.
MAGA operative: Biden's campaign already has 14 field offices in Georgia. 14 offices in Pennsylvania, 20 in Michigan, 44 in Wisconsin, 10 in North Carolina, 8 in Arizona... Trump has reported zero offices in all of those states
On Monday, the Wisconsin Supreme Court is reconsidering the legality of drop boxes in a case that will have major implications for the battleground state. @marceelias and @paigemoskowitz explain everything you should know.Watch the full video: https://youtu.be/7G_pa9oNacg
Mass mail-in ballots open the door to fraud!
I am now passionate about voting against blatant political lawfare in 2024. Engoron, James, Willis, Smith, Carroll, Kaplan (both), and Elias, can go to hell.
Bartiromo: I see that the RNC is filing a lawsuit in a battleground state to stop counting ballots past election day. Lara Trump: Yeah. Well, that's exactly right. You cannot have ballots counted after elections are over.
Right. We have to have the results before the voting, like the Queen of Hearts.
Sentence first, verdict after!
Lewis Carroll
Lara Trump, the RNC Grifter-in-Chief, said Trump will accept election results if they "feel" that it was free and fair. This is insanity and dangerous nonsense. We have 174 days to turn this around, otherwise we face disaster. WATCH HERE:
Good News for Us
BREAKING: The media is finally acknowledging President Biden is winning. It’s clearer than ever that President Biden is the strongest candidate to defeat Trump. Retweet so all Americans see.
380 of the world's leading climate scientists were asked:
"What do you think is the most effective [climate] action individuals can take?"
The top answer:
"Voting for representatives who pledge strong climate action."
https://theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/may/09/what-are-the-most-powerful-climate-actions-you-can-take?CMP=twt_a-environment_b-gdneco #ActOnClimate #ClimateAction
Turns out it’s working.
Clean, renewables are booming:
California grid statistics March 8-May 13, 2024.
30 days straight and 59 of 67 days with #WindWaterSolar > 100% of demand for 0.25-9.92 h/day.
#WWS is now supplying near ~80% of demand daily.
Simply more WWS will provide 100% daily.
Vermont Lawmakers Pass Bill to Make Big Oil Pay for Climate Damage
THE LARGEST ANTI-WAR AND PRO CEASEFIRE PROTEST IS MARCHING RIGHT NOW IN TEL AVIV
“In Rafah and Sderot: children deserve to live". We are Jews and Palestinians demanding together to end the war & the occupation and to bring Israeli-palestinian peace.
Alabama groups who help women travel to other states to receive abortions are given the green light to sue AL for trying to control where women can travel
👏👏#DemsUnited #DemVoice1
BREAKING: Although mostly ignored by the media, student protesters have won big victories at 6 major US universities over Israel's mass civilian killings in Gaza. Agreements reached at Rutgers, Northwestern, Brown, Middlebury, Evergreen and Vassar.Protest works. More to come.
Educating grandchildren to get their grandparents vaccinated, doubling the uptake of booster shots, via a randomized trial
https://nature.com/articles/s43587-024-00625-z @NatureAging
Rabidly Repellent Republicans Rushing to Ruin/Bad News for Them
Indictment/Arraignment/Trial/Shoe Dropping Season has been officially open for months for Trump and his minions. Indictment, screaming, surrender watch, screaming, arraignment, screaming, trial, screaming, sentencing, screaming.
Whatever they scream about loudest, do more of.
The Trump sex/hush money/document fraud/election crimes trial is going very badly for him. He insists that his lawyers do everything wrong. He falls asleep in court, farts, curses audibly at witnesses, and gets his cowardly sycophants to show up outside the court to say everything he can’t under his gag order.
'Direct evidence of contempt': Trump allies warned they could be subpoenaed over gag order
We might get a verdict from the jury in New York next week.
Trump Supporters Are Now Wearing Diapers to Rallies to Support Their Cult Leader, ‘Real Men Wear Diapers’
Lara Trump: When I become co-Chair of the Republican Party, I will make sure that every penny of every dollar donated to the RNC is going to Trump's campaign
Legal fees, you mean.
Yeah, she had to walk that one back and claim that all candidates will be supported.
It appears cruelty is the central underpinning of maga. Former Trump aide, Johnny McEntee, proudly breaks the law, in an act of that's just cruel. He's part of Project 2025. All he's doing is cleaning up an infestation problem. Just like the Nazis did.
John McEntee, who works for Trump’s campaign, was once an aide to the Trump administration, and is currently a senior advisor to Project 2025 is disgusting.
"So I always keep this fake Hollywood money in my car so when a homeless person asks for money, then I give him like a… Show more
Rick Scarborough, a self-described Christocrat, is now a leader of a massive coalition of Christian extremists called the “Remnant Alliance,” which is “coming for a school board near you,” as reported in a new piece by @stevanzetti. https://texasobserver.org/christian-scho
Trump and MAGA Republicans are determined to sabotage and undermine America's democracy and replace it with fascism.
If they win in November, Americans or at least many Americans could lose their right to vote if America even holds elections in the future.
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BREAKING: Prosecutors decide no further witnesses will be called or necessary. Michael Cohen's performed so well, absolutely decimating trump's struggling lawyers, that the case has been made. All that is left is the sentencing. Trump WILL be found guilty. Can't wait....
Trouble for Texas Med Center? Study shows students graduating from US medical schools are less likely to apply for residency in states with abortion bans & other significant restrictions. And its not just those news docs going into Ob/Gyn or Emergency med.
Remember when Governor Abbott guaranteed to Texans he fixed the Texas Power Grid?
NEW PODCAST: How A Fracking CEO's Secret Text Messages Expose A Real Cause Of Inflation
For months, pundits claimed wages were the inflation problem - but a new probe of Big Oil shows that 27 PERCENT of inflation may have been driven by price fixing.
Science! Animals! Weirdness!
The @ehtelescope released the first direct image of a black hole in galaxy M87. DYK that coordinated observations with 19 of the world's most powerful telescopes, including @NASA's Chandra, have also collected light from M87 across the electromagnetic spectrum? #BlackHoleWeek
Baby Rhino with his mother..
(Children behave like Children no matter what species they are)
A thick atmosphere has been detected around a planet that’s twice as big as Earth in a nearby solar system, researchers reported Wednesday.
Bismuth has a much lower melting point than many other types of metals and forms magnificent iridescent square crystals when it solidifies, the shade is determined by the level of oxygen it’s exposed to as it cools down
Baby chimps welcoming new members to the Liberian Chimp Rescue Sanctuary
Sharing is caring
No one, presently, sees the Moon rotate like this. That's because it's tidally locked to the Earth, showing us only one side.
But thanks to the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, this virtual rotation movie has been composed.
Platycerium Ridleyi is a fern.
Catching rainwater, bird/animal droppings, and even the occasional fallen deceased animal, these plants build up their own “compost” system of nutrition over many years.
After this deaf man's cat realized that meowing was useless, he learned to communicate with him through signs.
We certainly did.
Aurora Borealis
Shining down in Dallas.
Can you picture that?
The Muppet Movie
A "split screen" sunset happens when clouds on the right half of the footage are higher in the sky and are thus still picking up some of the Sun’s lingering raysThis was recorded in Florida.
How to create your own tensegrity table.The concept of tensegrity was invented by Kenneth Snelson and made famous by the architect Buckminster Fuller in 1949
Elderly man protecting his dog from the rain
Pupper does a happy dance before every walk..
Smol friends..
Big Tortoise meeting one of his babies
The tiny egg and the life it produced
This Just Made My Day
Group of horses visit the beach for the first time
Because every heart can feel affection
Newly hatched Emu chicks weigh just over 500 g. They are cream-coloured with dark brown stripes: this colouration helps to camouflage them from predators.
They can walk just minutes after hatching and after some time, they also become very playful.
Orangutans share 96.4% of genes, 28 physical characteristics, and a number of behavioral traits with humans. No wonder things like this happen so easily.
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The giant lurking below the surface.Whale sharks are harmless to humans: they're pretty docile and filter feeders, i.e. they don't have to chase after prey as they feed on plankton, krill, and small fish.[
Ahmad Ilmi / zilmizola]
Funny or Fuggedaboudit
I will be introducing a bill to ban elementary school students from voting even though it’s already illegal for them to vote in federal elections. I intuitively know young kids are voting in federal elections but can’t prove it. However my cousin’s friend read it on the internet.
Mike Johnson says he is introducing a bill to ban non-citizens from voting even though it is already illegal for non-citizens to vote in federal electionsHe says he knows “intuitively” that non-citizens are voting in federal elections but then admits that he can’t “prove” it
Romney: Biden should have pardoned Trump…
Oh, well, then.
#COMICS #POLITICALCARTOON #TRUMP #TRUMPTRIALS@KWSnet RTMatt Wuerker @wuerkerGoComics: https://gocomics.com/mattwuerkerStaff cartoonist and illustrator for Politico: https://politico.com/news/matt-wuerker<< Rendering unto Caesar... >>
'Trump Chumps & Toadies,' 15 May 2024. Matt Wuerker,… Show more
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'Vice-President Sign-Up Sheet,' 9 May 2024. Jack Ohman, The Sacramento Bee.
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