December 9, 2022

So, we're right back where we started.

god dammit.

November 17, 2022

Are Social Security and Medicare in danger now that GOP has majority?

Asking for me, who's on SSDI and Medicare .

October 21, 2022

DUers in VA please check your registration: VA DOE sends wrong polling info to 30,000 residents

https://twitter.com/DCist/status/1583494546578472975

Nearly a month after the start of the commonwealth’s early voting period, residents of multiple areas in Northern Virginia have reported receiving election mailers with incorrect polling place information.

Some registered voters in Clifton, Dumfries, Haymarket, Herndon, Occoquan, Quantico, and Vienna received notices that contained incorrect information about where they should cast their ballots, according to the Virginia Commissioner of Elections, Susan Beals.

“Following the redistricting process, the Department of Elections mailed over 6 million voter notices to all registered voters in the Commonwealth. A second mailing of 31,000 sent to voters whose original notice did not include their town district number contained wrong polling place locations,” Beals wrote in a statement on Friday. “Due to a printing issue, some notices contained wrong polling place locations. The Prince William County and Fairfax County Registrars are sending out corrected notices to all affected voters immediately.”

"printing issue" MY ASS.

October 18, 2022

Kari Lake: "I will win the election and I will accept that result"

https://twitter.com/ProjectLincoln/status/1582116389779017728

October 18, 2022

Politics Girl: Stop saying the Democrats are going to lose!

GREAT video to get us fired up for November!
https://twitter.com/IAmPoliticsGirl/status/1581678349599981568

October 17, 2022

House GOP threatening to crash the economy if SS/Medicare aren't cut

https://twitter.com/stevebenen/status/1582075071971045377

October 9, 2022

GOP NH Senate candidate Don Bolduc: "women get the best voice when men regulate their rights"

https://twitter.com/MitchelleWS/status/1579095347699191809

September 27, 2022

"They want to stay in power without your consent" - Rachel Maddow

"If there is a party that is trying to cast doubt on elections, as the way we choose who is in power, it means they want to stay in power regardless of elections; they want to stay in power without your consent and without your ability to remove them, which means they do not want to serve you".

September 10, 2022

Chief Justice Roberts: "You don't want the political branches telling you what the law is"

https://twitter.com/JuddLegum/status/1568629978983456768



COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) — Chief Justice John Roberts on Friday defended the authority of the Supreme Court to interpret the Constitution, saying its role should not be called into question just because people disagree with its decisions.

When asked to reflect on the last year at the court in his first public appearance since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, Roberts said he was concerned that lately some critics of the court’s controversial decisions have questioned the legitimacy of the court, which he said was a mistake. He did not mention any specific cases or critics by name.

“If the court doesn’t retain its legitimate function of interpreting the constitution, I’m not sure who would take up that mantle. You don’t want the political branches telling you what the law is, and you don’t want public opinion to be the guide about what the appropriate decision is,” Roberts said while being interviewed by two judges from the Denver-based 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals at its conference in Colorado Springs.

...When asked what the public might not know about how the court work, Roberts emphasized the collegiality among the justices and the court’s tradition of shaking hands before starting conferences or taking the bench. After the justices might disagree about a decision, everyone eats together in the court’s dining room where they talk about everything but work, he said. He said it’s not borne out of “fake affection” but a respect that comes from the push and pull of explaining ideas and listening to the responses to them.


um....aren't they called "lawmakers" for a reason? What is that, just a nickname??

September 9, 2022

Computer experts urge GA to replace voting machines

https://www.wifr.com/2022/09/09/computer-experts-urge-georgia-replace-voting-machines/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=snd&utm_content=wifr

ATLANTA (AP) — A group of computer and election security experts is urging Georgia election officials to replace the state’s touchscreen voting machines with hand-marked paper ballots ahead of the November midterm elections, citing what they say are “serious threats” posed by an apparent breach of voting equipment in one county.

The 13 experts on Thursday sent a letter to the members of the State Election Board and to Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, who’s a non-voting member of the board. It urges them to immediately stop using the state’s Dominion Voting Systems touchscreen voting machines. It also suggests they mandate a particular type of post-election audit on the outcome of all races on the ballot.

The experts who sent the letter include academics and former state election officials and are not associated with efforts by former President Donald Trump and his allies to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election.

The midterm elections are just two months away. A switch to hand-marked paper ballots could easily be made by then because state law already provides for them to be used as an emergency backup, the letter says.

State Election Board Chair William Duffey responded in an email to The Associated Press that the “security of our election equipment is of paramount interest to the State Election Board as is the integrity of the election process in Georgia.” He noted that the alleged breach in Coffee County is being investigated by the Georgia Bureau of Investigation and secretary of state’s office investigators and said the FBI has been asked to assist.