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Path forward: "Instead of defending a system that has been rejected, we need to articulate an alternative vision for what kind of democracy comes next."
Gift article - please read!
nytimes.com/2024/11/08/opini…
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这女子叫Lulu Freistadt，她是“智能选举（Smart Elections）”组织的联合创始人兼执行董事。她表示自己从 2021 年起一直在纽约市担任投票站监督员（poll watcher）。
事件经过：
她提到昨天（投票期间）她在纽约布朗克斯（Bronx）的一个投票点做监督工作。
起初一切正常，投票人数与扫描的选票数量对得上，她本准备离开。
但随后她发现一件非常奇怪的事：所有的投票站工作人员（poll workers）都在清点并准备离开，而投票机却仍然开着、没有上锁、没有密封，选票也还没有被取出。
按照正常程序，每台投票机都应由指定的投票工作人员负责关闭、密封并取出选票。但现场的机器和选票完全处于未密封状态。
交涉与冲突：
当她坐下等待工作人员按规定处理选票时，协调员（coordinator）开始变得焦躁不安，并打电话给副首席书记官（deputy chief clerk）。对方告诉她必须离开。
她指出根据法规，投票监督员有权留在现场直到投票结束、选票被取出并放入密封容器中。
尽管她据理力争，但工作人员和警察还是要求她离开，现场只留下一名技术人员在无人监督的情况下关闭投票机。
结尾：她强调这种不符合规范的做法为作弊提供了可乘之机，并呼吁大家关注和转发。
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Today we’re releasing our tally of corruption in Trump’s Washington.
$377 billion. And that’s just what you can see.
The documentary & data are now LIVE at CORRUPTIONLAND.org
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Alex Pretti's father: Our son was shot and killed by the government, federal immigration agents, on January 24th, 2026. We learned about his death from the media as we saw him being shot repeatedly in the back after helping a woman from his community. This was not a protest that Alex was at. His hands were in the air, and his face was on the ground when he was executed by ICE agents. We know exactly what our eyes saw. No one from the federal government called us on that day. But they did go on TV to tell lies about Alex. No one has called us since. No one has recanted those lies.
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According to the book, Kushner got Tillerson fired for a $50 million UAE payment because Tillerson supported Qatar. This panicked Qatar because they realized Kushner was a pay-to-play operative, so they bought Kushner's New York City apartments, which were in the red, hoping this would help.
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The speed limits on Starlink and Starshield are still there. The speed has not been restored. And the delivery of interceptors to protect us against Russian ballistic missiles is still delayed. We’re waiting for interceptors that were already agreed on. But they are still not coming. This is a real problem, because the Russians attack us almost every single day.
All of this is happening while we continue our quite successful operations on the front. We keep defending positions. Things have become harder – partly because of the Starlink and Starshield policies and speed limits. But our frontline is still holding and I am proud of how strong our people are.
From an address at the Hudson Institute. (2/3)
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Can Trump supporters define communism?
Here's a sneak peek at @jordanklepper's new special, Red Flags, premiering Monday at 11:30/10:30c on Comedy Central.
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Anna Paulina Luna has voted six times to continue the Iran war. Now we might know why. Her husband owns 10% of Nokturnal AI, a drone startup she valued at just $1,000 in 2025 that has since raked in $37 million in Pentagon contracts. Coincidence? We don’t think so. Luna talks a big game about fighting corruption, but the rules never seem to apply when it’s her pockets that are being lined.
motherjones.com/politics/202…
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Putin's diesel arrives in New York Nov 7 aboard the Agioi Fanendes: 40,000 tons, the first Russian fuel cargo since 2022. It's coming in on a Treasury license that sidesteps federal law. New York should refuse to be the loading dock for Putin's war chest. 🧵 1/5
EXCLUSIVE: Tanker carrying 40,000 T of Russian diesel heads to New York after Putin-Trump deal, data shows reut.rs/47zYFZ2 reut.rs/47zYFZ2
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We don't know this man, Doug Whitley, but he's definitely an American hero for writing this excellent letter-to-the-editor.
#ResistTrump
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"This Administration is running a coordinated, government-wide effort to reshape the
media into its sanctioned messenger"
FCC commissioner Anna Gomez - who often spars with chairman Brendan Carr - urges broadcasters NOT to be silent and to stop bending a knee to Trump coercion
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Share this widely.
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Happy Halloween! Nothing scarier than term limits. 😬🎃 Stick around for a sing-along séance.
#Mitchcraft #HalloweenSpecial #Parody
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Trump has made more stock trades in his second term than all 535 members of Congress combined.
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When Trump started his war with Iran, 1,300 military family members had to flee Bahrain under missile fire. Now they can’t go back, and the Navy told them to find a new home somewhere in the US. Families are burning through savings, some tens of thousands of dollars, while they bounce between hotels and short-term rentals waiting on reimbursements that never seem to come.
This is the cost of a war no one planned how to end, or even properly begin.