Nee Lewman
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I mean I don’t know about other states but here in NC every time the state representatives change majority, gerrymandering happens. It’s tiresome.
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Republicans sue to disqualify thousands of mail ballots in swing states — The Washington Post
The lawsuits coincide with a systemic effort by GOP leaders to persuade voters to cast ballots in person, not absentee.
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The election isn't even until tomorrow and we are already seeing efforts by the GOP to legally challenge mail in ballots.
ayayrawn
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Genuinely think this is the only way something good happens again. Everything is stacked in favor of a right wing minority. The senate, the house, the judicial, all of it. Rip it up, start over. Name the country something else.
Elon Musk Just Told ‘Independent-Minded’ Followers Which Way To Vote. Why That Matters — TIME
“He controls the dials.” Musk's tweet raises questions about how Twitter could influence elections
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I don't really see the difference between this and the article below.
Elon Musk Just Told ‘Independent-Minded’ Followers Which Way To Vote. Why That Matters — TIME
“He controls the dials.” Musk's tweet raises questions about how Twitter could influence elections
Billionaires are exerting ever-greater influence on elections while Biden contemplates taxing America's most wealthy
Billionaires together spent more than $2 billion during the 2020 election funding their own campaigns or bolstering super PACs, an Americans for Tax Fairness report states.
www.businessinsider.com
debianlinux
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from TFA:Elon Musk Just Told ‘Independent-Minded’ Followers Which Way To Vote. Why That Matters — TIME
“He controls the dials.” Musk's tweet raises questions about how Twitter could influence elections
wow, just wow
djdavedk
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Russia's Prigozhin admits interfering in U.S. elections
Russian businessman Yevgeny Prigozhin said on Monday he had interfered in U.S. elections and would continue doing so in future, the first such admission from a figure implicated by Washington in efforts to influence American politics.
www.reuters.com
Ya don't say?
Joe Mac
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I don't really see the difference between this and the article below.
Billionaires are exerting ever-greater influence on elections while Biden contemplates taxing America's most wealthy
Billionaires together spent more than $2 billion during the 2020 election funding their own campaigns or bolstering super PACs, an Americans for Tax Fairness report states.
Eugh broken record campaign finance reform plea from me. It’s hard to know which is worse. The shamelessness of musk being so in the open or the pure power cloaked by a semi shield of anonymity of the second. It’s all shit.
Who is robbing Lebanon’s banks? – podcast
A spate of bank robberies has hit Beirut in recent weeks but they are heists with a twist: people are demanding – at gunpoint – that staff hand them their own money. Michael Safi reports
www.theguardian.com
This makes me think of The Great Depression and the movie It's A Wonderful Life.
Things are getting touch in some countries right now, and banks are restricting cash withdrawals to prevent collapse. In many counties banks aren't insured by FDIC like in the United States, so if the bank runs out of money and goes under, everyone who has money in the bank also loses their money.
People are scared, and they are robbing banks at gunpoint. But the plot twist here is they are only robbing the bank of their own money. As the bank would allow them to take it out.
Max Sterling
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Fuck, GA, get your shit together... 
Djxfactor511
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Vance won, which sucks.
Not all bad news from Ohio though. My local OH House race flipped from likely GOP to already called for Democrat Emilia Sykes.
Twentytwo
Pre-order Goodness
I’m getting optimistic that the Dems might keep the house to be honest. Definitely not a red wave.
ayayrawn
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Walker would probably be the stupidest fuck in the senate. And that's with Tuberville who doesn't know the branches of government and Grassley, who has no idea where he is. Amazing he's doing so well.Fuck, GA, get your shit together...
Djxfactor511
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Hoping for a runoff because I think without Kemp on the ballot to drive GOP turnout, Walker is dead
Jan
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Some good news:
Sam Levine in Detroit reports:
We don’t have all of the results yet, but election day did not appear to go particularly well for election deniers in competitive races.
In Pennsylvania, Doug Mastriano, who played a key role in Donald Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election, lost his re-election bid to Josh Shapiro, a Democrat who put defending democracy at the start of his campaign. Jocelyn Benson, Michigan’s secretary of state who staunchly defended the 2020 election results also defeated Kristina Karamo, who rose to prominence after she spread false claims about fraud after ballots were counted in Detroit in 2020.
“Well, well, well, democracy has prevailed,” Benson said as she took the stage at a Democratic victory party in downtown Detroit around midnight Wednesday. “Today Michigan voters showed the world that they will vote for truth over lies, facts over conspiracy theories, real results over empty promises.”
Election deniers also lost races to be the top election official in New Mexico and Minnesota. Votes were still being counted in Nevada early Wednesday morning, where there is also a closely-watched secretary of state race.
www.theguardian.com
Sam Levine in Detroit reports:
We don’t have all of the results yet, but election day did not appear to go particularly well for election deniers in competitive races.
In Pennsylvania, Doug Mastriano, who played a key role in Donald Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election, lost his re-election bid to Josh Shapiro, a Democrat who put defending democracy at the start of his campaign. Jocelyn Benson, Michigan’s secretary of state who staunchly defended the 2020 election results also defeated Kristina Karamo, who rose to prominence after she spread false claims about fraud after ballots were counted in Detroit in 2020.
“Well, well, well, democracy has prevailed,” Benson said as she took the stage at a Democratic victory party in downtown Detroit around midnight Wednesday. “Today Michigan voters showed the world that they will vote for truth over lies, facts over conspiracy theories, real results over empty promises.”
Election deniers also lost races to be the top election official in New Mexico and Minnesota. Votes were still being counted in Nevada early Wednesday morning, where there is also a closely-watched secretary of state race.
Midterm elections 2022: Democrats beating expectations as John Fetterman wins crucial US Senate race – live
Latest updates and results as millions across the US cast votes in what is largely seen as a referendum on Biden’s presidency – follow all the latest news
www.theguardian.com
More evidence that billionaires shouldn't be allowed to exist:
The Executive Summary says that they concluded that quite apart from the 3,300 or so billionaires, the wealthiest one percent in the world emit twice as much carbon dioxide as the bottom 50%. The top one percent, about 80 million people, are a big carbon problem, because if they go on as they are, their CO2 emissions alone will be 30 times larger than is compatible with keeping the heating of the earth to only 1.5°C above preindustrial times– the goal of the 2015 Paris Climate agreement.
Zeroing in on 150 billionaires in the sample, a tiny proportion of the top one percent numerically but a significant proportion of the latter’s wealth holdings, the study found that together they had a stake in 183 companies that is valued at $2.4 trillion.
If you calculate how many greenhouse gases are emitted by these 183 companies and look at how much of them is owned by each billionaire, you come to the conclusion that each of these fabulously wealthy persons is responsible for the emission of 3 million tons of carbon dioxide each year. An average person is estimated to emit 2.7 tons of CO2 every year. Thus, a million times more.
www.juancole.com
The Executive Summary says that they concluded that quite apart from the 3,300 or so billionaires, the wealthiest one percent in the world emit twice as much carbon dioxide as the bottom 50%. The top one percent, about 80 million people, are a big carbon problem, because if they go on as they are, their CO2 emissions alone will be 30 times larger than is compatible with keeping the heating of the earth to only 1.5°C above preindustrial times– the goal of the 2015 Paris Climate agreement.
Zeroing in on 150 billionaires in the sample, a tiny proportion of the top one percent numerically but a significant proportion of the latter’s wealth holdings, the study found that together they had a stake in 183 companies that is valued at $2.4 trillion.
If you calculate how many greenhouse gases are emitted by these 183 companies and look at how much of them is owned by each billionaire, you come to the conclusion that each of these fabulously wealthy persons is responsible for the emission of 3 million tons of carbon dioxide each year. An average person is estimated to emit 2.7 tons of CO2 every year. Thus, a million times more.
One Billionaire emits a Million times more CO2 than an Average Person, as Protesters block Private Planes at Amsterdam
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) - Oxfam has a new study, Carbon Billionaires: The investment emissions of the world's richest people. The Executive Summary says that they concluded that quite apart from the 3,300 or so billionaires, the wealthiest one percent in the world emit twice as much carbon...
www.juancole.com