WSJ's Rebecca Ballhaus:

In Maricopa County, votes will be counted with drones overhead and police snipers standing ready. Election workers have gone through active-shooter drills and learned to barricade themselves or wield fire hoses to repel armed mobs.

A theory:
Simple minds want an authoritarian leader, similar to how a young child needs parental authority.

This is why the so-called “conservatives” (U.S. Republicans) have for decades, continually undermined public education: create more ignorant voters.

@LindaCollins11 @PBWolf #alttext Me: By taxing churches we could generate an extra $71 billion per year. Them: But my church feeds the poor! Me: That’s awesome! They can write it off when they file their taxes!

How is #ElonMusk paying for votes for #DonaldTrump legal? It isn't. And he would have never paid up anyway. Another reason to pass $$ to the grifter #MAGA

“Whoever makes or offers to make an expenditure to any person..to vote for or against any candidate…Shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than one year, or both” #DOJ

#election2024 #electioninterference

@wdlindsy

one of the main things that infuriate me is that rapists can try to get custody and/or visitation

that means the person they raped will have to deal with their rapist for years

this is beyond disgusting and damaging and should NEVER be allowed

an abortion ends all of that and is an option that protects the person who was raped

"There is a reason the term 'fascist' is in such wide circulation as Mr. Trump amps up a campaign increasingly built around nativism, racial resentment, fear and threats, Ms. [Ruth] Ben-Ghiat said.

'It’s a measure of the urgency and sense of emergency that Hillary Clinton and Mark Milley are using this word,' she said. 'It packs a punch.'”

~ J. Weisman

#Trump #JDVance #fascism #racism #WhiteSupremacy
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Gift link from Ruth Ben-Ghiat at her Lucid blog on Substack.

nytimes.com/2024/10/17/us/poli

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The vast majority of undocumented immigrants arrived in the U.S. before 2010. They're our neighbors, friends, coworkers, and loved ones.

Mass deportations would separate American families and rip millions of long-established immigrants out of our communities 👇🏽

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