I asked the Pentagon if commanders were being told to tell troops that Iran was part of a "divine plan" or "Trump is anointed by Jesus."
They didn't deny it.
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By gutting cybersecurity, ignoring recommendations, and ignoring threat assessments, Trump seems to be mapping a path for Iran to attempt to attack the US in time for the midterms, enabling him to claim unprecedented authority over elections
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Most of the accomplishments and policies Trump laid out last night were actually him taking credit for existing trends and programs.
In the real world, Trump putting his name on something has seldom worked out for anyone but him.
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There's quite a bit more here but check out the article . it's up for free right now!
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It's unclear if Shirley was invited to CA like he was invited to MN by the GOP, or who is funding his latest trip to CA.
At every turn, he fails to prove fraud is happening. He never talks to any election worker/official who might be able to explain these things to him. 7/
He attempts to prove fraud by claiming dozens of people are registered to vote at PO boxes, UCSD, and a storage facility.
He neglects to mention that mailing addresses don't have to be primary addresses. Primary addresses are allowed to be locations other than homes for certain voters 6/
Shirley attempts to prove voter fraud by accosting several elderly people at their homes because voter rolls say they're over 100.
He doesn't say how that proves fraud and neglects to say it's common for voting systems to default to 1900 when a person's DOB is unknown 5/
Shirley introduces a man named Erson, no last name, who this guy is professionally, or evidence they're using actual state data.
Erson implies universal mail-in voting causes fraud, but doesn't back it up.
Mail fraud 0.000043% of votes cast in the last decade 4/
Hardly mass fraud, though Shirley attempts to suggest mass fraud is happening because of undocumented immigrants because of those two cases. Neither person was undocumented. 3/
Let's talk about it.
Shirley uses two cases to imply widespread fraud. A woman voting for her dog and a man voting for his dead mother. Both cases were caught and prosecuted. Combined, they count for 5 votes out of 50.5 million across decades. 2/
The idea that potential for widespread fraud proves the existence of it, is like saying Nick Shirley is guilty of hundreds of shootings because he fired a rifle online.
There’s no way to disprove that false claim, but there certainly isn’t evidence to back it up.
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The House met and voted 61 days last year. Less than half the average. The Senate, 157 days. 10 days shy of the average.
Congress's recesses and why they exist in today's Things You Forgot From Civics Class newsletter
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"If we can get a show about ice dancing, studies in solitary confinement masquerading as blind dating, and a behind-the-scenes look at the implosion of Stranger Things, then we can make this happen."
Plus, a week of 2000s nostalgia, and do I want a cowboy hat?
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The idea that non-citizens are voting in droves or are being encouraged to is demonstrably false.
A deep dive on the SAVE America Act in today’s show. Get it wherever you get your podcasts
John “Cactus Jack” Nance Garner, FDR’s first VP said the office of VP was “not worth a bucket of warm spit."
While that used to be true, the job of VP has changed a lot. This week's civics lesson from Things You Forgot From Civics Class is out now!
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I totally hear you, but just because accountability or hypocrisy doesn’t matter to the admin, doesn’t mean we should abandon it too, ya know?
EXCLUSIVE: Previously unreported remarks from the Civil Rights Division AAG, @HarmeetKDhillon run directly counter to what the President said recently, Congressional Republicans’ SAVE Act, and the conduct of her own office.
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This is the messy part of governing. It’s also why we elect people to be in office. You should know how it works. Also, which founding father would've rocked a Birkin bag
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Steven Cash joins Grant Hermes on the Make it Make Sense Podcast. Cash warns that the U.S. is falling into an autocracy. @granthermes.bsky.social
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“For the people who are welcoming Americans into Italy...having an ICE presence there... is going to create for some people an environment that wouldn’t be as peaceful if it were otherwise.”- fmr Team USA Member @mickeydollens.bsky.social
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It falls to all of us to step up and defend the Constitution. Watch more from CAC's @davidhgans.bsky.social with @granthermes.bsky.social: mimsnewspod.substack.com/p/whats-happ...
What does “the consent of the governed” really mean? The Founders built our whole Democracy around it, and maybe our obligation to overthrow governments when it isn’t respected.
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The video shows the man was unarmed
We have to tell the history of white supremacist violence that produced the Fourteenth Amendment. Then and now, our Constitution is meant to protect us from state violence. Watch more from CAC's @davidhgans.bsky.social with @granthermes.bsky.social: mimsnewspod.substack.com/p/whats-happ...
The Roberts Court has made it far too difficult to hold federal officers like ICE agents accountable for violating constitutional rights. Watch more from CAC's @davidhgans.bsky.social with @granthermes.bsky.social: mimsnewspod.substack.com/p/whats-happ...
CAC's @davidhgans.bsky.social joined @granthermes.bsky.social to discuss ICE's "rampant disregard for constitutional safeguards." Watch now: mimsnewspod.substack.com/p/whats-happ...
In the end, elections are things run by the people for the people, even if the people who founded the country, or are running it, don’t like that.
This week’s Things You Forgot From History Class is all about how elections work and why Trump can’t cancel them
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I broke the story about child abuse prevention leaders sounding the alarm over the Dept. of Education's plan to deprofessionalize degrees for mandated reporters of abuse, saying kids are going to get hurt if the plan goes through.
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Make It Make Sense was the only place to read about how the Coast Guard's hate guidance went further than swastikas and nooses; it erased the response to hate incidents completely, putting hate on the same level as harassment.
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MIMS beat mainstream national outlets to the story about one of the largest authoritarianism watchdogs finding the US isn't a full democracy anymore.
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