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🗳 𝗛𝗔𝗩𝗘 𝗬𝗢𝗨 𝗘𝗫𝗣𝗘𝗥𝗜𝗘𝗡𝗖𝗘𝗗 𝗣𝗥𝗢𝗕𝗟𝗘𝗠𝗦 𝗪𝗛𝗜𝗟𝗘 𝗩𝗢𝗧𝗜𝗡𝗚? 𝗪𝗘 𝗪𝗔𝗡𝗧 𝗧𝗢 𝗛𝗘𝗔𝗥 𝗙𝗥𝗢𝗠 𝗬𝗢𝗨. Raw Story is investigating reports of voting machine malfunctions, ballot errors, voter intimidation, and other issues that could interfere with the ability to vote. 📩 𝗦𝗲𝗻𝗱 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝘁𝗶𝗽𝘀 𝘁𝗼 𝘁𝗶𝗽𝘀@𝗿𝗮𝘄𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘆.𝗰𝗼𝗺

Is this not foreign election interference?

Disruptions to critical U.S. satellite systems left Ukrainians vulnerable to Russian attacks. Orders to limit Starshield came from the White House according to reports, and the President needs to explain why. Trump is shamefully abandoning our allies to cozy up to dictators like Putin.

PLEASE NOTIFY FRIENDS AND FAMILY IN CALIFORNIA! ICE is conducting a surge in Southern CA AND The Central Valley including Fresno, Madera, Visalia, Selma, Dinuba, Sanger, Los Baños and surrounding cities! Stay vigilant and stay safe!

11/1: Open enrollment starts, and after the Big Ugly Bill, proposed rates are up 30% on average. 11/3: Election Day In under a month, we can show Republicans that enough is enough: make the ACA tax credits permanent and health care more affordable.

First time catching a sunset in a squirrel eye. Might make this a thing.

Do you use apps like DraftKings or FanDuel to place sports bets? If you've used them or work in the gambling industry, we’d like to hear from you.

No amount of regulation will keep our privacy safe from automatic license plate readers. Congress must ban them — full stop.

#dietpepsi Nothing like an ice cold Diet Pepsi 🖖🏼

NEW YORK, Sept 24 (Reuters) - New York sued Polymarket on Thursday, accusing the prediction markets operator of running an illegal gambling operation. @reuters.com

Rumors about “rigged elections" are now a fixture of U.S. elections, leading to diminished trust in election results & democracy (broadly). These rumors can sometimes be hard to debunk, esp. in their early stages. Our UW team has identified the 6 common ways that election integrity rumors mislead:

Maintenance droid… I love you ❤️

What will House Dems do about AI regulation? Hakeem Jeffries appointed Rep. Josh Gottheimer to be co-chair of the House Dem Commission on AI. The #NJ05 rep not only holds up to $1.4 million worth of stock in AI developers like Amazon and Meta, he bought more in chipmakers and a data center company.

🚨BREAKING: A group of pro-voting and civil rights organizations is asking a federal court to prevent the Trump administration from using federal law enforcement to intimidate voters during the midterm elections. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

NEW: Private jet travel — the most ecologically destructive form of transportation — is increasing among the wealthiest 0.003% of people. Taxpayers and commercial flyers are subsidizing it. It's time to tax this reckless consumption. REPORT:

When I said three years ago that egg companies were using the avian flu as cover to price-gouge, Fox News called me crazy. But new documents from a major federal investigation reveal the truth. Watch. https://youtu.be/aGa7YNNC1R0

NEW: Hackers ripped down a Flock camera above a roadway, made a near-complete copy of the data stored inside it, and shared the files with 404 Media and @wired.com, revealing in new detail how exactly Flock Safety’s cameras track the movements of both vehicles and people.

Growing up, it was my dream to lead my high school football team. I was lucky to have wonderful teammates like Nikita that had my back just like I always aimed to have theirs.

With 50 days until the midterms, I urge you all to: 1) Help get out the vote. 2) Protect our electoral machinery from interference. 3) Not succumb to complacency, defeatism, or cynicism. We are the only ones who can end this nightmare. We are the leaders we’ve been waiting for.

🚨BREAKING: Agents of the Department of Homeland Security have been ordered to unlawfully access state voting records to carry out the department’s escalating elections-related probes, an anonymous federal whistleblower recently disclosed to Sen. Alex Padilla. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Judge Luttig has again performed a great service to the U.S. Constitution and our republic by exposing the treachery the Trumpsters have planned for 1/3/27, the new 1/6/21, and wisely outlining what must be done to stop the evil coup in its tracks. judgeluttig327269.substack.com/p/january-3-...

#Krukow Love you ⚾️ youtu.be/JfUrl_6YFFU?...

At 11pm ET here is where things stand in Missouri: 1. Federal District Court TRO is being appealed to 8th Circuit. 2. Contempt motion filed in MO Supreme Court. 3. SCOTUS docket👀 My advice is to subscribe to Democracy Docket for the latest. demdock.com/4w6emld

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A new whistleblower complaint reveals a serious flaw buried in USPS's mail ballot system: if even one ballot's barcode fails to scan, the entire batch — potentially thousands of ballots — gets rejected and sent back.

The boys are back in town

I Am the Night: The Ultimate Unauthorized History of Batman: The Animated Series is both the story of the creation of a landmark cartoon (packed with new interviews with the folks who made it happen) and a deep dive into what it meant to both animation and the character of Batman. It drops on 9/1.

Hey, if you know anyone in Brooklyn, Sunset Park specifically, who recently lost a cat, I found this very personable (and LOUD) little polydactyl on 53rd and 2nd. She's unbelievably sweet. I would love to reunite her with her people

Bay Area friends: A friend found these small kittens behind a gas station and we've been trying to find them a home for almost two months. For now, they live in a small bathroom. Would you consider adopting? They are vaxxed, neutered, and incredibly affectionate. Please help!

Words can’t express how this sh*t scared the bejesus out of me as a kid. Now I find out Andre the Giant played Bigfoot! WTF #Andrethegiant #Sixmilliondollarman www.reddit.com/r/70s/s/JF5w...

After traveling 9 years and covering 3 billion miles, NASA's New Horizons spacecraft got this shot of Pluto.

How’s the reflecting pool doing?

Count Binface has competition.😂

“A single-payer universal health care system could cover every American, save more than 100,000 lives a year, and still cost $1 trillion less than the system it would replace, according to a new preprint study led by researchers at the Yale School of Public Health.” ysph.yale.edu/news-article...

“The demolition of the Corporate Transparency Act is just the latest and most dramatic move to cater to the president’s deep-pocketed buddies and fellow cronies,” @cjcmichel.bsky.social argues.

An insurance card from birth till death. That’s what Medicare for All provides — no more private insurance premiums, copays, deductibles, or denials of care from greedy companies. No losing your healthcare if you lose your job. Universal healthcare as a human right.

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Trump opens massive loophole for money launderers

New: We pieced together dozens of violent incidents from the ICE agents seen in viral videos from Virginia this week. They've roamed across multiple states, but are most often working in Chicago. We also verified the identity of Martin Lagunas, the fed who pointed his gun at a woman on Monday:

Thomson Reuters, which owns news agency Reuters, has signed a $125M deal giving ICE access to its databases of personal data. USA Today has partnered with Palantir to gain "actionable intelligence" on its audiences. The media should be opponents of Trump's police state — not collaborators.

🚨 BREAKTHROUGH: MIT engineers develop a breath test that detects pneumonia in minutes no X-rays, no lab wait. Just a single breath Two MIT engineers, Loza Tadesse and Aditya Garg, have developed a breath test that can detect pneumonia in minutes.

I'm going to KEEP talking about how Senator Rick Scott, the RICHEST man in all of Congress, DEFRAUDED Medicare & is trying to CUT Social Security. Will you join me?🤚

BREAKING: A federal court blocked the United States Postal Service from implementing President Trump’s executive order restricting mail-in voting.