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Carl Dershem

@carldershem.bsky.social

Retired - now working primarily as a writer and musician. Books on Amazon, and working hard to improve my skills. I have my first million words done, and I'm working to be better. Playing music locally, and active in the Union. BKA practitioner.

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Scott MacFarlane@macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 21h ago

House Oversight Committee Democrats are launching a probe after reports that a Russian oligarch bankrolled wedding of Donald Trump Jr They've demanded all "communications between the White House & Donald Trump, Jr., concerning Umar Kremlev, including any warnings or briefings"

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Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 19h ago

Whitehouse grills Patel on Epstein 👇 WHITEHOUSE: Am I accurate in suggesting the missing 37 pages likely include FBI contemporaneous notes from interviews w/woman who said she was assaulted by Trump? PATEL: I don't know what you're referencing. We've produced 3.5m pages W: But not these 37

The Downballot@the-downballot.com · 22h ago

Whenever the Mississippi Senate race comes up on social media, someone will say the candidates need to win a majority to avoid a runoff. But that's just not true, because there's no runoff for this race. The Downballot puts on our mythbusting hat and explains where this confusion came from.

Morning Digest: Why Mississippi's Senate race won't go to a runoff—no matter what

The contest will end in November, even if no one wins a majority of the vote

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jamelle@jamellebouie.net · yesterday

the truly crazy making part of all of this is that voter fraud EFFECTIVELY DOES NOT EXIST. you have a better chance of finding an actual leprechaun at the end of the rainbow than of finding evidence of voter fraud that influences an election

Jay Willis@jaywillis.net · yesterday

Genuinely an insane paragraph from Sam Alito. “Voter fraud is real and scary and we have to stop it, so the fact that implementing Trump’s mail ballot rule will disenfranchise millions is legally irrelevant.” Brain melted. A right-wing podcaster in a robe. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

___, (slip op., at 9) (internal quotation marks omitted). As for the equities, the Government has a strong interest in enforcing the rule, and implementing it will also “en- hance the visibility of Federal Ballot Mail” in order to better detect election fraud. 91 Fed. Reg. 54972. On the other side of the balance, the plaintiff States invoke the practical ef- fects of implementing the rule close to the midterm elec- tions. I take that problem very seriously, but it is not enough to convince me to deny the application. First, as the District Court acknowledged, the States dis-