Shadow

I am a sample size of one. Not statistically significant, nor representative.

[Isaac Saul @Ike_Saul]

Nancy Pelosi, who is regularly hammered for her perceived insider trading, has made 213 total trades since 2014. Trump exceeded that number in a single day, which just happened to precede his own tariffs announcement. My latest on the mind boggling self-enrichment:

[Shadow @Shadowfigment]

@trekonlinegame A very disappointing survey in setup.

[Dan Carlin @dccommonsense]

So, when I say that vote fraud claims require extraordinary evidence and I get back “there’s tons of evidence!”.
Yeah. There’s fraud all right…but it ain’t among the voting public.
It’s among the people in power (currently dominating all elected branches) who claim vote rigging.

[beeple @beeple]

TRUMP GIVING OUT $5000

[Isaac Saul @Ike_Saul]

The list incldues Rob Maness, Kurt Schlicter and Thomas Anderson, who goes by the online handle Cynical Publius. Amazing. Actual feds on this website posing as independent thinkers shilling for the govt!

[Ryan Hall, Y’all @ryanhallyall]

There was no earthquake in Nepal on Wednesday.

USGS went back through the seismic data. The "magnitude 4.4 quake" was a mountain coming down. A chunk of glacier and rock broke off Langtang Lirung at 17,000 feet, fell nearly 4,000 feet, and every seismometer in the region read it as a 5.2.

This is the before and after from space. Landsat flew over two hours later. That brown streak is the start of a path that ran about 62 miles downstream.

616 dead as of Saturday morning. Roughly 2,500 still missing, including 90 Americans.

So my post Wednesday had it backwards. No quake, it started on the Nepal side, and it is 90 Americans missing, not 3. Correcting that here.

Imagery: Copernicus Sentinel-2, USGS/NASA Landsat 9

[Shadow @Shadowfigment]

@MoeLykit https://t.co/XzLvNyrIjN

[Shadow @Shadowfigment]

@MoeLykit That sir, is zalgo text.

[Isaac Saul @Ike_Saul]

Our politicians, including and especially Trump, have programmed people to hate. This is the reflex in politics now. So much so that when a public speaker tees up a dead officer like this, because the name sounds foreign, there are people in the crowd who think they’re being cued to boo:

[Shadow @Shadowfigment]

@SuperNikoPower How did you come to those two conclusions? Are there room for any other possibilities?

[Shadow @Shadowfigment]

@MoeLykit I am experiencing the same thing. I guess my phone is too old?

[Isaac Saul @Ike_Saul]

Last night's spectacle is turning into an absolute embarrassment. The documents Trump declassified are doing more to prove that 1) our elections are secure, 2) Russia tried to help him win twice, and 3) He lost fair & square in 2020 than anything any Dem has done in years.

[Shadow @Shadowfigment]

@dccommonsense The slide of Presidential power has gotten so far out of hand, it might take generations to fix. Moreover we need the right people willing to do the work in both the legislative and judicial branches.

[Shadow @Shadowfigment]

@SuperNikoPower You are right. She is not like you or I. She is a billionaire. That is a class that we will never achieve. Would she care if one of us were half dead on the street? We will never know. It is a scenario again most of us will never see.

[Shadow @Shadowfigment]

@trekonlinegame Is the maintenance action causing havoc with the Arc client? Will we be compensated for any lost time trying to complete the summer event?

[Shadow @Shadowfigment]

@SuperNikoPower @WalkaboutMG I too am old and a huge fan of Strongbad's emails. Kids book (I believe it was email #84) is my favorite.

[Shadow @Shadowfigment]

@SuperNikoPower Are you expecting a CM to know about their community or culture before being hired? Getting to know the people they are trying to cultivate will take time with them, wouldn't you say?

[Shadow @Shadowfigment]

@MoeLykit That's cool

[Isaac Saul @Ike_Saul]

These guys are so corrupt they can’t even allow this event like this to go off without trying to make a buck on it. How many times has Eric does something like this and gotten away with it? Just so telling.

[Isaac Saul @Ike_Saul]

I can't believe we are still doing this.

Underage voters: This is flatly false. Georgia's Secretary of State investigated this claim by comparing the full list of people who voted against their birthdays. The audit revealed there were zero underage voters in the 2020 election. Raffensperger stated directly: "They said there were 66,000 underage voters. There were zero."

Dead voters: Vastly overstated. State officials investigated this and found a total of two instances of a deceased person's name being used to cast a ballot. "Usually, that's somebody who died recently, and a family member votes with [the name]," a state official noted, adding that such a handful of cases is consistent with every election.

Felons illegally voting: Significantly exaggerated. The Trump campaign alleged 2,056 felons voted illegally. Georgia officials said they were investigating a total of 74 potential felons who may have cast ballots. When Georgia's State Election Board referred cases for prosecution, among them were just four incidents of felons voting or registering to vote in the 2020 general election.

2,423 not registered to vote: Also false. Raffensperger specifically addressed this: "They said that there were 2,423 non-registered voters. There were zero."

1,043 voted via PO box: This claim conflates voter registration addresses with actual fraud. Having a P.O. box associated with a registration record is not itself illegal, and investigators found no evidence of fraudulent voting tied to P.O. boxes. A state audit examining this issue found no proof of fraudulent ballots.

4,926 voted after registration: This claim has also been investigated and found to be based on data mismatches — primarily clerical errors in dates, data entry issues, or voters who were already on the rolls and whose records were updated after the election. No credible evidence of people actually voting before being registered was found.

395 voted multiple states: This claim was based on matching names and partial data across state lines — a notoriously unreliable method that generates false positives. Investigators found no substantiated cases of double-voting that would have affected the outcome.

40,279 voted after moving counties: This one has the most merit and actually is the hardest to part, but it's largely a misunderstanding of the law. Georgia election officials have repeatedly said they found no credible examples of election fraud related to address changes. Critically, federal law is directly relevant here: the National Voter Registration Act explicitly states that a state cannot remove a voter from the rolls on the ground that they changed residence unless the registrant confirms in writing that they moved outside the jurisdiction. In other words, voters who have moved but haven't updated their registration are often still legally entitled to cast a ballot in their former jurisdiction under federal law.

Sworn affidavits: Yes, they exist. Affidavits allege but do not prove. The point of an affidavit is for a court to review it. Courts reviewed these extensively. Trump's legal team's challenges were repeatedly rejected in court, with one judge writing that plaintiffs presented "strained legal arguments without merit and speculative accusations... unsupported by evidence."

So, yes, cool list. All B.S. Also, btw, all super old (we knew most of this 4-6 years ago).