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[Jeremiah Johnson 🌐 @JeremiahDJohns]

Absolutely insane that not once has a Republican president actually cut federal spending in 60 years.

Party full of bullshitters and liars about their core issue, "fiscal conservatism"

[renni @selectwario]

Wow I can’t believe the CEO of the company that will fire employees for being a minute late no matter the reason is conservative and irrational. I’m so shocked.

[𝕊𝕠𝕔𝕚𝕒𝕝𝕚𝕤𝕥 𝕊𝕪𝕤𝕒𝕕𝕞𝕚𝕟 💾 @reset_by_peer]

This is a good point. Everyone focuses on the avalanche of recalls, but no one seems to ever mention that despite all this massive cost-cutting deregulation nothing got cheeper.

The lettuce that makes you shit your pants costs 3-4 times as much as pre-RFK lettuce that didn’t.

[Jon Kent @jonkentcomrade]

Lmao hutch ended his stream because he's a right winger who can't admit he's a right winger. Sam Seder is right.

[Have I Been Flocked? @HIBFlocked]

"Flock Says It’s “Taking a Break” From Responding to Media Requests"

The article is filed under "Woe is me."

https://t.co/q1XrXCWVRJ

[John Fugelsang @JohnFugelsang]

“As a corrupt, mendacious, revoltingly fake Christian...

...I’ll exploit my child, to punch down on powerless minorities...

...just to distract y’all from the well-documented, truly despicable ways I treat women.”

[Gladio Langford @fearthe_void]

Just looked into this and this specific guy was arrested for possession by a crooked cop and got a *25y sentence* that he served 6yrs of before the cop was arrested for a no knock raid and the state started reviewing all his previous arrests. This is why crime stats are cooked

[Stephen Richer @stephen_richer]

This video is a great representative of how @JamesOKeefeIII is a liar and a bad person.

And why you should be very skeptical of any video he posts.

1)

The election workers followed the law.

When O’Keefe, impersonating a registered voter, asked to vote, the poll workers repeatedly asked for his identification.

He said he didn’t have identification and asked if he could still vote.

The poll workers told him yes, he could vote, but it must be a “questioned ballot” that goes into a security envelope.

It is NOT immediately counted. I’ll get to that later.

The election workers did the right thing. They followed the law.

2)

This “questioned ballot” is called a “provisional ballot” in most other states. Provisional ballots are required by the federal Help America Vote Act (2002) section 302.

This is done so that no voter is mistakenly turned away (disenfranchised).

It is the safety valve of in-person voting.

The “questioned ballot” is required by Alaska Law (AK Stat § 15.15.215 (2025)). https://t.co/5HABDgH9lF

3)

As mentioned, the “questioned ballot” goes into an envelope. The voter must provide identifying information on the ballot envelope and then seal the envelope.

The envelope is set aside until it is taken to a bipartisan board.

That bipartisan board uses information from the election office and from the voter to determine eligibility. If eligible, it is tabulated. If not eligible, it is kept in its sealed envelope.

See, e.g., this explainer video: https://t.co/8qGenlQ6yk

This meant to preserve a voter’s right to vote, but it also protects against fraudulent vote attempts like the one O’Keefe contemplated.

4)

O’Keefe of course knows this. Because he cites to both the state statute (15.15.215) and an August 10 social media post from the Alaska Division of Elections that includes this information.

But he ignores the information and omits it in his video.

Here’s the relevant statute: https://t.co/5HABDgH9lF

And here’s the social media post: https://t.co/3wrCaEd2ei

Now watch the O’Keefe video and see how deceptively they’re edit / truncated.

5)

O’Keefe did not expose an opportunity fraud. He did not expose unlawful conduct by election administrators.

He did, however, record some seemingly sweet, civically-minded older Americans working the election site who tried to help him with his alleged issue.

Those good Americans will now be seen by millions of Americans.

A handful of those viewers will harass the poll workers. One or two viewers might even make a a threat. And all the poll workers did was exactly the right thing as required by law.

6)

While O’Keefe did not uncover unlawful conduct, he might have created unlawful conduct.

It is unlawful to be in a voting location without being a poll worker, a voter, or an otherwise-authorized person.

It is unlawful to impersonate another voter, even if you don’t actually cast a ballot. Alaska Stat. § 15.56.040(a)(1).

Fun times.

7)

O’Keefe is doing all of this in the context of pressuring Lisa Murkowski to support the SAVE America Act.

But nothing O’Keefe did in the video would be changed as a result of the SAVE America Act.

Nothing.

[Legal Eagle 🦅 @AllThingsCivil]

In a normal world, the story would be that our State Dept got caught leaking documents to right wing accounts to shape public perceptions on Cuba

Here, the bigger story is that account is so clueless they thought it was a set up and exposed the whole thing to the Internet

[Covie @covie_93]

Pete Buttigieg guaranteed automatic cash refunds for canceled flights and oversaw the largest federal investment in public transit in US history

Sean Duffy filmed a reality show, hired gamers as air traffic controllers and is hosting IndyCar grand prix in DC.

[Emily Neumann @immigrationgirl]

Hi, former Texas teacher here. I taught high school biology under an emergency teaching certificate because Texas does not have “plenty of skilled teachers” waiting to fill our classrooms.

The number of H-1B workers teaching in Texas public schools is minuscule. They are not displacing Texas teachers. They are helping schools fill positions they otherwise struggle to staff.

Texas students need qualified teachers in their classrooms. Turning away teachers willing and able to do the job just makes an existing teacher shortage worse.

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

The world is on fire, Americans can’t afford gas and rent, and the most prominent social media accounts on the right are melting down over halal chicken on campus.

[Mike Nellis @MikeNellis]

I'd like to report a murder

[FFRF @FFRF]

The Pentagon is not a church, and the Secretary of Defense is not a pastor.

Our military serves Americans of every faith and no faith. Hegseth should spend less time turning the Pentagon into a pulpit and more time respecting the Constitution he swore an oath to defend.

[barbarism critic @barbarismcrit]

Paramount using ChatGPT to call criticism of a corporate merger antisemitic is a layer of hell Dante could have never even conceived of

[CALL TO ACTIVISM @CalltoActivism]

El-Sayed literally has grounds for defamation here.

This statement is a complete lie.

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

“I don’t want Jews in positions of elected office and I don’t want Jews having financial ties to the Democratic Party. I don’t like Judaism. If I could wave a magic wand, I would round up Jews and deport them from America. Most Democratic voters agree with me.”

I don’t want to sound like a broken record on this but can you imagine if a top adviser to, and ally of, President Joe Biden had said this? It would be the *only* story in America. For days and weeks on end. Biden and Dem members of Congress would be asked about nothing else by rightly outraged reporters.

So every American political reporter, editor, anchor, executive producer, reading this right now: ask yourself, why aren’t you as outraged when it’s Muslims not Jews, and Trump’s ally not Biden’s?

[Why Did You Boost This @WhyBoostThis]

@RepJasmine Make it make sense.

You complain Talarico doesn't have the support of the black community, but you've done nothing to change that. Meanwhile other Senate primary losers are going on unity tours.

[💎❄️ @megan_lassi]

I’ll tell you what wasn’t exciting for Black folks. That insulting bullshit ass campaign you threw together @JasmineForUS what’s not exciting is seeing you shit on everything bc it ain’t go your fucking way.

You fucking cry baby this is loser shit.

[Alex Cole @acnewsitics]

Trump doesn't need policy accomplishments when he can simply invent a crisis, defeat the crisis, and tell the audience he saved them from the crisis.

MAGAs are dumb af.