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[danny @dabbs346]

Update?

[Scott Dworkin @funder]

Jon Ossoff just exposed the "Mar-a-Lago Mafia." A foreign government handed a massive mining deal to a firm right after Trump's sons bought a 20% stake, backed by $1.6B in US tax dollars. Read the receipts: 👇
https://t.co/MixXytxd6U

[Al Jazeera English @AJEnglish]

24 Indian crew members were rescued from an oil tanker after it was struck by a US missile off the coast of Oman.

[MeidasClips @MeidasClips]

Katie Phang on Jeffrey Epstein's former assistant Lesley Groff: This woman's name appears more than 167k times in the existing rollout of the Epstein files.

She worked for Epstein from February of 2001 until July of 2019. I want you to think about the fact that that is 18-19 years of employment as Jeffrey Epstein's closest executive assistant.

Yet, she insists she had no idea what Jeffrey Epstein was doing.

It defies logic and reality.

[POLITICO @politico]

Trump wants lower beef prices. Flesh-eating maggots in Texas have other plans. https://t.co/ToXwTYQEaK

[Ed Whelan @EdWhelanEPPC]

In a two-way race in 2024, Donald Trump got 26.5% of the vote in City of Los Angeles. In a three-way race in 2026, Spencer Pratt has 26.7% of the vote. I'm not sure what the mystery is that demands a conspiratorial explanation.

[Ron Filipkowski @RonFilipkowski]

Democrats are so diabolical and ingenious at rigging elections that Republicans control the presidency, house and senate.

[Jesse Eisinger @eisingerj]

NEW: Donald Trump Jr. invests in a co. trying to build an oil refinery in the U.S.

Then the richest man in Asia invests... in the same company.

Then... his co. gets policy concessions from the Trump Admin.

@js_kaplan & @JustinElliott:

[The Lincoln Project @ProjectLincoln]

The most expensive taxpayer funded nap #NBAFinals

[Stephen Richer @stephen_richer]

Sigh. Why won't anyone do research before posting?

Responding to your six points.

1. Yes. It is legal. States have different laws.

Still has to come from a registered voter, has to be returned in the return envelope assigned to that voter, there is no evidence of mass mail theft, and it has to have the voter's signature, which is checked (part of why it takes a long time).

2. California verifies identity through return envelope barcode and signature verification -- as is done for many financial and legal instruments.

This is the same way it's done in Utah, Colorado, Arizona, Oregon, Washington, etc.

3. Unattended drop boxes. You do realize that every USPS box is an "unattended drop box," right?

That's why it's nice that all Californians can track their mail ballots. And so too can the election officials.

4. Homeless regularly paid to vote. I'll settle for 5 proven examples in recent elections. Also, homeless are allowed to register and vote.

5. You're just pointing out that California is an "all mail" state and that almost everyone votes by mail as a result. Yes. And that's part of why it takes so long.

California does voter list maintenance. Otherwise it would have a laundry list of lawsuits under the NVRA.

And, for better or worse, you can't remove somebody from voter rolls just because he doesn't vote. So if you, e.g., move out of an apartment, but don't tell the registrar, and don't fill out change of address with USPS, then a mail ballot is still showing up to your address. And if the new resident simply throws it in the trash, then you're not taken off the voter rolls just because you didn't return a ballot.

Now, if you're suggesting that states should share information with each other, such that they know when somebody registers in a different state, then I agree with you.

That's why California should join ERIC. And it's why it's a shame that some states have left ERIC in recent years. That's bad for voter list maintenance.

6. This is just comparing apples to oranges. And you can easily Google the differences in the two systems.

But first, as a factual predicate, you might want to be more careful. I'd suggest you start with this New York Times article: "Why Do Elections in India Take So Long?"

https://t.co/FxLClkvYrv

[Norman Ornstein @NormOrnstein]

Including Susan Collins, Lisa Murkowski, Thom Tillis, Bill Cassidy. The so-called "moderates"

[Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський @ZelenskyyUa]

It is time to end this war. But Russia’s ruler wants to keep fighting. That is why Ukrainian sanctions against this aggression are working. Last night, our drones covered a distance of about 1,000 kilometers to the St. Petersburg region – to the enemy navy’s arsenals and a base in Kronstadt. Our long-range sanctions also reached about 500 kilometers into the Krasnodar region – and hit an oil depot. These are important results of the joint efforts by warriors from the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the Security Service of Ukraine, and the Defense Intelligence of Ukraine. Russia must end its war and stop its attacks on life. Any manifestation of injustice against Ukraine will receive a just response. I thank our warriors for their precision.

[Joyce Alene @JoyceWhiteVance]

There is nothing left of the Justice Department I worked at.

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

Acting AG Todd Blanche says he's working to install "roadblocks" to prevent Democrats from prosecuting Trump and his associates in the future

[UAVoyager🇺🇦 @NAFOvoyager]

russians just struck a baby food factory near Kyiv.

Yagotynske for Children — the plant that produces milk and food for Ukrainian infants and small children.

4 killed. More may still be under the rubble.

This isn’t war.
It’s the deliberate killing of civilians who feed Ukrainian babies. Pure evil.

[Barb McQuade @BarbMcQuade]

Seems like a bait and switch. After predictable outcry, Trump DOJ pulls back slush fund for insurrectionists, but retains tax immunity for Trump. Was that the plan all along? It’s all corrupt.
https://t.co/NnZwe4nLO0

[Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney]

In appeals court fight over the White House ballroom, DOJ says the federal government could quickly bulldoze the statute of liberty and no one would have standing to sue over the changes once the demolition is done.

[Gigi @Gigi_chienergy]

The screwworm program wasn't charity, it was a $10 million fence that kept a billion-dollar problem from eating our own livestock alive. That's the thing with most USAID funding: it looks like "aid," but it's really cheap self-defense. Solve a problem there, and it never lands on our doorstep. But sure, let a bunch of guys who can't define DEI without Googling take a chainsaw to it. They didn't stop to ask, "Will this cut hurt us too?" Unless that's the point, burn it all down and call it efficiency.

As usual our inept agriculture secretary, blaming the Biden administration as usual, instead of offering a solution to the problem they created.

Texan here

A screwworm infestation is a nightmare for cattle, causing horrific wounds and economic devastation. For Texas, the situation has escalated dramatically in the last 24 hours with the first confirmed case of New World Screwworm (NWS) in over 60 years! This could have been avoided!

Infested animal can kill a cow in less than two weeks.

Treatment is extremely difficult and time-consuming, requiring the painful removal of every visible larva and deep disinfection of the wound. Ranchers no longer have much experience with this labor-intensive process, and there is currently no approved pharmaceutical treatment to make it easier.

This has triggered a massive economic threat. The USDA estimates that a widespread outbreak would drain an astonishing $1.8 billion from the Texas economy alone in livestock deaths, labor, and medication expenses.

How will this affect you? Tightening supplies will drive already high beef prices higher.

[Mark Warner @MarkWarner]

It seems there is an entirely different set of rules for Republicans and Democrats.

[P T @beentoall50]

Corruption

[The Washington Post @washingtonpost]

Exclusive: National park entry fees are going towards the Trump administration's $1.6 million July Fourth fireworks display and towards a D.C. beautification project, while donations will fund a $5 million helipad at the White House.

Read more: https://t.co/OrBMzhTw9L