https://t.co/Zbc7orcgRX
These 2 paragraphs ran right next to each other:
"Signature-related issues also contributed significantly, with nearly 44,000 ballots rejected for mismatched signatures and more than 8,300 discarded because they lacked a signature"
"...election experts maintain that fraud involving mail ballots remains extremely rare"
As a former prosecutor I would note that 'prosecution experts point out how overwhelming the task of investigating (& then prosecuting where appropriate) 44k cases of potential voter fraud is so overwhelming that they don't even try.
@ETI_now
And now you know why the homeowners never got their aid raised for them, why California made it nearly impossible to rebuild, and LA was unprepared for fires...
Christians are being massacred, and their women kidnapped, raped, and forcibly converted to Islam daily in Nigeria.
This past year, more Christians have been killed in Nigeria than Palestinians in Gaza.
And still, not a single protest for them!
Q: If abolishing police is the end goal, can these Democrats point to any socialist/communist society in the world that has abolished the police and prisons? Just one place? Indeed, isn't the opposite true? That these left wing governments are even more totally police states?
Disappointing to see some folks hyperventilating over stay at home married parents simply being made eligible for existing child care benefits (I.e. no additional cost to taxpayers).
Presumably they know that a large majority (58%) of mothers want to raise young kids at home either full or part time but have for decades been funneled by govt. into single motherhood and full time commercial day care as their only options.
To respond to a clear improvement in allocation of existing funds with cries of “socialist!” is either grossly unserious or grossly uninformed.
@FamStudies@BradWilcoxIFS
🇩🇪 La líder del partido de Derecha en Alemania, Alice Weidel tiene razón:
“Un país que castiga por pescar sin licencia, pero no por cruzar sus fronteras ilegalmente, es un país gobernado por idiotas”.👏
Wrong again, honey
I invite you to the Berenson v Gottlieb (Berenson v Biden) oral arguments on October 15 to hear the truth for yourself
@anneapplebaum
Instead of making poverty temporary, LBJ’s “Great Society” made poverty permanent.
Instead of lifting the poor out of poverty, LBJ locked them into it.
It’s not just that socialism doesn’t work; it’s that it’s oppressive and cruel.
Given all of the #Flock camera controversy, I went back and looked at my ALPR (automatic license plate reader) legal opinion from 2013, when I was Va's AG.
Not surprisingly, I determined that under Va. law, law enforcement could only use such cameras for already-identified crime
@amrenewctr
The answer in this particular case is on his shirt (on the right). He just wasn't willing to WAIT to have those things decriminalized (the illegal ones)
BREAKING: Outspoken LGBTQ activist and prominent Virginia Democratic party official Randon Sprinkle, sentenced to 10 years in prison for child p**n
Why does this keep happening
Private property is not a Western invention, a capitalist novelty, or a 19th-century philosophical construct. Sumerians were recording property rights on clay tablets in Mesopotamia around 3000 BCE, and the contracts they left behind destroy every collectivist myth about ownership being a recent imposition on some natural communal state.
These tablets documented land sales, grain loans, labor agreements, and inheritance transfers. Specific people owned specific plots. A seller transferred title. A buyer paid silver by weight. Witnesses signed. Merchants and farmers built this system because voluntary exchange requires knowing who owns what before the trade happens.
Clay fired in a kiln lasts millennia. Urukagina of Lagash, around 2350 BCE, recorded protections against officials seizing private property without consent. That is property theory in practice, predating Locke by roughly four thousand years.
Property rights emerge spontaneously from human interaction, not from government charters. Sumer proves the point in baked earth. Every time a politician tells you that unregulated markets are a dangerous modern experiment, you are looking at someone ignorant of the oldest economic documents humanity possesses. Markets did not need permission then. They do not need it now.
We just filed @gunrights' Viramontes amicus brief, authored by @KenCuccinelli & joined by @TXGunRights.
Our goal: Put the strongest case possible to SCOTUS to position us for a long-term win, not just short-term success on the question asked.
Link: https://t.co/qwvhnMHiMh
The city of Seattle has a municipal tree code that is almost 10K words long. It has a system of 4 tiers outlining what can be cut. If you want to cut trees in Seattle, you must apply to the city to be an approved provider and prove mandated insurance. If you want to cut them on your own property, you have to hire registered removers. All these law-abiding people are subject to civil penalties if not permitted, insured, and in compliance. I’m sure the tree removal here is on the up-and-up, though. And if not, I’m sure the rules will be enforced.
Today is World Sexual and Reproductive Health Day, a day to recognize that access to sexual and reproductive health care is fundamental to one’s health, dignity, and wellbeing. This November, Virginians will have the opportunity to ensure that every individual has the right to make personal decisions about their reproductive health by voting YES on Question 1. It is time to enshrine reproductive rights in Virginia’s Constitution.
You can view the full language here: https://t.co/TW3vH2v8GQ
NEW on CNN: “Fuck you..hurry up and die." Will Lawrence, a Democrat running in one of swing seat that could decide control of Congress, deleted hundreds of old posts before launching his campaign. They show him backing a world without police and prisons, “forced nationalization” to end fossil fuels, abolishing the Senate, open borders, and bashing nuclear family homes.
https://t.co/MWRjXDKE2j
In 1990, more than a third of the planet lived in extreme poverty. Today it's under 10 percent.
Over a billion people climbed out in a single generation. The fastest, largest escape from poverty in human history.
It didn't come from government aid or charity. It came from capitalism.
Free markets, private property and trade.
When people are free to start a business, own what they build and sell it, they lift themselves out of poverty. Every time. Everywhere it's been tried.
Nothing in history has lifted more people out of poverty.
As I file amicus briefs today in the #Viramontes case, it's interesting to see Prof. English's updated data on gun ownership and use:
https://t.co/Vxr2FMHfFW
This coward stopped beside Sgt. Chris Fisher's patrol car and unloaded his gun into it.
Fisher had arrested Steverson just days earlier.
He had threatened the arresting officers with violence—yet he was still out walking free on bond.