Porter White 🇺🇸

DC || living || Opinions expressed are my own

[DC Board of Elections @Vote4DC]

DC voters: A few reminders for Election Day, June 16:
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[Kinney Zalesne @kinney4dc]

Yesterday, the President threatened to strip DC of Home Rule if he does not like the election outcome in our local elections. We stand together to say clearly: that is an attack on democracy.

No President should threaten our right to govern ourselves based on how we vote. Threatening to override an election before it happens is exactly the kind of federal interference DC residents have fought against for generations.

The people of DC decide who leads DC, not Donald Trump. We stand with the voters of the District of Columbia, and against any attempt to undermine our Home Rule.

@trentwholbrook @GregJaczko @brookepintodc @RobertWhite_DC

[Stephen Richer @stephen_richer]

Sure. You'd just need to:

1) Forge her signature (commit a felony).

2) Hope your forgery is sufficiently accurate

3) Hope that she (intended voter) doesn't call election office and ask about why she never got a ballot (in which case that mail ballot would be deactivated, and it would be investigated if returned)

4) Hope that she doesn't send back a replacement ballot or show up to vote in person (in which case the same as #3 would happen).

But more importantly, instead of showing us a picture of a mail ballot (which could just be from anywhere and is not evidence of material fraud), why don't you answer:

Where are the mass arrests? Trump has been in office for 18 months now. And there have been lots of ambitious Republican prosecutors and sheriffs in office for 6 years since the 2020 election.

And together they've scraped up a handful of individual voters. A few noncitizens vote. A few people voting in multiple jurisdictions.

Hundreds of thousands of hours have been searching. And yet...

What you have is, at best, evidence of a clerical error that yielded no harm.

[Martin Austermuhle @maustermuhle]

Not unexpectedly, @kenyanmcduffie is out with a statement slamming @CMLewisGeorgeW4 for being among the five D.C. councilmembers blocking an emergency bill extending teen curfew zones over the next 6-8 weeks. He says it risks the federal government stepping in further.

[Alex Koma @AlexKomaDC]

CFO Glen Lee has spent the last few weeks briefing lawmakers (+ reporters) on the "fiscal cliff" he sees as DC's available funds start to dry up starting in '28. (Mendo's office has disputed his approach)

Lee is particularly bearish on Mendo's plan to pull ~$150M from reserves:

[Porter White 🇺🇸 @porter512s]

@ScottGoldstein @Janeese4DC Which in itself is a strong argument for voting for McDuffie.

[Porter White 🇺🇸 @porter512s]

There is one party that is against gerrymandering. Republicans, if outraged, should join the effort to reform how congressional districts are drawn. Read the story, not the headline. https://t.co/iER0ED1NcP

[Mike Nellis @MikeNellis]

Last time gerrymandering was brought to a vote, every single Democrat voted to ban it, and every single Republican voted to keep it.

Republicans blocked it in the Senate using the filibuster.

Stop making shit up.

[Tim @trouble_man90]

Yea we joke about the double standard in the media, but this is legitimately insane.

[Jeremiah Johnson 🌐 @JeremiahDJohns]

Since @politicalmath specifically asked to be corrected, here's a correction (figures, links, github below). Summary:

* An independent analyst has replicated and verified the Politico chart
* The gap still exists whether you use states with all D Senators and Governor, majority Dem Sen/Gov, or just Dem Gov
* The gap still exists if you use natural disasters or all requests
* Even with the small sample size, the difference is statistically significant
* Trump himself specifically says he's doing this. When he denies aid, his press team will say things like "we're doing this because they shelter illegals". When he gives aid, he points out how often the state voted for him.

[Team Talarico @TeamTalaricoHQ]

.@jamestalarico: I've had a lot of interviews with national media. No one's ever asked me about the cost of housing. No one's asked me about the cost of prescription drugs. The only thing the media wants to ask me about are trans athletes.

The only minority destroying this country is the billionaires. Trans people are 1% of the population. Undocumented people are 1% of the population. We are all focused on the wrong 1%.

Trans people aren't taking away our healthcare. Undocumented people aren't defunding our schools. It's the billionaires and their puppet politicians

[Meredith Sumpter @MeredithSumpter]

Former Transportation Secretary @PeteButtigieg on why we need election reforms like ranked choice voting, multi-member districts, or open primaries:

“If our social, economic, and political systems were healthy… I don't think we'd be here in the first place.” #RankedChoiceVoting

[Adam Mockler @adammocklerr]

This doesn’t show they think it does…

[Porter White 🇺🇸 @porter512s]

@SenRickScott @POTUS This would argue that Florida should implement a progressive state income tax to keep it aligned with Federal policy. I can not believe that is a winning position for you to hold.

[Porter White 🇺🇸 @porter512s]

@maustermuhle This car was “parked” all day in Logan Circle like this. Across from a moving truck no less. At one point residents were directing single lane traffic in either direction.

[Porter White 🇺🇸 @porter512s]

ICE’s impunity is a formula for more violence (from @TheEconomist) https://t.co/aKvNtYIqHE

[Porter White 🇺🇸 @porter512s]

@PosterTubs @daveweigel I am just surprised he didn’t go after the Greeks first.

[Jared Moskowitz @JaredEMoskowitz]

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[Aaron Blake @AaronBlake]

A bunch of prominent MAGA accounts have promoted this post/chart, attributing the decline in fentanyl deaths to Trump.

Except the chart ended in Sept. 2024.

The original post has been deleted.

[Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼 @Noahpinion]

The truth is, Rufo knew that the MAGA people wanted crazy race-war shit, which is why he tried to ride the wave with the "Haitians eat cats" blood libel last year. But it turned out the wave couldn't be ridden, and now he's terrified by the monster he tried to harness.