Five people affected by the departure told MS NOW the evacuation was chaotic, leaving military families to deal with trauma, housing instability and rising expenses months after fleeing the Gulf country. read more
A federal judge on Wednesday ordered federal immigration authorities to stop investigations into voting by noncitizens in Connecticut and eight other states, finding that President Donald Trump's administration has used "faulty data sources that sweep in U.S. citizens" to target and interrogate people. read more
What Iran is teaching America. ... The Iran and Ukraine wars raise a question about victory: Winning battles is one thing, but ending wars requires bringing combatants to the negotiating table.
After years of debating how driverless cars should tell the world no one is at the wheel -- flashing text, audio alerts, custom lights -- the feds just stepped in with a single answer: cyan. read more
President Donald Trump is escalating his crusade to exert control of America's elections as his party barrels towards a potentially bruising midterm.
So, the wealthy owners in the football industry now seem to be exploiting and killing high-school students?
Can Texas high school football handle the heat?
www.reuters.com
... High school football is one of the United States' most revered traditions.
But it is under sharp pressure as the world suffers from intensifying heat waves, which Reuters recently revealed have morphed from intermittent events to globe-spanning phenomena we call "heat storms."
The consequences can be fatal. In the last decade, twelve high school football players have died from heat-related illness. The passion and the threat are particularly intense in Texas, where heat storms are transforming what football looks like. ...
They gotta have that football revenue, even if it means killing off high-school students.
Maybe MAGA's DoJ should look first in its own backyard?
MAGA Influencer Who Makes Frequent Claims of Dem Voter Fraud Let Three Unrelated People Use His Address to Vote: Report
www.mediaite.com
... MAGA influencer Scott Presler, who has routinely accused Democrats of voter fraud, has been accused of allowing at least three people unrelated to him and who do not live with him to use his Pennsylvania home address to cast their ballots in 2024.
Hartnett added:
An individual who wishes to vote in Pennsylvania must, by state law, reside in the state and the intended election district for at least thirty days before Election Day. The address provided when registering to vote must be considered the residence . . . in which his habitation is fixed, and to which, whenever he is absent, he has the intention of returning.' The law also makes clear that a person shall not be considered to have gained a residence in any election district of this State into which he comes for temporary purposes only, without the intention of making such election district his permanent place of abode.'
Presler's PAC Early Vote Action said in a statement to The Bulwark, "Mr. Presler is a generous person who, over time, has had friends find residency in his home while actively working and residing in Pennsylvania. EVA PAC takes its voter registration compliance with law very seriously. Several of the residents that once lived in Scott's home have now since departed and found residence elsewhere in other states"yet as you've shown, the PA voter rolls continue to reflect their names here. It is pure madness that PA can't clean up their voter rolls."
But Hartnett also investigated "financial documents, voting records, and social media activity" that "calls into question whether these friends' had truly established residency in Pennsylvania as defined in state law." He continued: ...
@#60
Related?
The Carville Industry (1996)
www.newsweek.com
... Some operatives with White House connections grow rich selling access. Carville has become a millionaire not by running campaigns--he doesn't do that anymore -- but by peddling Carville. He's already at work on an update of his new (ghostwritten) book, "We're Right, They're Wrong," a best-selling defense of activist government liberally laced with recipes and GOP-bashing.
Carville, who made his name sneering at the rich, is now one of them.
(NEWSWEEK made its own contribution when it excerpted his memoir of the '92 campaign.) With his Cajun-flavored populism, he's become the Democratic equivalent of Rush Limbaugh. ...
That was 30 years ago ...
Jared Kushner's Lawyer Demands Vanity Fair Pull Book Excerpt Over False and Defamatory Allegations'
uk.news.yahoo.com
... Chad Mizelle, an attorney representing Jared Kushner, demanded that Vanity Fair take down a recently published book excerpt alleging that President Donald Trump's son-in-law had access to secret foreign bank accounts during his first term.
"We formally put Vanity Fair and Cond Nast on notice regarding the false and defamatory allegations published about our client, Jared Kushner," Mizelle wrote in a statement on X Saturday morning. "Serious questions are now being raised about the credibility of this reporting, including by independent journalists."
He continued: "Despite repeated requests, the author has failed to produce a single bank statement, wire transfer record, account number or other verifiable evidence supporting these extraordinary accusations."
As Mizelle went on, he claimed that they "have seen no indication that Vanity Fair conducted any independent verification of these claims before publishing them."
"We call on Vanity Fair to clarify publicly whether it independently verified these allegations and, if so, what evidence supports them. Or did it simply republish the author's claims without conducting its own fact-checking?" he concluded. "We have demanded that Vanity Fair remove the article and preserve all records relating to its reporting, fact-checking, editorial review and publication." ...
@#33 ... What blacks are being prevented from voting? And why. ...
U.S. Appeals Court Strikes Down North Carolina's Voter ID Law (2016)
www.npr.org
...The appeals court noted that the North Carolina Legislature "requested data on the use, by race, of a number of voting practices" -- then, data in hand, "enacted legislation that restricted voting and registration in five different ways, all of which disproportionately affected African Americans."[emphasis mine]
The changes to the voting process "target African Americans with almost surgical precision," the circuit court wrote, and "impose cures for problems that did not exist."
The appeals court suggested that the motivation was fundamentally political -- a Republican legislature attempting to secure its power by blocking votes from a population likely to vote for Democrats....
After the mid-term elections and for the next two years of Pres Trump's admin, I expect to see many departures from the Trump admin.
Just more of Pres Trump's revenge and retribution tour in the Oval Office.