#Political interference

[odinsblog]

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is sending the police to people’s HOMES for the ‘crime’ of signing a pro-choice petition

Isaac Menasche remembers being at the Cape Coral farmer’s market last year when someone asked him if he’d sign a petition to get Florida’s abortion amendment on the ballot.

He said yes — and he told a law enforcement officer as much when one showed up at the door of his Lee County home earlier this week.

Menasche said he was surprised when the plainclothes officer twice asked if it was really Menasche who had signed the petition. The officer said he was looking into potential petition fraud.

Though the officer was professional and courteous, Menasche, who has had little interaction with police in his life, said the encounter left him shaken.

“I'm not a person who is going out there protesting for abortion,” Menasche said. “I just felt strongly and I took the opportunity when the person asked me, to say yeah, I'll sign that petition.”

The officer's visit appears to be part of a broad - and unusual — effort by Gov. Ron DeSantis’ administration to inspect thousands of already verified and validated petitions for Amendment 4 in the final two months before Election Day. The amendment would overturn Florida's six-week abortion ban by proposing to protect abortion access in Florida until viability.

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[troythecatfish]

spiteful sanctions and embargoes only do harm to innocent civilians

[agentfascinateur]

Why doesn't AIPAC "restrain" Israeli politicians before dictating to US leadership?

#is everyone on the payroll?

#strip charity status

AIPAC has spent tens of millions of dollars in recent US elections to help defeat candidates critical of Israel.

[jangillman]

US Elections 2024 | Amazon Alexa's 'Shocking' Answer On Why You Should V...

[news4dzhozhar]

This isn't the first time. Back in 2010 the Freedom Flotilla for Gaza turned into a massacre when the IOF murdered 10 of the participants and imprisoned the rest. This time they can't even get out of Turkey due to 1 bogus delay after another. They are trying to bring food and desperately needed supplies to those in Gaza.

[strawlessandbraless]

What an unsurprising & completely expected turn of events that literally everyone saw coming 😮

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[welcometoqueer]

I haven’t really seen any of the more recent U.S. election news hitting tumblr yet so here’s some updates (now edited with sources added):

There’s evidence of Trump cheating and interfering with the election.

Possible Russian interference.

Mail-in ballots are not being counted or “recognized” in multiple (notably swing) states.

30+ bomb threats were called in and shut down polling stations on Election Day.

20+ million votes are still unaccounted for, and that’s just to have the same voter turnout as 2020.

There was record voter turnout and new/first-time voter registration this year. We definitely should be well over the turnout in 2020.

U.S. citizens are using this site to demand, not only a recount, but a complete investigation into election fraud and interference for the reasons stated above:

Here is what I submitted as an example:

An investigation for election interference and fraud is required. We desperately need a recount or even a revote. The American people deserve the right to a free and fair election. There has been evidence unveiled of Trump cheating and committing election fraud which is illegal. There is some evidence of possible Russian interference. At least 30+ bomb threats were called in to polling places. Multiple, notably swing states, have ballots unaccounted for and voting machines not registering votes. Ballots and ballot boxes were tampered with and burned. Over 20 million votes that we know of are unaccounted for. With record turnout and new voter registration this year, there should be no possibility that there are less votes than even in the 2020 election.

Sources (working on finding more links but if anyone wants to add info, it’s appreciated):

FBI addressing Russian interference and bomb threats:

Emails released by Rachael Bellis (private account, can’t share original tweet) confirming Trump committing election fraud:

Pennsylvania's Centre County officials say they are working with their ballot scanner vendor to figure out why the county's mail-in ballot data is "not being recognized when uploaded to the elections software:”

Wisconsin recount:

[ID:

Multiple screenshots and images.

The first is a screenshot with a link and information for contacting the White House directly regarding election fraud. The instructions include choosing to leave a comment to President Joe Biden directly and to select election security as the reason.

The screenshot then instructs people to include any or all of the following information in a paragraph as a comment to the president:

32 fake bomb threats were called into Democratic leaning poll places, rendering polling places closed for at least an hour.

A lot of people reporting their ballots were not counted for various reasons.

This all occurred in swing states.

This is too coincidental that these things happen and swing in his favor after months of hinting at foul play.

Directly state that an investigation for tampering, interference, fraud is required, not just a recount.

The second image is from the FBI Twitter account that reads:

The FBI is aware of bomb threats to polling locations in several states, many of which appear to originate from Russian email domains. None of the threats have been determined to be credible thus far. https://t.co/j3YfajVK1m — FBI (@FBI) November 5, 2024

The next four Gmail screenshots of an email sent to Rachael Bellis from Chris T. Spackman that read together as follows:

Dear BELLIS, RACHAEL E., The Dauphin County Board of Elections received a challenge to your absentee ballot you applied for in the November 5, 2024 General Election. The challenge argues that a provision of the Pennsylvania Election Code takes precedence over the federal Uniformed and Overseas Citizens Absentee Voting Act (UOCAVA), which requires states and counties to permit U.S. citizens who move overseas to vote by absentee ballot for federal offices based on their last U.S. residential address.

The full text of the challenge that was filed appears below this email.

You may respond to the challenge in any of the following ways:

1. Call the Bureau of Registration and Election at (717) 780-6360;

2. Email a statement to the Bureau at Election election@dauphincounty.gov. Any statement you submit regarding the period during which you lived in Dauphin County, any family or connections that you still have here, and why you are now residing abroad would be read into the record.

3. Appear in person at a Board of Elections hearing scheduled for Friday, November 8 at a time to be determined in the Commissioners Public Hearing Room, 4th floor of Dauphin County Administration Building, 2 S 20d St, Harrisburg, PA 17111. The meeting is also likely to be livestreamed on Facebook on the Dauphin County channel.

Sincerely,

Christopher T Spackman

TEXT OF CHALLENGE BEGINS

Dear Dauphin County Board of Elections,

I am submitting this challenge to an absentee ballot application pursuant to 25 Pa. Stat.

3146.8(f).

25 Pa. Stat. 3146.8(f) Any person challenging an application for an absentee ballot, an absentee ballot, an application for a mail-in ballot or a mail-in ballot for any of the reasons provided in this act shall deposit the sum of ten dollars ($10.00) in cash with the county board, which sum shall only be refunded if the challenge is sustained or if the challenge is withdrawn within five (5) days after the primary or election. If the challenge is dismissed by any lawful order then the deposit shall be forfeited. The county board shall deposit all deposit money in the general fund of the…

The rest of the forwarded email is cut off.

The last image is a screenshot of the official statement from the Centre County, Pennsylvania Board of Commissioners released on November 6, 2024 that states:

Centre County Working with Ballot Scanner Vendor to Export Election Results.

(Bellefonte, PA) -Centre County Elections Office is working continuously to provide mail-in ballot data in order to post unofficial results.

To this point, all ballots have been scanned, including all mail-in ballots.

Centre County's Election team and IT team have identified that the data are successfully being exported from the mail-in ballot scanners, but that the data is not being recognized when uploaded to the elections software.

Centre County's Administrator, John Franek, Jr. stated, "We have not stopped working, and we will continue to work until unofficial results are posted and reported to the Pennsylvania Department of State."

As a next step, Centre County has begun working with the equipment vendor to adjust configurations to make the two systems-the mail-in ballot scanner and the elections software where data are uploaded -compatible with one another.

We will provide updates as we make progress.

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[creature-wizard]

Hmm? What's this? An anti-voter telling us our votes don't count?

Well! That's quite an opinion! Let's look at their blog, I'm sure we'll see a long history of posts there, showing us that this person is not a bot or a troll account specifically made for election interference?

...Oh?

What's this? Literally only one post?

Oh! But that post is dated to August 2013! Clearly this must be an old blog, it's not like Tumblr has a feature that lets you date posts to anytime you want- oh? They do?

Watch out, y'all - anti-voting bots/trolls are on Tumblr, and they are trying to discourage us from voting. They do this because they know that if we vote blue, we can keep Trump out of office.

[bitcoinversus]

Beef with the Chief: Federal Chair Jerome Powell Says Donald Trump Can’t Fire Him

"The Federal Reserve Act stipulates that Board members, including [Fed Chair Jerome Powell], can only be removed "for cause," a term generally interpreted to mean misconduct or incapacity, not policy disagreements."

Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell has firmly stated that he cannot be dismissed or demoted by the President without cause, emphasizing the legal protections afforded to his position. During a recent press conference, Powell responded to inquiries about potential presidential interference by asserting, “Not permitted under the law.” This declaration underscores the Federal Reserve’s…

[meteorologistaustenlonek]

NPR: "It was very hard to be a scientist"

"Clement chose to resign and become a whistleblower, while others on his team chose to stay despite the challenges, and kept working to assist some Alaskan communities with the help of Congress.

Ultimately, Clement was one of dozens of scientists who resigned or #blew the whistle over what they saw as #politicalinterference and #censorshipofscience by the Trump administration." - #NPR

""We worked with scientists who were terminated from their positions because they spoke out about climate issues, who were reassigned because they work on climate, who were censored, whose research was manipulated," says Lauren Kurtz, the executive director of the fund. She says the Climate Science Legal Defense Fund received about 300 requests for assistance during the Trump administration."

[townpostin]

Police Halts Construction on Private Land in Agrico, Jamshedpur

Woman Alleges Political Interference Behind Stopped Work In Agrico, Jamshedpur, police stopped the construction of a house on private land owned by Shankari Bhumi on Wednesday. Jamshedpur – Shankari Bhumi, a resident of Sidhgora, was constructing a house on her private land near Agrico Nala when the police allegedly intervened and halted the work. Shankari Bhumi stated that she was building on…

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[libraryofbaxobab]

June 30, 2024:

Tales of political intrigue are tough for me to follow and usually not interesting enough to be worth the effort. And this book is trying to do A LOT. The plot is really unclear because there's just, so much of it, and it's going in every direction. Are we breaking someone out of prison, or are we solving a murder, or are we trying to win an election, or are we being invaded, or are we bringing a corrupt official to justice, or are we escaping a rogue foreign dignitary, or are we in a hostage situation, or are we scheming to get mommy's attention, or are we running away from her expectations? What do you mean all of the above???

What kept me going was the worldbuilding. I was delighted to learn more about these various interstellar cultures, and I was just as delighted to learn about it in a natural way instead if it being exposition-dumped all at once. This book trusts me to piece it together along the way.

So like for example, the main homeworld has a gender trinary -- he/she/e -- and they/them is reserved exclusively for children, who choose their adult name and pronouns when they decide they've become an adult (and there are societal norms about what age is expected for that choice). Some adults are given another name later as an inheritance, and both people with the name are considered equivalent. It's sort of a name as a title situation. Nobody comes out and explains this to anyone, because of course they wouldn't! It's normal to them! I liked picking these things out, especially since there are several worlds mentioned, and you can tell what things are like based on what the characters think is weird about other cultures. Honestly, I would have been happy for a book that focused more on that and less on the overdeveloped plot.

7/10 #WhatsKenyaReading

[unofficial-project-2025]

VOTE BLUE!

EDIT: This post is gaining traction, so I think it's important to show you this:

ELON IS INTERFERING WITH THE ELECTION. PLEASE CHECK YOUR VOTER'S REGISTRATION IN PERSON AND TELL PEOPLE ABOUT THIS.

EDIT 2:

IT HAS GOTTEN WORSE.

Please go check your voter's registration and tell everyone you know to do the same! I've heard some states are purging voter's regitration, so please go check!