#joe mena

[brrbrina]

went out for breakfast with my high school besties and came home TO A JERSEY??? 😭😭 i have never seen this one in my life but adding to the collection 🙂‍↕️

[imaginary-wanderer]

A pattern I wouldn't mind seeing more.

[kosmic-apothecary]

Iran has shown remarkable restraint since the Gaza genocide began. Israel has attacked and killed several of their important military leaders and last week bombed the Iranian consulate - an act that so flagrantly breeches international law and custom as to be unheard of. They have said they’re going to retaliate, and when they do you can bet the US and Israel will claim Iran is the aggressor.

[cosmicanger]

[madamepestilence]

Just as a reminder as I've just noticed myself - arab.org has more pages to support on

In case you're unfamiliar with how this site works, it confirms ad revenue via your clicks, which allows them to donate money to various funds

These go to:

Children -> UNICEF (United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund)

Fight Poverty -> UNDP (United Nations Development Programme)

Environment -> Greenpeace MENA (Middle East and North Africa)

Palestine -> UNRWA (United Nations Relief and Works Agency [for Palestine Refugees in the Near East])

Refugees -> UNHCR (United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees)

Women -> UN Women

Do more with your daily clicks! You can help each one once per individual (perhaps per IP address?) per day, letting you help out with six things at once?

US-specific advice for helping Palestine below cut.

Side note I'm keeping beneath the cut since it's relevant to US folks only: if you're really determined to help Palestine, vote for Dr. Cornel West, Ph.D. for President of the United States.

He's the most openly vocal about a free Palestine and is the only candidate who has demonstrably shown he is the most committed and prepared to immediately cease US support to Israel.

Joe Biden isn't going to cave if he gets re-elected. We all know that. Voting third party is a lot less risky than you've been taught - the two party system can replace one or both parties with new parties if they lose public favour.

We have both the people and the ability to unseat the Democratic party and install Socialism, and between Socialism and Republicans, Socialism is going to lock in place immediately and become the dominant political force in America.

Cornel West's Platform

Cornel West's Volunteer Events

Cornel West's Ballot Access Tracker and Ballot Access Plans

Tumblr thread I have of Primary/Caucus polling dates in the US (includes US territories)

Not on your Primary/Caucus ballot? Write-in, "Cornel West," on your ballot, or urge your Caucus representatives to do the same.

In a state where it's difficult for Independent candidates to get ballot access? Dr. Cornel West, Ph.D. thought ahead and has created a new party for those states called the Justice for All Party.

(Addendum: Claudia de la Cruz is not a viable alternative. The Party for Socialism and Liberation has a Conservative 5th Column and has frequent issues with discrimination.)

Free Palestine. Vote for Cornel West.

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

Matt Wuerker, Politico

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LETTERS FROM AN AMERICAN

October 30, 2024

Heather Cox Richardson

Oct 31, 2024

On Friday, October 25, at a town hall held on his social media platform X, Elon Musk told the audience that if Trump wins, he expects to work in a Cabinet-level position to cut the federal government.

He told people to expect “temporary hardship” but that cuts would “ensure long-term prosperity.” At the Trump rally at New York City’s Madison Square Garden on Sunday, Musk said he plans to cut $2 trillion from the government. Economists point out that current discretionary spending in the budget is $1.7 trillion, meaning his promise would eliminate virtually all discretionary spending, which includes transportation, education, housing, and environmental programs.

Economists agree that Trump’s plans to place a high tariff wall around the U.S., replacing income taxes on high earners with tariffs paid for by middle-class Americans, and to deport as many as 20 million immigrants would crash the booming economy. Now Trump’s financial backer Musk is factoring in the loss of entire sectors of the government to the economy under Trump.  

Trump has promised to appoint Musk to be the government’s “chief efficiency officer.” “Everyone’s going to have to take a haircut.… We can’t be a wastrel.… We need to live honestly,” Musk said on Friday. Rob Wile and Lora Kolodny of CNBC point out that Musk’s SpaceX aerospace venture has received $19 billion from the U.S. government since 2008.

An X user wrote: “I]f Trump succeeds in forcing through mass deportations, combined with Elon hacking away at the government, firing people and reducing the deficit—there will be an initial severe overreaction in the economy…. Markets will tumble. But when the storm passes and everyone realizes we are on sounder footing, there will be a rapid recovery to a healthier, sustainable economy. History could be made in the coming two years.”

Musk commented: “Sounds about right[.]”

This exchange echoes the prescription of Treasury Secretary Andrew Mellon, whose theories had done much to create the Great Crash of 1929, for restoring a healthy economy. “Liquidate labor, liquidate stocks, liquidate the farmers, liquidate real estate,” he told President Herbert Hoover. “It will purge the rottenness out of the system. High costs of living and high living

will come down. People will work harder, live a more moral life. Values will be adjusted, and enterprising people will pick up the wrecks from less competent people.” 

Mellon, at least, was reacting to an economic crisis thrust upon an administration. Musk is seeking to create one. 

Today the Commerce Department reported that from July through September, the nation’s economy grew at a solid 2.8%. Consumer spending is up, as is investment in business. The country added 254,000 jobs in September, and inflation has fallen back almost to the Federal Reserve’s target of 2%. 

It is extraordinarily rare for a country to be able to reduce inflation without creating a recession, but the Biden administration has managed to do so, producing what economists call a “soft landing,” rather like catching an egg on a plate. As Bryan Mena of CNN wrote today: “The US economy seems to have pulled off a remarkable and historic achievement.” 

Both President Joe Biden and Democratic presidential nominee Vice President Kamala Harris have called for reducing the deficit not by slashing the government, as Musk proposes, but by restoring taxes on the wealthy and corporations. 

As part of the Republicans’ plan to take the country back to the era before the 1930s ushered in a government that regulated business and provided a basic social safety net, House speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) expects to get rid of the Affordable Care Act. 

At a closed-door campaign event on Monday in Pennsylvania for a Republican House candidate, Johnson told supporters that Republicans will propose “massive reform” to the Affordable Care Act, also known as “Obamacare,” if they take control of both the House and the Senate in November. “Health-care reform’s going to be a big part of the agenda,” Johnson said. Their plan is to take a “blowtorch to the regulatory state,” which he says is “crushing the free market.” “Trump’s going to go big,” he said.” When an attendee asked, “No Obamacare?” he laughed and agreed: “No Obamacare…. The ACA is so deeply ingrained, we need massive reform to make this work, and we got a lot of ideas on how to do that.” 

Ending a campaign with a promise to crash a booming economy and end the Affordable Care Act, which ended insurance companies’ ability to reject people with preexisting conditions, is an unusual strategy.

A post from Trump last night and another this morning suggest his internal polls are worrying him. Last night he claimed there was cheating in Pennsylvania’s York and Lancaster counties. Today he posted: “Pennsylvania is cheating, and getting caught, at large scale levels rarely seen before. REPORT CHEATING TO AUTHORITIES. Law Enforcement must act, NOW!” 

Trump appears to be setting up the argument he used in 2020, that he can lose only if he has been cheated. But it is increasingly apparent that the get-out-the-vote, or GOTV, efforts of the Trump campaign have been weak. When Trump’s daughter-in-law Lara Trump and loyalist Michael Whatley became the co-chairs of the Republican National Committee in March 2024, they stopped the GOTV efforts underway and used the money instead for litigation. They outsourced GOTV efforts to super PACs, including Musk’s America PAC.

In Wired today, Jake Lahut reported that door-knockers for Musk’s PAC were driven around in the back of a U-Haul without seats and threatened with having to pay their own hotel bills if they didn’t meet high canvassing quotas. One of the canvassers told Lahut that they thought they were being hired to ask people who they would be voting for when they flew into Michigan, and was surprised to learn their actual role. The workers spoke to Lahut anonymously because they had signed a nondisclosure agreement (a practice the Biden administration has tried to stop).

Trump’s boast that he is responsible for the Supreme Court’s overturning of the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision recognizing the constitutional right to abortion is one of the reasons his support is soft. In addition to popular dislike of the idea that the state, rather than a woman and her doctor, should make decisions about her healthcare, the Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization decision is now over two years old, and state examinations of maternal deaths are showing that women are dying from lack of reproductive healthcare. 

Cassandra Jaramillo and Kavitha Surana of ProPublica reported today that at least two pregnant women have died in Texas when doctors delayed emergency care after a miscarriage until the fetal heartbeat stopped. The woman they highlighted today, Josseli Barnica, left behind a husband and a toddler. 

At a rally this evening near Green Bay, Wisconsin, Trump said his team had advised him to stop talking about how he was going to protect women by ending crime and making sure they don’t have to be “thinking about abortion.” But Trump, who has boasted of sexual assault and been found liable for it, did not stop there. He went on to say that he had told his advisors, “I’m going to do it whether the women like it or not. I am going to protect them.” 

The Trump campaign remains concerned about the damage caused by the extraordinarily racist, sexist, and violent Sunday night rally at Madison Square Garden. Today the campaign seized on a misstatement President Biden made when condemning the statement from the Madison Square Garden event that referred to Puerto Rico as a “floating island of garbage.” They tried to turn the tables to suggest that Biden was calling Trump supporters garbage, although the president has always been very careful to focus his condemnation on Trump alone. 

In Wisconsin today, when he disembarked from his plane, Trump put on an orange reflective vest and had someone drive him around the tarmac in a garbage truck with TRUMP painted on the side. He complained about Biden to reporters from the cab of the truck but still refused to apologize for Sunday’s slur of Puerto Rico, saying he knew nothing about the comedian who appeared at his rally. 

This, too, was an unusual strategy. Like his visit to McDonalds, where he wore an apron, the image of Trump in a sanitation truck was likely intended to show him as a man of the people. But his power has always rested not in his promise to be one of the people, but rather to lead them. The pictures of him in a bright orange vest and unusually dark makeup are quite different from his usual portrayal of himself.

Indeed, media captured a video of Trump’s stunt, and it did not convey strength. MSNBC’s Katie Phang watched him try to get into the truck and noted: “Trump stumbles, drags his right leg, almost falls over, and tries at least three times to open the door…. Some transparency with Trump’s medical records would be nice.” 

The Las Vegas Sun today ran an editorial that detailed Trump’s increasingly obvious mental lapses and concluded that Trump is “crippled cognitively and showing clear signs of mental illness.” It noted that Trump now depends “on enablers who show a disturbing willingness to indulge his delusions, amplify his paranoia or steer his feeble mind toward their own goals.” It noted that if Trump cannot fulfill the duties of the presidency, they would fall to his running mate, J.D. Vance, who has suggested “he would subordinate constitutional principles for personal profit and power.”

LETTERS FROM AN AMERICAN

HEATHER COX RICHARDSON

[amniotic]

Strawhat Pirates mixtape 𓇼 ⋆｡˚ 𓆝₊⊹𓆉︎

i'm very normal about them, so i made a mixtape for the strawhats. this is more like a OPLA mixtape cause i'm still in alabasta in the animé akjjassja ⋆｡𖦹 °.🐚⋆❀˖°

˗ˏˋ listen here ˎˊ˗

Sanji

Good old fashioned lover boy - queen Valentine - Laufey Algo contigo - Rita Payés Can't help falling in love - Elvis Presley Hey Lover - The Daughters of Eve O' Sarracino - Renato Carosone Me and my husband - mitski The other woman - lana del rey Mio Amore- the flamingos Sway - Dean martini Washing machine heart - mitski

luffy

Nuestra canción - monsieur periné Hijo del sol luminoso - Joe Vasconcellos Pregon para iluminarse - Los Jaivas You've got a friend in me - Cavetown Hypeboy - Newjeans Music for a sushi restaurant - Harry Styles Hopes and Dreams - Toby Fox Hunger - Aurora The mother we share - CHVRCHES 愛彌々 - Mongol800×Wanima

Zoro

No Church in The Wild - JAY-Z Leave my body - florence + the machine Die for you - the weeknd STRONG - Miyavi Guy.exe - superfruit I love you, i love you, i love you, i hate you - Miyavi Yo no soy celoso - Bad Bunny Espada - Javiera Mena No Tengo dinero - Juan Gabriel King of Lionheart - Of Monster and Men Hasta la raíz - Natalia Lafourcade

Usopp

Lies and truth - L'arc~en~Ciel I'm not calling you a liar - florence + the machine Cloud 9 - Beach Bunny Friday I'm in Love - The Cure No hace falta - Monsieur Periné Soldier, Poet, King - The Oh Hellos Teenagers - My chemical romance Rabbit Heart - Florence + the machine Starman - Seu Jorge

Nami

Dangerous Woman - Ariana Grande Are you Satisfied - Marina Vine Solita - Natalia Lafourcade Diamonds are a girl's best friend - Marilyn Monroe Dog Day are Over - Florence + the machine The River - Aurora Free - Florence + the machine Entre el mandarinal - Daniel toro Little Talks - Of monster and Men Ïf We All Die Tomorrow - Tom Rosenthal

[betterthanburrow]

Emails I Can’t Send - Instagram AU

(Bengals Quarterback! Joe Burrow x PopStar! OC)

liked by joeyb_9, and 7,205,104 more users

yourinstagram: thank you for all the love and support on my new album “Emails I Can’t Send” 💌

view all 1,991,048 comments

joeyb_9: i love you and i’m proud of you ❣️

username1: EICS IS THE ALBUM OF THE YEAR!

mamaburrow: Track 6 is my new favorite song!

username2: THIS IS YOUR BEST ALBUM!

sam_hubbard_: i just added all 17 songs to my daily workout playlist.

↳ yourinstagram: even the sad songs?!

↳ sam_hubbard_: especially the sad songs!

liked by 682,079 users

BurrowHeadUpdates: Joe Burrow’s Instagram Stories of him attending Y/N’s album release concert tonight.

view all 242,495 comments

username1: they’ve only been dating for about 3 months and Joe is already the most supportive boyfriend that Y/N has ever had!

username2: remember the (now ex) boyfriend that didn’t support Y/N’s music career at all and said in an interview that he was embarrassed by all her songs, i know that hurt for her to hear… so i’m glad that she has someone she loves who is supportive by her side!

username3: the love songs about Joe on Y/N’s next album are going to be so good!

↳ username4: let’s just hope that this new relationship lasts until Y/N starts working on the next album!

↳ username5: we already know Track 9 is about Joe… so we already know that Y/N is already writing songs about Joe for her next album.

liked by 810,200 users

Y/FNupdates: Y/N’s instagram stories after her album release concert showing off the gifts she’s received from Joe Burrow (her boyfriend) and fans.

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username1: OMG I SEE THE CARD I GAVE Y/N!

username2: i’ve never seen any artist appreciate gifts from fans the way that Y/N appreciates all the gifts that she receives from fans

joeyb_9: I WAS IN A RUSH TO WRITE THE CARD, I SWEAR I GOT HER GIFTS, SHE SET ME UP!

↳ yourinstagram: i didn’t set you up… i swear i really do appreciate the card that i saw you rushing to write and give to me 2 minutes before i got on stage 😊

liked by yourinstagram, and 991,395 more users

joeyb_9: read the shirt ❣️

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yourinstagram: how long until an article is written about how NFL Quarterback Joe Burrow supports being a homewrecker?!

↳ joeyb_9: i give it a little over 24 hours… but the articles will be good promo for your new album!

mamaburrow: i wish i didn’t read the shirt.

lahjay10_: can i get free homewrecker shirt?!

↳ yourinstagram: i mean you could get a free shirt… or you could buy the shirt and support a young, talented, underrated artist?!

↳ lahjay10_: UNDERRATED ARTIST?! … okay miss number 1 artist everywhere in the world at this minute.

liked by joeyb_9, Bengals, and 5,204,600 more users

yourinstagram: me and my love @.Bengals 🧡

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Bengals: WE LOVE YOU AND THE NEW ALBUM!

↳ yourinstagram: what’s your top 3 from EICS 🤨

↳ Bengals: Track 2, Track 9, and Track 15!

↳ yourinstagram: this is a great top 3 choice.

sam_hubbard_: how i am on the NFL Bengals team and still haven’t met a tiger?!

joeyb_9: alright miss “i didn’t know Bengals were type of tiger until my NFL Bengals Quarterback boyfriend told me after embarrassing myself in the locker room.”

↳ yourinstagram: PLEASE STOP BRINGING THAT UP!

Author’s Note:

i wanted to post this the week that the EICS FWD album was released, but i already have Instagram AUs scheduled to be published during that time… and no, this isn’t an April Fools Day joke either!

i’m dedicating this Instagram AU to Mena @brrbrina , go check out her Joe Burrow Fanfiction series inspired by the EICS FWD album!

if you have any request for an Instagram AU please send them to my Inbox and i’ll try to get the request published as fast as i can!

thank you all for the love and support! 🤍

[bauliya]

so like we're supposed to crowdfund to get Palestinians out of the war zone into egypt, pay a ridiculously high fee - nobody in egypt or neighborhood countries are doing anything to accept more Palestinians, open borders, end the fee scam - and then we are also supposed to keep financing refugees until when? like you cannot in good faith expect that we are going to be able to crowdfund out of this, jesus fucking christ. where are the demands by egypt citizens to let more Palestinians in? to cut off the taxes? lebanon? jordan? iraq? syria? where is the outrage from citizens of those countries? why is the responsibility for a billions of years conflict put on the shoulders of your average joe? why is it only the job of westerns to protest and fix this? what are other mena countries doing for palestine? saudi is still lining Israel pockets, turkey the same shit.

i think we should help people to whatever extent we can. it’s not that deep.

[fishymom-art]

What songs would represent each member from the old Metal and ink cast AND the new one?

OOOHHHHH GOOD QUESTION GOOD

The list is going to be pretty long ahhahaha

Read under the cut!

Joey Drew: Glass Animals - The Other Side of Paradise/Poor Man’s Poison - Feed The Machine

Henry Stein: grandson - Blood//Water/2WEI - Hit The Road, Jack

Susie Angel and Susie Campbell: Sunday Driver - Mechanical Angel/IC3PEAK - Сказка

Metal Bendy or Daniel Hackebush: The Neighborhood - Wires/Bear Ghost - Necromancin Dancin

Sam Lawrence: The Correspondents - Fear & Delight/FAKE TYPE. - Nightmare Parade

Projectionist or Norman Polk: James Arthur - Say You Won't Let Go/MISSIO - Sing To Me

Lacie Benton: Hamilton - Dear Theodosia/Stefflon Don - 16 Shots

Lost Johnny or Johnny Polk: Chase Holfelder - Drift Away/Pomplamoose - Bust Your Kneecaps

Angelic Allison or Allison Pendle: Maria Mena - It Took Me By Surprise/Dessa - Congratulations

Tom The Wolf or Thomas Connor: grandson - Stick Up/City Wolf - Dead Man Walking

Wally Franks: 24kGoldn - City of Angels/Rivers Cuomo - Two Broken Hearts

Grant Cohen: Jack Stauber's Micropop - Choice/MISSIO - I Don't Give A...

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Nightmare Joey: Rusty Cage - There Isn't Any God/The Hoosiers - A Sadness Runs Through Him

Nelly Pevolet or Penelope Stein: Dove Cameron - Breakfast/Derivakat - Pomegranate Seeds

Nightmare Nelly specifically: FLASCH - DEADNAME!/Halsey - Control

Talyn Benton: Journey to Bethlehem - We Become We/Stars - In Our Bedroom After The War

Wilson Arch: Umbratic Forest (or Stella Jang) - Villain/The Buttress - Brutus

The Creation (Demon Wilson) specifically: Billie Eilish - bury a friend/ZHU, NERO - Dreams

Nathan Arch: Joe Iconis - The Guide To Success/Roger Allam, Martin Smith - You're Nothing Without Me

Jamie Green: Mother Mother - Hayloft II/Naethan Apollo - You're Not Welcome

Kameela Franks: Spence Hood - So You Wanna Marry Daisy/Caro Emerald - Tangled Up

Aminata Awee: Anika Noni Rose - Almost There/Caleb Hyles - I'd Rather Be Me With You

Valeria Connor: Regina Spektor - Fidelity/Write Out Loud - Little Miss Perfect

I THINK THAT'S IT OH GOD AIUGEHLIAUEHG THERE'S SO MANY OF THEM

and I am NOT including the Golden Reality counterparts XD

Also I have songs that fit different ships but I'm not including that either, otherwise this list is going to be endless XDD

(also, sorry, but no Audrey hghghg)

[brrbrina]

i’ve had an idea in mind for a singer!reader x joe fanfic, however they have a 6 year age gap for fanfic purposes, do yall think it’s a good idea? 👀

[yourreddancer]

Heather Cox Richardson 10.30.24

On Friday, October 25, at a town hall held on his social media platform X, Elon Musk told the audience that if Trump wins, he expects to work in a Cabinet-level position to cut the federal government.

He told people to expect “temporary hardship” but that cuts would “ensure long-term prosperity.” At the Trump rally at New York City’s Madison Square Garden on Sunday, Musk said he plans to cut $2 trillion from the government. Economists point out that current discretionary spending in the budget is $1.7 trillion, meaning his promise would eliminate virtually all discretionary spending, which includes transportation, education, housing, and environmental programs.

Economists agree that Trump’s plans to place a high tariff wall around the U.S., replacing income taxes on high earners with tariffs paid for by middle-class Americans, and to deport as many as 20 million immigrants would crash the booming economy. Now Trump’s financial backer Musk is factoring in the loss of entire sectors of the government to the economy under Trump.  

Trump has promised to appoint Musk to be the government’s “chief efficiency officer.” “Everyone’s going to have to take a haircut.… We can’t be a wastrel.… We need to live honestly,” Musk said on Friday. Rob Wile and Lora Kolodny of CNBC point out that Musk’s SpaceX aerospace venture has received $19 billion from the U.S. government since 2008.

An X user wrote: “I]f Trump succeeds in forcing through mass deportations, combined with Elon hacking away at the government, firing people and reducing the deficit—there will be an initial severe overreaction in the economy…. Markets will tumble. But when the storm passes and everyone realizes we are on sounder footing, there will be a rapid recovery to a healthier, sustainable economy. History could be made in the coming two years.”

Musk commented: “Sounds about right[.]”

This exchange echoes the prescription of Treasury Secretary Andrew Mellon, whose theories had done much to create the Great Crash of 1929, for restoring a healthy economy. “Liquidate labor, liquidate stocks, liquidate the farmers, liquidate real estate,” he told President Herbert Hoover. “It will purge the rottenness out of the system. High costs of living and high living will come down. People will work harder, live a more moral life. Values will be adjusted, and enterprising people will pick up the wrecks from less competent people.” 

Mellon, at least, was reacting to an economic crisis thrust upon an administration. Musk is seeking to create one. 

Today the Commerce Department reported that from July through September, the nation’s economy grew at a solid 2.8%. Consumer spending is up, as is investment in business. The country added 254,000 jobs in September, and inflation has fallen back almost to the Federal Reserve’s target of 2%. 

It is extraordinarily rare for a country to be able to reduce inflation without creating a recession, but the Biden administration has managed to do so, producing what economists call a “soft landing,” rather like catching an egg on a plate. As Bryan Mena of CNN wrote today: “The US economy seems to have pulled off a remarkable and historic achievement.” 

Both President Joe Biden and Democratic presidential nominee Vice President Kamala Harris have called for reducing the deficit not by slashing the government, as Musk proposes, but by restoring taxes on the wealthy and corporations. 

As part of the Republicans’ plan to take the country back to the era before the 1930s ushered in a government that regulated business and provided a basic social safety net, House speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) expects to get rid of the Affordable Care Act. 

At a closed-door campaign event on Monday in Pennsylvania for a Republican House candidate, Johnson told supporters that Republicans will propose “massive reform” to the Affordable Care Act, also known as “Obamacare,” if they take control of both the House and the Senate in November. “Health-care reform’s going to be a big part of the agenda,” Johnson said. Their plan is to take a “blowtorch to the regulatory state,” which he says is “crushing the free market.” “Trump’s going to go big,” he said.” When an attendee asked, “No Obamacare?” he laughed and agreed: “No Obamacare…. The ACA is so deeply ingrained, we need massive reform to make this work, and we got a lot of ideas on how to do that.” 

Ending a campaign with a promise to crash a booming economy and end the Affordable Care Act, which ended insurance companies’ ability to reject people with preexisting conditions, is an unusual strategy.

A post from Trump last night and another this morning suggest his internal polls are worrying him. Last night he claimed there was cheating in Pennsylvania’s York and Lancaster counties. Today he posted: “Pennsylvania is cheating, and getting caught, at large scale levels rarely seen before. REPORT CHEATING TO AUTHORITIES. Law Enforcement must act, NOW!” 

Trump appears to be setting up the argument he used in 2020, that he can lose only if he has been cheated. But it is increasingly apparent that the get-out-the-vote, or GOTV, efforts of the Trump campaign have been weak. When Trump’s daughter-in-law Lara Trump and loyalist Michael Whatley became the co-chairs of the Republican National Committee in March 2024, they stopped the GOTV efforts underway and used the money instead for litigation. They outsourced GOTV efforts to super PACs, including Musk’s America PAC.

In Wired today, Jake Lahut reported that door-knockers for Musk’s PAC were driven around in the back of a U-Haul without seats and threatened with having to pay their own hotel bills if they didn’t meet high canvassing quotas. One of the canvassers told Lahut that they thought they were being hired to ask people who they would be voting for when they flew into Michigan, and was surprised to learn their actual role. The workers spoke to Lahut anonymously because they had signed a nondisclosure agreement (a practice the Biden administration has tried to stop).

Trump’s boast that he is responsible for the Supreme Court’s overturning of the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision recognizing the constitutional right to abortion is one of the reasons his support is soft. In addition to popular dislike of the idea that the state, rather than a woman and her doctor, should make decisions about her healthcare, the Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization decision is now over two years old, and state examinations of maternal deaths are showing that women are dying from lack of reproductive healthcare. 

Cassandra Jaramillo and Kavitha Surana of ProPublica reported today that at least two pregnant women have died in Texas when doctors delayed emergency care after a miscarriage until the fetal heartbeat stopped. The woman they highlighted today, Josseli Barnica, left behind a husband and a toddler. 

At a rally this evening near Green Bay, Wisconsin, Trump said his team had advised him to stop talking about how he was going to protect women by ending crime and making sure they don’t have to be “thinking about abortion.” But Trump, who has boasted of sexual assault and been found liable for it, did not stop there. He went on to say that he had told his advisors, “I’m going to do it whether the women like it or not. I am going to protect them.” 

The Trump campaign remains concerned about the damage caused by the extraordinarily racist, sexist, and violent Sunday night rally at Madison Square Garden. Today the campaign seized on a misstatement President Biden made when condemning the statement from the Madison Square Garden event that referred to Puerto Rico as a “floating island of garbage.” They tried to turn the tables to suggest that Biden was calling Trump supporters garbage, although the president has always been very careful to focus his condemnation on Trump alone. 

In Wisconsin today, when he disembarked from his plane, Trump put on an orange reflective vest and had someone drive him around the tarmac in a garbage truck with TRUMP painted on the side. He complained about Biden to reporters from the cab of the truck but still refused to apologize for Sunday’s slur of Puerto Rico, saying he knew nothing about the comedian who appeared at his rally. 

This, too, was an unusual strategy. Like his visit to McDonalds, where he wore an apron, the image of Trump in a sanitation truck was likely intended to show him as a man of the people. But his power has always rested not in his promise to be one of the people, but rather to lead them. The pictures of him in a bright orange vest and unusually dark makeup are quite different from his usual portrayal of himself.

Indeed, media captured a video of Trump’s stunt, and it did not convey strength. MSNBC’s Katie Phang watched him try to get into the truck and noted: “Trump stumbles, drags his right leg, almost falls over, and tries at least three times to open the door…. Some transparency with Trump’s medical records would be nice.” 

The Las Vegas Sun today ran an editorial that detailed Trump’s increasingly obvious mental lapses and concluded that Trump is “crippled cognitively and showing clear signs of mental illness.” It noted that Trump now depends “on enablers who show a disturbing willingness to indulge his delusions, amplify his paranoia or steer his feeble mind toward their own goals.” It noted that if Trump cannot fulfill the duties of the presidency, they would fall to his running mate, J.D. Vance, who has suggested “he would subordinate constitutional principles for personal profit and power.”

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[wingardiumfm]

hi there! could i pretty please get some male fc recs & mw male characters? thank you in advance!

hello !! & of course ! faces: darren barnet, manny jacinto, keith powers, steven yeun, sean teale, charles melton, oliver jackson-cohen, avan jogia, jonathan daviss, oscar isaac, drew starkey, rafael silva, alperen duymaz, dev patel, glen powell, brenton thwaites, pedro pascal, jordan fisher, ben barnes, joe keery, theo james, taylor zakhar perez, noah lalonde, emilio sakraya, leo woodall, josh hueston, aria shahghasemi, xolo mariduena, lucien laviscount, mena massoud, kiowa gordon, tom glynn carney, wang yibo, dan stevens, william moseley, ryan potter, rafael silva, logan shroyer, diego tinoco, jorge lopez, oliver stark, ryan guzman, henry goulding, harry shum jr, bill skarsgard, gabriel basso, & domhnall gleeson. muses: we'd definitely love to see some of our wanted connections taken — however if those don't appeal, we'd die to see canons such as amycus carrow, edgar bones, arthur weasley ( to love on our molly! ), antonin dolohov, evan rosier ( related to pandora! ), peter pettigrew, & the bagman brothers, ludo and otto. for the oc of your dreams, those with the surname borgin, goyle, greengrass, sallow, mulciber, jordan, thakkar, & wood would be stellar !

[girlfromnrc]

I kept thinking about a live action TW and like...

Joseph Quinn would be so perfect as Idia.

Jonathan Bailey as Farena and Dacre Montgomery as Leona.

Ty Tennant as Vil.

Kit Connor as Jack.

David Tennant as Dire Crowley.

Jordan Fisher as Sam.

Ruby Cruz as Epel (wild choice, I know).

Corey Mylchreest as Malleus.

Joe Keery as Floyd (which would lead to Ben Schwartz playing Jade, which he definitely isnt young enough to do lol)

Mena Massoud as Jamil

Freddie Dennis as Rook

Younger Elliot Page as Riddle

Gaten Matarazzo as Ruggie

Finn Wolfhard as Azul

[wishywashysmoshy]

WAIT A FUCKING MINUTE JOE KEERY FROM STRANGERS THINGS WROTE END OF BEGINNING WHAT???????????

WHAT DO YOU MENA HES A MUSICIAN

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