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Did I not say he wanted to turn US into Russia 2.0? Did I not say it?

Paul Blumenthal at HuffPost:

With a combination of executive orders, legal maneuvers and staffing decisions, President Donald Trump has already put in motion his next effort to subvert upcoming federal elections in 2026 and 2028. Since taking office, Trump has installed loyalists who follow his orders into key positions at the Department of Justice, issued executive orders centralizing decision-making within the White House, attempted to unilaterally change state and local election laws, demanded unprecedented access to voter data, dismantled election security protections, threatened elections officials and workers, law firms and others who have historically stood up to protect elections and defended, hired or pardoned those involved in previous efforts to subvert elections.

All of these actions combine into a “concerted strategy” to undermine federal elections, according to a new report by the Brennan Center for Justice, a left-leaning nonprofit that advocates for voting rights. The report highlights how these actions are being used together to set the stage for future lies about election integrity and attempts by the White House to try to change the outcome of elections altogether. It also details how they are being fought by states, election officials and voting advocates. “We are seeing this as an unprecedented intrusion by the White House into the way that our elections work in a way that really makes us concerned for our elections moving forward,” said Sean Morales-Doyle, director of the voting rights and elections program at the Brennan Center.

Trump has made the subversion of elections central to his political career, which he launched by questioning whether President Barack Obama was eligible to be president. He has claimed every election since 2012 that did not go Republicans’ way was rigged with illegal votes and fraud, even claiming that his 2016 win would have been bigger if not for alleged fraud. This false campaign culminated after his 2020 loss when he illegally attempted to remain in power and sparked an insurrection aimed at stopping the certification of President Joe Biden’s victory on Jan. 6, 2021.

That effort was “haphazard and desperate,” according to Morales-Doyle, but with four years of planning and an even more supine Republican Congress, Trump returned to office with time to put a similar plan into place.

[...] The most important change from his first administration is that Trump has shied away from hiring experienced eminences into key posts in the Department of Justice, the FBI and the Department of Defense and instead appointed toadies who follow his orders.

After the 2020 election, Trump’s attempt to steal the election was hamstrung by his appointees, including Attorney General William Barr, who refused to seize voting machines at Trump’s request, and other DOJ officials who fought Trump’s efforts to appoint Jeff Clark as acting attorney general in order to issue a letter saying the election was marred by fraud. This second Trump administration is instead staffed with people who helped Trump lie about the 2020 election, including Attorney General Pam Bondi, FBI director Kash Patel, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon and Ed Martin, a right-wing attorney who now leads a Justice Department task force on the “weaponization” of the federal government. The shift means voting rights advocates are now fighting the federal government itself rather than fringe outside actors.

[...] Unlike Barr, these appointees may have no qualms with fulfilling Trump’s election fraud fantasies by seeking to seize voting machines, publicly claim election fraud or pressure state or local election officials to take actions to undermine the election results. They have already begun this process by targeting and threatening election officials through the Weaponization Working Group headed by Martin and the election integrity task forces set up in the offices of the U.S. Attorney for New Jersey, previously held by Trump’s former lawyer Alina Habba, and the U.S. Attorney for Washington, D.C., led by former Fox News anchor Jeanine Pirro. [...]

Trump’s appointees are aided by many of the president’s other actions, which aim to cast a cloud of doubt over the integrity of elections. On March 25, Trump issued a sweeping executive order aiming to allow the president to directly set state election law, despite the president having almost no constitutional role or legal power in the administration of elections.

The order directed the Election Administration Committee to mandate that states require voters to show proof of citizenship in order to vote, rescind certifications for almost all voting machines and ordered the Department of Homeland Security and the Department of Government Efficiency to obtain full voter files from every state, including sensitive data like Social Security numbers. The order also directs the attorney general to target states that count mail-in ballots that arrive after election day for legal action.

[...] Refusal to comply with Trump’s executive order could fuel propaganda claiming the results from those states are fraudulent or as a pretext to declare an election-related emergency and seize voting machines. Requests for voter files could lead the administration to demand specific individuals be removed from the voter rolls, both altering the electorate or, if states do not comply, provide propaganda fodder and pretexts for interference. [...] The Trump administration and Republicans could do something similar by using whatever alleged violation of Trump’s executive order or claim about voter roll errors to challenge the outcome after the election. If Democrats had won a majority in the House or Senate, it’s theoretically possible for Congress to refuse to seat anyone in one of these contested seats. That could allow Republicans to remain in control even if they lost, at least temporarily.

This should scare you. The Trump Regime has plans to disrupt the next election in order to keep his party in hold of power (illegally).

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Oh my god we actually did it.

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I KNEW he was bad but I just didn't know how....

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Why tf was she working by herself?!

“no crew, no help, just pure hustle” cut to this poor woman bawling her eyes out. what the fuck is wrong with people? why is this being framed as a good or impressive feat? this person makes below poverty wages already. Burger King meanwhile takes in $27 billion in global revenue every single year. everyone involved in making this woman endure this should be tortured and force fed chicken fries until their heart gives out. fuck this country.

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Little dino says no needless guilt! We should be allowed to live our lives without feeling guilty about everything!

Chibird store | Positive pin club | Webtoon  

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How about we learn to write great books that have happy endings that are longer than half a chapter. Longer than just 1 chapter.

Or learn to appreciate the books that have this better.

2026 booktok discourse: sad books are a cognitohazard (they make you sad)

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at this point I’m tired of putting “prefer not to answer” on my job applications when they ask me my gender. Remove the question. I will never answer. My identity is a surprise you find out at the interview when I show up appearing as gender ambiguous as humanly possible in order to disguise the fact I am thousands of bees in a skin suit. No I am not buzzing. There was no option for Hive Insects on the form. This was your decision. I am consequences.

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To intimidate the aliens that come here

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Art is subjective. The only way it'd be a scam is if the stuff he bought was ten bucks and he did nothing to it then charged 100 for it

this guy posted this video called “unethical money making hacks” and was like “i’m selling bullshit art!” and he was buying prints from kmart and covering them in joint compound and making interesting shapes in the joint compound and then selling it as “textured wall art” like sorry bro that’s just regular art you made art i know it feels like bullshit but you’re actually just making art rn

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can you talk about some small and big things that people can do to be better allies to Jews right now?

Thanks for asking! That alone puts you ahead of a lot of people who’ve gone quiet or gotten weird.

Small things:

Check in on your Jewish friends. Not to make it about you, not to ask them to explain things. Just a thinking of you or you crossed my mind and I hope you're hanging in.

If you're in progressive spaces, watch for the silencing. Are Jews being interrupted, sidelined, or interrogated more than others? Are Jewish speakers only invited when something antisemitic happens? Are they being required to perform the right sort of Jewishness or the right position on Israel's right to exist? Slap that shit down

Learn the basics of Jewish history outside of crisis. Jewishness is more than trauma. It's culture, language, ritual, music, food, texts. You can’t be an ally if all you see is a wound.

Medium things:

Push back when antisemitism shows up in your circles, even when it’s subtle, coded, or disguised with cause-language. You don't have to give a lecture. "Hey, that's not okay" or "That framing feels off" is much more than we're used to seeing. Ask if they'd say the same thing if a different tribal identity was involved. Underline the hypocrisy.

Don't use Jewish pain as a rhetorical prop. If you're quoting statistics about Jew hatred, make sure you're also listening to actual Jews.

Get comfortable holding space for complexity. If you care about human rights, you can care about Palestinians and Israelis without erasing either one.

Big things:

Make space for Jewish voices even when it's not convenient, appreciated, or applauded. Invite Jews into coalitions, panels, projects, not just as the antisemitism rep, and not just Jews who are willing to be tokens and condemn Israel's right to exist.

Show up when no one else is looking. That means speaking out before things get uglier. That means backing Jewish colleagues and classmates even when it's awkward and uncomfortable.

Let go of the idea that being a good ally means being perfect. A good ally is present, accountable, and willing to grow. (Seems like you're at least most of the way there, Anon.)

You don't need to do everything.

You just need to start somewhere and keep showing up.

Again, thanks for asking. I hope others will share their answers, too.

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Made these about a month ago, figured other spoonies might want to use them

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Just like, I want to reach through the screen, enter their world, and hug them through all their emotionally tragic moments.

I want to be their therapist even though we have the same problems.

saying “i want him” about the character but not in a romantic or sexual way . i just Require him i need to Obtain him

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It is so wackadoo that Xena in her immediate next life as Arminestra is the Mother of Peace and Gabrielle in her immediate next life as Shakti is a Warrior Prince.

But also it’s so fitting at the same time because you see this is the trajectory of their paths in the show.

You actually see them role-reverse or swap over roles and make the transition into becoming each other.

But at the same time - it’s so insane that they get to find out this information before any of that happens.

Steven L. Sears is like the Xenaverse’s Albert Einstein.

He is both absolutely insane and absolutely genius. Especially because he chose not to make this dynamic romantic even though they were the opposite gender.

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Khalin Mykhailo

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That must've been so hard for Laura to live through that.

Stonewall Jackson: General Lee’s Lieutenant

Thomas J. Jackson (1824-1863), better known as Stonewall Jackson, was one of the most famous Confederate generals of the American Civil War (1861-1865). A veteran of the Mexican-American War and a former VMI instructor, he joined the Confederate army in 1861 and rose to prominence in his Shenandoah Valley Campaign (March to June 1862). He became the right-hand man of General Robert E. Lee (1807-1870) and led the Second Corps of the Army of Northern Virginia, which included his celebrated ‘Stonewall Brigade’. On 2 May 1863, Jackson was wounded by friendly fire during the Battle of Chancellorsville and died of pneumonia eight days later. His loss was greatly lamented across the South.

Early Life

Thomas Jonathan Jackson was born on 21 January 1824 in Clarksburg, Virginia (now West Virginia). He was the third child born to Jonathan Jackson, a lawyer of Scotch-Irish descent, and his wife, Julia Beckwith Neale Jackson. His early years were marred by tragedy. On 6 March 1826, when he was only two years old, he was at the bedside of his older sister Elizabeth as she died of typhoid fever. His father, having nursed Elizabeth in her dying days, caught the same fever and died a few weeks later. Julia Jackson gave birth to another daughter, Laura Ann, the day after her husband’s death; widowed at only 28 and with three young children to feed, she was forced to sell the family’s possessions to get enough money to scrape by. She remarried in 1830, but her health was fragile, and she died the following year, leaving her children orphaned. Jackson and his little sister, Laura, were sent to live with their uncle, Cummins E. Jackson. Their older brother, Warren, went to live with other relatives and died of tuberculosis at age 20.

Growing up, Jackson often helped Cummins around the farm, tending sheep and harvesting crops. With little time for formal education, he had to educate himself and could often be found with his nose buried in a book. During these years, he formed a close bond with his sister Laura, and their devotion to one another would last until their estrangement during the Civil War – a staunch Unionist, Laura would become disgusted by Jackson’s leadership role in the Confederate army. In 1842, Jackson was accepted as a cadet at the US Military Academy at West Point, New York. Due to his lack of schooling, he soon fell behind the other students and had to work extra hard to catch up. He graduated in June 1846, ranking 17th in a class of 59 students. He was commissioned as a second lieutenant and assigned to Company K of the 1st US Artillery Regiment.

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