Mail voting fraud: Data points to low risk and high benefits for voters | Brookings Analysis finds mail voting fraud in the U.S. is exceedingly rare and shows universal vote-by-mail boosts access, turnout, and cost efficiency.

Fresh insights from my colleagues @brookings.edu: fraud under universal vote-by-mail is extremely low

They find that mail voting has substantial benefits 4 the election administration & millions of voters

Find out more👇 –TN
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Though Trump’s pardons can’t extend to state crimes, I think it’s worth pointing out the message being conveyed:

Trump’s allies are alleged to have stolen data from state voting systems in an effort to help him overturn an election he lost.

Now he’s pardoning them for it.

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Don Moynihan on "Purge, Merge, and Surge" "Instead of surging in Iraq, it’s happening here in American cities."

“More and more cabinet members — Rubio, Miller, Noem — live on military bases now, & it's another parallel to Iraq, where the administration lived in the Green Zone. There’s something deeply unhealthy about a society where leaders are literally shut off from the communities that they govern.”

Sens. Jeanne Shaheen (N.H.)
Maggie Hassan (N.H.)
Sens. Jacky Rosen (Nev.),
Tammy Baldwin (Wis.), Mark Kelly (Ariz.),
Jon Ossoff (Ga.),
Gary Peters (Mich.) Dick Durbin (Ill.)

the Democrats who are are considered by R's as possible “yes” votes for the deal.

Silver Linings Playbook: Some states are taking action to mitigate the upcoming tax credit tsunami (Update: Add MA to the list!) As anyone not under a rock for the past few months knows by now, the improved federal Affordable Care Act tax credits which were put into place by President Biden and Congressional Democrats starting ...

ALSO: It's important to remember that NOT ALL ~24M ACA ENROLLEES WILL BE UTTERLY SCREWED.

--New Mexico is backfilling ALL lost federal subsidies for ALL enrollees!

--California is backfilling lost federal subsidies for all enrollees < 150% FPL (~290,000 enrollees)

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Spithead and Nore mutinies - Wikipedia

The mutinies were serious. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spithea...

Foreign Food Safety Inspections Hit Historic Low After Trump Cuts The dramatic shift in oversight comes at a time when the U.S. has never been more reliant on foreign food, which accounts for the vast majority of the nation’s seafood and more than half its fresh fruit.

NEW: Foreign food safety inspections have hit a historic low after Trump staffing cuts. The dramatic shift in oversight comes as the U.S. has never been more reliant on foreign food.

“It’s only a matter of time before people die,” one expert said.

The elimination of USAID was an unforgivable moral atrocity that should haunt Trump, Elon Musk and Marco Rubio for the rest of their days and beyond

Texas… it’s not just Grijalva….

#TrumpEpsteinFilesCoverUp

Elon Musk Wins $1 Trillion Tesla Pay Package

As Americans starve...

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The USDA sent an email to grocery stores telling them they are prohibited from offering special discounts to customers affected by the SNAP funding lapse.
I'm aware of at least 2 stores that had offered struggling customers a discount, then withdrew it after receiving this email

And China.

Imagine how bummed all the mathematicians and security guys were at whatever the Chinese NSA is called when they discovered that Michael Waltz's Gmail password was "password123."

Everything the “don’t tread on me” folks claimed to care about is being done by the people they now blindly support

The web that tried to steal the presidency Chapter 1 What is it that happens when first we practice to deceive? I forget. If you are anything like me, you tuned into cable news coverage of the Capitol riot on Jan. 6, 2021 and thought to yours...

I went through all 1,700-plus pages of subpoenas released by Chuck Grassley this week and mapped out how the organizations and people in them connect.
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Great stuff!

Graph showing life expectancy trends in 23 higher income countries between 1980 and 2024. Life expectancy increased over time in all countries. In 1980, the US is in the middle of the pack, but their life expectancy gains were slower than that of other countries, and by around 2002, the US had the lowest life expectancy of all countries. Over the next 20 years, US life expectancy increasingly tracks away from the trajectories of other countries, as their life expectancy stalls while other countries life expectancy continues to climb

This graph never fails to be shocking: "The US has experienced the earliest and greatest slowdown in life expectancy improvements among higher-income countries, reported Eileen Crimmins. “We have horrible life expectancy—and it’s getting worse and worse”"

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YouTube video by Democracy Docket Dem's New Strategy to Counter GOP Gerrymandering

If you want to pay attention to the one thing that will decide the midterm elections for Congress, pay attention to redistricting. In this video I explain what the GOP is doing and how Democrats are fighting back! youtu.be/cEKnZlsFkFE

Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) actually told the press that Democrats would be the ones hurt most by losing SNAP.

To be fair, since he lives in Florida instead of the state he represents, maybe he doesn’t realize 752,000 Alabamians rely on SNAP—14.6% of the state’s population.

Since Congressional Republicans failed to extend ACA premium tax credits, half a million Pennsylvanians are going to be paying an average of 102% more for healthcare premiums.

This isn’t just a talking point: this is the reality for folks across the Commonwealth.

General strategy of not-doing, less subject to criticism than perpetrating.

Damn straight!

genuinely crazy-making how much the national press is indifferent to the verifiable fact that jd vance is buddy buddy with internet nazis, and the degree to which this is almost certainly a form of solidarity among people with a similar institution pedigree

Is "cancellation" here not a red herring?

The Fugitive Slave Act legalized bounty hunting.

It’s crystal clear what Make America Great Again really means.

"Mann Replies on Wildfires and Climate Change" | My debunking of Bjorn Lomborg as it appears in today's print edition of the Wall Street Journal:

Karpf is always worth reading.

This is a longstanding, thoroughly disproven lie.

Vance is carving out a little niche for himself as the guy who tells vicious, racist lies about non-white people to massage the egos of white nationalists. And the *specific* lies he tells reveal he’s well versed in white nationalist propaganda.

I use Claude (an AI) to scan my posts for spelling and grammar errors. On the most recent post (about the East Wing, link below), I got a really amazing addendum.
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