Max Hailperin

He's understandably bundled up, making recognition harder, but maybe that's "Music Man" Joe (Jocephus) Lomax?

A, partly because it plays into the circular arrangement but mostly because the white space in B between the whistle and the vertical rule is too prominent

Whatever. It's your jacket. I'm just saying that the whistle and the camera play different roles. If they aren't different enough for you, see above regarding whose jacket it is.

Observing and documenting are somewhat different

A, because even with the mittens, the handshake is too closely related to the first. It doesn't visually read as four distinct things so clearly as the version with the grocery bag. The grocery bag is also more concrete.

Meanwhile, hardcore election deniers have decided that war with Iran is being used to distract them from the lack of Republican progress on passing, at bare minimum, the SAVE America Act. In case you were wondering how the world looks from the other side of the bifurcation.

OFFS. When Iran tried to interefere in 2020, researchers caught them and called them out. Then the Benz-Weiss-Taibbi-Musk-Jordan-Trump axis labeled those researchers "censors" ... and set about defunding them and dismantling their organizations.

I haven't tracked the Minnesota cases more than casually but none of the judges here have yet admonished jail officials for cooperating with unlawful detentions like this, have they?

I would wager he has left instructions regarding which hat should be on his head for his open casket funeral.

Exactly. The "proposed Executive Order" is fan fiction.

In Minnesota, when a voter checks in at a polling place that uses electronic rosters, a voter certificate is printed out. And if they registered or updated registration, a registration application is printed too. So there's the same paper trail as at old -school polling places.

There are 13 neighborhoods in the Northeast community by the official nomenclature.

"It is emphatically the province and duty of the Judicial Department to say what the law is."
That quote from Marbury v Madison comes immediately to mind when reading the spin from the DOJ blaming judges for not having "followed the law."

Lucy holds football for Charlie Brown to kick, saying "Change this aspect of election administration, and I'll trust election results."

This time will be different, right?

Former DOJ lawyers call federal attempt to get Minnesota voter rolls a ‘fishing expedition’ Sixteen former lawyers from the DOJ’s Civil Rights Division say the department “overstepped its bounds.”

A group of former U.S. Department of Justice attorneys say the ongoing federal attempt to force Minnesota officials to turn over its voter rolls amounts to a “fishing expedition” not supported by law.

In Minnesota's November 2024 general election, I've found 2 apartments that each had 5 residents cast ballots by mail, 12 apartments that each had 4 residents, and the rest were 3 or fewer. If someone has evidence of an apartment with a whole bunch of ballots, I'd love to see it.

I've seen plenty of bad bills introduced in the MN legislature, and until they get a hearing there's really no point in doing anything. But it is a bit worrisome that a contender for most misguided ever has the committee co-chair as its lead sponsor.

In the 2024 general election, Minneapolis as whole had 13.5% of its ballots cast by mail, whereas Ward 6 Precinct 3, a heavily Somali precinct, had only 7.3% of its ballots cast by mail.

Indeed, one can look back at other federal voting laws (UOCAVA in 1986, HAVA in 2002, and MOVE in 2009) and see the same care with effective dates. And the bill for the SAVE America Act has the same immediate effective date in the photo ID section as in the registration section.

Effective date section from the National Voter Registration Act of 1993

Effective date paragraph of the voter registration section of the House engrossed and amended SAVE America Act

A stark contrast between the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 and the House-passed SAVE America Act. The former had an effective date structured to allow orderly implementation, even in states that would need to amend their constitutions. The latter would be immediate.

Lessons from the Minnesota’s Civil Contempt Case “The government’s understaffing and high case load is a problem of its own making,” a federal judge observed.

Lessons from the MN civil contempt case, by me:
Petitioner’s atty: “I understand that the caseload has affected all parties astronomically, and we are all human. But my client is, too. . . . All the people behind these petitions are humans.”
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Remember that head election judge in Badoura Township, Hubbard County, Minnesota, who in November of 2024 thought he didn't need to bother with election-day registration? His plea negotiation just got stretched out yet another month.

Elected in an August 12, 2025, special election by a vote of 572 to 402. By contrast, the November 5, 2024, general election had 3,879 voters in the City of Isanti.

Ok, I had to look at it to find out that the baby was not per se blown into the lake. Rather, the stroller containing the baby was blown into the lake.

The more time we spend sorting shallow fakes from deep fakes, the less we're going to spend sorting truth from fakery.

That's what a well-functioning system looks like: There's a routine mop-up for the oddballs that initially slip through the cracks. All this data is from the Election Administration and Voting Survey for the time from after the 2022 general election through the 2024 election.

In another 1,358 instances, they were able to simply delete the extra record, rather than merging. Taken together, those temporarily existing double registrations account for 1% of the transactions flowing in for existing registrants. The other 99% got caught up front.

What about the other 471,657, where a new record was created? Might some of those be overlooked matches, creating a double registration? Yes. And there's a routine system for searching for and handling those. In 11,122 instances, the county merged two records together. And ...

Over a two-year period, Minnesota counties processed 1,323,888 registration transactions for people aged 18 and up. Of those, 852,231 were recognized as for already registered voters; any updates were applied to the existing record, rather than creating a new record. But ...

No info how this happened, but presumably he didn't have his A-number tattooed on him, so they tried looking him up by name, birthdate, country. A garden-variety screwup could easily prevent finding his existing record. Rather than trust him and bring him back to his father, they assigned a new one.