Lee Fink

A New Generation of ‘Unbeatable’ Fake IDs Is Bedeviling Bouncers

For any city having adopted or considering a Voter ID requirement: "Fakes sold online start around $35 and run into the hundreds of dollars."

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What happened could range from Gates on board to them highly suggesting to Vigliotta to rescind the offer and/or negotiate an exit agreement.

Will know if he's in the building Monday (and if he signs the anticipated petition for review in the Supreme Court the week after in the Voter ID cases_.

Unclear (but probable). That's a LONG time for this Council to spend on this person, given their history with him. But the City Council does not hire the City Attorney's staff. The City Attorney does. So reportable action was always unlikely.

I'm applying.

I don't know the details, and the cynic would say that the Fifth Circuit will reverse. But it's possible! This case is different from the weak California case, where the GOP/DOJ (same thing) are alleging any use of race is unconstitutional, essentially seeking to undo the Voting Rights Act.

Karma is a b----.

Have you seen Trump and his sycophants???

Kevin Kiley introducing a bill to ban partisan gerrymandering at the national level and desperately trying to become a Reasonable Bipartisan after Newsom deleted his district shows how you *acutally* uphold norms btw: you impost costs for breaking them

Republicans get in line and then, when the seat is open, nominate crazy conservatives.

Democrats quit the party and don't participate in the primary, then complain about the nominee and boycott the General Election.

Absolute incompetence by Chuck Schumer. I’m as moderate/establishment as it gets, but I’m begging @aoc.bsky.social to announce her primary challenge ASAP.

People are ALWAYS willing to blame not their representative (even when it’s actually their representative’s fault). Dems should realize this and keep blaming Republicans (whose fault it is).

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"In 2024, death-sen­­tenced pris­on­ers asked the Court to review con­sti­tu­tion­al claims in their cas­es or grant a stay of exe­cu­tion 148 times. The Court agreed just three times, twice in the same case."

But if it will save 16 million kids from starving, then make sure to issue that stay.

I remember seeing this then and thinking it would be perfect and that the concept would take off.

Printing, however, fell way behind (though a mobile printer would still be useful), and CPU/chips advance much faster than printers.

And the trackball is still the better pointer than these touchpads.

For reference, Ketanji Brown Jackson is the Circuit Justice for the First Circuit.

With an extra bit of good politics by using Coca-Cola products.

Though he could have also pointed out that in comparison, the health care is just peanuts.

Brilliant.

It used to be that it was going to be completely Jewish in 3-4 years.

It turns out, they're not worried about the policies; just the religious heritage of the people.

Elaine wouldn’t even wear a Yankees hat and she’s not even a princess of Baltimore.

The Rockies are hiring DePodesta to run Baseball operations. He was fired as the Dodgers GM 20 years ago; 5 months later we drafted Clayton Kershaw. He runs football operations for the Cleveland Browns (2-6). He served in the Board of Sears just before it went bankrupt.

Our Footlong national nightmare is finally over!

This really hasn’t gotten enough attention this week.

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"Working" or "barely working" may be more accurate. Lots of dysfunction there too. Just much better in comparison.

Like W was better than Trump.

Same in California.

We're like the Dodgers; we're going to just keep winning.

Appellate court strikes down voter ID requirement in Huntington Beach Monday's ruling by a three-judge state appellate court panel overturned an Orange County Superior Court decision regarding voter ID in Huntington Beach.

Great story by @mjszabo.bsky.social about our win in the Huntington Beach Voter ID case yesterday.

We will see if the City decides to go lose before the State Supreme Court too.

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Please, PLEASE, I am begging you as both a parent and someone who is sick of all this THIS, go vote for your school boards. Even if you don't have kids, that's how these reactionary dipshits got their feet in, that's where the book bans and library cuts start.

Big win for voting rights in California. The Court of Appeal ruled that the Huntington Beach Voter ID Charter Amendment violates state law.

We won, and if Huntington Beach wants to try to take it to the State Supreme Court, we will win there.

The other place sucks, but even Baseball Twitter has gotten terrible. Here it's all "wow, what an amazing series; can't believe how good the Jays were; amazing that the Dodgers pulled it out."

Over there it's still "Dodgers bought a dynasty; Jays tried to" and "Houston Never Cheated."

Just sad.

More likely is that he knew then, knows now, and was lying both times.