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As the talking heads on corporate news drone on, repeating and never questioning Trump's lies…
WinstonSmith4740 (3,518 posts)
So watching Katie Phang on MS Now...
I'm really beginning to believe that when we come out on the other side of this insanity, the regime will look back on their "behind the scenes" purge of correspondents like her as a big part of their downfall. The restraints are off. She's kicking ass and taking names on this Epstein File thing. These guys realize they don't have to "self censor" anymore...no executive saying "No, that'll upset Trump, and he'll hollar at us". I acknowledge it probably doesn't happen at MS Now as often as it does at the major networks, but legacy media is where most folks get their news.
We're in the weirdest time line imaginable, but I really think there's enough journalists who are beginning to look at their situation and are ready to say "the hell with this". Today's tech allows for incredible communication abilities...Meidas Touch, The Lincoln Project, Brian Tyler Cohen, Stephanie Miller, Malcolm Nance...the list goes on and on. All successful pod casts with no one telling them what they can and can't say.
As the talking heads on corporate news drone on, repeating and never questioning Trump's lies, people can look at their own reality, know they're being lied to (Faux News watchers not included, of course), and move on to different outlets for their information. At least I hope so...that thought is what's helping keep me sane right now.
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100221416625
Back on July 20, Townhall reported that a group of Catholic nuns and healthcare providers in New York had filed suit against the state over its assisted suicide law, one that would force those religious groups to inform patients of "end-of-life options," including assisted suicide.
The group included the Little Sisters of the Poor, the Dominican Sisters of Hawthorne, the Carmelite Sisters for the Aged and Infirm, and the Diocese of Rockville Centre and Catholic Health, a network of Long Island hospitals. Now a court has granted them relief from the state's assisted suicide law, at least temporarily.
The ruling prohibits the state from forcing these Catholics from participating in the assisted suicide law until their lawsuit is heard in court.
Mullin warns non-citizen voter registrations in NJ 'could be much higher'
https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/mullin-warns-non-citizen-voter-registrations-nj-could-be-much-higher
The "software glitch" falsely reported people who checked "No" to the are-you-a-citizen question as having checked "Yes". That it took years for the State of NJ to discover this demonstrates that the State of NJ does not verify eligibility ... including anyone who did check "Yes".
t's not just New Jersey, by the way, where non-citizens are getting onto the voter rolls. The only thing distinctive about New Jersey is that it has been in the news lately, because Mikie Sherrill could no longer cover all of it up.
Some states are much worse than others, of course, but there are so many loopholes in the voter registration system that even noncitizens who didn't think they were registering to vote wind up on the rolls.
Yet the voter registration system in New Jersey, and not only did they find that the system is filled with loopholes and vulnerabilities, but that it was an open secret—pretty much everybody knew it.
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The subhead to POLITICO's story is quite apt: 'Democrats and Republicans agree the registration system is a mess.' Of course they all know that, but have done zip to fix it. You have to wonder why.
So what's the problem?QuoteIn May, a bipartisan duo of New Jersey state senators introduced a simple piece of legislation that got little public attention.
It would add one sentence to the state’s automatic voter registration law to make sure someone who indicates they aren’t a U.S. citizen won’t be prompted to register to vote.
The bill turned out to be extremely prescient.
That’s because Democratic Gov. Mikie Sherrill disclosed last week that a “software error” at the Motor Vehicles Commission led to roughly 6,600 noncitizens getting added to the state’s voter rolls. About 400 of them voted, she said.
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But it also exposed an open secret about New Jersey’s so-called motor voter law that officials and political operatives have known for years: There’s little to stop noncitizens from registering to vote if they want to, or even by mistake. And election officials and campaign consultants from both parties believe that the number of noncitizens being added to the voter rolls is significantly higher than the 6,600 Sherrill cited — because the state has been automatically registering drivers since 2018, and her figure covers only June 2023 to June 2024.
kentuck (116,611 posts)
Is this the "big story"?
Donald Trump and his US Attorney Pirro, along with Todd Burgum of DOI, were willing to lie rather than accept any responsibility for the damage done to the Reflection Pool at the Lincoln Memorial. In the process, they were willing to send an innocent man to prison for up to ten years.
The most powerful people in this nation colluded with right-wing media to frame an American citizen for a crime he did not commit. They told the lie over and over.
How big of a story is this? If they can do it to this person, in the manner that it happened, then it could happen to any citizen.
This story should wake up every American.
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100221416200
