This guy who led the marketing for “The Apprentice” is real real sorry, America. Yeah, he sure is. (US News) CNN is now paywalling its news — stupid, shortsighted, might as well lock up the deodorant too and then shut down your store because nobody’s shopping there — but anyway, they found the company selling the “Trump” “watches,” and one of our commenters found an Archive link.
Well no shit Mitch McConnell called Trump “stupid” and “despicable.” He’s got eyes. (AP)
Kamala Harris in Wisconsin.
Tim Walz isn’t being a puss about our trans friends. He’s right there. (Erin in the Morning) Here’s the podcast. (We Can Do Hard Things)
Joe Biden needs to put a lot more pressure on Israel than this letter stating we might think about stopping sending them arms. Like for instance, we could stop sending them arms. (Politico) Supposedly some big swinging Hamas dick is dead now, so I’m sure Netanyahu will be happy to end the war. (AP)
Native American voting fucking matters. It matters so much that I remember when in North Dakota, they made every kind of ID applicable to voter ID … except tribal ID and military ID, because Native Americans have by far the highest military service rate of any group. (I think Amelia Mavis Christnot left that part out of this essay; it was really something!) They’re both allowed now, and I can’t find when that law changed. ANYWAY! (Think Big Picture)
It’s been three weeks, and a lot of North Carolina still doesn’t have water. How people are organizing to help each other and themselves for drinking, bathing, shitting, but damn. FEMA. Fix it. (AP) Really, really good, interesting deep dive with A Expert on North Carolina’s voting and demographics. Really! (Politico)
The red state As-G lawsuit against the abortion pill — again — buries “we need more teen moms for our birthrate” all the way on pages 189 and 190 of its 199 page filing, so you know they’re really proud of their argument! (Court Listener)
Longread on this antivaxx mommyblogger we mentioned here during the RFK Jr./Olivia Nuzzi foofaraw. (She was of the very informed opinion that her bosom friend Nuzzi was totally stalking poor unwilling RFK Jr.) Apparently she’s got a BILLION followers and SO MANY dollars and we all should do that, probably. (Mother Jones)
ActBlue to scam PACS: GTFO! Good! Grifting is for Republicans. (The Bulwark)
From the comments, wildfire risks means Wyoming rangers are no longer … blowing up dead horses? Well, whatever it takes. (The Guardian)
Hmmm, I finally finally finally made a retirement account, at Fidelity. Maybe I should roll that over somewhere else, if their judgment is so bad they think Trump would be good for “high earners” (I am not one). (Fidelity)
Welcome to my mansion, that I live in and I own. (Estate Sales)
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Yes, Native American voting fucking matters big time, but your recollection is not accurate and doesn't contain the whole story on the big North Dakota dustup over voter ID and tribal members. I remember when that all went down too, so, being born and raised in ND on deeded land within reservation boundaries, I read up on the local tribal news and other local reporting and contacted the Secretary of State directly and what I discovered was that the problem centered around the requirement of street addresses on i.d.'s. ND doesn't require voter registration. Instead, when a North Dakotan goes to vote, they have to present their i.d. or driver's license and proof of address to vote. I remember this procedure when I voted in my first election at the age of 18 waaaay back in 1991. This is the way it's always been. The state's efforts to tighten voting laws was indeed dumb and favored white rural residents, but centered around the creation of the state's grid-based 911 system and assignment of street addresses to rural farms and residents. Tribal land is sovereign and was not included in the new 911 system; a separate matter entirely, which has since been addressed with the Tribes starting their own ambulance service. Back when the voter i.d. issue came up and I read about it in my home town newspaper, and in speaking with the Secretary of State, I found that the tribes where I grew up (Three Affiliated Tribes - Mandan, Hidatsa, Arikira Nation) had already been in contact with state officials and had come up with a solution to rally tribal members at community meetings where they either assigned proof of street address for tribal members or provided the verification documents needed for people to vote. There was no voter i.d. law put in place specifically targeting the Tribes, despite it's monumentally dumb effects. Anyone living in the State of North Dakota who only possesses a PO Box address will have difficulty voting and must prove their residence. The Tribes worked with their members and state officials to bring their documentation in line with the i.d. law and were able to vote just like every other person in the state. I recently moved back to ND after a number of years elsewhere and when it came time to vote in the primary, I had to bring my driver's license, prove that I had submitted a change of address, and prove my current residence with bank statements and utility bills. It was a bit of a pain, but I've always admired the fact that ND does not require voter regsitration. That should be the policy in every state. I hope very much that Trump's cult of garbage humans will not fuck that up for all of us. But, yeah, it was not a good thing, but it wasn't evil incarnate being done by the North Dakota Secretary of State. The end.