Right-Wing Provocateur James O’Keefe Charged in Minnesota Voting Stunt
"The two men wearing mock Islamic attire and speaking with fake accents at a Minneapolis polling place were part of a stunt — and, prosecutors say, violating state law.
The masqueraders were conservative activist James O’Keefe, known for secretly filming interactions to embarrass and discredit people, and a fellow content creator, Cam Higby. They were seeking to draw attention to a Minnesota law that lets a registered voter vouch for the identity of up to eight additional voters who have recently moved so they can cast ballots at precincts where they are not yet registered.
But citing as evidence a video that Mr. O’Keefe posted showing his interactions with poll workers, state prosecutors charged the pair with unlawful voting — which can include an attempt to obtain a ballot by impersonating a registered voter — and identity theft, both felonies. The maximum penalty for each of those crimes is five years in prison."
"The masqueraders were conservative activist James O’Keefe, known for secretly filming interactions to embarrass and discredit people,"
Known for secretly filming interactions and then *deceptively editing them* to embarrass and discredit people, is what the NYT would have said if they had the balls God gave a dust mite.
"Republican senator Lisa Murkowski backs Democrat in Alaska governor’s race
Lisa Murkowski, a Republican senator from Alaska, has broken with her party to endorse the Democrat in her state’s gubernatorial contest.
Murkowski, a moderate Republican who is no stranger to breaking with Trump, made her surprise endorsement to local news station KTUU. She told the outlet that she felt the three Republicans contesting Jonathan Kreiss-Tomkins in the ranked-choice election lacked the bipartisanship needed for the job, calling them overly partisan.
She said that Kreiss-Tomkins, by contrast, is “a young Alaskan with a view and a perspective that I think Alaska needs right now, a freshness of energy”. She described him as a “a commonsense guy who has a known ability to be working together”.
Sometimes I use AI to bounce-off stupid questions, even though I know it's likely to agree with any suggestion I make just to keep me using it. Anyway, by coincidence, last night I had a random thought: are humans actually somewhat marsupial, insofar as our young are born unable to care for themselves, than let's say a mammal like a deer whose young are able to walk shortly after birth? Turns out there actually is some discussion about this; not so much the marsupial part, but some scientists are proposing that humans actually have a fourth 'tri'mester for infancy, because arguably humans are not born developed enough. I can't help but think this perfectly illustrates the yawning gap between Christian conservative policy and science. They are pushing 'life' back to the twinkle in a mother's eye and the flick of a sperm's tail, but science is realizing humanity as we know it is a surprisingly delayed development.
If anything, A.I. has shown that the real threat facing our species and the planet is Natural Stupidity. The “distillation” of the worst base instincts of the species into a concentration of power “that is so bigly tremendous, no one has ever seen it before, believe me.” The “alphas” on this earth never outgrew the stage of petulant toddlerhood. The “grown-ups” are condemned to frustration and toil because they lack the leverage to put the world’s perennial three-year-olds in time-out.
OT: With this trial of "Tommy Robinson", the ongoing trial of Russell Brand, and the eventual trial of the Tate Boys, maybe Britain can start healing.
Farage getting his just desserts would be nice too.
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Political activist [fascist nonce] Tommy Robinson has been convicted of harassing two Daily Mail journalists.
A jury at Southwark Crown Court found the 43-year-old, real name Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, guilty of two counts of harassment causing fear of violence.
...
Harassment causing fear of violence can carry a maximum sentence of 10 years in prison, or up to 14 years if the offence is racially or religiously aggravated.
Given what is written in Genesis 3:16, it is a continual wonder to me that any woman is either a Jew or a Christian:
“I will make your pains in childbearing very severe;
with painful labor you will give birth to children.
Your desire will be for your husband,
and he will rule over you.”
I am fully in favor of that passage being taught in schools under the title of "Perversions of the Past," and if any religious person objects, simply ask them if they have edited it out of their Bible yet. And if they haven't, they can just shut up.
My neighbor who works for a well known xtian disaster relief tax excempt org pulled me aside several years ago and told me his wife was pregnant. I told him, " Congratulations!"
He said to me that he had a vasectomy 10 years ago and it couldn't be his child.
I told him that the lord works in mysterious ways.
I am the very out atheist in a neighborhood of kooky evangelicals. Funny enough that they come to me for their issues when their issues are outside their biblical realm of possibilities.
"Fox News viewership is in freefall as the conservative news network grapples with the fallout from Donald Trump’s faltering popularity. Ahead of closely-watched midterms like the 2026 contest, networks would normally be expected to gain viewers as audiences tune in for coverage of consequential races, the report noted.
Among viewers ages 25 to 54, the demographic advertisers covet most, "the picture is even worse." Fox News is set to post its lowest-rated month in that group in 25 years, averaging just 98,000 viewers. That’s a 27% drop in total viewers from last October and a 32% plunge in the 25-54 demo. Fox News still dominates cable overall, even beating ESPN in total day despite the return of football, but the declines stand out "given the political moment."
Do not forget that the Nazi Heritage Foundation's "Project 2026" wants to force women out of the workplace, put couples in a "christian marriage boot camp" before they get married, give "incentives" to force women to have as many children as possible so they will stay at home...
What frustrates me about politics is Dems are expected to cater to “everyone” and if even one group is unhappy (inevitably there always is) then they have failed and must be thrown out of office.
Republicans don’t have that problem. They can appeal to their base and ONLY their base and they never have to answer to anyone outside of that. They’re treated like the default setting.
If things are bad when Dems are in charge, vote Republican.
If things are bad when republicans are in charge and Democrats are not perfect, then vote Republican.
We took a high-speed train from Madrid to Barcelona several years ago. If it had collided with another train, I can’t imagine how we would have been thrown around in the cabin.
Make them invoice everything. If you fed the poor or housed the homeless without forcing them to worship your pinchbeck god, then you get a full tax writeoff. If not, then you're in the business of selling salvation, and the taxes on that are quite high, given that it's a fraud through and through.
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BBC live - Bolsonaro arrived in Miami, the US State Department is issuing visas for him & family.
Right-Wing Provocateur James O’Keefe Charged in Minnesota Voting Stunt
"The two men wearing mock Islamic attire and speaking with fake accents at a Minneapolis polling place were part of a stunt — and, prosecutors say, violating state law.
The masqueraders were conservative activist James O’Keefe, known for secretly filming interactions to embarrass and discredit people, and a fellow content creator, Cam Higby. They were seeking to draw attention to a Minnesota law that lets a registered voter vouch for the identity of up to eight additional voters who have recently moved so they can cast ballots at precincts where they are not yet registered.
But citing as evidence a video that Mr. O’Keefe posted showing his interactions with poll workers, state prosecutors charged the pair with unlawful voting — which can include an attempt to obtain a ballot by impersonating a registered voter — and identity theft, both felonies. The maximum penalty for each of those crimes is five years in prison."
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/28/us/james-okeefe-charged-minnesota-voting-cam-higby.html?unlocked_article_code=1.MFE.WdJ_.QOXhOnyfjhDM&smid=url-share
That’s a shame…
"Hallo. I am zees foreign person who you allow to vote in elections that are fraud. Please to give me ballot."
"Here is your ballot, sir, because this is exactly how it works."
*hums “Pretty Vacant” for no reason*
You can take the fake pimp out of the Veritas, but you take the veritas scam out of the fake pimp.
"The masqueraders were conservative activist James O’Keefe, known for secretly filming interactions to embarrass and discredit people,"
Known for secretly filming interactions and then *deceptively editing them* to embarrass and discredit people, is what the NYT would have said if they had the balls God gave a dust mite.
Now THAT is damned gratifying.
Dildo Lube Boat Captain Ahab Arrested for Egregious Fraud
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"Republican senator Lisa Murkowski backs Democrat in Alaska governor’s race
Lisa Murkowski, a Republican senator from Alaska, has broken with her party to endorse the Democrat in her state’s gubernatorial contest.
Murkowski, a moderate Republican who is no stranger to breaking with Trump, made her surprise endorsement to local news station KTUU. She told the outlet that she felt the three Republicans contesting Jonathan Kreiss-Tomkins in the ranked-choice election lacked the bipartisanship needed for the job, calling them overly partisan.
She said that Kreiss-Tomkins, by contrast, is “a young Alaskan with a view and a perspective that I think Alaska needs right now, a freshness of energy”. She described him as a “a commonsense guy who has a known ability to be working together”.
The Guardian.
"Okay, so you don't like Dan Sullivan. But what do you think about Dan Sullivan?"
She’s so close to finally getting it.
Lisa will have a death bed revelation.
Sometimes I use AI to bounce-off stupid questions, even though I know it's likely to agree with any suggestion I make just to keep me using it. Anyway, by coincidence, last night I had a random thought: are humans actually somewhat marsupial, insofar as our young are born unable to care for themselves, than let's say a mammal like a deer whose young are able to walk shortly after birth? Turns out there actually is some discussion about this; not so much the marsupial part, but some scientists are proposing that humans actually have a fourth 'tri'mester for infancy, because arguably humans are not born developed enough. I can't help but think this perfectly illustrates the yawning gap between Christian conservative policy and science. They are pushing 'life' back to the twinkle in a mother's eye and the flick of a sperm's tail, but science is realizing humanity as we know it is a surprisingly delayed development.
If anything, A.I. has shown that the real threat facing our species and the planet is Natural Stupidity. The “distillation” of the worst base instincts of the species into a concentration of power “that is so bigly tremendous, no one has ever seen it before, believe me.” The “alphas” on this earth never outgrew the stage of petulant toddlerhood. The “grown-ups” are condemned to frustration and toil because they lack the leverage to put the world’s perennial three-year-olds in time-out.
Stephen Jay Gould wrote an essay about how human babbies are born as embryos
I usually end up cursing at it and accusing it of lying.
Thanks Robin!!
OT: With this trial of "Tommy Robinson", the ongoing trial of Russell Brand, and the eventual trial of the Tate Boys, maybe Britain can start healing.
Farage getting his just desserts would be nice too.
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Political activist [fascist nonce] Tommy Robinson has been convicted of harassing two Daily Mail journalists.
A jury at Southwark Crown Court found the 43-year-old, real name Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, guilty of two counts of harassment causing fear of violence.
...
Harassment causing fear of violence can carry a maximum sentence of 10 years in prison, or up to 14 years if the offence is racially or religiously aggravated.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cq2d6z36pp53o
Man, I could put away A LOT of people if we were British. Why don’t we have that?
Gee that's a bit o' nasty luck there mister...
While on the stand in his rape trial in Britain, Russell Brand revealed that he could not get a single person to testify on his behalf.
https://bsky.app/profile/vulture.com/post/3myx3lhbegu27
Go figure. Sux to be you scumbag.
He sounds fucking disgusting.
Why are these men continually fucking propped up by everyone around them?
$$$
stumbling drunk?
"Do I think he's innocent? HA HA HA HA HA HA!
"Oh, god, no!"
Not a single moment of reflection, self-examination, regard for how his actions are viewed by 𝘢𝘯𝘺one else...
Not even his fellow predators in the Trump administration.
https://bsky.app/profile/webrant.bsky.social/post/3myx6zp6yvc27
Tim Miller is on the Charlie Jerk Show & it's not going well for hosts 👇
Q: Nobody wanted Renee Good to die more than the left
MILLER: That's an insane thing to say. That's really offensive
Q: They actively get in the face of ICE
MILLER: And the punishment for that should be summary execution?
https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3myx7jrtqvc2u
"That's fine dude, I'm not mad at you."
So in the face.
Plus, apply that logic to the January 6 contingent, please.
Hold on…why is there still a show?
$$$$
Grifters gonna grift.
They ought to call it "The Horst Wessel Hour!"
Wow – that's some vile shit. And the twee bald guy with his 'gish gallop" overtalking or whatever the fuck it is called is just disgusting
OT. i still wanna shoot the dog like a common kristi noem. i've hated that dog for a long time.
https://bsky.app/profile/ginafortexas.bsky.social/post/3myx6epvmjf2n
It's been my observation that organized religion is deleterious to a healthy, happy pregnancy.
Being throttled up one side and back down the other with the guilty stick has a tendency to do that.
Given what is written in Genesis 3:16, it is a continual wonder to me that any woman is either a Jew or a Christian:
“I will make your pains in childbearing very severe;
with painful labor you will give birth to children.
Your desire will be for your husband,
and he will rule over you.”
I am fully in favor of that passage being taught in schools under the title of "Perversions of the Past," and if any religious person objects, simply ask them if they have edited it out of their Bible yet. And if they haven't, they can just shut up.
This right the fuck here.
Or, often, a healthy and potentially happy life.
My neighbor who works for a well known xtian disaster relief tax excempt org pulled me aside several years ago and told me his wife was pregnant. I told him, " Congratulations!"
He said to me that he had a vasectomy 10 years ago and it couldn't be his child.
I told him that the lord works in mysterious ways.
I am the very out atheist in a neighborhood of kooky evangelicals. Funny enough that they come to me for their issues when their issues are outside their biblical realm of possibilities.
See, you could have gone with "JESUS IS GONNA HAVE A LITTLE BROTHER??!?!?!"
but best not to be rude... :)
"Fox News viewership is in freefall as the conservative news network grapples with the fallout from Donald Trump’s faltering popularity. Ahead of closely-watched midterms like the 2026 contest, networks would normally be expected to gain viewers as audiences tune in for coverage of consequential races, the report noted.
Among viewers ages 25 to 54, the demographic advertisers covet most, "the picture is even worse." Fox News is set to post its lowest-rated month in that group in 25 years, averaging just 98,000 viewers. That’s a 27% drop in total viewers from last October and a 32% plunge in the 25-54 demo. Fox News still dominates cable overall, even beating ESPN in total day despite the return of football, but the declines stand out "given the political moment."
https://www.rawstory.com/fox-ratings-collapse-trump/
'Bout fucking time! Burn that shit down and salt the earth.
Fox News smells like stale urine and Este Lauder and the candy bowl is just Werther's Originals and ribbon candy that has melted into a brick.
Este Lauder libelz!
Should be set to the music of a flushing toilet.
Gee, that's terrible.
millennials and (half of) gen x don't leave fox on just for background noise like boomers+ do.
Nobody wants to see their pitiful attempts to polish turds?
There are so many fashy news organizations now though (including CBS) so what has Fox really done lately to stand out in that crowd?
Got sued for a billion$?
I think cutting into Murdock's profits might prove harmful, if not fatal, to Trump.
I don't even think it's because of Trump's unpopularity, it's just their audience has found harder drugs.
Metamucil
Geritol
Do not forget that the Nazi Heritage Foundation's "Project 2026" wants to force women out of the workplace, put couples in a "christian marriage boot camp" before they get married, give "incentives" to force women to have as many children as possible so they will stay at home...
Christian Marriage Boot Camp. Sounds sexy, doesn't it ?
https://img.ltwebstatic.com/v4/j/spmp/2026/06/01/4a/1780319547ede7a8e7d0013225f9d2c30dff280e19_thumbnail_750x999.jpg
?
"You get THE BOOT!"
Everyone chants, "The boot! The boot! The boot!"
What frustrates me about politics is Dems are expected to cater to “everyone” and if even one group is unhappy (inevitably there always is) then they have failed and must be thrown out of office.
Republicans don’t have that problem. They can appeal to their base and ONLY their base and they never have to answer to anyone outside of that. They’re treated like the default setting.
If things are bad when Dems are in charge, vote Republican.
If things are bad when republicans are in charge and Democrats are not perfect, then vote Republican.
Those people vote religiously and consistently for the R no matter what. There is only one way to combat that in a two party system.
Whether you like or dislike Hasan Piker, him suing Scott Jennings for $72M is something I support.
Piker said some things sarcastically and Jennings selectively used them by editing video to portray Piker as serious about it.
<Socialist Hasan Piker sues conservative counterpart for ‘violent racist’ portrayal>
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/oct/28/hasan-piker-lawsuit-scott-jennings
Henlo.
OT:
Budgie tell Uue bad news from Spain.
A train crash has resulted in dozens of deaths and hundreds of injuries.
https://www.bbc.com/news/live/cv1j309d4g98t
I am big sad.
🇪🇸🕯️🕯️🕯️
We took a high-speed train from Madrid to Barcelona several years ago. If it had collided with another train, I can’t imagine how we would have been thrown around in the cabin.
I still don't understand why there aren't seat belts on trains.
Maybe these “prophets” should stay in their lane.
These so-called "prophets" are soley into "profits" from fleecing the marks!
Tax the churches. Big ones should pay a lot.
At least they'll give back something, and help out the rest of us.
There is so much swindling going on.
Make them invoice everything. If you fed the poor or housed the homeless without forcing them to worship your pinchbeck god, then you get a full tax writeoff. If not, then you're in the business of selling salvation, and the taxes on that are quite high, given that it's a fraud through and through.
Since they want to play the politics game make these Pulpit Pimps pay!