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A Dark Reminder of What American Society Has Been and Could Be Again. How an obsessive hatred of immigrants and people of color and deep-seated fears about the empowerment of women led to the Klan’s rule in Indiana. newyorker.com/magazine/dispatc

“Federal judges denied 2 states’ requests to bar the DOJ from dispatching lawyers to monitor adherence to federal voting rights laws on Election Day.

Both #Missouri & #Texas asked federal courts to keep DOJ lawyers away from their polls.”
thehill.com/regulation/court-b

To keep my American brain from exploding today, here are some remarkable new deep-space images from JWST.

First, a celestial smash-up. JWST's infrared eyes reveal cold dust that forms the "skeleton" of these colliding galaxies, known as IC 2163 and NGC 2207.

webbtelescope.org/contents/new #space #science #nature #astronomy

Via Kyle Griffin:

#Wisconsin added more than 102,000 registered voters to its rolls just in the month of October, according to the state's election commission.

Dane County had almost 12,000 new voters register. Milwaukee County had more than 14,000.

"Women know that abortion bans impact every part of our lives. We know bans drive OBGYNs out of our states making any gynecological care difficult. We are losing women’s healthcare in states with bans. Rural women are hit particularly hard with an abortion ban." Jess Piper from The View from Rural Missouri

"Large numbers of surveys would be expected to show a wider variety of opinion, even in a close election, due to the randomness inherent in polling. The absence of such variation suggests that either pollsters are adjusting “weird” margins of 5% or more, Clinton and Lapinski argued – or the following second possibility, which they deemed more likely.

“Some of the tools pollsters are using in 2024 to address the polling problems of 2020, such as weighting by partisanship, past vote or other factors, may be flattening out the differences and reducing the variation in reported poll results,” they write." theguardian.com/us-news/2024/n

Waking up this morning to find out that an obese 78 year old adjudicated rapist and convicted felon simulated a sexual act on stage in the course of trying to be President. Zero respect for every one of my colleagues who continues to endorse him.

Trump, drunk on madness, threatens Cheney.

"Cheney is "a very dumb individual, very dumb."

"Let’s see how she feels about it, you know, when the guns are trained on her face," Trump said.

Gabby Gifford, shot in the face by a man driven crazy by Trump, says this is not by accident.

"Declaring that a person should be shot and killed simply for supporting a different candidate is un-American."

#harris

huffpost.com/entry/2024-electi

A third of Trump’s campaign funding has come from billionaires, including several he’s pledged to appoint to his cabinet.

Fascism backed by Big Money is one of the most dangerous of all political alliances.

We saw it in 1930s Germany, and we’re seeing it again today.

The people who own and ultimately control newsrooms have become a lightning-rod issue.

ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom. We don’t have any owners, let alone billionaire ones.

More than 55,000 donors power our investigative newsroom. Join them. Donate today: propub.li/4f3sByH

"#ElonMusk’s conversations with #Putin would clearly violate Musk’s security clearance if he failed to properly report them to the U.S. government. If classified information was leaked, Musk could be required to give up control of #SpaceX, which holds the majority of his companies’ government contracts."

#USpol

robertreich.substack.com/p/why

@ProPublica does great investigative journalism. They are well worth supporting.

I have a recurring monthly donation set up. If you can afford it, I recommend that you support them as well.

If you've cancelled your #WashingtonPost or #NYTimes subscription, ProPublica is a good place to put that money.

Americans: Who you gonna call if you try to vote in person on Tuesday and face denial, intimidation, misinformation, illegal campaigning, other problems?

To report in English, call or text 866-OUR-VOTE. Have this number ready on your phone or a piece of paper.

The same service (different phone numbers) is available in Spanish, Arabic, and Asian languages.

Thanks to @866ourvote.

866ourvote.org

#USPolitics #Vote #Voting

Everyone get out and vote for Kamala Harris and Dems up and down the ballot. Let's finish strong. For our country. For our freedom. For our future. BLUE TSUNAMI TIME! Plow through the noise! Keep going! We've got this! LET'S SPRINT THROUGH THE FINISH!🇺🇸🌊
dworkinsubstack.com/p/have-you

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