An interview with Quincy Jones:
"In a private Oct. 29 training session for poll watchers in Pennsylvania, an RNC election-integrity specialist told volunteers not to worry about noncitizen voting in the 2024 election because the electoral system had safeguards in place to prevent illegal votes."
🤔 🤷♂️ 😆 🤬 😂 😂
Herb leaves Primus.
Again.
😮 🙄 😞
C'est la vie.
' The Chinese economy remains too dependent on the United States and its partners to risk being heavily sanctioned for shipping arms to Putin '
https://meduza.io/en/feature/2024/11/04/journalists-obtain-russia-s-initial-proposals-from-march-2022-negotiations-revealing-putin-s-plans-for-post-war-ukraine
Journalists obtain Russia's initial proposal of Putin's plans for Ukraine after invasion in 2022
Meduza in English
#news #Ukraine #defense
A little bit of mellow on this cold Monday and some tea. 🫖
#CoSoMusic
~Aaron Neville
https://youtu.be/RgoscpHvtQY
Canvassers for Elon Musk’s America PAC Were Fired and Stranded in Michigan After Speaking Out
A dozen Black canvassers were tricked, threatened, and driven in seatless U-Haul vans. They were fired after WIRED reported on their plight—some without full pay or a way back home.
https://www.wired.com/story/canvassers-elon-musk-america-pac-fired-stranded-michigan-mistreatment/
Hayes Brown on what this Trump problem says about our MAGA fellows...
https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/trump-campaign-win-election-day-polls-rcna177625
How LadyChatterley's Lover was banned - and became a bestseller
*Swear words, crossing class barrers & female sexual pleasure. Oh my!
Prof Paul covers some of that ground and more, here (good links within, too) --
Heather CR has an explainer (from 10/22) re what this tariff bullshit is really all about...but recall Herr Drumpkopf already pulled that stunt during his first stint, resulting in record farm bankruptcies and a Potemkin trade war with Chynuh...that culminated in the stupid DJT/Xi pix where they shook hands. (This was also when DJT was fluffing Xi over the nascent corona bug as well as covering up Uighur slave labor but I digress.)
In Texas, some of the training required to become an OB-GYN is no longer offered because of the state’s abortion laws. That means OB-GYN residents now have to leave the state for two- to four-week rotations to get the required training.
NPR:
Meet the conservative women who are keeping their votes for Kamala Harris a secret.
https://www.npr.org/2024/11/03/nx-s1-5159978/republicans-for-harris-women-voters-secret-votes-quiet-voters-2024-election-trump?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
There is no amount of context that makes this look normal.
Can you imagine Trump is talking to a world leader then pretends to have oral sex?
Yet there he was, on stage, doing that very thing.
And some people are arguing it’s missing context!
Seriously, what kind of context makes this look normal in a world leader? Grandpa simulating oral sex may be normal on Only Fans…
Tropical Storm Rafael expected to form and later threaten US Gulf coast
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/nov/04/tropical-storm-rafael-hurricane
Moldova’s pro-Western president wins vote overshadowed by Russian meddling claims : NPR #news #politics #CoSoPolitics
https://www.npr.org/2024/11/04/g-s1-31967/moldova-president-wins-election
What if?!?!
It's been plain for over a year
isn't running to enlarge his base and win the election
is running to enrage his base and win coup.2
Be ready to go on strike and show up in the streets in overwhelming numbers
#politics
What if Trump’s campaign is cover for a slow-motion coup?
Even if Trump can’t really mobilize large numbers of people to the streets, just prolonging a sense of chaos might be enough
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/nov/04/trump-campaign-election-coup-cover-up
I used to be a nice boy, I used to cut the grass.