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“All that [Trump] cares about is whether he wins or loses. And if he loses, he'll create a fiction in his head to tell him otherwise.”
Jim Saksa at Democracy Docket:
President Donald Trump and the GOP are falsely claiming fraud over mail ballots in California’s primary. The lies are aimed at setting the stage to undermine this fall’s crucial midterms, when control of the House could hinge on the Golden State. The false claims have gone into overdrive as California mail ballots counted in recent days have allowed a progressive Democrat to overtake Republican former reality TV star Spencer Pratt to make the November runoff race for Los Angeles mayor. “The Dumocrats, right before our very eyes, are stealing the Vote,” Trump posted last week on social media. Vice President JD Vance, House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.), and numerous other GOP leaders have likewise raised suspicion about the count.
In reality, the claim that California’s slow vote count provides a basis for questioning Golden State results is hogwash, said David Becker, executive director of the Center for Election Innovation & Research. “This is not about how fast California counts ballots,” Becker said. “All that [Trump] cares about is whether he wins or loses. And if he loses, he’ll create a fiction in his head to tell him otherwise.” But the MAGA meltdown, over a race in a Democratic-dominated city that the GOP never had a realistic chance to win, offers a grim preview of the kinds of election lies Trump and the GOP are likely to level come November, when control of the U.S. House of Representatives could hinge on several tight races in California.
Election forecasters at the Cook Political Report currently list four California congressional races as either “Lean Democrat” or “Toss Up,” more than any other state besides New York, which also has four. Meanwhile, the state’s widespread use of mail-in voting and generous receipt grace period mean tallies can take days — even weeks in particularly close races — to wrap up. That could lead to a flood of post-election litigation, as GOP lawyers, alleging fraud or the potential for it, pull out the stops to get votes thrown out and to contest results.
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Republicans already crying wolf
The GOP has led a long-term effort to set the stage for this lie — not only in the public square, but in the courts, too. “If you have an election and the election is going to turn on late arriving ballots in a way that means what everybody kind of thought was the result on Election Day ends up being the opposite a week later, 21 days later, the losers are not going to accept that result,” the attorney Paul Clement, representing Republicans in the Watson case, told the U.S. Supreme Court earlier this year. “Full stop. They won’t. And that is bad for our system.” A ruling in the case is expected imminently.
But here’s what Clement didn’t say: The problem of losers not accepting results is limited to just one party. It’s the product of a years-long campaign, led by Trump, to lie about voting, and mail voting in particular. During an interview with NBC’s Meet the Press that aired Sunday, Trump repeated his “rigged election” rant and said it was “happening again right now in California.”
“It’s four days, and they aren’t even close, because they’re cheating on the election,” Trump said. When Welker confronted Trump’s lack of evidence, he erupted at her, abruptly ending the interview and shuffling off in a huff. Some supposed election fraud efforts “are so diabolical and so far upstream that it’s impossible to prove, but I think everybody knows instinctively, something is wrong here, and that’s a concern,” Speaker Johnson said of the California primaries.
And House Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-La.) said that “whether you can prove fraud or not, it does undermine voter integrity in the vote.”
Notably, Pratt was still in second place in L.A. at the time. But then, as more mail-in ballots were verified and counted, his lead slowly eroded until he slipped into third and out of the mayoral runoff. These kinds of lead shifts, reported as votes are counted in the days following the election, are what some Republicans say undermines trust in elections.
But these aren’t natural doubts — rather, they come from party leaders. And they’re designed to undermine confidence. There’s also little reason to believe Trump will accept a loss — or that the GOP will break with him in the name of democracy. Claims that the 2020 presidential race — which Trump lost — was stolen have essentially become dogma in the GOP. Even the president’s judicial nominees carefully toe the line to avoid admitting in congressional hearings to believing the fact that Biden won. Trump cited these falsehoods when he signed executive orders aimed at the mythical problem of widespread noncitizen voting and mail-in ballot fraud, when he floated the idea of ordering troops and federal agents to the polls, when he nominated his unqualified Federal Housing Finance Agency chief for Director of National Intelligence, and when claimed the power to “take over” elections. Those actions and threats have unnerved many Democratic voters, who have told pollsters that they now doubt Trump — who publicly said last year that he regrets not seizing ballots in 2020 — will allow November’s elections to go unmolested.
Republicans are putting out election denialist lies about California’s vote counting methods to justify election theft attempts in the midterms.
See Also:
The Status Kuo (Jay Kuo): The GOP and the Unfalsifiable Claim
Public Notice (Liz Dye): MAGA's kayfabe meltdown over California primary
MMFA: The right enters a post-proof era of election denial
Sonny Rollins, one of the most influential Jazz musicians of our time, died this afternoon. He was 95
Sonny Rollins, the tenor saxophonist and restless genius whose bold, distinctive tone and constant experimentation kept him on the cutting edge of jazz for more than 50 years, has died at age 95.
Spokeswoman Terri Hinte told The Associated Press that Rollins died at his home in Woodstock, New York.
She cited no specific cause of death, but said he had been largely housebound over the past couple of years because of various physical problems.
Be in eternal peace.
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There has never been a more corrupt administration in our history. And sadly, I have little hope that any of these criminals are ever held accountable.
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Sonny Rollins, one of the most influential Jazz musicians of our time, died this afternoon. He was 95
Sonny Rollins, the tenor saxophonist and restless genius whose bold, distinctive tone and constant experimentation kept him on the cutting edge of jazz for more than 50 years, has died at age 95.
Spokeswoman Terri Hinte told The Associated Press that Rollins died at his home in Woodstock, New York.
She cited no specific cause of death, but said he had been largely housebound over the past couple of years because of various physical problems.
Be in eternal peace.
I have three monitors on my desk. The left one shows the order book. The middle one shows Truth Social. The right one shows the investigation queue.
On April 21st, the left screen moved first.
I am a Senior Surveillance Analyst at a commodities exchange. I have held this position for nineteen years. My job is to monitor trading activity for suspicious patterns and generate compliance reports. I am employee of the quarter. I have a mug.
At 19:54 GMT on April 21st, someone placed 4,260 sell orders on Brent crude futures. They did this during post-settlement. The window after the market closes when daily volume is typically in the dozens. Sometimes single digits. Sometimes I watch the screen and nothing happens for forty minutes and I think about whether my daughter is happy.
On April 21st, someone placed $430 million in directional bets in 120 seconds during that window. One hundred and twenty seconds. I timed it on my watch because the system clock rounds to the nearest minute and I have found, in nineteen years, that precision matters to no one but me.
At 20:10 GMT, the President posted on Truth Social that he was extending the Iran ceasefire.
Brent dropped from $100.91 to $96.83.
I flagged the trade. I flag a lot of trades. I want to tell you what happens to my flags.
My flags go into a system called TRACE. Trade Review and Compliance Evaluation. I did not name it. The system generates a report. The report goes to a committee. The committee has a name I am not allowed to share but I can tell you it meets quarterly and the conference room has a credenza with bottled water that is sparkling because someone once put still water in the room and a managing director sent an email about it that was longer than most of my surveillance reports.
The committee reviews my flags. The committee has reviewed all of my flags. Here is the complete record of actions taken on my flags in 2026:
Reviewed.
That's it. "Reviewed" is a status. In compliance, a status is the absence of an action that has been given a name so it looks like one.
Let me show you my flags.
March 9th. Someone bet millions on oil falling at 18:29 GMT. Forty-seven minutes later, a CBS reporter posted that the President said the Iran war was "very complete, pretty much." Oil dropped 25%. Forty-seven minutes. I flagged it.
March 23rd. Someone sold 5,100 lots of Brent and WTI crude futures between 10:49 and 10:50 GMT. Fourteen minutes later, the President posted on Truth Social about a "COMPLETE AND TOTAL RESOLUTION" to hostilities. Oil dropped 11%. Over 13,000 contracts traded in sixty seconds after the post. Fourteen minutes. I flagged it.
April 7th. Someone established a $950 million short position in oil futures at 19:45 GMT. Three hours later, the President declared a two-week ceasefire. Nine hundred and fifty million dollars. I flagged it.
April 17th. Someone placed $760 million in bearish bets twenty minutes before Iran's foreign minister confirmed the Strait of Hormuz would reopen. Seven hundred and sixty million. I flagged it.
April 21st. The $430 million. Fifteen minutes. I flagged it.
That is $2.1 billion in directional oil bets in April alone. Every one of them landed on the correct side of a presidential announcement. Every one of them was placed in a window so narrow you could measure it in bathroom breaks. I flagged every single one.
The CFTC chair told a Congressional committee that his organization has "zero tolerance" for fraud and insider trading. I wrote that quote on a Post-it note and stuck it to my right monitor. The one that shows the investigation queue. The investigation queue has not moved since March.
Zero tolerance. Zero staff. Zero budget. Zero prosecutions under the STOCK Act since it was signed in 2012.
Fourteen years. The law has existed for fourteen years and has been enforced zero times. In compliance, we call that a compliance rate of one hundred percent. No cases filed means no cases lost. You cannot fail an audit you never conduct. We call that excellence.
Last month the White House sent an internal email to staff. I was not on the distribution list but I have read reporting on it and I need you to sit with what I am about to say. The email instructed White House staff not to use insider information to place bets on prediction markets.
The White House had to send a memo telling its own employees not to insider-trade.
I want you to read that sentence again. Not because the instruction was unclear. Because the instruction was necessary. Because someone in the building looked at the same pattern I have been flagging for months on my three monitors and decided the appropriate response was an email.
The President's son sits on the advisory board of Kalshi. He is an investor in Polymarket. Both are prediction markets. Both saw accounts created days before U.S. military action.
One account. I cannot stop thinking about this account. It was called "Burdensome-Mix." It was created in December. On January 2nd, it placed $32,500 on Venezuela's president being removed from power. On January 3rd, Maduro was seized by U.S. special forces. Burdensome-Mix collected $436,000. Then it changed its username. Then it disappeared.
One account is a coincidence. But there were six.
Six accounts were created on Polymarket in February. All bet on U.S. strikes on Iran by the 28th. When the President confirmed the strikes, the six accounts collected $1.2 million between them. Five of the six never placed another bet. The sixth went on to correctly predict the ceasefire date and made another $163,000.
My surveillance system logged all of this. My system logs everything. My system does not have opinions and neither do I. I generate reports. The reports go to committees. The committees meet quarterly. Between meetings, the windows get shorter and the bets get larger.
March 9th: 47 minutes. March 23rd: 14 minutes. April 17th: 20 minutes. April 21st: 15 minutes.
The window is compressing. In March, you had time to make coffee between the trade and the announcement. By April, you had time to send a text. By summer, at this rate, the trade and the announcement will be the same event.
The spokesman said any implication that administration officials are engaged in insider trading is "baseless and irresponsible reporting."
Then the White House sent the email again.
I have been in compliance for nineteen years. I have seen insider trading run out of strip mall offices by men who could not spell "derivative." I have seen pump-and-dump schemes coordinated over WhatsApp by people who used their real names. I have seen a man try to manipulate soybean futures from a Panera Bread.
I have never seen $2.1 billion in perfectly timed trades across five presidential announcements in a single month go uninvestigated.
But I have also never seen a compliance system work this beautifully. Every trade flagged. Every report filed. Every committee briefed. Every quarterly meeting attended. Bottled water: sparkling. Minutes: distributed.
Zero prosecutions.
As long as the flags go up and the cases don't, my performance review says I am meeting expectations.
I am meeting expectations. The system is meeting expectations. The $2.1 billion is meeting expectations. The fourteen-year-old law with zero prosecutions is meeting expectations.
The left screen moves. The middle screen moves. The right screen stays perfectly, immaculately still.
In my field, we call this price discovery.
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ID: 2 screenshots with info about student debt in America.
Image 1: screenshot of a news article from the Intercept. It says:
The origin of student debt: Reagan adviser warned free college would create a dangerous “educated proletariat”. In 1970, Roger Freeman, who also worked for Nixon, revealed the right's motivation for coming decades of attacks on higher education.
Image 2: screenshot of tweet by MC Squared (@/mcsquared34)
Student debt was created to instill discipline in students, when you graduate from college with >$100,000k in debt, it may take a lifetime to pay off, you have no choice but to enter the capitalist machine, all that stuff about hope or changing the world disappears really quick.
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Good riddance.
There will never be a school named after Trump because EVERYONE knows his racism is a stain and his intellect is non-existent.