The Public Good

I just want to spread the word that there are many things that are public goods and need to be maintained, nurtured and developed to keep them as such.

[liberalsarecool]

Trump Administration coordinated with Russia for all the presidential elections.

Now Trump is trying to say China has been collecting publicly available data, like... Oh you don't say? Would this be the same China that Trump handed access to our most advanced computer chips to?

MAGA is incredibly dumb and we all pay.

[bowlby4]

[bowlby4]

[contemplatingoutlander]

DHS Secretary Mullin threatens to prosecute election chiefs who refuse voter roll demands

His speech marked a major escalation in the Trump administration’s efforts to assert federal control over state election procedures.

Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin threatened top election officials in all 50 states and D.C. with criminal charges if they do not comply with the Trump administration’s demands to feed their voter rolls through a flawed federal database. [....] Alongside his threats Friday, Mullin claimed that the database in question [i.e., the Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements or SAVE database] had identified over 250,000 noncitizens registered to vote in California, New Jersey, Nevada and Pennsylvania. [....] The database, however, has repeatedly falsely identified eligible voters as noncitizens. It particularly falsely flagged naturalized citizens as ineligible to vote. [color emphasis added] [....] A federal judge in Washington, D.C., last month barred the DHS from continuing to use the database to surveil and force removals from state voter rolls. [....] In her order, [U.S. District Judge Sparkle] Sooknanan warned that the Trump administration “haphazardly” threatened “the sacred right to vote” by adopting the expanded SAVE system knowing that it would falsely flag eligible voters as potential noncitizens. [color emphasis added]

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So, Mullins, a federal officer with zero constitutional authority to interfere with how states run elections, is trying to force states to use a database that he KNOWS "would falsely flag eligible voters as potential noncitizens."

Isn't this election interference?

A number of states have election interference laws on their books.

Maybe a group of state attorneys general should consider charging Mullin with attempted election interference?

It's way past time for the states that want to preserve our democratic republic to fight back against the devious efforts of the Trump regime to disenfranchise voters in the 2026 election.

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[saywhat-politics]

[2bpoliticallycurious]

Unfortunately, according to The HIll, a DC appeals court is letting the post office continue to implement Trump's executive order and NOT deliver mail-in ballots in states that don't comply with Trump's attempt to purge eligible voters from voter rolls by using the error-prone SAVE database.

https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/5976171-appeals-court-trump-administration-usps-mail-in-ballots/

Frankly, it's madness.

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[comeonamericawakeup]

[herpsandbirds]

[segamascott]

well yes

[clinging-to-decency]

[raygun631]

[depsidase]

[mommahoney]

Make Sure Every American Knows

[gop-are-corporate-socialists]

And. It. Will. Work. It won’t be stopped without essentially a civil war.

[porterdavis]

Actions have consequences Volume #471,225

[porterdavis]

[mayamistake]

[porterdavis]

[bigboysdrinkmilk]

Why is there a diarrhea parasite outbreak in America?

Because Donald Trump and his Republican allies cut funding to disease prevention and control.

Why is measles back in America?

Because Donald Trump and his Republican allies, including RFK Jr, cut vaccine and measles prevention funding and programs.

Why is the New World Screwworm infecting cattle in Texas, when it had previously been eliminated from the area?

Because Donald Trump and his Republican allies, including Elon Musk, cut USAID funding, which in part worked to monitor and prevent screwworm outbreaks.

Why was there a flu outbreak in our armed forces?

Because Donald Trump and his Republican allies, including Pete Hegseth, cut vaccination requirements for our armed forces, putting all of them at risk alongside our military readiness.

What contributed to the Covid outbreak?

Donald Trump and his Republican allies cut funding to a pandemic prevention program in his first term because Barack Obama had created it.

“America first” sends its regards. Trump voters, please learn your lesson. And if you don’t, it’ll be taught to you again with yet another diarrhea outbreak.