Originally published at: As Judges Reject Trump’s Quest to Control Elections, He Is Still Threatening States - TPM – Talking Points Memo
Trump Keeps Trying to Strong-Arm the States In Washington, D.C. yesterday, U.S. District Judge Sparkle L. Sooknanan rejected an effort by the Trump administration to use a revised database of Social Security numbers and citizenship status to check the accuracy of state voter rolls.The database was created following a Trump executive order aimed at one…
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second?
Bar complaint against Blanche.
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thrid!
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I had a theory about Trump’s assertion that vandals used box cutters to sabotage the reflecting pool: “I need to blame someone for the mess > say it was Antifa! > Antifa are terrorists > like the guys who did 9/11 > they used box cutters, didn’t they?”
At this point Trump’s brain is apple sauce with specks of memories of the 80s, 90s, and early 00s floating amidst the prions. I’m very much looking forward to a PotUS whose illogic I don’t need to reverse engineer.
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The Albanian prime minister might be underestimating the groundswell of support in stopping Jared and Ivanka (and all things TFG related). He might want to talk to Viktor Orban. He dismisses it as “outsider interference” and a few people who don’t understand the importance of the project.
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Mail in ballots for the Arizona primary get mailed tomorrow. I will fill mine out and take it personally to my county recorder’s office so I know my vote will get recorded.
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What happens when the president’s son and granddaughter develop and market their own branded energy drinks? Nothing good.
Would it be surprising if they’d applied to the FDA for an exemption from the controls on the use of methamphetamine?
You know, under, “… excessive regulation as an impediment to free enterprise?”
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A little more on the lifting of sanctions - and why more than one financial pundit has pointed out that the way payments are structured, the US will have no control over the oil money, estimated to be ~$1billion per week.
The latest exemption allows Iran to receive oil proceeds directly into its central bank, reducing the transaction costs previously incurred by routing payments through shadow banking intermediaries.
The license removes the principal banking friction constraining volume, giving both state refiners and independent refineries, or teapots, access to intermediary banking networks they previously had to circumvent, Maleki said.
No US intermediary here, folks.
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It could just as well be a favor to Vlad as repayment for Iran’s favor to him (drone supplies for his Ukrainian war.)
Just askig questions here!
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Barron and Kai just want the old man to stay up a little longer and play with them.
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U.S. District Judge Sparkle L. Sooknanan
Sarah has much better judicial names than David : - )
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What, exactly, is the ‘it,’ “…the president evidently has got?”
Are we talking, like, tertiary syphillis here?
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I read one news report that said the entire TFG entourage actually drove over the fresh paint with “the Beast” and other suv’s, so he could “inspect” it. I’m sure all that tonnage on fresh paint had an effect.
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I just did likewise here in CO.
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“Trump is the only head of state in the entire world who is sympathetic to the nation of Israel at this moment in time.”
That says something. Really.
A nation having a “Its not us, it you!” moment. And Huckabee is delivering the message.
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