WASHINGTON (AP) — With heated debate over mail delays, the House approved legislation in a rare Saturday session that would reverse recent changes in U.S. Postal Service operations and send $25 billion to shore up the agency ahead of the November election.
OK Moscow Mitch, the ball (or more precisely the ballot) is in your court now.
While the funding is a nice gesture, I’m pretty sure USPS management will continue to impede the mail per Bunko Boy’s wishes. Meanwhile some heroic postal workers have reinstalled the mail sorting machines. Let us hope the postal union and civic minded lawyers can defend these employees for upholding their oaths to take care of the mail.
Trump:
“This is all another HOAX.”
Maybe he should care enough to ask those people who has not received their medicines, SS checks or those biz owners with dead chicks before he says it a hoax 
!
Those mid-July sharp decline does not look like it’s a hoax!
Addendum:
Trump attacking mail drop boxes now, saying it “not Covid sanitized”
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1297495295266357248
My Guess
He’s on the side of Suppression
Mitch Logic:You wouldn’t want a vote on something that affects voting so close to the election now would you?
They will stop at nothing as desperation sinks in
It is our duty to defeat the suppression by any means possible
["But Republicans countered that complaints about mail delivery disruptions are overblown, and no emergency funding is needed right now.
‘It’s a silly, silly bill,’ said Rep. Tom Cole, R-Okla."]
A “Party” is a criminal organization if adherence to it includes callousness in the face of danger and death.
The fact that this goes on in the guise of “disagreements across the aisle” is as stupid, dense, greedy and immoral as saying slavery was an “occupational choice”.
It dies in the Senate.
Thank You Tao. The real patriots
THIS
Good trouble. Necessary trouble.
Let’s hope this heroic disobedience inspires every USPS sorting facility to do the same. Then, when DeJoy tries to re-destroy the machines, the world will be watching.
With any luck, there are some lawyers out there who will, pro bono, help these patriotic mail carriers keep their jobs. After all, they are only upholding the oath they took to keep their appointed rounds.
So watching the national news last night one the networks reported on the orange locks on mailboxes as being nothing new. Their reporting was they placed the lock on some boxes, but people could still place their mail on the other side. None of that made sense to me.
I have heard that people steal mail before, just not how they were stealing mail. I even heard back when I was a kid that boys, yes why is it always boys and firecrackers, putting lit firecrackers into mailboxes. Really dumb guys.
Trump will veto this, as he now says that this is just another Democrat hoax, reversing himself from a couple of days ago when he stated that he was all for the funding.
His chorus of GOP Senate sycophants are already decrying the House USPS rescue as political and unnecessary. It really doesn’t matter that twenty-six Republicans joined House Democrats, as the GOP controlled Senate doesn’t care.
My personal opinion is that the damage to the USPS has already been done and nothing will reverse it in time for the election.
Between Covid 19 and this election, this will be a test no American has faced before, more so, because Trump and the GOP stand a better than even chance of stealing this election and sealing Americas fate.
It is not “others say,” it is the constitutional fact of the case, and this should have been noted in the lede: when counteracting Repuglican agitprop it is better to start with the truth and keep it in front rather than give lies a leg-up or any legs at all frankly; e.g., https://www.mediamatters.org/donald-trump/everyone-knows-headlines-are-broken-heres-how-news-organizations-can-start-fixing-them
I wonder if Trump & co are smarter than Alexander Lukashenko of Belarus? I mean Alexander dude, you’ve been in power for 26 years and you rigged your election results to give you 80% of the vote? Not fishy at all, nope, no way.
The whole idea is to convince Democrats that no method of voting is safe and effective:
Absentee ballot sent in the mail - not likely to be delivered in time.
Absentee ballot placed in a drop box - likely to be stolen or destroyed.
Voting in person - exposure to Covid-19.
More than two dozen Republicans broke with the president and backed the bill
That was interesting.
Ordinarily I’m not a huge fan of strong-arming people but maybe it would help if some person DeJoy might trust were sent to him to quietly say that if he doesn’t put things back the way they were he would certainly face prosecution under a new administration. I have to think understands his situation is not enviable.
But I do remember that in the last election and the last presidential election problems with people getting their absentee ballots in time to send them back to vote, and mostly it was in Florida, but not all the stories came out of Florida. So it sounds like once again some state Republicans figured a way to mess with elections, but now Trump wants to take it nationally.
I read a few days ago there’s a vast difference between registered Democrats and Republicans in how they want to vote, as you might figure. So it seems generally to Trump’s advantage in the pandemic to discourage mail-in as much as possible. He’s not wrong to do it, by the evidence, just evil.
All of the outstate Missouri Republican reps voted no, while the St Louis suburban (mine) and KC suburban reps voted yes.
Good points.
I would also wish to add that the non-stop Trump presence in our public discourse, as well as the abject lawlessness and endless bloviating, projecting and lying, is also meant to convey a sense of inevitability and dominance on the part of Trump.
When, in fact, the opposite is true.
Or maybe I should simply echo what Ben Rhodes said the other night (paraphrase):
"The right to vote is ours. Trump is trying to take that away. He cannot. He can make it excruciatingly difficult. But he cannot take it away.
Every time I see despair ANYWHERE among us I see a Trump victory. And the last feeling I have looking at it is energy.
Is that the more rural areas, like in New York when they say “upstate” there’s a definite mental image?
Haha I’m sure you’ve seen he plans to speak every goddamn night of the convention, because how could anyone get too much of Donald Trump. We don’t get tired and say “you’re inevitable and will be around forever,” really, as a society. We say ugh just go away.
