The incremental, stealth takeover by oligarchs is now open and in its final race to the finish line.

A GOP Senate will confirm whatever monsters are appointed to be heads of cabinet agencies and will confirm whatever monsters are nominated to finish taking over the judiciary.

We've been conditioned to say, "Bullshit", every time they say, "Voter fraud", because it is bullshit. The distributed system is not really vulnerable to voter fraud. It has become vulnerable to election fraud, however. Couple all the means of distorting elections -- including media and voter suppression and all the abstraction layers of electronics since 2000 (Help America Vote) -- and only wave elections can overcome the cheats. Only the messages and the counters count.

Pardon Hunter Biden NOW. n/t

No concession. Recounts everywhere.

I'm tired of Democrats playing "nice" as if MAGAts are normal, ethical people. For 4 years, they've been screaming, "Rigged!" Treat it as a confession and investigate and recount. Use every legal means to challenge before conceding. We know Putin doesn't work to elect Democrats.

Need a big skillet and a translator. Skillet first...

Steven (28) vangt gigantische meerval aan Netekanaal in Duffel: "Onbeschrijfelijk gevoel"

Aan het Netekanaal in Duffel, in de buurt van het sluizencomplex, heeft Steven Van der Heyden uit Berlaar de vangst van zijn leven gedaan. Samen met een vriend ging hij een weekendje karpervissen, maar uiteindelijk vingen ze per toeval een meerval van bijna 2 meter lang en 50 kilogram zwaar. Dat schrijft RTV en bevestigt Steven aan VRT NWS. "Het heeft een halfuur geduurd vooraleer we hem uit het water kregen", zegt hij.

Wat een weekendje karpervissen moest worden aan het Netekanaal in Duffel, is voor Steven en een vriend uitgemond in iets veel indrukwekkender, namelijk de vangst van een meerval van 1,92 meter lang en 49 kilogram zwaar.

"Samen met een vriend was ik eropuit getrokken voor een weekendje vissen. We vissen normaal op karper, maar toen we gisteren beet hadden, merkten we al snel dat het om iets groters ging omdat de vis heel hard trok. Uiteindelijk bleek het een gigantische meerval te zijn", vertelt Steven.

Kentucky Constitutional Amendment 1, Citizenship Requirement for Voting Amendment (2024)

I intend to vote "NO", in spite of the part that would logically prevent any current Republican from voting: "3. Idiots and insane persons."

I do not trust the Kentucky General Assembly with the task of deciding who is eligible to vote.

A "yes" vote supports amending the constitution to require U.S. citizenship to be able to vote in the state.

A "no" vote opposes amending the constitution to require U.S. citizenship to be able to vote in the state.
Ballot Question

Are you in favor of amending Sections 145​ and 155 of the Constitution of Kentucky to prohibit persons who are not citizens of the United States from being allowe​​d to vote in the Commonwealth of Kentucky, as stated below? IT IS PROPOSED THAT SECTION 145 OF THE CONSTITUTION OF KENTUCKY BE AMENDED TO READ AS FOLLOWS: Every citizen of the United States of the age of eighteen years who has resided in the state one year, and in the county six months, and the precinct in which he or she offers to vote sixty days next preceding the election, shall be a voter in said precinct and not elsewhere. No person who is not a citizen of the United States shall be allowed to vote in this state. The following persons also shall not have the right to vote: 1. Persons convicted in any court of competent jurisdiction of treason, or felony, or bribery in an election, or of such high misdemeanor as the General Assembly may declare shall operate as an exclusion from the right of suffrage, but persons hereby excluded may be restored to their civil rights by executive pardon. 2. Persons who, at the time of the election, are in confinement under the judgment of a court for some penal offense. 3. Idiots and insane persons. IT IS PROPOSED THAT SECTION 155 OF THE CONSTITUTION OF KENTUCKY BE AMENDED TO READ AS FOLLOWS: The provisions of Sections 145​ to 154, inclusive, shall not apply to the election of school trustees and other common school district elections. Said elections shall be regulated by the General Assembly, except as otherwise provided in this Constitution. No person who is not a citizen of the United States shall be allowed to vote in said elections.

Bug: links within mastodon posts are no longer 'clickable'

Previously, mastodon posts acted the same on DU as on journa.host, mastodon.online, mastodon.social, mstdn.social, mas.to, mastodon.world.

Now, the entire post is a link to the original.

Example:

Ukraine will ask South Korea for weapons

Link to live rally

Over 200 unqualified Texas educators had someone else take their exams in cheating scandal, officials say

Source: NBC News

Oct. 30, 2024, 10:05 AM CDT
By Marlene Lenthang

Five people have been charged in Texas, accused of organizing and participating in an illegal cheating scheme that certified more than 200 unqualified teachers and saw the plot’s “kingpin” rake in more than $1 million, prosecutors announced.

In the scheme, individuals would typically pay $2,500 to have a proxy take certification tests for them at two testing centers in Houston. The scandal involved bribing a testing proctor to allow test applicants and their proxy to switch places, Harris County District Attorney Kim Ogg announced in a press conference Monday.

Overall, more than 400 fraudulent exams were taken and over 200 teachers were falsely certified on a variety of exams and are now scattered across the state. The scheme was traced back to May 2020, during the Covid pandemic.

Read more: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/200-unqualified-texas-educators-someone-else-take-exam-cheating-scanda-rcna177984

Drones in Ukraine. Warning: this is war footage.