“Hand-counting is typically expensive, inaccurate and impractical” NBC News: Some conservatives, including allies of former President Donald Trump, have pushed hand-counting ballots as a way to ensure the accuracy of election results. But Mohave County’s experience punctures that talking point, showing that hand-counting is typically expensive, inaccurate and impractical. In short, hand-counting ballots isn’t as easy as it sounds. Mohave County, home to an estimated 220,000 people in the northwestern corner of Arizona, is one of a handful of U.S. counties that has considered hand-counting ballots, thanks in part to election conspiracy theories that have driven distrust in ballot tabulators. After the 2020 election, the Arizona state Senate authorized a controversial hand-count audit of two races. The audit took months and cost millions, and — by its leadership’s own account in text messages obtained by The Arizona Republic — failed to result in an accurate count. Oh, right. Sure. That’s what the “experts” said, think MAGA conspiracy theorists.
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Now embroiled in scandal, Leon Black made a safe bet on Sinema during her 2018 Senate campaign.
The post Private Equity Billionaire Tied to Jeffrey Epstein Led Industry Backing for Kyrsten Sinema appeared first on The Intercept.
Now embroiled in scandal, Leon Black made a safe bet on Sinema during her 2018 Senate campaign.
The post Private Equity Billionaire Tied to Jeffrey Epstein Led Industry Backing for Kyrsten Sinema appeared first on The Intercept.
Ideological shifts do not appear and disappear overnight. Regardless of the outcome of Israel’s protests, the ideological shifts there are seismic and long-lasting. For now, liberal Zionists and their Western allies must accept the historical truth that Herzl's “clergymen” have escaped the "temples” and are running the country.
The post Unraveling Israel’s Identity: From Atheistic Zionism to Religious Nationalism appeared first on MintPress News.
The pressure is on to decide how best to use – if at all – the unexplored deep that humans have decided is the common property for the good of all mankind
Doctor Who star Yasmin Finney on being cast for the 60th-anniversary special event and if there's pressure that comes with being named "Rose."
Hey, who knows? It could be the Gulf Stream collapsing or the planet eternally breaking heat records. But whatever the specifics, we’re living it right now, not in the next century, the next decade, or even next year. You couldn’t miss it — at least so you might think — if you were living in the sweltering Southwest; especially in broiling, record-setting Phoenix with 30 straight days of temperatures above 110 degrees Fahrenheit; or in flaming Greece or western China on the day the temperature hit 126 degrees Fahrenheit or sweltering, blazing Algeria when the temperature reached an almost unimaginable 135 (yes, 135!) degrees Fahrenheit; not to speak of broiling Canada with its more than 1,000 fires now burning (a... Read more
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Even the key showdown over the Illegal Migration Bill in the chamber had just 6,000 views
Trump’s defenders slink to the occasion Donald Trump will be arraigned in a Washington, D.C. court this afternoon on charges spelled out in the indictment a federal grand jury handed down on Tuesday. He and his defenders will googolplex down on lies and distortions about those charges. First up from his defense team is that Trump is being prosecuted for exercising his First Amendment right to free speech. That is not a legal defense, but a political one for consumption and repetition by his supporters. They will do both. The former president’s alleged crimes are spelled out on the cover page of the grand jury’s indictment: UNITED STATES OF AMERICA v. DONALD J. TRUMP, Defendant. And in paragraph four (pg. 2). And at the top of page 3 (COUNT ONE). And at the top of pages 43, 44 and 45 (COUNTS TWO, THREE and FOUR). Chapter and verse.
‘Apostles of freedom are ever idolised when dead, but crucified when alive.’ The words of James Connolly, socialist and Irish revolutionary, cropped up again and again under pictures of Sinéad O’Connor the night of her death on the 26 of July. His quote, referring to the attitude towards the revolutionaries of the 1798 United Irishmen […]
“Co-conspirator 1 is described in the indictment as an ‘attorney who was willing to spread knowingly false claims and pursue strategies that the defendant’s 2020 re-election campaign would not.’” — The New York Times
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“A Time Person of the Year somewhere between 2000 and 2002.”
“A formerly revered mayor-cum-sloven crony best described as a sentient portrait of Dorian Gray.”
“Toady whose marriage to his own cousin constitutes a mouse-sized corpse in his airplane hangar of skeletons.”
“The love child of an adult bookstore and a crematorium.”
“A conspiracy-peddling disgraced lawyer who would call 9/11 an inside job if he hadn’t been the mayor of New York when it happened.”
In today's BCTV Daily Dispatch: Star Trek: Prodigy, AEW/WWE, Riverdale, IASIP, Stephen Amell/SAG-AFTRA, Doctor Who, Elon Musk, and more!
David Sirota interviews climate journalist Jeff Goodell about his bestselling new book on deadly heat waves.
In recent times, there has been a growing interest in institutionalist trends and research within the field of economics. Traditional explanations and analyses have seemed to have little or no value. Abstract and unrealistic theories have increasingly been replaced by historically grounded ones. Institutional and structural elements in the economy are highlighted, replacing overly short-term […]
Landlords and freeholders can pass on their legal costs onto leaseholders who are still waiting for reform of an 'obscene' feudal system
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The pages promote Russia’s line on the war in Ukraine to more than 4 million followers, casting doubt on Meta’s pledge to combat foreign influence campaigns.
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The pages promote Russia’s line on the war in Ukraine to more than 4 million followers, casting doubt on Meta’s pledge to combat foreign influence campaigns.
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This blog post looks at St. Louis Fed research on COVID-19 aid to emerging economies, decisions about college, counterterrorism policy trade-offs and trade.
People have, throughout all times, tried to form an understanding of the economic contexts using economic theories. These theories both shape and are part of society and its history. In the past century, the development of economic theories has taken place at an increasingly rapid pace. Over the last fifty years, these theories have become […]
A "fire whirl" has been spotted in California.
Instead of envisioning life amongst the stars, we should be thinking about Earth.