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Reading some of the requirements to register to or to actually vote in this Poll Tax Bill. This hits a lot of people... If you don't have a valid passport or don't know where your birth certificate is. (Or your adopted and your birth records were sealed) It's gonna cost you $$$ and a of headaches, Only 5 states have Enhanced Drivers License, which is proof you are a citizen. Real ID's without EDL is is not considered actual proof. What if you or a loved one was adopted and their records have been sealed...$$$$$$$$ What if the adoptee was adopted overseas? More hoops to jump thru, more paperwork costs. It's not preventing voting fraud, its picking and choosing winners. In doing so we all lose

From one of my FB faves...

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Trumpublicans just reinstated the poll tax I think we should reinstate requiring that voters can actually pass a US Citizenship test.

Sums it up quite well…. Of course the official apologist will post a stupid meme about Hillary, Biden, Obama, The Clintons, woke liberals…..

She’s cuckoo for something and it’s not chocolaty delicious

This is really cool. One of my favorite Rockwell Paintings being donated by a former Il governor. https://www.audacy.com/wbbm780/news/local/former-il-governor-makes-major-donation-to-chicago-museum?utm_campaign=Evergreen&utm_term=19537483989&fbclid=IwVERFWAP5td9leHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZA8xNzM4NDc2NDI2NzAzNzAAAR6xf0avp-uahodJis8-E3EzZVuJc0X_qoV0FO3pyEr9vkkoKJL8Pas1jHK9sw_aem_1Xz9Vl51PXQxv54BNVEXFA

I swear she got her law license out of a box of Cocoa Puffs

We need a health thread. Anyway, I found this study interesting and the snarky comment at the end very true. Meanwhile I've switched to Half-caff, a bit too early to give an opinion here

I guess to me JV's always been THE GUY in my relatively short (compared to most of you guys) Tiger fandom. A Virginia kid, went to ODU, always seems down to earth (even with Kate)

I had a conversation about 15 years ago with a hospice nurse shortly after we placed my dad in hospice care. He had end stage COPD. He was then given a "button" to control his own morphine. During his first drug coma, I commented that we seem to treat our pets better than our humans at times. I was diagnosed with ILD/IPF about 5 years ago. Still functioning fairly normally, though I get out of breath with exertion. Most of the stats are still close to what they were after the original diagnoses. That conversation still stays with me when I think about the future and my options

Maybe if somebody could translate the Epstein Files into Spanish the Righteous Right might get upset

Ben could be a bit weird at times

February 11 https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/february-11?cmpid=email-hist-tdih-2026-0211-02112026

When you work for thugs….. Some of these guys need to go into the detention centers they’re putting up everywhere

Pirro needs to return to TV where she pretended to be a lawyer..

I does wonders for the soul

I get that. Maybe we shouldn't be electing representatives who do not receive 50.1 percent of the total vote. And maybe that's where ranked choice voting comes in, and possibly move to multi member districts. That said the whole system needs to be reformed. Expand the House, add states like Puerto Rico and DC if you want. I really don't know.

At times I wish there were more than two parties in the US. I'm not sure given our DNA whether it would work, but would go a longer (than now) way to stop the Party Purity B-S we're seeing now. But that would go along with things like ranked voting and multi member districts.