Leonard Leo and the GOP Will Stop at Nothing to Steal the Election
Leonard Leo of SCOTUS placement fame has another scheme rolling out throughout the United States to throw registered Democrats off ballots and prepare for legal battles over counts. This is the stuff of nightmares.
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“But earlier this month, the Republican National Committee, represented by Green and other Consovoy McCarthy attorneys, asked the Supreme Court to intervene and block voters from participating in the November election if they did not provide sufficient proof of citizenship. If the high court agrees, the decision would exclude tens of thousands of Arizona voters from participating in elections.”
The Lever: Leonard Leo’s Swing-State Voter Purge
Phil Donahue deserved better. Still does.
The tributes were brief. A talk show from yesteryear replaced by Oprah and a new breed of entertainment talk show hosts. Famously mocked by SNL. A daytime talk show host with prematurely silver hair. A relic. More troubling was the lack of coverage of his death at 88 years of age by left-wing media outlets. Save for this piece on Democracy Now!, very few remember just how radically empathetic this man was and how his anti-war stance marked the unceremonious end to a remarkable career.
From the article:
“He changed television. He changed our country. His three most frequent guests on his daytime show, where he took issues of civil rights, gay rights, women’s rights, corporate greed — he mainstreamed those issues, and his three most frequent guests on the daytime show was the feminist advocate Gloria Steinem, it was Ralph Nader, the great foe of corporate greed, and Reverend Jesse Jackson. Aside from those three, he also kept featuring Dr. Sidney Wolfe, an ally of Ralph Nader, who talked about the greed of the pharmaceutical industry and unsafe drugs.”
Democracy Now!: Remembering TV Icon Phil Donahue: He Brought Antiwar Voices to the Airwaves Until MSNBC Fired Him
Mr. “Free Speech” Is at It Again
Trump’s appeal to working class voters he personally despises is as bizarre as the fanboy universe of libertarian idealists who revere Elon Musk.
From the article:
“‘There’s a grim rationality to his legal activities,’ says Imran Ahmed, the Center for Countering Digital Hate’s founder and CEO, of Musk. ‘They’re the desperate actions of a man trying to avoid accountability for what he knows is atrocious behavior.’ Ahmed believes Musk knows the behavior is bad, he added, because he himself said in 2022 that Twitter could not be allowed to become ‘a free-for-all hellscape,’ which critics argue it has.”
Mother Jones: Elon Musk’s Lawyers Quietly Subpoena Public Interest Groups
