The MAGAt election violence has already started, as this story from Arizona describes. There is a large cohort of American voters, particularly men with no college education, who want to see fascists take control of the government because they think they will gain power and status if Trump and other fascists come to power. They don’t understand that they are the ones whose lives will suffer the greatest degradation, and so they are organizing and preparing for violence.
Phoenix Fire Department and police officials are investigating after a United States Postal Service mailbox was believed to have been set on fire overnight, damaging a number of mailed-in ballots.
PHOENIX — An arrest was reportedly been made after a Phoenix United States Postal Service mailbox was believed to have been set on fire overnight, damaging a number of mailed-in ballots.
Emergency crews were called to the USPS Osborn Station, near 7th Avenue and Indian School Road, around 1:30 a.m. where a drove-up mail collection box was on fire.
Maricopa County Recorder Stephen Richer released the following statement:
“We are waiting for details from law enforcement. We encourage all voters who used that mail box in the last 36 hours to check the status of their ballots at https://BeBallotReady.Vote. Successful delivery is usually reflected on that website within 72 hours. Voters should be aware that tomorrow, October 25 is the last day to request a replacement ballot. If a voter believes they were impacted by this incident they can learn more about how to make that request at https://Request.Maricopa.Vote.”
Arizona Secretary of State Adrian Fontes released the following statement about the incident:
Never in our history have physicians in large number felt obliged to publicly warn American voters that voting for fascist Trump would be an “imminent catastrophic public danger.” Yet for the first time in over two centuries now they are speaking out this way.
Operating under “Duty to Warn,” 233 mental health professionals signed off on a letter to be published in the New York Times, calling Trump an “imminent catastrophic public danger” to the world should he be re-elected based upon recent evidence on display in his public appearances.
In the letter, they asserted, the 78-year old Trump “….exhibits behavior that tracks with the American Psychiatric Association’s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual’s (DSM V) diagnostic criteria for ‘narcissistic personality disorder,‘ ‘antisocial personality disorder,’ and’“paranoid personality disorder,’ all made worse by his intense sadism, which is a symptom of malignant narcissism.”
The letter also notes, “Trump appears to be showing signs of cognitive decline that urgently cry out for a full neurological work-up, including an […]
Misti Crane, Ohio State News Contributor - Ohio State News
Stephan:
Every bit a fact-based research I have seen has made it clear that the Dobbs decision has degraded and endangered both women and infants. Here is the latest data confirming what I am telling you. Six christofascists have put hundreds of thousands of Americans at risk, and no one is talking about it properly. And if fascist Trump is elected all this is going to get worse.
Infant mortality increased after Roe v. Wade was overturned, a national study found. Credit: Getty
U.S. babies died at a higher rate in the months following the Supreme Court’s 2022 Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health decision, and infant mortality was highest among those born with chromosomal or genetic abnormalities, new research has found.
The findings mirror previous research analyzing the experience in Texas after a ban on abortions in early pregnancy and illuminate the consequences of restricting access to abortion care, said Maria Gallo and Parvati Singh, researchers from The Ohio State University who conducted the national analysis appearing online today (Oct. 21) in JAMA Pediatrics.
“In the seven to 14 months after Roe v. Wade was overturned, we saw a 7% increase in infant mortality, and a 10% increase in those babies born with congenital anomalies,” said Singh, an assistant professor of epidemiology.
From 2018 through 2023, monthly infant mortality averaged 5.6 deaths per 1,000 live births and mortality with congenital anomalies averaged 1.3 deaths per 1,000 live […]
Earth’s matrix of life is being disrupted in ways that are going to have dreadful consequences for the matrix, and that means every human. But do you hear a word about this in this wretched campaign? I don’t think fascist Trump even understands what climate change is. Any more than he understands what a tariff is.
Coral bleaching — such as that seen here around Lizard Island on Australia’s Great Barrier Reef — happens when the water is too warm Credit: David Gray / AFP
A global coral bleaching event that began last year has quickly grown to the largest on record, according to a U.S. agency, with the impacted reef area continuing to grow.
From the beginning of 2023 through October 10, 2024, “roughly 77 percent of the world’s reef area has experienced bleaching-level heat stress,” Derek Manzello of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) told AFP on Friday.
He said the ongoing bleaching event — the fourth since 1998 — had surpassed the previous record of 65.7 percent in half the time, and “is still increasing in size.”
Coral are marine invertebrates made up of individual animals called polyps.
They have a symbiotic relationship with the algae that live inside their tissue and provide their primary source of food, as well as their […]
The closer we get to election day the more explicit traitor Trump’s fascist statements become. It is something we have never seen in the United States before, something straight out of the playbook of Hitler, Mussolini, and Stalin. Yet every day American voters are voting for a man who will destroy the country’s democracy, and ruin their lives, just as Hitler, Mussolini, and Stalin destroyed the social wellbeing of Germany, Italy, and Russia.
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump appears on “Fox & Friends” on October 18, 2024. Credit: Fox News / screenshot
Education advocates implored voters to take Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump’s latest comments on public schools on Friday after his appearance on the Fox News morning show “Fox & Friends,” where he explained how he would punish schools that teach students accurate U.S. history, including about slavery and racism in the country.
Trump was asked by a viewer who called into the show how he would help students who don’t want to attend their local public schools, and said he plans to “let the states run the schools” to allow for more “school choice.”
“We’re gonna take the Department of Education, we’re gonna close it,” said the former president, explaining that each state would govern educational policy without federal input—a promise of the right-wing policy agenda, Project 2025, that was co-authored by hundreds of former Trump administration staffers.
“Fox & Friends” co-host Brian Kilmeade said the plan was concerning […]
Sarah K. Burris, Senior Digital Editor - Raw Story
Stephan:
MAGAt politicians and MAGAt media are constantly screaming about thousands of non-citizens voting. Well, they aren’t, and here is the latest proof. Do you think that will matter to the MAGAts, shut them down about this? I doubt it will have any effect.
Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger Credit: Official photo
An internal audit of the Georgia voter rolls uncovered that the number of noncitizens voting in the state is minimal.
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported the audit from Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, who also said that the registrations were canceled and any possible illegal activity was referred to law enforcement.
Out of the 20 noncitizens found, only nine cast ballots years ago before voter ID checks were in place. The audit said 11 others registered, but they never voted.
“We are committed to ensuring the only U.S. citizens can vote in our elections through rigorous citizenship verification at the front end, and in maintaining the cleanest voter rolls in the nation through continuous list maintenance,” said the Republican secretary of state.
An audit done two years ago found no noncitizens had voted in Georgia.
“Although Georgia is well into the early voting period, we hope that his findings and transparency will help bolster voter confidence,” said former U.S. Sen. Kelly Loeffler, who lost after Trump lost the state in 2020.
