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On the morning we learned Tr**p had been elected I was having coffee with a friend while 100 yards away my wife was having a massive pulmonary embolism. (She survived & made a full recovery, thanks to helicopters, modern medicine, & countless skilled, dedicated people.) 1/2
I feel like I have been in a constant state of mourning the last almost 4 years.
It has definitely changed me.
Detail from the story I wrote about this: The Biden campaign is launching digital ads this week in Pennsylvania that stress the importance of returning ballots with the proper envelopes, i.e. avoiding accidentally sending naked ballots. https://www.politico.com/news/2020/09/22/pennsylvania-officials-warn-2000-florida-redux-420275 https://twitter.com/hollyotterbein/status/1308076165614231552
In a letter to GOP state leg leaders, an election official warns 100K PA voters could be disenfranchised b/c of a ruling rejecting naked ballots. It "set PA up to be the subject of significant post-election legal controversy, the likes of which we have not seen since FL in 2000."
Hey, @DHS_Wolf — can I call you Chad? — I was wondering just how concerned you really are about the appearance of impropriety if your wife’s consulting firm only worked for DHS after 2017 and then got $6 million while you were Pretend Acting DHS Secretary? https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/dhs-awarded-6-million-contracts-firm-where-acting-secretary-wolf-n1240773
I don't know who needs to hear this, but no argument in favor of the electoral college today has any relationship to the reasons the electoral college was written into the constitution in 1787, and the electoral college has never—not one time—functioned as intended.
Abolish the police https://twitter.com/ajplus/status/1308455999616028672
Sgt. Jonathan Mattingly – one of the officers involved in the police killing of #BreonnaTaylor – said “I know we did the legal, moral and ethical thing that night.”
In an email to around 1,000 officers, he called protesters “thugs” and said “it is good versus evil.”
