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It's YouTube music, which is showing popular "podcasts" on its explore page. Must be just because it's popular because nothing in my algo on either youtube or YouTube music would suggest this shit.

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/64461261

The inevitable evolution of chat rule

A draft emergency executive order to declare a national emergency to allow President Donald Trump to take unprecedented control over voting is being circulated by anti-voting activists who said they are in coordination with the White House.

Voting rights experts, democracy advocates, and at least one state election chief said Trump doesn’t have the authority to claim such powers — and any attempt would be blatantly unconstitutional.

The draft order — which is said to be based on a conspiracy theory that China interfered with the 2020 election — would allow Trump to unilaterally ban mail-in ballots and voting machines on the basis that they are susceptible to foreign interference.

The order comes from MAGA activists who have been coordinating with the White House. One of the advocates for the order is Peter Ticktin, the attorney for Tina Peters, the former GOP Colorado county clerk who is currently serving a nine-year state prison sentence for her role in a 2021 voting system breach, in an attempt to find voter fraud based on election conspiracies.

The Elections Clause of the U.S. Constitution explicitly gives states — not the president — sole authority over elections.

I do not believe that the genocide has ended. What we are seeing is a continuation of the same process in a different form. Most Israelis are largely unaware that the violence continues. Ongoing air strikes, the destruction of schools, and civilian deaths — often including women and children — are either not reported or are framed almost exclusively in terms of “terrorists.” This dynamic is not new. Even before October 7, Gaza was treated as something distant — an issue best ignored, to be handled by others, without demanding sustained attention or moral engagement from Israeli society.

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It is difficult to measure acceleration in this regard. What matters more is the process itself. An hour away from where I live, roughly two million people are living amid a humanitarian catastrophe. Most have lost their homes and livelihoods. Hunger and deprivation are widespread. Yet daily life in Israel feels normal.

Even closer to Gaza, life can appear normal as well, punctuated occasionally by explosions — air strikes, demolitions, or detonations whose nature is often unclear. Unless someone actively chooses to pay attention, it is remarkably easy to forget that any of this is happening. As a historian, I find this deeply instructive. It resembles situations I have read about for years: people living in close proximity to mass suffering, later claiming they did not know. The reality is that not knowing, or choosing not to know, is easier than we like to admit.

From the Washington Post: “Pro-Trump activists who say they are in coordination with the White House are circulating a 17-page draft executive order that claims China interfered in the 2020 election as a basis to declare a national emergency that would unlock extraordinary presidential power over voting.”

The Washington Post reported that activists are working with the White House on an executive order to declare a “national emergency” over America’s elections and pave the way for a power grab.

“Pro-Trump activists who say they are in coordination with the White House are circulating a 17-page draft executive order that claims China interfered in the 2020 election as a basis to declare a national emergency that would unlock extraordinary presidential power over voting,” reported the Post‘s Isaac Arnsdorf. “President Donald Trump has repeatedly previewed a plan to mandate voter ID and ban mail ballots in November’s midterm elections, and the activists expect their draft will figure into Trump’s promised executive order on the issue.”

Peter Ticktin, a MAGA activist in favor of the executive order, told the Post that “we have a situation where the president is aware that there are foreign interests that are interfering in our election processes,” and that “the president has to be able to deal with it,” including by banning mail-in ballots and certain voting machines.

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