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MB Matthews, she/her's avatar

Thank you both!

One important point for me: I'm so glad Molly brought up Elon Musk and the evil despicable things he did that have ongoing negative effects on our country and the world. He's gone quiet but the damage is ongoing.

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Sue Gordon's avatar

This is fab! Soooooo smart and useful. Thanks!!

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Roger Helbig's avatar

I wonder if Donald will notify Congress as required by Section 740 - he has 48 hours - https://dccouncil.gov/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/Home%20Rule%20Act%202013%20(2-11-14).pdf pg 85-86

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Pamela Jo Delk's avatar

“Our billionaire class has fallen down on the job.” Yes. They have. The damage that has been done will take years to repair, but it can be built back with more efficiency, with careful micro moves. And yes. Bad stewardship with the media.

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Pamela Jo Delk's avatar

And thank you, Molly, for speaking to Musk’s psychopathology. His relationship with тяump, itself seems to have been the poisonous pill that turned him from the philanthropic hero he should have been.

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Margaret's avatar

What about the voting machines? SMART Elections is still investigating the 2024 election.

https://smartelections.us/2024-election-update

I haven't read the latest at the above website, but one of the things they cited when I looked a month or so ago was that one of the two labs that tests voting machines, Pro V & V, had a beginner's WordPress website that still said something like "Hello World" or "Welcome to WordPress" (I forget which). I looked today and the front page of the website is better, but it's the ONLY page and so simplistic (though it has nice enough pictures - stock photos?) that I suspect they found a 1-page template and filled it in. If they're too cheap to hire an actual web developer and too nontechnical to make an actual contact form, I have to wonder if they actually run ANY tests on voting machines or just rubber-stamp them as approved (or not, depending upon, what? Loyalty or campaign donations, perhaps?)

Read the SMART Elections link I gave because there are serious questions about voting machines in the 2024 election.

For anyone interested, here are more details about my own observations about how much of a beginner website Pro V & V has at provandv.com. The copyright notice at the bottom doesn't even say WHO it's copyrighted to. There are exactly 7 links on the page, 2 of which are for sending an email insecurely using your computer's default program (via a "mailto:" link) and 2 of which are for calling them via your computer, if you have such a phone app installed. The other 5 simply go to various sections of the page. The contact area, which is at the bottom of the front page, does not have a secure contact form, just that email address and phone number. It's still a WordPress website (I can tell because I use WordPress to make websites myself), but WordPress is overkill for a very simple one-page website; it would load faster if they just used basic HTML and CSS.

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