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Bruce Ediger @bruceediger.bsky.social · 1h

God knows, Davey

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Michele Okoh |🖤🩶🤍💜|🔺🐘 @okohlaw.bsky.social · 20h

It’s the Portland way.

LA: we will fight you.
Chicago: we will fight you.
PDX: we will make you endure week after week of of improv theater.

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Bruce Ediger @bruceediger.bsky.social · 1h

Nooo! Not Barron! He's so young! He's still a boy!

Bruce Ediger @bruceediger.bsky.social · 4h

I guess we're supposed to hide special needs people away, like in the 1930s or 40s, so Bobby and Donny don't have to see them.

Bruce Ediger @bruceediger.bsky.social · 4h

Wait, that means the NYT is bothsidesing this. Voting for Trump, a weirdo fascist, is The Same as voting for a liberal.

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 8h

Think about how for decades, one of the ingredients of a crackpot was: retired engineer.

Retired engineers, for *generations* have been a fertile ground for crackpot theories in everything.

They get that golden watch and bam, incoherent manifesto about quantum archeology inbound.

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Bruce Ediger @bruceediger.bsky.social · 5h

Honestly, that was my guess, except I have never been able to see Trump as charismatic, especially in the way that MAGA media portrays him. So I experienced a little cognitive dissonance

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David Buchanan @retr0.id · 1d

gnu cowutils

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Bruce Ediger @bruceediger.bsky.social · 5h

It's a fair cop

Bruce Ediger @bruceediger.bsky.social · 5h

Is Robin old enough to drive? For some reason, I have him at about 13 or 14, too young for a driver's license in most states.

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Bruce Ediger @bruceediger.bsky.social · 5h

I don't subscribe. I'll guess it has to do with the pleasure of voting for someone with principles, vs Trump winning partially because NYT in particular, and mass media in general, treated him very favorably because their Oligarch owners want Trump to rule us like a king.

What's my prize, Johnny?

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Bruce Ediger @bruceediger.bsky.social · 6h

Too bad nobody with a national news following has made this clear.

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Jonathan Edward Durham @thisone0verhere.bsky.social · 7h

A haunted house but every room is just somebody googling something inefficiently and you’re not allowed to help

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Bruce Ediger @bruceediger.bsky.social · 16h

There's not much publicly available on this but what little there is says tabulator counts are faster and more accurate than hand counts

dspace.mit.edu/bitstream/ha...

votingrightslab.org/2024/02/27/b...

If you've got other references, I'd love to read them.

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Bruce Ediger @bruceediger.bsky.social · 20h

Colorado does risk limiting audits on all elections, I believe. The procedure used only gives you statistical confidence, but it's very good at detecting wrongly declared winners.

I confess I didn't look at OR and WA as closely.

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 1d

now do jan 6th

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Bruce Ediger @bruceediger.bsky.social · 1d

There is no reason not to use tabulators, lots of reasons not to use voting machines.

People who peddle mistrust of tabulators think they are better than you, their preferences should decide and yours ignored. They are charlatans and bullies.

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Bruce Ediger @bruceediger.bsky.social · 1d

People like Mike Lindell are confusing tabulating with voting. Tina Peters, convicted Qanon election interferer, seems to have allowed someone to tamper with tabulator software, because Mesa County Colorado was able to do a complete hand recount. And got the same results.

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Bruce Ediger @bruceediger.bsky.social · 1d

You can look up "colorado risk limiting audits" to see how Colorado does things. Tabulators can be, and are above board, and verifiable. It's easy to duplicate and try out the audit method. I've done that: bruceediger.com/posts/risk-l...

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Bruce Ediger @bruceediger.bsky.social · 1d

They're conflating two things:

Tabulators mechanically/electronically count ballots

Voting machines present a ballot representation to the voter, accept inputs, then tally inputs

Tabulators are common. Ballots exist outside the machine, verifiable. Vote by mail states use these, and verify.

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Bruce Ediger @bruceediger.bsky.social · 1d

Does Thune have anything going for him other than height and good hair?

Bruce Ediger @bruceediger.bsky.social · 1d

The thing is, they're almost certainly lying. If we've discovered anything about conservatives, we've discovered they lie constantly.

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Michael @michaelklamerus.bsky.social · 1d

Sorry folks but Gubble is here to stay. If you don’t embrace Gubble then you’ll get left behind by everyone that has embraced Gubble

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Bruce Ediger @bruceediger.bsky.social · 1d

Gotta give them catchy names, like "Morpefa", or "Optifa", so that the Boomers and the news anchors feel cool talking about them, and don't have to work to figure out what Morpefa is all about.

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 1d

"Sinister, Malevolent, Venomous: Stephen Miller Is Like No Other White House Aide in Modern US History"

Miller, the deputy White House chief of staff, has never hidden his disfigured & dangerous psyche. But now Trump has empowered him to execute his fascist impulses, writes John Harwood for Zeteo.

Sinister, Malevolent, Venomous: Stephen Miller Is Like No Other White House Aide in Modern US History

Miller, the deputy White House chief of staff, has never hidden his disfigured and dangerous psyche. But now Donald Trump has empowered him to execute his fascist impulses.

zeteo.com

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