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ificandream's JournalThe Grateful Dead - at the closing of Winterland 12/31/78 - full show
Spent many memorable evenings there, but not this one, unfortunately.
The Who - Live at Woodstock 1969 (full set, remastered, partial video)
&ab_channel=jumpstartationotherThe Who - Live at Madison Square Garden - Concert for America 2001
One of their best modern day live performances.
The Rolling Stones - If You Can't Rock Me (Live at MSG)
&ab_channel=TheRollingStonesDavid Cay Johnston tweet
https://twitter.com/davidcayj/status/1574746441536479234?s=46&t=HB96mYi5HYTBv3IqOkY8UAActivists Flood Election Offices With Challenges - The New York Times
By Nick Corasaniti and Alexandra Berzon
Sept. 28, 2022
Activists driven by false theories about election fraud are working to toss out tens of thousands of voter registrations and ballots in battleground states, part of a loosely coordinated campaign that is sowing distrust and threatening further turmoil as election officials prepare for the November midterms.
Groups in Georgia have challenged at least 65,000 voter registrations across eight counties, claiming to have evidence that voters’ addresses were incorrect. In Michigan, an activist group tried to challenge 22,000 ballots from voters who had requested absentee ballots for the state’s August primary. And in Texas, residents sent in 116 affidavits challenging the eligibility of more than 6,000 voters in Harris County, which is home to Houston and is the state’s largest county.
The recent wave of challenges have been filed by right-wing activists who believe conspiracy theories about fraud in the 2020 presidential election. They claim to be using state laws that allow people to question whether a voter is eligible. But so far, the vast majority of the complaints have been rejected, in many cases because election officials found the challenges were filed incorrectly, rife with bad information or based on flawed data analysis.
Republican-aligned groups have long pushed to aggressively cull the voter rolls, claiming that inaccurate registrations can lead to voter fraud — although examples of such fraud are exceptionally rare. Voting rights groups say the greater concern is inadvertently purging an eligible voter from the rolls.
The new tactic of flooding offices with challenges escalates that debate — and weaponizes the process. Sorting through the piles of petitions is costly and time-consuming, increasing the chances that overburdened election officials could make mistakes that could disenfranchise voters. And while election officials say they’re confident in their procedures, they worry about the toll on trust in elections. The challenge process, as used by election deniers, has become another platform for spreading doubt about the security of elections.
Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/28/us/politics/election-activists-voter-challenges.html?searchResultPosition=1
Sidney Powell's claims against Dominion Voting tossed by judge
Source: Bloomberg News/Erik Larson
Former Trump campaign lawyer Sidney Powell’s countersuit challenging a voting machine maker’s $1.3 billion defamation suit against her was dismissed by a federal judge.
Powell, who widely spread a false conspiracy theory that Dominion Voting Systems Inc. rigged the 2020 presidential election against Donald Trump, claimed that the company was abusing the legal process by suing her. She said the suit was suppressing public criticism and harming her reputation.
US District Judge Carl Nichols in Washington on Wednesday granted Dominion’s motion to dismiss the suit, saying Powell hadn’t alleged anything concrete to back up her claims. Nichols also noted that defamation suits “by design” are intended to silence people from making false, harmful statements.
“Powell’s complaint fails to link her abuse-of-process claim to any act that Dominion has taken other than filing and pursuing its lawsuit,” the judge wrote. “She has thus failed to state a claim for abuse of process.”
Read more: https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/nation/2022/09/28/sidney-powells-claims-against-dominion-voting-tossed-by-judge/69525206007/
Give it up, Sidney. You've lost.
Schwarzenegger visits Auschwitz in message against hatred
Source: AP/By VANESSA GERA, RAFAL NIEDZIELSKI
OSWIECIM, Poland (AP) — Film icon Arnold Schwarzenegger visited the site of the Auschwitz Nazi death camp on Wednesday, meeting a Holocaust survivor and the son of Holocaust survivors and saying it is time to “terminate” hatred.
The “Terminator” actor and former California governor viewed the barracks, watchtowers and remains of gas chambers that endure as evidence of the German extermination of Jews and others during World War II.
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“I was the son of a man who fought in the Nazi war and was a soldier,” the 75-year-old Schwarzenegger said in Oswiecim, the town where the Auschwitz site is located.
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“Let’s fight prejudice together and let’s just terminate it once and for all,” Schwarzenegger said.
Read more: https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-philanthropy-world-war-ii-8ac42e886347c640ed1aae2952f757b2
If you're really serious about fighting prejudice, Ahnald, leave the Republican Party.
Olbermann's Sept. 27 podcast was quite intense ....
It was a call for Arizona Sen. Kyrsten Sinema to resign. And he freely admits in the show that he and the senator used to be close friends and once dated.
Here's the link: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/episode-41-countdown-with-keith-olbermann-9-27-22/id1633301179?i=1000580751638
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Keep up the good work, Keith. I listen to your show every day.
Repughs trying to turn back the clock in more ways than one
Remember the film "Inherit The Wind"? (It's coming up on TCM at midnight ET Oct. 1.) The plot, as we all know, is about a Tennessee schoolteacher who went on trial in 1925 for teaching Darwin's theories. We're seeing more and more of this now - look at the phony critical race theory. DeSatanis has been a great example in his crusade against Disney and his suspension of the Broward County school board members. Repughs, starting with lowlifes like DeSatanis, want to turn the country into their own little Wally World.
It's frightening. And we need to stop it. Don't sit on your ballots this November, folks.
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