Evening Roundup, July 13
Reflecting on a vision of war, abuse of the legal system, The Maine Issue, is youth vote at risk?, The Movement, Coffee with Joyce Vance, and more
Spotlight Stories
Lindsey Graham and the Limits of the Warhawk Imagination
Lindsey Graham, the Republican senator from South Carolina, belonged to a generation of American politicians who believed the United States had both the capacity and the obligation to shape events beyond its shores. Few members of Congress defended that vision more consistently over the past three decades. Whether the issue was Iraq, Afghanistan, Ukrain…
Trump’s Lawyers Should Be Sanctioned
Abuses of the legal system, even at the direction of the president of the United States, are unacceptable and warrant sanctions. Monday’s stunning decision by Florida Federal District court Judge Kathleen M. Williams, a scathing rebuke of President Donald Trump and the lawyers who represented him, should deter Trump — and future presidents — from bringi…
Hot Mic
Diluting the Youth Vote
By Diamond Brown and Amelia Letson
How voter suppression tactics target young voter participation.
The Maine Issue: What Lies Ahead for the Democratic Convention
[VIDEO] Following Graham Platner’s swift exit from Maine’s Senate race last week, Democrats are rushing to determine who will face off against Republican incumbent Susan Collins. Despite the scramble, the upcoming Convention provides a second chance for Maine voters to make their voices heard — a chance that many felt they didn’t get the first time around with …
Trump’s House of Cards
or remember the walls of Jerico?
I’m getting the feeling that we’re starting to see the slow motion destruction of Trumps Paper Empire.
- The Epstein Files keep popping their ugly heads up over and over.
- The war in Iran is a festering self-inflicted wound that won’t go away
- The explosive diarrhea epidemic is spreading around the country and Trumps decimated FDA and CDC agencies seem to be completely in the dark.
- There is a another major heat wave (not global warming related because that’s a hoax) spreading across the country this time with possibly the most serious flooding EVER recorded.
- Good thing we have FEMA! Oh that’s right! Is anybody still staffing it?
- Republican senators are dropping like flies.
- The country is experiencing runaway inflation.
- He doesn’t know where Japan is anymore.
- Interest rates are likely to rise.
- Job growth is slowing.
- the National debt is expected to explode another 3.4 trillion by 2034 due to his big costly bill.
- Hospital and health clinics in rural republican districts are disappearing.
- Housing costs are rising due to shortages and there is a major shortage of laborers due to his deportation mania.
- ICE agents are still killing US citizens and not wearing body cameras.
- He’s likely to lose control of the house this November.
- Whose side is he on in the Ukraine war anyway?
- The US is losing credibility all around the world destabilizing the greatest peace treaty in the history of the world.
- Did we win the war on drugs yet?
- Did I mention his maniacal ravings on Truth Social?
Young people should automatically be registered to vote while they are still in high school. Even if they are in the service or an out of state college they should be able to vote by mail without having to register in a location that’s only temporary for 4 years. I was registered to vote my senior year of high school. If my memory serves me correctly voter registration was tied to graduation requirements. The Board of Registrars came out to the schools during the fall semester and registered us. People who are already 18 by early November election day are released into the system so they may participate in voting. Remaining students are sent a voter identification card with the voting information on the card and where to vote in person. Voting by mail, extended voting helps young voters the same as it does every one else. Logistics have to be worked out if you have a student or a service member who is eligible to vote.