Dr. Jordan Peterson airs Pride Month grievances, says ‘celebration of sexuality’ is named after cardinal sin
Good point here. Shouldn't celebrate sex itself, should celebrate the birth of children. Pride blinds purpose. If you wanna be naked go to a nude beach or nudist colony since their purpose.
https://news.yahoo.com/news/dr-jordan-peterson-airs-pride-090043966.html
COVID Select Subcommittee Releases Dr. Fauci’s Transcript, Highlights Key Takeaways in New Memo
https://oversight.house.gov/release/covid-select-subcommittee-releases-dr-faucis-transcript-highlights-key-takeaways-in-new-memo/
Minnesota allows for permanent absentee voting
(The Center Square) – Any Minnesota voter can now sign up for a permanent absentee ballot.
As of June 1, Minnesota joined eight other states and Washington, D.C. to allow all voters, irrespective of disability status or age, to register online to permanently vote absentee. This will allow voting as early as 46 days before an election.
To leave the permanent absentee list, the voter must send a written request to their county elections office. Absentee ballots will no longer be sent to the voter’s address if it’s returned as undeliverable, the voter is pronounced dead by the county or if their status becomes “challenged” or “inactive.”
Residents can apply at mnvotes.gov/register. Those who wish to apply for absentee for only one election at a time can visit the same website. Ballots will still not count if received after election day, whether by mail, at a dropoff location or at the elections office.
In addition to the new absentee rules, Minnesota residents can also now provide a description of their residence if they don’t have a specific address. This can include cardinal directions or distance from the closest crossroads. Twenty other states feature this on their voter registration forms, as does the National Mail Voter Registration Form.
https://www.thecentersquare.com/minnesota/article_4df5bf12-21d8-11ef-ad7b-9f725e847706.html
Minessota: New Laws to Take Effect June 1 for Absentee Voting and Voter Registration
Starting June 1, 2024, voters can sign up once to be mailed an absentee ballot for every election
SAINT Paul – On June 1, 2024, new election laws will take effect in Minnesota that make it easier to vote from home with a no-excuse absentee ballot and improve election integrity.
Permanent Absentee List
Starting June 1, 2024, Minnesota voters can sign up once to be automatically sent an absentee ballot before every election. All eligible voters can choose to join the permanent absentee voter list by checking the box on the interactive voter registration application. The online and paper applications can be found at mnvotes.gov/register.
An absentee ballot allows a voter to vote by mail in the 46 days before an election. Since 2014, no excuse absentee voting has been available to all Minnesota voters and that permission extends to the permanent absentee list. No reason needs to be provided to receive an absentee ballot.
The option to vote absentee for an individual election or a series of them is still available to Minnesota voters by completing an absentee ballot application at mnvotes.gov/absentee.
Voters can choose to leave the permanent absentee voter list by written request to their county elections office. Voters will be removed from the list if an absentee ballot is returned as undeliverable, if the county receives notice of their death, or if their voter status changes to “challenged” or “inactive.”
Eight other states – including Arizona, Montana, and Virginia - and Washington D.C. allow all voters to join a permanent absentee/mail ballot list. Eleven additional states allow voters with permanent disabilities to join a permanent absentee/mail ballot list.
Election Integrity
Starting June 1, 2024, Minnesota’s paper Voter Registration Application will include space for a voter to provide a physical description of their residence if they don’t live at a location that has a specific physical address. The description provided may include the cardinal direction or approximate distance to the closest cross streets or the nearest address to the described location. It must be sufficient to allow for a county election administrator to determine which precinct the voter is living in.
This change strengthens election integrity by providing a standardized method of documentation on the Minnesota form and conforms with federal law. Federal law requires that those without a specific physical address be allowed to register and the National Mail Voter Registration Form, which all states must accept, has long included a section to provide such a description or depiction.
Minnesota joins 20 other states that include this feature on their voter registration form.
Student Voting
Starting on June 1, 2024, students at Minnesota colleges and universities that accept state financial aid will be able to register on Election Day at their polling place using the student housing list provided by their school in conjunction with any approved form of photo ID. Previously, the student housing list could only be used to register on Election Day in conjunction with a student ID.
Beginning in 2023, to simplify election day registration for students who maintain residence in Minnesota, colleges and universities are now required to share a list of students living in on-campus housing and those with an address in the city or cities where their campus(es) are located with their county elections office.
https://www.sos.state.mn.us/about-the-office/news-room/new-laws-to-take-effect-june-1-for-absentee-voting-and-voter-registration/
Jim Jordan proposes "defunding" Trump prosecutors
Why do this after all the damage done to Trump? So Republicans can't fight back?
https://rollcall.com/2024/06/03/jordan-urges-gop-to-use-spending-bills-to-hamper-trump-cases/
Biden ducks strife at Democratic National Convention with Zoom nomination
Facing a contentious convention this summer in Chicago and rumblings about replacing President Biden on the ballot, the Democratic National Committee on Tuesday will vote to change party rules to allow them to nominate him virtually before he sets foot in the convention hall.
It’s a move that Democrats said was needed to circumvent an early ballot filing deadline in Ohio.
However, Gov. Mike DeWine signed a law on Sunday to extend the filing deadline to accommodate Mr. Biden. The DNC is nonetheless “moving forward” with the planned virtual nomination, a DNC aide said Monday.
The DNC’s move would eliminate any realistic chance disgruntled party members will try to replace Mr. Biden on the ballot with a more desirable candidate amid alarming poll numbers that show him trailing former President Donald Trump both nationally and in the critical battleground states.
By the time Mr. Biden arrives at the United Center in Chicago, where the convention opens on Aug. 19, he’ll be locked in to appear on the ballot in all 50 states.
“Once President Biden is virtually nominated, then that will be it. He will be the presidential nominee of the Democratic Party and only death or incapacitation will prevent that moving forward,” said Josh Putnam, party rules expert and founder of FHQ Strategies LLC, a non-partisan political consulting venture. “There will be no substitutes.”
By virtually nominating Mr. Biden ahead of the convention, the party would also put a damper on planned convention protests by several groups unhappy about the president’s “neglected campaign promises,” and his handling of Israel’s war against Hamas.
A coalition of organizations under the banner March on The DNC announced they plan to “bring our demands” to the Democratic National Convention. The group is pressuring the Chicago government for permits to demonstrate near the convention center “to bring the people’s agenda to within sight and sound of the Democratic Party leadership.”
Most of the demonstrations will be in opposition to Mr. Biden’s continued support of Israel’s war against Hamas, which is unlikely to be resolved by the convention.
Mr. Biden could also face strife from convention delegates who want to see a younger, more politically viable candidate at the top of the ballot and could push for a brokered convention.
Polls show many voters don’t want to see Mr. Biden on the ballot in November and the president’s stale poll numbers in battleground states, where he consistently trails Mr. Trump, has the party in panic mode.
A Rasmussen Reports national telephone and online survey taken last week found nearly half of all likely U.S. voters, including a majority of Democratic voters, would “approve of Democrats finding another candidate” to replace Mr. Biden, who, at 81, has presided over an economic downturn and has increasingly shown a decline in mental acuity.
Virtually nominating Mr. Biden ahead of the convention “takes away from the drama,” Democratic strategist Hank Sheinkopf said. “It also reduces the probability that there’ll be disruptions at the nominating part of the convention.”
Democrats appear to be moving ahead with a virtual nomination despite the new Ohio law that changed the state ballot deadline from Aug. 7 to Sept. 1.
The Biden campaign did not respond to an inquiry for this story.
Democrats have pinned the blame for the virtual nomination on the Ohio GOP, who they accused of tripping up earlier legislation to change the deadline.
In a statement last week, DNC Chair Jaime Harrison said the party was not going to depend on Ohio changing the law and accused state GOP lawmakers of using “partisan tricks” to delay a change in the filing deadline.
“Joe Biden will be on the ballot in Ohio and all 50 states, and Ohio Republicans agree. But when the time has come for action, they have failed to act every time, so Democrats will land this plane on our own,” Mr. Harrison said.
Party conventions had traditionally served not only to choose a nominee but to propel the candidate into the fall campaign season with a post-convention bounce in the polls.
While neither Mr. Trump nor Mr. Biden boosted their poll numbers against each other following the scaled-back, virtual conventions held in 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic, Mr. Biden saw his approval ratings climb, according to an ABC News/Ipsos Poll taken after the Democratic National Convention.
Polling analyst Ron Faucheux said it’s impossible to determine whether Mr. Biden’s virtual nomination will dampen a post-convention bounce this time.
“It ultimately rides on Biden’s nomination speech,” Mr. Faucheux said.
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Dr. Phil told TMZ tonight that he’s taping an interview with President Trump at Mar-a-Lago this week.
It will air on Dr. Phil's new Primetime show Thursday night.
https://x.com/CitizenFreePres/status/1797870545511550980