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My pals and I are interested in your story tips!

I'm in Michigan, and I'm looking into potential threats to the administration of the election.

You can reach me directly at anna.clark@propublica.org and 313-310-6592 (cell + Signal)
propublica.org ProPublica @propublica.org · Nov 5
It’s Election Day! ProPublica reporters live & work in 26 states. Today, our reporters are on the ground, on the lookout for what’s going right and what isn’t. Got a tip? Contact us at propublica.org/tips.

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November 5, 2024 at 7:26 PM
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katestarbird.bsky.social
As we see emerging reports of voting issues on Election Day (e.g. malfunctioning machines), it's can be helpful to understand how rumors around these issues can mislead — often by exaggerating impact, ignoring remedies, or falsely attributing intent.
FIVE "MOVES" OF MISLEADING ELECTION RUMORS FALSE EVIDENCE — The rumor is fabricated or manipulated evidence, such as false statements, deceptively edited content, and synthetic (AI-generated) content. MISINTERPRETED EVIDENCE — The rumor is based on real evidence that has been mischaracterized or misinterpreted to create a false impression. OMITTED REMEDIES — The rumor highlights real or perceived issues with election administration but overlooks or obscures remedies, such as downstream security measures, to imply an untrustworthy process or results. EXAGGERATED IMPACT — The rumor exaggerates the impact of real or perceived issues with election adminstration to imply an untrustworthy process or results. FALSE ATTRIBUTED INTENT — The rumor falsely attributes intention to real or perceived issues with election administration to imply voter or election fraud.
November 5, 2024 at 5:53 PM
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mitchellepner.bsky.social
If there is anyone who needs help to cast their ballot for Harris-Walz, please raise your hand. I guarantee that I can find people to help you get to the polls, in these states: ME, NH, MA, VT, RI, CT, NY, NJ, PA, DE, MD, VA, NC, GA, FL, OH, MI, IL, WI, IA, MN, MO, OK, KS, TX, CO, UT, AZ, NV or CA.
November 4, 2024 at 11:35 AM
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rchetypes.bsky.social
Just signed up to help with vote curing. Please join me!

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Harris-Walz Voter Protection Phone Bank · The Democratic National Committee
Call likely Democratic voters in battleground states with potential issues with their registration or ballots to ensure their votes are fairly counted! Every day, we strategize directly with state vot...
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November 1, 2024 at 4:39 PM
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joshkovensky.bsky.social
NEW: I contacted dozens of electors on Trump slates in swing states across the country, with a question: would they participate in a 2020 fake elector scheme in 2024, if Harris wins their state? talkingpointsmemo.com/news/some-tr...
Some Trump Electors In Swing States Are Primed To Stop The Steal Again In 2024
Roxan Wetzel is a relative newcomer to politics. She began to get involved in 2019, she said, inspired by the start of North Carolina gubernatorial candidate Mark Robinson’s meteoric rise in politics.
talkingpointsmemo.com
October 30, 2024 at 3:31 PM
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brianklaas.bsky.social
So to be clear, Trump has pledged to put an anti-vaccine zealot who had part of his brain eaten by a worm—and cut off a whale’s head with a chainsaw—in charge of healthcare and an overconfident conspiracy theorist billionaire who lit $44 billion on fire in charge of budgeting.
October 30, 2024 at 12:58 PM
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jlussenhop.bsky.social
Josseli Barnica did not want an abortion, she wanted a baby. But as she miscarried, her doctors decided it would be a "crime" to intervene. For 40 hours, her uterus remained exposed to bacteria.

Three days after she delivered, Barnica died of an infection.

www.propublica.org/article/joss...
A Texas Woman Died After Waiting 40 Hours for Miscarriage Care
Josseli Barnica is one of at least two pregnant Texas women who died after doctors delayed emergency care. She’d told her husband that the medical team said it couldn’t act until the fetal heartbeat s...
www.propublica.org
October 30, 2024 at 11:42 AM
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atrupar.com
Respect to Bernie Sanders for putting together this video with an important message that I very much hope reaches people on the left who are considering not voting for Kamala Harris or sitting this election out.
“I disagree with Kamala’s position on the war in Gaza. How can I vote for her?” Here is my answer:
YouTube video by Bernie Sanders
www.youtube.com
October 29, 2024 at 4:51 PM
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naomikritzer.bsky.social
My Floridian friend has been yelling to anyone who will listen that Florida is winnable, and trying to get everyone she knows to spend a little time phone banking. I did a shift calling Florida yesterday, and it went pretty well. Want to see if we can make Rick Scott lose?

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October 28, 2024 at 3:02 AM
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petridishes.bsky.social
I guess it has fallen to me, the humor columnist, to endorse Harris for president wapo.st/3UqHWRM
The Washington Post is not bothering to endorse a candidate in the 2024 presidential election. (Jeff Bezos, the founder of Blue Origin and the founder and executive chairman of Amazon and Amazon Web Services, also owns The Post.) We as a newspaper suddenly remembered, less than two weeks before the election, that we had a robust tradition 50 years ago of not telling anyone what to do with their vote for president. It is time we got back to those “roots,” I’m told! Roots are important, of course. As recently as the 1970s, The Post did not endorse a candidate for president. As recently as centuries ago, there was no Post and the country had a king! Go even further back, and the entire continent of North America was totally uninhabitable, and we were all spineless creatures who lived in the ocean, and certainly there were no Post subscribers. But if I were the paper, I would be a little embarrassed that it has fallen to me, the humor columnist, to make our presidential endorsement. I will spare you the suspense: I am endorsing Kamala Harris for president, because I like elections and want to keep having them. Let me tell you something. I am having a baby (It’s a boy!), and he is expected on Jan. 6, 2025 (It’s a … Proud Boy?). This is either slightly funny or not at all funny. This whole election, I have been lurching around, increasingly heavily pregnant, nauseated, unwieldy, full of the commingled hopes and terrors that come every time you are on the verge of introducing a new person to the world. Well, that world will look very different, depending on the outcome of November’s election, and I care which world my kid gets born into. I also live here myself. And I happen to care about the people who are already here, in this world. Come to think of it, I have a lot of reasons for caring how the election goes. I think it should be obvious that this is not an election for sitting out. The case for Donald Trump is “I erroneously think the economy used to be better? I know that he has made many ominous-sounding threats about mass deportations, going after his political enemies, shutting down the speech of those who disagree with him (especially media outlets), and that he wants to make things worse for almost every category of person — people with wombs, immigrants, transgender people, journalists, protesters, people of color — but … maybe he’ll forget.” “But maybe he’ll forget” is not enough to hang a country on! Embarrassingly enough, I like this country. But everything good about it has been the product of centuries of people who had no reason to hope for better but chose to believe that better things were possible, clawing their way uphill — protesting, marching, voting, and, yes, doing the work of journalism — to build this fragile thing called democracy. But to be fragile is not the same as to be perishable, as G.K. Chesterton wrote. Simply do not break a glass, and it will last a thousand years. Smash it, and it will not last an instant. Democracy is like that: fragile, but only if you shatter it. Trust is like that, too, as newspapers know. I’m just a humor columnist. I only know what’s happening because our actual journalists are out there reporting, knowing that their editors have their backs, that there’s no one too powerful to report on, that we would never pull a punch out of fear. That’s what our readers deserve and expect: that we are saying what we really think, reporting what we really see; that if we think Trump should not return to the White House and Harris would make a fine president, we’re going to be able to say so. That’s why I, the humor columnist, am endorsing Kamala Harris by myself!
October 26, 2024 at 10:50 PM
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Do this even if you already canceled your sub. It’s a union ask
aaronschaffer.com Aaron Schaffer @aaronschaffer.com · Oct 25
The Post Guild just shared this on the bird site:

"Are you a Washington Post reader concerned with today’s decision for the Editorial Board to not endorse a candidate this election cycle? Send a letter to CEO and Publisher Will Lewis and Editorial Page Editor David Shipley" bit.ly/3C0oLrx
Screen shot of a webpage: Send a letter to Post CEO and Editorial Page Editor voicing your concern. Logos for WBNG, The News Guild and The Washington Post Guild. Preview of intro text saying the following: "On Friday, Washington Post CEO and Publisher Will Lewis posted a publisher’s note stating that the Washington Post Editorial Board would no longer be endorsing presidential candidates, including in this year’s election. In his note, he wrote: “The Washington Post will not be making an endorsement of a presidential candidate in this election. Nor in any future presidential election. We are returning to our roots of not endorsing presidential candidates.” We are deeply concerned that The Washington Post — an American news institution in the nation's capital — would make the decision to no longer endorse presidential candidates, especially a mere 11 days ahead of an immensely consequential election. The role of an Editorial Board is to do just this: to share opinions on the news impacting our society and culture and endorse candidates to help guide readers."
October 25, 2024 at 11:14 PM
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mariasacchetti.bsky.social
EXCLUSIVE

Elon Musk worked in the US illegally. Investors ordered him to get a visa. He admitted it in an email.

Elon Musk, enemy of ‘open borders,’ launched his career working illegally - The Washington Post by @faizsays @NickMiroff & me LINK
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
Elon Musk, enemy of ‘open borders,’ launched his career working illegally
Investors in Musk’s first company worried about “our founder being deported” and gave him a deadline for obtaining a work visa.
www.washingtonpost.com
October 26, 2024 at 11:15 AM
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coachfinstock.bsky.social
For everyone who just canceled their WaPo subscriptions because it's run by a fascist who plans on being head of Trump's State Run Media, here's a paper that isn't afraid of that big giant piece of shit
October 25, 2024 at 5:35 PM
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nycsouthpaw.bsky.social
Musk is in regular contact with Putin. www.wsj.com/world/russia... 🎁
Elon Musk, the world's richest man and a linchpin of U.S. space efforts, has been in regular contact with Russian President Vladimir Putin since late 2022. The discussions, confirmed by several current and former U.S., European and Russian officials, touch on personal topics, business and geopolitical tensions. At one point, Putin asked the billionaire to avoid activating his Starlink satellite internet service over Taiwan as a favor to Chinese leader Xi Jinping, said two people briefed on the request.
October 25, 2024 at 1:17 PM
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wyden.senate.gov
Big news: For years I've been investigating Jared Kushner's business deals with foreign governments. He's masquerading as an investment manager, but the evidence I've seen makes him look like an unregistered foreign agent. Rep. Jamie Raskin and I are calling on the DOJ to appoint a special counsel.
Wyden, Raskin Call for Department of Justice to Appoint a Special Counsel to Investigate Jared Kushner for Acting as an Unregistered Foreign Agent | The United States Senate Committee on Finance
Wyden, Raskin Call for Department of Justice to Appoint a Special Counsel to Investigate Jared Kushner for Acting as an Unregistered Foreign Agent
www.finance.senate.gov
October 24, 2024 at 8:10 PM
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cingraham.bsky.social
Former Axios political reporter Lachlan Markay is now quietly running a GOP research firm digging up dirt on officials involved in a lawsuit against fossil fuel companies www.eenews.net/articles/gop...
October 23, 2024 at 4:54 PM
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pbump.com
Was writing about how key members of Trump’s administration have explicitly called him a fascist prompting the Trumpworld defense “yeah, but they’re anti-Trump” when Fox News offered a perfect example.
Gift link: wapo.st/3A69aGp
Column | Past Trump advisers say he’s fascist. Trump says he’s not. Who to trust?
A secretary of defense, chief of staff and joint chiefs chairman who served under Trump offered warnings about the former president that his base is primed to ignore.
www.washingtonpost.com
October 23, 2024 at 2:26 PM
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emptywheel.bsky.social
It's just distraction all the way.
October 22, 2024 at 5:27 PM
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shaygabriel.bsky.social
Please encourage them to join a phone bank and/or door-to-door canvas! Ground game really makes a difference and every bit of marginal turnout can swing the election. events.democrats.org
Join an event near you! · The Democratic National Committee on Mobilize
Find events, petitions, volunteer opportunities, fundraisers and more with The Democratic National Committee.
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October 21, 2024 at 11:45 PM
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pamherd.bsky.social
Disinhibition is a sign of cognitive impairment. Given how the NYT interpreted anything that Biden did through that lens, it’s notable that they never mention that possibility here www.nytimes.com/2024/10/19/u...
At a Pennsylvania Rally, Trump Descends to New Levels of Vulgarity
The G.O.P. nominee repeated crude insults, and his supporters relished each moment. But the display could alienate swing voters.
www.nytimes.com
October 20, 2024 at 10:05 AM
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reichlinmelnick.bsky.social
This thread is great; it is about an incident I had never heard of before.
nickwhithorn.bsky.social Nicholas Whithorn @nickwhithorn.bsky.social · Oct 19
Italy-Albania-migrants has been in the news a lot recently, so here's a reminder of the events of 7 March 1991, when the 90,000 people of Brindisi woke up to find 25,000 Albanians roaming the streets of their town (roughly equivalent, say, to 25k people suddenly landing in Hastings [Thread] >> 1
October 19, 2024 at 7:22 PM
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emptywheel.bsky.social
Could This Week's Developments Change the Race?

www.emptywheel.net/2024/10/18/c...
Could This Week's Developments Change the Race? - emptywheel
A series of events in the last ten days may finally have stripped the disinformation that would otherwise leave 8 to 13% of voters believing Trump's disinformation about himself and Kamala Harris.
www.emptywheel.net
October 18, 2024 at 10:44 AM
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October 17, 2024 at 7:27 PM