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Change the voting rules so anything goes and manipulate the system. Open your eyes and see what is happening. It is alarming to say the least.

So you have zero evidence but still accusations. That's certainly using the trump method. You don't even have 26 witnesses.

Aren't you the same guy who kept screaming "Innocent until proven guilty!"?

I guess that all depends on which way the wind is blowing or what time of the month that is for you. What was it you said about others being judgemental?

Sometimes I don't even think you hear yourself.

The tit for tat rule-changing and redistricting that has been going on this election year is alarming.

Thinking MAGA Republicans have a chance for a state-level elected position in CA is comical.

I agree. The state is too infested with pansies, communists, crooks, and dumb asses.

Randy the Macho Man savage died. You are not a suitable replacement. Maybe you should look at the pansy who called a woman names and stomped away from an interview while throwing a tantrum like a 6 year old if you want to talk about a pansy and a dumb ass. You know, the guy who told his supporters most of them didn't know the word dumb ended with a B. He thinks people like you are the dumb asses and you still can't figure that out.

You know, the same guy who used bone spurs as an excuse not to go to Vietnam and yet played tennis and squash in college. He's such a pansy he was too much of a coward to serve himself but now talks like he's some tough guy as he sends others off to risk their lives.

What a joke.

If we were talking about DC, then my only argument would be that DC isn't a state.

IMO, the "pansies" in this convo are the ones that kicked off the current gerrymandering war, as well as the ones that respond in kind.

It has been this way for as long as I can remember. We vote by mail and it is a week or two after the election until all the ballots are opened, signatures verified and votes counted. 80 percent of California votes by mail.

Could it be better. Yes, once a vote is received by the election office, it should be processed. This year a lot of people held onto their ballots until the last minute because if Bacerra did not really have a lot of name recognition or momentum. I was in the no billionaire club. That does not work. Swalwell flamed out over affairs and Katie Porter appears to have anger management issues. I turned my ballot in the Saturday before the election. It was reported that the ballot returns were slower than normal this year. I know why.

All the claims of something awry are total BS.

It's hard to argue with a man who is on a rant with zero evidence to support it that is basing his argument strictly on his thoughts and feelings.

That's the same thing trump was doing when he stormed out of an interview as he was called to task about presenting evidence of which he has none.

You can find the evidence vids online. Look them up and you then make a decision.

No matter, it will all work out sooner than later.

Must be true if you saw a video online posted by a rando.

Evidence doesn't always make one guilty, nor is it always true. "Randos" these days are very often at the lead of a story. I wouldn't simply shrug them off. A "rando" as you say blew the top off of fraud in Minnesota.

Wanna talk about trying to alter an election...


Postal Service won’t deliver mail ballots for states that don’t hand over voter lists, under plan for Trump directive
Tierney Sneed, Jeremy Herb, Gabe Cohen, CNN
Wed, June 10, 2026 at 6:00 AM EDT


State election officials could soon face a stark choice: Hand over voter lists to the Trump administration or risk losing Postal Service delivery for mail-in ballots.

That dilemma stems from newly proposed USPS rules that seek to comply with an executive order President Donald Trump signed this spring to crack down on mail-in voting. If courts let the order stand, it would give the federal government an unprecedented role in elections — and could put even more voter data in the hands of Trump officials searching for supposed election fraud.

The proposed rules lay out new conditions that states would have to meet to send ballots through the mail, including giving the agency lists of all voters set to receive mail ballots.

So far, 23 Democratic-led states and the District of Columbia are suing, as are Democratic Party leaders and non-partisan voter advocacy groups, setting up a potentially active summer of high-stakes judicial rulings.

The Trump administration cleared an initial legal hurdle last month, when a federal judge in Washington, DC, who is overseeing one set of the cases, declined to block Trump's executive order, allowing the Postal Service to begin implementing it.

The Democratic Party groups are asking an appeals court to speed up its review of that decision, warning that voters around the country could be disenfranchised in this year's midterm elections if the proposal is not blocked.

In an interview with CNN, Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows, a Democrat whose state is part of the coalition that filed a legal challenge in Boston, said that if courts rule for the Trump administration, "Then you will see a virtual elimination of mail-in voting, unless the states supply voter lists to the federal government."

The March 2026 executive order is one of several moves Trump has made recently to seek federal control over elections and restrict mail-in voting, which he has repeatedly cast as a tool used by his opponents for election cheating despite no evidence of widespread voter fraud.

On Capitol Hill, the SAVE Act, a Trump-backed bill requiring new citizenship verification measures to register to vote, has floundered in the Senate. Courts have pushed back on other aggressive attempts by the administration to inject itself in the voting process — a job the Constitution largely gives to the states.

But now Trump's executive order seeks to give USPS an unprecedented role in the midterm elections: not just delivering ballots but policing who gets one.

"If proper postage is paid on a mail piece, the USPS should deliver it," former USPS Board of Governors Vice Chair Anton Hajjar told CNN. "The proposed rule says it's not regulating elections but that's what, in effect, it's doing,"

In a statement, the White House said that the "entire Trump Administration will continue lawfully enacting the agenda President Trump was elected to enact – which includes the safety and security of American elections."

"The Administration remains confident that the Executive Order will be implemented by the November election, which was always the intent when it was signed," White House spokeswoman Abigail Jackson said.

While the language the Postal Service drafted still leaves states in charge of deciding which voters end up on the lists submitted to the agency, it tells USPS not to send ballots for states that don't follow that process. The states' mail balloting programs must meet other requirements in Trump's order for USPS to deliver their ballots, potentially forcing some jurisdictions to completely redesign their mail voting materials.

"This would deny eligible people the right to vote. Full stop," said Tobias Read, secretary of state in Oregon, one of the 23 states suing the administration over the order.

"This is not in the president's power," Read said. "It's absolutely clear in the Constitution – states run elections."

As the legal fight unfolds, Postal Service unions have communicated their concerns to USPS leadership about the order – and how it puts mail carriers in the position of deciding whether to transmit certain ballots.

"As we read this draft, if a state does not comply with it, if they don't provide the information or the right format, then the Postal Service is going to simply refuse all of those ballots or whatever election mail it is, and that is very, very concerning," said Brian Renfroe, president of the National Association of Letter Carriers.



DHS citizenship lists

Trump's order also instructs the Department of Homeland Security to build its own state-by-state citizenship lists of eligible voters by pulling data from various federal agencies, fueling fears the administration could use the lists to pressure states to purge their voter rolls.

State election officials already have the ability to use a DHS immigrant record system to verify their rolls, and the program has come under fire for falsely identifying eligible voters as non-citizens.

In court filings, the Trump administration has waffled on how DHS intends to carry out the plans for releasing state-by-state lists, but on Monday, the Justice Department said DHS is working on making "citizenship list information" available for states to access.

DHS is also having "preliminary conversations" about the agencies sharing data, DOJ said Monday. The administration previously told the court that DHS was exploring whether the state voter data provided to USPS could be used to help "monitor mail-in and absentee ballot flows, identify anomalies that may suggest voter fraud or misuse, and generate authorized investigative leads."

A spokesperson for DHS said in a statement to CNN that it was lawfully implementing President Trump's executive order and that it was committed to "restoring integrity to our election systems and ensuring that American citizens and only American citizens are electing American leaders."



Feasibility questions

There are major questions over the feasibility of the Postal Service's plan, including whether the already cash-strapped agency has the funding and wherewithal to execute such drastic steps on such a quick timeline.

"When they don't have the funding to do their declared mission, how's anybody reasonably expecting that they can expand that mission?" said Matt Crane, executive director of the Colorado County Clerks Association, which represents the local officials who run elections in the state. "Focus on their day job and let us do ours."

Under the proposed regulations, the Postal Service will need to design and launch a portal through which states could submit a list of their mail voters, along with unique bar codes for each individual.

"The real problem is, to my knowledge, this portal doesn't exist yet," said Jeff Ellington, whose company, Runbeck Election Services, has been hired by Maricopa County, Arizona, and other large jurisdictions to print ballots and administer other aspects of mail voting.

The Trump administration has told USPS there is money to support the internal implementation, a person familiar with the conversations told CNN, though the specific stream of funding is unclear.

Within the agency, the outsized impact the new system will have on smaller, rural communities has been a matter of discussion, the person said.

In addition to the lists of eligible voters, the proposed regulations include new standards for ballot envelopes, including barcodes that would help keep track of ballots — all of which pose challenges for smaller election offices with limited budgets to revamp mail-in ballots.

Large counties in states where mail voting is prevalent, such as Arizona and Colorado, are likely to already use ballot envelopes that are designed in accordance with the proposed regulations. Those design features have long been best practices for mail voting, said Tammy Patrick, chief programs officer at Election Center, a non-profit that serves elections officials across the country.

"There are practical reasons why some jurisdictions haven't adopted this," said Patrick. She pointed both to budgetary issues as well as state laws that stand in the way of ballot envelope designs that facilitate automated tracking.

How jurisdictions organize and format their mail vote data varies from state to state, and within each state, posing potential obstacles for how USPS will receive those lists.

"Across the states, it's been a challenge for local officials to make sure their data can be ingested and read by the states," Patrick said. "And now we are asking all 50 states to have information that can be aligned for the Postal Service."



Legal fights over Trump's directives

Trump tried to assert more control over federal elections in an executive order last year, but that has been largely blocked by judges who concluded he has no unilateral power to alter voting rules, and any such authority must come from Congress. Similar arguments are being made against the latest order.

Last month, US District Court Judge Carl Nichols declined to block Trump's 2026 executive order – not because he found its directives lawful, but because he said there were unanswered questions about how the government would implement it, so it was too soon for him to intervene.

Democrats are pushing the DC US Circuit Court of Appeals for a ruling this summer.

"If the Order remains in force, millions of American voters' sensitive personal data will be amassed into inaccurate and unlawful databases and USPS will engage in unprecedented interference with state mail voting programs," the Democrats wrote in a Monday court filing.

The Justice Department argued in court filings "that there is no justification for such a compressed schedule."

The USPS proposal, which was rolled out the day after Nichols' ruling and is open to public comment, included some notable modifications to what Trump's March 2026 directive envisioned, softening some of the most stringent limitations on mail-in voting. For instance, it gave states flexibility to continue to modify the voter lists that are submitted to USPS as the midterms approach.

Still, election experts are puzzled by what USPS will do with those lists once the agency receives them and warn that any hiccups in that process could lead voters not getting their ballots in time.

Some election officials see the requirement as a backdoor data-grab by the administration as the Justice Department has sued 30 states to obtain sensitive voter data – particularly for universal mail-balloting states where essentially every voter would be on such a list. The eight courts that have ruled in those cases have all ruled against the Justice Department.

"We already told the Trump administration that they couldn't have our voter data," said Amanda Gonzalez, who is the clerk of Jefferson County, Colorado, and a Democrat running to be the top election official in the state, which is fighting the administration's voter roll demand in court. "This is just a poorly disguised ploy to get it another way."

https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/postal-won-t-deliver-mail-100007973.html

So you have verifiable evidence? If so why hasn't trump or anyone in the House or Senate produced it?

The sprawling Minnesota fraud scandals began in early 2022 when the FBI raided the offices of the nonprofit Feeding Our Future and dozens of related sites. However, initial state investigations and warnings regarding suspicious activity in programs like the Child Care Assistance Program (CCAP) trace back as early as 2018 and 2019.

As it turns out and always seem to be the case, every accusation they make is just another confession.

Sorry online videos rants and conspiracy theories do not make it true. People making up crap just to get their clicks... total BS.

Arrests, indictments, trials and convictions work better. Same rules apply to both sides, and Tina Peters is exhibit 1 who was a Republican.

Randos these days are factually proven to be somewhere between 15-30% fake accounts - very often originating out of Russia. Elon Musks own review indicated 33% of SM accounts were fake.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-62571733

You go ahead and place your faith in SM and randos - like Woofer, I'll trust the courts and legal process, even at a time like this where the DOJ is clearly operating with an agenda and has been weaponized.

And to copy and paste a post from a different thread - here's some real world legal convictions for you to maybe ponder instead of unproven allegations against voter fraud.

Add to that - The Heritage Foundation is a prominent, right-wing American think tank. . . here is their data base for election fraud. You can search by state.

https://electionfraud.heritage.org/search?state=oh

You can see there are a total of 6 cases in Ohio since 2020... And somehow this is the hill that you think is worth fighting for - essentially because you've been fed lies and exaggerations. No election fraud is good - but there is none that remotely comes close to being able to alter the results. The whole issue is demagoguery and the politics of division and distraction.

So 70% or more are legit? I like those percentages enough to not summarily dismiss them as rubbish.

You mean 70% are real accounts. Not that the sources or information they post are legitimate. There's a difference. We've witnessed a lot of that type of thing being posted right here on Dawgtalkers.

But when you only believe what you want to believe it makes it much easier to take it as legitimate without going any further to test its legitimacy.

Southern Baptists move closer to formal ban on churches with women pastors

ORLANDO, Fla. (WTVC) — Southern Baptists took a major step Wednesday toward formally banning churches that allow women to serve as pastors.

Messengers at the Southern Baptist Convention's annual meeting in Orlando voted overwhelmingly to advance a constitutional amendment that would tighten the denomination's restrictions on women in pastoral roles.

The vote was 6,028 to 2,026, easily surpassing the two-thirds majority required to move the measure forward.

The amendment still needs another two-thirds vote at next year's annual meeting before becoming part of the denomination's constitution.

The Southern Baptist Convention is the nation's largest Protestant denomination.

Supporters say the amendment provides clarity on an issue they view as settled by Scripture.

This is an opportunity for Southern Baptists to speak in truth, in unity, in conviction,” said Albert Mohler, president of Southern Baptist Theological Seminary and sponsor of the amendment. “There’s a great line that divides liberal and biblical evangelicalism, and you can see it on this very issue.

Southern Baptists already have a statement of faith that opposes women serving as pastors.

The proposed amendment would go further by requiring the removal of any church that acts “to affirm, appoint, or endorse a woman serving in the office or function of a pastor/elder/overseer, specifically preaching to the assembled congregation.”

There was little debate before the vote.

The only opposition speaker, South Carolina pastor Doug Mize, argued the change was unnecessary because the denomination already has procedures to remove churches with women serving in senior pastoral roles.

“What we have already works,” Mize said.

The issue has been debated within the denomination for years.

Southern Baptists have already expelled several churches over the matter, including California's Saddleback Church.

Supporters of women in ministry expressed disappointment after Wednesday's vote.

Baptist Women in Ministry said it was “heartbroken” by the decision and argued women should have the opportunity to follow what they believe is God's calling.

The vote highlights a growing divide between the Southern Baptist Convention and many mainline Protestant denominations, which allow women to serve as pastors and hold top leadership positions.

In addition to the amendment vote, convention delegates approved resolutions denouncing political violence and antisemitism and calling for humane treatment of immigrants while supporting immigration enforcement.

Delegates also elected Florida pastor Willy Rice as the denomination's next president.

Rice supports the proposed amendment on women pastors.

If approved again next year, the amendment would become part of the Southern Baptist Convention's governing constitution.

https://newschannel9.com/news/local...ormal-ban-on-churches-with-women-pastors

It's a better record than MSM as of late!

On both sides of the political spectrum, that is where journalism is seemingly headed (as has been for quite some time), and I'm not mad about that one bit. (1) No one trusts the CNN, MS Now, & Fox outlets of the world, and (2) technology has made it possible for people to research, investigate, write, opine, etc. on just about any topic they damn well please. As these individuals become more popular on their own, funding will divert to them and they will either continue that independent journalism or be bought by any major outlet that might still exist.

At least that is how I see it. But AI might destroy that potential model sooner rather than later.

People that are complaining about it are only doing so when a story breaks that hurts their side of the political aisle. Oddly enough, that been almost exclusively the democrats on here but certainly democrats on a macro-level as well.

And "those people" for the most part are just an extension of the version of what they choose to endorse not and not an honest representation of the truth.

Here's a news flash for you. Posting what trump says and does, pointing out what true lawfare actually looks like isn't complaining. Only people that wish to ignore what's going on call it that. It's much easier for your kind to try to dismiss it and write it off than actually address it.

Influencer Jake Lang arrested again in North Texas on terroristic threat charge, held on $1M bond

Jake Lang was arrested in North Texas on a terroristic threat charge and is being held on a $1 million bond, according to jail records.

The arrest came hours after he was spotted outside the Collin County Courthouse during protests related to the Austin Metcalf case.

This marks Lang's second arrest in North Texas in just over a week.

FRISCO, Texas - Jake Lang was arrested in North Texas for the second time this week on suspicion of making a terroristic threat, according to jail records.

Jake Lang arrested in North Texas on terroristic threat charge

What we know:

31-year-old Edward Jacob Lang, who also goes by Jake Lang, was arrested after dining at Pizzeria Testa around 5 p.m. in the 8600 block of Church Street in Frisco, according to arrest documents.

He was booked into the Dallas County Jail Tuesday and is being held on a $1 million bond.

Jail records list the charge as a terroristic threat involving allegations that the conduct disrupted or impaired public services and caused public fear, and may involve threats of serious bodily injury or attempts to influence government operations.

Authorities have not released additional details about the circumstances surrounding the terroristic threat charge, including the specific nature of the alleged conduct.
Lang spotted outside Karmelo Anthony trial before arrest

The other side:

FOX 4 crews previously spotted Lang outside the Collin County Courthouse earlier that day, where protesters had gathered outside proceedings related to the Karmelo Anthony trial in connection with the death of Austin Metcalf.

Prior trespassing arrests involving Jake Lang in Frisco

Local perspective:

Lang was arrested June 2, 2026, on an active criminal trespass warrant stemming from an alleged incident in April 2025.

According to an affidavit, investigators received an online tip about a video posted to X that appeared to show Lang inside Kuykendall Stadium in Frisco, the site of a fatal stabbing during a high school track meet on April 2, 2025.

In the video, Lang can be heard saying he broke into the stadium and needed to leave before police arrived. He also admitted to climbing a fence to enter the facility, according to the affidavit.

Police said the warrant was related to an alleged trespassing incident at the George A. Purefoy Municipal Center in Frisco. Lang was booked into the Collin County Jail on June 2 and was later released.
Who is Jake Lang?

Dig deeper:

Lang, whose legal name is Edward Jacob Lang, was charged earlier this year in Ramsey County, Minnesota, with first-degree property damage. Prosecutors allege he damaged a "Prosecute ICE" ice sculpture at the Minnesota State Capitol. If convicted, he faces up to five years in prison and a $10,000 fine.

According to the criminal complaint, advocacy group Common Defense commissioned the sculpture for $6,250 and obtained a permit to display it on Capitol grounds.

Lang was previously arrested in connection with the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol. He was later convicted on multiple charges, including assaulting law enforcement officers, and served time in federal prison before receiving a presidential pardon, according to court records and prior reporting.

https://www.fox4news.com/news/jake-lang-arrested-terroristic-threat-charge-1m-bond

So ...

There's only one side that has stated their objective is to flood the zone with Excrement. And there can only be one reason why anyone would want to spread lies and disinformation. There is zero debate on that.

There is only one side that spams proven lies (like condoms for Hamas) and never acknowledges or accepts when they spew lies on this board.

70% of SM accounts are real - the other 30% are foreign (largely Russian) fake accounts deliberately spreading lies with the sole intent of spreading division - and then a significant portion of the 70% latch on to those stories and then spread them as truth (Condoms for Hamas, The Clinton Pedo ring run out of the basement of a pizza joint etc). And we have real people that allegedly have a brain cheering this on.

People being happy with the MSM not being trusted - can only really be happy for one reason. Their side lies and dominates the fake news narrative. Don't get me wrong - both sides do it. But it is not equal and opposite. This is exactly the same as Trumptards crying about the Liberal Media when Faux News dominates the ratings and when you add every right wing media brand/source - they dominate by a significant factor.

Man pleads guilty to assassinating a top Minnesota Democrat and her husband

The U.S. attorney’s office in Minneapolis notified the court that the Justice Department would not seek the death penalty against Boelter in accordance with the plea agreement.

The man charged in the political assassinations of the top Democrat in the Minnesota House and her husband, as well as the nonfatal shootings of a state senator and his wife, pleaded guilty in federal court Thursday after prosecutors said they would not seek the death penalty.

Vance Boelter was charged with murdering Minnesota House Speaker Melissa Hortman and her husband, Mark Hortman, and with shooting state Sen. John Hoffman and his wife, Yvette Hoffman. Boelter came to their doors in the early hours of June 14, 2025, disguised as a police officer and driving a fake squad car.

The Hortmans’ golden retriever was so gravely injured that it had to be euthanized.

Boelter, 58, was captured near his home in rural Green Isle the day after the shootings following what prosecutors have called the largest search for a suspect in Minnesota history. He also faces state charges, which have been on hold pending the resolution of his federal case.

The U.S. attorney’s office in Minneapolis notified the court Wednesday that the Justice Department would not seek the death penalty against Boelter in accordance with a proposed plea agreement, and the court set the change-of-plea hearing for Thursday.

Minnesota abolished capital punishment in 1911 and has never had a federal death penalty case. Daniel Borgertpoepping, a spokesperson for the Hennepin County Attorney’s Office, said the federal plea deal would not affect Boelter’s state charges.

While the Trump administration has pushed for greater use of capital punishment, there were questions about whether Boelter’s case would qualify for the death penalty under federal law.

Prosecutors have called the shootings political. When they announced the federal indictment in July, they released a rambling handwritten letter they say Boelter wrote to FBI Director Kash Patel in which he confessed to the attacks. However, the letter didn’t make clear why he targeted the Hortmans or the Hoffmans.

In some messages to media, Boelter referenced a vague and cryptic “investigation” he had been carrying out, sometimes suggesting it was about the COVID-19 vaccine.

Friends described Boelter as an evangelical Christian and occasional preacher and missionary, who held politically conservative views and had been struggling to find work.

John Hoffman said in a lawsuit filed against Boelter in April that his left arm and hand likely would never fully recover, and that he also had permanent injuries to his digestive and urinary systems.

Yvette Hoffman was left with permanent physical weakness, the lawsuit said, while their adult daughter, Hope Hoffman, who was there and called 911 but was not shot, suffered severe psychological trauma.

https://www.scrippsnews.com/us-news...ZG&brid=YWdncwF4U3UZ6vXuuacry_N21bJ6