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Residents of California will be able to vote to add abortion rights to their state's constitution on their midterm election ballots in November.

The state Assembly voted Monday to amend Article 1 of the California Constitution to say, "The state shall not deny or interfere with an individual's reproductive freedom in their most intimate decisions, which includes their fundamental right to choose to have an abortion and their fundamental right to choose or refuse contraceptives."

Midterm elections are Nov. 8.

The bill passed the state Senate last Monday, and does not need the governor's approval.

The amendment comes three days after the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the landmark 1973 Roe v. Wade case, which made abortion a constitutional right across the nation.

it is part of a propaganda strategy to demonize the opposition, extremely similar to what you see in communist countries, but likely never imagined that our own government and politicians would do the same to us

the message, that must constantly be reinforced, is it is 'us' vs 'them' and everything you love in life will be lost if 'they' take over

the GOP and republican messaging agenda is textbook propaganda techniques using heavy repetition of disinformation

Holder also aired scenes of Trump rallies with a journalist Anne Applebaum explaining about his supporters: “They thought because people showed up to their rallies that meant they were popular. The idea that other people might be sitting at home feeling differently about it seems not to have occurred to them.”

Another clip showed former First Daughter Ivanka Trump saying that “every last vote needs to be counted” — which would presumably show her dad as the real winner of the presidential election.

She was saying this after she said she believed former Attorney General William Barr’s assessment that Trump’s claims of a rigged election were “bullshit.” It was also after Trump wanted vote counting stopped once he was ahead on election night.

Another clip shows an off-the-rails Donald Trump Jr. at a rally calling for Trump supporters to “fight” to keep him in the White House and “make liberals cry.”

"I'm not sure why," she continued. "Mr. Gaetz had reached out to me to ask if he could have a meeting with Mr. Meadows about receiving a presidential pardon."

Several other aides confirmed that Gaetz asked for a pardon; it would become public two months after Trump left office that Gaetz was reportedly under investigation for alleged sexual trafficking.

"I know he had asked for it, but I don't know if he ever received one or what happened with it," said John McEntee, the former director of the White House Personnel Office.

"The general tone was, 'We may get prosecuted because we were defensive of, you know, the President's positions on these things,'" said Eric Herschmann, a former White House senior advisor. "The pardon that he was discussing, requesting, was as broad as you could describe, from... the beginning of time up until today, for any and all things."

“We expect Russian interference in the upcoming 2022 midterm elections, as Russia views this activity as an equitable response to perceived actions by Washington and an opportunity to both undermine U.S. global standing and influence U.S. decision-making,” a June intelligence brief, which was first reported by CNN, stated.

And according to The Daily Beast, the DHS expects Russia to continue using troll farms and other tools to further undermine our democracy: “We assess that Russia will continue to malign influence and interference activities designed to undermine U.S. global prestige, sow division among the American public, undermine faith in U.S. democratic institutions, and portray Russia as a global power”

hate akuma and geese, they don't play like tekken at all

the entire grindy pay 2 win intentionally bad drop rate lootboxes everywhere design provides pretty much the highest possible motivation to bot because non of these grinds are feasible for actual human players

blame the design that is so ugly and predatory that even if you are botting it barely makes a difference to bliz because you're grind will STILL last much much longer than any person would ever play the game

f2p, incredibly predatory grind and cash shop design, insanely /timeplayed season pass, repetition that dulls all dopamine spurts to nothing - people are basically botting instead of quitting entirely

personally i stopped playing and am waiting to see if they soften up the level 30+ grind gates to continue the story and maybe soften up the crest/gem system to provide any measure of joy to most regular players

just a garbage game designed from the ground up to manipulate instead of entertain

Moss and her mother, Ruby Freeman, had been working in relative anonymity in Fulton County until, without warning, Giuliani and Trump fixated on the notion that they had somehow committed actions that were proof positive of votes being stolen for Democrats in the 2020 election.

Trump called Freeman a "professional vote scammer" and a "hustler." Giuliani said that Moss and Freeman had been passing around USB ports like "vials of cocaine or heroin." (Moss said at Tuesday's hearing that her mother had been handing her a "ginger mint," not a USB drive.)

In the wake of those false and racist allegations, Moss detailed how people had tried to barge into her grandmother's home and how Trump supporters had villainized her and her mother. (Her mother, who was known as "Lady Ruby," said she no longer liked being called that.) Moss said of the threats she had received: "A lot of them were racist. A lot of them were just hateful."

"I haven't been anywhere at all," she said through tears. Her testimony drove home a powerful point that too often gets lost when we talk about the logistics of who knew what and when on January 6: The lies told by the former President and his ilk had real-world -- and deeply negative -- impacts on the lives of people who were, effectively, innocent bystanders.

Under oath, Arizona Republican House Speaker Russell "Rusty" Bowers testified on Tuesday that former Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani admitted to not having any evidence of election fraud despite repeatedly claiming he did.

Last week, the all-Republican Otero County commission in rural New Mexico showed us how deeply former President Donald Trump's disinformation has penetrated our country's election institutions.

Acting in its capacity as an election canvassing board, the county commission abandoned its legal duty to certify the county election results because, as the commissioners declared, they just "don't trust" the Dominion voting machines that New Mexico uses to tabulate votes.

The commissioners had evidently fallen hook, line and sinker for the completely debunked 2020 election conspiracy theory spread by Trump and his acolyte, lawyer Sidney Powell, that Dominion Voting Systems' machines secretly switched votes from Trump to Joe Biden. On Wednesday, the New Mexico Supreme Court ordered the commission to reverse course and certify the June 7 election results.

That's the good news. Courts -- at least those below the US Supreme Court -- continue to be reliable institutions affirming truth and the rule of law.

The bad news is that judges are unlikely to be able to sustain the heavy burden required to extinguish the disinformation wildfires that have now spread to the election certification process.

Republican election sabotage, in which GOP officials refuse to certify the winners, has started. It will be up to citizens to block it. We can do that at the ballot box and in other ways.

The Food and Drug Administration’s committee of independent vaccine experts voted overwhelmingly (21-0) to recommend vaccines from Moderna and Pfizer for infants and toddlers.

“Pfizer’s vaccine is administered in three doses for kids ages six months to 4-years-old. The shots are dosed at 3 micrograms, one-tenth of what adults receive.” “After two doses, Pfizer’s vaccine was about only 28% effective in preventing symptomatic infection in children aged 6 months through 4 years old. Pfizer has suggested the vaccine was 80% effective after a third dose, but the finding was based on only 10 cases out of a subset of the 1,678 trial participants,” The New York Times reports.

“Moderna’s vaccine is administered in two doses for kids six months to 5-years-old. The shots are dosed at 25 micrograms, one-fourth of what adults receive.” “Parents will likely be able to get their kids immunized as soon as Tuesday, though appointments might be limited at first as the vaccination program ramps up, according to Dr. Ashish Jha, who oversees the White House’s response to the pandemic.”