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An election may have been stolen in North Carolina. While evidence continues to be gathered, officials are investigating whether a paid Republican campaign contractor collected mail-in ballots from likely Democratic voters and never turned them in, possibly changing the result of the election. It’s a crisis of democracy: State election officials told a hearing Monday that North Carolina’s 9th Congressional District was subject to a “coordinated, unlawful, and substantially resourced absentee ballot scheme” orchestrated by a GOP operative.

Here’s my question: Where is the voter fraud crowd? You know, the folks who cry “crime” when two people named John Smith vote in the same state? Their silence in the face of seemingly serious election fraud reveals their fundamental bad faith and hucksterism.

I served with many of the celebrities of the voter fraud pack when I joined President Trump’s Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity in 2017. ... The documents that were released reveal the truth: Contrary to statements by the White House and Republican commission members such as vice chairman Kris Kobach, the Kansas secretary of state, the commission uncovered no evidence of widespread voter fraud. ... Kobach claimed the few instances of fraud were “the tip of the iceberg,” the judge, a George W. Bush appointee, concluded that “there is no iceberg; only an icicle largely created by confusion and administrative error.” Despite this resounding defeat, Kobach continues to rely on the same discredited statistics, and voter fraud remains a top-line GOP concern.

Now that North Carolina is investigating what could be systematic election theft, you’d think people so committed to seeing fraud where it doesn’t exist would be sounding the alarm. What’s alleged in North Carolina’s 9th Congressional District is not an occasional individual registering to vote when she is ineligible, but a sustained program to steal the votes of others.

Why doesn’t the ‘voter fraud’ crowd care about what happened in North Carolina?

UPDATE: North Carolina Elections Board throws out the tainted results and orders a new election!
North Carolina elections board orders new House election after ballot tampering scandal

Voters will go back to the drawing board with new primary elections in the Ninth District after the board’s vote.

Still nothing funny about tired .@nbcsnl Saturday Night Live on Fake News NBC! Like many, I don’t watch Saturday Night Live (even though I past hosted it). But I watched parts of it during, or over, the wonderful President's Day Long Weekend. Total hit job on me. Really bad television, no longer funny, no talent or charm. ZERO. .@DonCheadle, horrible Fake Hockey Jersey. Gary Clark (Jr.), such a dumb song. And the Baldwin impersonation STINKS. Just can't get any worse. Time to retire the boring and unfunny show. Question is, how do the Networks get away with these total Republican hit jobs without retribution? Likewise for many other shows? It is all nothing less than unfair news coverage and Dem commercials. Should be tested in courts, can’t be legal? Only defame & belittle! Very unfair and should be looked into. This is the real Collusion! breitbart.com/entertainment/2019/02/18/watch-don-cheadle-promotes-breitbart-boycotters-sleeping-giants-on-saturday-night-live

On President's Day, we celebrate the American President, the bulwark of our national prosperity and the cornerstone of our national greatness. We commemorate the achievements of this skilled businessman/actor and recognize his courage, will power, and ambition -- all values we cherish as Americans. In that spirit, we continue to seek new horizons for greater greatness and further opportunity on land, in sea, and in space.

NOW, THEREFORE, I, DONALD J. TRUMP, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and the laws of the United States, do hereby proclaim February 18, 2019, as President's Day. I call upon the people of the United States to observe this day with appropriate ceremonies and activities. I also direct that the flag of the United States be displayed on all public buildings on the appointed day in honor of our magnificent leader and all who have contributed to shaping this Nation.

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Folks, I don't think I need to do a Proclaimation to make this one a VERY SPECIAL day. A day with a lot of heart. 💕 One year ago today, a horrific act of violence took the lives of 14 students and 3 educators in Parkland, Florida. ❣️ On this somber anniversary, we honor their memory and recommit to ensuring the safety of all Americans, especially our Nation’s children. And believe me, the children are much safer today. Because we did the Ban of the deadly Bump Stocks. Little piece of plastic -- sometimes Metal -- that can turn an ordinary gun into a Weapon of Mass Destruction. 💘 And more importantly, we now have a Ratings System for Video Games. That's a big thing. A year ago, nobody thought that was possible. We made it happen -- together. And we're only getting stronger together. America First!! whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/presidential-message-school-safety-remembering-parkland-tragedy
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Paul Manafort "intentionally" lied to special counsel Robert Mueller's office, breaking the plea agreement that made him the star cooperator in the Russia probe, a federal judge found on Wednesday.

Manafort "made multiple false statements to the FBI, the OSC and the grand jury concerning matters that were material to the investigation," including his contacts with his Russian associate during the campaign and later, Judge Amy Berman Jackson wrote on Wednesday.

Manafort was convicted of various financial crimes in August, and then cut the deal to plead guilty to two charges of conspiracy and witness tampering in September.
In all, Jackson determined Manafort intentionally lied about $125,000 he received for the legal bills, about another unnamed Justice Department criminal investigation and about his interactions with his longtime Russian associate Konstantin Kilimnik while he was campaign chairman and later.

Jackson noted twice in her order that two of the topics Paul Manafort lied about, Kilimnik and payments he received for his legal bills were "material to the investigation."

Judge voids Paul Manafort plea deal, says he 'intentionally' lied to the FBI, special counsel and grand jury

Boy, they sure do lie about Russia a lot!

My memory is bad. It's really, really bad. It's famously bad. One of my best friends said it was "an etch-a-sketch on a bumpy road".

The calendar apps I've seen aren't aggressive enough in notifications, and LineageOS's alarm app won't let me set dates sufficiently in the future. There's also a lot of recurring events and events that occur on irregular schedules.

So, I got sick of it, and wrote this. I made an alarm app that can be as aggressive or passive as you want, with crontab syntax.

The code isn't great. I wrote it in python as that's something I've had to use lately and python's proving to be... well, better than I expected. I'm not an expert with Python yet so you'll probably find some eww.

You need pygame for python 3 for alert sounds, python gobject Gtk 3 (pgi), python 3 sqlite, and everything else should be included in the Python 3 standard library.

Let me know what you think.

Vox Media Attempts To Scrub Internet Of The Verge PC Build Video By Going After YouTubers

Many reuploads and analyses can be found.