What I find so frustrating is that it's like whack-a-mole

I donated to a lot of races and groups both locally and nationally leading up to November. I was very careful in who I chose to donate to, and almost all were through ActBlue. But it got me onto lists that seem to be shared and multiplied.

I “stop” two texts and get 4 more. Same with opting out of emails. I’ve gotten hundreds of texts and emails in the past month from all sorts of entities that are new to me. Is there any way to get my phone and email removed from the source?

And I get additional texts naming someone who had my phone number before I got it, at least 20 years ago!

NSF funding, or the lack of it, could well be a national concern if we're at war.

NSF funds space weather prediction and research. Among many other things, this includes prediction and monitoring of the solar magnetic field and solar flares that can affect the Earth environment, such as satellites and the ability to rely on communications with drones.

I"m sure there are many other aspects of NSF-funded research that is of military interest.

Of course, considering that we wouldn't necessarily be on the side of our "government," I don't know what its matters...

My iPhone came with a podcasts app. I subscribe to Maddow and some other msnbc podcasts for free.

They’re available for listening within a couple hours of the show being over (pacific time). I can listen to them at 1x, 1.5x or 2x speed. I can blast through commercials using the app’s buttons to jump ahead by 30 seconds at a tap. I can listen to a show that would take an hour to watch in 20 minutes at night as I do the dishes and brush my teeth, making efficient use of my time, paying no cable or subscription fees (other than my cell phone and internet services which I’m paying for anyway) and I get to stay informed. Everyone here seems to talk about cable and streaming and YouTube. Does no one do what I do?? I almost never need to see the video and I can take in the info almost all the time at 2x speed. If I need to I can back up and listen to a bit at 1x or 1.5x. Just a suggestion for others to consider.

A saying I've said for many years:

“A morning with orange juice is like a day without Anita Bryant,”

Some other lawsuits the repukes could consider...

* Ballots filled out on Sundays should not be accepted.
* Ballots accepted at drive-up ballot drop-off sites are limited to those coming from people driving pickup trucks.
* Ballots from spouses must match or, if they don't, the husband's votes overrule.
* Ballots from same-sex couples and single people will not be accepted.
* Ballots filled out, mailed, or hand-delivered by people wearing fingernail polish will not be accepted since the nail polish could affect the calibration of ballot-scanning machinery.
* Ballots from foreign nationals residing in NATO-member countries will not be accepted.
* Mailed ballots postmarked on days of the week ending in "-day" will not be accepted.
* In-person voting will not be allowed by those who Pytor, sitting over in the corner, doesn't like the look of.

**sputter** **fume** "Itza demmokrat plot tuh STEEL th'lecshun!!!"

Trump can fill out the ballot but when he walks it over to the poll worker to scan, ...

...she rips off her rubber double-o-seven-esque rubber mask, revealing herself to be Nancy Pelosi, and she grabs the ballot at its top two corners and rips it elegantly down the middle. And in her best Soup Nazi voice, she says, "No Vote For You!"

I was interested to see what was going on with him as Walz lit into him about not accepting the election results.

I was watching a YouTube recording of the debate on my computer. When Walz was dressing him down about not refusing to say that TFG had lost the election in 2020, I noticed his repeated and frequent swallowing, which the beard hides a bit. On zooming in and replaying that segment, I could see all this subtle twitching and tightening of muscles around his mouth and chin. He was trying very hard to look completely calm and unfazed, but I think he was in a state of heightened alert and deep panic, like he'd been found out and the game was up.

He may have been doing it all through the debate when confronted with things he didn't want to hear, but I wasn't going to go back and watch any more of him.

To quote a joke I heard years ago about Pravda's report on an auto racing competition in Russia,

as reported by Pravda,

Vance came in second, but Walz finished next to last.

The joke was that there were only two entrants in the auto race, from the US and Russia. This is how the Right-Wing-o-sphere will frame it.

There were tens of people there!

Not counting the kids on stage. And probably at least half of those attending were parents of the kids on stage, and they wouldn’t have been there otherwise.
So perhaps it’s safer to say that there were fives of people there to see JV Dunce