Watch MoveOn’s Livestream With Special Guests Shonda Rhimes and Ben and Jerry

Grab a pint—and watch last Sunday night’s “I Scream, You Scream, We All Scream for Harris-Walz” livestream! Eat ice cream with Tom Colicchio, Shonda Rhimes, Ben and Jerry, and fellow MoveOn members! Here are a few highlights from the call:  “Scandal” and “Bridgerton” creator Shonda Rhimes shared that this country is supposed to be about joy, so she found her joy by eating Ben and Jerry’s special Kamala Harris Coconut Jubilee ice cream pint as soon as it arrived! Jeni Britton of Jeni’s Splendid Ice Creams told a story of…

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election lawsuits Voting 

Is there widespread voting fraud?

The answer is no. And decades of investigations by many, including two Republican administrations, have confirmed it. Claims of widespread voting fraud are decades old. During the Bush Jr. Administration, the Justice Department initiated a five-year crackdown on voter fraud, but only eighty-six people were convicted of any kind of election crime, despite hundreds of millions of votes being cast. No major efforts to skew national or statewide elections were found. According to election experts, the current claim that illegal immigrants are voting is meant to intimidate legitimate voters and…

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Barriers for 40.2 Million Voters with Disabilities

New laws to protect the 2024 presidential are creating barriers for Americans with disabilities, disability rights advocates have told CBS News and others. More than 20 states now restrict mail-in ballots. This includes limiting the kinds of assistance a voter can ask for which restrict the ability of caregivers to help prepare a ballot for the people they care for. Some laws threaten criminal charges for aides who help the disabled vote. Many new laws are the aftereffect of the 2020 elections when former President Donald Trump questioned the security…

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Biden visits Indian Country and apologizes for the ‘sin’ of a 150-year-old boarding school policy

President Joe Biden on Friday formally apologized to Native Americans for the “sin” of a government-run boarding school system that for decades forcibly separated children from their parents, calling it a “blot on American history” in his first presidential visit to Indian Country. The Washington Times stories: White House

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Legislation to axe locality pay for teleworking feds gets Senate companion

Senate legislation targeting locality pay for federal teleworkers now has a companion bill in the House. If enacted, the Federal Employee Return to Work Act would remove locality pay for any federal employee who teleworks at least one day a week. Federal teleworkers would instead only receive their base pay rates. The House bill, introduced this week, comes after Senator Bill Cassidy (R-La.) introduced the legislation in August. The Republican-led bill is one of many efforts to scale back telework options for federal employees. (Federal Employee Return to Work Act…

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Blue States Gave Trump and Vance an Opening

Donald Trump and J. D. Vance have a story to sell you: Amid a scramble for housing in the United States, the real problem is the presence of immigrants. Americans “cannot ignore the impact that the flood of 21 million illegal aliens has had on driving up housing costs,” Trump argued at the Economic Club of New York’s luncheon in September. Vance has made this argument even more fervently—on X, in recent interviews, and in other venues. During the vice-presidential debate, Vance declared that “25 million illegal aliens competing with…

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