While the ID requirements vary, you already have to show some form of acceptable ID to register.

Actually, that’s not true. The Federal voter registration form doesn’t require the filer to produce any ID to file it. It does, however, require you to attest (under penalty of perjury) that you are a citizen. And since you have also given them your full name and address where you live, they can find you easily enough. (You could lie about your address, I suppose, but then you would be voting in the wrong place…)

Republicans have used this as an excuse to say that the entire system encourages fraud, and that there must be oodles of people lying on the forms. (I guess because dishonesty comes so easily to them?). Some Republican states with strict voter ID laws go so far as to require that if a voter sends in the Federal form (which the State must accept), that voter will only be allowed to vote in Federal elections, and can’t vote for state or local offices until they register a second time with their ID.

But trying to fraudulently vote as a non-citizen is the stupidest type of fraud. Each registration comes with an invitation for the government to investigate your background and prosecute if you are lying, complete with all of your identifying information. And for what benefit? Getting to cast a single vote that (in nearly all cases) won’t affect the outcome by itself?

Republicans’ reasoning for strict voter ID laws simply don’t stand up to any rational analysis, unless you realize their real goal is to disenfranchise people who can’t afford to (or can’t manage to keep) their ID. What if a homeless person, who is a US citizen but can’t afford their ID, wants to vote. Should they be deemed ineligible simply because they don’t have their long-form birth certificate on their person?

“You came in that thing? You’re braver than I thought…”

How did you get a camera into Stephen Miller’s bathroom?

The President has 10 days (excluding Sundays) to sign the bill, or veto it. If he does neither, the bill takes effect as if he had signed it – as long as Congress is still in session.

A Pocket Veto is when the President doesn’t sign a bill, and Congress is not in session when the 10 day period expires. In that case, the law will not take effect.

But, these days Congress never formally adjourns. Even when they go home, local members still hold formal sessions where nothing is done specifically to keep Congress in session. And I think even this Congress won’t simply adjourn itself because Trump wants it to.

This was also a discussion when Trump nominated idiots like Matt Gaetz, who had no shot of getting confirmed. Trump wanted Congress to adjourn itself, so he could make a Recess Appointment. They declined. If they didn’t roll over then, they won’t now.

I’m imagining all those folks who get upset over being assigned “the mark of the beast” being OK with this, even though the GOP symbol is an elephant …

It’s particularly bonkers because the bill passed with a veto-proof majority

The bill, called the 21st Century Road to Housing Act, passed 358-32 in the House. The Senate approved it Monday with similarly overwhelming bipartisan support.

So, Trump has zero leverage here. Unless he thinks, somehow, he can convince Republicans to switch sides and vote against a veto override on a bill they already voted for.

This bill is becoming law whether he supports it or not. It’s also quite popular (with everyone who is not in Private Equity). Usually, he bends over backwards to be seen on the popular side of an issue. This makes no sense, even by Trump logic.

Every industry has an accessibility crisis. Lazy MBAs don’t want to sell products that appeal to everyone if they can sell products that only appeal to rich people with less effort.

Does that mean his time with the Jets was like pre-school?

I bet she is handling something

No, RFK Jr just put it in his freezer for later.

Rape algae pond? Straight to the Cabinet.

It wouldnt surprise me if King Steven gamed the numbers to specifically show that (nice!) revenue percentage.

Specifically, the 13th amendment, which abolished* slavery:

Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.

So, yes, prison slavery is expressly legal.

¿Por qué no los dos?

If you have watched the Mets this year, you would understand.

If Alex Jones told me it was sunny out I would bring my umbrella.

I’ve given up on baseball for the time being.

Why yes, I am a Mets fan, what gave it away?

Wait, they’re going after the NFL, too?

The metal will block some Wi-Fi signals, but not completely, because the gaps between the bars are too wide to block it all.

2.4 GHz also happens to be the frequency that microwaves operate at. Every microwave oven has that mesh in its window, because those holes are precisely the right size to let you look through while still blocking all the 2.4 GHz emissions inside the box.

What is the Pope is a Bears fan?