from WND: Could result in automatic mistrial Juan Merchan, the judge in President Donald Trump’s “business expense” trial in New York, where a leftist Manhattan jury convicted him of 34 counts, has alerted lawyers in the case of possible juror misconduct. That misconduct, apparently a discussion by a juror with a relative who reported, a […]

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s campaign said he submitted the required signatures to gain ballot access in Minnesota, surpassing eligibility for 270 electoral votes. “This is a tremendous victory for the campaign and the thousands of volunteers nationwide who have hit the streets with clipboards in hand and canvassed America to put ‘Bobby on the Ballot,’” Senior Advisor and Ballot Access Director Nick Brana commented. “Come November, for the first time in decades, everyone across the country will have an independent choice who will end the wars, break up the corporate state, and make life affordable,” Brana added. New: RFK Jr has officially qualified for the 2024 general election ballot in Minnesota. pic.twitter.com/uOvQw0nNMB — The Calvin Coolidge Project (@TheCalvinCooli1) June 8, 2024 From Kennedy24: Today, volunteers traveled from across the state to St. Paul to celebrate the submission of 3,330 signatures to get Kennedy on the ballot in Minnesota. “Our volunteers — led by Mark Frascone and Dr. Drew Dietle — worked hard these past few weeks to ensure the North Star State has an independent option in November,” said Minnesota Volunteer Coordinator Shauna Miller. The number of electoral votes required to win the presidency is 270. The campaign’s aggressive ballot access operation has surpassed all its milestones to ensure the Kennedy-Shanahan ticket will be on the ballot in all 50 states and the District of Columbia. The ballot access operation is fully funded with more than $15 million raised. The Kennedy-Shanahan ticket is officially on the ballot in nine states — Utah, Michigan, California, Delaware, Oklahoma, Hawaii, Texas, South Carolina, and Florida. It has collected enough signatures for ballot access in 10 other states — New Hampshire, Nevada, North Carolina, Idaho, Nebraska, Iowa, Ohio, New Jersey, New York, and now Minnesota. The Kennedy-Shanahan campaign has collected the signatures needed for ballot access in 19 states, totaling 278 electoral votes, 52% of the 538 total electoral votes nationwide. UPDATE: With Minnesota RFK Jr Reaches 270 https://t.co/R5UfcJX46Y pic.twitter.com/KDyRhcsEQE — Jon Raso (@JonRaso) June 7, 2024 From the Associated Press: Robert F. Kennedy Jr., claimed Friday that he’s qualified for the ballot in enough states to win the presidency as an independent candidate, but there’s a major caveat: at least 10 of the states have not certified his candidacy. Kennedy is racing to secure a place on the ballot in states with at least 270 electoral votes, the minimum needed to become president, before a June 20 deadline to qualify for a CNN debate later this month. Kennedy’s campaign said he submitted 3,300 signatures in Minnesota on Friday and listed the state among 19 states with 278 electoral votes where he claims ballot access. But by the campaign’s own admission, at least half of those states have not verified that his submission is valid. CNN has signaled that it won’t count states where Kennedy has applied for ballot access but not been confirmed. Kennedy filed a Federal Election Commission complaint last month alleging the cable network is colluding with Democratic President Joe Biden and presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump to exclude him from the debate. Kennedy also has not met the debate’s requirement to get at least 15% in four reputable polls.

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A giant anti-Israel protest broke out outside the White House on Saturday, marking eight months since Israel’s war in Gaza began. 

Gasp! Politico has uncovered a corner of the Web that as of yet remains uncensored and thus allows unapproved messages to reach people. This is simply intolerable, at least from the Politico POV as presented by their tech policy reporter Rebecca Kern on Friday in "WhatsApp Channels, used by millions, has no clear election rules."  Yes, we humble prols need rules, rules, RULES to guide us on how to think and to steer us away from dangerous ThoughtCrimes in this election year. A new platform launched by tech giant Meta and used by half a billion people has been running for more than eight months worldwide without any explicit election-disinformation policies — a lapse that lawmakers, disinformation experts and former Meta employees warn could pose grave risks in a year when nearly half the globe is casting major votes. Got that? Getting information unfiltered by our media overlords could pose "grave risks." Kern goes on to describe the horrors of getting information without the proper "guardrails" to keep our minds right: The platform, called WhatsApp Channels, transforms WhatsApp from a private messaging and group chat service into a broadcast platform as well, with users able to follow posts from public accounts. Although Meta has clear guardrails against voter interference, threats of violence and election misinformation on its other platforms Facebook, Instagram and Threads, it has not imposed the same rules on WhatsApp Channels, instead relying on broader community guidelines. With absolutely no sense of irony, Kern quotes the grand master of Trump-Russia Collusion disinformation about the dangers of election misinformation. Meta’s lack of clear election disinformation policies on the new public platform stands in contrast to the broadcast messaging services it launched on Facebook, Messenger and Instagram last year which have such rules in place. Critics say Meta isn’t evenly applying its election integrity commitments as nearly 2 billion people vote in more than 60 countries this year. “Meta’s continued failure to implement explicit election misinformation policies on its public WhatsApp Channels threatens the integrity of democratic processes in the United States and across the globe,” said Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.), the former chair of the House Intelligence Committee, adding, “It is absolutely imperative that Meta extends the same policies from its other platforms to WhatsApp Channels to prevent the spread of election-related falsehoods.” Yeah, because when you want to crack down on misinformation you should quote one of the biggest and most shameless purveyors of misinformation... Adam Schiff. Oh, and a big thank you to this Mockingbird Media outlet for warning us about how a small slice of unvetted election news could slip through to us via Whatsapp. A WhatsApp spokesperson said Channels’ community guidelines — which prohibit illegal content, violent content, fraud or deceitful content — would apply to posts on voter suppression. However, the guidelines don’t specifically mention voting or elections. Of course, the biggest irony of all is that the purveyor of the biggest misinformation of the 2020 election was none other than Politico itself when its then national security reporter, Natasha Bertrand, recited MISINFORMATION spoon-fed to her by intel agencies to misreport in October of that year that "Hunter Biden story is Russian disinfo, dozens of former intel officials say." So it's hard to take seriously Politico's deep concern that somewhere out there a bit of election "misinformation" might sneak through this year when they have not even acknowledged who was responsible for spreading 2020 election misinformation. Namely themselves. Oh, but please do keep sanctimoniously lecturing us about election misinformation this year while Memory Holing your own Politico role in over the top election misinformation in the last presidential election.

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