"SAVE ACT" A certified copy of a birth certificate typically costs between $10 and $35 for the base certificate fee if ordered directly from a state or county vital records office. However...

There is a problem if the name on your birth certificate does not match the name on your driver's license... For example: Traditionally Married Women do not match... Trump's main plan is to keep women from voting because they should be at home making babies and raising a family and not worry they're pretty little heads about questions or thinking... Just let their husbands do that...

JD Vance's birth certificate does not match his driver's license because he changed his name three times... Who Does That???

Why is there a bullet hole in the forehead of BJ Vance?

Why is there a bullet hole in the forehead of JD Vance?

Voting by Mail is Great! I find that hiring a LYFT Taxi to go to the polling booth would cost about $50. I simply would not spend that money...

IF THE "SAVE ACT" PASSES: What documents would actually qualify? A valid U.S. passport or passport card, a certified birth certificate paired with a photo ID...

A standard driver's license alone does not qualify in most states. A REAL ID alone does not qualify. A military ID alone does not qualify. A tribal ID alone does not qualify...

For most Americans, qualifying requires one of the following: a valid U.S. passport or passport card, a certified birth certificate paired with a photo ID, a naturalization certificate, or a Consular Report of Birth Abroad. If your name does not match across those documents, additional paperwork such as a marriage certificate would also be required. https://www.vote.org/save-act/

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Democratic Hawaii Gov. Josh Green on Thursday signed into law a bill that takes aim at the court’s ruling that corporations are effectively people with full free speech rights who can face no limits on what they can contribute to political organizations.

https://inequality.org/article/hawaii-targets-citizens-united/

Hawaii Legislature passes first-in-nation bill targeting Citizens United ruling... Supporters of the bill say citizens, rather than corporations, should have more power in elections.

https://www.courthousenews.com/hawaii-legislature-passes-first-in-nation-bill-targeting-citizens-united-ruling/

New Hawaii law targets corporate influence in politics after Citizens United ruling...

https://apnews.com/article/corporate-campaign-money-citizens-united-hawaii-71a28bc7e8f6e0279b31e999f222519a

Contact your Senators and Representative and tell them we ought to do that here in our state!

https://www.senate.gov/senators/senators-contact.htm

https://www.house.gov/representatives/find-your-representative

Move to Amend dot org - a movement to eliminate corporate control of government...

https://movetoamend.org/
We the People not We the Corporations...

We, the People of the United States of America, reject the U.S. Supreme Court's Citizens United ruling and other related cases, and move to amend our Constitution to firmly establish that money is not speech, and that human beings, not corporations, are persons entitled to constitutional rights.

"A Fierce Green Fire" movie: a of the ecology movement...
http://www.afiercegreenfire.com

A FIERCE GREEN FIRE: The Battle for a Living Planet is the first big-picture exploration of the environmental movement – grassroots and global activism spanning fifty years from conservation to climate change. Directed and written by Mark Kitchell, Academy Award-nominated director of Berkeley in the Sixties, and narrated by Robert Redford, Ashley Judd, Van Jones, Isabel Allende and Meryl Streep, the film premiered at Sundance Film Festival 2012, has won acclaim at festivals around the world, and in 2013 begins theatrical release as well as educational distribution and use by environmental groups and grassroots activists.
Inspired by the book of the same name by Philip Shabecoff and informed by advisors like Edward O. Wilson, A FIERCE GREEN FIRE chronicles the largest movement of the 20th century and one of the keys to the 21st. It brings together all the major parts of environmentalism and connects them. It focuses on activism, people fighting to save their homes, their lives, the future – and succeeding against all odds.

Vote No Recall - California Governor - meme - gvan42

and A Guy on Facebook Said: Our household is voting NO on the Republican Recall. If California was its own sovereign nation, we would be ranked the 5th largest economy in the world. We are not going to hand the reins of running this state over to a reality TV star, a radio talk show pundit nor a real estate broker. I agree that Gavin has made mistakes, however, they do not rise to the level of being fired from office. Vote NO on the Republican Recall!

and now for something completely different:

Sign the petition: Support National Popular Vote Now. END THE ELECTORAL COLLEGE. Hillary Got MORE VOTES but we got Trump. Al Gore Got MORE VOTES but we got Bush Jr.

Clearly The Electoral College is a BAD system that Allowed The Two Worst Presidents Ever to be Elected! Write to Your Elected Representative and SIGN THIS PETITION...

https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/sign-the-petition-support-national-popular-vote-now

It's time to ensure the candidate with popular support is actually elected. How? With the National Popular Vote Compact.

What's required? States just pass a law awarding their electoral votes to the presidential candidate who wins the popular vote. Once states that add up to 270 electoral votes join, then we guarantee that the popular vote winner always becomes president!

We're already 60 percent of the way there. Let's up the pressure.

Sign the petition to all 50 state governments: Join the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact so that in the United States we can finally elect our presidents by national popular vote.

https://www.nationalpopularvote.com/

The National Popular Vote bill would guarantee the Presidency to the candidate who receives the most popular votes in all 50 states and the District of Columbia.

https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/fix-the-broken-electoral-college-pass-national-popular-vote?source=website

Fix the broken Electoral College - pass National Popular Vote - another Online Petition...

The Electoral College was Intentionally Designed to keep the Masses from Selecting the President... The Founding Fathers wanted to Keep Power in their Own Hands... No Votes for Blacks or Women... only rich white men vote...

Headline: The media frames the climate crisis as hopeless - but that's because they're hiding the solutions. Originally Posted on Business Insider Newspaper
LINK--->http://gvan42.blogspot.com/2021/08/headline-media-frames-climate-crisis-as.html
Written by P.E. Moskowitz Sat, August 14, 2021, 5:26 AM

Yes, the climate news is bad, but there's action to be taken.
Our hopelessness comes from a media system that doesn't place the blame on corporations to protect their bottom line.
We have to change our media diet if we want to feel less hopeless about climate change.
P.E. Moskowitz is an author, runs Mental Hellth, a newsletter about capitalism and psychology, and is a contributing opinion writer for Insider.
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Trump WILL FAIL AGAIN. He will TRY to Steal the Midterm Elections But... The Vast Majority of Americans Hate Trump and Hate the Republican Party. STOP THE STEAL!

Everyone Needs to Keep Working to Beat Trump like a Pinata! Do Whatever you Can to #dumpTrump!

Hate Group Turns DC Into ‘Fascist Hellscape’ With July 4 March... “Absolutely terrifying to have white supremacist hate group Patriot Front march through our streets today in Washington, DC,” https://www.commondreams.org/news/hate-group-march-dc

The Trump FBI just sent 260 staff members to Georgia to investigate the 2020 election. This is based on Trump's delusional belief that the election was stolen. There are no active FBI investigations into the Epstein files.

And then on Faceborg I read:

Every single thing he has touched—every cacamamie plan he has launched, every ill-thought-out scheme that has gurgled up from what’s left of his mind—has been a disaster. All this regime has done, time and again, is shoot themselves in the foot. So this scheme to usurp the midterms—maybe it'll backfire as well. Maybe, in the end, what will come along to save us will not be the Epstein files, or waving placards, or blacking out Facebook for a day (yeah, that one really brought 'em to their knees), or Jesus, or 3IATLAS, or singing Kumbaya, but rather, like everything else [...drumroll...] their own bumbling ineptitude.
Yeah, I've given up on 3I/ATLAS or Jesus, I'm banking everything on that he is one colossal f**k-up. And I'd say that's a fairly safe bet.

Democratic Socialism has a branding problem. It was obvious to me from the very beginning when Bernie Sanders identified with it. And the Right is taking full advantage of it.
To me, and my lifelong understanding of political ideologies, Democratic Socialism is simply being very liberal - nothing more. It's certainly not communism.
Socialism has never meant communism. Its best examples are European countries such as France, where the train and telecommunications, etc., are "socialized" - as in, owned and run by the government. This is not communism either.
Current American vitriolic political rhetoric has twisted these terms into a Bizarro World alt-reality, which has warped the minds of the ignorant and been quasi-legitimized by far-right-wing think tanks like the Heritage Foundation. They have rewritten history to advance their agenda. Now, no one is sure what reality we exist in.

"This was not the behavior of a president in control, nor was it a show of strength. What we watched play out across more than one hundred social media posts on a single Sunday was a man in free fall, reaching for his phone because it is the only thing left that makes him feel powerful, even when the facts say that nearly everything he has done since taking office has been a disappointment or an embarrassment. Nothing has gone the way he planned. Nearly every grand promise, spectacle, announcement, and carefully choreographed moment has been a disaster, including what was supposed to be the triumphant celebration of America’s 250th birthday."

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Trump’s hijacking of America’s 250th anniversary celebrations went about as well as you would expect – very poorly planned, poorly attended, and then the resulting product doesn’t even LOOK good.
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I asked Google & Grok: "Is artificial intelligence a danger to humanity?" AI Overview Said: YES! artificial intelligence (AI) can be dangerous to humanity if it's not carefully regulated. AI can be used to spread disinformation, undermine democracy, and threaten human existence.

*Disinformation:
AI can be used to create deepfake videos and online bots that spread fake news.
AI can be used to manipulate public discourse and undermine social trust.
*Threat to democracy:
AI can be used to undermine democracy and become a tool for fascism.
AI can be used to manipulate people for economic gain or political advantage.
*Threat to human existence:
AI could pose an existential threat to humanity if it's able to improve itself.
AI could be used to create lethal weapons that are more powerful and dehumanizing.
*Other risks:
AI can be biased and perpetuate human racial biases.
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Artificial intelligence can pose risks to humanity, but the extent and nature of those risks depend on how it's developed, deployed, and managed.

Potential dangers include:

Misalignment: AI systems could pursue goals misaligned with human values, especially if poorly designed or inadequately supervised. For instance, an advanced AI optimizing for a narrow objective (e.g., maximizing efficiency) might inadvertently cause harm, like resource depletion or economic disruption.

Autonomy and Control: Highly autonomous AI could act unpredictably in complex environments. If such systems gain significant control over critical infrastructure (e.g., power grids, financial systems), errors or malicious exploitation could lead to catastrophic outcomes.

Weaponization: AI in military or malicious hands could amplify destructive capabilities, from autonomous weapons to sophisticated cyberattacks or disinformation campaigns.

Economic Disruption: Widespread AI adoption could displace jobs faster than societies can adapt, leading to economic inequality and social unrest.

Existential Risk: In extreme scenarios, a superintelligent AI, if not carefully aligned with human interests, could outmaneuver humanity in ways difficult to predict or counter, though this remains speculative and debated.

However, these risks aren't inevitable. Responsible development—prioritizing transparency, robust safety protocols, and ethical guidelines—can mitigate dangers. AI also offers immense benefits, like solving complex problems in healthcare, climate change, and education. The challenge lies in balancing innovation with caution.
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The danger hinges on governance. If you'd like, I can search X or the web for recent takes on AI safety or analyze specific claims about AI risks. Thoughts?

We are doomed... All these AI chatbots say that AI needs to be used responsibly and the people that own the chatbots have demonstrated time and time again to be literally, piles of shit... And unable to do the right thing if doing the wrong thing makes them money!

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On Faceborg SE said:
So far I've seen no comments from the president about the shooting in NYC. I've been watching the coverage on TV, and there has been no mention of the president saying anything. It goes without saying that Biden would have given a speech full of empathy and kindness and hope in the wake of such a tragedy. If Kamala Harris had won the election, there is no doubt that she would have done the same. It's part of a president's JOB to offer words of empathy and encouragement to the American people in times of tragedy or uncertainly. We knew Trump was like this from the way he never offered any words of encouragement or hope during the darkest moments when Covid first came along and people were dying and there was no vaccine and no treatment. We knew he was never going to offer that kind of empathy to the American people, and we knew that his opponent absolutely WOULD offer that kind of empathy, but people voted for him anyway. That's what I just can't get used to, the fact that people KNOWINGLY voted for this.
Having an empathetic president is so important. If they have empathy, then they genuinely want what's best for the country. A lack of empathy shows that the current president doesn't have the country's best interests at heart. He's only out for himself. Not that this is new information or anything. But when a tragedy happens, it makes it so glaringly obvious because a few words of kindness and encouragement from the president really helps in times of tragedy or uncertainty. It was horrible having to live without that for 4 years from 2016 to 2020, and now we have to live without it for another 4 years (or maybe forever, if people keep voting for un-empathetic candidates).
If he DOES say anything, it will be a Truth Social post blaming the Democratic leadership of NYC for the shooting. Mark my words, he will if he hasn't already. But what the country needs is words of encouragement and hope.