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BOREALIS, Over half voters getting out early - (turnout forecast 45-55% still sucks bigtime compared to Aussiland)
going back to Vietnam days of '66 with then after JFK assassination LBJ at the helm - is good to see. See your

"David Catanese/USA Today:
The Early Voting Explosion
https://www.usnews.com/news/the-run/articles/2018-10-22/early-voting-in-some-states-is-rivaling-presidential-turnout"

One day your voting could be compulsory too. It should be. Sausage sizzles are fun.

The troll image



from

"CNN isn't messing around with this chyron
https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1054709380527124481/photo/1?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1054709380527124481&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.dailykos.com%2Fstory%2F2018%2F10%2F24%2F1806696%2F-Abbreviated-Pundit-Round-up-The-Trump-lies-are-increasing-exponentially"

gotta use soon when appropriate.

Enjoyed all the links, 'cept hit by the Vanity Fair paywall.

Greg Dworkin's Daily Koz diary is a good one, thx.

Oh, almost forgot. My comment about Kelly maybe having more control over Trump because Trump's Politifact 'wrong side of truth' total had dropped was a silly impetuous jump, wasn't it. Good point. Of course, Trump would be lying as much as ever, and Politifact, of course, could not, so do not .. https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/article/2018/feb/12/principles-truth-o-meter-politifacts-methodology-i/#How%20we%20choose%20claims , check nearly everything torturing Trump's vocal cords. That was my first thought on seeing the first headline

"Tina Nguyen/Vanity Fair:
TRUMP’S LIES ARE BECOMING EXPONENTIALLY MORE BRAZEN
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2018/10/donald-trump-brazen-lies-migrant-caravan "

in Dworkin's top-shelf diary, "Abbreviated Pundit Round-up: The Trump lies are increasing exponentially"

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BOREALIS, Khashoggi's fiance knows Trump better than some 35% of Americans do.

https://in.reuters.com/video/2018/10/26/khashoggis-fiancee-refuses-trumps-invita?videoId=477138164&videoChannel=117460

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Trump Hates International Treaties. His Latest Target: A Nuclear-Weapons Deal With Russia.

The next casualty of President Trump’s suspicion of multilateral deals could be a 30-year-old arms accord with Russia.

Uri Friedman
Oct 24, 2018


When Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev signed an arms-control agreement in 1987, the
mood was solemn. It is markedly different today.Reuters

When Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev solemnly signed the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty at the White House, the leaders of the world’s superpowers hailed the transition from an era of “mounting risk of nuclear war” to one marked by the “demilitarization of human life.”

[...]

“We’re in a process of sleepwalking into a new nuclear-arms race” with no restraints, Burt told me. When he served in government, in the 1980s, there was “a hypersensitivity [to] and awareness of the dangers of a nuclear conflict.” No longer.

https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2018/10/trump-withdraw-inf-treaty-why/573715/