Health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s advisers ordered the release of a dataset that includes the private health information of people living in California, Illinois, Washington state, and Washington, D.C., to the Department of Homeland Security

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    If he doesnt rig the upcoming elections, I am optimistic that there would be consequences not just to Trump but also to Republican party

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      didn’t florida just cancel their local elections this year to “bring local elections in line with federal”? yeah, definitely next year there will be elections

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        Elections are a cornerstone of autocracies. All of the most brutal dictators have elections, and they get 90% of the vote.

        Free and fair elections, OTOH, are nowhere to be seen. And that’s a critical difference - they won’t be cancelled, so there won’t be the obvious line in the sand. Voter suppression and disenfranchisement, which is already happening, will continue and accelerate. But most of it will have a heavy coat of marketing, to convince people that those groups don’t really deserve to vote.