White House is manipulating voting system, from redistricting to rule changes, to affect midterms

A year out from the 2026 midterms, with Republicans feeling the blows from a string of losses in this week’s elections, Donald Trump and his allies are mounting a multipronged attack on almost every aspect of voting in the United States and raising what experts say are troubling questions about the future of one of the world’s oldest democracies.

While Democratic leaders continue to invest their hopes in a “blue wave” to overturn Republican majorities in the House and Senate next year, Trump and some prominent supporters have sought to discredit the possibility that Republicans could lose in a fair fight and are using that premise to justify demands for a drastically different kind of electoral system.

This is not the first time Trump has questioned the credibility of US elections -- he did it almost as vigorously in [2016](https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/research-reports/n

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[2022] As the representative of the right wing government union, we have decided to not intervene militarily in Ukraine

[2023] As the representative of the right wing government union, we have decided to not intervene militarily in Ukraine

[2024] As the representative of the right wing government union, we have decided to not intervene militarily in Ukraine

[2025] As the representative of the right wing government union, we have decided to not intervene militarily in Ukraine

[orange, angry] I hate my country's leftists because they don't want to intervene militarily in Ukraine That's why I could never vote for them

[green, next to him, is blasé]

https://thebad.website/comic/ukraint

https://bsky.app/profile/thebad.website

[2022] As the representative of the right wing government union, we have decided to not intervene militarily in Ukraine

[2023] As the representative of the right wing government union, we have decided to not intervene militarily in Ukraine

[2024] As the representative of the right wing government union, we have decided to not intervene militarily in Ukraine

[2025] As the representative of the right wing government union, we have decided to not intervene militarily in Ukraine

[orange, angry] I hate my country's leftists because they don't want to intervene militarily in Ukraine That's why I could never vote for them

[green, next to him, is blasé]

https://thebad.website/comic/ukraint

https://bsky.app/profile/thebad.website

even though they only represent around 6% of the total U.S. population.

Further reading: The State of Veteran Homelessness [2024]

Feddit.org announced today that they are changing their rules to match German law despite their server not being hosted in Germany.

Feddit.org now bans:

• The sentence "From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free"
• Comparing Israel to the Nazis
• Calls to end Zionism
• Calling for the dissolution of Israel

And much more. The full original post can be found here, or

::: spoiler Click here for full text of original post:

Hi.

In the past few days, discontent regarding mod decisions in this community has been brewing, particularly when it comes to comments on Palestine, Israel, and Israeli politics and actions. There are also misunderstandings regarding mod intention and German law. We hope to clear that up with this post.

While the servers of feddit.org are in Austria, most of the mods of this community as well as admins of this server live in Germany. Speaking of, our server admins have also posted [a write-up on the same topic](https

Feddit.org announced today that they are changing their rules to match German law despite their server not being hosted in Germany.

Feddit.org now bans

• The sentence "From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free"
• Comparing Israel to the Nazis
• Calls to end Zionism
• Calling for the dissolution of Israel

And much more. The full original post can be found here, or

::: spoiler Click here for full text of original post:

Hi.

In the past few days, discontent regarding mod decisions in this community has been brewing, particularly when it comes to comments on Palestine, Israel, and Israeli politics and actions. There are also misunderstandings regarding mod intention and German law. We hope to clear that up with this post.

While the servers of feddit.org are in Austria, most of the mods of this community as well as admins of this server live in Germany. Speaking of, our server admins have also posted [a write-up on the same topic](https

cross-posted from: https://feddit.org/post/12550375

Regarding Mid-East-related Comments on !europe

Hi.

In the past few days, discontent regarding mod decisions in this community has been brewing, particularly when it comes to comments on Palestine, Israel, and Israeli politics and actions. There are also misunderstandings regarding mod intention and German law. We hope to clear that up with this post.

While the servers of feddit.org are in Austria, most of the mods of this community as well as admins of this server live in Germany. Speaking of, our server admins have also posted a write-up on the same topic.

And with that, let's go:

In Germany, antisemitism is specifically sanctioned in German criminal law, both for speech and as a motivation for other criminal behavior. In addition, Germany seeks to protect the Jewish state of Israel (the so-called "Reason of State" introduced in 2008) and thus verges toward protecti

Hi.

In the past few days, discontent regarding mod decisions in this community has been brewing, particularly when it comes to comments on Palestine, Israel, and Israeli politics and actions. There are also misunderstandings regarding mod intention and German law. We hope to clear that up with this post.

While the servers of feddit.org are in Austria, most of the mods of this community as well as admins of this server live in Germany. Speaking of, our server admins have also posted a write-up on the same topic.

And with that, let's go:

In Germany, antisemitism is specifically sanctioned in German criminal law, both for speech and as a motivation for other criminal behavior. In addition, Germany seeks to protect the Jewish state of Israel (the so-called "Reason of State" introduced in 2008) and thus verges toward protecting Zionism as well. Certain criticism of Israel/Israelis is also categorized as "Israel-related antisemitism".

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the event has concluded! thank you all for participating!

this has been incredibly fun to run, as it was last year (although there was a bit more hiccups this time around)

⚠ Crossposters: link back to this post as it will be updated with more information ⚠

Event date: July 12th, 2024 @ 4am UTC til July 15th @ 4am UTC (72 hours) July 16th @ 4am UTC (72 hours + 24 hours) (it was extended due to a massive performance issue that caused major downtime)

Future events

I'm planning to host another one next year, so stay tuned 👀

If you have suggestions for canvas 2025 or any other events, post them in this post (thanks Ategon)

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