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t my voting rights but all this confusing news is very disconcerting a couple more voting stories justin jouvenal at the washington post judge issues setback to trump administration plans to restrict mail in ballots a federal judge in massachusetts on tuesday issued a setback to the trump administration s plans to issue sweeping new restrictions on mail in balloting for november s crucial midterm elections the ruling is not the final word in a complex and rapidly escalating legal fight over the president s executive order that would bar the u s postal service from sending mail in ballots to voters not on lists of citizens created by federal agencies a separate case challenging the order has already reached the supreme court which for now cleared one legal hurdle that has blocked its implementation u s district judge indira talwani an obama administration nominee found the trump administration violated her earlier preliminary injunction blocking the executive order when it issued rules on how the postal service should implement it the rules were set to take effect wednesday in june talwani sided with the league of women voters and other voting rights groups challenging the order finding the president did not have the constitutional authority to alter how states administer elections after the new postal service rules were announced late friday the voting groups asked talwani to intervene the trump administration argued in court filings that it had not violated talwani s injunction because it stipulated it would not take any action to implement the rules for november s election unless talwani s order was lifted these arguments ignore the court s explicit directive not to initiat e or complet e rulemaking talwani wrote tuesday and defendants cannot contend that they misunderstood the scope of the court s order zolan kanno youngs at the new york times gift link trump s efforts to sow election doubts get boost from initial court order a preliminary order monday by the supreme court granting president trump the authority to move ahead with aspects of his plan to restrict mail in ballots is unlikely the final verdict on his efforts to overhaul the voting process but the emergency opinion did immediately help mr trump in one clear way people sort through ballots at a ballot processing center during a statewide special election in california last year whether the president ultimately wins or loses in the courts the latest ruling bolstered his longstanding efforts to seed doubt about the voting process voting rights advocates said a campaign that mr trump has ramped up ahead of midterm elections that could see significant gains for democrats the purpose is not for legal victory said michael mcnulty the senior policy director for issue one a nonpartisan group that tracks election issues the purpose is exactly to sow chaos to create fear and confusion and confuse voters and attempt to undermine confidence in the outcome the president s attempt to have the u s postal service determine whether voters can cast ballots by mail this fall will likely alarm and confuse the public as multiple court fights play out according to state officials tobias read oregon s democratic secretary of state noted that his state would in a matter of weeks be sending out ballots to overseas voters and members of the military now is not the time to make major changes to how elections are run in oregon mr read said at a news conference tuesday adding this election is effectively underway a bit more in march mr trump signed an executive order that sought to restrict who could vote by mail it called on the department of homeland security to compile state by state citizen lists to help determine voter eligibility and send that information to the states and instructed the postal service to verify which ballots could be mailed based on voter roll lists provided by the states the order has been challenged through multiple lawsuits filed by democratic state attorneys general and voting rights groups they have argued that the move amounts to a federal intrusion into the voting process which the constitution says is the domain of the states the plaintiffs have also said that the order could disenfranchise people who rely on voting by mail to participate in elections the president who has voted by mail himself has tried to restructure the leadership of the postal service by installing more politically aligned officials he has enlisted the nation s intelligence agencies the f b i the justice department and the department of homeland security in the broader mission of pursuing his election grievances critics say that his goal is to undermine the results of the november elections in case they result in democratic congressional majorities i m still confused now here is a judge s decision that i can understand and support raquel coronell uribe at nbc news judge strikes down texas ban on drag shows tells people offended by them just don t go a federal judge in texas struck down a 2023 state law tuesday that sought to restrict drag shows ruling it was unconstitutional u s district judge david hittner a reagan appointee said the measure known as texas senate bill 12 improperly restricted speech violating the first amendment of the constitution the ruling prevents state attorney general ken paxton who is running for the senate from enforcing the law and denies his motion for a new trial in the ruling hittner also had advice for those who find such activities as described in this case offensive the solution is relatively simple just don t go he wrote the state law would fine business owners who were found to be in violation up to 10 000 for hosting events while performers could be charged with a class a misdemeanor which could result in up to one year of jail time the statute which has been the source of a yearslong legal battle has made its way to hittner s courtroom before hittner first deemed it unconstitutional and a violation of the first amendment in 2023 but the 5th u s circuit court of appeals returned it to him in november lifting a pause on the law and giving him specific instructions about how to reassess it it went back into effect last year following the appeals court ruling trump lost his war in iran so he s compensating by waging war against canada it seems he s determined to completely wreck the u s economy and perhaps even the global economy with his trade wars absolutely no one likes what he s doing because it s completely insane liz dye at public notice trump shitposts fail to win support for canadian trade war donald trump spent the past week cozying up to north korea and attacking canada whatever claim the us had to be a beacon of free trade not to mention moral leadership has been demolished like the east wing of the white house and so it was probably inevitable the president would dig the prototypical failed economic policy of the 20th century out of history s dumpster and operationalize it against our closest ally smoot hawley tariffs are back baby sure aggressive levies cutting off trade as a means of stimulating domestic industry never worked for those people in fact it effectively crashed the global economy and turned a recession into the great depression but it may work for us it will not work for us but it may make us so roundly despised that it galvanizes other countries to reimagine the world order so as to cut out the one heretofore indispensable nation upon returning to office trump immediately took a sharpie to the most modern up to date and balanced trade agreement in the history of our country with the most advanced protections for workers ever developed also known as the usmca which he himself negotiated in 2018 as a replacement for nafta we don t need anything that canada has we don t need anything that mexico has but they need everything that we have he blustered in june we don t need their cars we don t need their lumber we don t need their energy we don t need anything that they have this is self evidently ridiculous canada supplies roughly 80 of the potash american farmers use as fertilizer midwest refineries are built to run on heavy canadian sour crude and the pipeline infrastructure simply doesn t exist to swap in lighter american produced oil from places like texas canadian hydropower fuels a significant share of the electricity supply in new york and new england and the auto and auto parts trade between the two countries already strained by trump s steel and aluminum tariffs is about as integrated as two countries economies get and yet trump negotiated as if canadians could never say no even as he demanded crippling concessions and lobbed humiliating insults at our stalwart ally trade talks were at an impasse after 18 months of threats and taunts about annexing our northern neighbor but in july the prospect of an additional 50 percent levy on a sprawling list of canadian goods forced canadians back to the negotiating table and last week with the major principles agreed trump congratulated both sides for striking a very fair deal read the rest at the link above jordain carney and mia mccarthy at politico republicans were already nervous about november then trump restarted his trade war republicans were already struggling to defuse simmering voter frustrations over the cost of living ahead of the midterms then president donald trump rekindled his trade wars trump s latest actions especially his decision to impose 50 percent tariffs on 20 billion worth of canadian goods inviting retaliatory duties from america s no 2 trading partner has sparked new pushback from gop lawmakers and candidates the canadian trade war could weigh on the reelection hopes of sen susan collins r maine she called the president s tariffs a mistake ap his moves are set to reverberate especially hard in a handful of states crucial to the party s hopes of keeping their senate majority that includes northern border states such as maine and michigan as well as agriculture heavy battlegrounds like iowa and north carolina that have been buffeted for more than a year by trump s embrace of hardball trade tactics we ve got 71 days and right now we don t have a positive message to tell farm country said retiring gop sen thom tillis whose north carolina seat is at risk of flipping into democrats hands in november trump s threat to impose tariffs on canada is creating tension tillis added and that the party that owns that tension is the party that will probably suffer the consequences in november even the president s latest bid to ease price pressures on americans has generated unease among republicans while he touted his decision last week to temporarily allow the duty free import of 300 000 metric tons of foreign beef as a win for consumers the announcement was met with little praise from gop lawmakers who instead worry the bigger political impact will be to alienate key constituencies in rural states hosting competitive house and senate races read the rest at politico that s it for me today i hope you all are doing well despite the insanity in washington dc did you like this post please share it with your friends share on facebook opens in new window facebook share on reddit opens in new window reddit share on pinterest opens in new window pinterest share on tumblr opens in new window tumblr share on mastodon opens in new window mastodon share on linkedin opens in new window linkedin email a link to a friend opens in new window email print opens in new window print share on x opens in new window x share on threads opens in new window threads share on bluesky opens in new window bluesky more share on whatsapp opens in new window whatsapp like loading totally tuesday reads shock and awe posted august 25 2026 author dakinikat filed under foreign affairs republican politics u s economy u s politics tags we are so fucked johnbuss bsky social john buss beef imports farm economy trumpernomics us v canada tariffs 19 comments trouble in paradise john buss repeat1968 good day sky dancers yes it s me today thankfully jj stepped in for me yesterday when a huge truck taking something out of the navy base project took down my entire cable line i was without it and was looking at student time during the first week of class at 5 p m so i called cox and was given a time for later on today after another class started up needless to say i was pretty panicked since cox was so unhelpful i went over to the construction site which was even more insulting as i was shown a map indicating that trucks were allowed on my avenue it was a truck route tell it to the city council which drew the maps needless to say these trucks are far bigger than what i ve ever seen coming and going the 25 years i ve lived here which includes when the navy base was open and military equipment for the shock and awe attack on iraq was being taken off the railroad line there and driven by trucks to the merchant marine ships waiting on the mississippi river to take them to the middle east so with two strikes out with big corporations i headed to my neighbor s house across the street to talk to the couple who live there luckily one of them works at home like i do and the other was at city hall working for the city council i m like good to see you but i really need your husband he called hubby immediately for me and explained my situation so guess what new orleans city hall worked i called my councilman s office and my neighbor contacted the regional cox bigwigs about three o clock a cox bucket truck pulled up with the most skilled technician i ve ever seen who got it done right before some severe weather kicked in all of the guys really went to work to help me while i m thinking that if i miss the first two days of a fall semester i ll never teach again so again jj came to my rescue while i spent the enter afternoon chasing all these folks down i did my thing and went to bed early it s nice to know my local government works when everything else is maga chaos so since i was raised in the beef state and the corn state and i m an economist with all degrees in agriculture states riddle me this how does importing more beef to this country help american ranchers and farmers who are in financial trouble right now and if every import is subject to tariffs how does this help households trumps been giving all the tariff revenue to big businesses and my guess is they don t pass the cash forward this keeps making me glad i m mostly doing finance things these days although it blows my mind that a sitting president and his family might get a bank just for having crypto which is a risky asset and not real money trying to teach econ during this regime is like reading fairy tales while trying to teach about data based reality so i m going to dive right in with the economic mess we re in and the policies making it worse he must be so secure in the idea that he can rig elections that he s not even concerned about his own base this is...