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Cake day: November 24th, 2023

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  • So, the person who’ll decide whether that voting-machine report ever sees daylight, and what gets done with the weaknesses it describes, is now the president’s hand-picked election man, a guy who at Housing was willing to violate the standards of his office and common decency to dig into Letitia James’ and Adam Schiff’s mortgage records just to make Trump happy that he could then punish them with lawfare.

    Back in February, the Guardian’s George Chidi walked through how this could unfold.

    After the FBI raided Fulton County’s election office and hauled off 2020 materials, Trump went on Dan Bongino’s podcast and announced that Republicans should “nationalize the voting” and “take over” elections in 15 places.

    That same week, we learned Gabbard had quietly trucked voting machines out of Puerto Rico to hunt for vulnerabilities. Set those moves next to each other, as the Campaign Legal Center’s Bruce Spiva did, and the pattern becomes shockingly clear.

    “This is not a coincidence,” he said.






  • Sudan didn’t say no.

    The debt relief comes at a critical time for Sudan, where a prolonged civil war has devastated the economy. United Nations data shows the conflict has set the country’s development back by 30 years, wiping out $6.4 billion from its gross domestic product in 2023 alone and pushing 7 million people into extreme poverty.

    Ibrahim praised Beijing for its historic economic backing, noting that China invested heavily in Sudan’s oil sector at a time when Western nations restricted investments. He emphasized Sudan’s potential to serve as a strategic gateway for wider Chinese commercial expansion into Africa.