Today, election day, is a new beginning. We can do better. Better national discourse. Better self-government. Better, fairer policies. Vote.

There are competitors, but at this level, who cares? They're all awe-inspiring. Below: Giovanni Strazza's Bust Of The Virgin Mary beside Michelangelo's David.

Cost of living - from when Republicans took over in Jan 2025 to today Gas: $3.10 🔺 $4.17 Diesel: $3.66 🔺 $6.29 Coffee: $7.02 🔺 $9.33 Burgers: $5.55/lb 🔺 $6.79 ACA health premiums: $888/mo 🔺 $1,904/mo Do the math. Vote accordingly.

Milton Coleman, a pioneering editor at The Washington Post who broke racial barriers and helped shape generations of journalists, has died. He was 79. Coleman was the first Black journalist named to the paper's masthead and rose to become its highest-ranking Black editor. He oversaw the Post's local news coverage, mentored generations of journalists and championed efforts to make newsrooms more representative of the communities they cover.

Nothing like greedy billionaire Republican Congressmen to make people rethink traditional choices.

RT @BudKennedy: After Tarrant County shut down 92 polling places, the county's most conservative voters are the ones facing the longest wai…

Trump's Justice Department announced it is sending about 1,000 "election monitors" to polling places in all 50 states huffpost.com/entry/election-…

Did no one do a trial run of the new ballots?

🚨 BREAKING: Westchester County election officials have confirmed the cause of widespread voting machine problems across the county this morning: paper ballots are too thick for the machines to accept. @News12WC

Justice Dept releases list of where it is sending 1,000 election monitors Many, many, many are heavily Democratic districts: Alabama •Jefferson •Montgomery •Mobile Alaska •Anchorage •Dillingham •Kusilvak Arizona •Maricopa •Pima •Apache •Navajo Arkansas •Pulaski •Washington California •Los Angeles •Alameda •Sacramento •San Diego Colorado •Adams Connecticut •New Haven Delaware •New Castle Florida •Leon •Hillsborough •Miami Dade •Broward •Palm Beach Georgia •Cobb •DeKalb •Fulton •Gwinnett •Chatham •Bibb Hawaii •Honolulu Idaho •Ada Illinois •Chicago •Cook •Champaign •Sangamon •St. Clair •Madison Indiana •Lake •Marion Iowa •Linn •Polk Kansas •Johnson •Wyandotte •Sedgwick Kentucky •Fayette •Jefferson Louisiana •Orleans •East Baton Rouge •Lafayette Maine •Lewiston •Portland •South Portland Maryland •Prince Georges Massachusetts •Lowell •Boston Michigan •Lansing •E. Lansing •Grand Rapids •Flint •Detroit •Hamtramck •Warren •Dearborn Minnesota •Minneapolis •Hennepin •Ramsey Mississippi •Lafayette •Hinds Missouri •St. Louis •Jackson •Clay Montana •Yellowstone Nebraska •Douglas Nevada •Clark New Hampshire •Manchester •Nashua New Jersey •Middlesex •Bergen •Union New Mexico •Bernalillo New York •New York •Westchester •Kings •Albany •Erie North Carolina •Alamance •Mecklenburg •Wake North Dakota •Cass Ohio •Cuyahoga •Franklin •Medina Oklahoma •Muskogee •Tulsa •Oklahoma Oregon •Multnomah Pennsylvania •Philadelphia •Allegheny •Luzerne •Lehigh Rhode Island •Pawtucket South Carolina •Charleston South Dakota •Minnehaha Tennessee •Davidson •Knox •Shelby Texas •Bexar •Dallas •Harris •Waller •Blanco •Bowie •Nueces Utah •Salt Lake Vermont •Burlington Virginia •Charlottesville •Fairfax •Prince William •Virginia Beach Washington •King •Yakima West Virginia •Kanawha Wisconsin •Madison •Milwaukee Wyoming •Laramie County

Interesting. Trump *denied* emergency rescue funds to states that voted Democratic. politico.com/news/2026/07/08… However, he's pledgeing $5,000 each to 270 million adult Americans, including Democrats as a bribe to re-elect the Republican Congress. That's $1⅓ trillion dollars.

Bob Dole would endorse Hamilton.

Woman voter to @GayleKing on @CBSMornings: Gayle: “Do you think politics when you buy groceries or gas?” Woman voter: “Every time. Every time.”

Federal Cybersecurity Agency Abandons Briefings on Election Threats

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In 1964, a tuxedo cat named Bootsie Mitten was sent to the Harvard Club of New York because he just didn't fit in with suburban life in Connecticut. At the club, he lounged in leather chairs and enjoyed crabmeat from the kitchen. Within his first 18 days, he caught 5 mice in the bar. Bootsie stayed there for 13 years.

Politicians in Washington tried for decades to retire the A-10 Warthog attack jet, calling it too slow and outdated. Then U.S. Air Force Captain Kim Campbell flew hers home from Baghdad with zero hydraulics, one damaged engine, and over one hundred and fifty shrapnel holes in the tail. On April 7, 2003, American ground troops were pinned down under heavy fire in the middle of Baghdad. Twenty-seven-year-old Captain Campbell dove through thick clouds to deliver close air support with her thirty-millimeter cannon. As she pulled up after saving the troops on the ground, an Iraqi surface-to-air missile exploded directly against the rear of her aircraft. The blast severed both of her redundant hydraulic lines at the same time, punched a football-sized hole through the right tail stabilizer, and damaged her right jet engine. Instantly, the flight stick went dead. The nose of the aircraft rolled violently toward the streets of Baghdad below. Why did she not pull the ejection handle? Because ejecting over central Baghdad meant parachuting straight into the hands of hostile militia, and forcing dozens of American soldiers to risk their lives in an urban ambush just to rescue her. Sitting inside the A-10's twelve-hundred-pound titanium armor tub, Campbell flipped a single emergency switch on her console called Manual Reversion. That switch locked the flight stick directly to physical steel cables, pulleys, and cranks running through the wings. Flying an A-10 on steel cables is like steering a heavy dump truck with no power steering at three hundred miles per hour. For one full hour across three hundred miles of hostile sky, Campbell hauled the heavy stick with both hands using sheer muscle power. The hardest part was landing. Without hydraulics, she had no wing flaps to slow down, no speed brakes, and no nose-wheel steering. If she touched down and the tires blew, the jet would cartwheel in flames. She brought the crippled Warthog down onto the runway at nearly two hundred miles per hour, fighting the rudder pedals with her legs until the battered aircraft rolled to a stop. When her crew chief climbed the ladder and saw hundreds of holes in the aluminum skin, he could only shake his head in disbelief. Never mock old American steel, and never bet against the pilot sitting inside it.

“The value in a life is not in how long a life it. It’s on what that life was spent doing.” Please watch @AbdulElSayed tear up while talking about our beloved (and FWIW Jewish & Israeli-American) friend Ady Barkan, who died three years ago yesterday. Amidst all the noise: support people who exude humanity & dignity.