Its a gift link, so shouldn’t be a paywall :)

3 points

This is the best summary I could come up with:


Right-wing activists have indulged in baseless speculation that Ms. Swift’s romance with the Kansas City Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce — a kind of ur-American couple of football star and wholesome pop icon — is a contrivance engineered by Democrats, or perhaps the National Football League, to trick unsuspecting Americans into boosting Super Bowl ratings or voting for Mr. Biden in November.

Swift flies on a private plane, “yet she constantly talks about climate change.” It was the sort of eco-scolding that rarely turns up on a cable network whose guests often voice skepticism about global warming.

Swift said that Mr. Soros’s son, Alex, helped fund the sale of her song catalog to the producer Scooter Braun.

Another “Hannity” guest, the Fox News contributor Charlie Hurt, told viewers not to dismiss the bizarre conspiracies about Ms.

“Republicans haven’t won the Popular Vote in 20 years so now we’re trying the novel strategy of attacking one of the most beloved pop stars on the planet & … the NFL,” Alyssa Farah Griffin, a former Trump administration official and a co-host of “The View,” wrote on X.

On Brian Kilmeade’s Saturday show, he asked the Fox Sports analyst Jay Glazer about the Swift phenomenon.


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21 points

well I wasn’t going to, but now that you mention it…

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83 points

Vote.gov is your place to sign up to vote.

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Make sure you’re actually registered, even if you think you already are. A lot of states have been “cleaning up” their voting registries .

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It’s a census year and you can be unregistered if you don’t respond in a timely fashion. wrong on all counts.

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It’s not a census year (only on the 10s in the US) and I’ve been involved in politics for more than three decades and the federal census has never been used to remove anyone from the voter rolls anywhere I’ve been. The personal data is not publicly available for 70 years except as anonymized, abstracted data.

EDIT: I did double-check myself and yeah, the Fed census has no impact on voter rolls. There are some places that do a city/town census - especially in Massachusetts - where you can be marked as “inactive” if you don’t complete a local census. You can still cast a ballot and are still on the rolls, but it will require some assertion that you still live in the same residence. But that’s a pretty limited edge case.

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Thanks. Checked a few days ago. I had been kicked off the roles 10+ years ago, never again.

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Uhg. can you imagine standing in line waiting to vote, with the swifties all having their favorite songs on blast from the phones?

never thought that would be a reason I’d appreciate vote-by-mail.

(I’m mostly kidding… but yeah. not having to stand in line and deal with…uh… people… is nice.)

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For people who hate being told what to do, they sure love telling people what to do.

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49 points

They love telling women what to do.

They hate women telling others what to do.

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