The one book somebody has seen him read is an anthology of Hitler's speeches:

Last April, perhaps in a surge of Czech nationalism, Ivana Trump told her lawyer Michael Kennedy that from time to time her husband reads a book of Hitler's collected speeches, My New Order, which he keeps in a cabinet by his bed. Kennedy now guards a copy of My New Order in a closet at his office, as if it were a grenade. Hitler's speeches, from his earliest days up through the Phony War of 1939, reveal his extraordinary ability as a master propagandist.

Most of them have a national ID that everybody gets, not the complex mix of IDs that the US has.

If we had that, and everybody had a national ID as a matter of routine, it wouldn't be a big deal. But we don't, because issuing one would be the mark of the beast or something.

What it has going for it is a nuclear block; when you block somebody, their trollish response no longer shows up in the feed of your followers, and your post no longer shows up in feed of their followers. This basically kills trolling as as sport.

The fact that on Mastodon & Lemmy "block" means "I can't see their posts, but they can still summon followers to harass" makes them much less attractive as a platform.

You're not the one facing the possibility that somebody will kidnap and torture and murder you, your kids, your spouse, etc. right now, with serious doubt as to whether law enforcement, neighbors, judges, and others will help them or take the side of the absuser.

It's on the cemetery worker to make that call for themselves, and I don't blame people who choose to run or hide instead of fight.

The NYT repeats the lie in the headline, but buries the truth down in the article. The result is that people see the lie, and not the truth.

Very few people encountering an article on social media actually read it; something like 2% do so much as click through.

This pattern basically guarantees that a huge numbers of people will have a false belief.

They're only making it quiet; the part that is going to place tens of thousands of people invested in the project into government if Trump is elected is still happening:

Another arm of the project, a personnel database of more than 20,000 applicants for potential political appointments should Trump be reelected, will remain in operation, people familiar with the matter said.

I don't believe any specific policy change which benefitted a broad swath of the public could have survived the current courts.

You can do more than that:

• Check your registration. Do it now. Do it few more times between now and November.
• Volunteer. There is nothing quite like talking to people.
• Donate. Campaigns run on money, and Trump has been raising more than Biden.

It's also worth paying attention to races further down the ballot; There are lists of close house and close senate races as well as a ton of competitive seats in state legislatures.

Companies have been allowed to treat pay as a business expense. Executive pay is pay, so they treat it as a cost of doing business.

It kind of makes the point that this is what they're doing even more explicit. The stuff they claim to care about? Not so much. Helping Putin? Definitely.

He didn't even go to a competent doctor for the Botox:

“[T]his expense was not reported to the FEC and was noted as ‘Botox’ in expense spreadsheets” turned over to investigators, it continues. The session took place at Mirza Aesthetics, a Manhattan medspa run by a doctor whose license was suspended in 2021 over breast and penile enhancements gone wrong.