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President Donald Trump has pushed out the three remaining members of the Election Assistance Commission, leaving the bipartisan agency in limbo as he rushes to remake how elections are run before this year’s midterms.
Trump fired Benjamin Hovland and Thomas Hicks, the Democrats on the commission, multiple sources familiar with the matter told ProPublica, which was the first to report the actions on its social media accounts. Christy McCormick, the Republican, was allowed to resign, the sources said.
The commission’s unprecedented dismantling alarmed voter advocacy groups and Democratic state election officials, who called the move “reckless and irresponsible.”
“The EAC plays a critical role in supporting state and local election officials,” Cisco Aguilar, Nevada’s secretary of state and chair of the Democratic Association of Secretaries of State, said in a statement, “and it will again fall on Secretaries of State and other election administrators to fill the gap.”
A White House official wouldn’t confirm the specific actions taken but said in a statement to ProPublica that the president “reserves the right to remove individuals that may not be totally aligned with the important task of securing America’s elections and ensuring every legal vote is counted.”
“The Administration from the start has been working across all agencies and local partners to safeguard elections from fraud and abuse, and investing in a strong infrastructure to sustain that mission especially in the midterm elections,” the official said.
Hicks and McCormick did not immediately respond to requests for comment. Hovland declined to comment on his firing.
The commission was established in 2003 to set standards for state voting systems and to provide funding for upgrades.
Its four-member board is designed to be evenly split between Republicans and Democrats, all nominated by the president at the recommendation of congressional leadership and confirmed by the Senate. The fourth commissioner, Don Palmer, a Republican, resigned in April. By dismissing the commission’s remaining members, Trump can try to put forward replacements who may be more amenable to his demands.
In March 2025, Trump issued a sweeping executive order that directed the EAC to change the national voter registration form — which serves as the template for the forms in each state — to require proof of U.S. citizenship to register to vote. Currently, voters in almost all states attest to their citizenship under penalty of perjury, but they are not required to provide proof.
The Trump-aligned law firm America First Legal had petitioned the EAC to change the form. The EAC posted a notice seeking comments, receiving hundreds of thousands of them in response, but had not yet held a vote.
The Bipartisan Policy Center, a group that advocates on election issues, said the departures are a “significant loss for one of the federal government’s few institutions explicitly designed around bipartisan governance.”
The commission has been plagued by partisan infighting and ineffectiveness, as well as chronic vacancies and a lack of funding. It’s made some progress in recent years, however, passing new standards for voting machines and creating new resources and recommendations for election officials. Often, the commission’s decisions were unanimous despite its partisan split.
The post Trump Pushes Out Remaining Members of Bipartisan Election Commission Ahead of Midterms appeared first on ProPublica.
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mashfanficchick's.mashfanficchick researched the CD that he wants replaced. ysabetwordsmith
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Well, maybe not all of them are your favorite songs, but an awful lot of straightforward songs that profess love or tell stories have origins and inspirations that might surprise you. In an obvious reaction to the Doc Pomus story from a couple of weeks ago, we get a trivia list about where those song ideas came from. It may have been a simple cultural or language difference that gave the song an entirely different meaning, like "...Baby One More Time," the song that put Britney Spears on the map. Or it may have been inspired by a person, and good luck figuring out who.
And there are some that were honestly pretty easy to figure out, llike "Sweet Caroline." But only if you were around at the time. Or if you were like me and made a living off of music trivia.
Read about 28 songs and where the ideas for them came from in a pictofacts list at Cracked.
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tamalinn's house so she could get a new front door lock. i zoomed with the family unit and pet the dog and mostly it got me out of the house.hannah
shadowkat101cookbooks_feedThese iced sesame noodles have become my summertime bestie. Is it hot out? If so, there’s a good chance this is going to be on the table. I’m here to share the details before we run out of summer. Imagine a rotating cast of long, slurp-able noodles (soba, pici, somen, spaghetti, etc.) tangling with a creamy sesame sauce, topped with 4-5 easy toppings. That’s the basic formula. The noodles are served family-style in a large bowl of ice water. Everyone mixes up their own individual, custom portions. So good, so fun. Definitely a Japanese-inspired concept, dovetailing, in our house, with whatever is popping up at California farmers’ markets. I encourage you to incorporate whatever your family loves and the ingredients shining at your local markets.
Aside from boiling the noodles, nearly everything else here can be prepared ahead of time. It’s part of what’s great about this and what makes it a weeknight-friendly meal. I like to toss some chopped veggies (whatever is on hand – broccoli, asparagus, etc.) in the pasta water after the noodles come out, keeping the cooking to a single pot. To summarize, here are the main components of the meal:
I’ve done fantastic versions of this meal with all of the following. Think long and slurp-able on the noodle front. I also check my noodle labels to make sure they’re not wildly salted, to be honest, I’ve been caught off guard on a number of occasions.
Choose 4-5 different toppings. I feel like grated ginger is a non-negotiable here. So good. And I leave any spicy component out of the base sesame sauce so that each person can light up their bowls with whatever level of spicy they can handle.
And as we move into later summer and early fall, and the weather is still hot enough for cold noodles, but the seasonal ingredients are shifting, here are a few other ideas:
Broccoli florets, asparagus tops, green beans, yellow beans, corn – these are just a few of the vegetables I’ve cooked in a flash after cooking the noodles for the bowls. Boil for a mint or so, strain under cold water and serve on the side. Everyone loves to work the vegetables into their noodle bowls as well.
Continue reading Iced Sesame Noodles on 101 Cookbooks
phys_breaking_feedmurderbot_ao3_feedby Anonymous
ART comes up with new and inventive way to get Secunit out of a mental health spiral. And if it looks a little like sex, then that must be just a coincidence.
Words: 2046, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English
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The post A New Species of Pit Viper Emerges in the Himalayas appeared first on Nautilus.
chazzbannerao3_theowlhouse_rss_feedGus and Mattholomule go on a date to the carnival, Mattholomule rides a tough looking ride to look cool, but it backfires.
Words: 631, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English
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who survived thanks to Omni-Mark) into the wasteland dimension, but instead get sent into multiple worlds very different from their own dimensions, now stuck in these universes, these marks are left, lost, alone and not familar with these worlds and must navigate these worlds while even to their surprise find redemption from these universes heroes and helping their fight against their villians and the many
dangers they must face.
or form aliances with these worlds villains to rule or destroy these different worlds destroying, crushing or just killing anyone
in their way, but that alone is up to them to decide, redeem themselves and push through their experiences that caused them
to become fallen heroes or just down right evil to begin with...it's their choice.
Words: 1642, Chapters: 1/?, Language: English
mentalfloss_feedrebeccmeisterphys_breaking_feedranunculusmurderbot_ao3_feedby Anonymous
ART and Murderbot try out an ancient human recreational activity-- AKA "The Cinnamon Challenge."
for mutual rapport 2026!
Words: 0, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English
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In a moment of anger, Murderbot punches one of ART's walls and immediately regrets it. ART and Mensah try to ease it out of the resulting spiral.
Words: 4214, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English
murderbot_ao3_feedby Anonymous
Fanart for the prompt where MB is sent as a sacrifice by the villagers to an n eldritch being which happens to be ART. Bonding happens.
Words: 0, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English
murderbot_ao3_feedby Anonymous
Look, it's not exactly easy to steal a shitton of money from a casino corporation.
They're paranoid as fuck, for starters, almost as paranoid as the company. As a general rule, you don't get nearly that rich by being anything short of obsessively protective of your ill-gotten gains. You're in the business of giving out hard currency to winners; you'd better be fucking sure that no one's hacking anything in your systems. Also, obviously, you have to have a plan for the thousands of rival corporations hoping for/plotting your downfall.
Basically, what I'm saying is that ART's idea of a relaxing vacation for its very first shore leave (yes, it had been a whole thing. For some reason Tarik had started it, and Pin-Lee and Mensah had gotten involved) was inadvisable from the start.
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Or, Murderbot and ART go on a fun Vegas vacation.
Words: 9487, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English
murderbot_ao3_feedby Anonymous
for a more general prompt: scent kink
if you love enabling perverts: pit sniffing and/or licking. please
can be human au, can be canon and they're both being weird about each other's inorganic
scents, anything. just get nasty with it puh leasee!! thx
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this isn't 10 hours of asmr its ARTdrone licking secunit's sweaty armpit <3
Words: 22, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English
murderbot_ao3_feedby Anonymous
ATTN: Capitan Seth and Perihelion Crew,
The Crew of the Perihelion is officially informed that the Pansystem University of Mihira and New Tideland's Annual Comp-Sci and Intelligent Design Fundraising Gala will be coinciding with your next registered shore leave. As per Administrations advice, it is recommended that crew holding senior positions make it a priority to attend as a representative of your department. Any other available crew is advised to also attend.
This year's guest list has already been mostly confirmed and it would be in good taste to respond with your crews attendance list promptly.
If unforeseen circumstance do occur that the Crew of the Perihelion is unable to dock on time, written notice would be appreciated.
Venue information and Dress code regulations are attached in the files below.
Safe Travels-
Dr. T. Reese,
PSUMNT MI Department Coordinator
SecUnit has to go to a gala for PSUMNT as a representative for the Perihelion. That means fancy outfits, being nice to people who haven't seen a SecUnit before, and maybe, sharing a dance, maybe.
Words: 6224, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English
murderbot_ao3_feedby Anonymous
«You feel unsettled,» ART said. Then, because it was an asshole, it followed that up with, «You also have eleven missed calls and twenty-two missed messages from your colleagues. I’ve informed them all that you needed a break from the talks and will be rejoining them tomorrow.»
“You don’t know that,” I told it. “Maybe I’ll get sick of sitting out here with you and go back to the meeting room.”
«You’re welcome to tell them that yourself.» ART was radiating a warm affection that made it hard to keep being annoyed with its presumptuousness. «I’ve also messaged Ayda that you’ll be joining her for dinner tonight.»
“Has anyone ever told you that you’re too nosy for your own good?”
Its affection turned distinctly lofty. «You should be grateful that I’ve decided to help you manage your life, you little shit.»
The war against the kaiju might be drawing to an end. A jaeger pilot discusses a nebulous future with its drift partner.
Words: 2256, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English
Series: Part 1 of Pacific Rim AU
murderbot_ao3_feedby Anonymous
I had installed the mental health module but hadn’t toggled it on yet. Which is why I was now in my cabin arguing with a bossy machine super-intelligence over how many emotions I might be capable of having.
I had completed a total of one part of one step in the trauma recovery process and didn’t want to continue. Ever since we got the hell out of that system where ART got deleted and I thought it was dead, and I got contaminated and 2.0 sacrificed itself –
SecUnit.
I didn’t really want to revisit all that.
SecUnit, ART said more forcefully. Your stats are dropping.
Right. Get it together, Murderbot. It was probably too late to throw myself out the airlock.
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For prompt 175: ART helps SecUnit navigate labeling its emotions for the Emotion Check module.
Words: 3772, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English
murderbot_ao3_feedby Anonymous
5 times SecUnit and ART had complicated feelings about their soulmarks, and 1 time they talked it out.
Words: 1255, Chapters: 1/6, Language: English
murderbot_ao3_feedby Anonymous
The coffee machine was fucking haunted. Or something. I wasn’t sure what else it could’ve been—I didn’t even really believe haunting was possible, but what the fuck did I know? Maybe those supernatural serials were more true than I thought.
I made the rational choice and unplugged the machine.
° ° °
The little shit unplugged your coffee machine.
Coffee shop au that is 90% jokes and 10% lore.
Words: 2974, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English
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