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Brandi On Steroids is coming back. My Goofy Little Blog reached #5 Worldwide. This time I'm on my Column, on the Radio & on TV. Get ready World. I'm back.

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DataRepublican (small r)@DataRepublican·
Hello Representative Levin, I'd like to introduce you to an organization called the National Democratic Institute for International Affairs. NDI is one of the four core institutes of the National Endowment for Democracy, established by Congress in 1983. It is the Democratic Party's official international arm. Its board members include Stacey Abrams, Donna Brazile, and Michael McFaul. Its previous chair was Madeleine Albright, who served until her death in 2022. Also on the board: Eric Kessler, founder of Arabella Advisors, the largest dark money network in Democratic politics. NDI reported $181.5 million in revenue in fiscal year 2023, nearly all in government grants. NDI's mission, for four decades, has been to tell countries around the world how to run democratic elections. And what NDI consistently tells them, across dozens of countries, is that voter identification is a fundamental pillar of election integrity, and that proving citizenship is a basic prerequisite for participation. Here is what NDI has demanded of other countries: NDI's foundational guide, Building Confidence in the Voter Registration Process (2001), describes voter ID systems as standard democratic infrastructure. It states that voter registries should contain "voters' photographs and even their fingerprints" and that registered voters should be issued "a voter or other ID card that serves as proof of their right to vote." NDI explains that "issuing ID cards, either national or voting, requires a second point of contact between election officials and voters, which introduces an additional safeguard into the system." (pp. 10–11, 15) NDI's 2015 study of voter registration across the Middle East and North Africa goes further, laying out that voters must "prove their identity, essentially demonstrating that they are who they say they are" and must "affirm their citizenship and age." (p. 11) That same 2001 guide identifies married name changes as a routine voter roll maintenance challenge: "Election officials must update information about people who have moved or who have married and changed their surname." NDI also notes that voter lists "may omit information about changes of address or name for those eligible people who have recently moved or married." NDI's recommendation is not to eliminate voter ID. It is to maintain clean, continuously updated voter rolls that accommodate name changes within the system. In its 2009 Bangladesh report, NDI praised the country's new photo-voter list and national ID card system, noting that the ID cards gave "a sense of empowerment and belonging to the disadvantaged and marginalized people of the country, particularly women." Read that again. NDI itself called voter identification empowering for WOMEN! In every case, NDI's position was identical: marriage-related name changes are a solvable administrative problem. The solution is better record-keeping and updated systems. Not fewer safeguards. Not the elimination of voter ID. Your party's own international arm has already solved the problem you bring up. The answer is: maintain the rolls. Update the records. Issue the IDs. Accommodate name changes within the system, don't use them as a reason to have no system at all. The exact opposite of what you push here - refusing to clean voter rolls. By NDI’s own standards, by the standards of your own international soft power branch, YOUR position is the anti-feminist position. The SAVE America Act asks Americans to do less than what NDI demands of Nicaragua, less than what NDI praises in Morocco, and far less than the biometric fingerprint-and-facial-recognition system NDI supervised in Nigeria. Eighty-four percent of Americans support photo ID to vote. Two-thirds of Democrats support it. Jimmy Carter's own 2005 bipartisan commission recommended it. You voted no. Your party's international arm, funded with taxpayer money, chaired by your party's former Senate leader (Tom Daschle), staffed by your party's most prominent voting-rights advocate, says yes. For everyone else. NDI's guides are publicly available on their website. You might consider reading them before you spout mindless drivel to protect your own grift.
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DataRepublican (small r)@DataRepublican·
🧵 THREAD: Democrats TEACH voter identification and election integrity ... just not in America The Democratic Party has an international arm called the National Democratic Institute (NDI). It's funded by $181M/year in US tax dollars. Its board includes Stacey Abrams, Donna Brazile, and Tom Daschle. But in regards to today's SAVE America Act debate... did you know that the NDI has taught and supervised election processes all over the world? For 40 years, NDI has told every developing country on earth that voter ID is essential for election integrity. They've recommended biometric systems... yes, that's right, NDI recommended biometric systems, which goes way beyond SAVE America Act! They praised fingerprint verification. Tracked ID card issuance rates. Meanwhile, Democrats call the SAVE Act "Jim Crow 2.0." Same party. Same people. Opposite positions. As always, patience as I pull together the thread 👇
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Leanne@RblSports·
@vipintukur Perhaps the problem with "flatten the curve" is People were told Lockdown would last 15 days. Not 15 months or longer
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Vipin M. Vashishtha@vipintukur·
Several core truths about COVID-19 have been distorted over time due to fatigue, politics, and fading memory. ➡️ Early measures like lockdowns were meant to “flatten the curve,” not eliminate the virus, and did help prevent health system collapse. ➡️ COVID was far more severe initially than it is now perceived; current “mild” view reflects immunity from vaccines and prior infection. ➡️ Vaccines were highly effective against severe disease, but were initially overinterpreted as preventing infection, leading to later disillusionment. ➡️ Pandemic responses have been politicized, but early mitigation strategies had broad governmental backing. One-line insight 👉 The biggest COVID misconception today is not about the virus—but about how we remember it. washingtonpost.com/health/2026/03…
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Leanne@RblSports·
@PathogenScribe The original virus lived 6 weeks or more without a host. That made the masks carriers. I don't know the lifespan of Variants outside of a host. But our messaging doesn't just have to get better. It has to be timely & accurate or it becomes the source of disease spread
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@RblSports Our messaging at the time around masks and respirators was a mess, no doubt. Mine included. Bottom line: For any virus or bacteria you don’t want to catch or spread that “may” have an aerosol or airborne component… wear one in risky situations until we learn otherwise.
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Heather McSharry, PhD
Heather McSharry, PhD@PathogenScribe·
Not sure how something spreads? Wear a respirator. If it helps, great. If it doesn’t, you still avoided other pathogens along the way. There’s no downside to protecting yourself. People who are bothered by other people choosing to wear one are not worth giving any thought to.
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Leanne@RblSports·
So @potus of all the times to buckle to Democrats you chose leaving the World's Leading Supporter of Terrorism in place? Why not just tell them men can have babies and Teachers not Parents should raise the Children?
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Leanne@RblSports·
I like the Trump who is trying to clean up Government But I miss the Trump who wouldn't cut deals with Regimes trying to kill us and gave us Sub-$2 gas
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Leanne@RblSports·
Leftists love the idea of the Iranian Regime destroying Israel. Somehow they forget about that other thing. Bringing the World to the End Times by killing everyone who isn't a Believer in their Theocratic Islamic State
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Leanne@RblSports·
Like I was just saying, some bad ideas...like keeping a Radical Theocracy committed to bringing the World to the End Times in place...just refuse to die.
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Leanne@RblSports·
Sometimes things like that aren't even a Person so much as an idea that just refuses to die. Like Socialism. Some bad ideas just won't go away no matter how long the Histiry of failure & carnage Including a Radical Theocracy committed to bringing the World to the End Times
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Leanne@RblSports·
But I still can't say with certainty who keeps it propped up.
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Leanne@RblSports·
But I don't know who keeps the Iranian. regime propped up. And zi was right there from the very beginning It wouldn't take long to count the number of People ever inside the makeshift Response Center to the Embassy Takeover. I've been on this Regime as long as it's existed.
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Leanne@RblSports·
Some of them anyway
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Leanne@RblSports·
The upside is I not only know where the bodies are buried. I know where the shovels that buried them are buried too.
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Leanne@RblSports·
I'm not letting myself off the hook. I saw the Corruption and Corrupted Attitude 50 years ago. I didn't feed it but I didn't do anything to stop it. I'm not ever going to say better late than never. But I'm all in on cleaning up the entire Public Square & those in its orbit.
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Leanne@RblSports·
The DC Immune System has had over 200 years to build strength. It usually crushes or co-opts Reformers. But when it can't do either it plays 4 Corners Offense. Keeping the ball away from the Reformers until the clock runs out in their Term
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Leanne@RblSports·
@SharylAttkisson This is why Trump has been so hated by the Establishment They were convinced this is what he was going to do in his 1st Term. Root out Corruption and Fraud This time he put together a Team that's trying to. Will it be enough? Sorry, but I doubt it. DC outlasts Reformers
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