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@gastlione @historyrock_ Agreed: they’re completely different entities and styles. In addition, they could easily coexist on anyone’s TopXX list.

@historyrock_ Completely different styles. It's like comparing aplles and bananas. Stairway is an elaborated masterpiece. Gimme Shelter is raw best quality rock'n'roll.

Is Stairway to Heaven a better song than Gimme Shelter by The Rolling Stones?

Arizona's voter database has a problem. 590,529 duplicate registrations. A hidden algorithm running in all 15 counties. And the federal law designed to fix it made things worse. 🧵

@historyrock_ Funny how they left out the line from the lyrics where, “You make a grown man cry”.

In 1995, Bill Gates licensed The Rolling Stones' hit "Start Me Up" for an estimated $3 million to launch Windows 95, a landmark deal marking the first time the band allowed their music in a commercial. The partnership included a famous 1995 event where Gates and Steve Ballmer awkwardly danced to the song, highlighting the new "Start" button.

1/This is a table of voters named Meyers in Wisconsin. Same last name. Same address. Same registration date. Ten different ID numbers — ranging from 200 million to 1.1 billion. One person. Ten identities. In an official government database.

Every state in this table has duplicate voter records. In NY alone, there are 2.23 million records tied to cloned identities — meaning over 1.07 million unique names that appear multiple times in the rolls. After accounting for the legitimate original record in each group, that leaves roughly 1.15 million excess records. Not dozens. Thousands to millions across every state shown. Even the smallest numbers here would trigger a bank or insurance company to get shut down for sloppy data hygiene. Government regulated industries aren't allowed this level of duplication. Yet the systems that hand out ballots somehow are. 13 states • 3.38 million excess records No state is clean.

THE 2028 GATEKEEPERS: WHY THE 2026 MIDTERMS ARE THE ULTIMATE STANDOFF for ELECTION VALIDITY A massive new report dropped today, and it’s a wake-up call for anyone following the #ElectionValidity movement. In 23 states, candidates who have openly challenged the math of previous elections are now running for the very offices that will certify the 2028 Presidential Election. We aren't just talking about politics; we are talking about the custodians of the database. Critics are presenting this "Replacing the Refs" website as a warning, but for millions of Americans, it’s about a simple, hard-hitting question: Where is the proof? • The "Black Box" Problem: For years, election officials have asked us to "just trust" the results. But in a world of T-SQL, snapshots, and real-time data oscillations, "trust" isn't a technical requirement—transparency is. • The 23-State Firewall: These candidates are running for Governor, Secretary of State, and Attorney General. If they win in 2026, they hold the keys to the voter rolls and the certification stamps for 2028. Why the Pushback? The media labels this "divisive," but let’s look at the logic. Is it "divisive" to demand a clean Voter Roll? Is it "divisive" to ask why voter registration snapshots show unexplained "oscillations" between daily updates? The establishment argues against these "provable" results, yet they fight every effort—like the SAVE America Act—that would bake verification into the process from Day 1. You cannot have Election Validity without Auditability. If the results are truly "provable," then there should be no fear of: 1. Full Data Transparency: Open up the databases for independent forensic analysis. 2. Citizen Verification: Ensure every name on the roll is an eligible, living voter in the jurisdiction they are registered. 3. Strict Certification Standards: Stop treating certification as a "rubber stamp" and start treating it as a sworn technical audit. The "fire" of divisiveness isn't being stoked by those asking for receipts. It’s being fed by a system that refuses to show them. 2026 is the battlefield. 2028 is the payoff. It’s time to stop arguing about "feelings" and start demanding the DATA. electiondeniers.org This website is meant to be a warning about a supposed existential crisis – Instead it should be used as a guide to know who we SHOULD vote for if we are interested in Election Validity #ElectionValidity #SaveAmerica #TransparencyNow #DataDontLie #Midterms2026 #U4F

@edwardjohncraig @ProfMJCleveland To get into Metal from the 80’s you should probably start with the 70’s. Start with the first three Black Sabbath albums and go from there.

@ProfMJCleveland Um, spin AC/DC's album "Back in Black" or Metallica's "Ride the Lightning?"

Often in our middle-ages we look back at regret to our youth & alas I lived through the 80s without enjoying heavy metal or hockey. Trying to make amends now, so what do I need to know to follow the Stanley Cup playoffs?

I can look at a voter ID number in New York's database and tell you the record is purged — without looking at the status field. I can tell you it carries a registration date inconsistent with its algorithmic placement. I can tell you it is almost certainly a clone — a duplicate registration capable of functioning independently in the system. And I can tell you it was assigned a brand new state ID number despite being ineligible to vote at the moment that number was assigned. In a legitimate database, an ID number is administrative. It tells you nothing about status or authenticity. You check those things by looking at the relevant fields. Unless someone built the status into the numbers themselves. New York assigns voters two ID numbers: a County ID (CID) and a State Board of Elections ID (SBOEID). A collaborator — a programmer who has asked not to be named — flagged an unusual geometric pattern in Nassau County's ID structure and brought it to my attention before leaving the project. The analysis that follows is entirely my own. When I plotted Nassau County's out-of-range SBOEID numbers against their CIDs, I found something that has no business in a voter registration database. Geometry. Not scatter. Not noise. Overlapping rectangular bands ascending in a precise staircase formation, each block stepping up and to the right like shingles on a roof. I named it the Shingle algorithm. Real voter data does not produce geometry. When you see a pattern this clean in a dataset this large, you are no longer looking at registrations. You are looking at generation. Nassau County's Shingle section contains approximately 176,090 records in the 2021 database. Nassau is not unique. The Shingle algorithm appears in all of the counties that use the Metronome algorithm for their in-range records — Nassau, Erie, and Westchester — plus at least two others including Onondaga, for a statewide total of approximately 700,000 Shingle records. Nassau simply has the largest concentration and is where the pattern was first identified. Here is what all of these records have in common. Essentially 100% are purged. Not inactive — purged. Permanently removed from the rolls, ineligible to vote. And here is the critical point: every State Board of Elections ID number in this database was newly created when New York implemented the Help America Vote Act around June 2007. Before that, only county ID numbers existed. No one had a state ID. These were not legacy numbers carried over from a prior system. They were freshly assigned. Which means someone made a deliberate decision to assign brand new, algorithmically structured state IDs to records that were already purged — or were purged at the exact moment of assignment. I call them born purged. The Shingle records are not all of the pre-2007 purged records. They are a minority of them. That matters enormously. If the algorithm had simply swept up every old purged record, you might construct an administrative explanation. Instead it selected a specific subset, gave them a specific mathematical identity, and left the rest alone. That is not maintenance. That is classification. They carry pre-2007 registration dates — making them appear to be historical registrations predating the algorithm that assigned their IDs. They are the only out-of-range records with pre-2007 dates. Every other out-of-range record, across all algorithms, carries a post-2007 date. The inference that these dates are inconsistent with the records' actual origin is difficult to avoid. In the upper half of the CID range, nearly 100% are also clones — duplicate registrations with different ID numbers, each capable of operating independently in the system. A clone is not an administrative error. An error produces a duplicate with the same ID, which is immediately visible and non-functional. A clone has a different ID and can, in principle, vote. Their purge status, clone relationship, and algorithmic identity can all be read from their ID numbers alone — before you look at any other field. The Shingle records share ID space with a second algorithm I named the Tartan, which governs the majority of New York's out-of-range records. The two populations occupy the same numerical territory without overlapping. Whether that reflects deliberate coordination or simply the Tartan working around numbers that were already assigned, the result is the same: the Shingle records sit in a mathematically distinct space of their own, identifiable by algorithm alone. I don't know the operational purpose of these records. The data does not settle that question and I will not speculate beyond what it supports. What the data does establish: Nassau County's voter database contains approximately 176,090 records that were assigned fresh state ID numbers under a specific algorithm, carry purge status that appears to have been present from the moment of assignment, hold registration dates inconsistent with the algorithmic structure they occupy, and correlate heavily with clone status in the upper ID range. They represent a minority of all pre-2007 purged records, meaning they were specifically selected for this treatment. No legitimate database process produces this. No administrative explanation accounts for assigning new, structured state IDs to records that cannot vote. Which leaves one question the data cannot answer. Why would you assign a new state ID number — one embedded in a sophisticated, hidden algorithm — to a record that is already ineligible to vote? A record that should, by any normal administrative standard, have been deleted or left with its county ID and nothing more? That question has no innocent answer I have been able to find. It is a question someone with subpoena power should be directing at the people who built this system.

Validity Over Security: Why the MEGA Act Changes Everything The battle for the future of our elections reached a new flashpoint this past weekend. While the SAVE America Act has held the spotlight for its focus on citizenship, a much more comprehensive engine of reform is quietly gaining massive momentum: The MEGA Act. Last week’s House Administration Committee hearings signaled a strategic pivot. Chairman Bryan Steil and state leaders didn't just talk about registration; they began building the legislative record to overhaul the entire life-cycle of a ballot. If you are tracking the "oscillations" and "deadwood" in our voter data, the MEGA Act presents a solution. It moves beyond the surgical focus of the SAVE America Act to mandate a 30-day federal maintenance requirement, forcing states to synchronize with DHS databases every single month to ensure only valid, eligible voters remain on the rolls. Why the MEGA Act is the broader "Validity" engine: While both bills demand proof of citizenship, the MEGA Act addresses the systemic vulnerabilities that the SAVE America Act leaves open. It targets the "how" and the "when" of voting, not just the "who." The Critical Differences: • SAVE America is a laser-focused registration bill (Proof of Citizenship). MEGA is an "Omnibus" reform that dictates how elections are run on the ground. • The MEGA Act would officially ban Ranked-Choice Voting (RCV) for federal elections, protecting the "one person, one vote" standard. • It implements a federal ban on ballot harvesting and ends universal mail-in voting, moving the nation back to a "request-only" absentee system. • Unlike current loose standards, the MEGA Act mandates that all ballots must be received by the close of polls on Election Day - no more waiting weeks for postmarks to trickle in. • It requires auditable paper ballots nationwide, ensuring that electronic totals can be verified against a physical record. The SAVE America Act is the shield for our registration rolls, but the MEGA Act is the beginning of a blueprint for a valid, transparent, and timely election result. We are no longer just talking about security; we are finally talking about the fundamental validity of the American vote. #ElectionValidity #MEGAAct #SAVEAmericaAct #DataAnalysis #U4F

Police officers Zullo, Miller, Cari, and Spaulding were serving their small community of East Haven, Connecticut. After Obama was elected (and threw open our borders), illegal immigrants started flooding into town. These four officers discovered thousands of these illegal immigrants were using forged documents to obtain license plates, fake car insurance cards, and even fake driver’s licenses. So these officers did their jobs—enforcing the law and making hundreds of arrests. Every single person arrested for their involvement in this crime ring was an illegal immigrant — including dozens of suspects with rap sheets a mile long. So Obama’s DOJ showed up—not to thank these four officers for their hard work in breaking up this crime ring and getting dangerous criminals off the streets... ...the Obama DOJ accused them of racism and launched a political witch hunt, charging all four men with federal crimes for doing their jobs. Not only that, they launched a vicious smear campaign in the media, painting the officers as hateful monsters. They were sent to prison. They lost everything. Now they're telling their stories—and seeking justice: A pardon from President Trump.

DEMOCRATS BEING HONEST "Americans are too small-minded to govern their own affairs and must surrender their individual rights to the world order." Barack Obama "No ordinary American cares about constitutional rights." Joe Biden "This liberal will be all about socializing... about basically taking over and the government running all of your companies." Maxine Waters "If you have $20, and I have $1, then I have $21." Elizabeth Warren "We are not entitled to the fruits of our labor, we are only entitled to the labor itself." Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, 2018 "One day the American people will know their place, and they will stop thinking they deserve the same privileges as us." Dianne Feinstein "Poor kids are just as bright and just as talented as white kids." Joe Biden "We cannot allow people to pour into the United States undetected, undocumented, and unchecked. Americans are right to demand better border security." Barack Obama, 2006 "Candidates with deeply held Christian beliefs are unfit and disqualified from serving as a federal judge." Chuck Schumer "I will stand with the Muslims should the political winds shift in an ugly direction." Barack Obama, from his book Audacity of Hope "I think Sharia law will be a powerful new direction of freedom..." Hillary Clinton

@ekamurasi @ExcellentEdits @engineers_feed I don’t necessarily disagree. Except that it does serve to separate the original error from the subsequent error without the expense of the character count that might otherwise be required. Besides sounding a bit more literate and prone to its own error.

@leCoinBureau @ExcellentEdits @engineers_feed I'd add that you subtract the word "itself" from the sentence. It wasn't necessary.

The laws of the Internet: 1. Streisand effect. Any attempt to censor info on the web will lead to said info being widely spread. 2. Muphry’s law. If you leave a comment correcting someone, there will always be a mistake in it. 3. Cunningham’s law. The best way to get an answer to a question is to answer it wrongly yourself and wait for someone to correct you. 4. Armstrong’s law. The longer a conversation goes without mention of America, the more likely an American is to arbitrarily bring up the moon landing. 5. CAD’s theorem of topic culture. A smart is less likely to receive a reply than a stupid post because it leaves less to be said, but a really full and comprehensive post will bring the conversation to a halt. 6. Wadsworth’s content. The first 30% of any video contains no worthwhile information.

@ExcellentEdits @engineers_feed Thank you very much for your response. I’ve abused punctuation in the past so I decided to err on the side of caution if I was to err at all.

@leCoinBureau @engineers_feed No, the commas are not grammatically necessary in US English. But if you had included them around "inevitably," it would just have a different emphasis: will, inevitably, itself contain ...

@ExcellentEdits @engineers_feed OK, I see your point. I thought the ‘grammar’ part might set it apart enough to qualify on its own. BTW: While I have an Editor on the line: should I have used commas before, between, and after ‘inevitably’ and ‘itself’? Thank you.

@leCoinBureau @engineers_feed That's Muphry's Law.

@JonathanTurley When Melvin Udall (played by Jack Nicholson) is asked how he writes women so well, the character sarcastically replies, "I think of a man, and I take away reason and accountability".

...Instead of this forced and awkward artificiality, there are many stories with strong female characters. It elevates identity over the creativity or continuity of the work. Most kids go to sleep worried about monsters, not misogynists, under the bed. foxnews.com/media/gavin-ne…

California's "First Partner" Jennifer Siebel Newsom's lessons on parenting include "if I'm reading a book and the protagonist is a male, I just change the he to a she...I want them to see that women can be the center of a story, that women matter, that women are interesting"...

@marklevinshow Enough already. To paraphrase Sean Connery in The Untouchables: handle this the Chicago way. If one of their drones explodes in another country, you lose a bridge. If you launch a ballistic missile, you lose a power plant. Sink a tanker, lose a city.

In other words, if Iran continues firing missiles into Israeli cities via its surrogate Hezbollah, and the Israelis unilaterally agree not to defend themselves by attacking Hezbollah, Iran will allow ships to pass through the international waters of the Strait of Hormuz.   Suicide is not in Israel’s DNA.

President Trump called on the Supreme Court to study MY analysis of birthright citizenship. Thank you Mr. President! I’ve been making this argument for decades: the 14th Amendment was never intended to grant automatic citizenship based solely on location, but on allegiance to the United States. Now the media is twisting the story, avoiding the substance, and turning it into something it’s not. So I walk through the actual history—Civil Rights Act of 1866, the framers’ intent, and the meaning of “jurisdiction”—and explain why this debate is being misunderstood at every level. If the Court gets this wrong, it won’t be because the Constitution is unclear—it’ll be because it was ignored. This is about law, history, and the truth behind birthright citizenship. Watch the entire episode: Rumble: rumble.com/v78502g-ep021-… YouTube: youtu.be/UB37MMeItIM

All photographers: Make time to listen to Cliff Mainer’s, @CliffMautner, conversation with W. Scott Olsen on Frames Magazine’s, @Frames_mag, podcast.