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Many, mostly Black, who were initially arrested by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’s new 'election police unit' have had their cases dismissed in court

Some lost jobs and are struggling to pay bills. Another calls voting "a trap" and is advising against ithttps://t.co/vkULQftH8R

— philip lewis (@Phil_Lewis_) May 2, 2023

Being too young is bad, too:

MAGA: Gen Z hates our guts so clearly the solution is to find ways to stop them from voting. https://t.co/RWZdj8tIlt

— Bradley P. Moss (@BradMossEsq) May 1, 2023

Just like the laws that prevent felons from voting. It’s not meant to be a deterrent to committing a felony. (How many white-collar felons do you know?)

Or maybe they just want to suppress reasoning:

Palin: It's very valuable information that Tucker and others have been able to provide us in terms of exposure of who these people are.. It's just like all the trans stuff. It’s just like that Bud light stuff that's going on… pic.twitter.com/BbritkSbmj

— Acyn (@Acyn) May 2, 2023

As Jamelle Bouie said, you really have to know what she’s talking about, to know what she’s talking about.

"So looking forward to seeing that. Really important for him to take voter questions. He is the frontrunner right now in the GOP." pic.twitter.com/f4pZJywu6R

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) May 2, 2023

I’m not as concerned with this “town hall” as I am with this framing. Voting in the GOP primaries won’t start until February, 2024. So how is Trump a “front runner,” except in polls? Maybe that’s an important distinction for donors who want to back the winner, but for a news network?

It’s funny how many different depictions they put this guy on. Depictions he never was and will never be. He’s afraid of the light going out and a bald eagle. STOLEN VALOR. HE NEVER SERVED. pic.twitter.com/iYUXrZhWUN

— Staff Sergeant Gonell, Aquilino (@SergeantAqGo) May 2, 2023

I’m not worried about AI taking over our minds with tendentious writing (that horse has left the barn; that barn is cold ashes. Tendentious writing, I mean.), anymore than I’m worried about the power of photoshop, which we are all so used to we just laugh when we see it. Now that photographs can be faked just like paintings (actually Stalin was doing it, so “now” is a bit of an anachronism), we just roll on rather than collapse into anarchy.

I do worry about the people dumb enough to be impressed by such ridiculous images. I wonder how they manage to dress themselves.