George Clooney, via Vote Common Good, gives us the bro version of their recent ad featuring Julia Roberts reminding women that the secret ballot means that women don’t have to vote like their husbands tell them to.

Whether either ad will persuade large numbers of people is probably besides the point: it’s a game of…

I voted via dropbox and it seems Miami-Dade elections accepted my ballot:
“Ballot 1” huh?  Does that mean I can have more please?
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Looks familiar somehow
Some guy named David B. Froomkin has a nice piece up at the Regulatory Review arguing that the Constitution’s Vesting Clause is not a broad grant of presidential power. It begins:
The Vesting thesis is back in the news.
Aditya Bamzai and Saikrishna Prakash recently published an article in which they returned…

(I cancelled my subscription today.)
‘Washington Post’ won’t endorse in White House race for first time since 1980s — even though they editorialized that Trump is unfit to be President, and their news columns (frequently, if not frequently enough) make it obvious.
It’s not hard to imagine why owner Jeff Bezos did this: fear…

Via TPM, a link to this 2018(!) video by Yale philosophy professor Jason Stanley on whether Trump is a fascist:

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NYT, For Trump, a Lifetime of Scandals Heads Toward a Moment of Judgment

Sometimes lost amid all the shouting of a high-octane campaign heading into its final couple of weeks is that simple if mind-bending fact. America for the first time in its history may send a criminal to the Oval Office and entrust him…

This is a critical election.  You really should vote, and soon. Early voting has begun, so why wait.
Here’s a crib sheet with some suggestions about the downballot, plus links to the posts that explain them.
County Offices
Clerk of Court: Annette Taddeo (Line 71)
Sheriff: James Reys (Line 73)
Property Appraiser: Marisol Zenteno (Line…