pacino wrote:i would assume this would mean someone gets nominated by the Governor to replace him to finish out the term and would be an automatic yes vote for Kavanaugh.

CalvinBall wrote:McCain has passed away.

jerseyhoya wrote:I don't have a lot of nice things to say about Chuck Schumer, but him moving to have Russell renamed after McCain is honestly a pretty nice thing & it makes a good deal of sense.

Sounds like GWB and Obama will be eulogizing McCain. Let's see if the infant in the White House can make it a week without saying something awful.

The Dude wrote:I mean McCain would have been and a few aDems will be automatic yes votes on that

pacino wrote:oh ok:

The Democratic National Committee contacted the FBI on Tuesday after it detected what it believes was the beginning of a sophisticated attempt to hack into its voter database, a Democratic source tells CNN.

The DNC was alerted in the early hours of Tuesday morning by a cloud service provider and a security research firm that a fake login page had been created in an attempt to gather usernames and passwords that would allow access to the party's database, the source said.
The DNC and the two companies involved in detecting the operation say they believe they thwarted a potential attack.
The fraudulent page was designed to look like the access page Democratic Party officials and campaigns across the country use to log into a service called Votebuilder, which hosts the database, the source said, adding the DNC believed it was designed to trick people into handing over their login details.
The source said the DNC is investigating who may have been responsible for the attempted attack, but that it has no reason to believe its voter file was accessed or altered.

Early Tuesday morning, Microsoft announced that parts of an operation linked to Russian military intelligence targeting the US Senate and conservative think tanks that advocated for tougher policies against Russia were thwarted last week.
That disclosure, coming less than three months ahead of the 2018 midterms, demonstrated Russia's continued efforts to destabilize US institutions. The news also places additional pressure on President Donald Trump to take action, even though he downplayed Russia's involvement as recently as Monday.

But it was all a false alarm inadvertently tripped by the Michigan Democratic Party, which had been conducting its own cybersecurity test to see if its members fell for the phishing attempt. The DNC announced they would be crafting new rules for states wanting to run future cybersecurity exercises.

“It appears that the DNC wanted pretty badly to brag about their cyber security capabilities, but they kind of unnecessarily freaked a lot of people out and ended up with pie in their face,” said one source briefed on the incident.

State party officials were frustrated that the party unilaterally, and without notifying them, locked all voter file accounts that had been dormant for more than 90 days, meaning that some volunteers were unable to log in to knock on doors or phone bank. “For those of us who have been doing this a while, that is an unforced error that creates a lot of work for us on the ground,” said Stephen Handwerk, the executive director of the Louisiana Democratic Party who confronted DNC officials Thursday morning about keeping the state parties in the loop.

pacino wrote:Sessions nabs NINETEEN non-citizens who voted

guess the millions and millions are coming later?

pacino wrote:here's a second alt-right senate candidate:

Arizona Senate candidate Kelli Ward is defending her upcoming bus tour with, among others, far-right activist Mike Cernovich, a well-known provocateur associated with the "Pizzagate" conspiracy theory.

her husband is a conspiracy believer

"I don't really know what Mike Cernovich's views are," Ward said. "I know he's got an audience and we want to serve everyone."

she knows his views because her husband believes them, but i guess we're just supposed to believe candidates go on a bus tour with people we don't know anything about! no vetting

pacino wrote:

pacino wrote:here's a second alt-right senate candidate:

Arizona Senate candidate Kelli Ward is defending her upcoming bus tour with, among others, far-right activist Mike Cernovich, a well-known provocateur associated with the "Pizzagate" conspiracy theory.

her husband is a conspiracy believer

"I don't really know what Mike Cernovich's views are," Ward said. "I know he's got an audience and we want to serve everyone."

she knows his views because her husband believes them, but i guess we're just supposed to believe candidates go on a bus tour with people we don't know anything about! no vetting

lmao, she's a death truther: