"Voting is a chess move, not a Valentine." - Rebecca Solnit
The images below are AI-generated “deep fakes”. These are photographs, but deep fake videos are also being made. We will undoubtedly be seeing more and more disinformation via this route. The moral is: don’t believe any media product unless you know where it came from and trust the source. Or as your mother might have told you, “Don’t put that in your head; you don’t know where it’s been.”
I have been surprised in recent conversations how many people are unaware of Project 2025. One thing that saved us from even worse consequences of President Donald Trump (I know that’s a brain-stretcher) was his general incompetence and disinterest in doing anything that involved actual work. The Right has realized this and wants to “hit the ground running” if Trump is elected again. To quote Wikipedia, Project 2025 is (bolding is mine)
a plan to reshape the Executive Branch of the U.S. federal government in the event of a Republican victory in the 2024 United States presidential election. Established in 2022, the project seeks to recruit thousands to come to Washington, D.C., to replace existing employees to restructure the Executive Branch of the federal government as to further the agenda and policies of Donald Trump. The plan would perform a quick takeover of the entire U.S. federal government under a maximalist version of the unitary executive theory – a theory proposing the president of the United States have absolute power of the executive branch – upon inauguration.
This is terrifying, and while it’s exhausting to think of each succeeding general election as “existential,” it’s accurate. We are genuinely tasked with rescuing our democracy; there might be no “next time” to do better.
In his October newsletter, Illinois Treasurer Michael Freirichs describes the new Illinois Secure Choice retirement savings program
Workers are 15 times more likely to save for retirement if they can do so through payroll deductions, according to an AARP study. And there’s a need to save—23 percent of retirees rely upon Social Security for 90 percent of their retirement income.
The enrollment deadline is Nov. 1. Please see the Illinois Secure Choice page at illinoistreasurer.gov/Individuals/Secure_Choice for more information.
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