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Theres not a lot of exciting news today, and Ive been sitting here in a daze trying to decide what to focus on. Dakinikat did a great job dealing with Trumps idiotic speech on election tampering, but there are a few interesting follow-up articles. The Iran bombing has been back on for a week, along with Irans attacks on U.S. bases in the region. Then Im going address Pete Hegseths plan to push testosterone shots for the troops. It turns out theres a bizarre right-wing obsession with T levels in men.
Responses to Trumps election interference speech
Michael Gold, Carl Hulse, Reid J. Epstein, and Erik Wemple at The New York Times:
As President Trump wrapped up a prime-time address in which he rattled off ominous and at times outlandish assertions about U.S. election vulnerabilities, he repeated his demand that Congress pass strict voting restrictions that have been stalled in the Senate.
That plea, which Mr. Trump implied was the reason behind the Thursday night speech, appeared to have landed with a whimper among Republicans on Capitol Hill and in campaigns around the country. Most had little to say in its aftermath about an issue the president called among the most urgent facing the nation.
Democrats immediately seized on Mr. Trumps address with a frenzy of talking points to accuse him of trying to undermine the upcoming midterm elections. But the speech drew a muted response from members of the presidents party. He has spent months trying to pressure them into action on the election overhaul measure, which would .
Though Mr. Trumps most devoted loyalists in Congress quickly repeated his call to pass the bill known as the SAVE America Act demands they have been making for months most other Republicans stayed quiet, and at least one skeptic indicated that the speech had not moved the needle.
If it was meant to influence people like me, it didnt get me there, Senator Lisa Murkowski, an Alaska Republican who has publicly opposed the measure, said in an interview on Friday. What we heard last night was there are foreign interests trying to influence us, but they werent effective at basically hacking into our system. I dont think there was much last night that would change views on whether we should pass the SAVE Act.
Broadly, it was not clear that Mr. Trumps message was resonating beyond the far right of the Republican Party that has long unquestioningly echoed his baseless and unfounded claims of widespread voter fraud.
Republicans on the campaign trail did not seize on Mr. Trumps remarks, instead focusing on issues they perceived to be of greater import. And conservative media outlets found other stories as compelling, if not more so, as .
On Friday morning, Fox & Friends, the program that is usually a megaphone for Mr. Trumps messages, shunted aside the speech. Instead, the hosts opened the three-hour show by highlighting the war in Iran, the wildfire smoke coming from Canada, flooding in Texas and the latest on the cyclospora parasite.
Fox already had to pay millions to voting machine companies because of their coverage of Trumps false claims. They probably want to avoid that happening again. A bit more from the article:
Re-litigating 2020 is a mistake, said Representative Don Bacon, a retiring moderate Republican from Nebraska. Its a losing issue, and most people that are reasonable and arent so clouded by partisanship know its baloney.
The lack of enthusiasm highlighted just how entrenched the political debate over Mr. Trumps claims about election integrity have become, and how unwilling a Republican-controlled Congress has been to heed his command to act on them.
Mr. Trump has made baseless assertions of election fraud for years, largely pointing to the same set of concerns. But with no new evidence to support his claims, lawmakers have had little incentive to change their positions. That continued to be true after a speech that included a slew of claims, , about potential vulnerabilities to foreign election meddling that the SAVE America Act would not address.
Even Mr. Trumps staunchest right-wing supporters, who have spent years sifting through documents and interrogating debunked claims about stolen elections, acknowledged that Mr. Trumps speech on Thursday pulled from familiar refrains.
Is this new information questioned Laura Loomer, a far-right activist and sometime adviser to Mr. Trump, in a post on X about 10 minutes into the presidents speech. (She then used Mr. Trumps remarks to retread familiar territory, particularly warnings about Chinas influence that she has been issuing for years.)
Maggie Miller at Politico:
Election officials are warning that President Donald Trumps assertion that Americas voting machines arent safe is far more dangerous than the vulnerabilities he highlighted in his Thursday night address.
Flaws in electronic voting machines have been well-documented for more than a decade by researchers, and states have poured money into bolstering security. Still, none have ever been exploited by malicious actors to successfully change the outcome of an election.
Now officials are worried that Trumps latest comments when he claimed that Americans were blatantly lied to about the security of our election infrastructure, including the security of electronic voting machines could undermine the electorates fundamental faith in voting. Without confidence in the system, the entire process could be called into question, as voters choose not to cast ballots or refuse to accept election results.
Theres nothing wrong with pointing out vulnerabilities and therefore doing audits or therefore upgrading to a more modern system that uses a paper record, said Gowri Ramachandran, director of elections and security at the Brennan Center for Justices Elections and Government Program. Whats wrong is trying to use those vulnerabilities to spread distrust in elections.
Colorados Democratic Secretary of State Jena Griswold stressed during a Center for American Progress event Friday that nothing the president said was groundbreaking, new or actually a vulnerability that has been exploited or is not being addressed.
There is no evidence that foreign or domestic hackers have ever exploited electronic voting machines to change votes or impact the outcome of an election. Investigators did find that Russian hackers of a few U.S. states ahead of the 2016 elections, but they never changed any votes. To date, thats the most intensive hacking effort documented by federal authorities involving U.S. elections.
Jill Colvin and Eric Tucker at AP:
President Donald Trump released a trove of documents during a that allies had hyped as a smoking gun that would prove his long-debunked allegations of mass voter fraud.
Speaking from the White House on Thursday night, he described shocking revelations, like Chinese meddling to undermine his failed candidacy in 2020 and a cover-up by the deep state. He claimed, Americans were blatantly lied to about the security of our election infrastructure.
But a review by The Associated Press found no such confirmation in the collection of newly declassified reports, investigation files, intelligence analysis and assorted correspondence. Many pages are so heavily redacted that their findings are unclear. Others outline vulnerabilities and assessments that have been well-documented for years. Theres no evidence that China or any other foreign entity manipulated the vote in 2020 or any other year.
The White House promised a bombshell, and they delivered a dud, said David Becker, executive director of the Center for Election Innovation & Research, who attended a White House briefing on the material ahead of the speech. Despite what appeared to be a concerted effort by administration officials, there was absolutely nothing here that was news, nothing here that even calls into question past elections and certainly not the 2020 election.
Heres a look at what the documents say.
China has our data. Lots of it
Starting during the 2020 election cycle, the Peoples Republic of China carried out what is believed to be the largest compromise of election data in history, resulting in Chinas illicit acquisition of 220 million U.S. voter files, Trump said Thursday night.
There is no evidence, however, that China actually used that information in any way.
Noncitizens may or may not be more common on voter rolls
In his remarks, Trump touted the release of a new Department of Homeland Security investigation, based on state voter rolls and public records, that he said had identified approximately 278,000 noncitizens registered to vote in federal elections.
The report said the agency uncovered more than a quarter of a million noncitizens illegally registered to vote in California, Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Nevada, based on public records, which are often erroneous or incomplete. Another 28,000 noncitizens, it claimed, were found on voter rolls in 25 states using the new Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements system.
There is no allegation, however, that any of those people actually voted, which would be a crime.
Documents detail Russias election efforts
Trump has spent years criticizing the intelligence communitys assessment that Russia meddled in the 2016 election to help him win. But the documents shed new light on the countrys ongoing efforts.
One declassified document from 2020 portrays Russia as the country that has tried the most to penetrate American election systems but in an effort to defeat Joe Biden. It notes how Russia worked to amplify claims that Biden, while serving as vice president, engaged in inappropriate behavior involving Burisma, the Ukrainian energy firm that employed his son Hunter, a charge frequently repeated by Trump and Republicans.
Their aim is to defeat the former Vice President and ensure the Presidents victory, reads the document from the National Intelligence Council.
The document went on to state that both China and Iran wanted Trump to lose. But it included a chart documenting each countrys known efforts. Only Russia was marked as having been known to have engaged in targeting, accessing, or manipulating election processes or election-related systems.
Ive copied a lot, but theres much more information at the AP link.
One more on this topic by David A. Graham at The Atlantic (gift article):
Last night, President Trump delivered a rare prime-time speech, but his address fell well short of the hype. Purportedly, the president was going to make a major statement about election integrity, but in reality, the speech was dense and hoarsely delivered. , he provided no evidence to back up his long-standing lie that the 2020 election was stolen. The White House also released four tranches of documents meant to support the speech, but Trumps claims were a farrago of recycled information, misrepresentations of evidence, and tendentious claims based on materials too heavily redacted to parse. Major news networks, apparently concerned that Trump would mislead, declined to air the address live.
So why even deliver it The speech was a sign of desperation. Trump spoke now not only to distract from his sputtering Iran war and its effects on the economy, but also because his attempts to concretely interfere with the 2026 election thus far have almost all failed. As his opportunities to change the rules of the game before November slip away from him, the president is falling back on one of the few tools he has left: attempting to sow chaos and doubt among Americans.
Trump has been remarkably successful in his push to gerrymander ahead of the midterms. Several Republican states have redrawn their districts to add GOP-leaning seats, the Supreme Courts April allowed other states to move forward with their own maps, and a state court in Virginia shot down retaliatory gerrymandering that would have assisted Democrats. In all, this has given Republicans several more likely seats.
But nearly everything else has faltered, including the presidents to overhaul elections by, in part, requiring voters to provide proof of citizenship. Last week, Trump refused to sign a bipartisan housing bill in PROTEST over the fact that the United States Senate is not capable of passing THE SAVE AMERICA ACT. This is a the housing bill became law anywaybut hes right about the prospects for the SAVE America Act. Yesterday, Senator Thom Tillis, a retiring Republican from North Carolina, the legislation if it comes up again. As Tillis noted, it would now be too late to implement for the midterms anyway.
Most of the subversion methods Trump has tried, however, have been executive actions that dont require Congress. But the president doesnt have control over electionsthat power is delegated to the states or to Congress. As a result, most of Trumps big moves have either been blocked by courts or simply ignored by state and local officials.
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The Iran war has been back on for 7 days now.
Al Jazeera:
The United States Army has launched a seventh consecutive night of strikes on , as a military adviser to the Iranian supreme leader warns of a full-scale offensive if US attacks continue.
In a post on X on Friday, US Central Command (CENTCOM) said the strikes began at 19:00 GMT (10:30pm in Iran) and were designed to continue degrading Iranian military capabilities at the Commander in Chiefs direction.
CENTCOM later said the operation had employed fighter aircraft, aerial drones and warships to strike Irans surveillance sites, military logistics infrastructure, underground weapons storage, and maritime capabilities. It said locations targeted included Jask, Sirik, Bushehr, Bandar Abbas, Qeshm Island, Ahvaz and Yazd.
Five explosions were heard in the early hours of Saturday in Yazd, in central Iran, the state news agency IRNA reported. Iranian state television also said three explosions were heard in the southern city of Sirik, as another news agency, Mehr, said blasts were heard in several provinces in the south.
Iranian state media later reported that at least three people were killed and eight others wounded in attacks in Hormozgan province, which borders the Strait of Hormuz.
Pete Hegseth wants troops to take testosterone shots.
Youd think the Secretary of War would be busy with the war in Iran, but Whiskey Pete is worried that our war fighters arent manly enough.
Daniel Wu and Tara Kopp at The Washington Post:
The Defense Department will test the testosterone levels of service members 30 and older and offer voluntary testosterone replacement therapy to those with low testosterone levels, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced.
We must constantly look for new ways to optimize your performance, your resilience and your long-term health, Hegseth said of the countrys military in a video on X that was captioned The High-T Department of War.
Hegseths announcement Wednesday raised immediate questions about its impact on female troops and how this new policy would be folded into the Pentagons bigger focus on more rigorous fitness standards that critics have said are meant to eliminate women from combat roles.
Low testosterone levels have been linked to deployments, where poor sleep, high-stress environments and poor nutrition can take a toll, conducted by the Defense Department and other institutions.
Hegseths promotion of testosterone comes amid a broader embrace of the hormone and the contested idea, particularly among younger men, that maximizing testosterone levels can boost your health and fitness.
Some physicians and researchers questioned the move and said some of Hegseths statements on testosterone Wednesday were not backed by research. Testosterone levels vary naturally over time, and it is unusual to screen patients for low testosterone unless there are symptoms, they said.
This is non-evidence-based and could cause harm, said Adriane Fugh-Berman, a professor in the department of pharmacology and physiology at Georgetown University.
Nancy Lipid at Reuters:
U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth this week ordered annual testosterone-deficiency screening for active-duty and reserve service members age 30 and older, which he says will help to maintain military readiness.
But many medical professionals warn it might do nothing of the sort and instead could increase service members risk of infertility or other consequences if testosterone is prescribed inappropriately.
Five of six mens health experts contacted by Reuters for this story said they were puzzled by the announcement on testosterone testing and concerned it may lead to unnecessary or even harmful treatment.
Four of the six doctors said there was no solid evidence suggesting that screening for low testosterone in all military personnel aged 30 and older would optimize U.S. readiness for combat.
We hear from patients that when you treat low T, things like cognitive alertness and stamina improve. But the evidence is not concrete, and it comes from patients who were treated because they were symptomatic, said Dr. Kevin McVary, a urologist on the medical advisory board of Rugiet, a telehealth platform that provides testosterone supplements.
This is really interesting from Christina Cauterucci at Slate:
Under a new policy from Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, all military service members aged 30 and up, including women, will receive annual screenings for low testosterone. Promoting the plan to soldiers as a way to optimize your performance and remain on the leading edge of lethality, Hegseth said in a Wednesday that anyone with testosterone deficiency would be offered voluntary hormone replacement therapy.
In a , Hegseth laid out a pithy ambition for the policy: the High-T Department of War.
The framing fits neatly within a growing trend of hormonal obsession on the right. Over the past several years, in corners of the internet, media, and politics devoted to an exacting vision of masculine supremacy, testosterone has become a substance of mythical importance. Calling a or message-board adversary low-T is the new soy boy, beta, or gay. Right-wing influencers are touting that promise to increase testosterone production for more energy, bigger muscles, and better boners. The Trump administration is bragging that the president has the Dr. Oz has ever seen in a man over 70.
All this is befitting of a political movement that wants to eliminate gender-affirming medical care and gets its health advice from the supplement ads on Tucker Carlsons podcast. In the eyes of Hegseth and his peers, testosterone isnt just a sex hormone present in most human beings or a potential gauge of underlying health issues. Its a magic manly potion, an indisputable indicator of sexual power, a tool for turning matcha-swilling weaklings into musclebound superheroes incapable of expressing any emotion but rage.
The Defense Department policy comes amid a slew of other changes Hegseth has made to emphasize the aggressive aspects of the military: calling soldiers warfighters, defunding efforts to , reverting to the Department of War moniker that hadnt been used since the 1940s. And it adds to other actions the administration has taken to get more men on T. Under Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the Department of Health and Human Services is trying to ease restrictions on testosterone to make it for a greater number of health concerns.
The arc of testosterone in todays politicized marketplace contains echoes of the rising popularity of beef tallow, which began as a saturated-fat-laden craze among fringe health nuts who believed . Soon, it turned into a and the star of the it has since been adopted by major food brands, including . Likewise, testosterone, once the domain of bodybuilders and men with actual medical disorders, became a favored elixir of the masculinity-worshipping right and is now a for the general malaise of midlife.
OMG! These people are nuts. I saw in a post yesterday that Dr. Oz said Trump thinks drinking Diet Coke is good for him because if you pour it on grass, the grass dies. Therefore, Trump thinks it will probably kill cancer too.
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