USPS ballot processing got *slower* as the election approached. washingtonpost.com/business/2020/…
Yesterday in Atlanta, for instance, only 61% of ballots were delivered on-time. Not great! washingtonpost.com/business/2020/…
The only way we know this, by the way, is because of a lawsuit filed by civil rights groups. Tracking this kind of thing should be a no-brainer for the USPS but they fought it tooth and nail. washingtonpost.com/business/2020/…
One thing I keep coming back to -- DeJoy took office just a few months before an election with unprecedented vote-by-mail volume. He could have spent those months optimizing for the election. Instead, he went ahead with an attempted overhaul of the entire agency.

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20 Oct
NEW: USPS data dug up by @jacobbogage shows that the battleground states that may decide the presidency have some of the nation’s most erratic mail service, with obviously troubling implications for vote-by-mail washingtonpost.com/business/2020/… Image
Among other things, we were able to make this nifty animation showing how district-level on-time delivery has fluctuated this year. You'll notice everything tanks in July, shortly after DeJoy took over. washingtonpost.com/business/2020/…
Here's the national average in chart form. DeJoy has said his changes would boost service in the long run, but months later service remains considerably slower than it was at the beginning of the year. washingtonpost.com/business/2020/… Image
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Caveat that a lot of this is, strictly speaking, absolutely necessary to support workers and families through the pandemic
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"WHY IS THERE A LIZARD IN MY CLOSET" is a thing that gets shouted in this house more often than you might suspect
apparently "because he likes sitting on your sweaters" is not an acceptable answer??
I try to give him lightly supervised roaming time each day. The things I supervise for are the danger of him getting inadvertently stepped on by the dog or the kids, and the danger of him taking a dump someplace where he shouldn't (eg, a stack of sweaters)
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Federal taxes paid, first year in office

Ronald Reagan: $165,202
George H.W. Bush: $101,382
Bill Clinton: $62,670
George W. Bush: $250,221
Barack Obama: $1,792,414
Donald Trump: $750
One thing I'm hearing a lot is "well duh Trump donates his salary." Per the IRS the max charitable writeoff is 50% of the donation. $400k in donations leaves him with $200k to pay taxes on.

And that's in addition to the millions his other ventures make.
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Extremely dire warnings being issued by experts in democracy, authoritarianism and elections right now. Is anyone listening? slate.com/news-and-polit…
I'm getting the same feeling now I had in mid February, when usually mild-mannered public health experts were absolutely losing it but the rest of the country was blithely going about business as usual.
People asking me what to do, this is what Michael Coppedge of Notre Dame told me last week. washingtonpost.com/business/2020/…
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