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Federal planners will consider Trump’s 250-foot “triumphal arch” November 5. The meeting is entirely online, and anyone, anywhere can speak for 3 minutes, but you must register by Noon Today.

Trail Mixers, here’s your chance to get your objections into the official public record

The National Capital Planning Commission is scheduled to consider final approval of Trump’s proposed 250-foot triumphal arch at Memorial Circle, near Arlington National Cemetery, on Thursday, November 5. To address the commission register by NOON EASTERN TODAY, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 28.

HOW TO REGISTER

1. Visit the “National Capital Planning Commission’s official registration page“
2. Click Register to Speak at a Meeting.
3. Enter your name and contact information.
4. Select New Monumental Arch from the project menu.
5. Add a brief comment explaining your position and submit your registration.

Individuals generally receive three minutes to speak. Commission staff will send additional instructions about online testimony and scheduling.

Why does that matter? Under the commission’s procedures, a proposed action item with no registered speakers by the early deadline can be moved to a consent calendar and approved without individual presentation or discussion.

Anyone can watch the meeting without registering: “NCPC Official Livestream” (https://www.ncpc.gov/live/)

Attribution: Trump is losing his hold on ignorant voters by David Horsey

Wiki: David Horsey (born 1951) is an American editorial cartoonist and commentator. His cartoons appeared in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer from 1979 until December 2011 and in the Los Angeles Times since that time. His cartoons are syndicated to newspapers nationwide by Tribune Content Agency. He won the Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning in 1999 and 2003.

Attribution: GOP Regrets Retaining Trump by Christopher Weyant

Chris Weyant draws political cartoons for The Boston Globe, and the New Yorker.

Something to get you in the mood for the tricker/treaters next weekend.

Originally written for organ, I enjoyed this orchestral version.

Enjoy, Jack

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Attribution: Time Stands Still Before November 3 by Bob Englehart

Bob Englehart was the editorial cartoonist for the Hartford Courant for 35 years when his job was eliminated by the hedge fund that bought the newspaper. Before that, he worked for Chicago Today, the Journal-Gazette in Ft. Wayne, IN and the Journal Herald in Dayton, OH. He studied at the American Academy of Art in Chicago on scholarship. His progressive editorial cartoons have been distributed all over the world by CagleCartoons.com for nearly 20 years.

Asked whether the Justice Department might try to block states from certifying election results, Attorney General Todd Blanche answered, “Yes,” then tried to dismiss it as “some doomsday scenario.” But he clearly refused to rule out federal intervention.

There’s no harm in overreacting to this. There’s more harm in overlooking what they might actually be plotting.

Because this sure sounds like preparing the battlefield and conditioning the public for another bid to overthrow an election.

Speaking with reporters, Blanche was asked whether DOJ might try to block a state from certifying results.

“Yes. Of course there are scenarios that we could all come up with hypothetically — some doomsday scenario, for example,” he responded. “So I don’t think it’s proper to make any kind of conclusory statements about what’s going to happen in the future because I don’t know what’s going to happen in the future. It is not DOJ’s intention — and it’s never our intention — to improperly interfere with elections or the state certification process, but to say that there’s no circumstances that we would ever do that — of course I’m not going to say that.”

“Am I planning my days around the election to be somewhere to not certify? Of course not, no,” he added.

Look at the pieces accumulating before this election: DOJ is demanding state voter data and suing California over ballots it claims could come from noncitizens. Blanche says the department may pursue more election cases. And now he won’t rule out trying to block states from certifying results.

Taken together, these moves look like preparation for a fight over the outcome: seed claims of fraud, put election officials under federal pressure, and keep in view a legal path to challenge or delay certification.