This is promising regarding #voting by #USPS #mail

The Postmaster General’s testimony yesterday was inline with the #EO he was asked to follow. That hearing was a shit show.

From what I’ve heard from other postal people, the Federal Register comments on their proposed rule is likely to break the record on most comments at over 100,000. I got the impression from some that they were unofficially expecting it to fail due to litigation.

#elections https://flipboard.social/@newsguyusa/116811788472206760

Steve Herman (@[email protected])

A federal judge in Massachusetts rules against parts of a Trump executive order intended to restrict voting by mail. https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.mad.298518/gov.uscourts.mad.298518.191.0_1.pdf

Flipboard

My mail provider's spam filter supports SPF and whitelisting — but whitelisting runs before SPF (by design!). Result: spoofed mails from my own domain pass unchecked (my own domain is whitelisted). What's the point of domain filtering if you verify after the bypass? Any engineers have insight into this architecture?

#mail #spf #admin

Federal judge halts #Trump #election #ExecutiveOrder seeking to create a #federal voter list & limit who can receive a #mail #ballot.

#US District Court Judge Indira Talwani sided with a coalition of nearly two dozen #states that challenged the Republican president’s order in granting a #SummaryJudgment [nice!]. Her ruling applies to this year’s #midterms.

#law #Constitution #VotingRights #VoterSuppression #MafiaState #autocracy #dictatorship #fascism #tyranny
https://apnews.com/article/trump-executive-order-elections-mail-voting-b28c3425c1dc968cd0f57c61fb7a684e

Judge halts Trump’s order to create federal voter list

A federal judge has halted President Donald Trump’s executive order that sought to create a federal voter list and limit who can receive a mail ballot. U.S. District Court Judge Indira Talwani on Thursday sided with a coalition of nearly two dozen states that challenged the Republican president’s order. Her ruling applies to this year's midterm election cycle. Plaintiffs argued in two lawsuits filed in the same court that Trump’s order should be found unconstitutional because the states and Congress, not the president, have the power to set election rules. The White House stood by Trump’s executive order and indicated the administration would appeal the ruling.

AP News
If anybody wants to try the snail mail to email service I use, my refer link is at the end. Note that I had been using this long before their shitty AI usage, and there is nothing else like it that is accessible to my knowledge. If you have suggestions, feel free to leave them. https://usglobalmail.com/pricing/?referral_code=ROBERT-KZVSQ6NE.VNE #Mail #Virtual #SnailMail

Y’all, did you know that Trump’s handpicked mail czar has declared that unless states give the Post Office lists of all voters, they just won’t deliver mail ballots. Just…won’t deliver them.

This is of course highly unconstitutional, especially since a federal court ruled today that the executive order underlying the request is …wait for it…unconstitutional.

Still, there’s a couple days left to yell at them about this nonsense and tell them to cut it out. You can do that here:

https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2026/06/02/2026-10968/ballot-mail-for-federal-elections#addresses

#usps #mail #ballots #voting #votingrights #powergrab #UpWithThisIWillNotPut

Federal Register :: Request Access

The Postmaster General is attempting to blackmail states into handing over private voter registration information to the federal government.

I think states should seize ballots from USPS if they are going to pull a stunt like this. It's obviously blatantly illegal for a number of reasons.

Edit: I misread this, the USPS wouldn't give you a ballot in the first place. As it stands, you already don't get a ballot in the mail if you aren't elligible.

https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/postmaster-general-steiner-postal-service-will-not-deliver-mail-ballots-state-voter-rolls/

#uspol #votebymail #mail #usps

Postmaster general says USPS won't deliver mail ballots if states don’t give Trump admin voter rolls

“You are going to make a decision that people cannot vote by mail. That’s unacceptable," one senator told the postmaster general.

Democracy Docket

American Democracy Minute Radio News Report & Podcast for June 24, 2026

President Donald Trump’s #executiveorder to #verify the #citizenship #eligibility of #registering and #mail -in #voters was dealt a serious blow by a #Federal #District #Court June 22nd. It #ruled that the #integration of #SocialSecurity and other #federal #data into the #SAVE #database #violated federal #privacy statutes.

🎧 𝟗𝟎-𝐒𝐞𝐜. 𝐋𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐧, 📖 𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐝, 🔗 𝐑𝐞𝐬𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐜𝐞𝐬 📣 𝐆𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐩𝐬

https://www.americandemocracyminute.org/wethepeople/2026/06/23/federal-district-court-rules-use-of-social-security-and-other-federal-data-for-save-database-violates-multiple-federal-privacy-statutes/

Federal District Court Rules Use of Social Security and Other Federal Data for SAVE Database Violates Multiple Federal Privacy Statutes

President Donald Trump’s executive order to verify the citizenship eligibility of registering and mail-in voters was dealt a serious blow by a Federal District Court June 22nd. It ruled that the integration of Social Security and other federal data into the SAVE database violated federal privacy statutes.

American Democracy Minute

受信トレイのメールをゼロにしているのはGmail利用者の20%

やじうまWatchに「Gmail利用者の約20%、受信トレイのメールは「0」──衝撃的なアンケート結果が話題に」という記事が掲載されていました。この記事では、海外メディアのアンケートの結果から、「回答者の半数以上にあたる52.4%が受信トレイに1000通以上の未読メールを抱えている一方で、受信トレイのメールがゼロ、つまり一切のメールを残さずに処理している人も19.8%と、全体の5分の1も存在していることが分かったという。」としています。

しかし、この記事の元になっているAndroid Authorityの記事は「Inbox Zero heroes are rare: Only 20% of polled readers have total control over their emails」というもので、そのタイトルでもわかるとおり、「20%しかいない」というニュアンスの伝え方になっています。つまり、元記事は受信トレイは整理して使うべきものという立場であるのに対し、やじうまWatch側は「受信トレイを空に保つ人は少数派である」という点に着目しているように見えます。

私も私用メールはGoogle WorkspaceのGmailを使用していますが、実際どうしているかというと、受信トレイには未処理であったりチェックする必要のあるメールだけを残して、あとは全てアーカイブして使っています。したがって、受信トレイには常に数通のメールだけが残っている状態を維持しているので、記事でいう「コントロールされた状態」であると言えるでしょう。私は特に几帳面ということはないと思うのですが、受信トレイに既読メールが残っている状態は落ち着きません。

一方で、職場のメールの受信トレイにたくさんのメールが残っている同僚も見かけます。メールボックスは検索できるので、いくら散らかっていてもメールが見つからないということはないのかもしれません。しかしそれ以上に理解できないのは、未読メールが何百・何千件も溜まっている人です。タイトルだけで自分には関係がないと判断して、開封もしていないということなのでしょうか。私用のメールであればそれでもいいかもしれませんが、本文に大事なことが書いてあるかもしれないというのは余計な心配でしょうか。

それはともかく、少なくともGmailでは過半数の人が未読メールをたくさん残した状態になっているということですが、それだけどうでもいいようなメールが多いということなのでしょうね。私のメールボックスにも毎日何十通もの宣伝メールが来るので、それらは送り主とタイトルだけで既読にしてアーカイブしてしまっています。結局まともに目を通すのはそれら以外の数通だけですし、それらも通販サイトからの連絡などでしかなく、個人的な用件のメールはほとんどありません。個人のコミュニケーション手段としてはほとんど機能していませんね。

なお、これらの他に何百件ものスパムやフィッシングのメールが届いていますが、それらはGmailの迷惑メールフィルタが弾いてくれているので助かっています。たまに迷惑メールフォルダを覗くと、まともな宣伝メールもちらほら引っかかっていますが、それらは運が悪かったと思ってもらうしかありませんね。Gmailのフィルタがなかったらメールなんてとっくに使わなくなっていたでしょう。

#gmail #mail #net

Mariana Stadnyk: How post offices became a frontline indicator. The closure of postal offices in frontline regions often leaves their residents cut off from the outside world. Kiril, whose village is under shelling, shows why they have become so important.

#Ukraine #mail #post #russiaukraineWar

Thanks for mboxshell - a CLI tool to open .mbox email exports. It's so fast that it actually opens (once indexed) a 3GB file in under 1s. Indexing took about 15 seconds!

And it does some fast analysis (using `stats` command) too.
#mbox #email #forensics #exports #analysis #mail #cli #Linux