Georgia Tries Proofreaders and Other Stories

• Zandar links to and excerpts Buzzfeed's article on Bruce Carter (of Black Men for Bernie fame) putting together "Trump for Urban Communities," but uses a stealth headline referring to a Republican political practice.
• Oliver Willis notes that Georgia is purging minority voters from the rolls and links to ThinkProgress's article.  Via Zandar, Raw Story has a piece about the lawsuit filed in Federal court: 

  In Georgia, the groups said would-be voters were being penalized by a process fraught with error because of data entry mistakes, limitations in the matching software and other glitches applicants had no way of knowing existed. Other problems, they said, included applicants who use their surname as a first name, which is common among some Korean-Americans.
  
  They also point to a 2009 report from the Social Security Administration's Office of Inspector General, which said that the flaws and errors in the agency's voter registration verification system were preventing eligible applicants from registering.
  
  Georgia uses a voter registration process that requires all of the letters and numbers comprising an applicant's name, date of birth, driver's license number and last four digits of their Social Security number to exactly match the same letters and numbers for the applicant on the state's Department of Drivers Service or federal Social Security Administration databases.
  
  If a single letter, number, hyphen, space or apostrophe is out of place and if the applicant fails to correct the mismatch within 40 days of being notified of the problem, the application is automatically rejected.

• At The Inverse Square Blog:
  • Who takes antibiotic resistance seriously.
  • Meta about the media, riffing off a comment at Balloon Juice.
• Mr. Orange-Hair Surprise, second-guessing his response to the pastor in Flint, MI, who prevented him from Hillary-bashing (video) because that wasn't why he'd been invited.   

  Speaking truth to power in the presence of a Secret Service detail no less, is not easy for someone not accustomed to national press coverage. She found the courage to speak to you on stage, on camera, in front of her congregation, and to tell the truth. And for once, you folded like a cheap tent. Because her moral stand was right, and bullies like you can't stand up to that.
  
  Too bad you, Donald Trump, are too much of a cowardly bully to stand up to her face to face. Your Monday Morning quarterbacking would be embarrassing if we didn't know you so well.

  Frances Langum, Crooks and Liars
• ETA:  Why I love The Rude Pundit. (Warning: Rude.)

  Timmons did in one respectful, firm, polite gesture what 16 Republican candidates and thousands of protesters couldn't. She cornered Trump and made his swagger disappear and shoved the con job up his ass.
  
  At this point in this stupid, endless goddamned election, it's apparent that the nation needs black Americans to save it.