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It was a dark day on Wednesday, but a few rays of light managed to shine through anyway. Pipe bombs were sent to perceived political enemies targeted by Donald Trump, including former President Obama, Hillary Clinton, former CIA Director John Brennan, former Attorney General Eric Holder, Congresswoman Maxine Waters and CNN, following a similar explosive device sent to Democratic Party funder George Soros earlier this week. All of the intended targets have been widely derided for years by Trump, Fox "News" and their many Republican followers. In Tennessee, where early voting has already begun, Shelby County (Memphis) election officials have rejected tens of thousands of voter registrations, with thousands more applications not yet even processed, with many would-be voters not notified or given a chance to the cure the problem. The Tennessee Black Voter Project, which submitted some 36,000 registration applications in recent months, has threatened the county with legal action. Shelby County Democratic Party Chair COREY STRONG explains the hurdles that voting rights advocates are now actively attempting to overcome, concerns about problems during early voting on the state's 100% unverifiable touchscreen voting systems, and the long history of disenfranchisement that African-American voters in Memphis continue to face. The battle for Shelby County voters is comes amid a reportedly very tight U.S. Senate race between popular former Democratic Governor Phil Bredesen and Republican Rep. Marsha Blackburn, which could determine whether Democrats regain control of the US Senate. Encouraging news: a federal judge has blocked Georgia's rejection of absentee ballots over signature mismatches, finding voters were being disenfranchised by a scheme that allowed partisan, non-handwriting expert election officials to discard ballots without allowing voters an opportunity to cure any suspected problems on their mail-in ballot envelopes. . The New York Attorney General has filed suit against ExxonMobil for allegedly defrauding shareholders over the serious risks that climate change regulations pose to the company's bottom line, exposing \u201cthe company to greater risk from climate change regulation than investors were led to believe.\u201d