This is good news, of course, but it’s hard to ignore how news outlets are simply not mentioning that the leftwing Nouveau Front Populaire got the most votes.
BREAKING NEWS: Voters turned out in numbers not seen in decades to stop the far-right National Rally from taking power in the French National Assembly. Polls predicted a first-place finish for National Rally, which instead came in third in initial results as polling stations closed.
Tell every person you know that the GOP wants to ban porn.
Let them imagine a hellscape where they both have no human rights and no legal sources of weird smut to drown their sorrows in
The opting out is especially wild
Like, Republican governors are being actively presented with money to feed kids and affirmatively saying 'I would like children to starve actually'
(Also, if I'm a Dem campaigner, I'm making some ads and placing some op eds about this immediately)
The governors of a dozen Republican-led states — AL, AK, FL, GA, IA, MS, OK, SC, SD, TX, UT, WY — opted out of a new federal food assistance program, leaving about 9.5 million students without the aid this summer
BREAKING NEWS: Voters turned out in numbers not seen in decades to stop the far-right National Rally from taking power in the French National Assembly. Polls predicted a first-place finish for National Rally, which instead came in third in initial results as polling stations closed.
Il n'y a plus de police dans les rues, ils ont été remplacés par une brigade inclusive non-binaire qui diffuse des films de Disney relus par des sensitivity readers...
The billboard designers perfectly imitated the usual aesthetic sensibilities of wacko anti-abortion signage, and I need to stop and get a photo of this thing (can’t find one online yet).
OH, a big result: Marine Le Pen's *sister* has LOST her bid to join Parliament. She led 40% to 26% in Round 1.
Her left opponent won by 0.5%.
(Macronist, who came in 3rd, initially said she wouldn't drop out but then changed her mind. Ended up blocking Le Pen.)
Marine Le Pen and everyone else would be way happier if she just stopped being fashy and instead was content to live with her childhood best friend “roommate” with whom she owns many cats and continues to release statements about how she is happy men are not part of her life anymore.
in all seriousness though I saw a ton of people doing street organizing of all types for the popular front while I was in Paris and it fucking rules that they managed to hold off the fascists
JUST IN: Polls closed in France. Exit polls show surprise:
—Left coalition (New Popular Front) projected first. (!)
—Far-right (RN) has lost its bid to take power. Anti-RN front appears to have worked very well.
—No bloc close to majority.
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Breaking: A left-wing coalition is on course to win the most seats in France’s legislative election in a surprise blow to far-right leader Marine Le Pen’s hopes of forming the next government
Read more: bloom.bg/frenchelection
"would u fuck an elf if they were real" shut up loser id fuck a whole dnd campaign worth of consenting fantasy creatures u think I'm gonna slip on "elf" I'm doing petrificationplay with a beholder you lightweight
Personne aujourd'hui ne votera pour supprimer l'immigration, la diversité, le féminisme, les personnes trans, l'homosexualité. On ne peut pas voter contre ces choses, et un parti qui vous propose de voter contre pourrait aussi bien vous proposer de voter contre la pluie.
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