Okay fine, I will make the point I've been making for over 20 years. If you don't want to freak out about swing voters in swing states every goddamn election cycle, flip Texas. If they lose 40 EC votes, they'll never ever ever get in the White House again. 1/?
Fantastic video. Please share.
The only thing I would add is that Texas has 40 electoral college votes and if we became reliably blue, these swing state narrow margin nightmares would basically disappear.
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Pointing again at my US Blue State Challenge. If you live in a "blue state", pick the red state you hate the most and the issue you care about the most and find a group in that state working on that issue and support them.
One thing I don’t understand is why, when people are outraged by some injustice or affront — like book bans — they don’t first look to see who is already tracking the issue, who’s already working on education + organization. “We need to do something!” People *are*. Find them. Help them.
Signal boost for Baltimore Abortion Fund: As of today, there are 30 people waiting on financial support from BAF who urgently need funding to access their abortions. We need to raise $25K over the next 48 hours to close their funding gaps and keep our helpline open.
baltimoreabortionfund.org/urgent
quick art tip for those who need it: stop putting so much value into your sketchbooks. meaning, don’t feel like every page has to have a “perfect” work or whatever. you’d be surprised how common this attitude is and it’s how people fall off from drawing regularly. it’s a sketchbook get fuckin’ messy
We already have a centrist party in this country: The Democrats.
The fact that people like Rubin can’t acknowledge that and fall for constant bad-faith attacks by the right prove how asinine this “solution” is.
There are so many shelters in the U.S. news that are shut down and begging for help because they're beyond capacity. Please adopt or foster if you can, and support low-cost spay/neuter clinics and TNR in your community. These problems are solvable if people would just make them a priority. 😢
No matter who gets elected, we’re going to need stronger solidarity networks to weather what’s ahead. If, like me, you are not an electoral organizer, focus on building what must exist in these times. Commentary is fine, but do not be mesmerized by this mess. Reclaim your energy.
People say scientists are serious but marine biologists will spend hours quietly sitting around tables drawing on styrofoam cups and then tying said cups to deep sea submarines
Because ocean pressure will squeeze the air from the cups
And we are but human & we want tiny cup
If you're a journalist still lending this right wing propaganda mill your time and credibility you're telling anybody with a brain that you're either politically obtuse or value engagement over ethics
So apparently the manchild who overpaid for Twitter has made it difficult to mute several political hashtags (including Trump2024 and MAGA) and if you click on one of them, it spawns a bunch of American flag sprites.
How any reasonable person stays on that awful platform is just beyond me. It's
Someone in San Antonio, TX reached out to me today because she has a sweet, magical boy with FIV who desperately needs a home ASAP. In fact, he's so sweet that his name is Sweet Boy. Look at that face - he obviously just wants love! 💔 (continued with more info)
It's almost "Prime Day". If you look on your favorite shelter's website or instagram you might find that they have an amazon wishlist and that many of their items might be on sale. I hate amazon, I definitely encourage people to shop local whenever possible, but I'm just putting the info out there.
you're waiting for the climate catastrophe, here it is. grids downed in cities with infrastructures gutted by corporate greed and overtaxed by rising temperatures. people boiling alive in their homes. we'll probably never know how many people die in Houston over this next month due to this hurricane
I am just... so fucking exhausted from having to think about the single worst human being on Earth every fucking day 24/7 for the last fucking decade. It is an unbearable assault on my mind and I wish it would fucking end.
what if - instead of attempting to ban porn and end internet anonymity in the name of “protecting children” - we actually protected them by making sure they have enough to eat
Meanwhile eight states, seven Democratic trifectas (CA, CO, MA, ME, MI, MN, NM) and Vermont, took a lesson from the pandemic and made universal free school meals permanent.
That is correct. We noticed that too. Otherwise kind of a mixed bag today. Because of the weather, Freret and Sparta behind them both dropped all of their bands and marching units so it was just float after float. But the crowds were light and you got to catch a bunch of stuff.
I was searching basically every store on my Instacart app for a Hanukkah gift bag and I finally did find one but believe you me I’ve seen what’s at every store under every spelling and it’s grim
Lewiston is still in lock down. Since the gun debate is so often framed around freedom what about the freedom of movement, to leave your house, go to work, go out? Why does your right to Rambo cosplay trump my mom's right to run to the grocery store?
Mass shooting in my home town. Suspect at large according to the local newspaper. My mom is fine. It's just...the "serious" people who tell me I'm suppose to respect the people & opinions that keep this country drowning in guns. Fuck that & fuck them
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A studio executive told Deadline: “The endgame is to allow things to drag on until union members start losing their apartments and losing their homes.”
Ron Perlman's response is a must-watch: https://twitter.com/hearinladotcom/status/1679944957984133120
