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Pre-K Storyteller/Teacher-Librarian, curious about everything, mostly reblogging social & political commentary

[funnytwittertweets]

[otahkoapisiakii]

!!!IMPORTANT FOR BLACK US VOTERS!!!

I saw this on Facebook and went to check my registration status, sure it was fine because I voted recently, but I put in the info and it said I’m not registered

PLEASE, especially if you’re a Black voter, check your registration status at vote.org

[elyseeeeew-deactivated20250306]

Know your status

[mistressvioleta]

Does your last name sound anything like Lopez, Martinez, or Rodriguez? Mine does. When I saw this post I checked my voter registration status online with my state. Despite registering just three months ago, I was no longer registered to vote, and I did not receive my ballot. If you live in a mail-in voting state and you didn’t get your ballot, contact your county election official/county clerk for a replacement.

[symphonyofmars]

Make sure you check with your state’s voting site as well. I just had the shit scared out of me because that website said I was registered, but when I checked my state’s site (and made sure I had the right county selected) it said I was registered.

It’s worth checking your state’s site every few months anyway (especially when any election is coming up).

[explorerrowan]

Texas is definitely purging voters. They’re also making it harder to re-register if they purged you. I hate that this is true, but POC will need to check and check frequently to stay registered in Texas.

College students, too. In the 2014 election, I had to vote in San Marcos, and I can’t tell you how many Texas State students were turned away because they didn’t cross all the t’s and dot all the i’s on getting their registration transferred and current.

[hashtagloveloses]

i use a site called TurboVote run by a nonprofit that sends me reminders based on where im registered to vote before every election. it sends me an email to remind me to check my registration, to apply for absentee ballots, etc. it’s helpful so that you can check if you’ve been purged regularly (and participate in the local races that never get any publicity); https://turbovote.org/

[stevviefox]

Please register and check with your town/city hall often to make sure you are still registered. Please vote.

[waknatious]

THIS IS A REMINDER

You have about two months to make sure you’re registered to vote by mail in the US.

[mikkeneko]

Considerably less than two months, now. If you haven’t checked, check TODAY.

[mikkeneko]

You can check your current registration status at Headcount.org.

[memecage]

Turns out it’s true

[1oldbear]

Wonderful

[liberalsarecool]

We must reframe the narratives/dialog.

#LanguageMatters

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[swagintherain]

If you’ve noticed, these Black people are victims of mass incarceration, who can wait for a trial longer than their actual conviction will be.

Their VOTES matter, their LIVES not. This is insane.

[moorishlove]

Fun fact : Felons can vote. Not while they are in jail obviously but once they get out they just have to ask their governor for their voting rights back. Sometimes it’s as easy as writing a letter. Patrol officers tend not to share this information cuz their main priority is to catch you slipping rather than to help felons reintegrate.

[kvetchcore]

^^ every state handles this differently. Some states have an automatic renewal of rights, some have conditions that must be met. Maine and Vermont are apparently unique in that felons never lose their rights.

If you ever find yourself in the position of seeking the reinastatement of your voting rights, or helping someone else reinstate their own, make sure you research what your state’s laws regarding this is. It’s not hopeless. But pls go in to any legal conversation well educated.

Source:

Restoring Voter Rights for Felons

committing a felony does not mean that you can never vote again. FindLaw provides resources on how you can restore your voting rights.

[lovethythrall]

[aesthetic-solar-space]

[k-dhd]

:(

[photographydevoted]

[spotlessmy-deactivated20210523]

this was a great read. “Laziness Does Not Exist” by Devon Price

[ghostowlattic]

Living Cells

by ghost owl attic / darius greene

s6

[liberalsarecool]

The racist history of bank lending keeps/kept a lot of hard working people out of home ownership.

[radical-revolution]

Thought creates things by slicing up reality into small bits that it can easily grasp. Thus when you are think-ing you are thing-ing. Thought does not report things, it distorts reality to create things, and as Bergson noted, "In so doing it allows what is the very essence of the real to escape." Thus to the extent we actually imagine a world of discrete and separate things, conceptions have become perceptions, and we have in this manner populated our universe with nothing but ghosts.

D.T. Suzuki

[k-dhd]

[crystaltoa]

Even saying ”I’m so sorry, I completely forgot” sounds marginally better than ” I’m so sorry, I didn’t completely forget, I actually completely remembered. I thought about it the whole time and it stressed me out so much my brain built an insurmountable wall around it.”

[liberalsarecool]

Lonerism: another big lie by Republicans.

[azspot]

“Seattle City Councilmember Kshama Sawant and the Socialist Alternative (SA) party have, for nearly a decade, waged one of the most effective battles against the city’s moneyed elites. She and the SA have adopted a series of unorthodox methods to fight the ruling oligarchs and, in that confrontation, exposed the Democratic Party leadership as craven tools of the billionaire class. Her success is one that should be closely studied and replicated in city after city if we are to dismantle corporate tyranny.”

— How to Defeat the Billionaire Class