#democrat

[animentality]

[saywhat-politics]

TN lawmaker Justin Pearson was blocked from a Capitol committee room as Republicans moved to erase the state’s only Black-majority district after Louisiana v. Callais, the Supreme Court ruling that weakened the Voting Rights Act by making Black-majority districts easier to challenge as racial gerrymanders.

Black Americans won enforceable voting protections only in 1965.

📸 Nicole Hester / The Tennessean

[us-politics]

[peoplevsbirds]

Shot

Chaser

[thosemotivationalquotes]

Friendly reminder that almost half of the states in the U.S. have same day registration! This means you can go to the polling center for your location, register there, and cast your vote same day. So if you are over 18, are a U.S. citizen, and live in one of the states listed below, it is not too late to register and vote! I’m going to put notes for some of the states where voting is extra important due to the political climate of the state. *Please note that every state has its own rules and requirements for same day registration and voting, some are only for early voting, or have very specific ID requirements. Make sure to research your state specifically before showing up to the polls

California

Colorado

Connecticut

D.C.

Hawaii

Idaho

Illinois

Iowa - recent polls indicate state could flip from red to blue

Maine

Maryland

Michigan - swing state! Could go red or blue!

Minnesota

Montana

Nevada - swing state! Could go red or blue!

New Hampshire

New Mexico

North Carolina - swing state! Could go red or blue - same day registration allowed only for early voting

North Dakota - voter registration not required

Utah

Vermont

Virginia

Washington

Wisconsin - swing state! Could go red or blue

Wyoming

You can go here for more info on voter registration

How to register to vote | USAGov

Use vote.gov to register to vote in federal, state, and local elections. If you’re a U.S. citizen living abroad, see how you can register an

I also have a huge list of voting resources here

Voting and Voter Registration General voter registration Absentee ballot info Update your registration Voter registration deadlines - by

[cormancatacombs]

How I’m going to sleep tonight knowing Dick Cheney is dead & Zohran Mamdani won the NYC mayoral election

[thedishranawaywithmyspoons]

Now is the time for left-leaning people in the US to wrap your heads around the fact that the government has been lying to you about COVID.

You know they've been lying about Epstein. You know they've been lying about ICE. You know they've been lying about racial equality and capitalism and fairness under the law and imperialism and climate change and so many other things.

THEY'VE BEEN LYING ABOUT COVID TOO.

Yes, even the scientists at the CDC. Yes, even the "good" politicians. Yes, even the well-meaning healthcare and public health professionals. Yes, even the corporate media.

COVID is an inconvenience to the people in power, because they need us to pretend everything is "back to normal" so we will continue to uphold the structures that make money for them.

You already know this. It's nothing they haven't done before. It's exactly what they're already doing with climate collapse, human rights violations, creeping authoritarianism, etc. etc. etc. You already accepted that. You just need to accept that they're doing it with COVID too.

Now is the time to accept that what you're being told to believe about COVID is also propaganda with a goal of keeping you complacent about suffering and death, in service of preserving the wealth and power of very few people. It's not really a stretch. And the research is there to prove it.

You've already done the work to learn about the rotten systems that have gotten us here. All you need to do is apply it to COVID.

I know the implications are overwhelming. You don't have to face them alone. But you do have to face them, right now. Because just like with the other large, societal issues we're grappling with, we can't make progress until we accept the full scope of the problem. And we can't do that until more good, justice-minded people do the work on this.

COVID is still killing and disabling people on a mass scale in 2026. It's not "just a cold." It never was. We cannot continue to let it rip through our communities unchallenged, without any mitigation efforts and very few effective treatments. We don't deserve to be lied to, and we don't deserve to be subjected to unnecessary suffering and death because powerful people don't care if we live or die as long as the stock market does well.

You already know they're not telling the truth about so many things. Why would COVID be any different?