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officialfist

OUR COUSIN MADE IT TO THE NFL

nemesisdub

This your cousin? What team is he in?

bakelite-bliss

Our cousin

bundibird

In case any Americans are not aware of this: the rest of the world is FUCKING TERRIFIED of how this election is going to go. If trump wins, it affects more than just America. If trump wins, it will fuck so many other countries in so many ways.

So first of all, PLEASE VOTE. The rest of the world doesn't get to vote in your election, but we do get directly impacted by your election, so please do what we can't, and vote.

Secondly, remember that you're not just voting for America. You're voting on behalf of the all the countries that will be impacted by this election.

Please, for the love of God, vote blue, and save not just America from a second trump term, but the whole goddamn world.

msaprildaniels

Oh, so you like GENOCIDE?!

bundibird

I know you tagged this as sarcasm, but just a reminder to anyone who is still hesitant over voting blue because of the Palestinian genocide:

Palestinians are literally asking you to vote for Harris.

Theyre asking this, because TRUMP WILL BE WORSE FOR THEM AND THEIR FAMILIES.

Trump is friends with Netenfuckwad. Netenfuckwad WANTS TRUMP TO WIN. Trump thinks that America needs to go further in supporting Israel. Trump has spoken openly about "finishing" Gaza. Trump and his family have spoken openly about the "real estate opportunities" that are opening up in Gaza.

Don't like genocide? VOTE HARRIS. Palestinians are literally asking you to.

baldmultiverse

genderqueerpositivity

McBride, a Democrat who served two terms as a state senator, wins Delaware’s only House seat, NBC News projects.

thoughtsafter3am

I truly hate living in the US. Like I should not have world ending anxiety every four years where I sit in the fetal position because we are this close to fascism. I am so fucking tired.

marvelsmostwanted

❗️Nevada voters - this is going to sound weird, but PICK UP YOUR PHONE if an unknown number calls.

**Lots of signatures on ballots are not matching and your ballot may need to be fixed.

TLDR; yes, signature matching is an antiquated way to verify ballots but it is still being used. Reportedly thousands of ballots here need to be cured. Answer the phone!

lets-steal-an-archive

If you want to help cure Nevada ballots:

We need your help to make sure every voter’s ballot counts in this critical election! Join NV Dems in making phone calls to voters who need

figuring-421

Check your ballots and tell your people to check theirs. There is a process to fix errors (usually signatures not matching; common with younger voters who tend to sign their ballots nicer than their driver’s license or whatever form they signed to register)

Ballot curing rules for all 50 states and DC. Ballot curing isn't hard, but you need to act quickly.

yeahiwasintheshit

twitblr

Not much focus on rehabilitation

obi-wann-cannoli

This seems like a good time to mention the Prisoners Literature Project and Inside Books Project. Both of these organizations send free books to incarcerated people, and are always looking for donations - both books and money -and volunteers! (Prisoners literature project sends books everywhere but Texas - Inside Books project is just Texas).

dessalines-raised-sword

This also seems to be a good time to mention prison radio. Revolutionary literature created in prison. Hear from everyone from the soothing yet majestic voice of Mumia Abu Jamal to Pendleton 2. Listen to them, organise, share, donate and support them.

As Uncle Ho said, when the doors of the prison break open, the dragons will fly out. Free em all.

Bringing the voices of incarcerated people into the public debate Support our work: Donate Shop Join Us

anarchistmemedistro

Incarcerated Workers Organizing Committee

tayboop

Stuff like this makes my blood boil, reading should be a human right

whatareyoureallyafraidof

karpad

You of course understand that most such abstentions are in states where the outcome is already determined. What would a democratic vote in Pittsburgh do for your presidential votescolding?

metatextuality

Ohio used to be a swing state! Florida used to be a swing state! You don't get to sit this shit out when vindictive white baby boomers are the most consistently reliable voting demographic! That's how people end up with Ted Fucking Cruz and a gerrymandered state legislature outlawing abortion and transgender health care!

beatrice-otter

Also, let's say you're right, and there is genuinely no chance to flip your district from red to blue. It is still important to vote. Because if the Republicans know your district is absolutely safe, they don't have to spend any money to keep their guy in office, they can spend the money on the place where their guy is in danger.

If your district has a rise in the number of people voting Democrat, all of a sudden your district isn't looking that safe any longer. And they have to spend money there on ads and shit to make sure it stays safe. And that's money they're not spending in swing districts. That makes it easier for Democrats elsewhere to get elected.

Also, local offices are on the ballot. And local offices need a lot fewer votes to win an election than national offices.

If you have, for example, two judge positions and one of them is "tough on crime" and one of them talks about "wanting to make sure that all people get justice regardless of race or gender or any other factor" it will make a big difference to your community which one of them gets elected.

If you have two candidates for school board and one is advocating for book bans and the other one isn't, it will make a big difference to your community which one of them gets elected.

alexseanchai

Isn't Pittsburgh in Pennsylvania which is a swing state? Doesn't turning a state from firmly Democratic to firmly swing require one or both of more Republican and fewer Democratic voters?

sl-walker

Yes, Ohio was a swing state. Not even that long ago, seriously. Eight years.

eerian-sadow

Kansas used to be Bright Fucking Red. Now it's trending toward maroon. We have a democrat governor. Wichita KS elected an openly trans councilwoman. We kept abortion safe and legal here. Because we fucking showed up at the polls. Sure, our piddly little two electoral votes don't "matter" in the presidential election, but that other shit? That Fucking Matters. We have more work to do, for sure, but showing up and voting is the first step.

brandyllyn

This is a map of party affiliation - people who identify as Republican or Democrat. It is not likely voters or registered voters, it is a map of political belief in the US.

[Data Source: Pew Research.]

Pennsylvania is considered a swing state, but it breaks 46/39 in favor of Democrats. Louisiana breaks 43/41 for Democrats. Why isn't it a swing state? Texas? 40/39 for Democrats. West Virginia Missouri, Ohio, and Mississsippi are all within 2 points.

Here is the electoral map.

I need you to recognize that Republicans only have a firm hold (greater than a 5 point margin) in a handful of states. Even if every one of the other states went Republican, they would not win.

When Democrats vote, we win. It's that simple. It's why Republicans are spending so much god damn time trying to keep you from voting.

(Note: Independents were not counted although they generally do "lean" one way or the other. As of 2023 they are a roughly even split. I did not have the time nor inclination to try to factor this in state by state, but would welcome someone else doing so.)

porcupine-girl

Honestly? Ohio is still basically a swing state! We have one Democratic senator and it’s gonna be tight but we might get to keep him! We fucking enshrined abortion in our constitution despite a state law banning it - which required TWO elections in a row to do, because the Rs tried to change the amendment process three months before the vote so we had to vote THAT down first then come back and vote for the abortion amendment!

And if we can show the fuck up this year, we can not only keep Sherrod Brown, we can end the gerrymandering that’s caused our current districts to get shot down by the state Supreme Court seven fucking times. But because of the current method of drawing districts, that doesn’t matter, the Rs can keep submitting new bad maps and they get used because there’s not a good one to choose from.

Oh, and guess why the state Supreme Court is even willing to do that? Because we’ve managed to move from an all-Republican Supreme Court to one that they barely hold, 4-3, so all we need is for one of them to not be entirely awful.

Also CANNOT BELIEVE that person used Pittsburgh as an example when just four years ago we were all on the edge of our seats waiting to see which way PA would go - because it went to Trump in 2016!

spacemomnephmoreau

Do none of you even know that Florida was considered a swing state not very long ago? See how blue it is on those maps? Yeah. Florida went for Obama. In 2000, Florida was the reason the election had to go to SCOTUS. Republicans spent a LOT of money convincing all those registered Democrats that Florida was a Republican safe haven. And now it is. But we ALSO have abortion on the ballot, despite our butthead of a governor recently getting slapped down by a federal judge for threatening local stations about ads in favor of the amendment. He got the Heritage Foundation to write an “economic impact” statement on the damn ballot about the future lawsuits it would create, but the amendment has a lot of support. It will get a lot of those Dems out to vote, if we stop telling people that their vote doesn’t matter because they’re in a solidly red state!

ef-1

For those not tapped into Australian politics, King Charles is in Australia to conduct his "historic first tour to the commonwealth realm" i.e visting countries that King Charles is supposedly a monarch to.

Indigenous senator Lidia Thorpe had requested an audience with King Charles for weeks prior to this visit, she wrote countless letters to speak to him. Unlike other commonwealth nations and other former Brisitish colonies, a treaty with Indigenous peoples in Australia was never formed. Their land was never ceded to the British Crown. After being denied and ignored, Lidia Thorpe, draped in a traditional possum skin cloak, stormed in the Great Hall during the reception for Charles at Parliament House in the capital shout the following:

I literally can't even look at these photos without getting goosebumps.

dreamduality

diamond-hoo-ha-man

i thought this was a hospital drama why does he have a shotgun?!??!?

ulysseus

It's a really, really good hospital drama

elkian

I'm so glad I turned on the Audio bc it turns out this is set to Boney M's Rasputin and is basically perfectly synced

road work abreast

official boob post

So a lot of political scandals just dropped in the last 24 hours

-NC Governor Candidate Mark Robinson's online posts were found, including some VERY graphic descriptions (like seriously, do not read if you're not 18) of him cheating on his wife, calling himself a black Nazi, and expressing support for reinstituting slavery. His email address was also found on Ashley Madison

-Robert F Kennedy Jr was revealed to be cheating on his wife with a reporter (and that isn't even the weirdest thing since federal law enforcement opened an investigation into him allegedly cutting off the head of a whale and taking it home with him less than 24 hours ago)

-GOP Senate candidate who is the CEO of a bank has been found accepting millions of dollars from what seem to allegedly be Mexican drug cartels.

-Finally, probably the biggest bombshell, according to multiple eyewitness testimonies within sealed sworn affadavits, Congressman Matt Gaetz allegedly invited a 17-year-old girl to a drug-fueld sex party

And we haven't even hit October, folks. Again, these are all still breaking news stories, so things are subject to change, but oh man oh man.

mierac

Wait there's more:

Tennessee Representative Mark Greene has been accused by his wife in a group chat with other legislators of having an affair with a woman about half his age.

Chris Rufo, who invented the "CRT" panic and has been a driving force of bigotry and hatred for godless liberals was actively on Ashley Madison, aka "the cheating site" after his wife had a baby.

The biggest one in my opinion is RFK's affair because:

This asshole reporter who used to post racist memes about Obama wrote an extensive article claiming Joe Biden has dementia and is unfit for office for New York Magazine and she was HAVING AN AFFAIR with RFKJr. at the time.

Do you get that? One of the prominent reporters for a widely regarded magazine who wrote one of the longest, most detailed articles claiming Joe Biden was unfit to be president, an article that got cited by many other journalists as evidence they weren't just gossiping and going off rumors, WAS INVOLVED WITH THE GUY RUNNING AGAINST BIDEN AT THE TIME. Short of being paid to write something, this is the biggest possible ethical lapse for a journalist imaginable.

Corrupt motherfuckers, all the way down.

jacyevans

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Tag reading #can’t forget Judge Alito on the Supreme Court accepting bribes from a far-right heiress in a Bavarian castle]

Had to look this one up myself because what the fuck?

US supreme court justice and Gloria von Thurn und Taxis found to have rubbed elbows with hardliner Leonard Leo

In a speech at the National Conservatism Conference in Brussels last April, von Thurn und Taxis said European leaders were “financ[ing] the killing of our offspring” in an apparent reference to the availability of reproductive rights in Europe. She added: “Does this make any sense? Is there some kind of racism? Are we not supposed to reproduce?”

Jesus H. Christ.

Related, lest we forget that Clarence Thomas failed to disclose yet more private jet travel on a right-wing mega-donor’s dime.

Senate finance committee learned of additional undisclosed travel on Harlan Crow’s jet, says Ron Wyden

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ladyshinga

I bring a sort of "actually mass traumatic events have an effect on the public's mental health and you're NOT acting in isolation from that trauma, and ignoring it doesn't make it go away" vibe to the party that Americans do not like

ladyshinga

"IDK why [name] is acting up lately" "Well on top of the things going on in their personal life causing stress, we've also had nonstop pandemic on top of authoritarian threats and genocide and cost of living being unsustainable, so yeah, they're acting pretty much as expected" "NONE OF THAT OTHER STUFF IS IMPORTANT, only their PERSONAL problems, so they shouldn't be this upset!"

sorry but the background radiation of stress does, in fact, affect people

ladyshinga

#i keep on having to tell myself this about myself

hey, OP here. look at me. <3

me. too.

EVERY. SINGLE. DAY. i have to remind myself that my mental health isn't ONLY being affected by the things within my own home. I CONSTANTLY have to remind myself and my loved ones that we're bearing the weight of SO MUCH SHIT right now and we can't do anything about 99% of it.

you aren't alone, NONE of us are. we're just... isolated anyway. and it sucks.

grace and patience and compassion are the only things that will get us all through this

queen-mabs-revenge

that one shared brain cell just bebopping away

prokopetz

I think it’s important to understand that Peter Parker receiving rewards for his heroics and being unable to cash them in because they’re made out to “Spider-Man” and he has no ID in the name of Spider-Man was actually a running gag in the older comics. Like, this happened to him on multiple unconnected occasions.