azteclady
A profile on one woman bringing progressive changes to her deeply conservative Texas town.
Check your registration, check your ID, make a plan, Vote.
Need help researching candidates? use https://bluevoterguide.org/
or @bolts's Cheat Sheet here: https://boltsmag.org/whats-on-the-ballot/your-guide-to-the-elections-in-november-2024/
azteclady
The lies Trump and the rest of the MAGAts tell are having a tangible negative effects on the efforts by FEMA and other agencies to help people affected by Helene: armed fuckers are going around "hunting FEMA".
Check your registration and vote Democrat all the way downballot; we must fix this mess with facts and education.
https://www.stripes.com/theaters/us/2024-10-13/armed-militia-hurricane-helene-15497437.html
azteclady
Trump wants the military to "deal" with his political enemies---the "radical left lunatics", a term that includes every Democrat, from the current president to regular citizens registered with the Democratic party.
This is fascism, and the U.S. press does not report on it with any urgency, because they're willing accomplices.
#PressIsComplicit #USPolitics #2024Election #Fascism
Better link:
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/trump-military-target-americans-oppose-him-1235132806/
azteclady
ICYMI: since Donald Trump slashed regulations and defanged public safety agencies such as the FDA and USDA, the number of food recalls has increased by at least one order of magnitude.
The only people who benefit from cutting regulations are the people at the top; everyone else's risk of dying of something as stupid as poor refrigeration or bad handling.
Vote Democrat all the way downballot.
azteclady
Ending a piece on Sally Fields's 1964 truly horrific #Abortion experience with a paragraph about Melania racist piece of toxic shit Trump and her sudden-and-opportunistic "passionate support" for abortion is a choice.
Check your voter registration. Make sure you have the correct ID, make a plan to vote.
Downballot races will affect your life as much as a President Kamala Harris; research those vote.
azteclady
Magic words to use if/when encountering difficulties when voting.
Between now and then, though, check your voter registration; make sure you can exercise your right.
azteclady
One month from today--please check your voter registration, please make a plan, get your ID, vote.
azteclady
Voter registration has been extended for South Carolina: residents now have until Monday October 14 to register to vote.
#SouthCarolina #VoterRegistration #USPolitics #2024Election
https://scvotes.gov/voter-registration-deadline-extended-to-october-14/
azteclady
Democrats are suing the Georgia State Elections Board over the ruling that all ballots must be counted BY HAND on election night, a ruling that is sure to fuck up the counting and compromise the integrity of the votes.
#USPolitics #2024Election #Georgia
Gift link:
azteclady
LOLGOP (aka Jason Sattler) on "Why the polls are bunk?" or, as I like to say, "if you are living outside the U.S., YOU SHOULD VOTE IN THIS ELECTION"
#USPolitics #2024Election #Vote
https://i-know-how-much-you-care.ghost.io/why-the-polls-are-bunk/
azteclady
A lot of people in the U.S. think that people with disabilities have it made: just apply for welfare! The reality is that more people go broke or die waiting for any benefits than those who get any help--and that help is limited and cruel.
Call your representatives and push them to pass #SocialSecurityReform
Also, vote for a better government.
azteclady
Check your voter registration DAILY!
https://www.usa.gov/confirm-voter-registration
Republicans are purging voter rolls constantly, and they won't tell you about it.
#VoterRegistration #Vote #USPolitics #2024Election
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4901476-north-carolina-purges-747k-voters/
azteclady
There are a number of key Senate races that we must win if we want to keep control of the Senate and be able to do anything about SCOTUS or the judiciary at all, let alone anything else.
If you can, please read this thread by @Celeste_pewter about how we can help some at risk Senators (Jon Tester, Sherrod Brown, Bob Casey, Tammy Baldwin, and Angela Alsobrooks), as well as competitive races in FL and TX
https://bsky.app/profile/celestepewter.bsky.social/post/3l536t3jygr2a
azteclady
Senator Ron Wyden just dropped the text of a bill to overhaul SCOTUS:
Read through, the links to the full text are at the bottom.
azteclady
All over the U.S., Republicans are purging the voter rolls to cheat in November; do not let these fuckers disenfranchise you: check your registration now, and every day.
azteclady
I do not consent either.
#USPolitics #2024Election #RepublicansAreWeird #RepublicansAreCreepy
azteclady
Jamelle Bouis on J.D Vance's blood libel against Springfield Haitian immigrants.
Original headline versus "let's not offend the Nazis" headline.
azteclady
Check your voter registration, take screenshots, get ready to fight for your right and responsibility in November.
azteclady
There's a lovely video about VP Kamala Harris visiting a Penzey's Spices store in Pittsburgh (clip here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dpTCweo0tCQ; if you are a woman/femme of a certain age, have tissues handy. I cried).
MAGAts started leaving a flood of negative reviews, despite most not being actual customers, which leads to this statement by the company: https://www.penzeys.com/shop/about-republicans/
azteclady
#COVID19 is still here; many people are left with #LongCOVID symptoms of varying severity, from fatigue to brain fog. #BigPharma have little motivation to do anything about it, so our only recourse is to #Vote, elect Democrats, and then bully them into doing the right thing for the country rather than corporations. (h/t @rebeccawatson)
Bonus: this strategy works for anything and everything you care about.
azteclady
"A vote for Trump is a vote to ban abortion in all 50 states; anyone who suggests otherwise is just trying to elect him (so he can ban abortion)" --@lolgop
Not everyone is terminally online, not everyone knows Trump didn't "change his position" on #Abortion. Not everyone knows that Republicans and Trump will do absolutely anything to get him elected, so they're free to control the rest of us to death
azteclady
#Crossfire 1986, start at 1:18 #FrankZappa used the phrase "fascist theocracy"
azteclady
Hey, look, fresh indictment of Trump, same charges, and fuck the Christofascist SCOTUS majority and their immunity for Trump--because, let us not lie to ourselves, if Biden were to use that ruling to do anything for the poor, or people who can get pregnant, or the fucking air we breathe and water we drink, he would not be covered.
azteclady
Check your registration, keep checking it, take a screenshot confirming you've registered, check you have the ID you need to vote.
Because the Christofascists are ready to disenfranchise as many voters are they can, and to scare and even jail however many they can--including elderly people.
azteclady
Most of us reduce elections to the one issue (or office or candidate) that we think most affect us, forgetting how interconnected it all is.
We need to win the WH, the Senate and the House to avoid going full fascist nation--but also so that we can pressure elected officials to protect us via rational regulations (meaning: not funded by industrial lobby)
For example (pardon the casual fatphobia and ableism) by @notjustbikes:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jN7mSXMruEo
azteclady
#WillBunch on the #2024DNC and how it's so different from all that's come before for at least four decades--and yes, that includes Barack Obama's campaigns.
https://www.inquirer.com/opinion/chicago-dnc-democrat-vibe-ecstasy-20240821.html#loaded
On that vein, if you haven't, perhaps give this #PoliticsGirl short video a watch:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4gu1gHT5BOU
azteclady
I also want to note how #Politico slants their reporting here: the issue is not what role parents have in shaping their children's education. The issue is *which* parents have been given authority to dictate how other parents educate *their own children*.
Reporting is not neutral when it erases context in favor of the #Christofascists
So, again: check your #VoterRegistration then #Vote
https://www.politico.com/news/2024/08/20/ron-desantis-school-board-results-00175296
azteclady
Speaking of #RonDeSantis, here's how the political landscape is changing in #Florida:
DeSantis endorsed 23 school board candidates across the state.
11 lost outright.
6 are headed to runoff voting (check your #VoterRegistration by the way)
Only six--a quarter--won outright.
Florida is not likely to ever be a truly progressive state, but holy cats, it is definitely not an unrecoverable abyss of ass backwards conservatism.
https://www.politico.com/news/2024/08/20/ron-desantis-school-board-results-00175296
azteclady
Non-Republican candidates running for any and all public offices in #Florida are at risk of being summarily dismissed by Governor #RonDeSantis, in order to install one of his handpicked fellow fascists to enact unpopular and harmful policies.
Which then allow him to do things like this:
https://www.tampabay.com/news/environment/2024/08/21/florida-state-parks-jonathan-dickinson-golf-course/
If you can, attend the meetings on Tuesday to record your opposition--and check your #VoterRegistration and #Vote in November and every election thereafter.
azteclady
#OlayemiOlurin speaking, among other things, about why immigrants have a right to care about the politics of the country we live in, where we pay taxes and contribute to our communities in many tangible and intangible ways, even when we cannot vote.
So if you can vote? Please don't be the asshole who doesn't vote "to make a point", and helps Trump become king for life.
azteclady
The Real Young Prodigyes have relased this in response to the cuts to school buses for mostly-Black neighborhoods and schools in Louisville KY:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wYKRz7sHZ1w
These cuts have also led to lawsuits (source: https://whas11.com/article/news/community/jcps-parents-lawsuit-bus-transportation-cuts/417-3a9ada38-9e87-4850-80af-7efc802199e9)
Per @bolts, there's a chance to elect a progressive state supreme court judge this November: Pamela Godwine has union support. (source: https://boltsmag.org/your-state-by-state-guide-to-the-2024-supreme-court-elections/)
VOTE!
azteclady
Louis DeJoy--who inexplicably remains U.S. Postmaster General--wants to further destroy the Postal Service, under pretext of "making it solvent".
Senator Jon Tester has introduced a bill that would slow that process.
The real solution? eliminate artificial burdens on the USPS imposed by a Republican Senate--and fire DeJoy.
Aside: Tester is up for reelection in November, and we need him there. Vote!
azteclady
Very timely reminder by @AnarchoNinaAnalyzes that, especially online, there is nothing that "everyone knows". There are billions of people on Earth. You can be sure, a lot of what you think is "commonly known", is not--and that's before misinformation and disinformation come into it.
#ElonMusk is investing billions to spread fascist propaganda--and not everyone who will vote in November knows it.
https://social.treehouse.systems/@AnarchoNinaAnalyzes/112954728927239630
azteclady
@JuliusGoat on so-called "centrists" (and the Nazis they side with):
"And I've given up engaging people who ask me to prove to them that Trump and the Republicans are supremacists and fascists. The question is like being asked to prove gravity; it reveals such a desire to not observe things that it exposes itself as an active desire to not understand."
azteclady
The inimitable Elie Mystal on the current initiatives to curb SCOTUS overreach and protect democracy.
"The road toward court reform leads to court expansion or it leads to nowhere. Biden, and now Schumer, are willing to take the first steps."
https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/no-kings-act-schumer-trump-immunity/
azteclady
Another one: Florida.
Check your voter registration regularly and frequently.
azteclady
Just because: Texas representative James Talarico speaking on the dangers of Christian nationalism.
Amazing how clearly this applies to Project 2025
azteclady
the Republicans are actively purging voter rolls in several states (Texas), and some (Georgia) have given their rank and file the tools to do it for them. Now it's Ohio.
And Felon Musk, peddling an information harvesting, fake registration site.
Check your registration at the official website for your state, and keep checking it. Don't let the fascists deprive you of your civils rights.
https://www.popsci.com/technology/elon-musk-voter-registration/
azteclady
President Jimmy Carter wants to live long enough to vote for Kamala Harris for president in November.
That man is really the best of us.
azteclady
The #Georgia Secretary of State has opened a portal for people to cancel *other* residents voter registration--without any mechanism to prevent mass cancellation of Democrats voter registrations.
If you live in GA, please check your registration, and keep checking it daily.
And you may want to register your feelings with the secretary of state office:
214 State Capitol
Atlanta, GA 30334
470-312-2803
azteclady
The GOP is making hay out of the shooting at their national convention and of trump's "wound" and how close he was to being assassinated.
Meanwhile:
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So apparently there's a white women hashtag going around ( #IUnderstandTheAssignment ), that's essentially another exercise in white women centering themselves, no matter what.
So, go read Lori Green's post, "The Problem with White Women" (heads up: she's a white woman just turned sixty). Read it, internalize it, share it--and if it doesn't apply to you? Read it, internalize it, share it anyway.
https://twooldfartstalkingromance.blogspot.com/2024/07/the-problem-with-white-women.html
azteclady
If voting didn't matter, Republicans wouldn't have spent decades working to disenfranchise Democratic voters.
So it's time to work getting those voters to the polls.
Here's a way to help:
https://mastodon.social/@indivisibleteam/112816182252530409
Or go directly to:
https://www.mobilize.us/indivisible/event/645367/
azteclady
Will you look at that.
#NateSilver now works for Polymarket, #Polymarket was found by, among others, #PeterThiel.
And now Nate Silver has spent a lot of capital on calls for Biden to drop out.
One time is coincidence, two is the beginning of a pattern, three is selling their soul for easy cash.
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/polymarket-hires-nate-silver-taking-154956290.html
azteclady
"You can't fix democracy by not voting"--you can't fix ANYTHING when you don't vote.
#VotesHaveConsequences; not voting has evern worse ones.
azteclady
"1,400 Black women sign letter of support for Biden, condemn lack of Democratic unity"--The Hill
"we believe it is unfair and disruptive to judge President Biden for having a bad 90-minute debate performance against a serial liar who wants to destroy our democracy and be a dictator-in-chief."
#USPolitics #2024Election #Racism #Misogynoir
https://thehill.com/homenews/race-politics/4780486-black-women-biden-harris-letter/
azteclady
Rolling Stone with the facts:
"Trump Allies Try to Bully Dems, Media to Shut Up About His Fascist Plans
Republicans are seeking to capitalize on Trump’s assassination attempt — using it to demand everyone stop talking about his threats to democracy"
And it's fucking working.
azteclady
I'm feeling so frustrated at how easily the left has split into those dreaming an unfeasible scenario to replace Biden four months before election day, and those who will not abandon the only viable candidate--incumbent and with a capable VP to take over if needed.
I get the utter terror of a 2nd trump administration--I'm a target too!!!--but seeing white "progressives" fall so easily for the right's tactics is fucking disheartening.
azteclady
Biden's immigration policies are as fucked up as trump's, even if he leaves out the concentration camps. His enabling of genocide of Palestinians is beyond the fucking pale.
But a trump presidency would be exponentially worse, and democracy wouldn't survive it. Abortion, workers' rights, unions, voting rights, right to protest, freedom of movement, climate change, disaster response--all would worsen
So Biden it is
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