Happy, Well-Adjusted, Civic-Minded People for President!

In Arkansas, electronic signatures on #VoterRegistration forms were legal until an activist group registered 500 young, mostly Black voters. Then suddenly, they were illegal. (Glad to hear @marcelias is on the case). #VoterSuppression

https://open.substack.com/pub/popularinformation/p/arkansas-has-the-worst-voter-registration?r=17bsy&utm_medium=ios

Wrongfully convicted people, now as innocent under the law as anyone else and ordered to be freed, are kept in prison in Missouri. Absolutely outrageous. “Tough on crime” is a cult.

https://apnews.com/article/conviction-overturned-missouri-christopher-dunn-19a632c90b2e571f6a5e52ac9dba62d8

Dems are in array! Somebody write an article quick!

@blogdiva @inthehands Hochul endorsed.

I’ve seen people saying they have no hope for #KamalaHarris because of “history,” and I suppose they mean the way the media treated Hillary Clinton. #Misogynoir is an absolutely valid concern here.
But the way I see it, the most recent relevant history includes the defeat of Trump in 2020, the results of midterm elections and many state elections since Dobbs, the Labour victory in the UK, and the defeat of the far right in France. #Harris2024

The Democratic Party needs to unite behind Kamala Harris THIS AFTERNOON! None of this open convention nonsense. There’s barely any time left, and she has the least number of obstacles standing between her and the ballot and her and the war-chest. HARRIS FOR PRESIDENT!!!
Everyone else can compete for Veep, if they like, or start plotting for 2028.
#KamalaHarris #Biden

If Joe #Biden kept harping on a fictional cannibal from a 30-year-old movie in his campaign speeches, the punditocracy would demand that the 25th Amendment be invoked without delay. #HannibalLecter #Trump

If President Biden, his family, and his team were looking for an opportunity to exit, this could serve. But I don’t know that they are.

Thanks to the Merlin Bird ID app, I now know exactly which bird is making it impossible to go back to sleep. #KnowledgeIsPower #birds

Wow. Yes. #AI

The New York Times seems pretty convinced that TFG will win. Or is it just clickbait?

“‘Remote Work Is Hurting Company Culture,’ Says CEO After 3rd Round of Layoffs” #satire #ButJustBarely

https://reductress.com/post/remote-work-is-hurting-company-culture-says-ceo-after-3rd-round-of-layoffs/

#ConspiracyTheories

We have a significant percentage of white people who still believe that democracy is only for them, that everyone else deserves to live under the violent control of the state.
I always think people need more information and better tools for discerning the truth, but anyone who believes in democracy for themselves and fascism for others will believe/pretend to believe any nonsense that props up their belief.

“We must face the hard fact that many Americans would like to have a nation which is a democracy for white Americans but simultaneously a dictatorship over Black Americans.”
Dr. Martin Luther King, 10 May 1967, Atlanta.

The ruling yesterday doesn’t take Trump’s businesses away from him. It’s not like civil forfeiture. Only in the most extreme case could he be forced to sell them, and it’s not at all clear that would be the outcome, anyway. And he still gets to keep the money if he sells it. I wonder if people were getting a little overexcited yesterday. The $250 million fine will sting, though.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/27/nyregion/trump-fraud-lawyers.html?unlocked_article_code=gsi7KeQZR7Sf960t4Re0MCtU_XnECPoRNlaWt8OWRs2qRMaKleKad7jzvEK2mcgyd1bOBXITcnm3lhGI0-n-zDJRDkPE-WvpJuh2W60YItKl8BiNwn18FXL_Ib_XA8mltfagw5vnS8F4KUC59ysaHLv694bA4UQq-HeKm1PFZleqvOE7Oqp64Oe-AKYZba9KHj6N0VvagzupgmuOrceueB6rqvcnL0h7QWo7PvWYOxq6OIYnERkOtYce6lSAQKcTYBsAWFB3ZdI4CFOevxTYz6i8BjgiFHkFWIGZth9iLYtQd3r0Kn7dukbTmrpNcmOqkbCWRqrhrz-V_FTOuK8&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

Never use “tireless” to praise people teaching, nursing, volunteering, doing activist work, etc. I assure you, these people are plenty tired.

Who makes you laugh on here? Looking for a bit of leavening in this very serious place.