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I hope none of you disappear in the coming days. Seriously don't do anything that can't be undone.

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This is going to fucking suck but I will not do my enemies’ work for them. I will not just roll over and fucking die.

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I’m mad just mad. Too old to be the scared teenager I was in 2016.

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Hey if anyone is feeling suicidal. I do too. But we gotta hang on. We have to see this through. We can't let this end here okay. We have to keep going. We can outlast that man. Four Years and we get another chance. Don't let them scare you. If we all die out then they really win. Your heart aches because you are kind and you care. If everyone who cares dies theres no hope in any future. So hold on. Keep pushing forward through all the bad news. Don't let yourself die or become apathetic. Don't give up. Please.

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Everything feels awful right now but it isn't really. We still don't officially have a winner, but regardless of how the presidential election ends up, I wanted to take a minute and find what lights I can in the 3 a.m. darkness. Here's what I know:

* Kentucky overwhelmingly rejected an attempt to undermine the public education system by offering private school vouchers:

* Delaware has elected a transgender woman to the House of Representatives, the first out trans person of any gender ever elected to congress:

* For the first time in history, two Black women will be serving in the senate at the same time, and they are only the fourth and fifth Black women ever elected to the senate:

* New York State has passed a constitutional amendment enshrining the rights of pregnant people (including the right to an abortion), LGBTQIA+ people, the disabled, immigrants regardless of legal status, and other at-risk groups:

* Democrat Josh Stein has beaten self-avowed Nazi Mark Robinson to become governor of North Carolina:

That's everything I know off the top of my head. It's not many bright spots, but it's not zero. I'm going to try to find more and I'll add them to the post. It's the only thing I can think of to do that isn't sobbing and throwing up or looking up Canadian immigration rules.

If you know more good news, I encourage you to add it in reblogs.

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i got too optimistic and forgot kamala harris was dealing with the combined powers of racism and misogyny

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Reblog for a miracle to happen tonight

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however this ends up it should never have been this close. it is so repulsive to think half of this country thinks our rights and lives are dispensable. the person next to you on your ride to work could (or probably even does) think you're less of a person because of who you love, or how you express yourself, or what you look like, or what organs you were born with. it's actually insane to think we're supposed to just move past that.

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I keep seeing people talking about the “Red Mirage” the idea that it only looks like Republicans are winning and it could still go either way.

I fucking hope so because my anxiety is spiking.

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since i have to remind myself this, here's it for anyone else who needs to hear it right now: just breathe

the battleground states that count most are nowhere close to being done having their votes tallied. the Red Mirage always comes through first because the states with the smallest populations/fewest votes get through their counts first. what's currently trending doesn't look much different than how the 2020 counting went

just. breathe.

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may we all wake up tomorrow with less heavy hearts