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[thashining]

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[9eeeeevvvvvaaaaa6]

America here you (we) go again...

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[emotional-moss]

sorry for resorting to a meme about this but people are making me mad 👍

[corvus-parvulus]

if you are in the united states, trump WILL be banning MANY books that were previously banned then unbanned. he will censor anything and everything that goes against his bigoted, ignorant rhetoric. these books will be taken off shelves for sale, and removed from libraries and public domains. if you have the funds, please buy these books or download them. get your hands on these books in any way possible.

knowledge is resistance. resistance is power. do not let fascism win.

EDIT: here is the list i have compiled so far

[theamazingian]

joe biden’s silence on sonic the hedgehog’s 32nd birthday is telling

[avocado62524]

[theonion]

Mitch McConnell Won’t Seek Reelection In 2026

Republican Senator Mitch McConnell announced that he won’t seek reelection next year, ending a decades-long tenure as a power broker who championed conservative causes but ultimately ceded ground to the fierce GOP populism of President Donald Trump.

What do you think?

[aashiqeddiediaz]

you know, after watching day 3 of the democratic national convention, i need to say something, especially to other muslims like me.

most of the muslim communities that i'm a part of have chosen to vote uncommitted, or independent, or sometimes, even trump. they refuse to give their vote to kamala harris and tim walz, because of the way the us has handled the war in gaza, and how they have been careless with acknowledging palestinian lives lost, how it was american bombs and american tax money that went towards funding this genocide. it's fucked up, and it's wrong, and there shouldn't be any debate on that.

and i am 100% in support of that anger. i am 100% in support of forcing america to stop funding this genocide. no one wants to keep seeing palestinian lives suffer. no one is free until we're all free, and i believe that to my very core.

my only concern is that where this anger is being placed, from 1 year to 11 weeks before the presidential election, is so scary. because the reality of the situation is that america has a bipartisan outlook. whoever gets the presidency is either democrat or republican. and every vote that doesn't go towards democracy (i.e. voting for kamala harris) inadvertently goes towards trump's big plan of project 2025, which is basically dictatorship. Even voting uncommitted, even voting independent. we cannot afford to elect trump for a second term, and voting anything other than democrat draws that line way too close, especially in swing states like michigan, pennsylvania, wisconsin, georgia.

yes, there are many issues that we wish joe biden would handle better. there are many ways that the democratic party has fucked up beyond repair. there are many ways the democratic party has refused to acknowledge the pain of people affected by their military people throughout the years, and we've been seeing it for years. this is not a new thing. this did not start on october 7th. we see it during pretty much every administration.

however, voting for your candidate should never be based on a singular issue. no political candidate is ever going to check every single box. and its so unfortunate that we have to always take the "lesser of two evils" approach when nominating our president, but that's the reality of the situation at this very moment. there are many other rights to be considered that are at stake this election, all of which trump is trying to remove. abortion bans, women's rights, healthcare, social security, climate change, to name a few.

(and, somehow, there's a belief that trump will lead to a ceasefire deal where biden-harris didn't? let me tell you that is never going to happen.)

does this mean we just stop protesting or pressuring? absolutely not. you NEVER stop, because if our votes are the ones that put the candidate in their position of power, then we expect results. we expect them to work towards what they promised. and we can't let up on reaching out to our local county offices and our state governors and escalating these issues further until someone takes notice and does something about them. we don't elect them and just leave them to do what they want. we keep them accountable. use that anger i was talking about.

but it also means not having tunnel vision. the election in november could very well mean the end of democracy if kamala harris doesn't win. this post is not me all giggly-happy over the democratic party, because trust me, i have my fair share of issues with them as well. this post isn't to tell you what to do, because i can't force you to vote blue. i can't force the community i'm in to change their minds about toss-up votes. but what i can do is put down plainly what's at stake this election. and that is, very simply, our right to choose everything.

so if you are eligible to vote and haven't registered, please do. if you haven't voted before because "what's the point", please see above what the point is. a handful of votes is enough to flip the outcome of an election, especially with the electoral college.

and if you're still on the fence on whether to vote for kamala or trump, hopefully this post gives a little bit more perspective in the most streamlined way i could manage without bogging you down with statistics and numbers.

the choice is yours.

[secondbeatsongs]

the temptation to reblog all of the "Remember to vote on November 5th!" posts just so I can add "this is how destiel can still win" is. staggering

[catboymoments]

some positive news!

Alaska and Missouri won the vote to raise minimum wage and require sick leave :D also, abortion rights are being secured in seven individual states, including Colorado, Michigan, and Montana ✅

That’s great! I hope the good people of Texas can fight back

[joansiesbeloved]

Joan photographed in Boston with some seven hundred-thousand signatures endorsing the re-election of Ted who was recuperating from back injuries from his plane crash earlier that year. Circa, October 31st, 1964.

[aspiringwarriorlibrarian]

One thing that helps is reminding myself that my great uncles dealt with fascists shooting them back in the 1940s, so I can deal with them trying to take over the government now.

[lycazart]

nf but crop of a heisy charm im gonna get made for myself

[tennessoui]

Felt in the mood for some light hearted fic so I got back into the body politic au as a writing warm up

He gets a call a day later, but it’s not Satine’s voice on the other end of the line. It’s a man’s, rather high and scratchy with a posh accent that Anakin can’t immediately place. “Is this Mr. Skywalker?” the man asks, sounding far too awake for—Anakin checks his phone—ten in the morning on a day that Anakin doesn’t have any classes.

Anakin scratches his stomach and tries to stop his yawn from sounding too audible. He blinks up at his room’s ceiling. The fan’s been going all night long, but it’s still stuffy and hot because the apartment building sort of sucks. “Yeah,” he says. “Who’s this?”

“I got your contact number from Satine,” the man continues as if Anakin hasn’t asked a pretty valid question. “If you’re amenable, I would like to meet with you later today. Say, three?”

Anakin heaves his body up and slumps back against the headboard of his bed, rubbing at his eye with his knuckles. “Are you considering voting for Obi-Wan Kenobi?”

There’s a pause. Anakin searches for the half-filled room-temperature cup of water he’d taken to bed last night. It’s definitely somewhere on his nightstand.

“I am Obi-Wan Kenobi,” the man says.

Anakin drops the phone.

“Hello?” Obi-Wan—shit, Obi-Wan Kenobi, this is Obi-Wan Kenobi talking to him—sounds annoyed when Anakin finally fumbles the phone back to his cheek. Annoyance sounds sort of sexy in his voice. “Mr. Skywalker?”

“Yeah, sorry—yes, hi, I’m here, uh. Councilman Kenobi! Sorry!” Anakin scrambles up out of bed, casting around for a discarded shirt. He doesn’t think he should be talking to his local politician while undressed. It feels weird. Especially after all the time he’s spent looking at pictures of this particular politician doing hot yoga.

“Joy,” Mr. Kenobi says, sounding as if he’s never experienced the emotion once in his life. “So, will you come?”

“At least buy me dinner first,” Anakin says because his brain-to-mouth filter and capacity for common sense are dangerously low in the first few hours of the morning.

Kenobi pauses. “I’m sorry?”

“I meant—come where? Sir,” he adds, closing his eyes and wishing for perhaps imminent death or at least a valid reason to hang up the phone like a fire alarm going off or the beginnings of the Rapture.

“My office downtown,” Kenobi says brusquely, as if he’s also wishing for Anakin’s imminent death. “212 Stewjon Avenue, the law offices of Kenobi and Kryze.”

[litany-writes]

the wedding is back on guys we’re all good

[juney-blues]

the dashboard is unusable if you're not American and have a low tolerance for overly performative displays of misery and hope