Half of me is begging people to please go #vote especially in swing states if nothing more than for self preservation especially in terms of the climate, and the other half is like OMFG WHY ARE #DEMOCRATS ACTIVELY MAKING THIS HARDER AND HARDER FOR ME TO DEFEND THEM UNFORCED????
Chair of the Electoral Commission, expressed concerns about the government’s voter ID scheme and the threat to the Commission’s independence contained in the Elections Act, along with political finance loopholes.
Echoing many of the points we have made, Pullinger highlighted that the voter ID rules disproportionately affect some groups of people, making it easier for some people to vote than others.
#UK #VoterID #elections #ToryDictatorship #ToryFascism #FairVotes #vote #repression
same mayor different jaws...
#jaws #jaws2 #mayor #same #vote #localelections #shirt #baseballgame #stands
Supporters of Felix Tshisekedi are celebrating his landslide re-election as president of the Democratic Republic of Congo. Opposition parties called the vote...#AlJazeera #AlJazeeraEnglish #Celebrating #Demanding #DemocraticRepublicofCongo #FelixTshisekedi #LandslideRe-election #OppositionParties #President #Rerun #Results #Supporters #Vote #alJazeera #aljazeeraEnglish #aljazeeralive #aljazeeravideo #aljazeeraEnglish #aljazeeralatest #aljazeeralive #aljazeeralivenews #latestnews #newsheadlines
Supporters of DRC president Tshisekedi celebrate his re-election | Al Jazeera NewsFeed
American Identity in Crisis
#video #transcript #cspan
Spread the Vote + Project ID founder Kat Calvin chronicled her work to help Americans without #IDs obtain the necessary #documents they need to live, work, and #vote.
https://www.c-span.org/video/?531272-4/american-identity-crisis
source: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-67768873
That same lower court judge also found that Mr Trump had participated in an insurrection in the 2021 US #Capitol riot. His supporters stormed #Congress on that day while lawmakers were certifying #President Joe #Biden's election victory.
Many are asking me before the US elections in 2024 why Donald #Trump might win the presidency again - despite numerous scandals, his announcement to use the presidency for political retaliation and shocking eye witness accounts from this #administration.
But what is the answer and would Trump's re-election as #president be the end of #democracy?
#usa #politics #WhiteHouse #future #vote #society #problem #scandal #crisis #justice
Javier Milei, the far-right economist who wants to close down the Central Bank and liberalize gun ownership, has won Argentina’s presidential #election.
#politics #wtf #omg #president #southamerica #fail #government #vote #problem
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and, Please #Share! [and don't forget to #vote]
#fiction
#shortstory #women #rights #responsibility #tragedy #metoo #politics #herstory #health #violence
not fallen
https://bdelectablemnts.runboard.com/t2681
Pushing, always about pushing.
Pushing his weight off me too late,
exhausted, spent, his rage into me,
breaking, bruising, pain and shame
and devastation.
Him, a sudden force, pushing me into that
alley, so near my home I had no thought
of danger. So routine, my walk from the
subway after my work day, even though, late
Fall, well past twilight. I expected just another
evening of my uneventful life since I came to
this city to pursue my career.
I didn’t know the attacker who pushed me
from behind, covered my face with a huge,
hard hand so I wouldn’t scream, or see him,
too close to count on darkness. After,
released to drag myself home, I drank
sloppy mugs of red wine and cried, on my
way to blessed unconsciousness.
The morning alarm brought me back, to
understand my desperate need for
normalcy to push this whole melodramatic
mess out, out, out! Keep moving, one foot
at a time, eyes forward, focused on each
next chore. Somehow my face, my body,
lied for me, kept to my habitual script.
I very much didn’t want to talk about it,
to seek comforting or support. I wanted it
to go away — to never be.
I found a new route home, discovered
along it that I had become hypervigilant
while walking alone through city streets.
This city of strangers that I had hoped
would be my home had become a hostile
place to push away in self defense.
Pushed into an unwanted future where
the test comes up “Pregnant” after those
ugly symptoms could no longer be ignored.
Pushed now to find a way to take care
of my needs, to confront politics, that
whole divisive headache I had believed
not part of my life.
Suddenly I’ve become a victim of
multiple powerful men — the power
of physical force and the power of
unjust law pushed through by cynical,
deceitful misogynists using pumped
up hate to get ahead.
Much as I desperately try to normalize
these agonizing days, weeks, this
nightmare escalates. Those nonignorable
symptoms keep getting more and worse.
Pushed to accept, take in, this unacceptable
situation because these symptoms
seem serious. I have heard of high risk
pregnancies that require constant
monitoring, even sometimes termination
to save the vessel for future use. Surely I
would not be forced to continue having
this thing growing in me if it would kill me.
Barely holding my multiply suffering
body and mind together, I push myself
to take control and get to the closest ER.
Look! I yell into me, trying to center,
to find refuge in rationality. I am a
normal person, leading a narrow,
normal life. These health crisis
professionals will know what to do,
will make everything alright!
I have made it to what I have built up
in my anxious imagination as the blessed
temple of healing. Unfortunately, it is
more like Purgatory — the endless
waiting. I do understand the many more
needy of immediate care. I submerge
my fear and pain in silent singing, measured
breathing, hearing again my father’s wrath
when he had been drinking or sometimes
when he hadn’t but was feeling bitter honestly.
Family, memories, never consoling.
Certainly no one I can call for help or advice
or anything but judgement of an unkind kin.
I had been so happy to get so far away, to
reframe my life to be mine, hopeful with possibilities.
Yes, possibilities unanticipated. So many
sick days out, fallen (failing) performance,
there goes my once so bright, golden
promising job and its perks, like health insurance.
Pushed to realize my life is meaningless
beyond my private sphere. Pushed to understand
that my fragile forming friendships here are
far from strong enough to be burdened with
what has become my Truth.
At long last it is my turn to be seen. I have
become so weak, barely aware of being
lifted onto a gurney, hooked up to a fetal
monitor and IV, prodded, needle poked to
take my blood. The hands and voices are
concerned that the baby is in distress.
“Take it out of me!” I scream, crying snot
and tears and fear and rage. They inject a
fluid to induce labor, ready me to push
at their command.
Finally! It’s out, my nemesis expelled,
pushed from its unwelcome lodging.
I feel only pure exhaustion, running blood.
Fading, I hear from above:
“Yay! We saved the baby.”
Apparently too far gone for further
ministration, I am left with
the agony of life falling out of me. Faintly,
plaintively, I hear a sober retort:
“Yes, we saved this child to live, while it
does, with severe health issues requiring
extensive expensive care. It enters this
tragic life alone, parentless. Who will take
on this responsibility?
Letting the mother choose, to have the
chance to live, maybe have future healthy
children, would have been responsible, and humane.”
Source: https://edition.cnn.com/2023/10/25/politics/mike-johnson-speaker-nominee/index.html
#usa #politics #democracy #fail #news #Trump #MikeJohnson #problem #vote #speaker
get out the #VOTE!
what do we know about getting out the vote?
I know personal contact matters
peer pressure works
impress on people that they are voters, that this is part of their identity
invite people to ask for whatever help will make their voting easier – child care, transportation, information about where/when to go and what they might need to bring
information about where/how to register, and help to do that
make it fun with get out the #vote parties, after vote parties, strategy parties, community parties (“political parties” but the fun kind)
what else?
When we talk about threats to #democracy, it may seem some
philosophical argument without real daily life immediacy.
Think, though – we are talking about our long, hard, mortally
fought for rights: our ability to be who we are and demand more,
hope for better futures, power to speak our minds, to demand
our human dignity, our possibility to improve the background
rules we live by, to not be helpless against uncaring aristocrats
and ignorant mobs.
people make loud stands on social media, but if you really mean your fear and rage make sure you go out to the polls with people who need transportation or help navigating possible dangers; watch the poll watchers and intercede as prudent (also, ask around to find out what help people may need in your neighborhood to vote)
it seems to generally be the nonvoters that are the bulk of the electorate – abdication of democracy
perhaps because we don’t emphasize that voting is the minimum duty of citizens in a democracy
or perhaps because we who claim our great concern about how our nation is run are not doing our due diligence in getting out the vote – finding out what keeps people from voting and doing all we can to make it easier for them
2023 LOCAL ELECTIONS MATTER
what do we know about getting out the vote?
I know personal contact matters
peer pressure works
impress on people that they are voters, that this is part of their identity
invite people to ask for whatever help will make their voting easier -- child care, transportation, information about where/when to go and what they might need to bring
information about where/how to register, and help to do that
make it fun with get out the vote parties, after vote parties, strategy parties, community parties ("political parties" but the fun kind)
what else?
#getoutthevote #vote! #democracy #election #community #local #state #ballot
get out the #vote 2023
local #elections are where we have the most #power to make a difference -- right here in our own everyday lives
people make loud stands on social media, but if you really mean your fear and rage make sure you go out to the polls with people who need transportation or help navigating possible dangers; watch the poll watchers and intercede as prudent (also, ask around to find out what help people may need in your neighborhood to vote
it seems to generally be the nonvoters that are the bulk of the electorate -- abdication of #democracy
perhaps because we don't emphasize that voting is the minimum duty of #citizens in a democracy
or perhaps because we who claim our great concern about how our nation is run are not doing our due diligence in getting out the vote -- finding out what keeps people from voting and doing all we can to make it easier for them
what do we know about getting out the vote?
I know personal contact matters
peer pressure works
impress on people that they are voters, that this is part of their identity
invite people to ask for whatever help will make their voting easier -- child care, transportation, information about where/when to go and what they might need to bring
information about where/how to register, and help to do that
make it fun with get out the vote parties, after vote parties, strategy parties, community parties ("political parties" but the fun kind)
what else?
voting is not a privilege, or merely a right
voting is our basic duty as citizens in a democracy (or democratic republic)
attempting to prevent citizens from exercising our basic duty ought to be considered Treason
The obvious solution is to prove that people will no longer be voted into office by dissing their opponents and negative advertising. Rather, let's vote in the people who clearly show us what they can do to improve our lives, and let their opponents just look like the bullies they want to be.
don't see it as D v. R -- it's not about them: it's about us
Yeah, but gerrymandering is what you get when you have only two major political parties--so there's that.
♲ Jackie Gardina - 2023-10-13 13:10:46 GMT
The current #GOP dysfunction in the #House is what happens when you #gerrymander extreme districts. In 1996, Karl Rove wrote an oped in the WSJ proclaiming that “he who controls redistricting controls Congress.” Well, jokes on him (and everyone else).Unfortunately, the #GOP was successful in targeting statehouses, controlling redistricting, and suppressing the #vote with a lot of help from #SCOTUS. And here we are.
#democracy #uspolitics #uspols
https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052748703862704575099670689398044
Getting to be that time of year again
and, remember, local elections are where democracy starts, where individual citizens can have the most impact,
get out there and find out how you can help
#vote #voters #democracy #election #citizen
what do we know about getting out the vote?
I know personal contact matters
peer pressure works
impress on people that they are voters, that this is part of their identity
invite people to ask for whatever help will make their voting easier – child care, transportation, information about where/when to go and what they might need to bring
information about where/how to register, and help to do that
make it fun with get out the #vote parties, after vote parties, strategy parties, community parties (“political parties” but the fun kind)
what else?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mNOmFBw1I_M
#VOTE in school board elections. Seriously THINK OF THE CHILDREN, not the meaning the right wing means when they say it.
For the president there is #Biden or Victor Orban style Christian nationalist fascism. Democracy will be destroyed. Full Stop. That's our two choices. That's NOT our only choice on state and local level which have a MUCH more powerful impact long term. Biden is a placeholder to prevent fascism. Go out and GET and #VOTE for #progressive primary candidates. In the primary you get to vote FOR someone, in the general you sadly have to vote AGAINST someone.
