Amy Corcoran

Professional word embellisher and consumer of chocolate. Apparently, this is where the media hang out.

[Alternative MUFC. @AlternativeMUFC]

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[Nick Knudsen 🇺🇸 @NickKnudsenUS]

I have a confession and a plea to folks who are flirting with voting Jill Stein.

When I was a 20 year old college student in 2000, I voted for Ralph Nader instead of Al Gore. I loved the progressive message Nader offered, and Bush and Gore seemed kinda the same to someone who was paying peripheral attention.

I've regretted that vote for my entire adult life.

Ultimately, George Bush won by a margin of 500+ votes in the state of Florida over Gore. And that was the ballgame. Ralph Nader peeled 97,000+ votes away from Gore. If only 600 of those 90,000 had voted for the major party candidate that more aligned with their values, things would have been very different.

When I was in my senior year of college, 9/11 happened. The country and western world rallied around Bush's resolute response to the traumatizing terror attacks. I was in NY at the time, and it was a terrifying moment for the nation.

But the consequences of Bush being in office at that moment were immense.

Bush's disdain for his dad's nemesis, Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, led him to invent a rationale to invade a country that literally had nothing to do with 9/11. End result? He killed hundreds of thousands of Iraqi people, thousands of American troops, and spent over a trillion dollars of taxpayer money in the process.

Beyond the completely immoral and indefensible Iraq War, Bush was a complete disaster as a president. His "No Child Left Behind" effort turned public schools into standardized testing centers. He tripled down on fossil fuels and ignored climate change. His tax cuts for the rich helped contribute to the 2008 economic downturn that led to the Great Recession.

He was a terrible president.

In an alternate reality, Al Gore would have been president in 2001 when terrorists attacked America. Would he have gone into Iraq? Absolutely not. Would he have ignored global warming? 100% no! Gore was perhaps the preeminent proponent of fighting climate change at that time. Would he have passed massive tax cuts for the wealthy? No way.

This is a sliding doors scenario. What would have happened? We can't be sure. But one thing is for sure: those votes for Ralph Nader (in Florida in particular) were EXCEPTIONALLY consequential for the lives of millions around the world. Gore would have offered a more forward-facing, environmentally conscious & peaceful presidency that wasn't so rooted in grievance and privilege.

My point is:

Either Kamala Harris or Donald Trump will win the election. That is a fact. You might feel the need to submit a "protest vote" as I did in 2000.

Just be ready to wear it when Donald Trump wins, strips away reproductive rights from all Americans, implements an economy-destroying tariff, dismantles the entire federal government, eliminates the Department of Education, prosecutes his perceived enemies, and devolves America into chaos.

There are no perfect choices. But rest assured, there are only two.

Trust me - I've been wearing my vote for a quarter century.

[Kamala Harris @KamalaHarris]

Tomorrow.

https://t.co/VbrfuqVy9P

[MollyPeonies @mollypeonies]

Last night I couldn’t sleep (what’s new), so naturally I spent 3 hours going down the Twitter rabbit hole of white women in the suburbs who love Harris but are married to a male Trump supporter.

It’s this whole other world of women of all ages sharing their plans and fears. 🧵

[MeidasTouch @MeidasTouch]

Wow. If this new ad doesn't get you hyped then we don't know what will.

[Amy Siskind @Amy_Siskind]

Good thing Trump didn't apologize....things are definitely blowing over 🤣😂

[Lauren Hitt @LaurenHitt]

New ad from the Harris campaign on reproductive freedom, ahead of the VP's speech in Texas on Friday. This is a very tough one to watch, but it's incredibly important to. Thank you so much to Ondrea and Ceasar for trusting us to share their story.

[Natiq Malikzada @natiqmalikzada]

Meryl Streep at the United Nations: A female cat has more freedoms than a woman in Afghanistan,

"A cat may go sit on her front stoop and feel the sun on her face," Streep said. "She may chase a squirrel into the park. A squirrel has more rights than a girl in Afghanistan."

[Anonymous @YourAnonNews]

People always ask us why we're so against Trump and why we've taken a side. Well, here is your fucking answer:

[utdreport @utdreport]

Look at our boys 😍

via @niamhutd

[Jeroen de Lange 🤘🏻 @jeroen]

Honored to have the Amsterdam Rainbow Dress in our @adyen office. The dress is made of all the national flags from countries where homosexuality is illegal. When a country adopts lgbti+ inclusive legislation, the respective flag shall be replaced with a rainbow flag.

[Nina Turner @ninaturner]

Stop asking how we’re going to pay for it and start asking how we can afford not to.

[Gavin James @gavinjames]

Tell me you’re from Dublin, without telling me you’re from Dublin..

Wait for it 😂

[Amy Corcoran @AmyXCorcoran]

@jadebudowski Oh my goodness. This was so, so beautiful and elegant and poignant.

[Seána @GrantSana]

Women are too emotional at work:

@SarahAMcInerney personally victimised by the Twitter account partly controlled by the man she is interviewing, clinically, cooly & expertly walks him through exposing his own terrible behaviour

[Amy Corcoran @AmyXCorcoran]

This interview is... astonishing. Bravo @SarahAMcInerney

[Drivetime RTE @drivetimerte]

Here's the audio of @SarahAMcInerney speaking this evening to journalist, Eoghan Harris, after his contract with the Sunday Independent was terminated, because of his involvement with an anonymous Twitter account. https://t.co/zoYNueDUKV

[Drivetime RTE @drivetimerte]

Here's the audio of @SarahAMcInerney speaking this evening to journalist, Eoghan Harris, after his contract with the Sunday Independent was terminated, because of his involvement with an anonymous Twitter account. https://t.co/zoYNueDUKV

[Amy Corcoran @AmyXCorcoran]

“Get up there and show us your dress that I’ve now repeatedly said is lovely and short” 🤢🤢🤢

[Maria Flannery @mariaflan]

Imagine having to work with him 🥴

[Julie Roginsky @julieroginsky]

I get it now. Ted and Heidi Cruz wanted their children to be safe, to have basic sanitary services like heat and running water, to leave behind a third-world apocalyptic nightmare for a safer place. Like so many parents before them, they decided to cross the Mexican border.

[Amy Corcoran @AmyXCorcoran]

@jadebudowski Tell joe to allow the euros who have had covid and are immune for the next few months to allow us in (or even just me 🤷🏻‍♀️) and I’ll be over on the double