Boris Nisnevich

Just over here eating pizza and drinking cheap beer

[Boris Nisnevich @BNisnevich]

This just stinks

[Jordan Rhone @JordanRhone]

County election offices across Pennsylvania are receiving bomb threats tonight — and it’s forcing officials to take ballots off-site to count. Expect major delays in Election Day results.

Behind it? Russian agents trying to sow chaos in our elections. https://t.co/oIRaFO88WO

[Shawn Reynolds @ShawnReynolds_]

BREAKING: Voting is suspended at 5 locations in DeKalb Co., GA in metro Atlanta after bomb threats, county officials say in news release obtained by @CNN.
The locations include a church, two libraries, a community center and a senior center

[Jonathan Martin @jmart]

Source in Georgia says yet more bomb threats coming into heavily black polling stations there.

[Boris Nisnevich @BNisnevich]

So wanting to vomit from anxiety is normal on election night??

[Jay Black @jayblackisfunny]

Just think, after we win tonight and do our 2.5 month victory lap, we can leave twitter forever, letting it become Elon’s Xanadu, a crumbling gothic manse, filled with bots assuring each other that the election was stolen and that you don’t need a polio vaccine, actually.

[×͜× Rokhaya ⸆⸉ ໑̣ @RokhaLovesHS]

for real, america can’t be real

[Kaitlan Collins @kaitlancollins]

Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger says the non-credible threats that briefly disrupted voting at two Georgia polling places originated from Russia. “We identified the source; it was from Russia," he says.

[Gabriel Sterling @GabrielSterling]

The man who posted the fake Russian video claiming Haitian illegals are voting in Georgia, AlphaFox78, was paid by the Russians. Look forward to those that shared the disinformation apologizing for helping our enemies.

[Ken Dilanian @KDilanianMSNOW]

New: The FBI is warning about a fabricated video purporting to be an alert issued by the FBI urging Americans to “vote remotely” due to a high terror threat at polling stations. The FBI is also flagging a video containing a fake FBI press release alleging that the management of five prisons in Pennsylvania, Georgia, and Arizona rigged inmate voting and colluded with a political party. Disinformation is everywhere.

[Boris Nisnevich @BNisnevich]

Same

[AskAubry 🦋 🐆🦝 @ask_aubry]

Woke up anxious.

[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.

[The Saurus @TheSaurus831]

Really is a tough call.

On one hand - every Nobel prize winning economist is adamantly stating that Harris has a significantly better economic plan

But on the other hand - the dumbest people I’ve ever interacted with say Trump is a good businessman

Quite the dilemma

[Tom Morello @tmorello]

Never ceases to amaze me how many folks who’ve heard RATM are in Paul Ryan mode, having literally ZERO understanding of anything that band was about and even less understanding where any of us might stand on contemporary issues. Recently was talking to a couple at a restaurant who were big fans of “Killing In The Name”. The nice lady said, “I love that song. It helped me rage against my parents and later against the jab!” I said, “Ma’am that song is about racist cops who often behave like the Ku Klux Klan in service of historical white supremacy and are boot licking lackeys and thugs of the racist capitalist ruling class.” She sat there chewing and blinking, chewing and blinking.

[Boris Nisnevich @BNisnevich]

@SianyMacalarny Anxiety through the roof. Going to stress eat every snack in the house.

[Elise Thomas @elisethoma5]

1. I've found a large, AI-driven bot network on X which is posting in support of Trump in the US election.

Thread.

[John Fetterman @JohnFetterman]

It’s as simple as that. 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

[Boris Nisnevich @BNisnevich]

Very accurate

[Boris Nisnevich @BNisnevich]

Not surprising

[Mediaite @Mediaite]

BOMBSHELL AUDIO: Jeffrey Epstein Talks About How Trump Was His 'Closest Friend for 10 Years' https://t.co/KBrUvvmpby