Penny Chase

Geek, photography, astronomy, food. mastodon: @[email protected]

[Judd Legum @JuddLegum]

🚨 BEWARE of https://t.co/t3WSBRSlSF 🚨

While it bills itself as a “safe” way to register to vote, it is actually a digital surveillance machine created by Elon Musk’s super PAC.

[Donald Trump’s Neck Vagina @torontobaddy]

This is what smallpox looks like. RFK Jr. wants to eliminate the smallpox vaccine. Good luck everyone. This is what you voted for.

[ChrisO_wiki @ChrisO_wiki]

1/ X's algorithm was changed in mid-July 2024 to systematically boost Republican-leaning accounts and Elon Musk's own account following his endorsement of Donald Trump, according to a newly released computational study of engagement from the Queensland University of Technology.⬇️

[Penny Chase @wennefer]

With this record who wants Elon overseeing anything: https://t.co/d9MbCrBmA8

[Ms. M @msmalarkey24.bsky @MsMalarkey24]

We need to look at messaging, but respectfully, we have a much bigger problem here. Half the country refuses to look up from right-wing/foreign propaganda.

As it stands now, we can message in every language & interpretive dance, but without a bigger platform on social media/podcasts/etc., we still won’t break through to the entire country.

Individual congresspeople who outperformed Kamala had the ability to spend more time in their districts & reach 750,000 people on a more personal level — vs. the combined millions of people living in 7 states.

We also need to do more with registration & turnout. Starting now.

[Wajahat Ali @WajahatAli]

As the collective freak out continues, Harris will lose by about 2 points. Trump will get about 50.3% of the vote. Across the Rust Belt swing states Harris would have lost by less than 150K votes it seems.

So... Trump isn't some wizard or genius. It seems 3 factors determined this election.

1) Post pandemic reality where nearly every incumbent party lost.

2) Racism and misogyny that many white colleagues still refuse to acknowledge as a major factor.

3) Right-wing media domination and disinformation.

[Elizabeth Warren @ewarren]

Read my full op-ed on a path forward: https://t.co/RBJLb4jrDX

[Adam Kinzinger (Slava Ukraini) 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @AdamKinzinger]

After last night, I have taken a long look and made a decision:

I’m doubling down. We will protect our democracy, and never give up.

NEVER

[John Pavlovitz Official @johnpavlovitz]

Right now, MAGAs are pumping out their chests because they think they and Trump defeated us.
It’s when they can’t pay their mortgages or afford groceries or get health insurance that they’ll realize Trump was the singular enemy all along, and that we were fighting for them, too.
And by then it will be too late.

[Jakobytes @makita250]

@ArtCandee I can’t say that I am shocked to find out that stupid people are the larger demographic in America .

[Bessie @caribwayoflife]

IF Sherrod Brown (a legitimately really good senator that actually responded to constituent concerns) loses to a used car salesman who stole wages from his employees, we have really lost the plot and I don’t think we find it again.

[Wajahat Ali @WajahatAli]

Racism, misogyny, and disinformation and right-wing media go a long, long, long way, folks.

[Human☮🇺🇸🇺🇦🇺🇸🌊 @4HumanUnity]

Dear AG Garland,

Thank you for waiting almost two FUCKING years to appoint Jack Smith with actual investigative powers and resources to go after Trump, while leaving the much weaker House Investigation Committee to do your FUCKING job.

FUCK YOU!

[The Intellectualist @highbrow_nobrow]

Russia is actively undermining our elections. We must return the favor, tonight. Let Ukraine target Russia. Do it now. There is no deterrence. Putin doesn’t fear the United States. 👇

[Brian H. Waters @brianhwaters]

Kids watching election coverage for the first time should know that we NEVER HAD bomb threats until Donald Trump became president. - MSNBC

[Renee @PettyLupone]

Shirley Chisholm rightly predicted that…

before a woman would become President of the United States, we’d need to see a woman become Vice President first.

I know she’s looking down just tickled that it’s about to be the same woman. 💅🏽

[Ben Manripeem @BradleyOnishi]

Given Trump’s and Musk’s calls with Putin how is this not the story of the century? Of at least the decade? Foreign powers calling in bomb threats to scare votes from voting SHOULD be a national emergency.

[John Harwood @JohnJHarwood]

Russia = Team Trump

[Seth Abramson @SethAbramson]

(📢) BREAKING NEWS (MSNBC, live on-air): Pro-Trump Domestic and Foreign Entities Made Bomb Threats Against 38 Democratic Areas in GA, and Trump Raised False Alarms Intended to Scare MI and PA Voters in Cities with Large Black Populations, Falsely Claiming a Police Action Underway

[Art Candee 🍿🥤 @ArtCandee]

Leon Munsk & Co. have done everything they can to throttle my account.

They've taken away followers.

Likes have disappeared before my very eyes.

I've had my posts literally show up as "post unavailable."

BUT I AM HAVING THE BEST DAY I'VE EVER HAD ON THE APP TODAY.

My analytics are through the roof!

💪