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emotional, compassionate, powerful. if you are neutral in situations of injustice you have chosen the side of the oppressor.

[Women Posting W's @womenpostingws]

Reese Witherspoon was so iconic for this

[DCPetterson.bsky.social @dcpetterson]

Fun trivia.

The people who wrote our Constitution weren't sure whether they were going to include a procedure for impeaching the President. Benjamin Franklin made the final argument to convince them.

Want to know how he changed their minds?

1/3

[Stephen Barlow @SteB777]

Hmm, the government doesn't appear to be using protest legislation against farmers blocking roads with huge tractors.

In fact, has the government ever used protest legislation against anyone except those protesting against climate catastrophe and genocide?

[Climate Kev @climate_kev1]

You know the phytoplankton that provide 80% of the planets’ oxygen?

They’re dying.

[Fred Wellman @FPWellman]

The thing about leopards is eventually they will eat you too.

Your favorite local restaurant closing because the nice family who owns it getting deported. You thought they were some of the “good ones.” The price of produce skyrocketing even before the camps are built as immigrants flee. Your daughter dying of sepsis because the lawyers feel it’s too risky to perform that D&C.

No more FAFSA for your kids college because you didn’t know that was part of the Department of Education. Veterans having their benefits cut because they rolled back the PACT Act as too expensive. That factory in town that was going to build chips and employ your kids never breaking ground because of the repeal of the CHIPs act. The bridge that was going to cut your commute in half being canceled because of the repeal of the Infrastructure Act.

That sweet government job that you’ve loved because you can work 8 hours a day and fish on the weekends has been slated for a MAGA Schedule F slot because it controls funding for contracts that will go to Republican donors, so you’re fired without cause or any union protections.

You’ll blame Biden or the local Democrats probably. But it will be fine because Elon promised it would be uncomfortable at first but it will get better. You were just so sure it would be uncomfortable for…you know…”those people.” Not you.

But that’s leopards for you. They eat whatever is available.

[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.

[Cardi B @iamcardib]

I’m not a puppet Elon.. I’m a daughter of two immigrant parents that had to work their ass off to provide for me! I’m a product of welfare, I’m a product of section 8, I’m a product of poverty and I’m a product of what happens when the system is set up against you….But you don’t know nothing about that. You don’t know not one thing about the American struggle…. PS fix my algorithm

[Scooby Doom @MayorEsquire]

anyone who finds this ad to be in "bad taste" should consider that actual women who aren't actors in commercials have literally been killed by abortion bans

[𝖍🌙 @halli_cat]

@PedanticPerson @carimorton @DogeShop1 @colwight @MargaretAtwood Sure. If you never read the book just say so. Sparknotes exists to help people just like you ♥️

[𝖍🌙 @halli_cat]

@DogeShop1 @colwight @MargaretAtwood Here is the spark notes summary since some of us didn’t read the book:

[𝖍🌙 @halli_cat]

@mdpaulus @MargaretAtwood I really just can’t help you if you didn’t read the book and don’t understand what the point of dystopian fiction is

[𝖍🌙 @halli_cat]

@RussCote @MargaretAtwood I’m gonna go out on a limb and guess the author of the handmaids tale herself understands the meaning of this cartoon just fine lol

[𝖍🌙 @halli_cat]

@El__Bohemio @MargaretAtwood You are tweeting at the literal author of the handmaid’s tale. I think it’s her own original point about the trajectory of our democracy that is over your head

[𝖍🌙 @halli_cat]

@mdpaulus @MargaretAtwood This is literally the author of the handmaids tale you are replying to 😂 and the cartoon implies their votes will be their liberation from a trajectory her book has long predicted

[𝖍🌙 @halli_cat]

@colwight @MargaretAtwood Bro this is the author of the handmaid’s tale herself who you talking to 😭💀 she’s not endorsing trump. Women liberate themselves through their vote is the point of the cartoon.

[Sophie for Kamala!! @Sophieresists]

Maybe talk to the voters in Fulton County about the long lines they stand in every election.

[Drew Comments @sjs856]

“Chosen by God”, eh? Tell me something, why do you think god has such strict behavioral standards for women but none for men? This is lewd conduct that would result in termination from any job. Your god has no decency standard for Presidents?

[Dr. Jen Golbeck @jengolbeck]

🧵Next week, you will see people using something called Benford's Law to try to prove election fraud.
⛔️These people are wrong⛔️
I am a scientist who has published on Benford's Law. Let me tell you what it is and why what they are doing is mathematically incorrect. 1/

[MollyPeonies @mollypeonies]

It’s such a sickness that women can’t tell their husbands they like Harris, because their husbands are so deeply against any shirt from the white-male-centric status quo they have benefited from for so long. Even when it hurts their wives, sisters, mothers, daughters.

[MollyPeonies @mollypeonies]

And when women can’t tell their husbands they are voting for Harris, it might seem like “silent resistance” to pressure all around them. But the reality is it’s also one of the few times they can exercise their personal agency. But only in private. And many are scared to do that.