Kathe Welch

ADHD Artist, Author & Retired Art Teacher, elsewhere @kathewelch @FourOceansPress

[Elie Mystal @ElieNYC]

Thoughts and prayers, America

[Kamala Harris @KamalaHarris]

We are finishing this campaign as we started: with optimism, with energy, and with joy.

[Nick Knudsen 🇺🇸 @NickKnudsenUS]

🚨 BREAKING:

Wow. This heart-rending ad, when tested, moves swing-state men 2.5 points away from Trump.

Massive.

Please share everywhere.

Women are dying NOW in states with extreme bans. If Republicans win, a national abortion ban is next. Don't look away. #MAGAAbortionBan

[Victor Shi @Victorshi2020]

NEW: The Kamala Harris campaign just released its final ad & I’m reduced to tears. Kamala Harris is the leader we need. Working for her has been an honor of the lifetime & we are going to fight like never before these next 3 days to get her elected as president. Watch & share.

[Seth Abramson @SethAbramson]

This video is incredible.

Everyone should RETWEET it so the whole *world* sees it.

[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

[Arnold Schwarzenegger @Schwarzenegger]

I don’t really do endorsements. I’m not shy about sharing my views, but I hate politics and don’t trust most politicians.

I also understand that people want to hear from me because I am not just a celebrity, I am a former Republican Governor.

My time as Governor taught me to love policy and ignore politics. I’m proud of the work I did to help clean up our air, create jobs, balance the budget, make the biggest infrastructure investment in state history, and take power from the politicians and give it back to the people when it comes to our redistricting process and our primaries in California.

That’s policy. It requires working with the other side, not insulting them to win your next election, and I know it isn’t sexy to most people, but I love it when I can help make people’s lives better with policies, like I still do through my institute at USC, where we fight for clean air and stripping the power from the politicians who rig the system against the people.

Let me be honest with you: I don’t like either party right now. My Republicans have forgotten the beauty of the free market, driven up deficits, and rejected election results. Democrats aren’t any better at dealing with deficits, and I worry about their local policies hurting our cities with increased crime.

It is probably not a surprise that I hate politics more than ever, which, if you are a normal person who isn’t addicted to this crap, you probably understand.

I want to tune out.

But I can’t. Because rejecting the results of an election is as un-American as it gets. To someone like me who talks to people all over the world and still knows America is the shining city on a hill, calling America is a trash can for the world is so unpatriotic, it makes me furious.

And I will always be an American before I am a Republican.

That’s why, this week, I am voting for Kamala Harris and Tim Walz.

I’m sharing it with all of you because I think there are a lot of you who feel like I do. You don’t recognize our country. And you are right to be furious.

For decades, we’ve talked about the national debt. For decades, we’ve talked about comprehensive immigration reform that secures the border while fixing our broken immigration system. And Washington does nothing.

The problems just keep rolling, and we all keep getting angrier, because the only people that benefit from problems aren’t you, the people. The only people that benefit from this crap are the politicians who prefer having talking points to win elections to the public service that will make Americans’ lives better.

It is a just game to them. But it is life for my fellow Americans. We should be pissed!

But a candidate who won’t respect your vote unless it is for him, a candidate who will send his followers to storm the Capitol while he watches with a Diet Coke, a candidate who has shown no ability to work to pass any policy besides a tax cut that helped his donors and other rich people like me but helped no one else else, a candidate who thinks Americans who disagree with him are the bigger enemies than China, Russia, or North Korea - that won’t solve our problems.

It will just be four more years of bullshit with no results that makes us angrier and angrier, more divided, and more hateful.

We need to close the door on this chapter of American history, and I know that former President Trump won’t do that. He will divide, he will insult, he will find new ways to be more un-American than he already has been, and we, the people, will get nothing but more anger.

That’s enough reason for me to share my vote with all of you. I want to move forward as a country, and even though I have plenty of disagreements with their platform, I think the only way to do that is with Harris and Walz.

Vote this week. Turn the page and put this junk behind us.

And even if you disagree with me, vote, because that’s what we do as Americans. https://t.co/eHFZ723I4H

[Elie Mystal @ElieNYC]

On the other hand, we could be 10 days away from never having to take that orange punk bitch authoritarian wanna-be seriously again for the rest of our lives.

[The White House 46 Archived @WhiteHouse46]

Happening Now: President Biden delivers remarks discussing the Biden-Harris Administration’s record of delivering for Tribal communities. https://t.co/KyCRKWWseV

[Sassiest Minx in Minnesota 💚 🇺🇸 @SassiestMinx]

So, how and why did a then 94 yo Texas born & raised, Catholic, life-long, two-time Trump voter become a huge Kamala Harris fan? Bear with me, it’s not a short story.

I sold my home & bought a house in the suburb of St. Paul/Minneapolis, MN in the fall of 2021. I chose this city because my dad’s long-term memories are here. I moved my dad in with me so I could care for him. We have a split-level home, and he lives downstairs.

Dad grew up in generational racism. He doesn’t hate people - he was truly uninformed & ignorant. Living with me full-time, a tried & true Lib, well … he was exposed to more information than he had been for decades. Mom passed in 2010. Side note: Dad told her she had to vote Republican. Since the 1952 election (Eisenhower/Stevenson) she told my dad she voted Republican. On her death bed, she told me I could tell dad the truth once she was gone; she never once voted Republican! “He’ll be so mad I canceled out every single vote of his!”

Dad likes to spend time “upstairs” with me. I blocked Fox “News” from MY TV. If he wanted to watch it, he had to do it on his own time & on his own TV. He’d get to the church parking lot early every Saturday evening so he could listen to a conservative radio show, before mass.

In June of 2022, Roe was overturned. When is saw the breaking news chyron on the TV I dropped to my knees and sobbed. He didn’t get it. He didn’t understand why I was so upset, why I was sobbing. I began to explain the ramifications of the decision. He was quiet.

2022 was also an election year in MN for governor. Not long after Roe was overturned Gov. Walz codified abortion & reproductive rights in my state. When the laws passed Dad came to me and said he was glad. He said Dobbs was wrong. He was angry. He asked a question, which changed everything, “Even though I am registered as Republican, can I vote for Walz?” Yes, Dad, oh yes you can – and he DID. This was his first Democrat vote in his entire life, in 76 years of voting.

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[ryan fae (@ryan.staticnoi.se on 🦋) @RhinozzCode]

if you saw that notice about a Terms of Service update, this is the main clause it changed.

it explicitly lets twitter use your posts and any attached media — including images, videos, and their audio — for the training of AI models like Grok.

it will be in effect November 15.

[Elie Mystal @ElieNYC]

The problem in this election is not Black men voting for Trump. It’s white men voting for Trump. It’s always white men. If white men would stop voting for authoritarians, this election would not be close. Do something about the white men in your life.

[Harvey Ward @hlward]

This morning I got a call from a 202 area code number I didn’t recognize, but I answered anyway. The person on the other end said, “Mayor Ward, I’m calling from President Biden’s office, do you have time to talk to the president?” 1/ @JoeBiden @KamalaHarris @DemMayors

[Elie Mystal @ElieNYC]

If this man doesn’t win, McConnell will not allow the Black lady to appoint any judges, even if Harris wins. McConnell does not believe in letting Black presidents exercise the full authority of their office.
If you care about the courts at all, Tester must win.

[Schrödinger's Litter Box @Brewjew308]

🧵 One of the things that genuinely pisses me off regularly is the absolute non-coverage of the fact that everything the Biden administration has had to deal with for 4 years are specific, unambiguous examples of Donald Trump's intentional sabotage of this country.
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[Cory Booker @CoryBooker]

From The Boss. He put it perfectly. Thank you Bruce Springsteen.

[The Lincoln Project @ProjectLincoln]

Donald Trump’s Project 2025 will gut the agencies that bring much needed relief during natural disasters. In times of crisis, Trump will gladly leave you and your family behind.

[Jo @JoJoFromJerz]

Oh the irony… as per Jack Smith’s sprawling presidential immunity motion, Trump’s Ellipse speech can’t be considered an official act, because instead of playing “Hail to the Chief” that day, they played… YMCA.

A song The Village People have never given him permission to use.

[Bill Madden @maddenifico]

When are MAGA fascists going to learn? 😂😂🤣🤣👇

[Ben Wexler @mrbenwexler]

HARRIS: Let’s build 3 million new homes
TRUMP: Let’s do a national day of violence
POLLS: Statistically tied