Katherine Wasilenko Miller 🏃‍♀️

CA17 by way of NY22. Dev Marketer by day. Running, momming, volunteering by night. Knew Hamilton was cool before the musical. She/her. Thoughts are my own

[Katherine Wasilenko Miller 🏃‍♀️ @kwazrunner]

Going to be parallel pathing on the 🐦 and 🦋 - feels only right to stay on top of the latest apps and be where the cool people are 😎

I'm kwazrunner over there too 🏃‍♀️

[Kamala for Georgia @KamalaForGA]

GEORGIA VOTERS: If you’re in line, stay in line! If you're in line by 7pm, you have the right to vote.

🔵Cobb County Civic Center
🔵Sugar Hill Church, Gwinnett
🔵Swint Elementary School, Jonesboro

Your vote matters! RT/share this post so others stay in line.

[follow @bencollins on bluesky @oneunderscore__]

I can’t believe I’m saying this, as a guy who thinks picking up calls from random numbers should be against the law, but if you voted in Nevada, pick up your phone!

[Anderson Clayton☀️ @abreezeclayton]

dear god please stay in line 😭

[Tristan Snell @TristanSnell]

I was just in Philadelphia. There is no "heavy law enforcement." Just long lines to vote.

Trump is LYING - again. Don't let him intimidate you.

Remember, if he's LYING - it means he's LOSING.

[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.

[Katherine Wasilenko Miller 🏃‍♀️ @kwazrunner]

@svershbow 2 obsessions (based on Insta targeting) - simple jewelry and modular packing.

[Jon Tester @jontester]

Here’s your reminder that Tim Sheehy would rob Montana women of their freedom, carve up and sell off our public lands, and shutter rural hospitals. We can’t trust him to defend our Montana way of life.

[Nida Allam ☀️ @NidaAllam]

As Chair of the BOCC I was invited again to meet with @KamalaHarris as she arrived in NC last week.

Every opportunity with her I have used my limited time to advocate for Gaza & the West Bank.
This time I was surprised.

- A rambling thread of my thoughts & processing /🧵

[Dana Goldberg @DGComedy]

If you plan on voting for Jill Stein or Trump because of the war in the Middle East, please watch and reconsider. It’s just 6 minutes and it’s worth the watch.

[Sandra Boynton @SandyBoynton]

#vote

[Katherine Wasilenko Miller 🏃‍♀️ @kwazrunner]

WT actual...

Do I agree with Liz Cheney? Only on our support of Harris.

But it is possible to respectfully disagree AND not threaten violence.

America - we are SO MUCH BETTER THAN THIS.

#VoteBlue

[Headquarters @HQNewsNow]

Trump: Let's put Liz Cheney with a rifle standing there with nine barrels shooting at her. Let's see how she feels about it when the guns are trained on her face

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

Where’s the media and GOP civility police at times like this? Why is Trump consistently allowed to get away with language that no other presidential candidate, Democratic or Republic, in modern American history has been allowed to get away with? Why?

[Last Week Tonight @LastWeekTonight]

We will pay the U.S. government $701 a year to play this at naturalization ceremonies.

[Nick Knudsen 🇺🇸 @NickKnudsenUS]

👀 BREAKING: This ad, when tested, moves under-30-men by 2+ points away from Donald Trump.

That’s HUGE MOVEMENT!

Please share widely!

Guys don’t want to be controlled either. #MAGAInYourSheets

[Rep. Don Beyer @RepDonBeyer]

I encourage all Virginia voters to confirm their voter registration status by visiting https://t.co/XzmnHw4Jvv.

If you are not registered, you may still register to vote through Election Day but will be asked to vote using a provisional ballot.

[Angry Staffer @Angry_Staffer]

Republicans are killing women with their draconian policies.

You can vote to stop this next week.

[Joelle Emerson @joelle_emerson]

A powerful summation of the case against Trump from @ezraklein:

Here is the question Democrats have floundered in answering this year: If Donald Trump is so dangerous, then how come the consequences of his presidency weren’t worse? ...

There is an answer to this question: It’s that as president, Trump was surrounded by inhibitors. In 2020 the political scientist Daniel Drezner published a book titled “The Toddler in Chief.” The core of the book was over 1,000 instances Drezner collected in which Trump is described by those around him in terms befitting an impetuous child. ...

In 2017 his deputy chief of staff Katie Walsh described working with President Trump as “trying to figure out what a child wants.” Steve Bannon, Trump’s chief strategist, said — quote — “I’m sick of being a wet nurse for a 71-year-old.” James Mattis, Trump’s first secretary of defense, and John Kelly, later his chief of staff, often described themselves like babysitters; they made a pact to never be overseas at the same time, lest Trump do something truly deranged.

Here’s the title of a 2017 article in Politico: “White House aides lean on delays and distraction to manage Trump.” The first paragraph reads, “As White House chief of staff, Reince Priebus mused to associates that telling President Donald Trump no was usually not an effective strategy. Telling him ‘next week’ was often the better idea.”

In 2018, The New York Times published a bombshell Op-Ed by an anonymous member of the Trump administration who said he, a Republican, was part of the internal resistance to Donald Trump, in which — quote — “many of the senior officials in his own administration are working diligently from within to frustrate parts of his agenda and his worst inclinations.” That author later revealed himself to be Miles Taylor, the chief of staff of the Department of Homeland Security. In a 2020 interview with ABC, he described the lengths he and others took to shield America — to shield their own staff — from the commander in chief’s whims and rages:

Miles Taylor: The president at the time would get into these phone rants with us, the secretary, myself, about Jerry Brown, and how frustrated he was with Jerry Brown and later Gavin Newsom, because they didn’t support him. And he didn’t have a base of supporters in California. So as wildfires were burning down houses in the state, the president basically said to us, “I don’t care. These people haven’t done enough to deserve it. Cut off the money.”In fact, that phone call that I referenced with FEMA officials, the secretary and I were so concerned because we didn’t want our senior leadership to be exposed to how undisciplined and tumultuous the White House was, because it made it harder for them to do their jobs. So after that call, FEMA officials said: “What do we do? The president has just told us to cut off money to people whose homes are burning down.”Our answer was: We’re not going to do it. Don’t worry. We’ll go back to the president. But then, George, months after, again in January 2019, the president said he wanted to do it. And again, I think subsequently, he tweeted about doing it. Fortunately, it never happened. FEMA didn’t follow through on it because I think because they determined from their lawyers that a tweet wasn’t an official order.

The Trump administration was rife with this sort of thing. In 2019 a senior national security official told CNN’s Jake Tapper: “Everyone at this point ignores what the president says and just does their job. The American people should take some measure of confidence in that.”

https://t.co/16BoPGF92F

[Bakari Sellers @Bakari_Sellers]

Virginia voters: if you've been wrongly purged from the rolls you can re-register at the polls under same-day registration & still cast a ballot.