Alan M

a generally busy individual who is happiest loving his wife, playing ukulele, and being a geek (and sometimes all three)

[Tycho Brahe @TychoBrahe]

The kind of smug certainty on offer from my team's influencer oracles on social media should get them exiled to the Fear Swamps. I don't want to be soothed or mollified by my politics. I want to be set ablaze.

[Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1]

California has repealed Prop. 8 and enshrined same-sex marriage rights in the state constitution.

[Michael Okuda @MikeOkuda]

Star Trek doesn't promise that tomorrow will be a better place. In fact, many Trek stories warn what could happen if we make bad choices. However Trek says tomorrow CAN be a better place if we are smart, if we work hard, and if we are compassionate and inclusive.

[John Hodgman @hodgman]

The sun rose where I am. I spent the night not sleeping in my hotel room. It was dark and slow and lonely.

I had thought if it happened it wouldn’t be as hard as last time. Because it would be less of a shock. But it was harder, actually, and for the same reason. No one went into this naively. This was chosen.

But now my people are checking in with me, and vice versa. The sun is up. I already feel less alone.

This is me checking in with you: you’re not alone and you’re NOT wrong. This is going to feel bad. It’s going to BE bad. But the sun rose. You deserve its warmth, every day, and we are already closer to a future in which this will be the fucked up past.

Take care of one another and yourself. See you tonight if that’s helpful to you.

[Four Seasons Total Landscaping @TotalSeasons]

OK ladies, time to move on Trump like a bitch. Go grab him by the ballot.
#VoteKamala

[Sesame Street @sesamestreet]

Stop scrolling, take a deep breath, and use the next few minutes to escape to a place where the air is sweet. 💛💚

[Killed by Google @killedbygoogle]

Go vote for @KamalaHarris.

[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

[Akilah Hughes @AkilahObviously]

Puerto Ricans haven’t been this mad at Tony since West Side Story.

[Tom Morello @tmorello]

“My name is Mary Morello and I voted today. I’m 101 years old and I worked closely with people who fought and died for the right to vote and I owe it to them to vote as long as I can. I think it’s good to act up and protest as much as you can before, during and after the election for what you think is right too, no matter who wins the election. But we got to stop the racist people and fascist people every which way we can so I’m gonna vote.”

[Liam Nissan™ @theliamnissan]

Fact: Every single racist word of Tony Hinchcliffe's speech at Madison Square Garden last night was approved by the Donald Trump campaign before it was loaded onto the teleprompter

[Mark Hamill @MarkHamill]

The choice is clear:

[John Pavlovitz Official @johnpavlovitz]

If Billionaires like Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk don't want Kamala Harris to win, maybe she's actually good for people who aren't billionaires.

[Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com on Bsky @ErinInTheMorn]

If you're upset at the Washington Post and LA Times being controlled by billionaires, consider following independent journalists. Legacy media has been on the downswing for a while now, and there are really amazing people stepping in and doing the work themselves.

A list:

[Fred Wellman @FPWellman]

When you get a Top Secret clearance you have to report any foreign travel, contacts, and relationships you have. If you have regular contact with threat countries like Russia, North Korea, China, Iran, and dozens of others you are grilled on it. If you lie...you lose your clearance. If you develop relationships and don't report them...you lose your clearance. If you have those relationships...you lose your clearance. We have a guy with a TS clearance, overseeing classified contracts, and control of equipment that can literally get our troops killed if turned off...who is friends with our most bitter enemy and doing favors for him undermining our allies...and it seems the GOVERNMENT FUCKING KNOWS ABOUT IT and has done nothing. Do your fucking jobs. When my kid gets killed because Elon flipped off Starlink it will be his blood on your fucking hands because you didn't want to make the billionaire or his insane followers mad at you.

[Adam Parkhomenko @AdamParkhomenko]

SpaceX should lose all federal contracts. Immediately

[Missy Elliott @MissyElliott]

🙏🏾I am HUMBLY GRATEFUL! Crying Tears of JOY! Thinking of the days I wasn’t so strong but through FAITH & PRAYER I kept going..I’m SO THANKFUL🙏🏾@POTUS 🙏🏾& CONGRATULATIONS to the other amazing ppl who was blessed with this honor🙌🏾☺️