As we all await the outcome of what feels like a make-or-break election, I want to offer some perspective, if you’ll hand a fellow with eight-plus decades the mic for a moment.
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Governor Ron DeSantis and the state of Florida have removed over a million people from their voter rolls…mostly Democrats too.
Check your voter registration status, Florida: https://t.co/svPmbuQXo2
Pass it on!
An Idaho law banning minors from receiving healthcare without parent approval has created a legal problem. If a child is raped by their parent, medics now require that parent’s permission to administer the rape kit that would prove their own guilt.
https://t.co/NL7lbETCz6
NEW: Billionaire Elon Musk has created a PAC collecting voter data from those living in key states through an online "register to vote" form that does not directly register people to vote.
All of this in an effort to help Donald Trump become president.
https://t.co/1NlzNXPAGG
NEWS: Teamsters VP-at-Large, John Palmer, who has been extremely critical of current President O’Brien’s overtures towards the GOP, has just announced he’s forming an opposition slate and running for president in the 2026 Teamsters leadership election. “We are better than this.”
I got about 8 seconds into explaining the Kate Middleton situation to my French husband before he told me, in the Frenchest voice imaginable, "ah yes, that's why we decided not to have those sorts of people anymore"
spent my lunch break today coming up with ways that the Kate Middleton story would turn out if it were being investigated by various fictional detectives
EVERY SINGLE JOB SHOULD PAY A LIVING WAGE. If the work matters enough to hire someone to do it, that worker should be able to afford a safe comfy home, fresh nutritious food, a fun vacation sometimes and enough left to save.
YES EVERY SINGLE JOB, INCLUDING YOURS now I’m screamin
Oregon’s vote by mail system is a tried and true way for folks to make their voices heard on their own time. Let’s expand this simple and secure system nationwide!
The results are in: with 92% approval, the workers at @Powells have voted to authorize a strike! What this means, what you can do to help, and what happens next… 🧵