Aaron Huertas
Democracy is pretty cool. We should try it some time. Working on voting and public health. Close Read podcast 🎧. patreon.com/closeread
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Quiz: Can You Tell a ‘Trump’ Fridge From a ‘Biden’ Fridge?
What the contents of our refrigerators say about our politics — and our assumptions.
Aaron Huertas
This made me lose six brain cells.
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Swing Toward The Democrats | Monmouth University Polling Institute
But most voters still expect Trump to win
What’s the game plan if Trump really does try to steal the election? 7 tactics to stop a coup
Aaron Huertas
What do you do if there's an attempt to undermine the election? Nice overview from @choosedemo.
STRONGLY recommend journalists working on this get in touch with @ShutDown_DC @TheRedLineGuide @FrontLineHRD and protecttheresults.com too.
Panic is bad.
choosedemocracy.us/whats-the-game…
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Avoiding Post-Election Chaos: Wilson vs. Hughes, 1916
President Trump’s recent refusals to commit to a peaceful transfer of power have called to mind historical contrasts.
Facebook Let Trump Launch New Political Ads After Ban Went Into Effect
The platform removed most of the ads after HuffPost flagged them.
As Election Nears, Trump Makes a Final Push Against Climate Science
The administration is imposing new limits on the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration that would undercut action against global warming.
Aaron Huertas
Now appointees like @RyanMaue are part of a wrecking crew at NOAA. This report says climate cranks like @curryja + @myronebell have been getting briefings on undermining the next big federal climate assessment. Clown car.
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Labor Unions
Do you approve or disapprove of labor unions? Overall, do you think labor unions mostly help or mostly hurt [INSERT ITEM, RANDOM ORDER]? How about -- [INSERT NEXT ITEM]? In the labor disputes of the last two or three years, have your sympathies, in...
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Aaron Huertas
@GroverNorquist @EWErickson Unions ARE popular, so opponents have to argue against them on other grounds and try to use the force of the state + the force of major corporations to weaken them.
news.gallup.com/poll/12751/lab… pic.twitter.com/1tddxrjihk
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Even If You Are, For Some Reason, A Liberal, Single-Issue Anti-Wokeness Voter, You Still Shouldn't Vote For Trump
A plea for sanity and perspective at an insane moment
They Lost Their Jobs In The Pandemic. Now Defeating Trump Is A Full-Time Job.
Hundreds of laid-off service workers — many of them immigrants Trump has insulted — are getting out the vote in Nevada, Arizona, Florida and Pennsylvania.
Members of Pence’s Inner Circle Test Positive for Coronavirus
Along with Marc Short, the vice president’s chief of staff, another staff member and a Pence adviser have also tested positive, according to people briefed on the developments.
Crews vacuum 'murder hornets' out of Washington nest
BLAINE, Wash. (AP) — Heavily protected crews in Washington state worked Saturday to destroy the first nest of so-called murder hornets discovered in the United States. The state Agriculture...
A Common Defense: Mobilizing Veterans in Labor To Beat Trump and the GOP
During his 2016 presidential campaign, Donald Trump dissed a Gold Star family that had lost a son in Iraq. He called Senator John McCain, America’s most famous prisoner of war, a “loser” for being captured in Vietnam. When asked about widespread...
The Resistance Is Just Warming Up
How anti-Trump women in America’s suburbs are ushering in a new era of political activism
Aaron Huertas
I love these profiles of local activists. As @elainejgodfrey notes, groups like this are integral for helping candidates raise money and contact voters.
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Waiting to Vote
Long waits at polling places are disruptive, disenfranchising, and all too common. Black and Latino voters are especially likely to endure them.
Senator Hirono’s Double Standard | National Review
Last week, the Hawaii senator condemned Amy Coney Barrett for saying ‘sexual preference,’ but won’t call on Joe Biden to apologize for using the same term in May 2020.
Talking to the Voters Who Could Decide the 2020 Election
An illustrated conversation with a dozen Pennsylvanians.
Cutting Edge Reforms for the Supreme Court
McTwist Limits
In our current system of lifetime appointments, the Court’s makeup hinges on the health of a few elderly justices. Instead of tying ...