Jess Avery

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The best Bat-thread.

BRING BACK HERMAN MELVILLE AND NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE BECAUSE WE NEED THEIR TAKES ON THIS

I can’t believe they called prop 50 the moment polls closed. That tells you something. Most of these races were called within 45 minutes. It’s a BLOWOUT, y’all. THAT is what we call a MANDATE.

"in this moment of political darkness, new york will be the light

"whether you are an immigrant, a member of the trans community one of the many black women that donald trump who has fired from her job... your struggle is ours too"

The meme of a guy with a butterfly and it says "Is this hope?"

Live updates: US voters head to the polls in first general election since Trump's return to power One year after Donald Trump retook the presidency, 2025 Election Day includes closely watched races for New York City mayor, New Jersey governor and California's Proposition 50.

BREAKING: Colorado voters approved a ballot measure that would raise state income taxes on higher-earning households to fund free meals for all public school students.

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Live updates: US voters head to the polls in first general election since Trump's return to power One year after Donald Trump retook the presidency, 2025 Election Day includes closely watched races for New York City mayor, New Jersey governor and California's Proposition 50.

BREAKING: Maine voters pass a “red flag law” allowing temporary removal of firearms, a response to 2023 mass shooting in Lewiston.

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Maine Rejects Anti-Voting Ballot Measure, Reaffirms Voting Access Read more here.

🚨BREAKING: Maine voters rejected a Republican-backed ballot initiative Tuesday that would have imposed new photo ID rules and severely limited mail-in voting — a decisive win for voting rights advocates who said the measure threatened to upend the state’s tradition of accessible elections.

As many have pointed out, Mamdani didn't stand apart from our trans brothers and sisters. He didn't play the "Gee, gosh, it sure is complicated," milquetoast moderate card. And he crushed.

The way forward is together, not over the bodies of our own.

I feel like I can't breathe, but for the first time in a LONG time it's for a good reason. I feel such hope.

Something really good happened tonight. 🥹

you can win without billionaires supporting you

you can win without party leadership endorsing you

you can win unapologetically standing with every persecuted minority pundits say are too politically toxic to touch

we could do everything about this process differently if we wanted to

I'll go ahead and say it. Texas book banners got their butts kicked in tonight's school board elections. Again.

Heck yeah Maine. 💙

I knoooow. We're working to defeat a voter ID/voter restrictions referendum up here in Maine and even though they called it I'm still so nervous.

BIG BREAKING: Democrat Zohran Mamdani is elected Mayor of New York City, in the largest turnout vote since 1969. He becomes the first Muslim and immigrant mayor of New York City, and the first Muslim to be elected of a major U.S. city.

HE DID IT!!

Normal People Don’t Want This Shit is running away with the vote tonight

Screenshot of AP News results showing No on 1 up 20% and Yes on 2 up 17%

Okay okay okay!

AAAAH NEW YORK YOU BEAUTY!

Screencap of AP news results showing No on Question 1 is up 10%

Come on Maine. Come on you gorgeous balsam-scented pile of granite.

What we know so far, 8:30pm

—Democrats flip VA-Gov & VA-LG.
—Also means Dems take VA trifecta.
—Dems in good shape to win NJ-Gov.
—Dems appear to flip 2 statewide offices in Georgia.
—JD Vance's half-brother loses in Cincinnati.
—Last GOPer in Orlando council gone.
—PA: Dem justices up big so far.

begging with my entire heart for election results across the map which force the Dems to finally begin internalizing the lesson that throwing trans people under the bus is going to fuck them repeatedly

a man wearing a black shirt that says " i 'm very anxious about it " Alt: a man wearing a black shirt that says " i 'm very anxious about it "

Polls close in 15 here. Come on Maine, show me a hearty "No" on Question 1.

I stg if I don't start getting election results right now I'm gonna gnaw my own hands off

Maybe someday we'll have an election night where i can't feel myself basically vibrating with anxiety...

But not tonight.

Paperback of The Black Hunger by Nicholas Pullen. The title is displayed in red in an archaic font against a cream background. Along the bottom of the cover is a macabre still life including a skull, fruits, insects etc al.

THE BLACK HUNGER bh Nicholas Pullen is doing a fantastic job of curing the book slump I could feel myself sliding into. I'm only 36 pages in but I am fully committed to whatever dark places we're bound. 🖤

Paperback of The Black Hunger by Nicholas Pullen. The title is displayed in red in an archaic font against a cream background. Along the bottom of the cover is a macabre still life including a skull, fruits, insects etc al.

THE BLACK HUNGER bh Nicholas Pullen is doing a fantastic job of curing the book slump I could feel myself sliding into. I'm only 36 pages in but I am fully committed to whatever dark places we're bound. 🖤

A copy of Teenage Girls Can Be Demons by Hailey Piper, art by Julia Lloyd, next to an open copy of the same book showing the title page of Benny Rose the Cannibal King, a novella that's come back into print in the collection. Below that is a sparkly pumpkin candle.

Halloween. Suppertime 🎃

BENNY ROSE THE CANNIBAL KING has become a holiday reread for some but new meals might wonder where to find this chompy guy now? In TEENAGE GIRLS CAN BE DEMONS, that's where 😈

So a big thanks to returning readers, a dinner bell to newcomers, and to everyone, Happy Halloween!