Lane The Goofbot

I know it makes me a dopey old square, but I honestly do believe the mere act of taking a call like this should get any legislator bounced in shame from public life forever.

UH-OH: The slowest mail in the country is in key swing states, NBC investigations finds Tens of thousands of voters were disenfranchised by slow mail in 2020. NBC found some of the country’s slowest mail is in presidential swing states with strict mail ballot delivery deadlines.

This can't be a mistake or a whoopsie. At some point, we really ought to face that the guy in charge of the US Postal Service is a Trump/Republican operative.

Voters aren't in charge. Elected officials are. I really wish there was a concrete plan from our duly elected officials to explain how they're combatting this shit as opposed to

This is the disinfo nightmare that would have dominated any other election, yet you probably didn't even hear about it.

Because every Elon tweet gets 200k likes yet fades immediately into the slipstream because they're all the same tripe at 11.

I was in the psych ward for 9 days. I missed 40+ hours of work. I very much need help to pay for therapy, meds, food, and rent. Asking for $500. Please and thank you

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Vnm Sarah-Moose-Moose

Pro-Trump Georgia election board votes to require hand counts of ballots Critics plan to sue, saying the new requirement would almost certainly lead to errors and could disrupt the process of certifying the vote in a crucial battleground state.

georgia election board doing everything it can to ratfuck the election in the state www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Get My Family Housed, organized by Stephanie Brown My family of five has been living in a motel room for fifteen months. We can’t rent a new place u… Stephanie Brown needs your support for Get My Family Housed

Update: Still stalled at $1200.
The collection agency is not budging, the lowest they will go is still $6300. I am looking into bankruptcy now, but am unsure how that will affect our ability to move afterward.

Meanwhile, the need for gas & groceries continues. (Those links will be in the comments)

When a lower court blocked Alabama Republicans' congressional gerrymander in 2022 for violating Black voters' rights, the Supreme Court said 9 months from Election Day was too close & a new map had to wait until 2024.

We're 6.5 weeks from Election Day 2024 & the GOP is attempting all these changes:

For the Third Time, Marcellus Williams Faces Execution It’s up to Gov. Mike Parson to grant clemency and commute Mr. Williams’ sentence to life without parole.

A lot going on right now. Just a reminder that in five days, Missouri plans to execute an innocent man.

innocenceproject.org/time-is-runn...

Loretta standing next to a Lego tuxedo cat box and they look exactly the same

Lol

i need just like, $50 to get groceries and cover incidentals.

this is covered but if you want to help me make it to payday now, that would be good, thank you

Screenshot of part of a student loan payment, showing a "Current Amount Due" of $1,640.41

Last payment before the court ruling, for comparison

Screenshot of part of a student loan statement. Text reads "Payment Amount ($) 2,722.19"

With Republican judges blocking the Biden/Harris student loan reforms, I just got a notice from my student loan servicer that my student loan payments are going up $12,981.36 per year when payments resume 🫠

The reality is that American white power and its structural and social infrastructure is key to the rise of American fascist thought and its theoretical outcomes. We cannot continue to obsess over these differences when the outcomes are all the same: industrial death and democracy murder. 4/4

For denial to accumulate and give these groups and individuals cover. The reality is even if a person is being ironic, or claiming they are just joking. The outcome of their speech is the same as an out in the open neon, Nazi or fascist. Because the outcomes are the same this obsession obscures 3/

And those who have studied extremism in the past that they allowed the reality of the outcomes of these groups actions whether ironic, or sincere to obscured by a pedantic understanding of what kind of fascist or right wing thought they are a part of. And it has worked overtime to create a space 2/

Something that I have talked about extensively with academia, and with other researchers is the failure to call a spade a spade and defer to pedantic arguments against labeling people/groups fascist because they don’t check all of the boxes. It’s a major failure for counter extremism and 1/15

Protip: for any cis people who don’t already know, the phrase “this person” is an extremely obvious way transhobes often degender and/or misgender trans people.

you should generally not use that phrasing. especially if you are criticizing someone who happens to be trans.

we see over and over again in this era that stories that would have dominated the news for months disappear in days

“resign, Joe” is actually a major outlier in that regard

but this? no major injury, shooter is some loner republican kid? it’s got no legs, we’ve got a VP pick to mock

It's a GREAT time to remind all y'all that you can read "What You Are Getting Wrong about Appalachia" by Elizabeth Catte, instead of that crappy dude's crappy memoir.

It is scary as fuck right now for trans authors and prospects for us being able to continue telling our stories get bleaker every day. Please, buy & read as many of these folks' books as you can. I'm not exaggerating when I say you may not always be able to.

also and I feel like I buried the lede here:

it calls for the people who CREATE queer media to be imprisoned. That'd be people like me. Or any other queer creator you love. Any queen who's been on drag race. Chappel Roan. Janelle Monae. Anyone who's made a piece of queer media.

Imprisoned.

The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago, and the second-best time is now.

"Surprise"? Why? Failed assassination attempts don't normally boost a presidential campaign - esp when the shooter is 1 of your own supporters.

Here's something all the many Biden doomers should consider. TIPP, the most accurate pollster in 2020, has had Biden a few percent ahead or tied all year.

i want this so fuckin bad