#Election

I'll just leave this here, w/a reminder that Russia toyed with or attempted perception hacking in 2016 (intrusions into voting systems were ground work for an info op) and '18
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Hundreds of people in Midtown #Atlanta are now on their balconies cheering Joe Biden’s election. Whistles. Truck and car horns. A few cow bells. Maybe some pots and pans grabbed
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So, here's the thing about the votes @SenSchumer just explained. Both @SenSusanCollins and @lisamurkowski *said* that we shouldn't proceed with a nominee before the election. It was meaningless & cost
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If Biden wins there will be an almighty scramble from the UK to keep the trade deal alive. Having chatted to well-placed sources this is my understanding for how Britain
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More detailed info for Texas voters, from a Dallas County poll worker (me)...While a photo ID is the most common form of ID that is presented to confirm your identity
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The US is at war, make no mistake. The war has been going on for quite some time using sneaky methods to change way people think. Some suspected but people
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I think I've had discussions w/enough Boomer-tier Trump supporters who believe the 2020 election was fraudulent to extract a general theory about their perspective. It is also the perspective of
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1) Starting a thread of GOTV organizations that folks can volunteer with this weekend and through election day. 2) Indivisible has a swell events landing page here:https://indivisible.org/events  3) Swing Left
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3. Sunak's plans mean taking £1k away from 1 in 3 households in the Red Wall. Lots of new Tory MPs are going to see over 4 in 10 of
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You have 40 seconds to laugh at this and then it's time to get back to work. He knows he cannot win this fairly. So his next goals?Plan A: Steal
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My dear fellow Hindus.I am not ritualistic but am as proud a Hindu as any of you. Despite 1993 bomb blasts, Mumbai terror attack, Sikh massacre etc you kept voting
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1/2 Not to go into the other intramural aspects of this NYT note, but starting premise *has* to be called out:*No* journalistic / political organization “anticipated" Trump win, including Trump
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THREADA nice Canadian lady sent ricin to @realDonaldTrump.Being a Canadian, of course she has a bug up her exhaust pipe about American immigration policy.https://twitter.com/WGRZ_SteveBrown/status/1308409725386715138 She keeps coming to the
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1/ Ooh boy. This is a complicated subject:We have a far-right fringe that’s nuts, highly-motivated, increasingly organized via the Internet by both extremists and some big-money players the right. Many
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I sneezed and missed Biden mentioning disability in his speech.Because it was a word -- one word.An important word?But we have so fucking far to go. He didn't even say
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I've been on dozens of election-related social media calls over the past few months and have some idea about "anti-disinformation" funding generally. Honestly, it feels as haphazard as other donor-funded
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