lunoday:

vgfm:

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stephanemiroux:

bigskydreaming:

Okay heads up for all Americans eligible to vote:

The Supreme Court just issues a ruling allowing Ohio and other states to purge voters from their election registration rolls due to their failure to cast a ballot in previous elections.

This is a major victory for the Trump administration and the GOP, and a direct consequence of the Supreme Court being stacked with more conservative judges (the votes were 5-4). This is also a huge part of what Trump/the GOP were counting on to save them in the 2018 midterm elections, which is where Democrats have been hoping to take back a majority in the House, giving them more power to combat Trump’s abuses of power and Republican legislation.

What this means is YOU CAN NOT ASSUME THAT YOU ARE REGISTERED for the 2018 elections, just because you SHOULD be. Thanks to this decision, red states can purge voters’ registration based on their not having cast a ballot in even just previous federal elections, NOT just the national Presidential elections. Effectively, if you haven’t voted in previous senate races or for congressional representatives in the past few years, that’s all they need now to say you’re no longer registered and need to register again.

They’re deliberately counting on people assuming they’re still registered and so not checking until after registration deadlines have passed, or showing up to vote this November and only then finding out they’re no longer registered, when its too late to do a damn thing about it.

And this is absolutely targeted at marginalized communities, low income voters, disabled voters, and basically anyone who simply can’t always AFFORD to keep on top of every federal election and show up to vote in every senate race, etc. Which not so coincidentally happen to be all the communities and voters who have the most to gain from Democratic victories in the 2018 midterms and are the least likely to cast votes for GOP candidates at this point.

This was absolutely a calculated effort aimed specifically at keeping the GOP in power with a majority control of the government come November, and unfortunately, it has a DAMN good chance of accomplishing just that if it goes by unacknowledged. I’m not looking to alarm or panic anyone, simply to say:

If you are a registered voter in a red state at this point, please please please do not take your registered status as assumed. Check on your registration status, look up all relevant voter registration deadlines for your state and district, CIRCLE THAT SHIT ON YOUR CALENDAR, and check your registration status AGAIN right before those deadlines pass, so you can be sure of it before its too late to do anything about it til the next voting cycle.

Yikes

Reblog this shit right now

Here’s a Twitter thread with resources for voters in every state to check on their registration status: https://twitter.com/AnaMardoll/status/1006221580458790912

Make sure you check it periodically because the newest voter roll purges likely haven’t happened yet.

Please read! Check your voter registration status.

And make sure you vote in EVERY election, not just every four years. Not voting is the pretext republicans/trumpians will use to take away your voting rights.

And yes – check your registration – particularly if you are in a Trumpian-controlled state.

Another way to do it: https://www.vote.org

They fired a guy I was working with today. I never particularly liked him, he was one of the more bro-tastic loud backslapping people there, but I sympathized with him at some level – and he loved to travel and talk about places he’s been to – and who am I to judge him for how he chose to be. My manager, who had to do the firing, was pretty shaken, too. I am glad I never had to fire anyone (except one particularly bad consultant, at the Old Company), and I hope I never will.

It is strange and unsettling to see someone you see and talk to every day – more often than your parents and most of your friends – disappear from your life just like that. I could reach out and have a drink or coffee – if I wanted to – but we really have little in common, and it wouldn’t change the fact that tomorrow his things at his desk will disappear, and I will never see or hear of him again.

Maybe he will take the time to take a year off and do a gap year in his early 30s – and come back changed, and better for it.

newyorker:

“Sometimes a movie you love fuses privately with your identity, no matter how distant the world of the movie may be from your life.”

— Rachel Kushner, “Finding Yourself in Film”