https://www.politico.com/news/2020/08/03/trump-campaign-point-of-no-returtn-389707
The election is closer than you think. Feel free to send in your request for an absentee vote-by-mail ballot any time. (I believe I will.)
«In North Carolina, elections officials will start sending ballots to voters on Sept. 4.»
https://twitter.com/ourobororoboruo/status/1289220993420939265?s=20
Have not read the Medium essay (yet), but this thread on Han Chinese anti-blackness (in the US, presumably) is good. Thanks, @jeannette_ng, for surfacing it for me.
I believe ethnocentrism is a universal problem and we are ALL called to resist it (in ourselves, in addition to others).
Frankie Huang (@ourobororoboruo) Tweeted: The thing I really want to emphasize is that the cultural context that contributes to these beliefs are complex, and I reject simply slapping the community with “political and historical illiteracy” as an explanation for why they believe in “the wrong things”. 7/
https://twitter.com/OhNoSheTwitnt/status/1290242640735133696?s=20
For the thousandth time, yes.
The Volatile Mermaid (@OhNoSheTwitnt) Tweeted: Every story about a white criminal has some kind of sob story as to why the guy might have did what he did and every story about a black person even when they’re victims is like “He was arrested once for stealing a pack of gum in 1987.” https://t.co/FLFBt3IxtY
https://www.duo.uio.no/handle/10852/25559
Thank you, @ClareMalone and 538. I knew it didn’t start with Nixon’s “southern strategy”. So did LBJ.
[FiveThirtyEight Politics] How The GOP Chose To Be A White Party #fivethirtyeightPolitics
https://podcastaddict.com/episode/109111959 via @PodcastAddict
https://www.duo.uio.no/handle/10852/25559
Thank you, @ClareMalone and 538. I knew it didn’t start with Nixon’s “southern strategy”. So did LBJ.
[FiveThirtyEight Politics] How The GOP Chose To Be A White Party #fivethirtyeightPolitics
https://podcastaddict.com/episode/109111959 via @PodcastAddict
I guess I’m going to have to dig this up in a few weeks.
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1287433276462780417.html
A century-and-a-half of stupidity, I guess.
«Thread by @Noahpinion: 1/Gather round, my friends, and let me tell you the epic story of the Franco-Prussian War. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franco-Pr 2/In 1870, France had been in turmoil for almost a century. Revolution after revolution, kings, emperors, wars. In 1…»
“wasn’t pretty” is an understatement. It was ugly. Dems need to win decisively. This election cannot be close.
And we need to pass the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact.
https://twitter.com/BeauTFC/status/1287010631594516483?s=20
🙂
Beau of The Fifth Column (@BeauTFC) Tweeted: Yep.
