WOW. (I know, I say “wow” a whole lot.) I’ve been watching Cunningham’s polls (nervously) on 538 for over a week, and finally, there’s a new poll. And Cunningham is doing better than before, even. Yay! \o/
Holy MOLY.
https://youtu.be/QB1h4IwiT4U?t=919
So… I don’t normally wear my Christianity this far out on my sleeve, but I really liked this sermon/lecture, enough to share it with the world (or, at least, the tiny handful of actual humans who follow me, plus whoever).
I really like the subtle twist and the perspective, plus, it seems like a really good backgrounder on “evangelism” (probably not the kind you’re expecting).
(Also: quick note on production values: this ain’t televangelism. This is ordinary church during COVID.)
https://twitter.com/SarahTaber_bww/status/1315255060201439238?s=20
“farmers who do math & drive in a straight line for Biden-Harris” 😀
Dr Sarah Taber (@SarahTaber_bww) Tweeted: dude freehanded this without GPS bc “pfffft that’s too expensive” 🤘 farmers who do math & drive in a straight line for Biden-Harris
https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/10/politics/pennsylvania-voting-policy-challenges-trump/index.html
Just vote y’all. Don’t wait until the last minute. Even NC early voting closes halfway through the third weekend (so Black folks can’t vote after church the weekends in a row). You don’t even get that full final Saturday. So… don’t wait.
«Republicans in Pennsylvania already have challenges to the state’s voting provisions before the US Supreme Court.
Pennsylvania’s Supreme Court previously allowed election officials to count mail-in ballots received up to three days after the election, even if the postmark was illegible. That ruling would allow votes of thousands of Pennsylvanians that could have been rejected for arriving after Election Day to be counted.Lawyers for Republicans filed an emergency petition with the high court asking it to block the decision.»
https://twitter.com/johnpavlovitz/status/1314722542498840576?s=20
Fun little political ad that the folks who need to hear it have probably already heard. But for the rest of us… Vote, dammit, vote!
John Pavlovitz (@johnpavlovitz) Tweeted: “If your vote didn’t matter, they wouldn’t try so hard to take it from you.” Voter suppression is real. If you’re able to, VOTE. Like your life depends on it. Go to https://t.co/q5klW570KH for all the info you need on how to vote! https://t.co/2tfGNTpTNn
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1314578622246719488.html
On what rural poverty actually looks like:
«So let’s talk what RURAL POVERTY looks like. ‘Cause this ain’t it.
So. Dropped my phone and cracked the screen. Pro tips:
(1) Don’t just pop down to your local U Break I Fix without FIRST filing an Asurion claim.
(2) Don’t forget you set up two-factor authentication on everything, so don’t just pop over to the local Verizon store (assuming it’s still where it always was, because guess what? No Google maps for you!) to try file your Asurion claim. Just go straight back home.
(3) If you’re pretty sure the problem is only the screen, on the Asurion website, don’t answer the question “Can you take photos?” honestly by saying “No” (because… broken screen, duh), because, when you do, Asurion will lock in to replacing your phone AND YOU GET NO CHANCE TO BACK UP AND CHANGE YOUR ANSWER OR EVEN CANCEL THE CLAIM.
(4) If you call Verizon to ask for help and say “Hey, I’m having trouble with my ASURION claim at the ASURION (phoneclaim.com) website because the ASURION software won’t let me back up and change my answer,” the first thing they will do is hit their F7 key or whatever it is that says “Hey, just a heads up, Asurion handles all our damage claims now. ^_^”. (<foreheadSlap/>)
(5) Don’t even bother calling Asurion on your own phone with the broken screen that still works fine with bluetooth and voice recognition because they will want you to TYPE IN YOUR PHONE NUMBER, and when you don’t, they hang up on you w/out giving you the chance to talk to a human operator. Just go ahead and borrow somebody’s phone or call from a landline THAT’S NOT A ROTARY PHONE (I know that’s probably not an issue these days, but, hey, we’re in the land of broken phones now).
Swear Trek (@swear_trek) Tweeted: https://t.co/IE3fLsWZm4 https://twitter.com/swear_trek/status/1313284029018443781?s=20
https://twitter.com/tyschalter/status/1312617441323880448?s=20
Seems like a good summation. I still like the idea of “term limits” used as a sort of shibboleth in political conversation.
Ty Schalter (@tyschalter) Tweeted: «HOW YOU THINK TERM LIMITS WORK: prevents stagnation, holds the powerful to public account
HOW TERM LIMITS ACTUALLY WORK: clueless newbies pass whatever the lobbyists tell them to, while second-termers jockey for lobbyist jobs»
Here, Read This 