@lauren

As @mattblaze has discussed a few times, there's a lot of daylight between what Trump says he's going to do about elections, and what he actually has the practical ability to achieve, even without legal arguments.

However, one of his big ones - eliminate mail-in voting, because the "low-information voters" that are the raw #feedstock of #MAGA don't vote by mail - worries me, because of something he might be able to do.

If Trump ordered a #compliant #USPS - it's officially independent, but it's part of the executive branch and run by a Trump #toady - to simply not deliver voting packages or returned ballots - he could effectively end vote-by-mail without even talking to the states, much less getting them to do it legally. And if he did it late enough, the courts might have trouble acting quickly enough to preserve those potential votes.

I really hope some of the orgs trying to recover the #US #constitutional order are thinking about this.

#LowInformationVoter #LowInfoVoter #LowInformation #LowInfo #elections #VoteByMail #vote #mail #USPol

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There's a feeling of #Junkpunk satisfaction in maintaining a #feedstock storage, even if it's not as sophisticated as I want it to be. Anytime I acquire new raw materials (litter I've picked up, broken stuff, unwanted things people give me), it immediately gets disassembled and sorted into cubbies and drawers. I've got all sorts of screws, wires, springs, pen/pencil parts, gears, both kinds of buttons, and a million other categories. It's gotten to the point where if someone needs a to repair something, they know I probably have the parts. And that's an incredibly good feeling.
If you can spare the space (my very large collection occupies as much as a small fridge) then I *absolutely* recommend starting a feedstock collection. Consider your consumption patterns. What sorts of things could you repair if only you had the spare parts? The fewer broken items we throw away, the more parts we have. The more parts we have, the fewer broken items we have.
#Solarpunk #recycle #sustainability