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Elderly kinda lefty bookworm. Ace, Neurodivergent

“I would not wish any companion in the world but you.”

TheTempest, Act 3, scene 1
#ShakespeareSunday

I'll to thy closet; and go read with thee
Sad stories chanced in the times of old.
Come, boy, and go with me: thy sight is young,
And thou shalt read when mine begin to dazzle. - Titus Andronicus (A4, S2) #ShakespeareSunday
I Was at the Capitol on January 6. This Is What I Saw.

At the January 6 capitol riot, and the two Stop The Steal rallies before it, Amanda Moore catalogued how disinformation about Antifa fueled violence.

Think the main difference between the two platforms is that on Twitter when you make a joke you get one haha and two death threats, whereas on here you get one haha and someone earnestly explaining the 6th century origins of the specific road that particular chicken crossed. Yet to decide which is more distressing.
This weekend’s adventure: admiring ice sculptures. They were all of endangered animals, the metaphor of melting and vanishing a powerful one.

🎶 BANG YOUR HEAD
🎵 WAKE THE DEAD

Oh god it worked RUN

How to volunteer to make a difference in Georgia’s Dec. 6 Senate Runoff Election:

Raphael Warnock’s race is a critical one. This is approved information from the Warnock campaign, the Democratic Party of Georgia, and America Votes Georgia.

* Highest priority for Georgia residents -- poll watching! Please sign up asap if you can help: Georgia Runoff On-Demand Poll Watcher Virtual Training: https://www.mobilize.us/gavotes/event/543684/

* Raphael Warnock campaign (make calls, knock doors, help protect the vote; remote and in-person opportunities):
- In-state and out-of-state individual volunteers: https://secure.ngpvan.com/okWijBNa7kiWFyngCpBGsQ2

* Democratic Party of Georgia (make calls, knock doors; remote and in-person opportunities):
- Highest-priority opportunities: https://www.mobilize.us/georgiademocrats/
- In-state and out-of-state phone banking: https://www.mobilize.us/gavotes/event/488467/
- Out-of-state form for travelers who want to come to Georgia to knock doors: https://forms.gle/HykbjWZK5Q8Kdgf57

#GeorgiaRunoffs #Warnock #WarnockForGA  

Georgia Runoff On-Demand Poll Watcher Training · Georgia Votes

We are back for the runoff election on Dec 6th with a very tight turn around! To be a Poll Watcher for the Democratic Party of Georgia, you must complete the following steps: 1) Sign up on Mobilize to be directed to the training video and watch the full training. 2) Follow the steps at the end of the video that instruct you on how to certify that you've completed training. 3) Fill out the scheduling form (which we will immediately email you after you certify that you've completed training). 4) In the coming days, pick up any call you receive from an unknown number because it could be us calling to confirm your shift details! If you have any questions, please email us at [email protected] or sign up our Office Hours at https://bit.ly/vopro-hours. Find more ways to help here: https://bit.ly/m/GAVoProRO

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The Colorado Springs attack on an LGBTQ club is terrorism, as surely as if this was an Al-Qaeda attack. But here the organization radicalizing and catalyzing the terrorists is one of our nation’s two political parties, which also works tirelessly to ensure they have access to military grade arms.

There is far too little recognition of the fact that the US Intelligence Community’s ability to discover Russian invasion plans and share them with Ukraine is one of the greatest intelligence successes of the last 50 years and has had a critical impact on thwarting Putin’s imperialist ambitions.

They knew the Russian war plans better than most of the Russian military executing the invasion (who mostly had no idea they were going to war) and even members of Putin’s Security Council! Remarkable!