I remember the 2000 Election. There were enough votes for Ralph Nader to hand the election to George W. Bush.

I remember the 2016 Election. There were enough votes for Jill Stein to hand the election to Donald Trump.

In 2024 the Green Party is running Cornell West. Let’s not repeat this history, friends

Your vote is not a marriage. You’re not choosing a life partner. It’s a chess move for what’s best for the country and the world.

On Whatever I'm talking about the name change of Twitter to X, what it means to me and others, and why I'm going to be on that site much less from now on.

(Also it means Mastodon will be a beneficiary, as probably a lot of things that would previously had been tweets will now become toots. Although I will have to remember to put a hashtag on the political stuff, I sometimes forget that)

https://whatever.scalzi.com/2023/07/24/preparing-my-x-it/

Just a reminder that if my first encounter with you is you being an asshole, to me or someone else, I will block you instantly and then happily forget for the rest of my life that you exist in the world.

Signed, someone who is tired of dealing with people dead-set determined to be the turd in the punchbowl

Nearly one million dollars in sanctions. Wow.

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.flsd.610157/gov.uscourts.flsd.610157.302.0.pdf

Performances of Allegiance begin in just five days! I'm ready for you, London. Are you ready for me?

https://allegiancemusical.com

We consider AZ one of our adopted home states with a place in Show Low that we love. Happy to see we will have sanity in the AZ Attorney General's office with these final recount results. But wow, what a close race.

Every vote counts. Every single one.

Memo to the media:

Stop letting politicians get away with calling asylum seekers "illegal immigrants" or saying they're not coming to this country "the right way." Seeking asylum is legal. Presenting themselves at the border & requesting asylum is "the right way" to seek asylum.