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Raymond Brigleb
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Photographer, musician, father, husband, partner at Needmore Designs, based in Portland, Oregon.
@ARE YOU REGISTERED TO VOTE ????
If Not : GO HERE to see how you can register. Some states deadlines are coming up to register for the 2024 Election:
If You Are: GO HERE and check your registration and then do it again in a few weeks. Republicans are having people removed from the rolls and many are going to show up to only find out then:
"Select your state or territory to confirm your voter registration status on your state election website"
Dan GoodinBy me:
Chief among them: mandatory resets, required or restricted use of certain characters, and the use of security questions
Does anybody have suggestions for finding people you know or were following on other networks, on Mastodon? I really feel like I should be following more people that I already know, but there seems to be no useful discovery mechanism.
⭕ Seosaṁ ᚛ᚄᚓᚑᚄᚐᚋᚆ᚜
Electronic Frontier FoundationDid you know the City of Portland owns and operates a fiber-optic broadband network? Find out more about EFA member Personal Telco and the PDX Community Broadband Coalition's campaign to guarantee every home and business in PDX affordable, reliable access to high-speed internet. https://communitybroadbandpdx.org/
James GleickImagine giving the disenfranchised citizens and taxpayers of DC and PR a voice in their federal government. The horror! https://mstdn.social/@DemocracyMattersALot/113063800775435351
Democracy Matters :verified: (@[email protected])
McConnell Warns About Eliminating the Filibuster Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) warned that Democrats could add four new Democratic senators if the filibuster is removed and Puerto Rico and Washington, D.C., achieve statehood, the Washington Examiner reports. Said McConnell: “They’ll admit the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico as two new states — that’s four Democratic senators in perpetuity.”
Grimm 
Just to be clear about this, "I don't have to second-guess, examine or be accountable for anything I did because, if I did it, it was correct and needed to be done" isn't really a philosophy, it is the intrinsically shit-wired rationale of a sociopath.
Dan GillmorNY Times has a new Maggie Haberman. His name is Shawn McCreesh, and he's been writing credulous story after story about Trump.
Important story from @MotherJones --
Musk is grossly abusing the legal system to punish public-interest organizations that dare to advise advertisers to avoid his toxic platform.
There are some left-leaning billionaires who (unlike the hypocritical Musk) believe in free speech. One of them needs to pay these orgs' legal fees and help them go on the offensive.
And journalists, why the hell are you still actively supporting someone who is your avowed enemy?
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/08/twitter-x-subpoenas-elon-musk/?utm_source=press.coop
