CN Ó Raghallaigh

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Two Spirit. 
Favorite genre: Court Docs on Court Listener . Retired old-school librarian.
Just starting to poke around here.
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1. Elections aren't decided by polls

They are decided by counting votes

So we should pay more attention to Pennsylvania — which could determine control of the Senate — where Republicans are trying to exclude thousands of ballots from eligible voters

https://popular.info/p/trashing-votes

Trashing votes

In the last days of a campaign, a lot of the coverage focuses on polls and trying to predict the outcome. But the winners and losers will not be decided by a poll; they will be decided by counting votes. And Republicans are engaged in an aggressive effort to invalidate ballots in key states from legal voters.

Popular Information
Tuesday update on the #mastodon growth. 135k (!!) users join yesterday. Also, I'm zooming out the plot to see the evolution in the number of new users through the last year. I'm going to need a logarithm scale pretty soon 😎

Might I suggest that Twitter refugees include their generalized location in bios? The process of reestablishing a network will result in making new connections and you may not always know someone's location.

More importantly, this place is far less American-centric than Twitter, and having to ID as American (if you are) might remind you that the US is not the entire world.

Dear America,

Polls are unreliable. Ignore them and #vote like democracy depends on it.

- A pollster

I missed early voting this year, so I’m heading to the polls now.

It’s an opportunity to note that Harris County’s excellent drive-through voting system was made illegal by the Texas legislature, for more or less no reason.

As someone who used the system, the integrity reasons the legislature gave were, to be polite, made up.
Democracy is not a spectator sport.
It is an organised form of structured contestation in lieu of violence. So go out there and contest.

🌓🌎🌞 <-- lunar eclipse

🌎🌓🌞 <-- solar eclipse

🌎🌞🌗 <-- apocalypse

Reading the news today is like Googling your symptoms while waiting for the MRI results.
Something I don't think people appreciate enough is that @kathygriffin is the one person in comedy I'm aware of who has actually taken huge risks for her principles, and faced major consequences for doing so, while a bunch of white dudes waltz around cosplaying as having done that to further their careers.