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I work on open source data analysis and visualization tools, I stream occasionally at twitch.tv/powersoffour , and I have some ties to the astrophysics and HPC communities. I'm an assistant professor at a midwestern university in Information Sciences.
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Elizabeth Warren Responds to the 2024 Election

*** About Elizabeth Warren ***Since 2013, Elizabeth has served as the senior United States senator from Massachusetts. In 2020, she ran for president of the ...

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Governor Jay Inslee of Washington steps up to meet the moment.
Sen. Elizabeth Warren: Here's the Plan to Fight Back

To everyone who is afraid of what happens next, I share your fears. But what we do next is important, and I need you in this fight with me, writes Sen. Elizabeth Warren.

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The ground game and margin of effort mattered.
(2/2) Additionally, the more than $150 million that GOP candidates spent on anti-trans ads did not influence voters; nearly two-thirds of voters recalled seeing an anti-trans attack ad against Kamala Harris, but just 4% identified opposing surgeries for trans people and trans kids’ participation in sports as issues motivating them to vote. In fact, the same electorate that sent Trump back to the White House overwhelmingly opposes government interference in the healthcare trans people receive.
Proud of the work of the Human Rights Campaign in this election. This is from our press release:
NEW POLL FINDS EQUALITY VOTERS BACKED HARRIS-WALZ IN HUGE NUMBERS, ANTI-TRANS ADS DIDN’T WORK:
New polling from HRC and Greenberg Quinlan Rosner Research found that over 80% of Equality Voters, including 84% Of LGBTQ+ voters, backed the Harris-Walz ticket, including in key battleground states like Arizona, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin.
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Via Kyle Griffin:

The #LGBTQ youth suicide prevention and crisis intervention group The Trevor Project said in a statement it had "an approximately a 125% increase in crisis contact volume" on Election Day through Wednesday morning compared to typical days.

we would not have Trump without algorithmic growth-obsessed big tech social media
I feel so awful for my trans friends. I am going to do all I can to support them.
There are so many more important things. But, I just got a budget email ... and it is hard to see how dismantling the entirety of the federal grantmaking infrastructure will not destroy modern academia.