as a progressive: no. if you are a progressive with any brain cells, you know it's a long slog, and you know standing still is better than tumbling backwards. I am not going to start cheerleading for the Cheneys but either they bring no votes with them, in which case progressives need to turn out for Harris, or they bring some votes with them, in which case progressives NEED TO TURN OUT FOR HARRIS. there is 0 reason for progressive to feel "alienated" or not vote for Harris.

OH MY GOD THIS IS SO REFRESHING TO SEE IN MY INBOX, UNABASHED JOURNALISM HOW I MISSED YOU

big thanks to Gmail for dumping my new Guardian subscriptions into my promotions inbox for some reason 🙃

good to know the US isn't the only country punishing politicians for the decisions of capitalists and basically voting for "I hate everything, burn it all down"

just unsubscribed from WaPo's The 7 newsletter in light of jeff's cowardly refusal to endorse harris. hoping i have better luck with the guardian, may also see what the independent has to offer. why in the fuck is it so difficult to keep up with the news without it being nazi-washed?

gee I wonder if the AMERICAN court will side with the AMERICAN claimants 🙄

there is no interest in averting climate catastrophe, that's the long & short of it. people would rather adapt to a hellscape or die than lift a finger to prevent it from happening.

mainstream media stays protecting pedophiles, even dead ones

oh fuck me, I got a text message from the Harris campaign about the Houston rally like a week ago and I was like "nah I'm not driving 5 hours to Houston to go to a rally, why don't you guys come to Dallas for a change?"

TODAY I FIND OUT FUCKING BEYONCE WILL BE THERE. PERFORMING. I COULD'VE HAD FREE TICKETS TO A BEYONCE CONCERT. (it is free to go to these things right?)

we're going to fix the shortage of mental health professionals by NOT CERTIFYING THEM?!

HOW ARE YOU IDIOTS GOING TO ENFORCE THIS? everyone has to have their birth certificate on them to go pee? I have half a mind to drive out to Odessa and walk into the men's room, except this shit always forgets that trans men exist and they're literally sending men with beards and muscles into the women's restroom.

greeaaaat.

also isn't it kind of dumb to pass a law saying "doing this illegally is a crime"? like no shit, it's already a crime, hence the word ILLEGAL. problem is people crossing the border to claim asylum aren't actually doing anything illegal, that is literally the first step of the affirmative asylum process.

PaRtY oF pRo-LiFe 🤪

AMERICA: We love Tim Walz, he's America's Dad! 😍

FUCKER CARLSON: Spank me, Daddy Trump 🥵

CHARGE HIM WITH FUCKING TREASON

how the hell does someone serve their country IN THE MARINES and then go full traitor? what the fuck is happening in our country?

there sure are a lot of childless cat ladies among the people constantly bitching about childless cat ladies being in charge.

one of the few things Texas does right. our machines are electronic which makes it easy to fill out your choices, but then it prints them onto a paper ballot that is fed into a scanner and counted electronically. thanks to the printout they've already caught one instance of a vote not being recorded correctly (they got a new ballot).