First time or newly eligible voters are going to make a huge difference in the election.

I'm calling it now:

Highest voter turn-out.
Highest first time voter %.
(D) control of both Houses.
First Woman President.

Yeah, I'm bold like that.

#politics

Reasons not to vote for the cheetofelon:

@Bix

𝐖𝐡𝐲 𝐄𝐥𝐨𝐧 𝐌𝐮𝐬𝐤'𝐬 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐏𝐞𝐧𝐧𝐬𝐲𝐥𝐯𝐚𝐧𝐢𝐚 𝐥𝐢𝐤𝐞𝐥𝐲 𝐯𝐢𝐨𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐟𝐞𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐥 𝐥𝐚𝐰

To attend, people must sign Musk's petition supporting free speech and the right to bear arms and have already voted in Pennsylvania.

The problem is not the petition, but the requirement to vote to attend Musk's event. Federal law prohibits making or offering to make "an expenditure to any person, either to vote or withhold his vote, or to vote for or against any candidate."

https://popular.info/p/why-elon-musks-events-in-pennsylvania

Don’t say ‘vote’: How Instagram hides your political posts


Our tech columnist investigates how Meta’s Instagram, Facebook and Threads suppress content related to the election. Even discussing how to vote isn’t safe. #politics

https://archive.ph/2024.10.16-190607/https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/10/16/instagram-limits-political-content-shadowban-election-posts/

#BREAKING

Judge #Chutkan says she'll release the special counsel's redacted appendix on the public docket tomorrow (Oct. 18), denying a Trump motion to postpone further

Going to be some amazing reading material over the weekend

This is also.. bad news for Trump

#politics #USAvsTRUMP

we need to take back our public schools, fully fund them and kick the "administrators" to the curb. administration should only be made up of the best teachers, not idiot bean counters.

Maaan it's been days now.

This seems off, yes I understand they have petabytes of petabytes of storage to consider, but if this thing had been sitting there for even a week before getting clocked... you gotta wonder how many times Wayback and Archive.org ummm... .archived the problem/vulnerability and were inadvertently serving it back up.

And that's what I think has gone down here.

If so, this one is particularly nasty.

Guardian:

Trump campaign worked with Musk’s X to keep leaked JD Vance file off platform

Journalist who published vetting document on Republican running mate was kicked off site formerly known as Twitter

Donald #Trump’s presidential campaign worked with X to prevent information about JD Vance from being posted on the social media platform, a move that resulted in the journalist who revealed the information being kicked off the site, according to reports.

#Politics
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/oct/12/x-twitter-jd-vance-leaked-file

Sham effort': Report claims Trump stymied investigation into Kavanaugh sex abuse claims

https://www.rawstory.com/trump-brett-kavanaugh-2669356356/

TVMoJoe:
Another must-read Status from Oliver Darcy tonight: He outlines how NBC News chief Cesar Conde is burying a documentary about Trump's family separation horror until after the election.
https://www.status.news/p/separated-documentary-airing-date

Why did the Egyptian intelligence agency need 10million dollars?, who/what was it for?, and why does this have anything to do with Trump?

The secret investigation nobody is talking about

https://youtu.be/KloahKhSWTk

TAKE THAT, SKYNET! FUCK YOU!