Cassandra retweeted
Ranked choice voting to elect the president! We @fairvote had a NY Times oped making that point a month after our founding in July 1992. My latest in @fulcrum_us shows how to get it done in swing states to effectively end the "spoiler problem" by 2028. thefulcrum.us/electoral-refo…
Cassandra retweeted
Trump has brought Chico Marx and Richard Pryor's “Who you gonna believe? Me, or your lying eyes?” into the 21st century. I have been keeping an informal list of such episodes since 2017. This weekend's AI lie was arguably the worst yet. Thread of examples >>>
Cassandra retweeted
Biden is out. The media succeeded in their coup. Elon is giving $45M a month to Trump. You don't have any control over what happened today, but we're taking the election into our own hands and building Kamala's digital army.
Here's how:
• retweet this (super super important)
• reply with #NoDemUnder1K
• Elon has disabled viewing "likes" so tap "reposts"
• follow everyone who reposts this
• tap the # and follow those accounts as well
• follow each other back (super important)
If you have more than 10k followers, retweet a few of the replies so they can find others as well.
The follow limit is 400 per day. So you if you stick to 375, That's 2600+ in a week and 10k in a month.
Make sure you add a pic to your profile(even if it isn't you) and put an indentifier in your bio so that people know you're voting blue so they'll follow you back instead of thinking you're a bot
If you start today and only half the people follow you back, you'll have over 1k followers in a week and 10k in two months if you're diligent and proactive.
It does require all of you to collectively be proactive and also reciprocal.
Make sure you comment on the posts of the people you follow. Build a community. Create groups of core friends/shared perspectives/vocal leaders. The more interconnected we are, the further we'll be able to reach.
The retweet button is your best friend. Retweet anything good regardless of how many followers they may have. Find your voiced, share your thoughts, and we can blow the media and the gop out of the water.
You can't singlehandedly change anything by yourself, but with enough of us working together, we can save our democracy, even if you only have a thousand people following you. But once you have the support structure of knowing people want to listen to what you have to say, you'll have more and more to share.
While that doesn't seem like much, 4 years ago, I was you. No followers. No voice. Democracy on the line. Feeling helpless. In that sense, you're neither unique, nor alone. And if you do feel alone, you won't be for long. If you do feel helpless, forget what you can't do and focus on what you can.
It's going to take every single one of us working in unison, united behind Kamala Harris, to save ourselves.
Help me build this thing. Help us support Kamala. Help us save democracy. Help us win.
#NoDemUnder1k
Cassandra retweeted
Which head of state do you want to open the 2028 #OlympicGames in Los Angeles?
71%Kamala Harris
29%Donald Trump
78 votes • Final resultsA quick summary of the last wave of SCOTUS decisions. It's something to see them all lined up together. Wow.
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ALT Gavel resting on a sounding block
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"Political violence and lies about elections share a goal. They both seek to destabilize our democracy—one with fear and force, the other with confusion and distrust."
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Cassandra retweeted
“In 2016, Donald Trump seemed to pull an inside straight by narrowly winning Mich, Penn, and Wisc while losing the popular vote by 3 million. We now know Trump committed 34 felonies to win that election. Without these crimes, he seems almost certain to have lost to Hillary Clinton. She would have been sworn in on Jan. 20, 2017. She would have filled two Supreme Court vacancies and enacted her legislative agenda.”
democracydocket.com/opinion/…
Cassandra retweeted
Well, no, because Trump is not confused. He’s a Kremlin asset with decades of transnational organized crime ties. He and his partners would benefit from the annihilation of NATO. Trump’s been discussing it since 1987.
Quit pretending people are confused when they’re corrupt.
@sarahkendzior The soap opera metaphor is perfect--an illusion of realism, but not real. My grandmother (1911-2002) and I both loved the ABC soap operas in the 1970s and early 80s, a time I talk about to people who don't remember.
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Cassandra retweeted
Anyone saying "failure to blindly trust the institutions is an op" is falling for one themselves.
When you close yourself off to fair criticism and differing opinions, all that remains is an easily manipulated echo chamber.
That's exactly the environment they want us in.
Cassandra retweeted
how is the news of what’s happening in jackson, mississippi not trending news right now? they found 215 bodies buried behind the hinds county jail. some of these people were missing and had family members looking for them. nbcnews.com/news/us-news/lis…
Cassandra retweeted
You'd think that such an assessment would be required before fast-tracking weapon sales to a state credibly accused of war crimes by several renowned human rights organizations.
The Biden administration acknowledged it conducted no formal assessment of whether Israel is violating international humanitarian law in its war against Hamas, fueling intense criticism as President Biden shows no signs of wanting to change approach.
politico.com/newsletters/nat…
Cassandra retweeted
As a historian who has researched and studied genocide in places like Indonesia and Timor Leste, I am deeply aware of the difficulties of determining when it seems clear that genocidal violence is unfolding. The Israeli annihilation of Gaza clearly meets that threshold.
Context matters. In another time, Biden's embrace of genocide would have been a fatal flaw that ended his political career in favor of more humane candidates. But there are no humane candidates. There is only Trump, who has that same fatal flaw plus ten more.
Trump increased the child tax credit too
Y’all can not offer any defense of Biden without comparing him to Trump
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Cassandra retweeted
If you're reading this, there's a huge chance you are key source of election information for your friends and family.
That's why why in 2024 you have to remember that your attention is your greatest asset.
Cassandra retweeted
My name is Kristin Song.
On January 31, 2018, my son Ethan was shot in the head in his best friend's house. The father/gun owner stored 3 handguns and ammunition in a shoebox. Ethan's friend had been accessing the guns for over 6 months.
At the hospital, the ER doctor slid down the wall, put his head in his hands, and whispered, "Your son is gone." At that instant, all I knew, loved and trusted was imploded into a million tiny pieces.
I begged to say goodbye to my beautiful boy. I wanted to kiss his forehead, tell him how cherished he was, and tuck him in one last time. But the doctor begged me to remember Ethan as he was, you see, he was unrecognizable even to my eyes.
The day before Thanksgiving in 2018, the prosecutor told me she would not charge the negligent gun owner, and if I wanted negligent gun owners to be held accountable, I would have to change the law.
So I did.
6 months later, Connecticut passed Ethan's Law, which requires gun owners to secure their weapons if children can gain access.
Then, I learned that so many states stood silent on this issue, so in 2019, I turned my attention to passing Ethan's Law nationally. I met with over 400 congressional offices, 130 of them Republican.
In 2022, Ethan's Law was passed in the House of Representatives as part of the Safer Communities Act. Sadly, it was not picked up in the final package.
When the Democrats lost the House of Representatives in 2023, I pivoted to passing safe gun storage laws in the States. As a result, Michigan, New Mexico, and Maryland passed safe storage laws.
Currently, I am working with 5 states to pass Ethan's Law.
I am emotionally and mentally exhausted, but I will not stop until there is a cultural shift in this country where it becomes second nature to secure your weapons around unsupervised children.
If you believe in protecting children from gun violence, please follow and repost.
