Tappin Lisa @TappinLisa@wonkodon.com

Most of the time
when I see a masked face
it is only because
I have seen my reflection
but there are times
when I see
you all masking
and though I am alone
I am reminded
that I am not really alone.

#yallmasking

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The 226th week of plague poems collected:

https://librarianshipwreck.wordpress.com/2024/07/19/plague-poems-the-two-hundred-and-twenty-sixth-week/

Instead of trying to be polite to a fascist monster, I like how Kamala's campaign has chosen instead to be a thousand angry bees under Trump's skin, swarming down his throat and around his eyes, stinging, stinging, as her laughing face looms in his nightmares.

to those grousing about Campaign contributions vs #MutualAid

a lot of y'all are taking the wrong lesson out of what we are witnessing with #MastodonForHarris

let's take away the obvious elections hype and enthusiasm. what are we left with?

we have one person managing the effort of fundraising for ONE issue thru a platform that provides very little friction to do so. and that person is vetted and trusted by the community. that's why it scales. that's why the pot keeps growing.

🧵

Roses are red.
Roses are blue.
Depending on their velocity
relative to you.

Every single time you mention Joe Manchin, it is obligatory to include that his daughter drove the cost of epinephrine autoinjectors (Epi Pens) up by 600% for no reason other than profit, which left children to die from completely treatable anaphylaxis.

Did not see this coming:

"Nikki Haley Voters PAC Announces Support for Kamala Harris”

https://www.newsweek.com/nikki-haley-voters-pac-announces-support-kamala-harris-1928198

#kamalaharris

In a modern day version of the legend of Excalibur, the right and true successor to Joe Biden will be the person who successfully pulls the sword from out of his back that was placed there by the New York Times.

@steter
I am betting Putin is not very happy right now...

Kamala Harris will be the first Democratic President that won't start out with an economy trashed by a Republican administration. 🤔

This November, you have the power to make Elon Musk waste 180 million dollars.

The United Farm Workers is proud to endorse VP Kamala Harris for President. Dime con quien andas, y te digo quien eres.

Kamala Harris stood with farm workers as CA’s Attorney General, as US Senator, and as Vice President. There is work to be done, and we’re ready. Sí, se puede!

A friend just texted asking who the most influential person in the Dem party currently is. I said I had no idea, but I'd bet the most consequential right now is Marc Elias @marcelias

And I'm relieved to learn that he said this an hour ago:

"Before the media gets rolling, let me be clear: The Democratic nominee for president will be on all 50 state ballots. There is no basis for any legal challenge. Period."

An interesting side note in all of this is that the Supreme Court has given total immunity to a guy with six months left to serve and no fucks left to give.

Politically, Biden's dropping out creates all sorts of uncertainty.

Procedurally, however, what happens how is extremely clear: The DNC will use its convention to officially designate its nominees for president and vice president, and those people will appear on the ballot in all 50 states, DC, etc.

A summary of state ballot access laws, from the officials who run the elections, is at https://www.nass.org/sites/default/files/reports/summary-ballot-access-laws-president-june-2024.pdf

It would have been much more complicated if this had occurred after the convention.

I’m not an American, but my advice to American progressives is simply this:

Now’s your chance. If you don’t help elect the first African American woman to the Presidency, you’re full of shit.

That woman is your only chance to save American democracy, so you better get behind her.

*runs in, panting*

Heard the timeline was in desperate need of a baby wild hamster right now. Got here as quickly as I could.

Platitudes mean nothing without endorsements and later, ACTION.

Looking at you, white Congressional Democrats.

Your praise of Biden is meaningless without LOUDLY standing up for Harris.

#uspol

Trump's GOP is no country for MAGA women
At the Republican National Convention, MAGA women learn there's no place for them in Trump's GOP
"Without the trigger-the-liberals effect, it appears lady trolls have little to offer the Republican base. They certainly aren't valued as leaders in a party where men live in a constant state of paranoia about being emasculated"
https://www.salon.com/2024/07/20/the-clearest-message-of-the-convention-is-no-country-for-maga-women/

If Octavia Butler's Parable of The Sower has been on your to-read list, today's a good day to start it.

The book begins on July 20, 2024 in Los Angeles exurbs.

The series involves a pandemic with a xenophobic president running on the slogan "make America great again" and the president neither admonishes nor directly supports his religious extremist supporters.

Butler's future isn't our present, but there's some eerie echos. 😬

Happy(?) Parable of The Sower Day