If you are a journalist, please do not write “there were lines as far as the eye can see” when the wait is 20 minutes long. Studies show that voters will stand in line without being all that bothered by it for half an hour. Don’t make people afraid to go out and vote.
I have been in drive-through lines that took longer than 20 minutes
I feel like I shouldn’t have to say this, but hey maybe I do: We are in a pandemic so the lines look longer than they are because people have to stand 6 feet apart.
This is fine! This is GOOD.
Congratulations America! It is Election Day. people are already casting ballots, as we speak.
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Continues to baffle me that as an asthmatic person I can’t simply walk into a pharmacy and buy an inhaler
Like I just flew to a place and left my inhaler at home - something that costs nothing - and in order to get another one here I’d have to have a prescription even tho I’ve had asthma since age 5 and this isn’t going away.
You can buy a lot of things over the counter and one of them is somehow not an instrumental drug helping people breathe that has no real side effects
being able to say whatever you want without societal ramifications is - and i cannot stress this enough - not a fundamental right
people have been calling each other disrespectful names over their views since the beginning of this country. several of the founding fathers printed publications dedicated to calling each other idiots, essentially.
ruthlessly insulting each other is as American as it gets, that is just the truth. it has ever been thus.
Biden is taking the stage in Atlanta for his speech on voting — lots of activists important to this movement declined to be here today, citing their frustration that this is too little too late.
The speech Kamala Harris is giving now could have been given one year ago, with no changes. As far as I can tell.
Kamala Harris says there is a "danger" of becoming accustomed to these laws, and becoming "complicit." But let's keep in mind that the Texas legislature, and many others, have been restricting voting rights every legislative session for more than a decade.