Hey friends, here's a list who I'm supporting in local races in D.C. this year. (short thread)
For Delegate to the U.S. House, it's clear that Congresswoman @EleanorNorton deserves another term, and god willing, we'll all soon be supporting her as a voting member of Congress in the next few years.
For the At-Large D.C. City Council seats, there are more than two dozen candidates. I wish I could vote for five or six of these leaders, but we only get to support two on the ballot.
I'm proudly voting for Christina Henderson (@chenderson) and Ed Lazere (@edlazere).
For the At-Large Member of the State Board of Education, I'm voting for Jacque Patterson (@DC_Edvocate).
For U.S. Senator (Shadow Senator), a role meant to advise, advocate, and anticipate on D.C. Statehood, I'll be voting for Dr. Eleanor Ory (@echo4dc) because we need more women and more scientists in government, especially in light of this year.
For U.S. Representative (Shadow Representative), a role meant to advise, advocate, and anticipate on D.C. Statehood, I'll be voting for Sohaer Rizvi Syed (@vote4sohaer).
For my local Advisory Neighborhood Commissioner, I'll be voting for Denise Rucker Krepp (@kdrkrepp), who is running unopposed this year.
And finally, I'll be voting in favor of Initiative Measure No. 81: Entheogenic Plant and Fungus Policy Act of 2020, which seeks to decriminalize certain psychedelic plants and fungi, including "shrooms". Because of course. Why are we arresting + prosecuting people for this? Stop.
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This document is fascinating. The Trump White House compiled 34 pages of celebrity outreach information with details on their political leanings for what became a failed COVID-related campaign reelection effort: oversight.house.gov/sites/democrat…
@chrissyteigen: "Teigen is a vocal critic of President Trump"
No shit 😂
@Beyonce: "Has a net rating of 63% favorable among democrats, and -3% among Rep."
Since inauguration, Trump has lied to the public 22,247 times in 1,317 days, thru Aug. 11th. The team at @washingtonpost who tracks these in a database (+ refers to them broadly as "misleading claims") reported last week they're two months behind schedule because of the volume.
That's nearly 17 lies a day Trump has told, every single day, to the public, for nearly four years.
OK, so, I'm biased, but I can't remember the last time I had so much fun watching a show than I did binging @Netflix's "The Queens' Gambit". It is criminally short--just seven episodes--and I may threaten to cancel my subscription if they don't order a second season. (thread)
Where do I even start with this show's brilliance? There's so much to discuss. First, let's get this out of the way: it's based on a 1983 novel of the same name by Walter Tevis, which was published to damn good reviews. I have not yet read it, and I plan to after the election.
The plot: a young girl loses her brilliant and troubled mother in a horrific car crash and learns how to play chess from a janitor in an orphanage. The orphans are being drugged. She develops a drug addiction. She gets adopted by a very troubled woman.
The Constitution does not specify the number of seats on the Supreme Court. This power was left to Congress, which set the Supreme Court's size at one chief justice and five associates in the Judiciary Act of 1789. It was then legally changed seven times. (thread)
It underwent five full legal implementations:
1789-1807: six seats
1807-1837: seven seats
1837-1866: ten seats
1866-1867: nine seats
1867-1869: eight seats
1869-present: nine seats
And twice, legislation changed its size but was never implemented for various reasons, notably the Judiciary Act of 1801 (or Midnight Judges Act), which would have reduced its size to five upon the next vacancy but was repealed by the Judiciary Act of 1802.
Chances are you've already seen this tweet. It's gone viral many times. Back in October, months before we knew about COVID, Biden pointed out we're not prepared for a pandemic. He was absolutely right. But I also wondered to myself: what did Trump tweet that day? (thread)
Trump tweeted or RT'd 47 times that day. Here was his first tweet of the day: mocking Reps @TimRyan and @EricSwalwell for dropping out of the presidential race. At 8:12am.
This is an excessively ridiculous thing to say. The clip is from the early-2000s when the GOP was pushing an amendment to ban same-sex marriage, when upwards of 60% of voters opposed same-sex marriage. Biden + Dems smartly used DOMA as a rationale to deflect + block it. (1/3)
If the amendment had passed the House and Senate and been signed by Bush, it would have stood a decent chance of passing the required number of state legislatures to be ratified over the next several years, esp. given the unpopularity of same-sex marriage at the time.
So, Dems did the shit work of blocking the amendment by saying DOMA is enough until the electorate could catch up. Then, in 2012, in the middle of a tough reelection campaign, with the country split on the issue, Biden got out front + became the first national leader to endorse.