1/ To celebrate Halloween, it's witch week here at Vox.
Here are five recommendations involving witches from the Vox Culture team, perfect for summoning anyone's inner spooky spirit: vox.com/one-good-thing
2/ In a game of The Great American Witch, you and your fellow players form a coven somewhere in America.
Though you can play a witch of any gender, all the witches in the game share a goal: to dismantle the white supremacist patriarchy, brick by brick: vox.com/culture/214994…
3/ “Someone in this class is a witch.”
Witch Week's magic-infested school takes place somewhere grimier and sadder than Harry Potter’s glittering wizard world.
It's an endearing read and joyful love letter to middle school weirdos: vox.com/culture/215145…
4/ If you could turn cottagecore — that aesthetic built around queerness, magic, Taylor Swift lyrics, and mid-2010s Tumblr — into a podcast, you’d have Kalila Stormfire’s Economical Magick Services.
5/ Yes, Kiki’s Delivery Service is a magical story about a young witch learning to harness her powers and help her community.
But it's also a poignant tale about the highs and lows of being a teen that anyone — witch or not — can relate to: vox.com/21520043/kikis…
6/ In Alex Mar’s nonfiction book Witches of America, what begins as a historical and journalistic look at modern witchcraft practitioners ends in a vulnerable story about one woman who’s looking for community and meaning: vox.com/culture/215254…
7/7 Got a favorite witchy recommendation that's not in this thread? Share it with us in a comment below: 🧙♀️
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Michigan, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Arizona, Florida, and North Carolina are the states that are viewed as most likely to determine the outcome of the election.
3/ Four of them — Michigan, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, and Florida — were won by Barack Obama in 2012 but Trump in 2016.
Eking out a small margin of victory in most of these states can give a candidate a massive Electoral College payoff.
BREAKING: President Trump’s expected Supreme Court nominee is Judge Amy Coney Barrett, a favorite of the religious right, according to multiple news outlets. Here’s what else you need to know about her background and record. vox.com/21446700/amy-c…
Judge Barrett is a staunch Catholic and a former law clerk to conservative Justice Antonin Scalia.
She was appointed to the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit in 2017, also by Trump.
Barrett has very conservative views on issues like abortion and LGBTQ rights — and has reportedly stated that life begins at conception.
Based on her previous legal reviews of NFIB v. Sebelius (2012) and King v. Burwell (2015), she's also likely to vote to undercut Obamacare.
1/ Economic growth is only possible in a system that emphasizes inclusion and accessibility.
The Great Rebuild, made with @OmidyarNetwork, breaks down how 5 big policy shifts could uplift American workers' well-being and foster financial prosperity: vox.com/the-highlight/…
2/ America’s unemployment system is purposely complicated and in dire need of a full overhaul.
1/ The late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg had a reputation for her powerful mastery of language, which, throughout her life, would influence the values of top government leaders and everyday Americans time and time again. vox.com/2020/9/18/1817…
2/ Ginsburg’s most iconic lines span a wide range of circumstances; painstakingly crafted sentences in her Supreme Court dissents have gone just as viral as her more informal comments in interviews about gender equality in America.
3/ This combination of sharp legal prose and unfussy candor is one of the many things that made Ginsburg one of America’s most beloved public intellectuals.
1/ Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who died on Friday at age 87, was a staunch champion of civil liberties who changed the face of anti-discrimination law in America.
2/ Her first mark on history came decades before she joined the Court.
While at the @ACLU she wrote the plaintiff’s brief in Reed v. Reed, which established that the equal protection clause could be used to challenge gender discrimination.
3/ When she was appointed to the Supreme Court, Ginsburg became known for her dissents.
As the Court became more conservative around her, Ginsburg’s dissents became “more pointed,” and “her prose also became more colorful," according to author Jane S. De Hart.
1/ Many people who live near #factoryfarms have to live with a terrible stench.
Here’s what’s behind the smell — and how it’s impacting their lives. vox.com/future-perfect…
2/ Many of the around 9 million pigs in North Carolina — the third largest producer of swine in the US — live in big factory farms, and all of those pigs produce a lot of waste.
3/ On these factory farms, that waste is collected in big outdoor lagoons, and then sprayed out across fields as fertilizer.
People living in communities nearby complain their daily lives are disrupted by the stench, and they fear that it’s affecting their health.