usernamesAreTricky

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[–] usernamesAreTricky@lemmy.ml 5 points 9 months ago

After you vote, you can also volunteer to phone bank for last minute get out the vote calls!

https://go.kamalaharris.com/calls/

[–] usernamesAreTricky@lemmy.ml 3 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

No, there are some red, blue and swing states in there. It's kind of a weird mix of states because there a few blue states that don't have it and some red states that do

[–] usernamesAreTricky@lemmy.ml 17 points 9 months ago

Find your polling location. Go vote!

Your ballot will be deciding much more than just the president. Even if you did theoretically think both presidential canidates were equal in all regards (they aren't), then vote for the down ballot races!

Keep your local school boards from having insane people on it that will ban books and harm your kids or your neighbors's.

Vote for the constitutional ammendment questions and ballot initiatives. For instance, many states have either pro and anti abortion questions on their ballot.

[–] usernamesAreTricky@lemmy.ml 17 points 9 months ago

They already killed it for Supreme Court nominees when it suited them. If they really wanted something they'd kill it for that

By 2017, roles had reversed — Republicans held the majority in the Senate, and President Donald Trump sat in the Oval Office.

After Senate Democrats, now in the minority, filibustered the confirmation of Judge Neil Gorsuch — Trump's first nominee to the Supreme Court — McConnell engineered his own "nuclear option."

The Republican-controlled Senate voted 52-48 to reduce the vote threshold for confirming nominees to the Supreme Court from 60 to 51, per The New York Times.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2020/10/01/fact-check-gop-ended-senate-filibuster-supreme-court-nominees/3573369001/

[–] usernamesAreTricky@lemmy.ml 28 points 9 months ago (10 children)

Note that Harris has called for eliminating the Filibuster should dems get a trifecta

Harris says she would support ending the filibuster to bring back Roe v. Wade

https://www.npr.org/2024/09/23/nx-s1-5123955/kamala-harris-abortion-roe-v-wade-filibuster

[–] usernamesAreTricky@lemmy.ml 20 points 9 months ago

We can do a bit better than just hope, there is still time to volunteer to help get out the vote today and tomorrow on election day!

https://go.kamalaharris.com/

[–] usernamesAreTricky@lemmy.ml 47 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

Easily pushed around by dictators and billionaires, not so easily pushed by average citizens

Harris is more able to be influenced by public pressure which is what John Oliver is trying to get at

[–] usernamesAreTricky@lemmy.ml 12 points 9 months ago

Huh, turns out the Republican earlier BS claims of stolen valor for Tim Walz were just talking about the wrong Tim all along

[–] usernamesAreTricky@lemmy.ml 13 points 9 months ago

There are also still opportunities to volunteer in person and online - including on election day!

https://go.kamalaharris.com/

[–] usernamesAreTricky@lemmy.ml 3 points 9 months ago

Unfortunately they put tougher requirements on the types of accepted IDs, yes. This especially impact Native American voters in North Dakota

Native Americans continue to fight discriminatory voter ID laws in North Dakota

 

(Note that NC and NY have concluded their early voting already)

[–] usernamesAreTricky@lemmy.ml 25 points 9 months ago

I mean Biden has already started the process for rescheduling weed to schedule 3 for medical legalization. Process is long but it's at the tail end with the final hearing in December. It's not too hard to see Harris just using the same process but asking for full descheduling rather than asking them for schedule 3. Or if Dems get a trifecta, she could also try to get congress to legalize directly in law (faster than the executive branch only action)

[–] usernamesAreTricky@lemmy.ml 2 points 9 months ago

It is really funny how they're both named Tim and look a lot like each other

 

https://www.rockthevote.org/how-to-vote/same-day-voter-registration/

map from: https://www.axios.com/2024/10/31/voter-registration-election-day-2024


Another note that New York is currently even weirder having only allowed same day voter registration on a single day of early voting rather than the entire period unlike North Carolina

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