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30 votes
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How the Beirut explosion was a government failure
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Politics is an American industry
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On the rudeness of mobs
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Need help raising funds for a friend
@ admin: Sorry if it's not allowed to post these kinds of things, feel free to remove it. I'm normally not someone who would post this kind of stuff to places like this or other sites, as it's...
@ admin: Sorry if it's not allowed to post these kinds of things, feel free to remove it.
I'm normally not someone who would post this kind of stuff to places like this or other sites, as it's probably kind of annoying, but l'm honestly starting to get super worried.
A close friend recently broke her leg & thanks to the fucked up US healthcare system she's got a $1800 bill due on the 11th of October. I set up a fundraiser to try and help, which raised $500 so far, but that's just not enough.
I'm really worried for her (mental) wellbeing & l am desperately trying to scrape together what l can to help. l think if the bill isn't paid, it wouldn't take long for her to end up homeless, or worse.l don't like asking this, but would anyone be able to either donate or share the tweet? Any amount helps.
l would genuinely appreciate it a lot if you could, and l understand if you can't.
https://twitter.com/asoftbird/status/1294762351242235904?s=21
Edit: it's in the tweet, but l should mention she's trans and disabled; becoming homeless already is pretty bad, but given the other circumstances l'm honestly not sure if she'll survive that.
I have donated her $600 already which is as much as l can miss, l don't know what to do about the bit that's still missing.10 votes -
Vincenzo Ravina will perform an interactive virtual magic show for you for $15!
5 votes -
Who gets to vote in Florida?
10 votes -
Trump eliminates federal anti-racism training, calling it “a sickness”
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The path to autocracy; A second Trump term will leave America’s political system and culture looking even more like Orbán’s Hungary
31 votes -
We don’t know how to warn you any harder. America is dying.
25 votes -
Europe's young not so woke? Generational divisions in European countries seem less pronounced and young people seem to be less consistently aligned with the left than expected
8 votes -
Kludgeocracy in America
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The truth about voting by mail and election fraud | Real Law Review
5 votes -
‘Freedom’ means something different to liberals and conservatives
12 votes -
For election administrators in the US, death threats have become part of the job
10 votes -
Getting from November to January: Wargaming shows that, short of a landslide victory for Joe Biden in the upcoming elections, we may be headed for a severe constitutional crisis
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Progressive groups are getting more selective in targeting incumbents. Is it working?
9 votes -
One IT guy’s spreadsheet-fueled race to restore voting rights
15 votes -
The US Supreme Court justices are misusing the ‘shadow docket’
8 votes -
Inside the Boogaloo: America’s extremely online extremists
14 votes -
I was a postal service regulator for eighteen years. Don’t panic
5 votes -
Stop panicking about the post office; but do fund them ASAP
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FiveThirtyEight 2020 election forecast
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The unraveling of America
10 votes -
Democracy maybe?
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Many Americans are convinced crime is rising in the US. Even if they're wrong, their fear is making everyone else less safe
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Alex Jones tells his listeners to get ready to die in fight against the New World Order
21 votes -
Biden goes big without sounding like it
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With Obama saying "the filibuster is a 'Jim Crow relic' ”, it’s looking more and more like Democrats will abolish the filibuster if they win back the Senate
21 votes -
There have been thirty-eight statewide elections during the pandemic. Here's how they went
5 votes -
Germany has woken up to a problem of far-right extremism in its elite special forces. But the threat of neo-Nazi infiltration of state institutions is much broader
12 votes -
Explaining the urban-rural political divide: Why do Democrats so often concentrate in cities?
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What can we do to support voter turnout in the US elections this fall?
There is an important election in the United States this fall, and we've all heard a lot of concern expressed about efforts to suppress the vote. Under the shadow of all the other issues we're...
There is an important election in the United States this fall, and we've all heard a lot of concern expressed about efforts to suppress the vote. Under the shadow of all the other issues we're currently facing as a society, I know a lot of people who are asking "what concrete actions can I take to make a difference?" It seems like helping to get out the vote is one very important action.
So here's a question to the Tildes community: what suggestions do you have about how we (as individuals) can help get out the vote this fall? Big or small, donating money or doing physical work -- what can we do?
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Discontents: "New collective effort by an amazing group of Substack writers and podcasters"
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"Together, you can redeem the soul of our nation" - John Lewis, the civil rights leader who died on July 17, wrote this essay shortly before his death, to be published upon the day of his funeral
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Ultimate immunity
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The importance of resisting excessive government surveillance
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Donald Trump is putting on a show in Portland; the president is deploying the kind of performative authoritarianism that Vladimir Putin pioneered
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KnowYourVote - An aggregated source for info about US candidates
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Interview with Thomas Chatterton Williams on race, identity, and "cancel culture"
5 votes -
The United States needs a third Reconstruction; whatever its shape, the era ahead must rekindle the aspiration of a nation molded in the ideal of perfect equality that we have always seeked
21 votes -
The alt-right playbook: Always a bigger fish
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Throw the bums out: The USA is in the midst of a world-historic failure of governance. Why isn’t anyone in charge acting like they are responsible for it?
23 votes -
Why it could actually be Trump that has an enthusiasm problem, not Biden
14 votes -
Defund the police? Defund the military
5 votes -
Chinese police are making threatening video calls to dissidents abroad, telling them not to criticise Xi Jinping
30 votes -
The second defeat of Bernie Sanders
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A more specific letter on justice and open debate
12 votes -
Why Ethiopia has unusual potential to be a local power
7 votes -
War over being nice
13 votes