Agree. Looking at polls is passive and unproductive. If you must look at polls, use them to guide your activism in these closing weeks. I make the case here... wapo.st/3zW9E1E
How to identify the political races in which individual voters have the most power.
Just donated. Will be phone banking tomorrow.
New from me at the Washington Post: use polls to find out where you can make a difference. Not just swing states: in 40 states & DC (80% of the population) voters have leverage in November. - Senate & House - abortion - legislatures - the rules of democracy www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
To find out where you can make a difference in your canvassing and donations, dive into the data that drove this piece. See votemaximizer.org
"My abortion was an act of love." My god, this is a harrowing and important ad.
Project 2025: "never again should CDC officials be allowed to say in their official capacity that school children 'should be' masked or vaccinated (through a schedule or otherwise)" What could go wrong?
I Was a Whistle-Blower Under Trump. Here’s What’s at Risk for Public Health www.nytimes.com/2024/10/10/o... Resistance to Public Health, No Longer Fringe, Gains Foothold in GOP Politics www.nytimes.com/2024/10/09/u... Just had a million Americans die in a pandemic. Could be POTUS again in 102 days
The merger of the Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Donald J. Trump campaigns puts the so-called medical freedom movement on the cusp of real power in Washington, with a new slogan: “Make America Healthy Agai...
Many climate scientists I know are skeptical of our ability to scale CO₂ removal.
Surpassing 1.5°C of warming can be undone at a later date – using tech, land and resources that don’t exist.
If you click through, you can find all the entries in a series of increasingly absurd and terrifying reports of a lunatic conspiracy theorist with a badge and a gun. It’s like a Stephen King novel, sans demon.
This is a crazy story with national ramifications broken by Nashville's Phil Williams, one of the best local news reporters in the country. www.newschannel5.com/news/newscha...
An election denier says his group — working through the assistant police chief in tiny Millersville — gained access to a confidential federal database that tracks Americans’ banking transactions.
Chief Justice John Roberts has set up the court to be Trump's appeaser if he wins and to hold back Harris if she wins. Sure, there's a little more nuance than that, but, that's the story. In case after case, issue after issue, this is the contingent term. I've been writing about it at Law Dork.
The new SCOTUS term begins Monday, but we don't know what that means just yet. Also: The latest on the noncompete rule. And, for paid subscribers: Closing my tabs.
The right of broadcasters to speak freely is rooted in the First Amendment. Threats against broadcast stations for airing content that conflict with the government’s views are dangerous and conflict with the fundamental principle of free speech. www.reuters.com/world/us/fcc...
Federal Communications Commission Chair Jessica Rosenworcel on Tuesday denounced threats made by a Florida agency against broadcast TV stations for airing advertisements in support of an abortion rights referendum.