The Constitution and relevant statutes say that Congress's role is to *count* the electoral votes. The persistent misuse of the language of "certification" inflates Congress's role and suggests the results are somehow uncertain prior to Jan 6 - an impression some are all to happy to exploit

The fact that none of the numbers seemed to add up was a source of comfort to me back when Biden was trailing badly in the polls, and it continues to be one now with the polls almost tied

"no seriously, you should vote for Harris tho" published one time in September is not a substitute for the politics desk shitting all over the race in order to help Trump in 30 stories a week!

I think sw is often a really strong starting place in class discussions bc the working class fundamentally only have their bodies to sell, and I think that the neoliberalisation of a lot of trans politics is facilitated by an almost sometimes wilfull ignorance of class within the trans community

if Gilboa had failed, Irene’s death toll would have been insanely high. news outlets incorrectly reporting that it had were absolutely traumatizing this looks like a similar situation tbh

some official used the word “breached” in a press release - meaning water was going over the top of the dam everyone was already on edge bc there had just been a small earthquake, and Cuomo was on site at the dam checking it out when Irene blew our way surprise! he barely got out in his black SUV

a q to ask yourself: what is the news outlet that cares most about what happens on the street you live on? (they might suck shit! tiny news outlets often do!) will they be there when what happened to southern Appalachia happens to you? how can you help make sure they are?

In a sense, it's a kind of relief that the damage from global warming isn't concentrated on the Global South, because that's what everyone in charge has been working towards with the toughening up of border controls and the like. But it's not just the tropics that will be unsurvivable soon.

and while some people *will* say (with an unbothered conscience), "who cares about FL?", the fact is that we now have hurricane-like spiral storms OVER CENTRAL EUROPE and over the continental U.S., and it's not just third world countries' poors getting fucked now.