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Mazel Tov!

Go, kid!

Congratudolences!

I haven't been able to quite articulate it enough (in my head) to post about it here, but it made me weep last night thinking about how much we owe Minnesota for standing up to ICE the way they did last winter (and still do!). A lot of other people have stood up and shown up, and worked hard (godDAMN, Georgia!)- don't get me wrong - but by fighting back so forcefully and publically "ordinary" Minnesotans just galvanized the country in the way it really needed and they deserve some credit for what happened nationwide yesterday.

@williwaw I think Minnesotans recognized that simply caring about your neighbors in this day and age has become a radical act, and we made the most of it that we could. There were dozens (maybe hundreds) of small groups organizing help for people here, so while the cartoonishly evil of ICE helped make it a national story, the roots of support and connection went so much deeper. Even farther out from the Twin Cities, ICE was abducting people and disrupting communities, and that helped those more isolated parts of the state both recognize the problem and find support networks in ways that cut through their haze of right-wing media. MN Isn't uniformly blue, but this election pushed the state as a whole back toward the left.

Also, much of this goes back further to George Floyd and the networks of support that grew from those killings. ICE focusing here just reactivated that feeling of being under siege and the need to band together.

hell yeah

💙

MO shaped hole in the middle

@scruss I *believe* this particular graph is based on Senate races and neither of MO's seats were up on this cycle. It was a pretty good day here too, though, with Paul Wellman (D) flipping MO-02 and the two big statewide amendments (3 & 6) failing and passing, respectively.

@ufez @scruss yeah this particular map is based on Senate returns. Not every state had a Senate election this year.

That's a really interesting visualisation

@scruss @ufez @ian_crowther There's a more complete one here using all data, which shows the interesting shift in Nevada, Utah, and Arizona too https://www.reddit.com/r...

^using all *currently available* data

@williwaw nice

@ufez yeah, ms scruss (ex Liberty, MO, where she voted last week) was pretty happy to see Emanuel Cleaver reelected. But that question about abortion access was so convoluted!

@scruss Deliberately so! The wording allowed a bunch of PACs to run bullshit fearmongering ads in support of it. Fortunately the No campaign was *very* well organized and well-run, keeping it to simple, basic facts and the message got through.

It's kind of wild though; given the option, Missourians will fairly consistently vote for policies that are moderately progressive (by current US standards), which is why reinforcing the State Constitutional Amendment mechanism via Prop 6 was so vital. But when it comes down to [R] vs [D], they just don't seem to be able to get over the hump.

The Governor's race in '28 could get pretty interesting. Mike Kehoe and his wife were the public faces for the Yes on 3 campaign, making this another in a rapidly growing list of recent public Losses. He said as recently as last week that he intends to run again, but I imagine his seat is getting awfully warm.

I imagine it's pretty wet.

Flood warning

@wjcstp and @poorusher +++

Lots of big blue waves last night

What a fucking damning ratio there. Love it.

smoke if you got em

It's Margret’s (second interview) that got me welling up a little. I'm right there with her on all points. Watching the open corruption here in Austin, TX between big business and politics grow over the last two decades has been a horror show. It’s made Austin much less, er… Austin. Today, I woke up feeling hopeful about school funding, small business breaks, an affordable cost of living, funding for the arts, and the return of exceedingly lax laws concerning recreational drugs.

Oof 😢

I've seen other photos from that corner this morning, the number of stickers is growing fast

also every day

Make Aryans Grimace Again

Love!

title

This is so wonderful. Will listen later. ♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️

@waa xoxo

🧡❤️🩷💛💚🩵💜💙🤎

St. Madge

🥲

JUNO!

SYMBOLS/POWER, my favorite bolt thrower album

HAVE WE GOT A VIDEO????!!!!

I miss being a kid.

hell yah brother

Oh like Joan of Arc would give up her religion

That is A-MA-ZING

@snarkout we talked about Joan of Arc for a second!

@waa she's so sweeeeet

I've enjoyed her online. Also I got a fake Jane kicked off of facebook.

Did you tell her she's my favorite Go-Go?

@drurystephanie "she's so sweeeeet"

Joan of Arc..?

😜

Congrats on the conversation with Jane. She's a gem. Can't wait to hear it.

@dogwelder I stopped short of telling her she's my favorite Go-Go because I was afraid I'd sound like a kissass but it's true!

@LocalStain both of them! thank youuuu

@LocalStain both of them! thank youuuu

@dad a fake Jane! Yeah we met through Instagram a few years back

I love this project.

Settling the important questions.

🤢🤢🤢

Would you spoil the *whole* ballot if you scratch through all answers?

(Here we have separate ballots for separate elections; like mayor and borough council.)

@mare Ballots are largely regulated at the state level. In general you should assume that marking more than one option where only one option is permitted will spoil the whole ballot.

It won't spoil the ballot to leave it blank, though.

@ardgedee Thanks.
Also, what Nikkuneko said.

WTF, Idaho

@wjcstp Idaho gonna Idaho.

Should we use #ivoted again? https://mltshp.com/tag/ivoted

@bezt Sure, just switched it.

@me3dia Yay!

I get jealous at other folks' voting stickers, the ones in MN are lame

@wjcstp As are the ones in Western New York. 😞

My county had an art competition for their sticker earlier this year. Instead of restricting it to school children or to local residents or just to humans, they left it wide-open and it was completely overrun with AI slop chum and I'm about 80% certain the winning design is also slop.

Should we use #ivoted again? https://mltshp.com/tag/ivoted

@wjcstp I think @Davezilla is currently winning the cool voting sticker sweepstakes: https://mltshp.com/p/1RXVZ

Agree with @wjcstp Minnesota is the bestest in so many things, but I Voted stickers are not one of them.

I’m jealous at you getting voting stickers in general.
I never had one. I should move to the US I guess. Or are they common in other countries?

First like? ya still got it, Art!

You've been kicked in the nuts!

You're the man now, dog

After about 45 minutes, this starts getting even funnier!