If you were starting to feel optimistic because of the election results from last week, here’s an editorial in Bloomberg warning us that World War III is totally possible.
Electioneering
Make your safe district more powerful: Gerrymander a prison into it! Prisoners count as residents, but can’t vote, so every voter in the same district gets more power. Surprise, it’s largely black and brown people in the prisons, and conservative whites outside it using their disenfranchised bodies to consolidate electoral power. It’s like the old 3/5 compromise, except they count 100%!
A history of racist political ads, and why the latest one is even worse than the notoriously terrible “Willie Horton” ad. Includes a screenshot of a transcript of a 60 Minutes interview in which Lee Atwater denies having anything to do with the ad, followed by, of course, the show cutting away to Roger Stone saying he’d warned Atwater against running it, and Atwater called him a pussy and ran it anyway. Atwater did go to his grave regretting it. Too little, too late.
An Indiana poll worker explains just how badly run the elections in her county were.
Cultivating joy
This very good boy.
(I am still accepting submissions & suggestions for the Joy section!)
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