Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Whatever happens next week, the fight doesn’t end.

Come on, man.

Giving in to doom is how we fail to fight for ourselves & one another.

The republican caucus is covering themselves with something, and it is not glory.

When someone says they “love freedom”, rest assured they don’t mean yours.

When you’re in more danger from the IDF than from Russian shelling, that’s really bad.

JFC, are there no editors left at that goddamn rag?

He wakes up lying, and he lies all day.

Too little, too late, ftfnyt. fuck all the way off.

I’m starting to think Jesus may have made a mistake saving people with no questions asked.

Radicalized white males who support Trump are pitching a tent in the abyss.

Beware of advice from anyone for whom Democrats are “they” and not “we.”

They fucked up the fucking up of the fuckup!

“Until such time as the world ends, we will act as though it intends to spin on.”

Disagreements are healthy; personal attacks are not.

When they say they are pro-life, they do not mean yours.

Authoritarian republicans are opposed to freedom for the rest of us.

This chaos was totally avoidable.

Republicans want to make it harder to vote and easier for them to cheat.

Republicans do not pay their debts.

Republicans: slavery is when you own me. freedom is when I own you.

Technically true, but collectively nonsense

Nothing worth doing is easy.

A snarling mass of vitriolic jackals

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RSVP: Zoom with The Civics Center on Tuesday at 7:30 pm

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Zoom with Laura Brill from The Civics Center on Tuesday, Sept 17 at 7:30 pm Eastern

I hope you’ll join us next Tuesday for the zoom with Laura Brill, the founder and CEO of The Civics Center.

Laura has an extraordinary background!  She clerked for Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, and co-authored several articles with her.  She’s an award-winning advocate with more than two decades of experience working on complex legal issues and advocating for the LGBTA+ community and for equal voting rights.

And now, she’s focused on The Civics Center.

It's Up to Us Now, Next Up, Youth Again (but younger!) 1

Laura will be here to talk about The Civics Center, but I bet we can talk her into a story or two!

The Civics Center trains students and educators to conduct registration and preregistration drives in High Schools.  And they make it fun!  In addition to training and support, The Civics Center provides T-shirts, stickers, customizable flyers, tote bags, candy and other swag in the brilliantly-named Democracy in a Box!

With our fundraiser, we are helping the Civic Center expand into 25 schools in diverse metropolitan areas – in Arizona, Michigan, Wisconsin, Ohio and Pennsylvania! 

Here’s a link to our first post about the Civics Center, in case you missed it or you have slept since then.

It’s Up to Us Now, Next Up, Youth Again (only Younger!)

Come to the zoom to learn more about how The Civics Center is making registering to vote a part of the turning 18 experience – or in many states, the “turning 16-or-17 experience”.  RSVP via email to WaterGirl!

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    different-church-lady

    I really don’t get it: when I was in high school my friends and I were all clamoring to be able to vote.

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    Matt McIrvin

    We made sure our kid was pre-registered and set up to get a mail ballot as soon as she knew her college mailing address. I actually missed the first election I was eligible to vote in (the 1986 midterm) because I didn’t figure out how to apply for absentee voting in time

    I have a suspicion that a major reason for low youth turnout in our society is that many kids become eligible to vote around the same time they go off to college, and that change of address with associated uncertainty about residency makes it that much harder to do it. So they don’t get into the habit.

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    Almost Retired

    This looks great.  Count me in.  This looks like such a smart strategy — empower the students and their faculty advisors to motivate young voters and give them the tools to make it easy.  Should be a fun zoom, especially with the RBG angle.

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