Time it took Joint Session of Congress to certify electoral vote count: 2009 - 36 minutes 2013 - 22 minutes 2017 - 41 minutes 2021 - 14 hours and 48 minutes 2025 - 30 minutes

One bit regret in Biden world? That Harris abandoned the anti-big-business populism of the campaign, reports @FranklinFoer theatlantic.com/politics/arc…

Hasan sounded the alarm about right wingers dominating the online space for young men. 47% of 18-29 year old men just voted for Trump

America could wake up on Wednesday with all three branches of our government — the — Executive, Legislative, and Judicial — Trumpist. With this clip, take five minutes to ponder Germany’s memorials and the price that nation paid for being bamboozled by a bombastic autocrat. Listen to the heartfelt message of my German tour guides, for whom these memorials are like ghosts of mistakes made and evils allowed… ghosts that haunt their society still. These are the same guides who clink glasses in the beer halls and yodel from the hilltops with our American tour members. They admire America. They love America. And they are worried for America. If we vote for fascism, it’ll likely be won by one or two percent (or even less)…and perhaps just a few stadiums of people will tip the balance. And history has taught my European friends that the cost of a course correction is infinitely more heartbreaking after a wannabe dictator wins an election than before. We are all participants, we are all responsible, and we will all bear the consequences of our collective choice.

until the day I die I will never understand why he was even still allowed to run after this

While we may have gotten an extra hour of sleep this morning, it's not worth the hour of sunlight we're losing for the next 6 months. Let's stop changing the clocks and finally make Daylight Saving Time permanent.

Automatically disbelieving authorities isn't independent-mindedness. It's just conformism with the sign bit flipped.

» Pelosi: I Don't Know Why Anybody Would Vote for 'Unpatriotic' Trump breitbart.com/clips/2024/11/…

Republicans: “Biden called us garbage which was very mean.” Elon: “I think all democrats should be executed.”

Me talking about Ann Selzer (who I found out exists one hour ago)

powerful stuff from Walz

Big opportunity for @KamalaHarris to close the sale with voters by pledging that tonight will be the last time government mandated darkness/SADness is inflicted on the populace. Never Fall Back. #PermanentDaylightSavings for all. 🌞 🥥 🌴

Walz: And then this dude is nearly 80 years old. He tells us he's a genius, a stable genius. He apparently went to the Wharton school. In those 80 years, you would have thought he learned what a damn tariff is and who pays for it.

Did the “white and gold” people ever apologize for being objectively wrong? 🤔

RT @kylietcheung: My parents talking about me when I save a Word document as a PDF for them:

In 2016, conservatives assumed Hillary would still face legal jeopardy even if she won the election. Now, it’s just taken for granted that Trump will shut down a criminal investigation into himself for a far graver crime that he’s already been indicted for.

The reason Dems are increasingly ready to feed political media to the wolves is because the political media is desperate to cover an ambiguous comment from Biden that was immediately clarified, but mostly just shrugs when Trump calls us vermin or threatens us as a national enemy.

i'd vaguely heard about the US election in 2000 actually being "stolen" and i looked it up and it seems consensus is - the entire US election came down to florida - the difference in votes was <0.1%, not statistically significant - polling machine had hardware issues way higher than <0.1% - florida could have decided to actually and properly hand count the votes - the state's highest supreme court decided to do that - bush asked the supreme court to intervene in a state's free & independent ability to run its own elections - the voting was exactly on partisan lines: the 5 republican judges declared bush the winner - they cited reasoning that competes for one of the most transparently dishonest rulings of all time - the single most comprehensive study after the fact found that if the votes had been properly counted, gore would have won - this is not factoring in a calculated, well-documented attempt by republican governor of florida to suppress thousands of votes, in black counties for al gore, by the official US election commission

Gamer-Americans, take note

Thanks to @CopyrightOffice, McDonald’s franchisees now have the right to repair their own ice cream machines. In March @FTC filed a comment in support of this change, and we’ll keep using our tools to protect people’s right to repair. ftc.gov/news-events/news/pre…