The Supreme Court just issues a ruling allowing Ohio and other states to purge voters from their election registration rolls due to their failure to cast a ballot in previous elections.
This is a major victory for the Trump administration and the GOP, and a direct consequence of the Supreme Court being stacked with more conservative judges (the votes were 5-4). This is also a huge part of what Trump/the GOP were counting on to save them in the 2018 midterm elections, which is where Democrats have been hoping to take back a majority in the House, giving them more power to combat Trump’s abuses of power and Republican legislation.
What this means is YOU CAN NOT ASSUME THAT YOU ARE REGISTERED for the 2018 elections, just because you SHOULD be. Thanks to this decision, red states can purge voters’ registration based on their not having cast a ballot in even just previous federal elections, NOT just the national Presidential elections. Effectively, if you haven’t voted in previous senate races or for congressional representatives in the past few years, that’s all they need now to say you’re no longer registered and need to register again.
They’re deliberately counting on people assuming they’re still registered and so not checking until after registration deadlines have passed, or showing up to vote this November and only then finding out they’re no longer registered, when its too late to do a damn thing about it.
And this is absolutely targeted at marginalized communities, low income voters, disabled voters, and basically anyone who simply can’t always AFFORD to keep on top of every federal election and show up to vote in every senate race, etc. Which not so coincidentally happen to be all the communities and voters who have the most to gain from Democratic victories in the 2018 midterms and are the least likely to cast votes for GOP candidates at this point.
This was absolutely a calculated effort aimed specifically at keeping the GOP in power with a majority control of the government come November, and unfortunately, it has a DAMN good chance of accomplishing just that if it goes by unacknowledged. I’m not looking to alarm or panic anyone, simply to say:
If you are a registered voter in a red state at this point, please please please do not take your registered status as assumed. Check on your registration status, look up all relevant voter registration deadlines for your state and district, CIRCLE THAT SHIT ON YOUR CALENDAR, and check your registration status AGAIN right before those deadlines pass, so you can be sure of it before its too late to do anything about it til the next voting cycle.
i’ve stopped trash talking comic sans after learning the font is actually one of the only dyslexia-friendly fonts that come standard with most computers and i advocate for others doing the same
In the event that you would like to continue hating Comic Sans, other dyslexia-friendly alternatives include Arial, Verdana, Tahoma, Century Gothic and Trebuchet.
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Random fact: Verdana is one of the few fonts which was specifically designed to be as easy to read as possible, even at smaller type sizes. It was designed this way for use on screen, but the same principles apply in print too. This is part of why some Universities use Verdana as their default font for documents.
“In the event that you would like to continue hating Comic Sans” is one of the best things I’ve ever read on this website
Century Gothic and Trebuchet are both quite handsome typefaces.
I’m partial to Century Gothic as well. It’s serif, but not boring.
There’s also a dyslexic font designed especially for dyslexic people to read.
You can install on your tablets, laptops and browers etc, so not only can you change things like documents into it, you can change websites into that font as well!
I’m sure you’re bright enough to do a google search, but since I’m dumb enough to forget to post a link, here it is. Better late than never
I default to arial for this reason, but I will now be defaulting to verdana or dyslexie. nice.
I don’t think I have dyslexia but that dyslexie font was the easiest fucking thing to read ever. Books should be written in that shit.
ALSO!!!
For computer reading, when you mix up lines of text, there’s a web browser app called Beeline Reader. It looks like this
The colors are also customizable, to an extent and while I don’t have dyslexia, I have adhd which makes reading large amounts of text harder and this helps A LOT.
She wasn’t supposed to go. It had almost been a joke, between the two of them, a promise of sorts. The first to wake and the last to fall, except, she wasn’t supposed to have ever fallen thanks to some batshit old lady with a curse. They’d just been laughing together over cheap beer and ramen, reminiscing over the battles and picking each other’s strategies apart. Who goes where, when to bounce off of each other in that perfect ballet of having fought too many battles for too long as a team. Where they were going to celebrate afterwards.
I know the bow looks stupid. People think I don’t, and they comment about it in that way people do when they’re trying not to say something for real, when they just want to dance around it, but I know that, I’m MARRIED to that, I’m not stupid.
Well, I am, but not about this.
But you can know something and ignore it. Because you have to. Because you want to. Because you promised.
Like the way she ignored me drunkenly telling her she was my best friend, that I loved her. She pushed me away, laughing, and slid the plate of chicken toward me.
“Eat up, drunkie.” And she wasn’t wrong, I was drunk. But it was a good drunk, a happy drunk, that sort of drunk that feels like the glow off a streetlight. You know what I’m talking about?
“I’m serious, Mina.” I told her, but I did eat the chicken, so she wasn’t wrong there either.
Mina didn’t get it wrong very much, until she got a lot wrong at once.
“Okay,” she smiled at me and pointed her beer bottle, “If I die, which I won’t because,” and here she did one of her dramatic flourishes,” it is my destiny, my curse and my power. If I die, you gonna wear my bow.”
“Mina, I don’t have any hair. Where am I gonna tie it?” I don’t know why I was wrapped up with practical concerns. She was just joking.
She was just joking.
“I don’t know, Ruka, tie it around your neck like a cocker spaniel puppy, but if you’re my best friend, LIKE YOU SAID,” She was still giggling, and it sounded like the ping of a pinball machine. “You’ll promise me.”
“Okay,” I was laughing too. I was laughing because it was a joke. A joke in our shitty bar with the ramen with those cheap thin noodles and the salty broth. Where the happy hour turned it into a bad izakaya. “If I die what’ll you wear?”
“I don’t know, your shitty earring!”
“It’s not shitty! It’s a signal, like–”
She grabbed my shoulder. “I’m just fucking with you, Bud. Promise me.”
Sometimes Mina’s eyes got weird and intense and I didn’t know why, but I just kinda listened to her when that happened.
“I promise.”
The ribbon never left when she died, because it was always hers. She was the only one who kept something with her when she transformed. That’s why she was supposed to stay, because she did being both the best. She did being both the best until she didn’t. Until that day when she made a mistake, and she fixed, but she paid the price for it.
I paid the price for it too. Usagi cried in a lot of people’s arms but I just cried in a booth in a shitty bar with shitty cheap ramen noodles and salty broth.
I don’t do it very good, doing both.. But the ribbon stays on when I transform, too. Not because of me. Because it’s her, because she’s in it somehow, I think.
It’s my favorite part of my uniform. I know that, too.
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Kauai, Hawaii, she dreams of becoming human and loves watching the surfers, the way they ride the waves between the human world and her ocean. Then one day, a particular surfer catches her eye…
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