Margot/CurlyW. 🏳️⚧️ she/her. @ComboBreaker. @Evo. Math PhD. Bracket obsessive. I agree you should've been seeded higher. (Pic @bluerosetori/Banner @chaesuart)
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A long-overdue announcement: The codebase for (most of) my event-organizing tools is now on a public github repo. This includes the player schedule optimizer and the bracket pdf creator
github.com/margotphoenix/cur…
Feel free to check it out. I'm open to collaboration as well.
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Transgender issues are not a factor or a minor factor for 68% of likely voters. Even among conservatives, 58% say not a factor or minor.
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Josh Turek's position on trans healthcare is to the right of nine red states. Medicaid covering gender affirming care has been *the* reason for trans people to vote blue. If I wanted to define "Dems abandoning trans people," it'd be "if/when Turek's position is normalized."
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Red alert in Salvador 🚨 🇧🇷 Bolsonaro’s allies are shutting down public bus service in order to suppress the popular vote: one of the dirtiest tricks in the authoritarian playbook.
🚨 URGENTE! A Justiça acaba de determinar a prisão do Secretário de Mobilidade de Salvador, apoiador de Bolsonaro, por reter a frota de ônibus em garagem, dificultando o transporte de eleitores. Nossa campanha recebeu relatos de práticas semelhantes na periferia de Maceió e em outras cidades. Vamos pra cima desses canalhas! Se tiverem algum relato, informem aqui para tomarmos as medidas cabíveis!
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This about Dems is more or less true, but what I think people like the young woman in that video are responding to is the hundreds of millions of dollars in agitprop designed to turn their friends, family, and neighbors against them being met with either silence or retreat
It's an unbelievably scary and dangerous time to be trans in this country right now, and while it's true that a handful of Democratic candidates in more conservative areas are engaging in rhetoric that's not productive, the party remains resolutely committed to the civil rights and dignity of trans people. That's simply not in question.
I think it's really important for Democratic leaders to correct this record when given the opportunity to engage with this specific community.
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The US-backed right-wing narco-dictatorship in Ecuador has arrested presidential candidate Luisa González, from the leftist Correísta movement, on fabricated charges.
This came after Ecuador's narco-regime banned the main left-wing opposition party.
Ecuador is run by dictator Daniel Noboa, the son of the country's richest billionaire oligarch, and a close ally of Donald Trump.
It has been admitted even by some mainstream Western media outlets that the Noboa family is deeply involved in cocaine trafficking, and works closely with organized crime networks.
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Here's the party splits in Maine on blocking bombs to Israel:
Democrats: 86% yes, 7% no
Republican: 45% yes, 39% no
Does this seem like an issue that is dividing the *Democratic* Party, as we are constantly told?
NEW POLLS: A majority of likely voters in six states expected to decide control of the US Senate - Georgia, Iowa, Maine, North Carolina, Ohio, and Texas - support Senate measures to block the transfer of bombs to Israel.
Our new polling, conducted by @YouGov, was first announced on today's episode of Pod Save The World with @TVietor08 and @brhodes and sampled over 3,200 voters from September 25 to October 14.
State-by-state results below 🔽
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Nothing says “I’m the satirist society needs right now” like having Jonathan Greenblatt spring to your defense.
My friend @SachaBaronCohen has spent years confronting hate and disinformation, and @ADL is proud of all the work we've done together. In a world where lies spread faster than facts, that work matters more than ever.
No artist should be pressured, blacklisted or silenced over their Jewish identity. And Jewish artists shouldn’t be subjected to ideological litmus tests.
Thank you, Sacha, for continuing to speak out against hate while making us laugh along the way.
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Bruno (2009) labeled Ayman Abu Aita as Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade 'terrorist group leader.' The Palestinian Christian activist denied it, claimed he was misled into the interview, and sued Cohen for ~$110M defamation; settled confidentially in 2012.
nypost.com/2012/07/19/fal…
theguardian.com/world/2009/dec…
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"I don't mind trans people, I just don't want their existence shoved down my throat"
Brother, it's conservatives shoving trans people down your throat. They can't shut the fuck up about them. It's every political podcast, rally, and advertisement. It's all they think about.
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Mysterious group behind transgender mailers formed weeks ago in Wyoming expressnews.com/politics/tex…
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NATHAN FIELDER Now do you understand what the principal and the superintendent are arguing about? You just saw him climb out the window to buy hamburgers across the street
ELIZABETH HOLMES They're ... they're talking past each other?
BILLY EVANS Ok, let's stop tape right here
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Getting really annoyed by the constant twee “the Jewish state”. It’s a state, it’s a political entity, it is not a mere cultural expression of Jewish identity. It is thus not a protected class but a country with an attendant settler ideology fair game for harsh critique. Grow up!
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these brochures, which build on the text campaign last week, are clearly part of a GOP GOTV operation. the folks who did this are smart. less smart are the angry Rs on here who are not asking how the "transgender student union" got the addresses of them and all their friends
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Y'all serious @TheDemocrats?
Angie Nixon is the ONLY Senate candidate you're bidding against on Google to divert $ away from Florida?
Not El-Sayed, Jackson, Talarico, Andrews, Brown, Cooper, Pappas, Hamilton, Turek, Peltola, or Ossoff.
Just Angie Nixon.
Receipts below.
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I’ll just post the portion that people are conveniently cutting out.
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You’re not allowed to say that any place sucks because a theoretical gay person lives there
