Fuck fuck fuck! The Georgia Senate runoff? Is TOMORROW. MEGAN VARNER/GETTY IMAGES 2021 is about to pop the fuck off. The contentious January 5 runoff in Georgia, an election that will determine which party has the power in the Senate, will be held TOMORROW. Here’s the latest on what’s happening in what’s become the center […]
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Flippin’ Georgia: A Quick Refresher on Georgia’s Very Moderate Democrats
Warnock and Ossoff’s support for cannabis could prove pivotal in the Senate, as more opportunities for the country to reverse our backward stance on the tiny green plant make their way through Congress. Elijah Nouvelage/Getty If you can believe it, the contentious January 5 runoff in Georgia is less than a week away. It’s an […]
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Flippin’ Georgia: 1.4 Million Cast Early Ballots in Senate Runoff
Someone save Rev. Raphael Warnock’s ears! Drew Angerer/Getty We are now almost two weeks away from the contentious January 5 runoff in Georgia, an election that will determine which party has the power in the Senate. Here’s the latest on what’s happening in what’s become “the center of the political universe”: 1.4 million people have […]
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Flipping Georgia: Early Voting Commences, Perdue’s Shady Finances, and Loeffler’s KKK Pose
Peep the stickie. Megan Varner/Getty Images We are practically breathing down the neck of the January 5 runoff in Georgia, an election that will determine which party has the power in the Senate. In both Georgia Senate races on the November 3 ballot, no candidate received 50% of the vote, which forced a runoff as […]
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Flipping Georgia: Sen. Kelly Loeffler’s Brain Is Holding Her Hostage!
Does Loeffler realize that calling Warnock a “radical liberal” actually makes him seem cool? PBS It’s less than a month until the January 5 runoff in Georgia, an election that will determine which party has the power in the Senate. In both Georgia Senate races on the November 3 ballot, no candidate received 50% of […]
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Flipping Georgia: Sen. Kelly Loeffler Self-Isolates After Mixed Coronavirus Test Results
COVID is probably doing a backflip inside of Kelly Loeffler’s body right about now. Kevin C. Cox/Getty The countdown is on to the January 5 runoff in Georgia, an election that will determine which party has the power in the Senate. In both Georgia Senate races on the November 3 ballot, no candidate received 50% […]
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The U.S. Finally Assembles a Team of COVID Avengers
Sorry, Better Business Bureau, “BBB” stands for Build Back Better now. BuildBackBetter.com The Biden-Harris campaign will chug ahead with its promise to “Build Back Better,” a confusing tagline that I always say in the wrong order. (Build Better Back? Better Build Back?) Over the weekend, the team added more details to its newly launched transition […]
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Jaime Harrison Rai$es a Monster $57 Million in Race Against Lindsey Graham
Jaime Harrison might actually unseat Lindsey Graham. Sean Rayford/Getty Everything’s coming up roses for Democrat Jaime Harrison, who is looking to unseat noted Trump henchman and incumbent Sen. Lindsey Graham in South Carolina. Last week, the Cook Report updated their forecast of the South Carolina Senate race, moving their rating from “lean Republican” to “toss […]
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Things You Can Do to Support the Black Community and Promote Anti-Racist Efforts
Alex Zielinski Note: This post is not a one-stop-shop for people looking for easy advocacy on-the-go. It’s not a checklist, syllabus, or an all-in-one link repository. This is a starting point, intended for those looking to more effectively spend their time, energy, and resources to benefit Black people through direct financial assistance and personal (re-) […]
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Delete Your Black Square Post
Please do me a favor and don’t post this black square on your Instagram. Courtesy of Wikiquote Late last night and early this morning, a flood of black squares filled my Instagram feed. The posts were part of Blackout Tuesday, a “social media movement” (a.k.a. chainmail) meant to visually symbolize a moment of silence taken […]
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I Wish I Was Making It Up That Democrats Thought About Putting Joe Biden in Fortnite
Imagine this, but in a video game where literally every single person has a gun. Scott Olson / Staff In the 1991 film Highlander II: The Quickening, one of the worst and best sci-fi films ever made, the villain Katana wanders into a dystopian board meeting, demonstrates his immortality by surviving a gun battle, kills […]
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Cannabuzz: Cannabis and the Candidates
OlegMalyshev / Getty Images Plus The Black Mirror-like reality show that is our upcoming presidential election is down to two candidates for the Democratic nomination (one if you believe the national press, though with the COVID-19 crisis upending everything… all bets are off), with the eventual nominee running against the semi-sentient, rotting sack of KFC, […]