Early voting began in Texas on Tuesday with long lines in San Antonio and outside of Houston, some the result of increased turnout and others linked to voting machine failures. https://t.co/gBGNGv56df pic.twitter.com/HrrSLELOvs
— The New York Times (@nytimes) October 13, 2020
Steady traffic at early voting sites in states like Ohio and strong returns of mailed-in ballots in North Carolina, Georgia, and elsewhere indicate an energized Black electorate. –@NBCBLK https://t.co/oIHws48Ffa
— NBC News (@NBCNews) October 14, 2020
This is a banana republic playbook. It’s ruinous for the nations international prestige. The whole world can see this and they know what it means. https://t.co/E4WtF8auDR
— Cahir O’Doherty (@randomirish) October 13, 2020
BREAKING: Nearly all eligible voters in Travis County are registered to vote this year.
— Austin Statesman (@statesman) October 13, 2020
A record 97% of the county’s estimated 850,000 eligible voters are registered https://t.co/L5ZE1mbZ5w
More than 125,000 Harris County, Texas residents went to the polls Tuesday to cast ballots on the first day of early voting, smashing the county's previous records. https://t.co/B8kxWoY1Sv
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) October 14, 2020
El Paso, TX shattered records for the 1st day of early voting.
— chris evans (@notcapnamerica) October 14, 2020
19k people voted in person.
Another 15k mail ballots were received bringing the first day total to 34k.
The total first-day turnout was 75% higher than 2016 and 45% higher than 2018https://t.co/gkEisO2xcF
Please follow @SeeSay2020 and report incidents of broken voting machines, voter registration problems, long lines, etc to https://t.co/dODxloSeZr for inclusion on its interactive map. #ElectionTransparency #ProtectOurVotes https://t.co/Vpyirc27W9
— Jennifer Cohn ✍🏻 📢 (@jennycohn1) October 14, 2020
This, from a voter in Georgia, is being posted a lot on my Facebook. It's unamerican that voting isn't easier. pic.twitter.com/OSURAbUEB6
— Helen Kennedy (@HelenKennedy) October 14, 2020
IDK who needs to hear this but, Black folks standing in hours long lines to vote isn’t a victory, it’s voter suppression and intentional sabotaging of the system.
— AJ Springer 🐺 (@JustAnt84) October 12, 2020
We all worry about the outcome of this race but no political pundit disagrees that Trump and the GOP will not win a high turnout election. They are trying to stop you from voting because they know. You want America? Get out and vote now! #WeWillVote #LincolnProject
— Fred Wellman (@FPWellman) October 14, 2020
This is the Kochs' right-wing coup: Deny voting rights, flood politics with dark money, capture the courts https://t.co/XVlPAEIa0H
— Manny Funes (@Manny_Funes) October 14, 2020
Elsewhere in an increasingly desperate Trumpworld…
I’m shaken to learn that Judge Barrett served on the Bd of Trustees of a group of private schools that barred children from attending their schools simply because their parents were unmarried. In the year 2017. https://t.co/yFv9NYyrBR
— Sam Spital (@SamSpital) October 14, 2020
Sen. Klobuchar says Judge Barrett's previous remarks on the Affordable Care Act were a "clear signal to Donald Trump" of where she stands on overturning the health care legislation.https://t.co/h9liAUDRY0
— MSNBC (@MSNBC) October 14, 2020
Amy Coney Barrett refuses to commit to a peaceful transfer of power‼️
— Lindy Li (@lindyli) October 14, 2020
Or to recuse herself from an election dispute
Smells like a corrupt bargain#TrumpGraveDancerpic.twitter.com/IQVevGD1qI
Amy Coney Barrett says she considers Brown v. Board of Education a "super-precedent" — those cases "so well settled that no political actors and no people seriously push for their overruling."
— NPR (@NPR) October 14, 2020
She does not consider Roe v. Wade to be among them.https://t.co/hAkVuJaxj8
In a blow to civil rights groups, the Supreme Court allowed the Trump administration to shut down the 2020 census count earlier than planned https://t.co/xcdSwtaujV pic.twitter.com/HhYKiY708k
— Reuters (@Reuters) October 14, 2020
A lot going on right now but this story deserves way more attention: “The investigation exonerated the Obama team and probably would have hurt Donald Trump’s reelection, so Bill Barr decided to keep it under wraps.” https://t.co/z9ZXAwxKmX
— Mark Follman (@markfollman) October 14, 2020
Experimental drugs are just that: experiments. Many of them prove to be dangerous and are never approved. So why was Donald Trump given the Regeneron drug? https://t.co/p68lfSqXZf
— The New Yorker (@NewYorker) October 14, 2020
The president pleaded with suburban women during a campaign stop in Pennsylvania. https://t.co/DtOA4AHix4
— HuffPost Politics (@HuffPostPol) October 14, 2020
Top story: @RuralUSA2020: 'We’re doing our part to warn Iowans that @realdonaldtrump is in town tomorrow. This billboard is directly outside the Des Moines Airport where he will hold his hangar rally. #Superspreader #Su… pic.twitter.com/TNulDOfppe, see more https://t.co/NQzOpsaH4Z
— ערוץ האמנות (@amanutchannel) October 14, 2020
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BORISHAMBLES BRITAIN
Boris Johnson is under pressure to order a "circuit breaker" national lockdown https://t.co/hqT2zV9bmE
— Bloomberg (@business) October 14, 2020
“Johnson jokes his Covid ‘rule of six’ lets Britons avoid in-laws.”
— George Eaton (@georgeeaton) October 13, 2020
Boris Johnson is prime minister of a country with the fifth-highest number of new Covid-19 cases in the world, not a Have I Got News For You panellist. https://t.co/WkRvkH6SPl
Excruciating account of Boris Johnson on the 1922 call tonight from Spectator’s @katyballs https://t.co/GLbxlbovLi pic.twitter.com/uqkMThNQcN
— Sam Coates Sky (@SamCoatesSky) October 13, 2020
And in tonight’s “f*ck right off” news…
Boris Johnson says Britain should not fear a no deal with the EU https://t.co/ZuxCu1ZBTN
— Evening Standard (@standardnews) October 14, 2020
‘The statement by the Luxembourg deputy reads, “The European Parliament will, under no circumstances, ratify any post-Brexit agreement should the UK authorities breach, or threaten to breach, the Withdrawal Agreement.”’ https://t.co/r6TXdpXLk8
— Colin Harvey (@cjhumanrights) October 13, 2020
Tomorrow and Thursday are big Brexit days.
— Belinda de Lucy (@BelindadeLucy) October 13, 2020
The very key to unlocking UK’s economic flexibility may be in the process of being sold off (very quietly) during the Covid distraction. Or Boris is going to pull a Brexit blinder. https://t.co/olMYQxw9sf
So lying, bullying, Brexit scamming "career psychopath" & odious real life Gollum, Dominic Cummings, is also a tax avoider?
— Will Black (@WillBlackWriter) October 13, 2020
At this stage he could bake and eat puppies and kittens yet inept coward @BorisJohnson wouldn't dare sack him#DemonicScummings
https://t.co/qpmRBrRAOf
Tory Ministers spent £64m on post-Brexit ‘British GPS’ scheme before it was abandoned and shut down.
— Rob McDowall 😷 🏴 (@robmcd85) October 13, 2020
The UK Space Agency rented premium office space on a six-year lease before the programme was ended in September.https://t.co/BQYvirTemB