“Governor Andrew Cuomo gave a holiday present to voting rights advocates on Tuesday signing the state’s first automatic voter registration (AVR) bill into law. Now eligible voters will automatically be registered when they interact with multiple state and city agencies that already collect the information required by the State Board of Elections.
“New York now joins 18 other states plus the District of Columbia with a policy that makes AVR the default option, requiring people who are eligible to vote to opt out if they do not want to register, instead of opting in.”
“Myrna Melgar is a lot of things. Elected in November to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, she’s a first-time office holder; the first Latina elected to the board; an immigrant from El Salvador; a descendant of Jewish scholars; a mother; the child of an engineer and a communist militant; and a part of the local Jewish community.”
“Melgar said she is the first ever Latina to be elected to the Board of Supervisors without being appointed first, as well as the first woman elected to represent District 7.”
“Gonzalez told NBC News her win Tuesday for Western Judicial Circuit district attorney makes her the first Latina to be elected a district attorney in the state, the first woman to serve as a district attorney in the circuit and the first Puerto Rican woman in the country to be elected a district attorney.
“Gonzalez was able to compete for district attorney after the state’s Supreme Court ruled unanimously in her favor in her lawsuit against Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp. The Republican governor used a 2018 state law to delay the district attorney’s election until November 2022, prompting the court fight.”
“Adrian Tam, a 28-year-old gay Asian American son of immigrants, defeated a leader of the Hawaii chapter of the Proud Boys, a far-right extremist group, to become the only openly LGBTQ person in Hawaii’s Legislature.
“Tam, a first-time candidate, took 63 percent of the vote against Nicholas Ochs.”
“Cori Bush, a progressive community leader and veteran Black Lives Matter activist, won a House seat in Missouri, becoming the state’s first Black woman to represent the state in Congress, according to CNN projections.”
“Democrats captured control of the Senate on Wednesday with a pair of historic victories in Georgia’s runoff elections, assuring slim majorities in both chambers of Congress for President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr. and delivering an emphatic, final rebuke to President Trump in his last days in office.
“The Rev. Raphael Warnock defeated Senator Kelly Loeffler, becoming the first Black Democrat elected to the Senate from the South. And Jon Ossoff, the 33-year-old head of a video production company who has never held public office, defeated David Perdue, who recently completed his first full term as senator.”
“TheRev. Raphael Warnock, the senior pastor of Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, will be the first Black senator from Georgia, CNN projected early Wednesday, a repudiation of Republican Sen. Kelly Loeffler and her adherence to President Donald Trump….
Warnock is the first Georgia Democrat elected to the Senate in 20 years, and his election is the culmination of years of voter registration drives conducted by former state House Democratic leader Stacey Abrams and other activists. President-elect Joe Biden also won Georgia, the first time for a Democratic presidential candidate since the 1990s.
‘I am an iteration and an example of the American dream,’ the senator-elect told CNN’s John Berman Wednesday morning on ‘New Day.’ He added, ‘When I think about the arc of our history, what Georgia did last night is its own message in the midst of a moment in which so many people are trying to divide our country, at a time we can least afford to be divided.’"
J'appelle pas au débat, je m'en fous de votre opinion si elle diverge de la mienne, celleux qui veulent qu'on se réconforte dans les coms vous êtes les bienvenu.e.s, j'invite à rien d'autre
Pour les rares français qui me suivent sachez que si vous avez pas voté à gauche aujourd'hui, vous avez voté contre moi et mes communautés, femme lesbienne handi fauchée et artiste indé donc je vous invite à cordialement dégager mdr
Aussi sachez qu'on a perdu 8% en vote pour la divers gauche. On aurait tout pu concentrer sur Mélenchon et gagner
Si vous avez voté Roussel, Jadot ou Hidalgo, j'ai pas les mots
Si vous avez eu la flemme de voter, vous avez condamné des communautés, dont les miennes
Bref soirée de deuil national, les français.e.s qui ont le seum (le mot est faible vu qu'on a le choix entre deux facistes pour le second tour) vous pouvez venir pleurer dans les coms avec moi
Envie de brûler des trucs basiquement
Politiquement je me définis de gauche radicale avec des petites flavors d'anarchisme et de socialisme (pas le PS, hein, le concept de socialisme).
Ajd j'ai dû faire un choix pour mes adelphes, laisser quelques fiertés de cotés et choisir la France Insoumise pour le meilleur futur possible. Apparemment c'est pas venu à l'esprit de tout le monde
the way other people (esp non filipinos) are blaming filipinos instead of blaming the marcoses for their massive disinformation campaign & probable rigging of voting machines…. it doesnt sit right with me
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again.
Most Filipinos are victims of a massive, well-orchestrated disinformation campaign that has been going on for years.
Troll farms, various social media outlets, such as Facebook,Tiktok, and YouTube, and personal accounts managed by pro-Marcos social media influencers have greatly contributed to the massive spread of fake content and false narratives, in an attempt to rebrand the Marcos name and deem the martial law years as the “golden age” of the Philippines.
Filipinos are not uneducated nor uncivilized. Otherwise, thousands of protesters would not be on the streets, independent fact-checkers would not spend their time and effort debunking false information, and voters would not have waited till 2 am at voting precincts for their ballot to be processed.
It is truly heartbreaking that this is happening to us. We are constantly manipulated and gaslighted for a quick buck. Please consider these contexts first before you paint Filipinos as uneducated.
And yes! The Dutertes and the Marcoses (and other public figures) are very crafty in gaining sympathy. They are incredibly good at providing short-term solutions that are actually masking the true agenda of exploiting money and resources from the people, essentially bringing them down and silencing them.
All the infrastructures BS of Marcos Sr? Hotspots for under-the-table transactions.
The Anti-Terror Law? To eradicate those who are rightfully against this godforsaken government.
There are so much more happening, masked as something else entirely. And at the heart of this, is the goal of suppressing Filipinos in all aspects so that they will be ignorant and remain ignorant.
the philippines was used as a testing ground for the propaganda strategies later used in US elections because of how lax the regulation policies are in the country, according to a whistleblower who worked in Cambridge Analytica. the philippines was taken advantage of, being actively manipulated since 2010, by foreign western forces (source). filipinos are not stupid, they’re not evil, they’re not people who want the worst for the country. they’re people being actively manipulated, in a place where it’s easy to be manipulated. they want the best for the country, and what’s best for the country is being tainted by lies, misinformation, and ill intent
yep! that’s also been previously mentioned in another reblog chain, thank you for adding it to this one too
