Last night's primary in Michigan's #HD02 saw Joanna Whaley get closer to becoming Michigan's first ever openly transgender state legislator as she easily won her primary in this downriver district. She won by 22% over Frank Liberati, who tried to sue her off the ballot for not using her deadname.
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Did I get the night I wanted? No I never want to spend hours waiting on Wayne County to count votes. Did I get the results I wanted? Absolutely, there was Abdul El-Sayed, Will Lawrence, Donovan McKinney federally, along with a ton of statehouse wins including Abbas Alawieh and Chris Gilmer-Hill.
Progressives didn’t get the big election night they wanted
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Big tax results out of Missouri tonight: Voters statewide rejected by an huge margin a GOP ballot measure to phase out the income tax. They also renewed a sales tax to keep state parks free. And Kansas City approved a package of $1.7 billion of bonds for infrastracture.
It’s funny because we do this thing where Black voters are pathologized, literally, every election cycle.
So El-Sayed is doing better with Black voters and worse with white voters than most people imagined? That’ll be fun for The Discourse.
Going to Stevens's house a decade from now as a journalist to do a retrospective on the rise of two-term Senator from Michigan Abdul El-Sayed. She's still doing the voice. "I can't stop," she tells me. "Euchre Yooper Verner's Party Store Pasty. Oop!"
there were not one, but two revolting state house Dems who tried to sue trans women off the ballot because they did not use their deadnames. they've both lost.
oh, this is great to see—Liberati is a gross socially conservative dynasty pol who tried to get Whaley, a progressive, disqualified for not filing under her deadname. Harris+1.5 so she starts out favored
Damn, guess the crystals didn’t work this time 😔
The AP has called the Democratic primary in #MO01 for Rep. Wesley Bell. He's currently crushing former Rep. Cori Bush 71–26%, although only 26% of the vote is counted. A high-profile loss in an otherwise good year for progressives.
A lot of people are going to try and insist in about six hours that being outspent by tens of millions of dollars and winning by five to possibly fifteen points is actually not that big of a deal
I have, with my own eyes, watched my tax dollars in the form of missiles as they hit buildings inhabited by civilians. I'd much prefer subsidizing a grocery story I don't use.
Opinion: Mamdani's idea may sound appealing, but it's NYC taxpayers who will take the hit, subsidizing discounts they may never even use.
Two-Time Oscar Winner and One Of the Most Charismatic Men on Earth, Mahershala Ali: PLEASE LET ME DO YOUR SUPERHERO MOVIE, FEATURING ONE OF YOUR MOST RECOGNIZABLE AND DISTINCTIVE REMAINING INACTIVE CHARACTERS!!! Marvel: Hmmm... Nah.
Mahershala Ali won't be Marvel's Blade. The two-time Oscar winner confirmed to GQ that he won't star in a long-gestating reboot of the iconic vampire slayer — and he firmly suggested Marvel dropped the ball. bit.ly/4pNs36i
Throwback to when I wrote a complete dubbing script for the original Godzilla when I was 16 and then acted it out using the text-to-speech engine used for BonziBuddy and Google Translate.
"Troy Jackson was trolling a Republican Governor online."
lmao Troy Jackson trolled Republicans about logging policy in the Bangor Daily News comments under the alias "Canadians for LePage"
I drew Zelda Ocarina of Time version ✨ I'm so excited for the remake!
in a moment of clarity i've come to realize that "used to kirk shinzo abe" is an insane statement, and the way the english language evolves is fascinating
THIS IS THE CONTRAPTION THEY USED TO KIRK SHINZO ABE
Didn't expect this to work, tbh, but yeah let's ball.
Troy Jackson please, Troy Jackson please, please save us Troy Jackson.
visual novels: throw Claire de Lune in that shit. bitches love Claire de Lune
Off the top of my head there are more Republican ex-legislators in prison right now for child sexual abuse then there are trans girls playing high school sports
I have not ever seen a single story about a trans kid causing any issue in some sport they’re playing (other than other butthurt parents) yet this is somehow an exponentially bigger problem than an ocean of conservative men preying on children and women.
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