The US just elected 8 new scientists to Congress, including an ocean expert, a nurse, and a biochemist. Here’s the full list.

mindblowingscience:

The faces of Capitol Hill are changing.

When the 116th Congress heads to Washington in January, there will be a record number of women in the ranks — at least 123, according to the news website Axios, including the first Muslim women, the first Somali-American, and the first Native American women.

There will be more scientists too.

On Tuesday, at least eight new science-credentialed candidates were elected: one senator and seven members of the House. Full results are not yet available in Washington state, where a pediatrician is likely to be elected to the House.

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The US just elected 8 new scientists to Congress, including an ocean expert, a nurse, and a biochemist. Here’s the full list.

‘Full Trumpism’: The president’s apocalyptic attacks reach a new level of falsity

feelingbluepolitics:

catbirdseat4u:

CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. — President Trump is painting an astonishingly apocalyptic vision of America under Democratic control in the campaign’s final days, unleashing a torrent of falsehoods and portraying his political opponents as desiring crime, squalor and poverty.

As voters prepare to render their first verdict on his presidency in Tuesday’s midterm elections, Trump is claiming that Democrats want to erase the nation’s borders and provide sanctuary to drug dealers, human traffickers and MS-13 killers. He is warning that they would destroy the economy, obliterate Medicare and unleash a wave of violent crime that endangers families everywhere. And he is alleging that they would transform the United States into Venezuela with socialism run amok.

Trump has never been hemmed in by fact, fairness or even logic. The 45th president proudly refuses to apologize and routinely violates the norms of decorum that guided his predecessors. But at one mega-rally after another in the run-up to Tuesday’s midterm elections, Trump has taken his no-boundaries political ethos to a new level — demagoguing the Democrats in a whirl of distortion and using the power of the federal government to amplify his fantastical arguments.

➣ For the full brainwashing treatment, go HERE.

Normally, there’s no point in an article focused on trump’s speeches, his lies and reckless fear mongering.

But this is the day before the election. See what he is saying. See what he is doing to this country. VOTE BLUE.

Highly recommended.

‘Full Trumpism’: The president’s apocalyptic attacks reach a new level of falsity

smitethepatriarchy:

thegreatandpowerfulversy:

smitethepatriarchy:

cookiemilkshake-universe:

smitethepatriarchy:

Trump called himself a nationalist he called himself a nationalist he blatantly and knowingly called himself a nationalist fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck

At this point he could just flat out say he’s a fascist and conservatives would not give a shit

I 100% expect that’s what’s coming next.

How long until the NYT runs articles about “is nationalism actually good?” with the same false neutrality that’s helped legitimize everything else he’s done? 

0.0 seconds.

therealraewest:

Hey do y’all fucks remember two years ago when just before the election all these “don’t vote both parties are bad” or “vote independent!” Posts were going around and then Trump won and now two weeks before midterms there’s all these “don’t bother voting, revolution is the only way!” And “your vote isn’t gonna matter and is an ineffective way to protest” posts are going around? Yeah knock that shit right the fuck off, don’t fall for it and get your ass to the polls, we are not doing this again.

when you see people speaking AGAINST voting in the midterms

jumpingjacktrash:

think back to the last time you saw a bunch of bloggers saying those things

and how many of them turned out to be employed by the Russian Internet Research Agency to get trump elected

i don’t know whether the russian agitprop bloggers are back under new names or whether there’s a fresh new footbullet brigade who actually bought their nihilistic message, but in the end it doesn’t matter

anyone telling you that, if you hate the way america is turning into a fascist puppet state, you should do nothing, is an enemy

anyone telling you that exercising your rights as a citizen is a bad thing, and that you should totally stick it to the man by sitting around with your thumb up your ass fantasizing about ‘burning it all down’, is a dangerous enemy, or dangerously stupid

and anyone who actually tries to get you to make real plans to go out and blow shit up, do murders, start fires, and get a lot of gung-ho idiots and innocent bystanders killed, is a literal felon, and either it’s a sting or they’re a terrorist

i don’t care if the thought of being a gun-toting shoot-first patriot sounds a-ok to you as long as you’re a leftist gun-toting shoot-first patriot, i am telling you, as Internet Dad, Local Calm Person, and Guy Who Has Seen This Shit Before, put the hateboner back in your pants, wash your hands, and go do what real americans do when they want freedom and progress: VOTE.

snarksandkisses:

odinsblog:

Get registered. Verify that you are registered to vote. Double check your voter registration status.

After Alabama, it looks like 2018 is already trying to tell us something: ”Close Elections” is gonna be the theme for the next two years.

2018 is coming. Voter turnout wins elections. Every vote counts.

Please – Check your registration status and #VoteBlue in November!

Vote.org – Register to Vote – Check your Registration – Find your Polling Place

Your vote matters!!

jewish-privilege:

bonkai-diaries:

progressivefriends:

That guest of Sen. Dean Heller is none other than known Nazi Peter Cvjetanovic. It would be a shame if the electorate in Nevada found out about this from the asshole who said he wouldn’t take away healthcare and then voted to repeal it anyway. 

Friendly reminder that this jackass also voted for Kavanaugh and is running in a tight race for senate against Jacky Rosen:

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A gentle reminder that Jacky Rosen is a Jewish woman. She was the former president of her shul and also has specifically cited tikkun olam (repairing the world) as one of the reasons she decided to enter politics. If that is Peter Cvjetanovic in the photo with Senator Heller, her running against a white supremacist at worst, a host to white supremacists at best is more than just beating the Nazi. It’s a Jewish woman winning against an Amalekite.