I am definitely making a list of states that aren't a gerrymandered, racist mess like Texas, and at some point we'll figure out how and when to get to one of them.

Dana, that's definitely a "Hey! ...wait, I have no defense" moment.

Oh, I've lived here almost all of my adult life, over 20 years, in three major cities. I know it's far more purple than people think, and it's voter suppression and systemic racism and shit that keeps the Republican government in power. But I looked at all of my local and state races, and almost without exception, it was Republicans all the way down, and I'm running out of cope.

I am definitely making a list of states that aren't a gerrymandered, racist mess like Texas, and at some point we'll figure out how and when to get to one of them.

I go back and forth between this and wanting to fight the good fight in my current racist red state. At the moment DH is ready to leave Florida. He is super upset.

There was a news story about a woman in Florida. She had gone into labor and her husband was driving her to the hospital, but she insisted that they stop by the polling place. The election workers carried out a mail-in ballot, verified her identity and - to their surprise - she insisted on filling in the ballot and handing it in before going on the the hospital. Gotta admire her persistance.

Per NBC news, three of Maine's four electoral votes are going to Joe Biden. The fourth vote, representing people who are their own grandpas, goes to Trump.

Don't mind me.

I'll be over here pretending we were working on a very Buffista production of Hamilton, when someone spoke Latin in front of the books, so now unless whichever one of you smashes the amulet or gives it back to Sweet, we're gonna have to filk the whole book, in order to send Trump through a portal to prison, a golf course, or a world without KFC.

The code word is "cilantro," dig me? Cilantro.
Now grab your corsets and go man go.

Dallas Co. went 2 to 1 for Biden last time I looked. But without flipping the seats needed in the State House to turn it blue, Rs will have total control in redistricting and will gerrymander the state even more. Only time and/or a concerted effort for blue voters to move over district lines will flip the state in Congressional and state house/senate seats in the next 2-3 cycles.

Hey, Dana, I hear that. I was in Utah for 30 years, and the bit of it we called home for the last 13 was a good place to be: majority Latinx, 20 different languages spoken at the high school, and the University of Utah is terrific by anyone's standards. But there's no separation of church and state on a practical level, and eventually you reach the point where the last vote you've got is the one you make with your feet.

For what it's worth, my sister moved her family out of Texas and back to Colorado a few months ago: Denver's housing market is stupid and she hates snow and wildfire season is nobody's favorite, but she's already a lot happier.

I'm nominally at work (from home, or rather from the teeny office space we're subletting from a local therapist who won't be having in-person sessions until spring at the earliest), but even our manager is only just barely pretending to do any actual work today. We're all just group chatting and stressing and meeping at each other.

even our manager is only just barely pretending to do any actual work today. We're all just group chatting and stressing and meeping at each other

I had to do a phone interview earlier and it was the most stressful 45 minutes of my entire day but now I can go back to looking at baby animal gifs and stress-eating nachos.