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Want to help get another Democrat elected?  There are two ways to remind democrats to vote in upcoming runoff elections in a couple of weeks.  The first is via Postcardstovoters (last I checked they still have addresses for Senatorial Candidate Mike Espy) and the second is via VoteFwd (Georgia Secretary of State runoff).

Hey all, just a reminder that Open Enrollment ends Dec. 15th. Start figuring out your health care if you, like me, get insured thru https://t.co/KjTbi5LuVG

— Marian Call (@mariancall) November 16, 2018

Nancy Pelosi is amazing.  Don’t let the bad guys smear her like they did HRC.

Don’t let the bad guys write a false cat-fight story between Ocasio-Cortez and Pelosi either.  It’s not cool when they do it with musicians, and it’s less cool when it’s politicians.

Read this excellent interview from an expert about what groups are best for white women to target (it isn’t the Trump-loving white women).

Want to perform an important service to the country this Thanksgiving season? Use the parental controls to lock Fox News from your relatives’ TVs.

— Maureen Johnson (@maureenjohnson) November 10, 2018

Facebook reportedly paid for smear campaign against George Soros

What happened in Porter County, Indiana on election day and after.

Well it's not like they're actually arresting black lawmakers for demanding that every vote be counted – oh wait, they totally are. https://t.co/5zdb3ba1Qe

— Steve Silberman (@stevesilberman) November 13, 2018

#GunControlNow pic.twitter.com/oKP9w1JNg0

— Phoenix Rising (@62WalterP) November 10, 2018

Republican megadonor Miriam Adelson, the wife of Sheldon, has been announced as one of the recipients of the Presidential Medal of Freedom. The Adelsons gave more than $100,000,000 to save the GOP Congress in 2018. The Guardian reports it as $113,000,000. https://t.co/OLWr8xJpQt

— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) November 10, 2018

I'm from the Middle East. This picture moves me nearly to tears – curiously, more than I find it moves young Europeans. Do young Europeans even realize what has been achieved? It's nothing less than sacred, because peace is sacred, because human life is sacred. https://t.co/HpHlSLjl5O

— İyad el-Baghdadi | إياد البغدادي (@iyad_elbaghdadi) November 10, 2018

ten writing rules
1. find exactly the right place to sit
2. better get coffee also
3. turn off the internet we're WRITING
4. but i have a question only the internet can answer
5. more coffee!
6. maybe i got an important email
7. how is the coffee shop closing
8. oh no

— Alexandra Petri (@petridishes) November 15, 2018

here are my ten writing rules
1. put words after words, make sure most of them are real words and not ones you made up
2. have you tried coffee
3. finish your shit
4. don't be an asshole on the page or to the people in your industry
5. definitely don't listen to jonathan franzen

— Chuck Wendig (@ChuckWendig) November 15, 2018

Casseroles that won’t fix any of this

IPUMS is AWESOME!!!!  I gave them money for their fundraiser.

Yay Linda!

10 things to remove from your resume

Extending the life of your smartphone

Ariana Grande and resilience

She Ra is getting good reviews!

RIP William Goldman. This is the letter he sent to readers keen to know about the missing ‘reunion scene’ in The Princess Bride. pic.twitter.com/dUuoDk7Zy5

— Letters of Note (@LettersOfNote) November 16, 2018

How did this get published in nature?

A parody paper in solid state physics from 1931

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