The 2024 presidential election is coming to some sort of conclusion (don’t forget to vote), but 24/7 slog is making many of us anxious. Thankfully Belladonna made a post about 'How not to freak out about the US election' and plenty of people chimed with advice about how to stay somewhat calm. Hang in there everyone, an end is in sight!
Hey, here's a couple of internal notes for the community:
ALeaflikeStructure has created a USA VotingSupport page in the Metafilter Wiki that lists specific organizations that work to educate and support voters. If you are looking for somewhere to volunteer, donate, or get help in voting, I hope you will take a look at this page.
Rhami has created the third LinkMe post, which aims to give a different MeFi experience that offers an easier method for creating posts.
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It’s been a busy few years in US politics since last week’s attempted assassination of Republican Nominee Donald Trump. First, the US Supreme court dismissed the classifieds documents case against Trump, then he picked a new Vice President, while Biden pushed for Supreme court reform, then canceled more student loan debt, then stepped down at the Democratic nominee and Kamala Harris stepped up for the spot (check out the uspolitics tag for all the posts).
As for Harris becoming the presumptive Democratic Nominee, there are questions about how DNC delegates are selected. Lucky for us, community member BlueJae has been a state level delegate several times and does a deep dive about the process in Missouri, with thoughts on what other states will do. Fascinating look at how the process works!
Because, apparently, not everything everywhere all the time is utterly awful: US Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, friends.
U.S. Election Day on Mefi:
- Main Election day thread on the blue
- Guidance for election threads on Metatalk
- Mefi Chat for nervous pacing
- Break Room no election talk in here
- Activism thread share your phone-banking etc
- Voting thread share your voting story
- MST3K all-day watch party hangout space
- MetaCrafts discord hangout space
- Fucking Fuck thread the place for formless screaming
- There Is Help wiki page list of crisis hotlines
- Mefi Contact Form to reach the moderators
In the US, qualified to vote? Vote.
The US Presidential election date is approaching. Trump needs to go. If you can vote, vote. Vote early if you can. Some state-by-state voting info available here.
Decommissioning the US politics megathreads
We're ceasing the US politics megathread practice, moving back toward single-topic posts as a focus for that topic. Details in MetaTalk.
It's US midterm election day. Follow the main Election Day post on the blue, and the Voting check-in Metatalk. There's also Mefi Election Chat for really livebloggy moments; the regular catch-all thread for non-election US politics stuff; venting thread for primal screams; positive steps Mefites have taken; AskMe's on where to read election analysis and watch coverage online.
Resetting expectations about U.S. political discussion on MetaFilter
Hey, folks, here's an important MetaTalk post about us resetting expectations about U.S. political discussion on MetaFilter.
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