There have been a lot of Zohran Mamdani thinkpieces since November 4th, and I've read most of them! But I want to add three takeaways that I really haven't seen discussed elsewhere in detail. No repeats of Buffalo In the past few weeks people have talked a lot about how…
Unfortunately I don't have 8.3 million dollars to spend in support of a political candidate, but I do have my blog. In the ongoing New York City mayor's race (specifically the Democratic primary), I'm supporting, canvassing and voting for my assembly member, Zohran Mamdani. His entire platform is centered around…
I broadly support economic boycotts when companies do things we don't like, and participate in plenty of them myself. And I've seen enough people cancelling their subscriptions to The Washington Post and the Los Angeles Times after their billionaires owners interferred at the papers. But in media specifically, cancelling your…
Last week The New Republic published an article by Melissa Gira Grant titled, "The Mysterious Case of the Fake Gay Marriage Website, the Real Straight Man, and the Supreme Court" about how the request for a gay wedding website underpinning the 303 Creative LLC v. Elenis case was supposedly fake.…
Yes, yes I would.(thanks to @xor for making these)
"Vote like your rights depend on it" #IVoted
"The fact that the law of the land hinges on the continued health of an 82 or 84 year old judge is bizarre." -- Andrew Yang, 2018https://twitter.com/andrewyang/status/1013505243731169280?lang=en
Nothing like having someone rush into your precinct at 7:58pm, just in time to vote.Volunteering was a stressful blast once again.
After taking a constitutional law class for a week, I feel that every class I've taken before this one has severely underplayed the importance of the 14th amendment.For example, in Gitlow v. US, the court relied on the due process clause of the 14th amendment to expand freedom of speech…
As I said earlier, I worked the polls from 6 a.m. to roughly 9:20 p.m. We had one voter come in at the nick of time at 7:59 p.m. I was glad to see that we had a lot of first time voters, as well as some who just filled…
After being generally frustrated by this election cycle and wanting to contribute to make it less so, I decided to sign up to work at the polls this year, and help facilitate the election. Yesterday, we had election officer training by the Santa Clara County Registrar of Voter's office. It…