Joanne Dixon

Video Thread 11/5/2020

 Posted by at 1:43 pm  Open Thread, Politics
Nov 052020
 

These posts may become shorter now that the voting, if not the counting, has finished, but I think there are going to be plenty of videos to find and share. There are a lot of creative people out there.

The special election for the other Senate seat in Georgia will be January 5. Normally I don’t ask anyone to give in these situations because I can’t. This time I did. So i’m asking anyone who can to make a donation for our last chance to get the Senate.

Now This News – a few down ballot results

Really American “Count Every Vote – We’re Winning” No speech, just the song – YMCA

Count Every Vote dot org PSA

Beau on getting the message out. He mentions Ed Trevors. I’d add John Pavlovitz. And there are many others.

Keith doesn’t look to be going away any time soon. After all, we have a transition to get through.

Recusal petitions
Daily Kos
And more “Count the Vote” petitions
CBCPAC
Care2 for Occupy Democrats
Care2
Demand Progress
ACLU
Win Without War
Earthjustice
Fight for Reform

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Video Thread – The Day After 2020

 Posted by at 11:46 am  Open Thread, Politics
Nov 042020
 

I am putting up two links to analyses which are too long for this venue. Some of the short ones are serious, some are intended to lighten us up a little. I am posting early so as not to delat the petitions, but if (as I expect) Keith posts around 3 pm, I will edit to add him.

The Biden Campaign has a couple of half-hour videos up on what they are doing to protect the election.

The Lincoln Project is (or was) having a live Zoom event answering questions. If it’s over, it will still be up.

Now This News

Trae on Civil War Two-y

PACRONYM – Orange Faced Prison Blues

If you have been blessed to see this show in a theater, you don’t need this video. But – if not –

This Beau cast was posted 11/2, but I held it till after the election because it’s more important for what I hope will be the Reconstruction. Specifically reorganizing police departments. (And it also speak highly of at least some high school journalism students.)

Update – Yes, Keith has posted.

And you knew “Count the Vote” petitions were going to come along, right?
Medicare for All
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Common Cause
Fight for Equality

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Beware trolls and online disrupters when the polls close

 Posted by at 1:42 pm  Politics
Nov 032020
 

Not really long enough for a post – but too important to ignore, or delay, and it just came in.

The Election Integrity Project held a seminar just this morning, and Eric Smalley, technology editor for The Conversation, attended and felt this information was the most important to share:

  • Russian efforts, by way of the shadowy Internet Research Agency, are focused on amplifying claims by Americans of fraud by Democrats, but unlike 2016 the Russian participation is getting dramatically less traction.
  • A major concern is entities purporting to be livestreaming video but who are in fact using old and/or unrelated video to create a false narrative. This was first seen during the George Floyd protests.
  • The danger zone is the time between the polls closing and results coming in. People will be anxiously watching for news and information, and entities pushing disinformation/misinformation will attempt to fill the news vacuum.
  • Things the Election Integrity Project is watching:

    There is likely to be lots of online video showing incidents of intimidation that will be rapidly decontextualized and used to delegitimize the election.

    Both Facebook and Twitter will be labeling problematic posts, but only Twitter disallows sharing of those posts. Will Facebook need to follow suit?

And when I say share, I mean share.  This was in an email  from The Conversation.  Feel free to share the inforation with friends and family.

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