Poll: only 28 percent of young voters say they will certainly vote in the 2018 midterms

scrotus-potus:

brainstatic:

pleasesavemybutt:

manjosticks:

meeshmeat:

adamtots:

kaijutegu:

hellwolf99:

daddy-socrates:

as-if-and-only-if:

realcleverissues:

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VOTE!

DO YOUR PART TO CHANGE THIS STATISTIC WHEN IT MATTERS IN NOVEMBER!

are u fucking kidding me hey kids following me please make sure yall are voting in this fuckin midterm jesus louisus (with all due respect, of course)

REMEMBER THAT THIS COULD BE LIFE OR DEATH

FUCKING VOTE

And if you can’t physically go vote, look into voting by mail! It’s never to early to register to vote and it’s never too early to find out about voting by mail!

Even if you think you’re registered, they’re illegally deregistering people. Make sure you’re registered. It’s super fucking easy. Just go to turbovote.org.

vote.org is also a great website to both register to vote and find out if you’re still registered. Quick and EZ.

If you don’t vote, you’ve forfeited your bitching privileges.

Make sure to REALLY look into “voting by mail,” as in almost all states call it an “absentee ballot” and some make it quite difficult to get one based on disability.

ETA: Also TurboVote can help you register, but doesn’t seem to have a way of checking if you are already registered, despite what’s reported here. Your state’s Secretary of State office should have a page where you can look up your registration. Here is the one for my state, Texas: https://teamrv-mvp.sos.texas.gov/MVP/mvp.do

(Also, people, please stop adding shit to this post you only kinda sorta know about or haven’t checked into, or else you’re not helping. This is important!)

Given that 16% voted in 2014, this would be miraculous. And it’s only the “certain to vote” number, there are even more leaners. Don’t get me wrong, do everything you can to get out to vote, but this is historic.

VotesaveAmerica.com

This is the most important election in our lifetimes. Keep bitching but know that’s not enough. You put it into action by voting.

Reblog if you ARE a woman in STEM, SUPPORT women in STEM, or ARE STILL BITTER about Rosalind Franklin not getting credit for discovering the structure of DNA and the Nobel prize going to Watson and Crick instead.

aintnosuchthingastoothick:

Them: So you’re just gonna love yourself? Like all of you? The flaws too?

Me

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captain-pride:

Trauma often messes with one’s ability to say “no”. 

You either consciously or subconsciously think, “I don’t want to hurt this person’s feelings” or “If I say no, then they’ll hurt me” or “It won’t really be that bad” or “I can handle this” or “I need to do this to prove myself” or “I deserve this”, or you forget that “no” is even an option.

It’s still not your fault if you didn’t say “no”, even if you think maybe you could have. It’s still not your fault. You didn’t deserve what happened to you and you didn’t bring it upon yourself. It was never your fault.

showerthoughtsofficial:

The saying “you miss 100% of the shots you don’t take” is bullshit. If you don’t take any shots, the percentage missed is x/0, an undefined mathematical operation.