#adding to main tags so people see this instead of the poll itself with no context on how it ended

[hiveswap]

Summary of The Cat of The Year poll atrocities of 2023/2024

I'm sure that most people on this side of tumblr have seen the Jellie vs. Nefarious Anglerfish poll going around with like 60k votes at this point, and I'd really like clear up some of what happened since I was around for the whole thing.

Url blocked out for op's privacy. They have already left but don't look for it if you haven't seen it/don't harrass them if you already have.

1. The previous round (preparation)

I discovered the poll in its previous round, needless to say she beat Jort's ass severely. This was around the 3rd of january, meaning that this round finished before jellie's passing with only about 7k votes. Op did add their own piece of propaganda from their main:

...which was FINE. (except for stuff we'll see later) Of course running a poll while biased isn't ideal but I for one didn't even know they were the op until much later. I also added my own piece in a separate thread, and they didn't interact with it at all. There was no drama.

2. The Finale

Jellie unfortunately passed away right before the starting of this poll, which was the catalyst for what happened next. Op did exactly as last time and added a slightly more mean spirited encouragement to vote for the other contestant. This is the point where I believe that i fucked up personally.

I added this thinkpiece accusing op of associating all mcyters with Dream (who we all hate for the record) despite them not alluding to him at all. This is because tumblr has a history of disimissing all mcyters as... everything that dream was been accused of. Op did allude to not caring for mcyt. but they didn't say what i accused them of. This is important to point out because this reblog of mine is still being spread. Jellie was in the lead at the time, but not by the time i woke up next morning.

I won't be including anyone else's additions because I don't want to put blame on any specific person. Just felt like clearing up mine.

3. The Fuckening

Some time later op made this post to their personal blog:

which is insanely shitty because, as other people have pointed out, the "lame ass youtube cat" didn't die to inconvinience op or ruin their fun, and people would have probably voted for her anyway because jelly is universally beloved in the mcyt community. This isn't anti democratic. This post was added to the poll with a caption saying op should not be running this poll, and it took off. Op later went on to say that this was a joke:

This apology was not taken well by people, (including me) because "you were not meant to see it" isn't an apology and they still very much made fun of someone's pet dying. Safe to say this did not make the drama stop and only added fuel to the flame. I believe this was the point where the conversation of mcyt fans being unjustly sent hate to was reignited.

We should discuss that! it's a real thing that happens often and is equal to childish bullying. However, in this case, OP was the only one getting sent hate to my knowledge. The notes were mostly saturated by mcyt fans, and even now i can only find one or two hateful stance towards us under the whole 20k notes post.

4. Conclusions

Op posted a second apology to the catoftheyear blog to try and calm people down (i believe this is comprehensive and a lot better than the previous one) The blog was deactivated shortly after, so i only have my phone screenshots of it that i also added to the poll itself at some point:

(Edit) Here's proof that op did not write the justification they got criticised for, from the notes of the original poll:

This apology didn't get seen, or get accepted by enough people, so op made this statement on their personal:

Needless to say I am deeply dissapointed (and guilty) that it's come to this. Yes, op said tasteless things that made us all angry, but telling a human being to commit suicide is worse than being insensitive about a stranger's pet dying. Even after I posted about the blog being decatived i had someone come into my notes to wish that "they never find happiness" i mean wtf. This isn't like shipping where we can do whatever without the content creator's input. this is fucking harrowing and i can't imagine how i'd feel if this was done in my/my pet's name especially after losing them as recently as a week ago.

I hope no one from hermitcraft who is on here (let alone scar holy shit) learns about this like they did with previous lighthearted tournaments. If you truly respect the creators you claim to be a fan of as people, you do not tell people to kill themselves over them. And finally, let Jellie fucking rest, guys. she had a long, good life. I hope op can come back and also avoids behaving like this if they ever wish to do so. I'm angrier at mcytblr, though.

#catoftheyear #jellie #tw animal death #tw suicide bait #hermitcraft #goodtimeswithscar #adding to main tags so people see this instead of the poll itself with no context on how it ended #If this breaches containment and gets used as a reason to hurt mcyt fans i am going zo eat whoever is doing that #catoftheyeartournament #jellie the cat

[wifegideonnav]

I'm new to Tumblr. How do Tumblr users usually engage with each other?

well first of all welcome haha. the main ways to engage with people are:

liking and reblogging. platforms like instagram and tiktok run on likes and an algorithm, but on tumblr, people almost exclusively use their dashboard and turn off suggested content, so they’re only seeing what people actually reblog onto their dash. that’s why people on this site are so adamant about reblogs, because likes basically do nothing. i saw someone say once that anything you would like on a different social media, you should reblog on here, and i totally agree. and don’t worry about how old a post is, or about reblogging something you’ve previously reblogged. there are posts from 2014 that i regularly see on my dash a decade later, so literally don’t feel awkward, it’s 100% normal to engage with old posts.

tags. there are three main ways tags are used: labeling original content so people find it in searches, internal organization systems when reblogging or posting (for instance, many people have a tag for their original posts, and will tag reblogs by fandom or character or whatever - important note that reblogs do not show up in search results), and to make sotto voce comments on a post. it’s normal for people to make jokes, add their own commentary, ramble about something semi relevant, or say something to op in the tags on posts they reblog.

reblog additions. every time you reblog, you have the chance to add something to the post, which unlike tags will be retained when someone reblogs from you. a good rule of thumb is to comment instead of tagging when it’s something you actually want other people to engage with, as opposed to tags where you’re just kind of expressing yourself lol. don’t be surprised however if you see people’s tags getting screenshotted and added to a reblog. if this happens because the screenshotter likes what the tag writer said, it’s jokingly referred to as “passing peer review.” (and of course people screenshot tags to criticize or mock them as well.) essentially, tags are like being at a big group dinner and saying something to the person next to you as an aside, and then sometimes that person goes “hey everyone listen to this”

post comments. there’s also an option on every post (unless op has turned it off) for people to comment on the post itself, not on a specific reblog. mostly this is useful for talking to people on personal posts or posts with reblogs turned off. on a bigger post, just reblog it and put your thoughts in an addition or tag.

asks. seems like you figured this one out! lmao. asks are used for a wide variety of things, but essentially it can either be a prompt for someone to make a post or a way of having an interaction/conversation with someone without dming them.

dms. these work like dms everywhere else, except the functionality is limited and it kinda sucks.

games. there are also many varieties of games that people play with each other, ranging from ask games (things like “rec me some music” or a post with prompts and people send you some from that list), tag games (typically there are questions you answer then you tag other people to fill them out for themselves) handwriting tags, follow chains, giveaways, name/url playlists, and more. with the addition of polls, brackets have gotten popular too (eg the tumblr sexyman bracket). there also used to be a lot of in-character ask blogs, where a user would set up a blog and roleplay as a specific character that people could send questions to (there still are some but way fewer and way less popular than there used to be)

to be honest i feel like i have to put “discourse” and “drama” on this list too. people on this site loveeee having the most insane arguments of all time and then everyone else memes the hell out of it. google “sonic for real justice” for an example lmao. (of course there’s also very unfunny political and fandom discourse that goes on as well. i would advise you to avoid discourse blogs as a general rule regardless of whether you agree with their position or not)

tagging people. you can also @ people in posts you think they’d like or if you feel like they have relevant input. typically this is something you would do either to people you’ve spoken to before, or a big blog with an established persona and rapport with their followers (eg if you follow a blog about snakes and you see a random post with snake info that seems wrong but you’re not sure, so you tag them to ask for their expertise).

and this isn’t a specific “mode” of communication but it’s also a thing to “interpret” (for lack of a better word) other people’s posts. for instance, people drawing a photo from the original post (i cant find it but there was a post going around recently where op posted an aesthetic photo of an egg cooking and then several people painted it), or people trying/recreating something a post was about (example). it was also a thing for a minute there where people would rewrite funny exchanges as shakespearean dialogue

those are all the ways i can think of, although im sure i’ve missed some (if other people think of any pls add on!). good luck, and i hope you’re able to meet some cool people!

#asks

[isa-ghost]

A Formal Report To Staff

I’ve emailed the support team three times, each with strong feedback. Each containing MORE PROBLEMS than the last email. I begged them to take me off the beta. In fits of frustration, I’ve demanded to be taken off it too. I was told I’d have to deal with it. I was given responses that were little or no help at all. And I’m not the only one having these issues. These issues have been so severe and frustrating, I have been the least active on the site I have ever been. I have heavily contemplated leaving Tumblr altogether, and have been extremely displeased (to say the least) that these issues have prevented me from enjoying my blog, interacting with my friends/mutuals, and more. 

This beta was forced onto users without warning, without user’s consent, with no insight as to what would change, how it would change, why it would change, what was new, or any other changes/additions the beta would give. This lack of communication is unprofessional, inexcusable, and irresponsible. And the fact that they don’t give you an option to turn it off or opt out is, quite frankly, bullshit. Implementing a "beta” that feels half-assed and has this many issues in the first place without any kind of communication is irresponsible.

Their only semi-decent answer to this problem has been XKit. Which is not compatible/available with all browsers!! And really, it should be a big sign they SHOULDN’T CHANGE/ADD SOMETHING if their answer to it is “oh, just use XKit to undo it/turn it off.” JUST DON’T DO IT! You shouldn’t be relying on an extension/add-on to make your users happy! And if the users who don’t want these changes/additions are somehow the minority in all this, I certainly don’t see a single peep of any kind anywhere from the users that want/are supportive of these things! I’ve seen nothing but problems with this beta being reported, and frustration/hatred of it being expressed. And 0 action taken by the staff to fix any of it. If it’s still being worked on, it never should have been released to users in the first place. They should not be forced to put up with the bugs that this beta still has. The staff should not be randomly selecting users (not every user has had the beta forced upon them) to be beta testers. This is also irresponsible of them.

The staff’s communication to users about updates is AWFUL. The way they implement new things or change existing things without any mention of it or warning of when these things officially implement is AWFUL. 99% of the time they add or change something, nobody wants it or asked for it, and/or it’s a tiny change that didn’t need any attention whatsoever to begin with! They seriously need to start remembering the saying, “If it’s not broken, don’t fix it!“ The staff should be holding polls or ASKING users their opinions on something before they do it, not just throwing it in and forcing them to deal with it! And if they don’t want to wait for feedback on an idea before they do it, then they should ALWAYS make an option to turn off/opt out of whatever it is!

Tumblr’s most BASIC FUNCTIONS: posting, reblogging, editing posts, a user’s personal settings, HAVE BROKEN. They will not open or load, and if they do, the user has to wait several seconds before it FINALLY opens. When it doesn’t open, this happens:

This can/will appear 2-5+ TIMES (aka, the user will have to try and click “Aa Text/etc,” the reblog button, or the edit button 2-5+ TIMES, and on top of that, the window takes several seconds to load each time before you even know if it’s going to actually open or not!!) before Tumblr lets you open the posting window, the reblog window, or the editing window. It might even be happening with other functions on Tumblr that I just haven’t personally experienced yet.

Tumblr’s most BASIC FUNCTIONS should NEVER be malfunctioning, no matter what. A half-implemented beta/update, some random issue, NOTHING. NOTHING should make these functions unable to be used or any sort of hassle to use! This shouldn’t be happening, and shouldn’t be allowed to happen! It honestly makes the staff look incompetent when these simple things aren’t developed to a point where they don’t break. At the very least, they should not break as often as they do. And speaking of basic functions breaking, don’t even get me started on how often tags break and malfunction. That’s been an issue forever, and a highly reported and complained about one at that. And yet here the staff are, once again changing the whole appearance of Tumblr instead of working on more pressing issues; thus once again making its userbase feel unheard or ignored.

And as if those basic functions breaking aren’t enough, there’s YET ANOTHER ONE that (at least for me) keeps breaking! THE DASHBOARD ITSELF.

Anywhere between 2 seconds and a few minutes, if I scroll any longer than that, this happens to my dash, and nothing will load. And if I try to scroll back up for it to load, the things that HAD loaded are no longer loaded OR the dash just straight up disappears and all I see is the dash’s blue background. At that point I can’t even refresh my dashboard to fix it or click anything whatsoever. I have to close Tumblr and reopen it in a new tab. And most of the time, I can’t even do that, because this BREAKS MY ENTIRE BROWSER. 

MY ENTIRE BROWSER WILL STOP RESPONDING 1-3+ TIMES BEFORE I CAN DO ANYTHING AT ALL. Sometimes it will crash COMPLETELY. Not only that, but when Tumblr lags my entire browser and makes it stop responding, then EVERY OTHER APPLICATION ON MY LAPTOP will lag out or stop responding as well! My laptop is admittedly old, but even in its old age, it DIDN’T DO THIS BEFORE THE BETA WAS FORCED UPON ME. The beta is literally screwing with my WHOLE laptop because its issues start with the site, extend to my browser, then spread to anything else I have running at the time! While some of that is most likely my laptop’s age showing, again, it never did this before the beta started to mess with everything.

Being on Tumblr just... isn’t worth this much frustration. This needs to change. It needs to be taken off user’s accounts until it’s completed or (preferably to me) not implemented at all.

On top of all of these issues, I personally have been suffering another huge problem with this beta. My add-on Tumblr Savior will not work. I use Tumblr Savior to blacklist URLs of blogs I don’t want to interact with (and have blocked, but Tumblr’s blocking system is awful and doesn’t keep blocked blog’s posts off your dash or anything. Blocking a blog should COMPLETELY wipe the existence of a blog you block out of your sight EVERYWHERE. But that’s a whole other issue I won’t even get into... Again, a highly reported and complained about issue that the staff haven’t done anything about). I also use it to blacklist tags I don’t want to see, or a tag that people I follow use for their followers to blacklist a specific type of content. I use it to blacklist words and phrases so posts containing them don’t appear. I use them to blacklist triggers and things that make me uncomfortable. I know many users who also use this add-on to properly blacklist URLs, tags, words, phrases, and more to keep it off their dashboards. Many use this to blacklist triggers and sensitive material that Tumblr’s filtering systems do not properly take care of. This add-on not functioning with this beta could be harmfully affecting users. I personally cannot enjoy being on Tumblr without Tumblr Savior functioning to properly filter all that I need filtered.

This is every URL, tag, word, phrase, or otherwise that I have to blacklist to comfortably be active on Tumblr. NONE of those things are being properly blacklisted by Tumblr’s filtering system (especially blacklisting URLs to properly block a blog since Tumblr doesn’t) and are appearing on my dash and bothering me. Not only that, but Tumblr Savior ALSO does the following for me:

Since Tumblr Savior isn’t functioning, my radar, sponsored, suggested blogs, etc are all crowding my dash and also bothering me. Those checks mean they should be hidden. They are not hidden. I’ve had to unfollow some tags that I was following because they’d keep suggesting random annoying posts to me. 

I even restored defaults and reloaded all of my saved blacklists and settings. It didn’t work. I’m assuming its obviously not up to the staff to make Tumblr Savior work because it’s not theirs. But on the other hand, it was working fine until they forced the beta on me. The beta is what’s making it not work. The beta, between all the issues I’ve mentioned before, and making me unable to use Tumblr Savior to enjoy being on the site comfortably, is making it basically impossible for me to be on the site at all. I’ve mentioned all of this information in the three emails I sent and none of it was effectively acknowledged, let alone fixed.

And lastly:

I just... I really REALLY hate this. I hate it on mobile (but I tolerate it), and I REEEALLY hate it on desktop (I REALLY want it gone!!). Desktop and mobile don’t need to be similar!! Desktop is desktop and mobile is mobile, stop changing them to be the same constantly!! AT LEAST give users an option to turn this stupid number’s visibility off! I get tons of notifications from all my blogs, I get a TON (99+) on my main blog alone! I don’t want this here!! I don’t need to be notified I have notifications, I know! I don’t need to be pressured and pestered to look at them every frickin time I get one!! This is one of those changes that didn’t need to be added!

Instead of breaking everything on the site, and focusing on the appearance of Tumblr, here are just SOME of the suggestions/requests that TONS of users have mentioned in the past, all of which (to my knowledge) have been ignored or unseen by staff:

The ability to change what blog is your main blog.

FIXING THE TAGS, so posts ACTUALLY appear in them and none of the other issues happen.

When all posts containing a certain tag are deleted, the tag stops appearing in your tag history.

Fix the problem where posts with links in them don't show up in tags.

PROPER BLOCKING. If I block a blog, I don’t want to see it ANYWHERE. I don’t want to see it in tags I look at, I don’t want to see it reblogged onto my dash by people I follow. I want it completely GONE so I don’t have to blacklist URLs.

Sending asks from a side blog

THE F*CKING BOT PROBLEMS!!!

Add the different text fonts and colors available on mobile also available on desktop

When a blog is reported, DONT JUST GIVE THE OPTION TO BLOCK. They're being reported FOR A REASON.

When a blog is hidden from Google search results, you can no longer search for tags/posts on that blog's search bar. FIX THAT.

There's been a glitch lately where if you click a notification about a post to see said post, it says the post no longer exists/has been deleted when it hasn't.

Make it so when you block a blog on your main blog, it blocks that blog on all your sideblogs too.

When the OP is deleted, delete all reblogs of the post.

After I finished this post, TAG CRAWLER STOPPED WORKING. FIX THAT! Unbelievable.

There's plenty more ACTUALLY helpful things that could be changed or added, but these are the ones I see talked about the most. Anyone who reblogs this, please don't add more because it's not the point of this post, thanks.

Thank you for taking the time to read this. I’m emailing it to the support and hoping the staff actually read and do something about it. To any users reading this, reblogging to signal boost is much appreciated. Any additions backing up what I’ve said here are appreciated as well; especially if the staff take the time to look through the notes to see I really am not the only one who strongly dislikes this beta and is having far more issues with it than it’s worth.

#tumblr #isas save tag #long post #signal boost

[newtinaweek-blog]

Frequently Asked Questions

→  WHAT IS NEWTINA WEEK?

Newtina Week is a week-long event meant to inspire Newtina shippers to create fanworks for the couple. Seven prompts - one for each day - are chosen based on majority vote, and listed on this blog prior to the week beginning. Each day, participants post or submit their creations, and they will be reblogged on this main blog.

→  WHEN IS NEWTINA WEEK?

The initial idea is to hold Newtina Week yearly. Hopefully, every November.

During the hiatus, it would be good to hold it around the same time as the movie would be out for us to miss our favourite pairing a little bit less.

It is possible for us to hold during the movie’s years as well, but that will be up to discussion closer to each movie release date, so we can decide as fandom if we want to hold a Newtina Week sometime before or after the movie is actually released in 2021 (and later dates).

The event’s dates will be updated in the sidebar of the main page, so you can find out more information about it as information becomes available.

→   HOW CAN I PARTICIPATE?

There are many ways to participate in Newtina Week. All decisions about the week are chosen by popular vote, from when the week will happen to what the prompts will be.

You can participate by following this blog and voting on the decisions posted here. You can vote for the week when the event is going to be happen in the polls for it. You can suggest prompts when the polls are open for it.

And, of course, you can participate by creating fanworks that fit the prompts chosen for this event.

You can also participate by signal boosting, reblogging, commenting and just enjoying the creations!!!

If you have thoughts about how to expand participation options, please tell us!!

→   WHAT COUNTS AS A FANWORK?

Whatever you can think of, basically. Fanfiction, fanart, graphics, gifs, videos, fanmixes, meta, wallpapers, icons, etc.

If it’s about Newt and Tina and their relationship, we want to see it!

→   IF I SUBMIT PROMPT SUGGESTIONS, CAN I VOTE?

Yes!

→   IF I WANT TO MAKE A FANWORK FOR THE EVENT, DO I HAVE TO DO SOMETHING FOR ALL SEVEN DAYS?

Not at all! You can pick and choose for which ones you’re inspired by or you can do all seven separately or you can do one long work that includes all seven prompts.

It is all up to you! This event is only to inspire us as fandom to create new content and have fun!!!

→   I JUST FOUND OUT ABOUT THIS TODAY, AND THE EVENT IS ALREADY HALF OVER! I GUESS I HAVE TO WAIT UNTIL THE NEXT ONE?

Nope! You can jump right in! Participation is open, meaning that you don’t need to register, or declare your intentions to join in on the fun. All you need to do is to join us along as soon and as much as you can!

→   HOW CLOSELY DO I HAVE TO STICK TO THE PROMPTS?

Not all that closely. The idea of the week is to help fans with inspiration to create something. As long as your creation is loosely inspired by the prompt, it will count.

For example, if the prompt is Hogwarts Years, and you wanted to write/draw Newt and Tina’s future kids while they are going to take the Hogwarts Express, it would be completely fine.

→   I MADE SOMETHING LAST YEAR THAT FITS ONE OF THE PROMPTS. CAN I JUST USE THAT?

No, sorry. Anything you want reblogged on the main blog must be unpublished and created for this event.

Since the idea of the event is to spark creativity for new fanworks, it would defeat the purpose if someone used old works and published them as new.

→   I DON’T HAVE A TUMBLR. CAN I STILL PARTICIPATE?

Absolutely! Feel free to spread this event around to other sites and tell everyone, who might be interested in participate, about it!!!

If you want to make things but don’t have a blog, just use the submission or ask boxes to give us a link to your creation, and it will be added here.

Anon is always enabled on both, so please don’t feel like this is only for tumblr.

But make sure you send us the link, since we are not going to be tracking any other social media/site for works during the week. As soon as you send it, they are going to be on the main blog (and hopefully reach a bigger amount of people!)

→   CAN I MAKE MORE THAN ONE CREATION FOR EACH PROMPT?

YES!!!! The more the merrier!

→   HOW DO I TAG MY CREATIONS FOR THEM TO BE REBLOGGED?

The official Newtina Week tag is #newtinaweek, although we are also tracking the #newtina tag itself.

It is better to use the first one, since it makes sure we know you are participating in the event and wants to be included in the main blog. But either way, if you post to either tag, we will see it.

A reminder: only the first five tags that you use will show up as searchable, so be sure to put #newtinaweek or #newtina first. Additionally, if you don’t see your post reblogged within a day (or you want to be sure we get it) please just drop us a message with the link to your work and we willl reblog it.

→   WHAT TIMEZONE DO YOU GO BY FOR START/END DATES?

For now, we are using Eastern Standard Timezone (EST). But if the timezone does not work for the majority of fandom, it will be changed to accommodate the event better!

→   I FINISHED MY CREATIONS EARLY. CAN I POST THEM OR SUBMIT THEM?

The prompts are decided early – between two weeks to a month before the event starts – to give some lead time for people to work on their fanworks.

So, working early on your creations is encouraged. If you finish early, you may submit to the blog, and we will queue it up to release on the appropriate day. For example, if you finish day one’s prompt five days before the event begins, submit it, and we’ll queue it to release on that first day.

However, if you prefer to post to your own blog instead of submitting, please wait to post your creations until the day of the prompt. If you do post early, we will not reblog any of your creations until the appropriate day.

→   I FINISHED MY CREATIONS A FEW DAYS LATE. WILL YOU STILL REBLOG/ACCEPT THEM?

Yes, we will! While you’re not allowed to post early, you can always submit late. For example, you can post a day one prompt on day four if that’s when you finish. If you don’t complete a creation until the week is over, that’s fine, too.

Just be sure to tag your creations, and/or submit it to the blog to be sure we see it. And if you don’t see your creation reblogged within a day or so, please drop us a line to follow up since we check the tags less often after the event ends.

→   MY QUESTION ISN’T ON HERE!

Please, drop us a question in the ask box. Anon is on, so if you’re shy you can stay anonymous. But also we’ve undoubtedly left something off, so questions are appreciated!

#newtinaweek #newtina #faq #mod post

[terra-writes]

Blog FAQ

Figured I would set one of these up this time around! If I make any additions or edits to this I’ll make a post letting you guys know! 

You’ve said “Terra” is just the name you go by online, so can we know your real name?

Simply put? No. My real name is incredibly unique and I would rather keep my online life and real life as separate as I can since where I live, fic writing is largely frowned upon. Also, I’m probably going to explain this bad, but I was told if I wanted to get published I’d have to delete all my fics or write under a different name so there was no crossover between the two. I choose instead to write my fic under a different name to save myself some trouble later on. To those that have learned my real name, I ask that you please don’t spread it around.

What is your general activity like on this blog?

Well last November I started a job where I work a standard 40 hour week. I’m generally away from home from 11am to about 9pm 5 days a week. I do have a pretty set schedule, so for now I’m always off Mondays and Fridays. This blog isn’t my main one, so the only times I’m online and able to check it, is when I’m at home and on my laptop. So except for the days that I’m off, I’ll likely only ever be online in the evenings. If I go to post a work, I’ll likely always schedule it to post between 12 and 1pm the following day.

What is your timezone?

I live in, and operate out of US Central Time. If you don’t quite know how much to add/subtract, the United states is divided into 4 timezones: Eastern time is one hour ahead of me, Mountain Time is one hour behind, and Pacific Time is 2 hours behind me. I don’t quite know how to calculate it for overseas timezones but if people send in the calculations for their timezone I can always edit them in here.

What is your uploading schedule like?

I can’t really say I have one. Every time I’ve tried to keep to one It hasn’t always worked out for me for some reason or another. 

How does your tagging system operate?

I always try to keep the tags as relevant and to the point as possible, since tumblr has a limited amount of tags you can add to a post. Here is a small list of what I will tag:

Characters with a significant relevance/presence to the current plot. I might not tag certain characters if they show up in a work if their plot relevance was minor/they only spoke like once in the entire thing to save space.

The fandom

The type of work (Headcanon, ask game, etc. This might be combined with he above bullet point ex: “mha headcanons”)

if the work is fluff, angst, nsfw. Side note, my nsfw tag for this blog will be the word “sin” so works would be tagged with “mha sin” or “haikyuu sin” and things like that.

If the work is part of a series, I will tag the name of it.

If the work involves any oc’s of mine, I will tag their name like I would any other character.

If I reblog a work from someone else, I will try to include all the tags they used as well as what type of work it is, such as “AU,” “reader insert,” “oc story,” etc. Reblogged works will always contain the tag “other people’s writing”

I will always try to tag trigger warnings/any potential triggering content. However, if I run out of space in the tags, all potentially triggering content will always be listed at the top of the work in bold. And all content of the work will always be below a “read more.” If there is anything you want me to tag/list at the top of my work. Please DM or send in an ask letting me know what content you want me to provide additional warnings for. I will never purposefully not tag a trigger, so if a work I’ve posted is missing a tag, please notify me as soon as you notice it so I can add it!

Writing will always be tagged with “terra writes” while almost every other kind of post will be tagged with “terra says.” This includes asks, announcements, updates, etc. I don’t recommend blacklisting the “terra says” tag, but most of the time other types of posts will be tagged with an additional secondary tag (update time, answered asks, poll time) So if you don’t want to see specific types of posts like polls, I would recommend blacklisting the “poll time” tag instead of the “terra says” tag.

You didn’t tag x trigger in your story/Can you please tag x in stories going forward?

Of course! If I forgot to tag something/tagged something wrong, please notify me! I often use the New X-Kit tag bundle extension and don’t always remember to delete a tag or include one. I’m only human and am prone to making mistakes even when trying to be as diligent as possible! I am also aware that people can have very different triggers, and I’m not always aware of what may or may not be a trigger. So if there’s something you want me to tag, send me an ask! I’ll always tag thins as “cw: <insert trigger>” 

Also please don’t ever assume I’m purposefully not tagging a trigger. Sometimes I genuinely miss putting the tag in/didn’t know the story needed it included.

Do you have a tag list?

Not currently! If you’re interested in being added please feel free to send me an ask or IM letting me know if you just wanted to be tagged in stuff involving a certain character, fandom, type of writing (drabble/headcanon), or series or any combination. I’ll keep a list in my drafts of the usernames and what you want to be tagged in. If you ever want to be removed, you’ll have to send me an ask letting me know.

What fandoms are you in?/What fandoms will you write for?

You can find a complete list of fandoms that I will write for here!

However, there are a few other fandoms I’m in that I just don’t feel like writing for. Those include: DC comics (mainly Young Justice), Pokemon, and Attack on Titan. I’m probably forgetting some, so I’ll update this list as I remember them. If you want to know if I’m in a fandom/will write for one, please send me an ask!

Do you write m/m, w/w, nonbinary, different ethnicities, etc?

Yes! If I’m writing a reader-insert story, I always try to keep the reader as gender-neutral and vague as possible unless something is specifically ask of me in the request itself. However to some degree I take liberties with the background of the reader. I will often make up a family situation, living arrangement etc. Again if there is anything specific about the reader you want me to include, please let me know. 

In the case of sin, I always default to a female gender/parts since that is what I am most familiar with. If you would like it to be non-specified/male parts/etc. you will need to tell me in the request itself.

Can I get a shout out?

You can! There’s absolutely 0 things wrong with asking for one and don’t let other people make you feel like shit for it. I know it can be hard starting a blog and getting your name out there, especially after the most recent updates which make it even harder for works to show up in the tumblr search function. This is why reblogging people’s works is even more important now than it had been in the past. I’m more than willing to give your blog a shout out if you need it! Feel free to send me an ask off anon from the blog, send an IM so I can make a post with the blog’s name, or even just ask me to reblog a story I liked from your blog. 

Do you have any Fic/Blog recs?

I’m pretty terrible about having the time to go and read as much fic as I used to be able to do, so I can’t really promote many other blogs than one’s I’ve already been following for a while/blogs of friends. Maybe one day that will change and I hope it does but as of right now I don’t think I’d be able to put together a very good list for people.

Do you write Dark Content?

I do not! However, this doesn’t mean I’m on a crusade against writers that do. As long as the people who write content like that keep everything tagged so that people who don’t want to read it, can skip over it, I literally do not care what they write about. But on a personal level, I do not want to write content like that, so I will not write or reblog dark content works on this blog.

If any dark content blog want to interact with my blog/works, they can do so. Just because I choose not to engage in dark content does not mean I am going to bar people that do from reading/interacting with my works if they enjoy it. I do ask that any dark content writers don’t reblog/reply to any nsfw posts of mine and add dark content to them.

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Do Republicans Vote In The Primary

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Do Republicans Vote In The Primary

Tomorrow Nyc Residents Will Head To The Polls For One Of The Most Contested Mayoral Primaries In Recent History Our Team Took A Look At How To Find Your Polling Place

Tomorrow, 22 June, is the New York City’s Mayoral Primary Election. Republicans, Democrats, and Independents will have the chance to vote for the candidate they would like to see face-off in the General Election this November.

Polling places are scattered all around the city. New Yorkers can find their polling station by visiting the Find My Poll Site website, which will ask them for their physical address and point them in the direction of their polling station. 

Reminder: Bring your Fast Pass Tag with you to the polls! While not mandatory, your Fast Pass Tag allows for contactless check-in to make your trip easier than ever before. Polls are open tomorrow from 6 a.m. – 9 p.m. Find your pollsite: https://t.co/1nmP8G4Rva#VoteNYCpic.twitter.com/qfZQX9lPCd

— NYC Board of Elections June 21, 2021

What Do Party Preferences Mean When Listed With Candidates’ Names On The Ballot What Are The Qualified Political Parties And Abbreviations Of Those Party Names

The term “party preference” is now used in place of the term “party affiliation.” A candidate must indicate his or her preference or lack of preference for a qualified political party. If the candidate has a qualified political party preference that qualified political party will be indicated by the candidate’s name on the ballot. If a candidate does not have a qualified political party preference, “Party Preference: None” will be indicated by the candidate’s name on the ballot.

Similarly, voters who were previously known as “decline-to-state” voters are now known as having “no party preference” or known as “NPP” voters.

Abbreviations for the qualified political parties are:

DEM = Democratic Party

House Administration Republicans Latest Report The Elections Clause: States Primary Constitutional Authority Over Elections

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Republicans believe that every eligible voter who wants to vote must be able to do so, and all lawful votes must be counted according to state law. Through an examination of history, precedent, the Framers’ words, debates concerning ratification, the Supreme Court, and the Constitution itself, this document explains the constitutional division of power envisioned by the Framers between the States and the federal government with respect to election administration. Article 1, Section 4 of the Constitution explains that the States have the primary authority over election administration, the “times, places, and manner of holding elections”. Conversely, the Constitution grants the Congress a purely secondary role to alter or create election laws only in the extreme cases of invasion, legislative neglect, or obstinate refusal to pass election laws. As do other aspects of our federal system, this division of sovereignty continues to serve to protect one of Americans’ most precious freedoms, the right to vote.

Read the full report here.

Voters Need Help: How Party Insiders Can Make Presidential Primaries Safer Fairer And More Democratic

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Presidential-nominating contests in both major political parties are at risk of producing nominees who aren’t competent to govern and/or don’t represent a majority of the party’s voters. Raymond La Raja and Jonathan Rauch argue this is a result of the declining role of party insiders in the nomination process and call for the reversal of that trend. Primaries function best, they claim, when voters and party professionals work in partnership.

The Elections Clause: States Primary Constitutional Authority Over Elections Or View It Below:

Republicans believe that every eligible voter who wants to vote must be able to do so, and all lawful votes must be counted according to state law. Through an examination of history, precedent, the Framers’ words, debates concerning ratification, the Supreme Court, and the Constitution itself, this document explains the constitutional division of power envisioned by the Framers between the States and the federal government with respect to election administration. Article 1, Section 4 of the Constitution explains that the States have the primary authority over election administration, the “times, places, and manner of holding elections”. Conversely, the Constitution grants the Congress a purely secondary role to alter or create election laws only in the extreme cases of invasion, legislative neglect, or obstinate refusal to pass election laws. As do other aspects of our federal system, this division of sovereignty continues to serve to protect one of Americans’ most precious freedoms, the right to vote.

Per Cent Of Gop Voters Say They Would Vote For Donald Trump In 2024 Republican Primary

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Nearly half of GOP voters have said that they would vote for Donald Trump in 2024 Republican primary

A new poll has revealed that nearly half of Republican voters would want Donald Trump to run for president again in the 2024 elections.

According to a poll by Morning Consult, a global data intelligence company, and Politico, nearly half of the GOP voters said that they would vote for Mr Trump in a hypothetical 2024 Republican primary. None of the other potential Republican leaders was this popular, the poll suggested.

The next popular Republican leader was former Vice President Mike Pence — who 13 per cent of the voters said they would prefer. And no one chose Representative Rick Scott and Larry Hogan , both of whom received zero votes from Republican voters.

Morning Consult and Politico said the poll was conducted between 14 May-17 May among a sample of 1992 registered voters. “The interviews were conducted online and the data were weighted to approximate a target sample of registered voters based on gender, educational attainment, age, race, and region.” They added that the results from the full survey have a margin of error of plus or minus 2 percentage points.

Trump was the first choice for 48 per cent of the voters, the poll said. Florida Governor Ron DeSantis had 7 per cent of the GOP voter support. And Donald Trump Jr was at 8 per cent.

Report: 9 Of The 10 Republicans Who Voted To Impeach Trump Facing Primary Challengers

Nine out of the 10 Republican lawmakers who voted to impeach former President Donald Trump are facing primary challenges for their congressional seats.

Fox News reports that a majority of those who joined Democrats and the media circus during the second impeachment trial are facing a “barrage of pro-Trump primary challengers.”

“Some of them,” like Reps. Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger , according to Fox, “may have a very hard time holding on to their seats.”

The former President has vowed to back challengers to any Republicans who voted in favor of impeachment as they gear up for a fight in 2022.

Republicans who voted for impeachment face barrage of pro-Trump primary challengershttps://t.co/YsVrRwhYGj

Is It Common For Democrats To Participate In The Republican Primary And Vice Versa

In short, no. According to Elizabeth Simas, a political science professor at the University of Houston who spoke about this with Texas Standard, cases of strategic voting don’t happen much in primary elections. “Certainly, there are people who do it … but we just don’t see it happening as much as there’s potentially this fear for it to happen,” Simas said.

In areas dominated by one party, especially rural areas, voters might cross party lines in the primary to have more of a say in their local races.

“In my county, all the local races are Republican. Judges, sheriff, district attorney,” Martha Mims, a Democratic voter who lives Williamson County, wrote in The Texas Tribune’s Facebook group, This is Your Texas. “If I want to have a say in local government, I have to vote in the Republican primary.”

Voters like Mims can do that, thanks to Texas’ open primary. Do you have more questions about voting in Texas? Submit them to our Texplainer series.

Disclosure: The University of Houston has been a financial supporter of The Texas Tribune, a nonprofit, nonpartisan news organization that is funded in part by donations from members, foundations and corporate sponsors. Financial supporters play no role in the Tribune’s journalism. Find a complete list of them here.

Consider Candidates Track Record And Party Service In Allocating Debate Slots

For a variety of legal and political reasons, the parties’ authority over their own debates is constrained.44 Yet debates are very important for introducing voters to the party’s candidates. They are an essential aspect of the winnowing process. Selecting invitees is particularly challenging when the candidate field is large, as became evident in the Republican nominating cycle four years ago, when the candidates were so numerous that those who fell below a national poll threshold of 3.5% had to attend an “undercard” debate instead of the main attraction. One consequence was to favor a reality-television celebrity over veterans like Sen. Lindsey Graham, an expert on foreign affairs who had served South Carolina in the Congress since 1993. That seemed shortsighted and unreasonable at the time, and it seems all the more so in hindsight.

Pandemic Puts A Crimp On Voter Registration Potentially Altering Electorate

For all the discussion about the effect of voter ID laws, however, a study last year found that whatever impact those laws might have is offset by increased organization and activism by nonwhite voters — leading to no change in registration or turnout.

Another battleground is early and absentee voting. Rules vary by state, with some requiring more explanation than others as to what’s permissible.

Bitter lessons

The parties today have arrived at this moment after years of what they would argue were bad experiences with elections at the hands of their opponents.

Republicans, among other things, sometimes point to what they believe was cheating in the 1960 presidential race. Alleged Democratic chicanery, in this telling, threw the results to John F. Kennedy and cost the race for Richard Nixon.

Fraudulent IDs, undocumented immigrants voting, people being “bused in” on Election Day remain consistent themes when Republicans talk about elections.

Democrats look to the decades of Jim Crow discrimination that kept many black voters out of elections.

More recently, they look at the Supreme Court’s 2000 decision that handed the outcome of that election to George W. Bush over Al Gore. The court halted the counting of ballots that Democrats argued could have changed Florida’s results, swinging the state to Gore.

Abrams’ group perceives what it calls a deliberate campaign by the establishment to purge Georgia voter rolls of mainly black or Democratic voters.

Matters of principle

The Legal Fight Over Voting Rights During The Pandemic Is Getting Hotter

Or as former Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, a Republican, told NPR, there are no “fair” maps in the discussion about how to draw voting districts — because what Democrats call “fair” maps are those, he believes, that favor them.

No, say voting rights groups and many Democrats — the only “fair” way to conduct an election is to admit as many voters as possible. Georgia Democrat Stacey Abrams, who has charged authorities in her home state with suppressing turnout, named her public interest group Fair Fight Action.

Access vs. security

The pandemic has added another layer of complexity with the new emphasis it has put on voting by mail. President Trump says he opposes expanding voting by mail, and his allies, including White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany, call the process rife with opportunities for fraud.

Even so, Trump and McEnany both voted by mail this year in Florida, and Republican officials across the country have encouraged voting by mail.

Democrats, who have made election security and voting access a big part of their political brand for several years, argue that the pandemic might discourage people from going to old-fashioned polling sites.

Republicans Want To Change State Election Laws Heres How Theyre Doing It

Comparing the proposed law in Texas to the one that passed in Georgia reveals five key areas targeted since former President Trump’s defeat.

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Passing new election laws has been one of the top priorities for Republican state legislators in 2021 — and they are working from similar playbooks to tighten or restrict the old policies even in states with very different election systems.

The latest flashpoint in the GOP drive to change voting rules came in Texas, where Democrats temporarily blocked a sweeping new bill this week that touched many of the same voting policies that drew wide notice in Georgia earlier this year. Republicans across the country have proposed significant changes to their states’ election rules after former President Donald Trump promoted conspiracy theories and spread false claims that he’d been robbed of victory there and elsewhere by massive fraud.

Together, Texas and Georgia show which areas Republicans are focused on after Trump’s 2020 loss. Texas’ mail voting policies were already very tight, but both states sought to make their absentee policies stricter. Both states specifically targeted new voting policies piloted by big, blue counties in 2020. And Republicans in both states sought to impose new limits on election officials — and expose them to new criminal penalties for wrongdoing.

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New Poll: Americans Overwhelmingly Support Voting By Mail Amid Pandemic

Traditionally, Republicans have tended to support higher barriers to voting and often focus on voter identification and security to protect against fraud. All the same, about half of GOP voters back expanding vote by mail in light of the pandemic.

Democrats tend to support lowering barriers and focus on making access for voters easier, with a view to encouraging engagement. They support expanding votes via mail too.

The next fight, in many cases, is about who and how many get what access via mail.

All this also creates a dynamic in which many political practitioners can’t envision a neutral compromise, because no matter what philosophy a state adopts, it’s perceived as zero-sum.

It Robs Us Of Progressive Officeholders And Allows Rats Into The Party

The Democratic Primary is where we fight over the soul of our party. The only way to get congressional representatives who believe in single-payer healthcare, a clean DREAM Act, protections against corporate greed, real education programs, and other progressive policy principles is by first getting them into the general election fight. And the only way to get them into the general election is to vote for them in the Democratic Primary.

I have often heard two opposing statements uttered recently in the county by long-time Democrats- neither of which are true- that challenge the importance of the Democratic primary. One is that “the real election takes place in the primary”. That may be true in some dark crimson corner of the panhandle. But in Harris County? Expect a general election fight for almost every seat.

Sound far-fetched? Consider this: Oliver has already won a past Democratic Primary on name recognition in 2012, when he was the county party’s nominee for DA after beating young, likable, well-funded party favorite Zack Fertitta by a little less than three thousand votes . Democratic precinct chairs were pledged to support Oliver, a man who may as well be Donald Trump at the local level.

Voting in the Democratic Primaries helps keep racists out of the party AND out of office.

Trump Pick Wins Us House Special Republican Primary Election In Ohio

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WASHINGTON, Aug 3 – Mike Carey, a coal lobbyist endorsed by former President Donald Trump, won a crowded primary contest on Tuesday for the Republican nomination to a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives from Ohio’s 15th district.

With 96.5% of precincts reporting, Carey was ahead of his closest contender, state representative Jeff LaRe, by 37% to 13.3%, results from the Ohio secretary of state’s office showed.

The outcome in Ohio’s traditionally Republican 15th District south of Columbus was being closely watched as a measure of Trump’s clout in the Republican Party, coming just a week after a Trump-backed candidate for the U.S. Congress suffered a surprise loss to a fellow Republican in north Texas.

“Tonight, Republicans across Ohio’s 15th Congressional District sent a clear message to the nation that President Donald J. Trump is, without a doubt, the leader of our party,” Carey declared in a statement after his victory.

Trump also issued a statement thanking Ohio voters and praising the “Great Republican win for Mike Carey. Big numbers!”

“We have looked across the promised land, but … we will not cross the river,” Turner told supporters at an election night watch party outside Cleveland.

Democrats currently have a narrow 220-212 majority in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Professional Input Checks The Power Of Billionaires And The Media

The conventional assumption that primaries are less elite than party selection overlooks the way today’s primaries actually work. Thanks to court decisions such as SpeechNow.org v. Federal Election Commission, there is today no limit on the size of contributions to independent groups; the groups, in turn, are free to support and oppose candidates provided that they not coordinate their activities with the candidates and parties. In other words, today’s campaign-finance rules funnel vast sums of unaccountable money to the political system’s least accountable actors.

“oday’s campaign-finance rules funnel vast sums of unaccountable money to the political system’s least accountable actors.”

That said, even if small donors were a perfectly representative group, they would still provide a pathway around gatekeepers, and that is a mixed blessing. True, candidates who rely on small donors are less beholden to big donors and special interests, which may make them more independent-minded; also true, they are less beholden to their political peers, party leaders, and important constituencies, which may make them more reckless and demagogic.

Then there are the media, whose power in influencing candidate choice has grown enormously since the McGovern-Fraser reforms. Writing as long ago as 1978, Jeanne Kirkpatrick tartly observed:

Things have only gotten worse in the transition from Walter Cronkite to Sean Hannity and today’s bevy of extremist internet sites.

How Are Presidential Primary Elections Conducted In California

Qualified political parties in California may hold presidential primaries in one of two ways:

Closed presidential primary – only voters indicating a preference for a party may vote for that party’s presidential nominee.

Modified-closed presidential primary – the party also allows voters who did not state a party preference to vote for that party’s presidential nominee.

If a qualified political party chooses to hold a modified-closed presidential primary, the party must notify the California Secretary of State no later than the 135th day before Election Day.

Voters who registered to vote without stating a political party preference are known as No Party Preference voters. For information on NPP voters voting in a presidential primary election, please see our webpage on No Party Preference Information.

Primary Day 2021: Curtis Sliwa Wins Republican Mayoral Primary

Curtis Sliwa talks victory

The founder of the Guardian Angels won the Republican primary for mayor of New York City. He told Good Day New York that he’s “the real deal.”

NEW YORK – Guardian Angels founder Curtis Sliwa has won the Republican mayoral primary in New York City.

Sliwa defeated businessman Fernando Mateo. Ranked choice voting wasn’t a factor because there were only two candidates in the race.

Sliwa does not have much of a chance to win the November general election in a city where registered Democrats outnumber Republicans by 7 to 1.

Former allies, the two Republicans Sliwa and Mateo traded personal insults and tried to shout over each other during one debate on Zoom.

Sliwa wins GOP primary

Radio host and Guardian Angels founder Curtis Sliwa is projected to win the Republican nomination for mayor of New York.

Sliwa, a radio host who still wears his red Guardian Angels beret when he appears in public, got an endorsement from former Mayor Rudy Giuliani, who called him “my great friend” in a robocall to Republican voters.

Mateo, a restaurateur who has led organizations advocating for car service drivers and bodega owners, was endorsed by Michael Flynn, former president Donald Trump’s first national security adviser.

Results Of The 2020 Republican Party Presidential Primaries

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Below is a detailed tally of the results of the 2020 Republican Party presidential primary elections in the United States. In most U.S. states outside New Hampshire, votes for write-in candidates remain untallied.

Primary elections and caucuses can be binding or nonbinding in allocating delegates to the respective state delegations to the Republican National Convention. But the actual election of the delegates can be at a later date. Delegates are elected at conventions, from slates submitted by the candidates, selected by the party’s state chairman or at committee meetings or elected directly at the party’s caucuses and primaries. Until the delegates are apportioned, the delegate numbers are by nature projections, but it is only in the states with nonbinding caucuses where they are not allocated at the primary or caucus date.

Reasons Democrats Must Never Vote In A Republican Primary

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The opinions expressed in this article are solely the pervue of Mr. Daniel Cohen. His statements do not necessarily reflects the tenets of Indivisible Houston. Daniel is execising his first amendment right as an independent citizen.

Over the last year, I have gone from a voter who occasionally engages others in civic conversation over political issues to a Democratic Party Precinct Chair who organizes weekly to beat back the creeping wave of authoritarian conservatism at the local, state, and national levels. During that time, I have noticed a trend in conversations within activist circles. First, an idea is presented and people recommend we all do something about it. Then, people stop talking about the idea and start acting on it. Finally, it becomes ingrained as a strategy for the activist community.

The most recent idea that stands out to me as a focal point of discussion is the dilemma surrounding Harris County primaries. Namely, the question is whether or not to vote strategically in the Republican Primary as opposed to the Democratic Primary in order to move the Republican Party into a more moderate position.

My plea to fellow progressive Democrats: DON’T.

Here’s why.

Primary Election Snafus Show Challenges For November Vote

Republicans’ and Democrats’ vastly different starting points help explain why the politics over voting and elections have been and likely will remain so fraught, through and beyond Election Day this year.

Sometimes it seems as if the politicians involved barely live in the same country. It has become common for one side to discount the legitimacy of a victory by the other.

And the coronavirus pandemic, which has scrambled nearly everything about life in the United States, makes understanding it all even more complicated. Here’s what you need to know to decode this year’s voting controversies.

The Rosetta stone

The key that unlocks so much of the partisan debate about voting is one word: turnout.

An old truism holds that, all other things held equal, a smaller pool of voters tends to be better for Republicans and the larger the pool gets, the better for Democrats.

This isn’t mathematically ironclad, as politicians learn and relearn regularly. But this assumption is the foundation upon which much else is built.

Do You Have To Vote For The Party You’re Registered With

Your state may give you the opportunity to declare your political party affiliation on your voter registration card.

You do not have to vote for the party you’re registered with, in a federal, state, or local general election.

But in a presidential primary or caucus, depending on your state’s rules, you may have to vote for the political party you’ve registered with.

Ohio’s 15th Congressional District Special Election 2021

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Mike Carey won the special Republican primary for Ohio’s 15th Congressional District on August 3, 2021, he will face Allison Russo in the special general election on November 2, 2021. Eleven candidates ran in the primary. The special election will fill the vacancy left by Steve Stivers , who resigned to become the President and CEO of the Ohio Chamber of Commerce, effective May 16, 2021.

Stivers won the previous six elections with a 24.32 point average margin-of-victory . His lowest MOV was 12.9 points in 2010, and his highest was 32.4 points in 2016. Former President Donald Trump won the District in 2020 by a 14.1 point MOV, and in 2016 by 15.4 points. The general election is rated as Strong Republican by Inside Elections with Nathan L. Gonzales.

Stivers and Trump endorsed different candidates in the race. Trump endorsed Carey, past president and chairman of the Ohio Coal Association and a U.S. Army National Guard veteran. Stivers endorsed private security executive and member of the Ohio state legislature, Jeff LaRe. LaRe stated that his “top priority is keeping our communities and our families safe.” Carey said he would “bring back America First policies and rebuild the American economy.”

John Adams, Eric M. Clark, Thad Cooperridder, Ruth Edmonds, Ron Hood, Tom Hwang, Stephanie Kunze, and Omar Tarazi, also ran in the primary.

Note: The following list includes official candidates only. Ballotpedia defines official candidates as people who:

Republicans Who Voted To Impeach Trump Face Challenges

Cheney and Kinzinger both represent the higher-profile Republicans who voted to impeach former President Trump.

Cheney last month called for a criminal investigation into Trump and the events surrounding the Capitol riot back in January.

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“Certainly any president who did what we know this former president did has got to be investigated criminally,” she said in an interview with NBC’s Today Show.

Cheney, behind insistence from the former President, was ousted from her leadership role in the GOP and replaced by Rep. Elise Stefanik as the House Republican conference chair.

Kinzinger, meanwhile, has become a darling of the mainstream and liberal media.

He recently referred to Republican colleagues who have suggested the Capitol protest wasn’t as bad as the media has made it out to be as “something you see out of North Korea.”

Liz who? If you collected quotes from Liz Cheney and quotes from her future colleagues at MSNBC, would anyone be able to tell the difference?“Cheney rips Arizona election audit: ‘It is an effort to subvert democracy’” https://t.co/kjW5xJOx7Q

RELATED: Liz Cheney Calls For Criminal Investigation Into Trump

Can I Register To Vote If I Don’t Have A Fixed Address

Yes. If you don’t have a fixed residence or are homeless and otherwise qualified to vote in Delaware, you may register by completing the proper registration form. If registering in-person you must provide two pieces of identification containing your name. Additionally, one of the pieces must include the address that you listed on the application. The address can be a shelter, agency or another location where you receive your mail.

Voting Is A Great Privilege With Great Responsibility

Americans are pretty damned lucky to have the right to vote. Is the system a little confusing? Yes. Is it perfect? Hell no. . Is it still a pretty awesome process that tries to represent the wishes of all Americans? Yes!

American women have had the right to vote for less than a century. The Voting Rights Act didn’t pass until 1965. Americans who came before us often faced great adversity in order to gain suffrage. Honor their courage this year. Vote.

What Do The Most Recent Polls Say About The Election

After the 2016 election, many in the US are hesitant to put all their trust in election polls. However, they are one tool that can evaluate where the race stands.

For the Democratic Party, the most recent leader in the polls is Eric Adams, who currently serves as the Brooklyn Borough President. Adams has a long record of public service, including serving as the State Senator for New York’s 20th district from 2007 through 2013.

Behind him are three candidates where polls show a close race. These candidates include Dianne Morales, who is the former CEO of a social services NGO. Maya Wiley, a professor at NYC’s New School, and former Presidential candidate Andrew Yang.

New York City’s top mayoral candidates took their last, best shots during their final debate Wednesday night as voters head to the polls over the next six days — and no one emerged as a clear victor. https://t.co/SRbTIYSDgl

— POLITICO New York June 17, 2021

As for the Republicans, there are only two major candidates: Fernando Mateo, the founder of the New York State Federation of Taxi Drivers, and Curtis Sliwa, a radio talk show host and founder of Guardian Angels. Guardian Angels is an organization that aims to prevent violent crime in the city.

An Emerson College poll taken between June 7 and 8 found that Sliwa was leading by five points but that forty percent of voters had not yet made up their mind.

  Republicans Most At Risk Of Being Primaried In 2022

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With the 2020 election now officially in the rearview mirror, Republicans are already setting their sights on the 2022 midterm election cycle to reclaim some power in Congress.

But one potential roadblock for the party is primary fights between pro-Donald Trump and traditional Republicans—especially if the former president delivers on his threat to support challenges to conservatives he perceived as disloyal to him.

On January 6, the same day as the deadly riot at the U.S. Capitol, Trump told his supporters to “primary the hell” out of conservative lawmakers who did not object to the Electoral College certification.

Kinzinger Says Republican Party Is ‘In a Battle’ Over Post-Trump Future

Then there was the vote on January 13 to impeach Trump, which only further added to the internal battle within the Republican Party. The handful of Republicans who supported the effort were met with swift backlash, including new primary challengers and censures from their local GOP parties.

National Republican Senatorial Committee Chairman Rick Scott told reporters last week that he will back incumbent senators against Trump-backed primary challengers. But Senator Lindsey Graham told The Washington Post that the GOP “cannot take the House and the Senate back without his help. That’s just a fact.”

Here’s a list of the Republicans in each chamber who are most at risk of being primaried in the 2022 election cycle.

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How to grow and engage a community on social media with content

Are you seeing results from your social media activities? Or is it just another thing to worry about on your already full plate as a marketer?

If your answer is closer to the second option, you’re missing out on the benefits of an engaged community on social media. Unlike some other platforms, social media is ideal for a two-way communication with people who support and buy from your brand.

Don’t forget: social media is meant to be social.

But if you’re struggling to get comments, shares, likes, and click-throughs on your posts, engagement can feel like a catch-22. If no one is engaging with your posts right now, it’s harder to attract engagement—and vice versa.

In this guide, we’re sharing six main ways to adjust your content on social media for engagement.

Tell a visual story with images, videos, and emojis

The fact that people crave and engage with visuals isn’t new. People like, share, and respond to content that grabs their attention in their social media feed. If it doesn’t, they’ll scroll past it.

Sprout Social reported that consumers want to engage with images and video more than any other type of content:

If you want to make your content more engaging, when you’re working on a new post, ask yourself:

Could an image communicate this in a way that stands out?

Would a GIF or a video share this story in just a few seconds better than just text can?

If I used emojis, would it improve the tone of the story?

The best thing about using visuals in your post is that there are no limits and options are endless.

Here’s a great way that Shopify used an illustration to champion both their employee and small businesses:

On a platform like Twitter where adding an image or a video isn’t a requirement for posting, emojis can add dynamics, clarity, and engagement. Here’s an example of emoji use from Revolut:

When it comes to emojis, reports have shown that:

Using emojis results in 25.4% more engagement on Twitter

Using emojis results in 57% more likes, 33% more comments, and 33% more shares on Facebook

Almost 50% of all comments and captions on Instagram contain emojis

Images, videos, GIFs, and emojis are a great way to get creative in your social media posts and drive meaningful reactions.

Give your customers and community a voice

Think of all the ways your company impacts the world. This could be the results your paying customers are getting, changes in your local community, online connections you’re facilitating, fundraising, and more.

Take note of these results and outcomes and share them on your social media.

If you’re sharing a customer success story, direct quotes are ideal. No one can speak about your customer’s experience better than the customer itself. Here’s an example from Intercom:

In a tweet like that, you can always experiment with tagging the person and/or the company you’re featuring as this can spark a conversation.

Here’s another great example from Intercom in which they’ve shared their conversation with Black Tech Unplugged around the racial inequality:

When you give others a voice on your platforms, you make your wider community feel seen and heard. This will help you set a lasting foundation for engagement.

Talk about your topic in a way that brings value

As we’ve said many times before, content marketing isn’t about you, but about the people you serve. In other words: stop talking about yourself.

People come to social media to feel good: relaxed, entertained, educated, empowered. They want to feel better than they did before they opened the app. This is why it’s crucial to create posts that focus on your audience and how they can benefit from what you have to say.

What kinds of topics and posts will help you achieve this? Here are some examples:

Answers to questions people frequently ask you about your area of expertise

Short tips and tricks

Demonstrations of processes or products on your topic

List of steps to achieve a result (think recipes)

Here’s a creative example from Diana Briceño, a social media strategist (she shares the tips both in her caption and in the carousel images):

Of course, food recipes are the ultimate way this works: you teach someone how to cook a delicious dish in just a few minutes. Here’s how BuzzFeed Food shares their recipes (and gets huge engagement on these posts):

Think of recipes as a great framework to share valuable tips and steps in a way that’s easy to take in.

You can also answer this question to get inspired: If you usually write longer, educational content for your blog, how can you boil those topics down to its main parts to share on your social media?

Share useful content from other people

Now take that same approach from the previous point and apply it to content you don’t own.

Ask yourself:

How can content from other people contribute to the topics you usually talk about and your community cares about?

Are there other, surrounding topics that would make sense for you to share that others are experts on?

Which companies do you want to build a relationship with, and share their content as part of your efforts to do so?

You can share content from other people and companies by directly curating it to your social media feeds, or by reposting what they’ve posted (for example, by quote-tweeting it or sharing an Instagram post to your stories).

Content curation has many benefits, including staying consistent on social media, building credibility, connecting with others in your space, and scaling your content production.

Check out this example of curated content from Buffer. They’ve shared a study that shows how consumer behavior changed during the COVID-19 pandemic. This topic isn’t specific to their focus on social media, but their audience is made of marketers who will benefit from knowing about those changes:

Another great example is this one from Melanie Deziel, content marketer and international speaker. She shared a podcast episode that mentioned her book, but she focused on sharing the actual episode and tagging the podcast and its guest first:

Scoop.it can help you curate content to specific topics and content hubs and easily share it to your social media feeds. Not just that: you can schedule it so you can curate more content at once and publish it on a staggered schedule, and you can add your own insights and thoughts to add even more value!

If you want more tips on content curation, this content curation strategy guide is for you.

Reply to customers and supporters

As we said earlier, social media is about being social. Even if you do all of the tips we listed so far, but never proactively engage and reach out to members of your community on social media, your results will suffer.

The best thing you can do as a brand is to show that you aren’t just another faceless brand. Without people supporting you, your company wouldn’t exist, so spend time cultivating a two-way relationship through your social media channels.

This will help you keep the conversation going and stay top-of-mind.

You can take the approach from folks at Buffer, who send supportive responses to people mentioning them in their daily updates:

    You can also run searches on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram to find posts to engage with. For example, you can:

Search for keywords related to your main topics

Search for hashtags your audience typically uses

Find accounts of people and companies your audience also engages with and look for posts, comments, and discussions you can participate in

Ask questions

Finally, what better could you do to drive engagement than to ask your followers to engage with you?

In other words: ask questions, run polls, conduct surveys. People love to share their opinions, struggles, and comments.

Many native social media features let you do that on the platform itself: Instagram stories polls and Twitter polls are the best examples of it.

Here’s how Hootsuite made the most out of Twitter polls when Instagram introduced hiding likes, a highly controversial change in the world of social media:

Hundreds of people answered (it only takes a click!) and a few dozens replied or shared a comment when retweeting this poll. Great polls will make your engagement explode.

Another, more clever and creative way to get your community involved is by asking how you can help them—and getting super specific when you do it.

For example, Jamie Oliver asked if anyone needed inspiration for dinner on a Monday night:

This was a very successful post: it got hundreds of replies and many retweets with comments. But the best part was that Jamie Oliver (or his team that runs the account) replied to many of the replies with a relevant recipe or tip. Win-win!

It’s time for genuine community engagement on social media

That’s it—you now have the tips for showing up on social media feeds of your target audience in a way that will make them feel good and get them to engage.

Remember: This isn’t as simple as posting X times per day or showing up at the exact times you’ve predicted your audience will be online. It’s about adding value to their lives instead of adding noise.

It’s time to take action. Start with one or two tips from this list to create your next social media posts. Expand from there and track your results so you can keep improving!

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How to grow and engage a community on social media with content

Are you seeing results from your social media activities? Or is it just another thing to worry about on your already full plate as a marketer?

If your answer is closer to the second option, you’re missing out on the benefits of an engaged community on social media. Unlike some other platforms, social media is ideal for a two-way communication with people who support and buy from your brand.

Don’t forget: social media is meant to be social.

But if you’re struggling to get comments, shares, likes, and click-throughs on your posts, engagement can feel like a catch-22. If no one is engaging with your posts right now, it’s harder to attract engagement—and vice versa.

In this guide, we’re sharing six main ways to adjust your content on social media for engagement.

Tell a visual story with images, videos, and emojis

The fact that people crave and engage with visuals isn’t new. People like, share, and respond to content that grabs their attention in their social media feed. If it doesn’t, they’ll scroll past it.

Sprout Social reported that consumers want to engage with images and video more than any other type of content:

If you want to make your content more engaging, when you’re working on a new post, ask yourself:

Could an image communicate this in a way that stands out?

Would a GIF or a video share this story in just a few seconds better than just text can?

If I used emojis, would it improve the tone of the story?

The best thing about using visuals in your post is that there are no limits and options are endless.

Here’s a great way that Shopify used an illustration to champion both their employee and small businesses:

On a platform like Twitter where adding an image or a video isn’t a requirement for posting, emojis can add dynamics, clarity, and engagement. Here’s an example of emoji use from Revolut:

When it comes to emojis, reports have shown that:

Using emojis results in 25.4% more engagement on Twitter

Using emojis results in 57% more likes, 33% more comments, and 33% more shares on Facebook

Almost 50% of all comments and captions on Instagram contain emojis

Images, videos, GIFs, and emojis are a great way to get creative in your social media posts and drive meaningful reactions.

Give your customers and community a voice

Think of all the ways your company impacts the world. This could be the results your paying customers are getting, changes in your local community, online connections you’re facilitating, fundraising, and more.

Take note of these results and outcomes and share them on your social media.

If you’re sharing a customer success story, direct quotes are ideal. No one can speak about your customer’s experience better than the customer itself. Here’s an example from Intercom:

In a tweet like that, you can always experiment with tagging the person and/or the company you’re featuring as this can spark a conversation.

Here’s another great example from Intercom in which they’ve shared their conversation with Black Tech Unplugged around the racial inequality:

When you give others a voice on your platforms, you make your wider community feel seen and heard. This will help you set a lasting foundation for engagement.

Talk about your topic in a way that brings value

As we’ve said many times before, content marketing isn’t about you, but about the people you serve. In other words: stop talking about yourself.

People come to social media to feel good: relaxed, entertained, educated, empowered. They want to feel better than they did before they opened the app. This is why it’s crucial to create posts that focus on your audience and how they can benefit from what you have to say.

What kinds of topics and posts will help you achieve this? Here are some examples:

Answers to questions people frequently ask you about your area of expertise

Short tips and tricks

Demonstrations of processes or products on your topic

List of steps to achieve a result (think recipes)

Here’s a creative example from Diana Briceño, a social media strategist (she shares the tips both in her caption and in the carousel images):

Of course, food recipes are the ultimate way this works: you teach someone how to cook a delicious dish in just a few minutes. Here’s how BuzzFeed Food shares their recipes (and gets huge engagement on these posts):

Think of recipes as a great framework to share valuable tips and steps in a way that’s easy to take in.

You can also answer this question to get inspired: If you usually write longer, educational content for your blog, how can you boil those topics down to its main parts to share on your social media?

Share useful content from other people

Now take that same approach from the previous point and apply it to content you don’t own.

Ask yourself:

How can content from other people contribute to the topics you usually talk about and your community cares about?

Are there other, surrounding topics that would make sense for you to share that others are experts on?

Which companies do you want to build a relationship with, and share their content as part of your efforts to do so?

You can share content from other people and companies by directly curating it to your social media feeds, or by reposting what they’ve posted (for example, by quote-tweeting it or sharing an Instagram post to your stories).

Content curation has many benefits, including staying consistent on social media, building credibility, connecting with others in your space, and scaling your content production.

Check out this example of curated content from Buffer. They’ve shared a study that shows how consumer behavior changed during the COVID-19 pandemic. This topic isn’t specific to their focus on social media, but their audience is made of marketers who will benefit from knowing about those changes:

Another great example is this one from Melanie Deziel, content marketer and international speaker. She shared a podcast episode that mentioned her book, but she focused on sharing the actual episode and tagging the podcast and its guest first:

Scoop.it can help you curate content to specific topics and content hubs and easily share it to your social media feeds. Not just that: you can schedule it so you can curate more content at once and publish it on a staggered schedule, and you can add your own insights and thoughts to add even more value!

If you want more tips on content curation, this content curation strategy guide is for you.

Reply to customers and supporters

As we said earlier, social media is about being social. Even if you do all of the tips we listed so far, but never proactively engage and reach out to members of your community on social media, your results will suffer.

The best thing you can do as a brand is to show that you aren’t just another faceless brand. Without people supporting you, your company wouldn’t exist, so spend time cultivating a two-way relationship through your social media channels.

This will help you keep the conversation going and stay top-of-mind.

You can take the approach from folks at Buffer, who send supportive responses to people mentioning them in their daily updates:

    You can also run searches on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram to find posts to engage with. For example, you can:

Search for keywords related to your main topics

Search for hashtags your audience typically uses

Find accounts of people and companies your audience also engages with and look for posts, comments, and discussions you can participate in

Ask questions

Finally, what better could you do to drive engagement than to ask your followers to engage with you?

In other words: ask questions, run polls, conduct surveys. People love to share their opinions, struggles, and comments.

Many native social media features let you do that on the platform itself: Instagram stories polls and Twitter polls are the best examples of it.

Here’s how Hootsuite made the most out of Twitter polls when Instagram introduced hiding likes, a highly controversial change in the world of social media:

Hundreds of people answered (it only takes a click!) and a few dozens replied or shared a comment when retweeting this poll. Great polls will make your engagement explode.

Another, more clever and creative way to get your community involved is by asking how you can help them—and getting super specific when you do it.

For example, Jamie Oliver asked if anyone needed inspiration for dinner on a Monday night:

This was a very successful post: it got hundreds of replies and many retweets with comments. But the best part was that Jamie Oliver (or his team that runs the account) replied to many of the replies with a relevant recipe or tip. Win-win!

It’s time for genuine community engagement on social media

That’s it—you now have the tips for showing up on social media feeds of your target audience in a way that will make them feel good and get them to engage.

Remember: This isn’t as simple as posting X times per day or showing up at the exact times you’ve predicted your audience will be online. It’s about adding value to their lives instead of adding noise.

It’s time to take action. Start with one or two tips from this list to create your next social media posts. Expand from there and track your results so you can keep improving!

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