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Giant Roaches Can Grow Big Testicles When They Need Them

Nursing Home Residents Put to Work

Shared epigenetic changes underlie different types of autism

How sunken treasure and a sibling rivalry led Charles and John Deane to invent modern deep-sea diving

This researcher programmed bots to fight racism on Twitter. It worked. (That headline really overstates it.)

High-fiber diet keeps gut microbes from eating the colon's lining, protects against infection, animal study shows

Alabama town mirrors US class divide on immigration

Thank you, Frederick Banting

Some suburbanites to sidewalk backers: 'Stay off our lawns'

Why 12-Foot Traffic Lanes Are Disastrous for Safety and Must Be Replaced Now

Tim Robbins’s Prison Improv Classes Make Inmates Less Likely to Re-Offend

This fall’s prison strikes are a model of how to both survive and challenge an authoritarian, racist order.

A New Form of Donor Motivation: Rage Donating!

How to call your reps when you have social anxiety

Lashing Out at ‘Identity Politics,’ Pundits Blame Trump on Those Most Vulnerable to Trump (I'm so sick of the phrase "identity politics". It's all identity politics! But for some reason, the only "identity" it's okay to vote with is white straight cis male Christian.)

GOP sweep heightens anxiety for many transgender Americans

As American as Apple Pie? The Rural Vote’s Disproportionate Slice of Power

#NotMyGodEmperor: Why Are There So Many Actual Fascists in the Warhammer 40K Fandom?

Miami Beach has run out of sand. Now what?

U.S. officials arrive in Australia to begin assessing asylum seekers

Worrying traces of resistant bacteria in air

Afghan cave dwellers brace against a shifting landscape

Who’s in the Kitchen at Chinese Restaurants? Part 2

In Mali, waning fortunes of Fulani herders play into Islamist hands

Large forest die-offs can have effects that ricochet to distant ecosystems

Life in the Plague Years

I have never taken the M15 as much as I have in the past few months.

Seriously, it is AMAZING how many schools on our list are right along that bus route, and I've been taking it with my mother every week as well.

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You’re not just imagining it: the Hillary Clinton vs Donald Trump vote totals do look rigged. That would explain why exit polls don't add up.

We can ask for an audit. On the one hand, I'm sure we're clutching at straws here. On the other, it's no more futile than the electoral college petition. And honestly, it wouldn't be too problematic to do. (Oh, and on that note - new petition asking for an audit. Sign it! Spam it!)

Tomorrow's to-do list:

1. Drop off application at homeschool office.
2. Email and phone the DoJ about this issue.
3. Email the governor and secretary of state in the various "flipped" states. They're not likely to care, since I'm not a constituent, but it's low effort.
4. Email my state congressfolk and ask them to demand an audit - especially my senators, who are democrats.

Anybody else it might not be a complete waste of time to email? I mean, I can type out one email and then c+p it, inserting names as necessary.

Something suggested to me:

You can try calling the US House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, for a complete investigation of Trump's finances. The public comment number there is +1-202-225-5074.