Make your voice count and be heard. VOTE NOW in the USA Presidential Election. It is important to participate and exercise your right to choose.
As @VisitLA4Locals says: ‘You may not love the choices, but you don’t have to. It’s not your soul mate or life partner. It is your obligation as a citizen to take part in the process. Speak up and make your voice heard! If you live in LA County you can find a list of official drop boxes (and also how to vote by mail) at https://locator.lavote.net 🗳
From my editor, Carmen Rios (#vbadgrl): “Looking for critical guidance in battleground states? Check out @v4eusa. Looking for answers in los Angeles? I’m using the @blmlosangeles guide to fill out my ballot. Have questions about Voter ID laws? Ask @thevoteriders. Need to make a plan? go to iwillvote.com.
More from @VisitLA4Locals: “This year, voters in LA County are able to go to ANY Vote Center and no longer need to be assigned to a specific polling place 🎉. In addition to the official drop boxes open 24-hours a day, 118 vote centers are now open where you can cast your ballot (or drop off a pre-filled one.) While most of these locations aren’t available for exploring yet, it is a good way to get a very small taste of what they offer. Landmarks where you can #getyourvoteon include @hammer_museum@hollywoodbowl@skirball_la@staplescenterla (where you can get special #ivoted stickers!) @theforum@thewiltern and @dodgerstadium* (For more information on #votecenters, #dropboxes or other #votinginformation you can go to https://locator.lavote.net/ or https://www.headcount.org/livenation/Fill out your ballot, wear a mask and VOTE! 🗳 *some in person locations, including Dodger Stadium open Oct 30th. Let’s do this, L.A.!
My ballot is in and ready to be counted! Is yours?
Among the speakers, Adam Milstein, a real estate investor, philanthropist and co-founder of the fast-growing Impact Forum, urged attendees to frame antisemitism as an American issue and not just a Jewish issue.
The Beverly Hills menu features some of Malka’s best-known dishes, including the Queen Malka Schnitzel, Branzino Hraime, onglet served with roasted white peaches and Israeli-style hummus.
Like the greatest satirists, such as Jonathan Swift and Mark Twain, they chose comedy over accusation to mock the folly of society and add levity to dark times. But their aim was not levity alone.
Sometimes love arrives ahead of you, in spite of you. Cooking slowly became a way of being there for the people I love. A wordless language that says: I see you. I hear you. You’re worth the onion-chopping.
If an experienced professional with rare expertise leaves Israel, the impact cannot be understood simply by adding another person to a brain-drain statistic. The more relevant question is how many people with comparable experience remain, how essential that expertise is and how easily it can be rebuilt.
Conspiracy theories and antisemitism do have an affinity and important features in common, including the tendency to frame accusations in such a way that refutation does not affect the accuser. Having suffered from this for centuries, do we really want it in our public life?
Any Democrat seeking to lead the party in 2028 should embrace the politics of addition by subtraction and reject any movement seeking to end all aid to Israel and replace America’s constitutional order.
We live in an age with zero patience for uncertainty. We have answers for everything, almost magically. And somehow, we still seem to know nothing about what it means to be here.
While it’s indisputable that younger and progressive voters are driving the party away from its historic support for Israel, the old-guard Zionist Democrats have made it clear that they will not surrender without a fight.
PLEASE VOTE NOW 2020
Lisa Ellen Niver
Make your voice count and be heard. VOTE NOW in the USA Presidential Election. It is important to participate and exercise your right to choose.
As @VisitLA4Locals says: ‘You may not love the choices, but you don’t have to. It’s not your soul mate or life partner. It is your obligation as a citizen to take part in the process. Speak up and make your voice heard! If you live in LA County you can find a list of official drop boxes (and also how to vote by mail) at https://locator.lavote.net 🗳
From my editor, Carmen Rios (#vbadgrl): “Looking for critical guidance in battleground states? Check out @v4eusa. Looking for answers in los Angeles? I’m using the @blmlosangeles guide to fill out my ballot. Have questions about Voter ID laws? Ask @thevoteriders. Need to make a plan? go to iwillvote.com.
More from @VisitLA4Locals: “This year, voters in LA County are able to go to ANY Vote Center and no longer need to be assigned to a specific polling place 🎉. In addition to the official drop boxes open 24-hours a day, 118 vote centers are now open where you can cast your ballot (or drop off a pre-filled one.) While most of these locations aren’t available for exploring yet, it is a good way to get a very small taste of what they offer. Landmarks where you can #getyourvoteon include @hammer_museum @hollywoodbowl @skirball_la @staplescenterla (where you can get special #ivoted stickers!) @theforum @thewiltern and @dodgerstadium* (For more information on #votecenters, #dropboxes or other #votinginformation you can go to https://locator.lavote.net/ or https://www.headcount.org/livenation/ Fill out your ballot, wear a mask and VOTE! 🗳 *some in person locations, including Dodger Stadium open Oct 30th. Let’s do this, L.A.!
My ballot is in and ready to be counted! Is yours?
I tracked my ballot with BallotTrax. Check if your county is using it here.
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