I’ve got a private chat with a small group of friends. That’s my primary social media. We share news and discuss ideas.

How’d he get around the contribution limits? See: https://www.fec.gov/help-candidates-and-committees/candidate-taking-receipts/contribution-limits/

If you look at early votes, Republicans are doing better in every close state other than Pennsylvania. So assuming there’s a correlation with party affiliation, the polls are probably correct. If Harris is going to pull this off, she needs to address the ground game in these pivotal states.

The electoral college keeps the political campaigning out of my state. I can at least be grateful for that. I don’t know anyone who had complained about too little political campaigning in their community.

If it were up to me the current system would be replaced by election by juries.

IMO, it is going to come down to how much the Republicans get people to vote early. The last election went bad for them because people didn’t trust voting by mail and there’s always a contingent of people who intend to vote on election day but don’t make it for one reason or another. Political junkies should also watch the weather forecast in close states. Bad weather probably favors Democrats in this election. This is a change from the 80’s and 90’s when Democrats were less likely to show-up during bad weather.

Would it be much of an issue if we insisted presidential powers were limited to what they were when the Constitution came into force? Today’s presidents (both parties) greatly exceed the powers of Washington and Jefferson.

There’s self-hosting that’s low risk but does remove some convenience. For example, I use a offline password manager. I keep a Veracrypt container on my computer that hosts that and a few other important files. When I make enough updates, I’ll throw a copy into Dropbox so I can save access it elsewhere. The disadvantage is that I cannot update the primary version from one of those other devices but, for me, that’s not really an issue.