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election day links

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I’ve made today’s links free because of Election Day. Take care of yourself and each other, babes.

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I was going to write something profound about how it felt to watch the World Series and be bombarded with those horrible anti-trans Trump ads the whole time. But I’m tired. You can read

Parker Molloy

writing (and talking) about those ads instead.

I was going to write something about the hypocrisy of athletes like Nick Bosa getting to yell “MAGA” and not being willing or expected to defend his position, while marginalized athletes who support Harris are out here giving well-thought out political statements about their endorsements. But I’m tired. Jemele Hill had some words about that, though.

I was going to write something about the WNBA’s history of political activism and endorsements, maybe a review of the Power of the Dream documentary (I didn’t like the doc, but I think the subject is one of the best sports stories in history). But I’m tired.

Instead, I took my kids to our polling place this morning and I voted. I was told that Kamala is for they/them, so there was clearly only one choice for me.

I remember taking those same kids, then two months and two-and-a-half years old, to cast our votes for what we thought would be the first woman president in 2016. I remember crying on the couch that night as the returns came in, feeling utterly alone and sitting there in shock while my then-husband told me I was overreacting.

Tonight, we’re having an open house for friends who don’t want to be alone while the returns come in. We are all queer and trans. We will have the returns on the TV in the living room for those who want to watch, and we’ll be watching movies on the TV in the basement for those who don’t.

No matter what happens, I’m glad I have community around me while it does.

If you’d like some election-related distraction that isn’t based in predictions, check out this episode of the Call Your Coven podcast by

Jeanna Kadlec

and

Rebecca Scolnick

where they go over the astrology and numerology of the election and the candidates.

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Some links to distract you from Election Day

• Jax Preyer
  writes about Dave Portnoy’s attempts at image rehabilitation by trying to appeal to women (also worth noting that after the sexual assault allegations against him dropped, he hired a crisis PR firm so this is all very intentional)

• World Surf League’s call to take surfing to UAE forces gay athletes like Tyler Wright to pay too high a price

• There will be a woman’s pro baseball league in 2026, for the first time since the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League in the 1940s-1950s

• David Berri
  posits that perhaps the WNBA is just very bad at business

• I loved this piece from Shakeia Taylor on the fashion of baseball caps

• Lindsay Gibbs
  breaks down what it means for the WNBA to have opted out of their CBA

• What’s the gayest thing to happen in the WNBA this year? Fans weigh in:

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• And Imane Khelif for Vogue Arabia:

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