We don’t want to be alone tonight
Join the AJPT team for a live chat as the returns trickle in
It’s Election Day, and we don’t know about you, but we’re a bundle of nerves over here at Another Jane Pratt Thing. Nauseously optimistic might be the best way to describe it. Once you get out there and cast your vote — which you likely still have time to do — the waiting game begins. And let’s be honest here, it sucks. You sit there doom-scrolling and trying to read scattered tea leaves to figure out how everything is going to turn out. It can be pretty miserable. So let’s be miserable together.
We’re going to be hosting a live chat for subscribers starting at 8 pm EST tonight. It’ll be a place for us to gather and share our thoughts about tonight’s returns. Jane and the team will be popping in and out throughout the evening, at least until 10 pm if not later. Disagreements are totally cool and even encouraged, let’s just remember to be kind to each other.
Since the chat will be for paid subscribers, now might be a good time to remind you that if you upgrade to an annual paid subscription or founding membership, you’ll get this limited-edition Sassy tee. We still have some left but supplies are dwindling quickly.
We’ll get the ball rolling at 8 pm, we hope to see you there.
- The Another Jane Pratt Team
I might still be in the bath room-scrolling with a glass of bourbon, and I will definitely stop by the chat
It's really nice that you did this. I had to stay off media until the counting was over, I didn't think I could handle the stress of watching votes come in.
I am 6 hours ahead, and you are all hopefully getting some sleep. But I wanted to float this idea - since Jane is BFF with Michael Stipe, how about mobilizing his fan base to boycott amazon? Bezos still owns 10% and if this was done en masse could make a statement about free press (losing that is step #1 to fascism (well, no, Jane, I think voting for someone publicly promising fascism was probably step #1). Right, thanks, Jane. Also boycott X formerly known as twitter - cancel accounts there en masse, those in the income bracket to buy Tesla, don't do it (also see Charlie's excellent article shaming those who would go for the cybertruck).
For context, I read this article "Against School" many years ago and it has stayed with me, it's about how the right designed a horrible education system to breed an apathetic crop of mindless consumers/voters. Considering that, maybe we need to be way more activist in our consuming. Link to that the article at the bottom - my 2 cents is that yes, the right got what they wanted, but I don't think they expected the masses to then get hijacked by extremists (for more on that google David Frum, speechwriter to Bush jr and author of a book called Dead Right that my dad gave me one year for Christmas because I was too liberal for his taste - after the 2016 election Frum turned around and wrote a piece for the Atlantic about how badly the right had screwed up). Anyway, that article about education feels like a small part of an answer to the big WHY that so many of us are asking right now. https://www.everettsd.org/cms/lib07/WA01920133/Centricity/Domain/947/ENG.Against%20school.pdf