remember to vote (and show off your stickers) if you have municipal elections! 🗳️

Where am I? I’m at the government shutdown. I’m at the Taylor Swift album release. I’m at the combination government shutdown and Taylor Swift album release 🕺🪩

A new poll from Data for Progress found that “voters of all parties” are open to leftist policies, and that a majority of Democratic voters polled preferred democratic socialism to capitalism “when written definitions of each are read aloud to them.” Read more: www.teenvogue.com/story/gen-z-...

“Tom Jensen said that’s where his firm — left-leaning Public Policy Polling — succeeded….PPP’s poll, conducted in early June…was the only that had Mamdani in the lead after the first round of voting.”

Next up... wait a week for RCV to be run. Out of 32 polls listed on the NYT database, just one showed Mamdani ahead in the first round -- Public Policy Polling a few weeks ago.

PPP knows what they are doing. Heck, they even predicted the trump popular vote win last fall.

hey, i work here (let’s convince my boss to get on bluesky)

daddy issues but it’s the founding fathers

before you get mad at me please stop and think about how that would make me feel

Me, seductively, at the club: so uh, you might know me from being angry about the wording of news headlines

“I asked ChatGPT-“ okay well I asked the big oak tree at the center of the woods and she said you’re a lazy dork

relevant as ever with all these tariffs

i'm mostly not out here just to repost memes, but this is in fact a photograph of me soooo

notice how liberals and leftists aren’t attacking the capitol. very demure, very mindful

re: kash patel

thankful for everyone who will be wearing one of these anti-fascist friendship bracelets once i get them in the mail 💖

this polling from cbs/yougov and this scene from spongebob are the same thing

“The more you shame people for what they’re espousing, the more they’re driven underground deeper into online communities who welcome them with open arms,” says @milleridriss.bsky.social of @perilresearch.bsky.social.

plus, it isn’t just in-person conservative christian groups either—there’s a whole ecosystem of online conservative and far-right influencers who push “biblical/traditional womanhood,” ie traditional gender roles, sahm culture, homeschooling, etc.

ever since i was a little girl, i knew i wanted to grow up and get published in TBQ

great article out by @alexyates2000.bsky.social and @aurelmondon.bsky.social that will “hopefully convince you to stop using the word ‘populist’ to describe someone who is actually just a rightwing extremist.”

felt cute, might delete later

literally me rn:

i hear we like cats on this app. here’s the one i live with:

always good to hear good news from the folks at PERIL ⬇️

🧵 Abby Roth (conservative influencer and Ben Shapiro’s sister) appeared on I’m Right with Jesse Kelly alongside James Lindsay (who has pushed white genocide conspiracy theories) and Mike Cernovich (of both gamergate and pizzagate fame.) here’s why that’s important:

a starter pack but of everyone who thinks i’m funny

with some mood lighting and a cup of chai, this is the perfect rainy evening to read this new book by @swordsjew.bsky.social ☕️🌧️📖

so @aoc.bsky.social asked her insta followers who voted for both trump and for her why they split their tickets. here’s what they said:

“you block people over politics?” babe i block people for not returning their shopping carts

the real political realignment happening is all the girlies becoming pro-gun in response to the “your body, my choice” bros

greetings, butterflies. my name is khaet (pronounced kate) and i studied dog whistles in grad school, specifically the coded racial and gendered appeals in modern right-wing politics from goldwater to present. now i work in public opinion research. if any of that interests you, let’s talk! 🦋 ✨