If you see your avatar here I find your posting generally delightful and/or informative and I am glad you post on Bluesky.

ok so premature thoughts: 1. this turnout environment was more similar to a regular midterm just due to how nationalized this was 2. that type of turnout dynamic produces D+10-15 overperformances 3. while it is definitely not enough to win TN-07, there are 25-35 districts where that IS enough

But this is also apocalyptic for the GOP. Obama era rural numbers with modern era suburban numbers.

Guys, gals, and nonbinary pals: every single member of the National Republican Congressional Committee is shitting their pants currently. Raw, abject, and unimaginable terror, because these numbers are apocalyptic.

As we move into the Christmas season, it's time to reshare the most important Christmas special of all time: the Folgers commercial. You know the one.

And I'm not opposed to nonprofits universally (I've worked for a number of them). I dislike the practice of farming out large social service roles to an opaque network of private organizations, which is recipe for fraud and abuse, makes measuring outcomes difficult, and creates interest groups.

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I think it’s fair to say TikTok helps drive young people’s views of politics and world events; it’s fair to say that TikTok often misinforms them. It’s bizarre to pretend the many atrocities in Gaza were “totally made up.”

it's a way for people whose view of Israel as a plucky underdog was shaped 50 years ago to ignore that the facts on the ground have dramatically changed.

it is a) true that social media has a massive anti-semitism problem and is full of fake videos and b) that this has become the laziest excuse for the change in young Americans' views largely induced by Israeli atrocities!

One thing I love about Eric Flint is that he makes it perfectly clear America's greatest strength and her most terrifying weapon against her enemies has always been the words "all men are created equal" taken seriously. It turns strangers to wild-eyed patriots as soon as they experience it.

It's crazy how the one group that defends the PRC most vehemently isn't the Chinese, but a bunch of basement-dwelling Western tankies who roleplay as fake "communists" just because they read some insanely biased article online. God I hate tankies so much.

Remembering the "boys need to violently correct their peers behavior, wherin the boys who commit the most corrective violence will be rewarded with women" take On Here

Thinking about this more, a challenge in schooling is that there's still a lot cultural expectation that women "mother" boys. There's just a whole lot of very traditional attitudes that have gone very unchallenged

calling it a form of kayfabe or a persona or a facade kinda gets at it, but ultimately we’re getting back to the (very real) two-faced cauterization that patriarchy demands of men: as the immortal movie Sex Drive put it “this is America, we shove that shit deep down and keep it to ourselves”

The piece also oozes with the implication that "real" disabilities--the kind the ADA is "supposed to be for"--are physical, visible ones, and everyone else is probably faking. It's just gross.

this was obviously a dumb reading by me, lol, but I don’t think my initial response was super uncommon. and it doesn’t have to be that way, patriarchal values are real and should be unwound, but they’re not some Venom-like substance we can be “free” of or “better” than.

the reason why the framing was clarifying to me, was: before I read it, I was genuinely confused! a lot of the ways I was seeing and reading feminist critiques of society, it made it sound like patriarchy was a project of The Boys, and something that arose inside us, almost spontaneously.

And it explains quite a bit (imho) to realize that, for some young men, the main person in their life telling them to toe the patriarchal line is a woman, and a woman who is important to them.

Men desperately need the 2nd Wave. But, even in lib spaces talking about this shit is hard! Excessive toxic stoicism is in there *deep.*

Maybe you should allow for the possibility that we are familiar with Argentina's claims, but consider them to be bullshit.

this is the same logic that people use when they bomb abortion clinics and maybe thats a bad idea

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cry more about your junta getting owned.

It's funny to me that people haven't connected the timidity of companies and institutions on trans rights and representation to the bomb threats caused by Libs of TikTok.

What is happening in Indiana is a profound threat to our democracy. Trump has unleashed a vote-my-way-or-risk-your-life climate on Republican legislators that makes democracy near impossible. For starters, all of us should be flooding these legislators with thanks and support for braving this.

it's so funny how jan 6 happened almost 5 years ago now and it's still a self-censoring fact to say that death threats are the main way the GOP manages its coalition under trump

Repost to scare an Argentine.

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i had a dream once that Larry Bird ran an independent campaign for Indiana governor and altho ik it almost certainly won't happen i feel like he'd easily clear 60% of the vote

In a weird way I feel like Costco is one of the last megacompanies that actually practices capitalism as its supposed to work

Tom Stoppard has sadly passed away at the age of 88. The famous playwright did uncredited script polishing for Revenge of the Sith and wrote the iconic Darth Plagueis speech.

As funny as sovereign citizens are to watch, they are the driver of this.

this is a through-line on a number of jobs that we ask mostly-men to do: they are catastrophically bad for mental health, and we know this, and we do not make sufficient provision for care for it. not gonna be a popular take but “cop” is one of those jobs

As funny as sovereign citizens are to watch, they are the driver of this.

One of the reasons police officers are the way they are is we expect them to deal with the absolute worst of humanity day in and day out. We have to be rotating these people more.

The 1-2 punch of "gangs provide identity and create financial, social *and emotional* support where it is otherwise absent" and "cops are indistinguishable from gangs" does lead to some in-hindsight obvious conclusions about secondary, unspoken motivations cops have for closing ranks when questioned

"It wants to play Iron Warriors? Send it back, this thing needs more work!"

Two fun facts about the districts in the proposed Indiana congressional map: * Obama won 5 of them in 2008 and lost 3 more by <6%. * All 9 districts are less GOP than #TN07. If @aftynbehn.bsky.social wins tomorrow and this map is passed @indems.bsky.social should contest every seat. #BlueWave2026

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The neoliberals were right?!

this just leads me to "if you can conceivably solve it with tax credits you should."

Am I saying that Mamdani can sweet talk his way through everything? No. Definitely not lol But if you’re a Nice Young Man who has to deal with Angry Impaired Grandpa, it’s a tool in your belt to be able to remind him that you’re a Nice Young Man.

The next time Trump inevitably does some racist attack on NYC or tries to withhold federal funds, Mamdani could give Trump a call, let him moan and whine for a couple hours, and there’s at least a decent chance Trump could flip on himself by the end.

It built up personal rapport between Mamdani and Trump. Trump is a fascist, but he’s also a narcissist and a blabbermouth grandpa running a personalist regime.

Broadly, it's that no one seems to have developed a model of masculinity not based around the patriarchal bargain, so young men are being sold a false bill of goods and spiraling when that becomes clear. That said, I would not want Scott Galloway in charge of a new vision of masculinity.