The most precious commodity you have is your attention. You don’t have to waste it on poor-faith debates or arguments with strangers if you don’t think they’ll be productive. You can prioritize the things that matter to you and make your life richer.

This race is close and, given how much Democrats outperformed the polls a few weeks ago, a win is actually possible. But even a narrow loss in a gerrymandered district Trump won by 22 points last year would be a sign of significant progress.

Is there an unknow button. I’d like an unknow button.

Centrism is not reasonable. It stands in limbo between the view that all humans should be treated well as citizens of planet Earth and the view that only a tiny few powerful people matter. When you stand in that limbo, you're actually just floating, lost. It's not "reasonable." It's delusion.

Republican projection is wild because what do you mean you think there are people on the left who don’t want the files released because we’re afraid politicians we like will be in them

what the world needs now are statements of the obvious

I just don’t see how we can pretend even for a moment that anything involving our federal government is remotely normal when the president is covering up his involvement in a child sex trafficking ring. Like, what are we doing here

Democrats just ran the table, winning the marquee races -- NJ and VA sweeps, NYC mayor, CA prop, PA Supreme Court -- and lower-profile races in red and purple states across the nation. If the media you're reading or watching paints this as anything but a massive win, stop reading or watching them.

AFTYN BEHN NEXT @aftynbehn.bsky.social

Democrats not only kept control of the NJ governor's mansion for three terms in a row -- something that hasn't happened since the 1960s -- but went from winning by 3 points last time to winning by *13* This is how Fox News has that story headlined, in small print, buried on the home page

Woah, it’s happening in the South. Let’s go, Tennessee, and vote soon for @aftynbehn.bsky.social for Congress!

Zohran was polling at six percent in January. Nothing is impossible

Zohran Mamdani wins with >50% of the vote. Clean sweeps in statewide races in New Jersey and Virginia. Pennsylvania retains all democratic Supreme Court justices. California passes prop 50. This is the best possible outcome that could've happened tonight.

I'm happy that Mamdani won. But I won't let that get in the way of my celebrating Cuomo losing.

Celebrating tonight’s results by going out and getting really vaxxed

It’s disheartening to see Teen Vogue dissolved into Vogue and its political team let go. For years, it was one of the few mainstream spaces that made room for honest, radical commentary on justice, inequality & the world we actually live in. I’m grateful it gave me a home for so many of my op-eds

How are we in the timeline where the vice president of the United States is missionary dating his wife

We're seeing in real time that many people are already in hell in that they carry hell with them wherever they go. Those making fun of people on SNAP are already in hell.

I will never understand the pundit obsession with getting Democrats to solve "political division." Not only is this what they're already doing, but Klein admits that Republicans will never do the same. So elections will remain constant GOP smears and simping Democratic promises of bipartisanship.

conspiracy to make a cop go slow

Thinking about the time my ex was trying to get music to play out of her parents’ bluetooth speaker and it started coming out of their thermostat instead

If you come to my house on Halloween, kids will get candy and adults will get a candy with a free zine illustrated by @meganpiont.bsky.social

A three-judge panel has ruled against the state's attempt to end a lawsuit challenging Tennessee’s nearly total abortion ban.

If you're new to Nashville, some info in a 🧵. Our tornado season here runs from tonight (when we start getting Fall cold fronts) until about June. While tonight's severe/tornado risk is pretty low, this is good practice for later. (1/6)

Nashville #NoKings

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-Twitter was for years the gathering place for a community of clergy abuse survivors who taught me daily what true empathy, righteousness and love look like. I would not be the person I am today without them. -Jerry Falwell’s belly button.

Are you starting to get it? He was always going to hit us. You will not change the math by insisting that people assume some magical form of perfect victimhood that somehow reels in a monster. That's not real. And I am so sick of hearing it.

He was always going to do this. Chicagoans have not rioted, so the administration just lied and said we have. We have not attacked ICE agents, so they just lied and said we did. There was no chaos here, so they created chaotic scenes by attacking people and filmed that shit.

Y'all who keep lecturing protesters to "not give them an excuse" need to pause for a minute. Imagine yourself telling a DV victim, "Be sure not to mouth off or make any mistakes so he won't hit you. Don't give him an excuse! It's what he wants!" That's what you fools sound like.

TODAY IS ELECTION DAY!!!!!!!!!!!! VOTE FOR AFTYN BEHN!!!! 1. Check your polling place and time by clicking the link below: web.go-vote-tn.elect... 2. Grab your government-issued ID! 3. Head to polls! They close at 7 PM CT! Let's send our girl to Congress! #VoteForAftyn

So since I'm annoyed let me say a few things today.Some folks have been writing about Christian Nationalism and apocalyptic right wing movements for YEARS here in the US. YEARS. Do we get to have a platform in major mags and newspapers... rarely.

I’m. So. Tired. I don’t just want you to pay attention to Chicago because I want you to understand our plight. I want you to see how hard people are fighting and know wtf you’re made of. We’re not just fighting for this place. This is for all of us.

A Texas megachurch pastor and GOP leader has been arrested for crimes against children. Not Robert Morris, a different one. Not Josiah Anthony, a different one. Not Luke Cunningham, a different one. Not Tony Evans, a different one. Not Scott Crenshaw, a different one. Not Steve Lawson, a different o

I just know that we are all meant for so much more. That’s what’s so frustrating. It’s knowing deep in your soul that this isn’t the way things are supposed to be. It was made this way. And just as it was made. It can be unmade.

Weaponized gratitude is a key tool in the abuser's toolkit. The goal is to convince the victim that they owe the abuser so much, they should feel guilty for wanting to complain.

HOW IT STARTED VS. HOW IT'S GOING In 2019, I was cited for protesting our former Speaker of the House, now serving time for corruption. In 2025, I'm the only woman running in this seat. Women don't wait for permission to lead — we fight, we build, and we change the game.

One thing that comes through awfully clearly in these ICE videos is how many of these goons gravitated toward the job because being able to assault people with impunity is a big thrill for them.

I wish more people understood that them not liking what I say, or how I say it, doesn’t make me wrong. Sometimes I am wrong. More often than I want to be, for sure. But when I’m not, their strong preference for a different outcome won’t change that fact.

Doing evil looks exhausting. I would be so tired.

I’ll take Things Literally No One Has Ever Asked For for $200 Alex

There’s no intellectually honest argument to be made that Mormonism is not a part of Christianity but the vast majority of rightwing evangelicals believe Mormons are not only not Christians but actively part of a hellbound satanic cult & I wonder if Donald Trump knows that because I kind of doubt it

I’m so mad that I am *quite literally* seven houses away from being able to vote for Aftyn Behn but I need everyone seven houses to the west of me to GET OUT FOR THIS ONE and vote for Aftyn for TN-07. Tennessee was a swing state during my lifetime and they want you to forget that.

Currently in traffic behind a dusty semi truck that has both titties and “RIP CHARLIE KIRK” drawn on it

PPWI is the first affiliate to halt abortion services but likely not the only one. Tip us on Signal: garnethenderson.12 susanrinkunas.73

i have to say, as a trans journalist who has covered the "trans debate" for about a decade now, there is no daylight between how the trump administration and conservatives lie about tylenol and autism and how they've lied about youth trans care.

Do you understand that a huge portion of the wellness podcaster and influencer community is now going to be paid to push folic acid as a treatment for autism despite no actual evidence for it. This is a windfall for the supplements industry. It's all a grift.

The Heritage Foundation is urging the FBI to see speech in favor of trans rights as an incitement to violence. Perfectly normal day in our great country. Plus, schools are finding out how cruel anti-trans laws impact their students, and an inspiring effort to help poor trans people afford hormones.