I’m telling you this as a political scientist. The person who is electable is the one who is elected. This can and does change over time. Any and all speculation about “electability” is either puffery or anxiety and is often both.

Julia Azari@juliaazari.bsky.social · 15h ago

One way to be safe is to never write an electability take

EVERY DAY I WAKE UP

I will vote for any politician who wants to ban blind box toys marketed to children and I frankly don’t care about any of their other positions.

Oh yeah I'd like to see you win a national election anywhere? No urban districts don't count. Oh yeah I'd like to see you win in a red state like Georgia? No municipal elections around atlanta don't count. Oh yeah I'd like to see you win an election in a purple state like Michigan? No wait he's Ara

"it looks like you're using an adblocker to visit our site." yep! ha ha! it rocks!

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The fact one of the people says NYT is one of the newspapers that isn't shit shows how much cis people need to hear that actually the NYT is one of THE MOST shit when it comes to attacking trans people. It's Rowling as a paper.

Scientists have discovered there are two ways people learn new things. There's your method, colloquially known as the 'dumbass method', where you don't really learn the thing at all, and then there's my method, the 'genius method', where you understand everything immediately.

The road to fascism was paved with "Reddit atheist" and "shrill feminist" and "blue hair and pronouns". The vanguard wasn't the rabid reactionaries. It was the "normals", "apoliticals", who tolerate occasional sexist comments but mock the "cringe" of well-meaning and earnest but awkward people.

100% of every public figure is due to someone realizing their time in the spotlight is almost up and they’re desperate for that to continue, and they realize the conservative ecosystem will turn you into a media figure if you promise to endanger as many trans people as possible

Lauren Theisen@laurentheisen.bsky.social · yesterday

on Sophie Cunningham and a trans controversy that doesn't involve any actual trans people: defector.com/the-right-ha...

Is this why every trans person is a communist

Corel Gallery Clipart@clipart.bsky.social · yesterday

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That's what taxes are, man. That's the definition of taxes. "You are subsidizing things you might never use" man shut the fuck up. My taxes currently subsidize like oil company exec private jets, you think I'm upset at low-income people eating inexpensive bananas?

USA TODAY Opinion@usatodayopinion.usatoday.com · 2d ago

Opinion: Mamdani's idea may sound appealing, but it's NYC taxpayers who will take the hit, subsidizing discounts they may never even use.

I don't want a "Smart Fridge" that orders milk for me. I want a fridge that lasts 25 years and doesn't have a privacy policy that allows it to share my late-night snacking habits with my health insurance provider.

if we lived under socialism every adult in this country would get a $600 tariff refund check but instead they are giving your money to the very multibillion dollar corporations who pricegouged you

I'm sure this is explained in the manga, but I really like how in the Hunter x Hunter anime, Leorio just discovers nen and develops his nen powers completely offscreen. I like to imagine he just figured it out from reading a bunch of medical textbooks

My daughter recently watched her first TV show. We decided to go with a celebrated show centered on a family of talking animals produced in a country with a controversial history of British rule. That’s right she’s been watching Irish children’s television sensation Puffin Rock! She loves it.

A caucus of violent, drunk ex-husbands controls three branches of government and both chambers of Congress.

The Bulwark@thebulwark.com · 3d ago

Rep. Max Miller: "My former wife has claimed that during a custody exchange at my home that day, I assaulted her…If I had assaulted her, would she have offered to cook me dinner six days later?"

it's about 20 years late to start worrying about this if we're being generous, 40 if we're not lol

Raw Story@rawstory.com · 4d ago

Concern is mounting among high-ranking Republicans that the next generation of conservatives consists primarily of "rabid" "idiot" Nazis, according to a new report.

taking the hrt that makes me more nimble and able to jump higher than other characters

they’ve been calling us a terror movement for years. the media rushes to tell people that every mass shooter is trans before the bodies hit the floor. for half a decade now, we’ve been damned whether we do or don’t. respectfully, this moment is no different from what we’ve long been living through.

never fails

As much as radicals get criticized for being "unrealistic," demanding entire demographics facing literal genocide always maintain mild rhetoric and actions is an absolutely delusional level of conformity to expect. I don't think that gets said enough.

Not likely

No professional accomplishment has ever made me happier than this. theonion.com/translator-o...

Translator Of Original ‘Minions’ Epic Poem Slams ‘Sexless, Bloodless’ Film Adaptation

PHILADELPHIA—In a 4,500-word essay published in Harper’s Magazine, Emily Wilson, known for her popular translation of the Minions epic poem, blasted the latest film Thursday as a “sexless, bloodless” ...

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This is why the Philosophy Tube episode on conversion therapy in Britain was so carefully worded and went through lawyers first! It’s difficult to educate the public on topics that rich and powerful groups do not want people to know about

Alejandra Caraballo@esqueer.net · 3w ago

Amnesty International put out a major report documenting the influence of UK based anti trans gender critical organizations and their funding. Within hours, GC groups threatened defamation lawsuits and Amnesty was forced to pull it down. Proving the point they're anti rights. Anyways, here it is.

"We're gonna do near-miss 9/11s at every beach until everybody forgets gas costs $7."

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 5d ago

Hegseth: "The flyovers will indeed continue until morale improves"

Literally this. They’re acting like people didn’t die. Like we all didn’t live through it and see it with our own eyes, and Trump wasn’t President at the time. It’s wild to watch.