Ben Ray

Had a chance to chat with @afacwa.org member @kaela15.bsky.social today. It's absolutely thrilling to have such a great legislator and union leader running for Congress!

Lots of important races out there, but this one is worth your attention and, if you have the means, your money.

at the risk of sound like bill bennett, where exactly are the men in these boy’s lives? the fathers? coaches? anyone genuinely concerned with their lives?

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Could be, but I think people overindex on “because they have a dastardly plan to rig the elections” and underrate “because they’re arrogant and delusional”

phil's always been my go-to guy for questions about what's "fiscally responsible"

Maybe the defining political trait of Millennials will be fear of tail risks and their governing partner will be whichever other cohorts are worried about tail risks. Problem is in 2024 the tail risk argument fell short.

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We’re already seeing who will really pull the strings in a Trump presidency: Greedy corporate CEOs and billionaires.

A painting of a bird beside the text "I have a lot of sympathy for dumbasses"

“a better future isn’t possible” is explicitly a right wing view and everyone needs to do a better job rejecting it for themselves and drumming it out of younger people

Bumper cars are sports, I don't see the issue

Happy 37th anniversary of the Max Headroom Incident, to those who celebrate.

Analysis | Mandate? Fuller election results increasingly show GOP gains were small. A holistic look — down to the state legislative level — reinforces that early Trump and GOP claims to a huge “mandate” were overblown.

This is some very good context on what people actually voted for in the last election ... it takes time to see the results, never trust a politician who rushes in to claim XYZ when reality has yet to appear

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people with high priced degrees from prestigious law schools will spend the next four years telling you the text of the fourteenth amendment does not say what it plainly says.

This stuff is unconstitutional, no matter what they or one court thinks, and it must be treated as such

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In the next 6 months, we're going to see one of the largest propaganda pushes in American history to spread the lie that Donald Trump is a moderate on abortion.

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It’s so funny how every study shows that ice cream is good for you but this makes scientists mad so they don’t talk about it

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I remain of the view that *everyone* (myself very much included) lost their mind one way or another during COVID. Hardly a week goes by without some bizarre professional moment that I ultimately realize resolves into "oh, this is about your particular and idiosyncratic COVID damage."

Yes I’m someone with a newsletter for moms on the left, but so many of my recent convos with moms in my red area have begun with everyone tiptoeing around this problem before ascertaining that we all disagree with far-right mom groups and—like a dam breaking—everyone laughing and going “fuck that”

The thing is, a total and absolute ban on abortion isn't even the end of it, we've all watched as they have also opposed the availability of contraceptives and even the HPV vaccine that protects against cervical cancer any time they've had the opportunity

The Johnson news cycle has made me realize how many people weren’t really around for the Original Recipe Evangelicals. Gay marriage bans passing in blue states by landslides, Ds panicking about losing “values voters”

one crucial development in the ideology of anti-abortion politics is the widespread belief that pregnancy runs essentially on autopilot and no serious medical attention is ever required. allows anti-abortion zealots to ignore the fact that their policies produce maternity care deserts

lot of people made lots of careers betting that voters have short memories, but this one sets off every bullshit detector left anywhere

I could be wrong here and the next election will afford some idea of how on target or not I am but… it kinda feels like the GOP is well beyond the point of no return of trying to triangulate on this. Unless there’s a button hidden somewhere at the RNC marked “Break Glass, Press To Revive Pro Choice…

Different beast but reminds me vaguely of the slice of voters in the WI recall back when disapproved of Scott Walker, but also of the recall, and voted to keep him.