Fun!

One of the biggest blunders (when well-intentioned) and betrayals (when not) in Democratic rhetoric over the years is their impenetrable insistence that what voters respond to is somebody who begins by finding common ground with their opponent, no matter who that opponent is or what that ground is.

Leaders who are sympathetic to the call of bigotry and exclusion do not have my support, and that’s just all there is to it. Some things are complex. This one is simple.

You can, in fact, just decide to start a thing. I do it all of the time and it's a good way to execute ideas rather to just critique others' ideas. Critique by doing as Michelangelo said. Critique by DOING.

Thank you for this!

im getting really tired of everything being bad bc like 12 ppl can't fill the hole in their hearts despite being billionaires

Giveaway at the game?

According to my husband, it looked like a dildo?!?

What perfect album came out when you were sixteen?

more like this, please.

A great many of us have been dickmatized. I pray we will be dickmatized many more times in the days and nights to cum. A man treating you right and fucking you even better can have you out here looking CRAZY.

But grouptexts, sex toys, and therapy exist for a reason! LET THE CIRCLE BE UNBROKEN.

People wringing their hands about “well if we fight dirty against Nazis how does that make us different than them?” well on the one hand they are Nazis and on the other hand we will be fighting against Nazis, do you need a third hand

Just finished this. Loved it!

The way we win future elections is by having politicians who genuinely want to turn this country around.

Pick the Mamdanis. Ditch the Cuomos.

Moving to the center is how you compete for the tiny sliver of Undecided likely-voters.

Doing the right thing is how you inspire the millions who don't usually vote.

I STOP WRITING THE POEM to fold the clothes. No matter who lives or who dies, I'm still a woman. I'll always have plenty to do. I bring the arms of his shirt together. Nothing can stop our tenderness. I'll get back to the poem. I'll get back to being a woman. But for now there's a shirt, a giant shirt in my hands, and somewhere a small girl standing next to her mother watching to see how it's done.

Oh this hurt. By the brilliant Tess Gallagher.

What do we want? FIGHTING DEMS!

And when do we want them? AFTER THE INCUMBENTS DIE OF OLD AGE SO THE FIGHTERS DON'T HURT THEIR FEELINGS, AND ALSO NOT UNTIL THE STARS ARE RIGHT, AND NOT UNLESS THEY ANSWER ME THESE RIDDLES THREE

Daffodils,
That come before the swallow dares, and take
The winds of March with beauty.
'The Winter's Tale'4,3. #ShakespeareSunday #Bloomscrolling #Flowers #Spring

Surely if I scroll a LITTLE more I'll find something to make me feel better

Mandatory high school civics class that isn’t just like “how a bill becomes law” or whatever but also “how NOAA powers your phone’s weather app” and “NIH helped make your asthma inhaler”

Andy Hall & @ahall_research In 2018, Dan Thompson and I published a paper in the APSR estimating large vote share and turnout effects for the nomination of more-extreme House candidates in the 2006--2014 period. Recently, Adam Bonica showed us an important imbalance in the data from our paper that makes us doubt our findings. We've written an update to the paper explaining this issue here: andrewbeniaminhall.com/hall _thompson_... We have four main takeaways from this exercise: (1) The evidence in our sample from 2006--2014 that more-extreme nominees cause large changes in a party's vote share or share of general-election turnout is far weaker than we previously thought, and should not be relied on. (2) Because our sample of years does not provide a sufficiently large, stable effect on vote share, the design is unsuitable for understanding whether there is an underlying relationship

Big deal—after correcting, it turns out that moderate candidates do not perform better than extreme candidates in general elections.

Kudos to Andy, Dan, and Adam for updating a key question in political science

In the piece below, I talk a lot about mass messaging (posters, stickers, etc.) to keep the focus not just on enmity towards Trump and Musk but the impact of their actions. In case it's helpful, I put together some examples! Not perfect, but they get the job done (feel free to steal/share)

Is it a little awkward to make direct demands of MoCs? Sure. Am I likely to emcee another rally like this? Maybe not. But if we sacrifice accountability for access, we're not going to build a united opposition. If we don't ask, we shouldn't be surprised if MoCs don't fight.

This is on all of us.

Agreed!

Yessssss

Fire-Related Mutual Aid Efforts to Support and Some Must-Reads Kindness is essential in these times, and it will continue to be.

This edition of my newsletter includes mutual aid efforts to support and uplift, preparedness resources (for us all), some must-reads, and some thoughts about how we process disaster and look after each other amid disaster. (Yes, I am on a break, but this felt important)

Hi Carol! Good to see you on Bluesky.

I’m trying to find this…encouraging?