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Okie. Mom. Gardener. Business owner. Substitute teacher. Political junkie. Recently booted from X.
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A propos of nothing: “Who goes Nazi?” https://harpers.org/archive/1941/08/who-goes-nazi/ Observant essay on American high society 1941.

submitted 188 days ago • 2 comments

This is the correct postmortem. I know we live in a world where terrible consequences flow from binarized point estimates with 1% or 2% margins, but in no other domain of social inquiry do we pretend that tells us a lot about the population. +

submitted 187 days ago • 4 comments

Vibes about to change again

submitted 188 days ago • 24 comments

so far the only explanation i've seen that doesn't smack of "if only she'd listen to me she would have won" is "global discontent with incumbents because of inflation and post-pandemic malaise + toxic information environments"

submitted 189 days ago • 515 comments

I think this is correct, and most of my prescriptions would've clearly failed too, though I am sticking to my claim that appeals to Republicans and bipartisanship do not help and likely produce a net harm by dampening base enthusiasm. I admit this is unproven but the results are consistent with it.

submitted 189 days ago • 20 comments

what a thing to say about your own child

submitted 189 days ago • 147 comments

This is what I mean about the post-truth environment. The lies are winning the war.

submitted 189 days ago • 7 comments

Just so you know post-US election….. My 13yr Floridian granddaughter told my daughter yesterday that there are TEEN boys approaching girls at school saying ‘YOUR BODY, MY CHOICE’ Trump/Musk & the rest of the enablers can go fúçk themselves

submitted 189 days ago • 76 comments

It’s incredibly frustrating that there are no discernible consequences for this major federal contractor who consistently acts against the interests of the united states, on disaster relief and a whole host of other issues. www.politico.com/news/2024/10...

submitted 218 days ago • 74 comments

It's sort of funny now that one of the initial attacks on Harris is that her laugh was off-putting. Watch this clip where she is having a beer with Colbert. She laughs, a lot, and it's infectious. www.cbs.com/shows/the-la...

submitted 218 days ago • 5 comments

So, I just got permanently booted off Twitter for this. Apparently, we can't use euphemisms for winning elections anymore over there. 🤷🏼‍♀️ Hopefully, I'll find a less hostile home over here! (If anyone's left!)

submitted 218 days ago • 0 comments

Omg. I've made it to the Promised Land! Time to look around.

submitted 571 days ago • 0 comments