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jlray.bsky.social
Texas. Senior director of polling at YouGov. Adviser to Young Men Research Initiative. johnlray.github.io
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Okay youths, the president's an idiot and there's war in the Middle East. Learn from Millennials' mistakes at this pivotal moment. -You do NOT need to pretend to like NOFX, but Fat Wreck and Epitaph overall have good distros -Searching For A Former Clarity is the best Against Me!'s ever gonna get

submitted 8 hours ago • 2 comments

Lets go ahead and get every Republican we can find on the record as to whether they believe Mike Lindell or Dominion Voting Systems

submitted 9 hours ago • 0 comments

Unfortunately immediately upon entering office Republicans rolled back consumer protections against data brokers, limiting the CFPB's authority to protect consumer data, undermining existing state privacy laws, and tying the FBI's and SEC's hands to stop white collar crime.

submitted 10 hours ago • 1 comment

The latest from YouGov (n ~ 3.3k). (Very + somewhat concerned) - (Not very + Not at all concerned) about.. Left-wing extremism in the US: +13 Right-wing extremism in the US: +24 today.yougov.com/topics/overv...

submitted 12 hours ago • 0 comments

the 3% who "prefer not to say" how likely they think a civil war in the US in the next ten years is, those are the guys you gotta watch out for

submitted 12 hours ago • 0 comments

A fine local Austin artist, the extremely weird Amigo The Devil, just lost his recording studio in a fire. Almost at the goal and would be nice to see it get there. www.gofundme.com/f/amigo-the-...

submitted 16 hours ago • 0 comments

The latest from YouGov (n ~ 3.3k) No King's Protests: +14 Trump's bday parade: +1 today.yougov.com/topics/overv...

submitted 17 hours ago • 3 comments

Need an Atlantic longread on every element of how "Fortunate Son" made it into the birthday parade playlist

submitted 17 hours ago • 0 comments

Spray paint a Tesla: domestic terrorism Targeted political assassination spree: not terrorism

submitted 19 hours ago • 218 comments

Letting ICE operate anonymously without any sort of identifier, in league with a host of unspeakable little private sector ghouls, and making it basically a martial crime to question any law enforcement in any way, has unleashed a form of violence on this country we are in no way prepared to handle

submitted 19 hours ago • 0 comments

i instinctively find any and all discussion of NYC politics annoying on some level but to be fair i guess Dem primary elections in NYC are like one of like a handful of places where the collective opinion of Bluesky could matter at all

submitted 21 hours ago • 0 comments

so like, the president's brain doesn't work and we all know it, right

submitted 21 hours ago • 0 comments

Who does Donald think he is saluting in this picture? Has anyone looked into whether the President is seeing people who aren't there?

submitted 21 hours ago • 0 comments

The rightwing attempt to blame the rightwing Minnesota hitman on Democrats is such a clusterfuck than the top specialist of the technique, Erick Erickson, sounds like he's having a mental breakdown. ewerickson.substack.com/p/assassinat...

submitted 21 hours ago • 7 comments

Hard to read - Natsec reorienting from actually doing its job to trolling Home Depot parking lots - The relative ease and shocking efficacy of truck-mounted drone pallets (see Tehran, Russia's bomber fleet) and not conclude Trump has made us seriously unprepared for the next gen of domestic terror

submitted 23 hours ago • 0 comments

Concerns about AI chatbots delivering harmful, even profoundly dangerous advice or instructions to users is growing. What legal and policy interventions are possible? Justin Hendrix asked Columbia Law School's Clare Huntington, Stanford's Robert Mahari, and Tech Justice Law Project's Meetali Jain:

submitted 23 hours ago • 1 comment

Talk to your friends and family who serve about what a shitshow these unplanned, not trained for, badly organized -- and badly paid -- illegal military maneuvers are that Trump is planning. Trump hates America's military more than any American has since the fucking Confederacy.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Last week I was asked what polling says about what should be on your sign and my answer was that was so, so much less important than simply raising the share of protest coverage that is of normal and diverse people in a crowd together because journalistic coverage of protests is just this

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

To be fair, the Speaker was too busy calling for the tarring and feathering of the top official in an entirely separate government to follow up on this.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

It is just unfathomable what obviously bad people Trump aligns himself with www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

I'm sorry how am I just now learning they made people carry around their little drones all day at this stupid thing lmao

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

political press is doing a real disservice by basically not reporting the nuances of public opinion on deportations, and creating the appearance that most americans support the stephen miller-style gestapo tactics

submitted 1 day ago • 257 comments

Been a professional Democratic political operative for over a decade and I have to say it still brings me some comfort and trust in my normalness that NYC politics broadly seems like the craziest and stupidest stuff in the world that I still mostly don't really understand

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

According to the latest WaPo/Schar School poll, Trump’s handling of deportations has 37% approval, 52% disapproval. And Quinnipiac has it at 40% approval, 56% disapproval. But @facethenation.bsky.social insists “public approval is so high on deportation.”

submitted 1 day ago • 185 comments

Demographically it's probably right (white male Texan suburbanite married w kids, church goer) but personally I think people are way overstating the probability Hank Hill voted for Trump

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Good crowds in Austin today

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

Trump birthday parade sponsored by coinbase

submitted 2 days ago • 83 comments

"Before Trump I could imagine people getting jail for crypto scams. Now I can't imagine it." -The biggest crypto rugpuller in history, bragging in a live interview about how Donald Trump has made crime legal in the crypto space www.youtube.com/watch?v=d_oL...

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

Just in from YouGov (n ~ 3k) Trump's birthday march: +5 The No Kings protests: +8 today.yougov.com/topics/overv...

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

Ugh. Shooter of Democratic politicians in Minnesota is Christian minister who ran security firm. www.wired.com/story/shooti...

submitted 2 days ago • 4 comments

that's an anti-fascist popular front :)

submitted 2 days ago • 8 comments

Okay

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

In case you're wondering why Bluesky has such a bad reputation, this is a typical example of how people like Mark react when you say you think crime is bad

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments