daniel (godunman)
daniel (godunman)
@danielwaker.bsky.social
rewiring my brain electro-chemistry
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fun fact: relative to the national trend, NC has basically trended even or to the left in every presidential election since 2000. it's been a long time coming, but as they say: slowly, then all at once 2024: 4.1% 2020: 0.0% 20216: 0.1% 2012: 1.0% 2008: 3.0% 2004: 3.4% 200: -0.1%
North Carolina Early Vote Tracking 🌲 As of Oct. 26, 2026 Total early votes: 1,545,501 (+468,183) 39.6% of projected final turnout. Modeled 2026 Vote: 🔵 Roy Cooper: 56.4% - 66.0% 🔴 Michael Whatley : 32.0% - 41.6% Remaining votes in NC will be much more Republican. We rate this race as Solid D.
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"When you tax something, you get less of it"
Most billionaire wealth isn't in yachts or jewelry — that's just a few percent of it. Most is productive business capital: companies that employ people, build things, and fund research. Tax that wealth and you're taxing the businesses that employ us all. Cato's Adam Michel explains.
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The ability to handle ambiguity in life and art is a sign of maturity and I am so bothered by how many people don’t seem to trust other people to be able to process these things. It’s the same impulse that leads to yelling at headlines for not explicitly saying something is bad.
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i say this from time to time but it's really a shame that the ADL has become what it's become, because we sure could use an American organization against Jew-hatred that wasn't badly fumbling its mission. (sit down, Bob Kraft, you're extremely not helping)
If Zohran Mamdani or Abdul El-Sayed had used the word “Shylock” as an insult, the ADL would be attacking them by name relentlessly. But Donald Trump used it, so we get a generic condemnation of the word without any specific reference to who actually used it, and with no assumption of intent.
what exactly is the difference between this and fantasizing about doing a mass shooting
Republican candidate Brandon Herrera: “I fucking hate cyclists. Jesus fucking Christ! ….I had fucking fantasies of running them all over and, you know, maybe one of these days I will. …I have thought about ways that I could get away with it.”
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I apologize @slotkin.senate.gov I was not familiar with your game
Mass education and what property taxes are NOW. Why does this man think paying off your home has anything to do with property taxes
“I’m old. I’ve paid my home off,” said Ray Warner, a 72-year-old Akron resident. “Why would I pay property tax?” Across the country, homeowners are asking the same question and revolting against property taxes at a scale not seen in a half century.
I see what mom says about the Legos I threw on the ground. I see her criticizing decisions I have made, the kids at playtime have made. But fundamentally we are where we are. I'd like to know what's mom's solution for the problem we have right now? It's easy to criticize
JD Vance: "I see what Abdul El-Sayed says about the war in Iran. I see him criticizing decisions the president has made, the military has made. But fundamentally we are where we are.I'd like to know what's Abdul El-Sayed's solution for the problem we have right now? It's easy to criticize"
we’re reaching levels of knowing ball never before seen
Republicans Don’t Know Ball Update: A hockey blogger asked the two Michigan Senate candidates for statements on the Red Wings. Rogers: blah blah Michigan loves the Red Wings El-Sayed: angry rant about how the cheap owners MUST pay Detroit’s young star defenseman octopusthrower.com/what-each-mi...
continues to blow my mind that NC and GA are allegedly going to be blowouts but then everything else is within margin of error? including fuckin Minnesota?
🚨REPUBLICANS HAVE A SENATE PROBLEM. NC: Cooper +14 GA: Ossoff +8.1 NH: Pappas +5.9 OH: Brown +3.1 TX: Talarico +2.7 MI: El-Sayed +2.7 MN: Flanagan +2.2 AK: Peltola +1.4 ME: Jackson +1.2 IA: Turek +0.6 KS: TIED The map is expanding. A Dem Senate majority is within reach. Now let’s finish the job.
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I'm so excited for his 2028 this man has catastrophically negative juice. I really hope he becomes the nominee
Q: How do you define socialism personally? JD VANCE: I think in reality what it actually means in the American context is you want to replace American workers with foreigners workers, and you want boys to play in girls' sports
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type of discourse that reveals who does not know ball. SI already has an established meaning, you can't just replace a term with a subset of that term and pretend it's the same thing
BAIER: The president says 'SI.' Are you into SI or AI? BEZOS: I do like SI, because 'artificial' is not a very flattering thing. Like, nobody wants an artificial sweetener, artificial flavoring.
yeah this is straight up grounds for removal from the court. no man, especially a white man born in 1950, should be allowed to lie about what women do with their lives. brother it's only abstract to YOU because you are an infertile man
Samuel Alito: We won't overturn Obergefell because it's engendered reliance interests. Jan Crawford: Well, many people had organized their lives around Roe v. Wade. Alito: No, they didn't. Women merely had an "abstract" interest in "ideas about the kind of society that they were going to live in."
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“fitness standards” is so funny because standing in place is not exactly good for you either
TSA says it is removing chairs at document checks in airports, requiring staff to stand for their shift. TSA explained the reason as twofold: to ensure its employees meet its fitness standards and to create an amiable environment for travelers.
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there is a 99% chance that if you believe there is an “all encompassing HR bureaucracy” you are the problem
I see the NYT is still platforming 'dei crushed white men' bullsh*t. Here it's buried in a 'why rural themed pop culture' is so popular in a piece written by a Princeton grad who lives in New York City. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/13/o...