knives

knives

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the reason those conservative pacs are putting out Greg Levy mailers is pretty simple. It’s easy to split the vote when the PSL candidate is running a better campaign than Brown

i kinda hope the voting machine issues in tn turn out to be real meddling because getting caught meddling might get us some actually useful voting machine reforms. but every election we have people saying this stuff and it gets investigated every time

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i don’t think that is actually a big enough value to argue they *must* be used, but it is a value in their favor. Hand-marked is easier for the layman to trust because the stack of paper represents the literal voter intent and not a computer interpreting intent

my county doesn’t have anything but hand-marked ballots, which means someone has to sit down and help people who cannot mark their own ballot. This takes away the privacy of their ballot but can probably be workable enough as long as your poll workers follow a procedure

i kinda hope the voting machine issues in tn turn out to be real meddling because getting caught meddling might get us some actually useful voting machine reforms. but every election we have people saying this stuff and it gets investigated every time

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lots of people want to make all of the touchscreen devices the enemy, but i think the BMD systems have better accessibility than using exclusively optical scanned hand marked ballots.

When you review post-election audits, hand marked ballots always have a non-zero amount of error for incorrectly marked ballots and they will judge them based on if there is clear voter intent. BMDs don’t have that because they don’t have that source of error at all.

i kinda hope the voting machine issues in tn turn out to be real meddling because getting caught meddling might get us some actually useful voting machine reforms. but every election we have people saying this stuff and it gets investigated every time

remember when mike pillow donned a disguise and tried to do undercover gender neutral bathroom inspections at the DNC?

Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social

“Republicans are creepy as hell. Democrats need to grow a spine and call Republicans out for their creepy fetish of monitoring children’s bathrooms.” The correct response. thehill.com/homenews/cam...

the founding principle of a democracy is that the elected representatives are accountable to the people. i really don’t get why a bunch of moderate dems seem to think it’s criminal to actually wield that power

well i do actually, but it’s a much lesser charitable assessment of the current moderate dem, who simply doesn’t believe in a theory of change and only goes with consultant brained electability positions until you appear to believe nothing at all

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The list is even longer when one expands it to include all the Democrats who refuse to criticise other Democrats for even the most extreme far-right anti-trans rhetoric and actions, as well as those (like the Ohio Dem leadership) who have ham-fistedly silenced critics within the party organisation.

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amy acton’s campaign asking me for money with a gif of vivek struggling to hold a 10 year old, accusing him of being spineless and letting people down. glass houses, loser

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I warned you that the Houthis were more complex than the strict client of Iran situation they’ve been simplified down to bro!!!!

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Yemen's Houthis said on Saturday that they attacked an Aramco facility in Saudi Arabia's capital, Riyadh, with ballistic missiles and drones.-Reuters

Incumbency advantage seems to be a lot stronger for people who won the election to get there. we have relatively limited data on how a VP taking over and then trying to administer a wildly unpopular war would affect their electoral chances. I say let’s find out

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Pass an...ethics reform package? What an asshole.

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Former White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel calls on Democratic lawmakers to set aside plans to impeach President Trump if they win a majority in the House, pushing them instead to pass an ethics reform package.

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NEWS — Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear criticizes fellow Democrats who say transgender athletes should be barred from women’s sports. “That is not the party that we are. We start as a party of compassion and empathy.”

Sherrod Brown outperformed Harris by 7.6 points in 2024 and the generic ballot has shifted ~10 points for dems. I think it’s gonna be a bit of a nailbiter of a race, but that’s not evidence of Brown being good at campaigning

coffee in job interviews is actually a regional thing. no one in massachusetts will trust you if you don’t have dunks in your hand for the interview

browbeat us for not falling in line then block us, at least random bluesky libs are in line with amy acton’s campaign strategy

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i am not advocating for Vivek, who sucks, i’m advocating for Acton to moderate on her extremist position calling for students to face intrusive genital inspection just to participate in sports

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Absolutely incredible that we've got people walking around thinking they're the good guys going "actually we have to torture some people's children, for pragmatic reasons. but don't worry it'll only be the icky ones"

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Due to user backlash, we're no longer callings them "skeets". From now on, all posts on Bluesky will be referred to as "goons" and Bluesky users will be known as "gooners".

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I do think anyone who wants us to take Elizer Yudkowsky seriously as an authority on AI armageddon should be forced to testify on video that they have read the entirety of his 660,000 word rationalist Harry Potter fan fiction – written aged 30–34 – and still thinks the world needs his take.

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inventor of the knife: "It is a triangle for cleaving food." onlooker: "In twain?" inventor of the knife: (chuckling) "twain is the very lowest setting."

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It's hilarious that libs on here will talk about trans people as having a cult mentality when even the most surface level discussion of gender with your average cishet dem will reveal an infantile religious belief in gender-based traits and purpose