I used to be an evangelical. Let me tell you a little about why they worked so hard to get us here.🧵 Evangelicals have been deeply indoctrinated in rigid thinking. If you think you can compromise with them, you're wrong, because they're 100% certain God is on their side. 1/x

This is a powerful and devastating thought experiment.

The alternative to organized political parties is not independence. It is chaos, inaction, and ultimately authoritarianism.

And we should expect this trend to continue as maternal mortality and non-viable live births increase post-Dobbs.

For those wondering why political scientists are really worried about democracy in the US. Opinion | Inside the Completely Legal G.O.P. Plot to Destroy American Democracy - The New York Times nytimes.com/2022/09/21/opi…

The field of Economics needs an intervention this morning ... eek!

1) Dem ads I've seen on abortion are missing the boat. It's not the procedure that's relevant to most voters. Most are beyond reproductive age, can't get pregnant, or don't think they'll need an abortion.

flatmate has just asked me whether i think the lettuce voted leaf or romaine in the brexit referendum and im frankly furious at how funny i found it

What’s with the messages fear-mongering about a “Democrat utopia” or a “socialist utopia?” I’d be fine with an autocratic utopia, it’s the dystopias that worry me.

Musk has quickly become the dystopian version of Tom from MySpace: Ubiquitous, uninvited, and now chaotic evil

Do all the laid off Twitter employees have a valid noncompete clause or are they instead perfectly poised to create a rival social network?

22 months ago a violent insurrection inspired by the President sought to overturn a democratic election and prevent the peaceful transfer of power. The threat is now, if anything, worse. 2020 denialism is now pervasive & the legitimacy of the 2022 election is already under attack

chilling

The vibes… youtube.com/watch?v=frAEmh…

What is amazing about this poll result is that 1) these are not "values" and 2) all of the "values" they ask about have a completely different context than in the prior surveys - Interpreting them is a BIG challenge and everyone in the polling world knows it