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Ben Forstate
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PA politics n'at
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Judge of the Court of Common Pleas maps coming your way! Within these maps, and for each candidate, any precinct shaded in blue means that the candidate finished in the top eight, and any precinct in any shade of gray means they finished ninth or lower. The darker the shade, the lower they ranked.
June 19, 2025 at 11:52 PM
Wowowowow
March 26, 2025 at 2:03 AM
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I'm going to stake out the apparently-edgy-onhere position that the voter shifts described by David Shor here are real, & should be cause for genuinely difficult rethinking of strategies based on no-longer-accurate assumptions about the 'rising American electorate' www.nytimes.com/2025/03/18/o...
Opinion | Democrats Need to Face Why Trump Won
The Democratic pollster David Shor walks through what voter data reveals about the 2024 election — and how the American electorate is shifting.
www.nytimes.com
March 21, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Nothing has ever spoken to me more than this display
March 11, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Honestly the best way to achieve a healthy work-life balance is to work in politics
February 16, 2025 at 6:43 AM
Yard signs are good
December 24, 2024 at 7:02 PM
I’ve been thinking about this for the last few weeks
November 30, 2024 at 7:33 PM
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Allegheny County has counted every (unchallenged) provisional, military, overseas, mail in and election day ballot that is eligible to count.

724,818 ballots cast
952,539 registered voters 76.09% turnout

Harris (429k votes) got near identical results to Biden in 2020 (430k)

🫡
November 15, 2024 at 10:25 PM
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We need to study and learn from this win.

Deluzio is a CPC member who won by 7.5% in a swing district by running agressively pro-labor pushing corporate accountability and stopping greed to protect workers, consumers, and his local communities.

A lot to learn. penncapital-star.com/election-202...
Deluzio win in western Pennsylvania keeps swing district in Democratic control • Pennsylvania Capital-Star
Deluzio’s reelection to a second term representing the district that includes parts of blue Allegheny and red Beaver counties was not a given.
penncapital-star.com
November 13, 2024 at 1:15 PM
Lol she lost by 17.5%
November 13, 2024 at 4:50 AM
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Me when I mix up tablespoons/teaspoons in the middle of a pancake recipe
Tbh I just don’t think I have it in me to start from scratch.
November 11, 2024 at 7:22 PM
Tbh I just don’t think I have it in me to start from scratch.
November 11, 2024 at 7:20 PM
I have not been posting my heart out on BlueSky
October 11, 2023 at 8:44 PM
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August 1, 2023 at 3:36 AM
If @ryanmorden.bsky.social wants me to post on Bluesky, then I’m going to post my heart out on Bluesky
July 31, 2023 at 9:34 PM
Is Bluesky joever?
July 6, 2023 at 1:25 AM
What’s hot classic >>> what’s hot

It takes ~12 likes to end up on the feed and after 1 am 40% of the posts are in Arabic
July 4, 2023 at 2:31 AM
Reconnecting with my Twitter mutuals
July 4, 2023 at 1:03 AM
Never felt confident posting such an obvious thirst trap on Twitter
July 3, 2023 at 2:13 AM
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July 2, 2023 at 4:29 AM
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You can only read 600 posts per day on Bluesky because that’s how many there are
July 2, 2023 at 4:39 PM
I love that the threshold for going viral here is like 20 likes and 3 reskeets. There are so many more dog pics in my feed!
July 2, 2023 at 3:10 PM
Bluesky can have the Casey-Coal map, as a treat ❤️
July 2, 2023 at 2:37 PM
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me reading as many skeets as i want
July 2, 2023 at 12:51 AM