Last week, in an email to supporters, the Open Primaries team outlined their 5 goals for 2025/26:

1) Encourage advocates & funders to decouple open primaries & ranked choice voting, so that both issues can grow organically. They should be combined only when & where it makes sense.🧵

I'm Exec Dir of RCV Montana. Five years ago, I started pursuing RCV in Montana w/ a desire to give voters more choice, empower third parties & independents, & reduce the mudslinging.

I'm abandoning the RCV movement, still dedicated to reform. Cordially, I invite you to join me
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It really seems like 99% of the people using @bsky.app think that Bitcoin is useless or worse

This is genuinely staggering and derives mostly from financial privilege

Here’s a tiny tiny handful of the many use cases Bitcoin has worldwide:

www.journalofdemocracy.org/online-exclu...

Bitcoin is a Digital Commodity: an asset without issuer, backed by digital power. Bitcoin is an immutable ledger and store of value backed and protected by power: digital power, political power, physical power, and economic power.
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"The research now shows that Bitcoin mining is accelerating renewable energy development. Can you describe how that's possible?"

Part 1 (h/ - Daniel Batten)

Who is driving the anti-livestock agenda and why?

When you say "Bitcoin has no value", you are saying:

1. The lives of these 1800 African villagers have no value
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🧵👇- Credit: @DSBatten on Twitter

Dividing vaccine sentiment into "pro-vax" or "anti-vax" seems mistaken. There's a wide spectrum:

- Every vaccine works and it is heretical to criticize any of them.
- Vaccines work but the vaccine schedule is too crowded.
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