@paololim.bsky.social
Here's the problem for Ds: there aren't that many university-educated voters out there to court. Those with a university degree are unsurprisingly a smaller share than those without it.
www.insidehighered.com/news/governm...
www.insidehighered.com/news/governm...
Men and white people vote differently based on education
Over all, college graduates voted for Harris by 13 points more than they did Trump. But that gap was even starker for certain demographics.
www.insidehighered.com
January 26, 2025 at 9:33 AM
Here's the problem for Ds: there aren't that many university-educated voters out there to court. Those with a university degree are unsurprisingly a smaller share than those without it.
www.insidehighered.com/news/governm...
www.insidehighered.com/news/governm...
Have any of you read Henrik Ibsen's An Enemy of the People? It seems like Ds and even most sane people here at Blue Sky feel like Dr Stockmann. Thoughts?
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An Enemy of the People | Marionet
Regarded as one of the foremost playwrights of the nineteenth century, Henrik Ibsen tells the story of the idealist Doctor Thomas Stockmann, the medical officer
marioneteatro.com
January 23, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Have any of you read Henrik Ibsen's An Enemy of the People? It seems like Ds and even most sane people here at Blue Sky feel like Dr Stockmann. Thoughts?
marioneteatro.com/en/cdapc/lib...
marioneteatro.com/en/cdapc/lib...
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This is the SEMINAL POLITICAL PODCAST of 2025. Podcasts like this are EXACTLY how young men will consume and understand politics.
Dem strategists should study every single second of it and recognize this is their new reality for reaching young men. Guaranteed.
youtu.be/W17FWAOC8oc?...
Dem strategists should study every single second of it and recognize this is their new reality for reaching young men. Guaranteed.
youtu.be/W17FWAOC8oc?...
TRUMP IS BACK: Heil Elon, Fauci Guilty, & 2 Genders Forever?
YouTube video by FLAGRANT
youtu.be
January 22, 2025 at 11:41 PM
This is the SEMINAL POLITICAL PODCAST of 2025. Podcasts like this are EXACTLY how young men will consume and understand politics.
Dem strategists should study every single second of it and recognize this is their new reality for reaching young men. Guaranteed.
youtu.be/W17FWAOC8oc?...
Dem strategists should study every single second of it and recognize this is their new reality for reaching young men. Guaranteed.
youtu.be/W17FWAOC8oc?...
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No. The only chance to correct anyone and present facts is right in front of them. Having a discussion with them. Listen to the show I did with them.
It seems like your conclusion is that we live a post-truth world and facts don’t matter. Now what? Do we just have to accept such shittiness? And if so, how can we possibly do good in the world?
January 23, 2025 at 5:40 AM
No. The only chance to correct anyone and present facts is right in front of them. Having a discussion with them. Listen to the show I did with them.
@cardonebrian.bsky.social @mariej55.bsky.social @mjfree.bsky.social @kaylan.bsky.social @joekatz45.bsky.social - This video, regardless of the creator's motives, seems relevant to today's experience: youtu.be/X0W6CX-uHhk?...
All I’m Offering is the Truth | The Philosophy of the Matrix
YouTube video by Einzelgänger
youtu.be
January 17, 2025 at 12:35 PM
@cardonebrian.bsky.social @mariej55.bsky.social @mjfree.bsky.social @kaylan.bsky.social @joekatz45.bsky.social - This video, regardless of the creator's motives, seems relevant to today's experience: youtu.be/X0W6CX-uHhk?...
Ds will probably let Rubio slide and be SoS. It opens a long-shot opportunity for them. I think it’s harder to win than AL-Sen was in 2017 but if they get their act together, the chances of a pickup are non-zero.
January 15, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Ds will probably let Rubio slide and be SoS. It opens a long-shot opportunity for them. I think it’s harder to win than AL-Sen was in 2017 but if they get their act together, the chances of a pickup are non-zero.
Huh?
President Biden just now:
“I could have beaten Trump and would have beaten Trump. And I think Kamala could have beaten Trump.”
“I could have beaten Trump and would have beaten Trump. And I think Kamala could have beaten Trump.”
January 10, 2025 at 11:28 PM
Huh?
For some reason, this isn’t entirely an inaccurate depiction of today’s marriage between tech and politics: youtu.be/O5b0ZxUWNf0?...
What is The Matrix? | The Matrix [Open Matte]
YouTube video by Flashback FM
youtu.be
January 10, 2025 at 3:38 AM
For some reason, this isn’t entirely an inaccurate depiction of today’s marriage between tech and politics: youtu.be/O5b0ZxUWNf0?...
Not to pick and choose but I have to say that as much as I want to cry that the world is falling apart, I appreciate Plato and Aristotle's warnings about democracy. @mommamia.bsky.social @kaylan.bsky.social
January 8, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Not to pick and choose but I have to say that as much as I want to cry that the world is falling apart, I appreciate Plato and Aristotle's warnings about democracy. @mommamia.bsky.social @kaylan.bsky.social
The problem with liberals is that they refuse to fight as if they have to wage a war. *Everyone* is waging a war against them from the far-right to Islamic extremists to young students... and their response: humans are good, benevolent, etc.
January 8, 2025 at 9:04 AM
The problem with liberals is that they refuse to fight as if they have to wage a war. *Everyone* is waging a war against them from the far-right to Islamic extremists to young students... and their response: humans are good, benevolent, etc.
Had the COVID 19 pandemic not happened, perhaps the rise of far-right politics 2.0 would have at least slowed down if not fail to materialise.
January 7, 2025 at 2:40 AM
Had the COVID 19 pandemic not happened, perhaps the rise of far-right politics 2.0 would have at least slowed down if not fail to materialise.
Trudeau will announce he is standing down. He knows his party will lose but just does not want his name to be on it.
January 6, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Trudeau will announce he is standing down. He knows his party will lose but just does not want his name to be on it.
For the first time in 24 years tomorrow, someone will preside over the count that seals his or her loss in the presidential election.
January 6, 2025 at 12:42 AM
For the first time in 24 years tomorrow, someone will preside over the count that seals his or her loss in the presidential election.
My former colleague has this piece on how "momfluencers" who do apparently "innocent" content contribute to radicalisation. This take doesn't seem surprising or deviant from critical minds would imagine.
Humbled that The Women of the Far Right 📚 @columbiaup.bsky.social has been listed in @chathamhouse.bsky.social International Affairs Christmas reading list
Thanks to @inesbsomoano.bsky.social for the review
medium.com/internationa...
Thanks to @inesbsomoano.bsky.social for the review
medium.com/internationa...
January 2, 2025 at 2:44 PM
My former colleague has this piece on how "momfluencers" who do apparently "innocent" content contribute to radicalisation. This take doesn't seem surprising or deviant from critical minds would imagine.
Americans who are nostalgic of Obama and go to Boracay should stop by this restaurant.
January 1, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Americans who are nostalgic of Obama and go to Boracay should stop by this restaurant.
Happy new year America! Just 19 days and 12 hours before a new administration!
January 1, 2025 at 5:00 AM
Happy new year America! Just 19 days and 12 hours before a new administration!
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This is such a breathtaking insight from @brianbeutler.bsky.social. The anti-social aspects of social media are baked in at the roots.
www.offmessage.net/p/trump-tech...
www.offmessage.net/p/trump-tech...
December 22, 2024 at 5:31 PM
This is such a breathtaking insight from @brianbeutler.bsky.social. The anti-social aspects of social media are baked in at the roots.
www.offmessage.net/p/trump-tech...
www.offmessage.net/p/trump-tech...
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they did this to themselves
For years, Trump and his allies have attacked democratic norms and institutions. The legacy media watched and did not take a side.
Now, Trump is threatening to attack the legacy media and they are wondering why so few are rushing to take a side.
Now, Trump is threatening to attack the legacy media and they are wondering why so few are rushing to take a side.
December 18, 2024 at 12:31 AM
they did this to themselves
West Germany’s prime minister loses a vote of confidence. Elections expected in February. I don’t know Scholtz could see this as a win when his party will take a drubbing.
December 16, 2024 at 3:49 PM
West Germany’s prime minister loses a vote of confidence. Elections expected in February. I don’t know Scholtz could see this as a win when his party will take a drubbing.
Just a thought experiment: one notable thing about this iteration of far-right victories less featured in previous iterations is the support it gets amongst young voters. What else happened? COVID and vaccine mandates. /
December 13, 2024 at 8:33 AM
Just a thought experiment: one notable thing about this iteration of far-right victories less featured in previous iterations is the support it gets amongst young voters. What else happened? COVID and vaccine mandates. /
Make no mistake: he will be a "YES" man.
Mitch McConnell: “We’re in a very, very dangerous world right now, reminiscent of before world war two,” he says. “Even the slogan is the same. ‘America First.’ That was what they said in the ’30s.”
Mitch McConnell: ‘We’re in a very, very dangerous world right now’
The Republican Senator on his plans to spend the last two years of his term fighting back against an increasingly isolationist GOP
www.ft.com
December 11, 2024 at 5:03 PM
Make no mistake: he will be a "YES" man.
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I think more than being correct this is almost the entire explanation for politics in 2024. The ease of digital publishing and ludicrous increase in screen time means that people are, more than ever, living in a world shaped to activate them emotionally - in practice, by inducing rage and despair.
December 11, 2024 at 2:47 PM
I think more than being correct this is almost the entire explanation for politics in 2024. The ease of digital publishing and ludicrous increase in screen time means that people are, more than ever, living in a world shaped to activate them emotionally - in practice, by inducing rage and despair.
This means these two D ex-Congressmen now on the other side of the Capitol will have a small taste of being in the majority. Enjoy it now because you won't taste that again for a really long time.
Vice President Harris has just sworn-in Democratic Sens. Andy Kim and Adam Schiff.
December 10, 2024 at 12:04 AM
This means these two D ex-Congressmen now on the other side of the Capitol will have a small taste of being in the majority. Enjoy it now because you won't taste that again for a really long time.
With the SK president’s apology, you’ve got to give the entire SK system props. Really, a ”normal” America - to the extent that it could still exist - would be proud of what its former Democracy 101 mentee has achieved.
December 7, 2024 at 4:17 AM
With the SK president’s apology, you’ve got to give the entire SK system props. Really, a ”normal” America - to the extent that it could still exist - would be proud of what its former Democracy 101 mentee has achieved.
Anywhere in the world apart from Manila where traffic is terrible close to 00.00?
December 6, 2024 at 3:50 PM
Anywhere in the world apart from Manila where traffic is terrible close to 00.00?