Skip Navigation

InitialsDiceBearhttps://github.com/dicebear/dicebearhttps://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/„Initials” (https://github.com/dicebear/dicebear) by „DiceBear”, licensed under „CC0 1.0” (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)U

usernamesAreTricky

@ usernamesAreTricky @lemmy.ml

Posts
378
Comments
593
Joined
3 yr. ago

  • Twitter's Traffic Falling Relative to Bluesky

    Jump

  • I think that's a good part of it, to be honest. Plus I think also helps that Bluesky's handles look visually less confusing and unusual than the conventional double @ sign for the fediverse

    @user.bsky.social vs @user@bsky.social

    Plus other things like having starter packs

  • Twitter's Traffic Falling Relative to Bluesky

    Jump

  • Who's now left Bluesky which is probably for the better given his views on a lot of things

  • Twitter's Traffic Falling Relative to Bluesky

    Jump

  • I noticed that and deleted my post but the deletion probably hasn't federated just yet, sorry about that

  • Twitter's Traffic Falling Relative to Bluesky

    Jump

  • Twitter's Traffic Falling Relative to Bluesky

    Jump

  • Bluesky is at least semi-decentralized, however, though not to the same extent as something like Mastodon

    I'd also argue that Twitter is also uniquely bad even among other problematic platforms

  • Removed Locked

    List of the 16 Democrats "not voting" on vote to release Matt Gatez Report. Democrats needed 7 more votes.

    Jump

  • House seats don't do governor appointment like senate seats (nor would you want Glenn Younkin to make an appointment). They are just vacant until a special election. She's been able to keep up for a while - even fairly recently - from what I had seen (using text to speech to deliver speeches/interviews and the like). I'm not sure what her current state looks like now though

    Suhas Subramanyam won the seat this year, someone else will fill in fact fill the seat soon enough

  • Removed Locked

    List of the 16 Democrats "not voting" on vote to release Matt Gatez Report. Democrats needed 7 more votes.

    Jump

  • Can't speak for the others but I know I had read that Jennifer Wexton has a terminal illness (she cannot even speak anymore and did not run for reelection). I'd assume that's probably why she didn't vote

  • Powered by Native Voters, Ranked-Choice Voting and Open Primaries Survive in Alaska

    Jump

  • It was decided by a margin of 664 votes (0.21%) according to the article

  • The election that will take place at the DNC to replace the chair will decide the policy direction of the Democratic party. Let your voice be heard!

    Jump

  • The election that will take place at the DNC to replace the chair will decide the policy direction of the Democratic party. Let your voice be heard!

    Jump

  • If you're a US citizen living abroad, there's the Democrats Abroad party chair to reach out to, there are also various US territory chairs too (Puerto Rico, U.S. Virgin Islands, DC, etc.)

  • The election that will take place at the DNC to replace the chair will decide the policy direction of the Democratic party. Let your voice be heard!

    Jump

  • Reading more about DNC chair elections, the state party's vice chair usually also votes for chair too (among others). For Texas, that's Shay Wyrick-Cathey (shay@txdemocrats.org)

    For what it's worth it looks like his comments about trans people are what produced a large push to get the Texas Democratic party chair to step down. He said he was stepping down the day after he gave an apology

  • The election that will take place at the DNC to replace the chair will decide the policy direction of the Democratic party. Let your voice be heard!

    Jump

  • chair@cadem.org or also rusty@cadem.org seemed to be listed on various California Democratic Party documents for him

    If anyone else is having any issues finding the contact emails, reply to me with a state and I can try to help you find it!

  • The election that will take place at the DNC to replace the chair will decide the policy direction of the Democratic party. Let your voice be heard!

    Jump

  • Then make sure to tell the people actually voting for the chair to give the pushback they need to see that's a mistake. Change is only going to come when we speak up

  • The election that will take place at the DNC to replace the chair will decide the policy direction of the Democratic party. Let your voice be heard!

    Jump

  • It's not voted on directly, you are going to want to talk to your state's party chair to try to convince them vote on the type of chair like you would a congress person on a vote for something. In the body of the post, you can find how to find your state's party chair

    Here's the table copied over:

  • Removed

    Here’s Why I Decided To Buy ‘InfoWars’

    Jump

  • Rumors, conspiracy theories, and disinformation about "millions of missing votes" and voting machine fraud

    Jump

  • That's assuming that all Trump supporters vote down ballot. I've been reading that a non-negligable percentage of Trump voters just voted for president and left down ballot races blank. Considering Trump only won the swing states by tiny percentages, a small percentage of Trump voters leaving blank the rest is easily enough to sway it

    For instance, if we look at Wisconsin senate, we see that Tammy Baldwin has almost exactly the same number of votes as Harris (only a couple hundred more), but Eric Hovde shows less substantially votes than Trump got

    Results with ~99% reported:

    Donald Trump: 1,697,769

    Kamala Harris: 1,668,082

    (And about 40k for third party)

    Vs senate

    Tammy Baldwin: 1,668,545 [+436 from Harris]

    Eric Hovde: 1,641,181 [-56,615 from Trump]

  • Authoritarians like Trump love fear, defeatism, surrender. Do not give them what they want

    Jump

  • At the federal level, drag out everything and block everything you can. Their margins in the house, should it be called in their favor, will be extremely narrow. Let them in fight and flame against each other. Use every procedural rule to slow stuff down. Filibuster everything. Even if a specific issue is a losing fight, make them have to fight it so they cannot move on to something else. Republicans have used these tricks to block progress for a long time, time to flip it back on them

    At the state level, we can much have more room to push back. A lot of what they are likely to pull is pushing things back into the states. Codify everything at state levels. Ensrhine our rights into state constitutions. A lot of federal operations rely on state government cooperating behind the scenes. Without it, a lot more can be slowed way down or made much more difficult

    Outside the government, we still have power as individuals. Organize unions, protests, etc

  • Authoritarians like Trump love fear, defeatism, surrender. Do not give them what they want

    Jump

  • Authoritarians like Trump love fear, defeatism, surrender. Do not give them what they want

    Jump

  • Grief is natural, but we cannot give up the fight. Tens of millions did not vote for this. If they want to take away rights, make every one a fight

    Everything we fight is time they cannot spend moving on to the next thing. Drag every fight out even if it's something seemingly minor. Give them no ground

    The more resistance they see, the weaker they become

  • politics @lemmy.world
    usernamesAreTricky @lemmy.ml

    Trump Promised to Release His Medical Records. He Still Won’t Do It

    archive.ph /0jbL2
  • politics @lemmy.world
    usernamesAreTricky @lemmy.ml

    Trump Promised to Release His Medical Records. He Still Won’t Do It

    archive.ph /0jbL2
  • politics @lemmy.world
    usernamesAreTricky @lemmy.ml

    Republicans expect to confirm even more Supreme Court justices if Trump wins

    www.nbcnews.com /politics/2024-election/republicans-expect-confirm-even-supreme-court-justices-trump-wins-rcna172852
  • politics @lemmy.world
    usernamesAreTricky @lemmy.ml

    Sen. Schatz questions Trump's mental facilities after Iran flubs | Trump appeared to confuse Kim Jong Un and the leader of Iran in a speech on Tuesday

    www.salon.com /2024/10/01/sen-schatz-questions-mental-facilities-after-iran-flubs/
  • politics @lemmy.world
    usernamesAreTricky @lemmy.ml

    J.D. Vance Lashes Out After the Smallest Fact-Check in V.P. Debate

    newrepublic.com /post/186602/jd-vance-vp-debate-fact-check-migrants
  • politics @lemmy.world
    usernamesAreTricky @lemmy.ml

    JD Vance brings 'sanewashing' to the debate stage

    www.msnbc.com /top-stories/latest/vance-walz-debate-sanewashing-trump-rcna173561
  • politics @lemmy.world
    usernamesAreTricky @lemmy.ml

    Vance on carbon emissions and climate change: ‘Let’s just say that’s true’

    thehill.com /policy/energy-environment/4910800-vance-debate-climate-change-scientific-consensus-skepticism/
  • politics @lemmy.world
    usernamesAreTricky @lemmy.ml

    Harris' new ad hits Trump's age in criticizing Vance

    www.nbcnews.com /politics/2024-election/harris-launches-new-ad-hits-trumps-age-criticizing-vance-rcna173526
  • politics @lemmy.world
    usernamesAreTricky @lemmy.ml

    Harris campaign launches ad blitz attacking Trump’s ‘concepts of a plan’

    www.independent.co.uk /news/world/americas/us-politics/harris-campaign-trump-concepts-of-a-plan-b2622226.html
  • politics @lemmy.world
    usernamesAreTricky @lemmy.ml

    Trump backs out of ‘60 Minutes’ primetime interview, CBS says

    www.cnn.com /2024/10/01/media/trump-backs-out-60-minutes-interview-cbs/index.html
  • politics @lemmy.world
    usernamesAreTricky @lemmy.ml

    Before Election Day, Trump Says He Wants Even More Redactions in Jan. 6 Case

    www.huffpost.com /entry/trump-judge-more-redactions-jan-6-brief-case_n_66fc369be4b0453dc1ee4ce8
  • politics @lemmy.world
    usernamesAreTricky @lemmy.ml

    Is Texas about to put a Democrat in the Senate? | Colin Allred is gaining on Ted Cruz

    theweek.com /politics/texas-democrat-senate-collin-allred-ted-cruz-election-2024
  • politics @lemmy.world
    usernamesAreTricky @lemmy.ml
    2017 Under Trump

    North Carolina denied 99 percent of federal recovery funds for Hurricane Matthew

    www.pbs.org /newshour/nation/north-carolina-denied-99-percent-federal-recovery-funds-hurricane-matthew
  • politics @lemmy.world
    usernamesAreTricky @lemmy.ml

    Kamala Harris signals she'll go further than Biden on marijuana legalization "we need to legalize it and stop criminalizing this behavior"

    www.businessinsider.com /harris-marijuana-legalization-biden-views-election-2024-9
  • politics @lemmy.world
    usernamesAreTricky @lemmy.ml

    Harris presses Trump to debate again: VP showdown ‘should not be the last word’

    thehill.com /homenews/campaign/4906554-harris-baits-trump-second-debate/
  • politics @lemmy.world
    usernamesAreTricky @lemmy.ml

    NASA astronauts are set to cast their Harris County ballots from space station

    www.houstonchronicle.com /politics/election/2024/article/nasa-astronauts-ballots-space-19795794.php
  • politics @lemmy.world
    usernamesAreTricky @lemmy.ml

    Kickapoo school district sees 440% higher cost because of private school voucher funding

    www.news8000.com /news/kickapoo-school-district-taxpayers-see-440-tax-hike-over-private-school-funding/article_7a271898-7c4f-11ef-b51c-436031d407b3.html
  • politics @lemmy.world
    usernamesAreTricky @lemmy.ml

    Sleepy no more: Fischer-Osborn U.S. Senate race in Nebraska wakes up

    nebraskaexaminer.com /2024/09/27/sleepy-no-more-fischer-osborn-u-s-senate-race-in-nebraska-wakes-up/
  • politics @lemmy.world
    usernamesAreTricky @lemmy.ml

    McConnell denounces fellow Republicans for fawning over Hungary’s Viktor Orbán | But tacit support for the Hungarian leader’s bigotry and illiberalism wasn’t why McConnell bashed fellow conservatives

    www.msnbc.com /the-reidout/reidout-blog/mitch-mcconnell-viktor-orban-hungary-republicans-trump-rcna173102
  • politics @lemmy.world
    usernamesAreTricky @lemmy.ml

    Some Republicans Criticize Trump Over His Insults of Harris

    archive.is /ZNQnK