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Wandering Hoo @wanderlib.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Arizona political mailers rock. "Why is Biggs dangerous for Arizona?" Well, he would raise prices. And also he's a giant pedo-protector.

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Wandering Hoo @wanderlib.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

We don't often get to talk about cool shit done by good people. So I think I'll share a story from last month. Where I got the lucky chance to help some very cool people do their jobs.

Apheresis machine image

(Not me, but I looked like this basically

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Wandering Hoo @wanderlib.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Look, I have this meme for a reason. But political organizations being social organizations is a *long* standing thing. And I don't think it's bad.

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Wandering Hoo @wanderlib.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The communist at the gates of Mayberry

Noted Communist, former North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper

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Wandering Hoo @wanderlib.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Also, why is everyone's least favorite Canadian YouTuber here?

Liron Shapira’s podcast, “Doom Debates”, did an interview with Aella and Ronny Fernandez at the conclusion of pdku to talk about the event. This interview confirms that JJ McCullough and Jeffrey Ladish provided mentorship separately from the official schedule. Yudkowsky, Soares, and Ladish, all involved in this event, are the three out of four of Bernie’s advisors on AI risk who aren’t already directors of the company that manages Lighthaven.

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Wandering Hoo @wanderlib.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Some of the crosstabs for that one that's underwater. Underestimate Evelyn at your own risk.

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Wandering Hoo @wanderlib.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I have some questions for the 10, 22, and 35 percents.

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Wandering Hoo @wanderlib.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Two passages that particularly struck me.

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Wandering Hoo @wanderlib.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

So on the left are the rates from 1972, when FRED starts having data, to 1982. On the right is the past decade. Yes. There are different y-axes. That's fine, this is about expectations and experience not actual level.

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/mortgage30us#

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Wandering Hoo @wanderlib.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

This seems like a decent starting point.

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Wandering Hoo @wanderlib.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

SMH, no respect for the proletariat.

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Wandering Hoo @wanderlib.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

25 years ago, 9:37 EDT September 11, 2001 184 lives were lost in Arlington, Virginia when American Airlines Flight 77, normally scheduled for transcontinental service to LAX was forcibly crashed into the West Side of the Pentagon.

The aftermath of Flight 77's Crash into the Pentagon

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Wandering Hoo @wanderlib.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Subtext is A. For cowards B. Reliant on a presumption of both trust and shared values/language. And it turns out young people do not trust institutions and leaders to share their values and language. I wonder why that happened? Picture unrelated

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Wandering Hoo @wanderlib.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Are we getting a makeover episode? (Rhonda's energy matches Joan)

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Wandering Hoo @wanderlib.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

I think this bit is up its own ass. There is no engineering that is not ultimately killing. You gotta just choose what variety of killing and what level of abstraction.

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Wandering Hoo @wanderlib.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

I mean... I can't find one from after 2016, but I think people underrate how much of this decline was social desirability/acceptability.

https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2017/06/12/key-facts-about-race-and-marriage-50-years-after-loving-v-virginia/

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Wandering Hoo @wanderlib.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Also, this is probably one of my favorite Goldwater statements.

On Hillary Clinton, who was an ardent Goldwater supporter in 1964: "If he'd let his wife run business, I think he'd be better off. ... I just like the way she acts. I've never met her, but I sent her a bag of chili, and she invited me to come to the White House some night and said she'd cook chili for me. Someday, maybe."

https://web.archive.org/web/20180213022328/https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1994/07/28/barry-goldwaters-left-turn/10883631-6c18-4f7d-a8d1-61dd4e5e6b54/?utm_term=.17def4e6bb26

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Wandering Hoo @wanderlib.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Okay, this is actually sorta hilarious. And also explains a lot about why no one remarks on my accent out West.

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Wandering Hoo @wanderlib.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

"What, Hoo, it's all trust?" Always has been.

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Wandering Hoo @wanderlib.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

This is singlehandedly more responsible for what the world presently looks like than anything else. No matter where you are, this played a role.

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Wandering Hoo @wanderlib.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Look, it's a beautiful state and all, but it's also basically designed to drive the particular type of guy I am to madness.

Marked safe from living in California today

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Wandering Hoo @wanderlib.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

This is, by itself, insane. I'm not gonna pretend that 20-40 somethings are notably affluent. But this is just by donor, without weighting.

In the 2018 election cycle, Jeffries had one of the youngest donor bases of any House Democrat, with an average donor age of 54 and only 21 percent of his donors 65 or older. When he became caucus chair in 2019, those numbers began to shift. By the 2026 election cycle, his average donor was 73, and 86 percent were 65 or older. Jeffries didn’t change his political positions in ways that would account for this shift; it was his role in the party that changed — and his fundraising strategy.

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Wandering Hoo @wanderlib.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

NW: @snowden.st, I'm seeing why you love this darn thing.

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Wandering Hoo @wanderlib.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Also this was the cited "defense budget expert"

William D. Hartung, Senior Research Fellow, Quincy Institute for (Ir) Responsible Statecraft

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Wandering Hoo @wanderlib.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Your last saved meme is your moral philosophy

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Wandering Hoo @wanderlib.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Our external foreign intelligence service, the SDECE, is plagued with scandal, so we're going to do a reform. We'll rename it DGSE, a clean start. To distance from nepotism and that unpleasantness in Algeria *3 years later*

The Greenpeace boat Rainbow Warrior, sunken after being mined by the French

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Wandering Hoo @wanderlib.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Like, ultimately, I do not think this goal was achieved. Not through any particular fault of Dr. Hancox-Li. She made what I would understand to be a sincere good faith effort to achieve her stated aim. I just don't think it is *possible* to do.

Thus, this is not an essay about the morality or immorality of the events at Prairieland. This essay treats morality as irrelevant. It is a cynical essay, an exercise in cold-hearted strategic and tactical analysis. It asks: what did the Prairieland activists intend to achieve, and were the tactics they adopted successful to that end?

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Wandering Hoo @wanderlib.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

I think this analysis is useful. Because we discover a lot about ourselves and each other in dialogue. But I think the core contention comes down to this paragraph. And whether you think this is actually possible. Because the choice to abstract away morality is itself a choice based in morality.

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Wandering Hoo @wanderlib.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

See quoted post for details of Ken Martin's DNC's strategy. It's worth reading, if only for context. But these highlighted bits particularly stood out to me. Because they're pretty damn important. The first step in solving any problem is admitting you have one. Ken is admitting we have one.

We are also investing in listening to voters instead of just talking at them. Our Local Listeners program is a deep-canvassing program focused on Democrats in targeted congressional races who voted in 2020 but sat out in 2024. Rather than beginning with a script that tells those voters what to believe, the program begins with a conversation.

What concerns them?

Why did they stay home?

Where did the party lose their trust?

What would make them believe Democrats understand their lives?

This is not an argument against paid media, polling, or late-cycle spending. Those tools have an important place in modern campaigns. It is an argument against allowing them to become the entire strategy.

A 30-second TV advertisement aired in October cannot compensate for years of political absence.

A last-minute mail program cannot rebuild trust with a community that believes it has been ignored.

A presidential campaign cannot create, in a matter of months, the local organizations, voter-registration advantage, trained political workforce, data systems, and volunteer leadership that a strong national party should have built and maintained all along.

The old model asks: How much can we save for the final weeks? Our model asks: What must we build now so that Democrats are stronger every week between now and Election Day - and stronger still after Election Day?

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Wandering Hoo @wanderlib.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Also, I thought it was bad. I was wrong. This is fucking fatal.

In JULY 2022 (!!), only 26% of Democratic primary voters wanted Biden to the nominee in 2024; one third of the people who wanted a different nominee because of his age. 94% of Democrats under the age of 30 wanted someone new.

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