Jim Wurst

[Jim Wurst @JimWurst1]

Done 👍

[Edward Zwick @EdwardZwick1]

MOVING ON...
To those who have found me here, supported me, delighted me and trolled me too, I am moving to more pleasant climes and can now be found at:  @edwardzwick.bsky.social

[Jim Wurst @JimWurst1]

Done 👍

[Greg Mitchell @GregMitch]

you know what to do, I am also @gregmitch over in the kind of blue place

[Jim Wurst @JimWurst1]

That just happened with me. I just joined Bl—S— and looked for you there, found the obvious imposter. Good luck getting clear of that.

[PoliticsGirl @IAmPoliticsGirl]

I understand the sentiment to want to disengage, but experts on authoritarian goverenments remind us that it’s at the beginning of these regimes where the people have the best chance to fight back. That’s us and that’s now.
https://t.co/teeG6f0htr

[Jim Wurst @JimWurst1]

Kinda here, but leaving, mostly hanging at that other places.

[Ben Johnson Jr. @BenJohnson2018]

Hey writing fam, if we've interacted or are good buds and you're still on this app please give this post a like. I'm trying to work out who's still here.

[Jim Wurst @JimWurst1]

👍

[Joel Eisenberg @joel_eisenberg]

@JimWurst1 Cool. I’ll get you back there as well.

[Jim Wurst @JimWurst1]

Following you now on the other place. 👏🏻

[Joel Eisenberg @joel_eisenberg]

I’ve elected to largely pull back my activity on X in favor of Bluesky—https://t.co/qluOew8aoh—for reasons I shared yesterday. I will not, however, delete my acct here, due to posts re my late wife I do not want to lose & many friends who have supported me throughout that loss.

[Jim Wurst @JimWurst1]

found you 👋

[Tom Schrack @tschrack]

I secured my handle on 🔵☁️. Same as here: @tschrack. I can’t promise funny, but mercy laughs are appreciated. 🦋

[Jim Wurst @JimWurst1]

Just moved over last night.

[Jim Wurst @JimWurst1]

Don’t know. Notes arrived the day after the elections. Don’t have the stomach to look yet.

[Heidi Hornbacher @HeidiHornbacher]

Anyone else’s AFF reader notes feature the reader referring to themselves in the third person?

[March For Our Lives @AMarch4OurLives]

STAY IN LINE
STAY IN LINE
STAY IN LINE
STAY IN LINE
STAY IN LINE

[Rachel Bitecofer 🗽🦆 @RachelBitecofer]

For months the Biden team, then the Harris team, got shit for centering the strategy around making sure Americans knew that in 2024, democracy was on the ballot and it clearly worked.

[PoliticsGirl @IAmPoliticsGirl]

The truth about the 2024 election...

[Barack Obama @BarackObama]

It took several days to count every ballot in 2020, and it’s very likely we won’t know the outcome tonight either. So please keep a few things in mind as you make your voice heard today:

– Thousands of election workers around the country are working hard today. Respect them. Thank them.��

– Don’t share things before checking your sources. 

– Let the process run its course. It takes time to count every ballot.

[Markos Moulitsas kos.bsky.social @markos]

What’s really funny is that he seems to think GOTV is posting increasingly hysterical tweets, instead of, you know, going to low propensity voters and turning them out.

You don’t see Harris GOTV people on Twitter right now

[Steven Thomas🌵 @tom__builder]

IF YOU VOTE LEGALLY, HE’S GOING TO JAIL

#BlueWave2024

[Timothy Snyder @TimothyDSnyder]

In Plato's famous parable, we are all prisoners in a cave, believing that our shadowy surroundings are reality, but needing to break out into a sunnier, airier, more lively world.

During our American election cycles, polling is the cave.

Very early on, polls establish some baseline of expectation. Then newspapers can report when some poll says something surprising -- which just means different from other polls.  In the cave, we get used to the overlap of shadow, and confuse this with light.

Polls ask people to judge between two candidates.  They rarely ask about policy.  We are looking only at what is placed right in front of us.  Out in the world, though, beyond the polling cave, it is differences of policy that matter in our lives.  And so our polling obsession gets in the way of the knowledge we would actually need to make judgements.

The polling cave is where we pass the time.  And we come to think that our shadowy media domicile is just nature.  The media treat the polls as normative, as describing the world as it should be.  Our own behavior, when election day comes, will then be characterized as a "polling error."

In Plato's story of the cave, we are all driven from this emotion to that by those who manipulate us.  They walk behind us, holding objects that cast frightening shadows on the wall in front of us.  And so it is in our polling cave.  We are told that the polls are close, and that therefore the election will be close.  And so the cave is full of tension.

This is, of course, a convenient situation.  The candidates can tell their supporters that they must vote.  The media can hover at the edge of two dramatically different scenarios.  But we have to remember that this is just a game of shadows. It is not the reality that we will live in after election day.

And the game, it must be said, has not been played fairly.  Since the story of a close race was established early one, the people who accumulate and judge the polls have been dismissing individual polls that tell another story.

And even were that not the case, even were all the polling perfect, it would not mean what we tend to think.  If all the polls were adjudged to predict a very close race, that just means, quite literally, than anything is possible: it could be close, or it could be a landslide for Harris, or it could be a landslide for Trump.

So don't be surprised if this election is not close.  Even the pollsters, if you listen carefully, are telling you that a clear victory by one candidate or the other is more likely than a narrow result.

And above all, get out of the polling cave and into the real world.  Vote, and relish that you can vote.

There is a world out there, one that is not driven by our anxieties and their profiteers, one that, every once in a while, can be changed by our actions.

We have been held for months in the polling cave. But today you can escape that shadowy delusion and help create a better world outside.

So get out there and be part of the big surprise.

(Read this essay and more by going to the link in my profile)

[Guy Crawford ⚜️ @BogeyGuyC]

@TeaRoseRock Drunken Twister?

[Jim Wurst @JimWurst1]

Thank you

[Kyle Writes @KyleWriteStuff]

@JimWurst1 I hope your wife feels better soon.

[Nick Knudsen 🇺🇸 @NickKnudsenUS]

This is quite simply the best ad I've ever seen. #BlueWave2024