Ben Ray
@benray.bsky.social
A Kentuckian, wherever I am. Campaigns at EMILYs List.
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Had a chance to chat with @afacwa.org member @kaela15.bsky.social today. It's absolutely thrilling to have such a great legislator and union leader running for Congress!
Lots of important races out there, but this one is worth your attention and, if you have the means, your money.
Lots of important races out there, but this one is worth your attention and, if you have the means, your money.
Families are working hard, and they deserve a government that has their backs — not one that makes it harder to get by.
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October 29, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Had a chance to chat with @afacwa.org member @kaela15.bsky.social today. It's absolutely thrilling to have such a great legislator and union leader running for Congress!
Lots of important races out there, but this one is worth your attention and, if you have the means, your money.
Lots of important races out there, but this one is worth your attention and, if you have the means, your money.
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at the risk of sound like bill bennett, where exactly are the men in these boy’s lives? the fathers? coaches? anyone genuinely concerned with their lives?
Essay: A senior at an all boys high school on the appeal of the Tate brothers: In a confusing time for young men, they offer “answers that are appealingly simple.”
Essay | Boys at My High School Love the Tate Brothers. Here’s Why.
In this confusing time for young men, we take our role models where we can find them.
www.wsj.com
May 2, 2025 at 9:00 PM
at the risk of sound like bill bennett, where exactly are the men in these boy’s lives? the fathers? coaches? anyone genuinely concerned with their lives?
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Could be, but I think people overindex on “because they have a dastardly plan to rig the elections” and underrate “because they’re arrogant and delusional”
There are so many examples of this that you really have to conclude their very clear intent is to not ever be out of power again.
Do republicans want to set up a situation where every red state gets funding withdrawn because abortion is illegal in the state. That’s where we’re heading here. The explicit coercion is something conservatives once supposedly cared about!
March 19, 2025 at 10:48 PM
Could be, but I think people overindex on “because they have a dastardly plan to rig the elections” and underrate “because they’re arrogant and delusional”
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phil's always been my go-to guy for questions about what's "fiscally responsible"
And you thought Phil Mickelson could not be less likable
March 11, 2025 at 9:56 PM
phil's always been my go-to guy for questions about what's "fiscally responsible"
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Maybe the defining political trait of Millennials will be fear of tail risks and their governing partner will be whichever other cohorts are worried about tail risks. Problem is in 2024 the tail risk argument fell short.
February 15, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Maybe the defining political trait of Millennials will be fear of tail risks and their governing partner will be whichever other cohorts are worried about tail risks. Problem is in 2024 the tail risk argument fell short.
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February 15, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Presented without comment. www.ft.com/content/a7c9...
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We’re already seeing who will really pull the strings in a Trump presidency: Greedy corporate CEOs and billionaires.
Elon Musk, an unelected billionaire with a history of attacking his employees and unions, is now using his power to hurt the working people who make this country run.
There’s nothing “efficient” about a pair of billionaires shutting down the government and jeopardizing the paychecks and essential services that hardworking taxpayers and their families depend on days before Christmas.
December 20, 2024 at 6:06 PM
We’re already seeing who will really pull the strings in a Trump presidency: Greedy corporate CEOs and billionaires.
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“a better future isn’t possible” is explicitly a right wing view and everyone needs to do a better job rejecting it for themselves and drumming it out of younger people
IME every time I bring this up with young/young-ish people I get some variation on “lol I won’t live that long climate change will take me out before I’m 50” & it’s yet another example of how blackpilling throws sand in the gears of even trying to get anything done now.
November 25, 2024 at 1:17 AM
“a better future isn’t possible” is explicitly a right wing view and everyone needs to do a better job rejecting it for themselves and drumming it out of younger people
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Happy 37th anniversary of the Max Headroom Incident, to those who celebrate.
November 22, 2024 at 8:37 AM
Happy 37th anniversary of the Max Headroom Incident, to those who celebrate.
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This is some very good context on what people actually voted for in the last election ... it takes time to see the results, never trust a politician who rushes in to claim XYZ when reality has yet to appear
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
Analysis | Mandate? Fuller election results increasingly show GOP gains were small.
A holistic look — down to the state legislative level — reinforces that early Trump and GOP claims to a huge “mandate” were overblown.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 22, 2024 at 11:47 AM
This is some very good context on what people actually voted for in the last election ... it takes time to see the results, never trust a politician who rushes in to claim XYZ when reality has yet to appear
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
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people with high priced degrees from prestigious law schools will spend the next four years telling you the text of the fourteenth amendment does not say what it plainly says.
This stuff is unconstitutional, no matter what they or one court thinks, and it must be treated as such
This stuff is unconstitutional, no matter what they or one court thinks, and it must be treated as such
November 18, 2024 at 7:36 PM
people with high priced degrees from prestigious law schools will spend the next four years telling you the text of the fourteenth amendment does not say what it plainly says.
This stuff is unconstitutional, no matter what they or one court thinks, and it must be treated as such
This stuff is unconstitutional, no matter what they or one court thinks, and it must be treated as such
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In the next 6 months, we're going to see one of the largest propaganda pushes in American history to spread the lie that Donald Trump is a moderate on abortion.
One of Trump's top lawyers has already said the plan is to stay quiet on abortion through the campaign—then use the Comstock Act to impose a nationwide abortion ban in 2025. Not only a ban on medication abortion, but ALL abortions, in all 50 states. www.nytimes.com/2024/02/17/u...
April 8, 2024 at 3:26 PM
In the next 6 months, we're going to see one of the largest propaganda pushes in American history to spread the lie that Donald Trump is a moderate on abortion.
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It’s so funny how every study shows that ice cream is good for you but this makes scientists mad so they don’t talk about it
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March 26, 2024 at 5:36 PM
It’s so funny how every study shows that ice cream is good for you but this makes scientists mad so they don’t talk about it
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I remain of the view that *everyone* (myself very much included) lost their mind one way or another during COVID. Hardly a week goes by without some bizarre professional moment that I ultimately realize resolves into "oh, this is about your particular and idiosyncratic COVID damage."
February 19, 2024 at 5:49 PM
I remain of the view that *everyone* (myself very much included) lost their mind one way or another during COVID. Hardly a week goes by without some bizarre professional moment that I ultimately realize resolves into "oh, this is about your particular and idiosyncratic COVID damage."
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Yes I’m someone with a newsletter for moms on the left, but so many of my recent convos with moms in my red area have begun with everyone tiptoeing around this problem before ascertaining that we all disagree with far-right mom groups and—like a dam breaking—everyone laughing and going “fuck that”
November 15, 2023 at 10:24 PM
Yes I’m someone with a newsletter for moms on the left, but so many of my recent convos with moms in my red area have begun with everyone tiptoeing around this problem before ascertaining that we all disagree with far-right mom groups and—like a dam breaking—everyone laughing and going “fuck that”
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The thing is, a total and absolute ban on abortion isn't even the end of it, we've all watched as they have also opposed the availability of contraceptives and even the HPV vaccine that protects against cervical cancer any time they've had the opportunity
November 9, 2023 at 3:34 PM
The thing is, a total and absolute ban on abortion isn't even the end of it, we've all watched as they have also opposed the availability of contraceptives and even the HPV vaccine that protects against cervical cancer any time they've had the opportunity
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The Johnson news cycle has made me realize how many people weren’t really around for the Original Recipe Evangelicals. Gay marriage bans passing in blue states by landslides, Ds panicking about losing “values voters”
October 27, 2023 at 6:40 PM
The Johnson news cycle has made me realize how many people weren’t really around for the Original Recipe Evangelicals. Gay marriage bans passing in blue states by landslides, Ds panicking about losing “values voters”
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one crucial development in the ideology of anti-abortion politics is the widespread belief that pregnancy runs essentially on autopilot and no serious medical attention is ever required. allows anti-abortion zealots to ignore the fact that their policies produce maternity care deserts
staffing shortages (related to Dobbs) and refusing to expand Medicaid has destroyed another 3 labor & delivery units in Alabama. some mothers will have to drive 100 miles to get to a hospital with one www.nbcnews.com/health/women...
Fears rise as 3 maternity units prepare to close in Alabama
The state has one of the country’s highest maternal mortality rates. Now, three hospitals plan to stop delivering babies, putting some pregnant women at even higher risk.
www.nbcnews.com
October 15, 2023 at 7:03 PM
one crucial development in the ideology of anti-abortion politics is the widespread belief that pregnancy runs essentially on autopilot and no serious medical attention is ever required. allows anti-abortion zealots to ignore the fact that their policies produce maternity care deserts