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Angus Johnston @studentactivism
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"First past the post is stupid."

—The eleven-year-old, a propos of nothing.
She's right, you know.
And it wasn't even me. She learned about it in math class.
I do find the arguments that ranked choice voting can be confusing to some voters, and thus either off-putting or susceptible to causing errors that get ballots thrown out, but I don't think those problems are insurmountable.
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A weird tack for a guy whose whole pitch is his elder-statesman avuncularity to take. "I don't want to run, but all the kids in the race are crap, so here I am" is the opposite of the tone I'd have expected him to set.
Just a reminder that his instincts for primary-race messaging have never been any good, I guess.
"We have a great, deep field, and I'm honored to be running alongside this crew. Whichever of us wins the nomination would be a far better president than Trump, and if it's not me, I'll be working night and day to be sure they get to prove it" is Biden's natural lane right now.
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One more thing on youth voting: There are a lot of folks in my mentions saying kids aren’t cognitively developed enough to vote. But it’s not clear to me what that means.
At 12, the typical kid is more than able to meet baseline standards for voting—understanding what an election is, learning about candidates, managing the act of voting.
When we bar kids from making choices they’re not mature enough to make, it’s generally because we’re worried that they’ll do harm to themselves or others if allowed to choose.
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Just saw something on my feed that reminded me to remind you that if you’re a NYC (or vicinity) high school or middle school teacher and you’d like me to come talk to your students, all you have to do is say so and I’ll be there.
I've spoken with NYC middle school students about the history of youth activism, how they can make change themselves, whether we should lower the voting age—all sorts of stuff. And the conversations are always really lively.
And because it's so much fun, and because it's a subway ride away, and because I know that y'all don't have budgets for this stuff, I'm happy to do it for free. So shoot me a message if you want to set it up.
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Now to Helen Mountfield QC of Matrix Chambers, chairing our session today on the mechanics of a further Brexit referendum, introducing Prof Meg Russell of UCL, the co-author of the leading paper The Mechanics of a Further Referendum on Brexit - ucl.ac.uk/constitution-u…
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Ranked choice voting is the wave of the future.
Follow @IndyMN and other supporters of ranked choice voting to learn more about how it can work to improve our democracy.
@IndyMN One of many examples:
@IndyMN ran the only congressional candidate in MN CD8 who supported clean water and was willing to stand up to corrup sulfide mining companies. With rank choice voting Skip Sandman might have won.
@IndyMN The winning Republican is a Trump worshipper. The Democrat was so busy schmoozing sulfide mining companies that he didn’t even pay his many traffic and parking tickets. What a joke. We need choices and ranked choice voting gives us more.
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Electoral geography is easy and powerful, because images can provide clear and simple messages, but they often distort reality. Maps of Red & Blue US or Remain & Leave UK exaggerate relatively modest differences. #thread
1. We have all seen "the" electoral map of 2016 US presidential elections, which shows a largely red US (i.e. Republican).
2. It's even more pronounced when you look by county, which is the level most gerrymandered in the US.
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With the upcoming Neil-Gaiman-orchestrated "Dreaming" line at DC comics, I thought it might be time to revisit Neil Gaiman's wonderful "Sandman."

(Sandman: Overture #1.)
It's funny, I was just thinking today about the late sixties paranoia about cultural psychosis and insanity.

Modern pop culture is similarly fixated on the idea of insanity rippling through the popular unconscious.

"Legion", "Westworld", etc.

(Sandman: Overture #2.)
It's almost surprising that it took as long as it did for Gaiman to write for "Doctor Who."

Gaiman's abstract/symbolic cosmos is very much in keeping with Russell T. Davies' approach to concepts like "the Time War."

(Sandman: Overture #2.)
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I began writing on Thursday. It wasn't planned, that's simply when the words started to come. Or put another, more painfully truthful way, when I finally stopped finding reasons not to write.
For almost as long as I've been aware of stories, I've imagined creating my own. And I have, in a way. Ideas, and notes, and countless unfinished drafts. But nothing complete; nothing whole. Not a single thing I could show to someone else.
There always seemed to be a 'reason' of some kind or another. Being uninspired; needing to do research; waiting for the perfect time; saving up my money to buy a new personal computer to write on; wanting to clear the deck of any distractions; having too many distractions;
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