Thread by @RachelBitecofer

1. Excited to announce my 1st @ElectionWsphr @substack The Cycle-On Substack is live!!

That's right! My @SubstackInc is finally live!!! I'd be deeply honored to have you subscribe in any capacity so that my content arrives right into your inbox!

thecycle.substack.com/p/the-election…

It features an all-⭐️panel of political scientists @LilyMasonPhD, @NathanKalmoe, & @stevenwwebster- each experts in neg. partisanship & partisan schadenfreude

What?!

What's that you say?!

2. It's the desire to hurt or maybe even kill your political opponent! Mason & Kalmoe discuss how partisan schadenfreude leads to a lethal mass partisanship while Webster discusses his new book on neg partisanship- American Rage stevenwwebster.com/7americanrage.…

3. While you're there (on my substack) I hope you'll consider subscribing, as either a free subscription or for 1 of the two paid subscriber options. Much of the content- like The Election Whisperer are free, so its totally worth subscribing even if you aren't interested in a

4. paid account because the podcast will get delivered right into your inbox!

Many of you have been with me from the very beginning, and I appreciate everyone who has reached out to offer support or assistance over that time. As you know, I am currently unemployed! Post Jan. 1

5. we'll finally be able to launch our Super Pac, which we intend to make #goodtrouble with (free tip: never try to launch a Super Pac over the holidays). Between the Super Pac & The Cycle-On Substack, it is very much like bringing 2 babies into the world at the same time. I am

6. filled with equal parts excitement and terror as both of these ventures finally come together. It's a huge leap of faith for me, faith in something, believe it or not, that is hard for me to believe in: me! But dammit- I'm doing it. I'm following the "fake it till you make it"

7. rule of thumb, casting my insecurities down as far into my stomach as they can go, and jumping off the cliff. Channeling my inner-Obama and going full "yes, we can!" Just over 2 years ago I was faced with a decision as to whether I could keep my mouth shut about Trump & about

8. his GOP enablers.But silence is complicity and although silence pays the bills I just couldn't. I don't judge anyone who solves that equation differently, but I won't be made to feel badly for the fact that I can not treat the modern Rep Party as a normal political party doing

9. normal party things. Its not normal. It hasn't been for a long time. And if getting around teaching that shit was hard before, imagine this next semester after Trump & the Rep Party's failed coup attempts? What do you do with that to teach it in a way where your tuned out

10. students, who's dad mainlines Rush & Hannity all day so they won't flippantly try to tank your career on your student evaluations of teaching just bc they half assed it in class and earned a C? Its a dismal life and certainly not what I day dreamed about back in grad school.

11. I miss teaching, and a think tank posting is terrific if you ever get a chance to pursue one do it! but what I want more than anything is to be able to write and think with the kind of freedom to think, feel, and write that you can only get as an independent writer. So, I'm

12. excited that something like @SubstackInc exists so that I can give it a go. When the recruiters showed it to me, I was really impressed with the format. I love that there's a pod function already embedded into it-and I am particularly keen to see how it might mesh with the

13. research and work I'll be putting out over in the Super Pac- which is the "carrot" I'll use to lure y'all into paid subscriptions. One hang up though is that my entire audience is on this twitter account, I don't have an email list. That means w/o your help, w/o your RT and

14. effort to promote my @SubstackInc, its going to be hard for me to get anyone to notice it! So I thank you in advance for the RT of this tweet and any other help you can give me on promoting this next stage of my work.