The youth did not save us.

«Young people who chose issues like racism, abortion, and climate change as their top priority in the 2024 election were the most likely to support Harris. However, 40% of youth chose “the economy and jobs” as their top priority—by far the highest of any issue, and those youth voted for Trump by a more than 22-point margin. Immigration was the third most commonly chosen top issue among youth overall, and the young people who chose it voted for President Trump by a nearly 70-point margin.»

https://circle.tufts.edu/latest-research/overall-youth-turnout-down-2020-strong-battleground-states

«It’s also worth highlighting that, in an election cycle with a lot of focus on the potential role of influencers and celebrities to engage young voters, less than 1% of young people said that motivation from an influencer had been one of their top-three motivations to cast a ballot.»

«More Than 1 in 3 Young People Were Never Contacted By an Organization About the 2024 Election»

«The study surveyed a total of 2,064 self-reported U.S. citizens ages 18 to 34 in the United States.»

There’s kind of a launchpad to this info here: https://circle.tufts.edu/2024-election.

And here’s how I found it: https://prospect.org/culture/2025-01-31-celebrity-fatigue-democrats/.

On Trump ignoring the Supreme Court’s ruling on Tiktok, after Congress passed a bipartisan law banning it:

«it shows that the Court’s reputation has already reached a point when a president can openly ignore its rulings and orders, with hardly any opposition or political consequence. Trump has set a precedent, and it’s hard to imagine this will end here.»

https://prospect.org/justice/2025-01-31-trump-administration-test-supreme-court-tiktok/

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/musk-aides-lock-government-workers-out-computer-systems-us-agency-sources-say-2025-01-31/

There’s gotta be another lawsuit here.

It occurred to me this morning that whining and complaining is nothing new:

«The whole congregation of the Israelites complained against Moses and Aaron in the wilderness. The Israelites said to them, “If only we had died by the hand of the Lord in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the pots of meat and ate our fill of bread, for you have brought us out into this wilderness to kill this whole assembly with hunger.”»

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Exod.16.2,Exod.16.3&version=NRSVUE

Context: all the bitching and moaning about the Democratic party before the election, and now the rationalizations.

https://www.rawstory.com/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-2671031806/

Thanks, AOC, good reminder.

https://5calls.org/issue/robert-kennedy-rfk-hhs/done/

And you can, too!

2 voicemails, 2 minutes.

@ifixcoinops 🔗 https://retro.social/users/ifixcoinops/statuses/113913560170941693 – Putting books on my kid’s vintage ereader and my vintage ereader too and good grief an epub for a fiction book does not have to be thirty megabytes yikes

And after all the hilarity:

«We were promised a newly efficient crew of flying monkeys who’d have all their ducks in a row and get right to work making with the creative destruction. They don’t seem yet to have arrived.

But do not get comfortable and Do Not Congratulate: These sick bastards never get tried of trying.»

https://www.wonkette.com/p/america-1-trump-0-trumps-funding

Nailed it, Wonkette; thank you.

«The New York Times was at least skeptical of Treasontits’ disavowals, but, headline:….»

https://www.wonkette.com/p/surprise-surprise-project-2025-was

You go, Wonkette. New insult with every other breath.

«weaponized incompetence»

https://www.wonkette.com/p/america-1-trump-0-trumps-funding

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