Eric Budd

hi all. it's time for me to stop using this platform.

@AlliBerry3 best tool for Bluesky zdnet.com/article/how-to…

@jaredpolis @RobertKennedyJr @HHSGov no thank you.

I’m excited by the news that the President-Elect will appoint @RobertKennedyJr to @HHSGov. He helped us defeat vaccine mandates in Colorado in 2019 and will help make America healthy again by shaking up HHS and FDA. I hope he leans into personal choice on vaccines rather than bans (which I think are terrible, just like mandates) but what I’m most optimistic about is taking on big pharma and the corporate ag oligopoly to improve our health. Before you mock him or disagree, I want to share with you some quotes that if he follows through show why I’m excited: “Level the playing field for Americans internationally on drug costs…cap drug prices so that companies can’t charge Americans substantially more than Europeans pay." YES! Colorado currently has an application just SITTING at FDA for us to import low-cost prescription drugs from Canada and we just need their approval. "In some categories, there are entire departments, like the nutrition department at the FDA that are – that have to go, that are not doing their job, they're not protecting our kids," YES! The entire nutrition regime is dominated by big corporate ag rather than human health and they do more harm than good “We’ve got to get off of pesticide-intensive agriculture.” YES! We have tried unsuccessfully to better protect people and pollinators from harmful pesticides here in Colorado and we need all the help we can get to take on big chemical companies and improve human health and the environment! For our pollinators and our people! 🦋 He will face strong special interest opposition on these, but I look forward to partnering with him to truly make America healthy again and I hope that we can finally make progress on these important issues.

@CalebRountree I can't find you in search yet. send me a note - ericmbudd.bsky.social

@MFBlakey I'm only on Twitter now to help people get to Bluesky my Colorado list is so dead

@KaylaQFrawley unfortunately this app is done. I only use it now to ask people to move to Bluesky

@ReginaCowles you can use this tool to find the people you follow on Twitter over there: zdnet.com/article/how-to…

Been over at bsky.app 🦋 for awhile now. Come on over and liven up the place.

@BianchiWeather Bluesky is adding more than 100k users a day. would love you to consider moving there. much better experience than Threads overall

For those leaving X/Twitter, feel free to follow me on Threads (also @BianchiWeather)!

@DrSarahAxelrath definitely Bluesky. lots of great tools to move your network there and find people in your space

Alright, I’m ready. Which platform are we all moving over to?

@ericaberry2001 @lauriannem @markraymond @HC_Richardson yes, here's a searchable list of starter packs that have lists of users based on various topics blueskydirectory.com/starter-packs/…

Hey folks: I, too, am pulling out of here slowly as I head for bluer skies. Hope to see you there.

@markraymond @HC_Richardson I'm on Threads also. it's terrible and has all the same problems other Meta products have. Bluesky is a much better alternative

@HC_Richardson I hope you and others leaving here consider going on Threads too. I don't think Bluesky will really catch on, and to the extent that it has, it seems to be an echo-chamber of its own. Threads has more potential to be a constructive replacement to this hellscape IMO.

@admcrlsn the rest of #CO08 was counted last night and Caraveo lost ground instead of gaining (unexpected). so it's incredibly unlikely to win x.com/JesseAPaul/sta…

I added the target shares that Dem House candidates would need to win of the expected outstanding votes to carry each uncalled district. Note that these are *overall* benchmarks — your mileage will vary based area/type of vote counted (e.g. mail, provisional, military, cured).

@apblumenfeld ugh. hard to explain why these ballots broke for Evans

very difficult to come back from this

2,650 ballots just came in for #CO08 in Adams County that broke down 1543-1009 which would be 58%-38%. Assuming the 17k total break down the same way, Caraveo would net about 3,400 votes and put her in the lead.

@admcrlsn helpful update: x.com/apblumenfeld/s…

Bad news for Caraveo (D). If she comes up short, that probably dashes any hopes of Dems reaching 218 seats in the House.

@BruneElections if this is accurate she likely wins by a very small margin x.com/JesseAPaul/sta…

@BruneElections that's because the district covers 3 counties and only the two red counties dropped today (the third county is blue and didn't count votes today because of weather). it's not over yet and will be close

I don't think Caraveo is likely to come back. My guess is the most likely house outcome is 222R-213D. (Nothing ever changes)

@Chuck_Decker55 @apblumenfeld yes

Evans pulled ahead in #CO08 with the remainder of ballots from Weld County reporting. There are about 20-22k ballots left in Adams County. Caraveo needs those to be about 57% for her to pull ahead.

@abaumania where are you getting this info?

More like 30.000 left in Adams