I have just discovered that a guy I graduated high school with was the Presidential nominee of the Socialist Party USA in 2024.

He got 364 votes. Wikipedia helpfully notes that he lost the election.

I have 4,138 followers on Bluesky, by the way.

(This was going to be a “taking tonight off” post, but I had to record this information somewhere.)

(Also, I was arguing with my wife, who discovered this information, about whether this was “our” Bill Stodden, until seeing that look on his face in this picture. Yeah, that’s him.)