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Extremists hate #RankedChoiceVoting because Ranked Choice Voting improves voter choice & voter satisfaction, and extremists need voters to be angry & desperate

Once again. Just like the Paramount Merger Gavin Newsom does what he always does. Sells out the working class people for the billionaires again and again. Not only that but endorses a bill that will make it impossible to tax the wealthy at all. www.commondreams.org/news/newsom-...

Harris would not be my first or second or probably even third choice. But I hope she runs just to choke off the cursed @gavinnewsom.bsky.social campaign. She is a far better candidate than him in every way. That guy fucking sucks.

Newsom rejecting the billionaire wealth tax is one thing. Supporting the billionaires' poison pill alternative which would ban taxes on assets permanently, end any chance to fix stepped-up basis, & could be used by an enterprising lawyer to invalidate vehicle fee or other tax changes is another.

I died in the shipwreck of a whaling vessel in 1798, but a few days later, clinging to an old rum barrel. Now I can only haunt this one specific patch of desolate ocean. I thought I saw a cruise liner once, in the distance. Had a scare ready to go and everything. Not much going on outside of that

Fuck. #blooddiesel ?

Students made their first minicomics in my intro making course - mostly standard format but this student, a first time maker(!), did something so off the charts I’m still reeling from it! & he made like 12 of them for his classmates! A paper engineering feat of flipbookery as well as killer drawing!

"Haaland, 115" sorry I thought of this and now you have to see it too

Holy shit.

Come hang out with me and @prorepcoalition.bsky.social and @indivisiblesac.bsky.social and @betterballotsac.bsky.social and help design a more inclusive and more representative election system for the California legislature. It's fun! It's free! It's different! There will be snacks!

This poll from Cook is bonkers. A *huge* plurality of voters (43% overall, 61% of Ds) want Dems to focus on changing the political system overall vs. just opposing (21%, 36% of Ds) or working with Trump (35%, 3% of Ds).

Hot take: Some soccer fan billionaire eating a few million dollars a year to support local soccer coverage across America would have a much bigger impact on the future of the sport than subsidizing the salary of a fancy USMNT manager

Quite proud of the work I did over summer with Colin Cole and @equitabledemocracy.bsky.social on a podcast. Trailer is up! We see what lessons we can learn about electoral systems from Australia and try to apply to the U.S. www.youtube.com/watch?v=kH9p...

Here's David Ellison's statement on his successful Paramount-WBD. Thanks Newsom "for his support throughout this process." State AGs were on track to kill the the merger with litigation and delay. Is Newsom giving up on the presidency and instead pursuing a post-gov career as Friend of Oligarchs?

Next week, League of California Cities will vote on a reactionary resolution put forward by a few cities to support development of a constitutional amendment to overturn much of the state legislature's authority on housing. El Cerrito City Council unanimously voted to oppose. 🧵

One in 10 Americans were forcibly moved to a new district in the gerrymandering wars. And it’s only going to get worse. @apnews.com story about our report on gerrymandering whiplash and why proportional representation is the only way out. @protectdemocracy.org apnews.com/article/redi...

Voting rights advocates regroup as Callais decision threatens Black representation

The Alchemist Public Market is coming along quickly!

Sacramento! Do you want to help build a better, more inclusive and more representative democracy in California? Join me and @prorepcoalition.bsky.social and @indivisiblesac.bsky.social and @betterballotsac.bsky.social on October 6 and help us design a better election system. It's hella fun!

The next reconstruction: - Expand the House to 700 Seats - Use MMP to create a multi-party system with PR - Use RCV for US Senate elections - End the filibuster + add DC - Limit the power of the Supreme Court - Expand the court to 13 Justices - Term limits and ethics rules for the court

Jim Boren nails it here. I worked with C.K. & Jim McClatchy for 2 decades on the editorial board. They put the public interest & journalism ahead of money. These Chatham guys are barbarians with the nerve to beg for donations while screwing their communities & workers. gvwire.com/2026/09/12/m...

I am incredibly grateful to @marielgarza.bsky.social and the @goldenstateorg.bsky.social team for offering me a chance to write about the McClatchy layoffs. Please do me the favor of reading it 💕 www.golden-state.org/sacramento-b...

Supremacy is out today! Join @nikobowie.bsky.social and me for a virtual book talk with the great @adamserwer.bsky.social tonight at 7 pm EST.

Fucking Sacramento. Guy this morning behind me on his loud ass Harley, in the bicycle lane, so he could get around traffic. I stopped and asked wtf and he told me get out of the way. I refused to move and told him to get the fuck out of the bike land and he said "you should be a better person." No.

"Labor’s leverage within the Democratic coalition has steadily eroded since the New Deal era: unions can threaten to withhold campaign contributions or volunteer efforts, but cannot support a party that better represents their interests, because no such party can viably emerge."

If we nominate Newsom we will get destroyed and we will deserve it.

We have our own version of the AfD. Thanks to our election system, they control the entire federal government, they're kidnapping people and putting them in concentration camps, sending armies into opposition-controlled cities and shooting people in the streets.

This Labor Day I’m thinking about the presidential platform Eugene V. Debs ran on in 1912: - votes for women - proportional representation - overturn judicial supremacy - DC/territorial suffrage - make the Constitution easier to amend teachingamericanhistory.org/document/the...

Since it's Chrissie Hynde's birthday today, you need to hear this incredible version of Nick Drake's River Man. Damn. #musicsky

Look, did Gavin Newsom do anything of note nor lead meaningful change in any of California's biggest problem areas in eight years as governor? No. But is going to be the Democratic Party's nominee for president in 2028? Also no.

While Newsom talks a good talk on addressing climate change, he’s been committing climate arson by defunding transit, biking, and walking programs for years. @damientypes.bsky.social does an excellent job here summarizing how our Governor has prioritized highways over transit again and again.

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Dear Humanity, I sincerely apologize for taking the wrong person again. I will be going on a listening tour to hear from the community and promise to do better in the future. Thank you, God

LMAOOOOOOOOOO somebody finally asked the transphobes if they know any WNBA players besides and NOPE

lol fucking what?

This was so good until the nonsense about "base hits" like RCV and open primaries. Those have their place. They are not steps toward proportional representation. Don't confuse people!

I've spent my career fighting gerrymandering through litigation, advocacy, and public education. I even lost huge in the Supreme Court. After Callais, I'm convinced the tools are nearly gone. The problem is structural. My case for proportional representation, in @GlobeOpinion: protdem.org/45XQYuL

@ruthgreenwood.bsky.social is 1 of 500+ scholars urging Congress to adopt proportional representation. After a career fighting gerrymandering, her conclusion is clear: it’s time for systemic change. We’re proud to back her & fellow scholars in their push for change. Her latest for @bostonglobe.com

Why is anyone paying Dan Walters to write about high speed rail? This is mostly recapping Joe Mathews (actually informative) column and tacking on Walters' disapproving. "It is yet another chapter in a seemingly endless political melodrama." No reporting, nothing added, no point at all in reading.

I just heard Double U on the radio, in Sacramento. I don't know if that's ever happened to me. That's why I support low power FM @kutzfm.org !

A new poll from @fixourhouse.bsky.social & @newamerica.org finds voters support proportional representation by a 2-to-1 margin. Support was high for GOP, Dem, & independent voters. PR & multi-member districts would end gerrymandering & give everyone a voice in Congress. www.npr.org/2026/08/10/n...

By my estimate, inflation, meager raises, and pay cuts cost CA state workers $4,200/y since 2019. Global Workplace Analytics's estimates four days of telework saves state workers $4,280 dollars. Telework offset all the losses. That's why Newsom's RTO order has become a worker flashpoint.

The Democratic Party is and remains a heterodox coalition of factions, constrained by single-member districts to fight itself bitterly over what it wants to be when it finally grows up, wasting valuable resources. Alternative: it could be multiple parties.