Thanks @thedrain.bsky.social and @prorepcoalition.bsky.social for working to unfuck our democracy!

Connie Chan for Congress (with Connie Chan) | The Drain 🕳️ Get more from The Drain 🕳️ on Patreon

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She already stood out against her faux-gressive counterparts in the race, Scott and Saikat, by having correct and unflinching opinions on the Gaza genocide and Campaign Finance. But what resonated most of all to me is Connie's commitment to a politics of dignity and love.

We talked to Connie about her immigrant background and the crucial perspective it can bring to local government, and how it's shaped her views on basically every hot-button issue for the Dems: immigration, housing costs, labor rights, healthcare, and more.

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Kempa and I are back this week, joined this time by SF District 1 Sup. @conniechansf.bsky.social — the prog. powerhouse running to represent San Francisco in Congress.

@edzitron.com thank you for your service bro

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Folks are coming out to the ICE HQ building in downtown Sacramento tonight to show ICE that they're not welcome here -- join if you can 💜

merry christmas, from our foul beast to yours 💜🐶🕳️

San Francisco's drone wars | The Drain 🕳️ Get more from The Drain 🕳️ on Patreon

Listening to @thedrain.bsky.social and getting irate for the holidays. The only thing I can imagine making food delivery colder/less edible on arrival is taking it to the sky

Federal charges against Newsom and Becerra's former chiefs of staff, and SF Mayor Daniel Lurie's animal house bungle | The Drain 🕳️ Get more from The Drain 🕳️ on Patreon

The latest from The Drain🕳️

@palma.ltd and @yeshelloitskempa.bsky.social discuss @gavinnewsom.bsky.social and AG Becerra's former chiefs of staff facing *federal* charges, and also touch on SF Mayor Daniel Lurie's big appointment bungle involving dead animals.

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033 - SMUD narcs on its California customers | The Drain 🕳️ Get more from The Drain 🕳️ on Patreon

The Plug is BACK, baby (also expect a little bonus soon)!

In today's episode, @palma.ltd tells us a chilling tale about a California public utility providing its customer data to cops in order to take down "illegal" marijuana growing operations.

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030 - Have It Your Way (with Josh Rosa of Better Ballot Sacramento) | The Drain 🕳️ Get more from The Drain 🕳️ on Patreon

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Today, Josh gives us the skinny on RCV, its practical ramifications for political campaigns, the state of its implementation in Calif., and how we can use RCV to democratize local government 🕳️🕳️🕳️

It's old hat now, but an overlooked reason for progressive candidates' success in the NY mayoral race is how RCV let NYers transfer their vote to another candidate without weakening the position of their own favorite

While it wasn't the decisive factor, RCV DID have an effect on the race 🕳️🕳️🕳️

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We're joined by Josh Rosa, volunteer for @betterballotsac.bsky.social to talk about local and state-wide efforts to bring in Ranked Choice Voting to California in a huge way 🕳️🕳️🕳️

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029 - A new poll on California sovereignty, with Coyote Marin | The Drain 🕳️ Get more from The Drain 🕳️ on Patreon

It's a new one! 🕳️

We talked with @ic.institute about their latest California poll, which found:

- 71% of residents say the state would be better off with special autonomous status within the U.S.

- 44% would vote for a ballot measure for peaceful, legal secession

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Rumor has it our executive director is going to appear on The Drain again in a couple of weeks. 🤫

Hey I don’t know what log you crawled out from under but if you observe the leadership of the party broadly seems to be more concerned with a fake crisis of antisemitism in america instead of the MANY other actual real crises they HAVE BEEN ignoring for DECADES, in addition to the ones in my OP. 😄

Paying lip service to Israhell and running the same “antisemitism” playbook as with Corbyn and to some extent Bernie (anyone else remember “self-hating jew” discourse?)… the main difference now is that they do this while Trump prepares to build more concentration camps under the aegis of ICE and CBP

If the GOP reconciliation bill passes, ICE gets through FY2029:

- $45 billion for detention, on top of the current annual budget of $3.4 billion
- $14.4 billion for transportation and removal, on top of the current annual budget of $750 million
- $8 billion for hiring/retention
- Billions more.

Liv Aga

Every single centrist dem with their panties in a bunch over Zohran would rather talk about a mayoral primary election result instead of:

• $1T cuts to federal welfare spending
• federal thugs disappearing people from their homes
• the impending end of birthright citizenship

It makes me sick.

One of those videos where you have to pause it get up and walk around for a bit before you can gather the strength to return to your device and close it

@BFriedmanDC on X: This is an ABC/BBC poll of *Iraqis* over time, from 2004-2008. It does not include 2002-2003 when Iraqi support was highest. U.S. invasion was right/wrong in 2004: 49/39 U.S. invasion was right/wrong in 2008: 49/50 news.bbc.co.uk/2/shared/bsp/h… 01 Mar 22

YouGov Do you approve or disapprove of deploying National Guard soldiers to the Los Angeles area to respond to protests over the federal government's immigration enforcement? Conducted June 10, 2025 YouGov surveyed 4309 US adults

Wild fact: The U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003 was more popular among Iraqis than the U.S. military invasion of California is among Americans today

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Apart from touching on ICE we also ask the question: why the hell is Ro fucking Khanna the only California representative formally opposing American intervention in Iran? Should compromised representatives be primaried?

Link in the quoted post:

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What it Means to be a Donor State - Independent California Institute Is it accurate to describe the federal funding California gets as California's own money? Would the U.S. be poorer and weaker without California? Does California's economy prop up red states? Is Calif...

More info about California's donor state status: ic.institute/donor-state

We probably should all stop going to work pretty soon. At what point do we stop bluffing general strike calls?

The Drain 019 - The inexorable march toward a Musk-Newsom alliance | The Drain 🕳️ Get more from The Drain 🕳️ on Patreon

Governor @gavinnewsom.bsky.social has been lurching to the right ever since he started eyeing a 2028 run for the White House. Meanwhile, Democrats are courting Elon Musk after his public fallout with Trump

Today we look at the inevitability of a Musk-Newsom alliance

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