Happy #LaborDay to all the hardworking people who make our communities stronger, our #economy💲 thrive, and our daily lives #better through their dedication.
Happy #LaborDay to all the hardworking people who make our communities stronger, our #economy💲 thrive, and our daily lives #better through their dedication.
people come up with all kinds of fanciful math to justify billionaires' wealth but imo present political moment demonstrates conclusively that we need to tax billionaires at whatever rate will keep them focused on their own fucking business rather than our Medicaid and pediatric cancer research
Laura Loomer‘s tweet: Alligator lives matter. The good news is, alligators are guaranteed at least 65 million meals if we get started now.
The entire Latino population in the U.S. is 65 million. She means all of us.
Lisa Murkowski and John Thune deserve this. Trying to exempt Alaska from odious parts of this bill to buy her vote is overruled by parliamentarian. www.politico.com/news/2025/06...
BlueSky needs to support longer format posts...
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Personally, I like Pizza toppings as a demonstration because people seems to be more invested in what they like and do not like. You can have people that vote for the Meat Coalition or the Veggie Coalition. What about Anchovies or Gluten Free?
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At the end of tabulation, they show the winner (based upon all submissions so far) and then explain if your ballot stayed on the winner the entire time or how many times it was reallocated to different candidates as they were eliminated.
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This is a cool Ranked Choice Voting interactive demo from CNN.
Something this does that no other RCV voting demonstration does is tell you what happened to YOUR BALLOT during the process.
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I wish everything used ranked choice voting, so we could have, you know, like actual democracy!
It is just a choice. They could run a tabulation every day until all the ballots have been received. Some places do it that way.
I wish ranked choice voting was the default
No money for Medicaid or SNAP or museums or schools or sidewalks or gun violence prevention or art or libraries.
Always money for war.
Take note.
The American people were lied to about Vietnam, with tragic consequences.
The American people were lied to about Iraq, with tragic consequences.
The American people are being lied to again today. We cannot allow history to repeat itself.
Congress didn’t just lose its power it gave it away. On war, trade, and policy, lawmakers have willingly let the executive branch rule unchecked.
A view of an ornate ceiling and two pigeons looking a the photographer. Caption reads: The photographer was lying on the ground, trying to shoot this ceiling. The pigeons were concerned.
He just dropped $280,000,000 worth of artillery in a war that’s not ours, but our grandparents have to live on Ramen noodles because America can’t afford Meals on Wheels anymore.
Make it make sense.
We’re #1!!!
Our Constitution is clear that the power to declare war rests with Congress, not the Executive.
Ugh
This was my thought as I saw this quote.
Bryan Bedford, Trump‘s nominee to lead the FAA, has reportedly been lying and claiming to have a commercial pilot license that he does not actually hold.
This is why Cast Vote Records should be published for every election.
Allows independent statistical analysis and increases public trust in the results.
www.newsweek.com/2024-electio...
It most certainly is!
The stupidest people are in charge because we couldn’t prosecute a political crime because it would look too political.
So proud to be a part of this amazing morning. Location ocean beach San Francisco
#nokings
