Betty Yee drops out of California governor’s race in advance of June primary The former state controller cited a lack of resources in her decision to suspend her campaign.

I think Betty Yee would have been great at being Governor. Too bad that's so different from running for Governor.

You are the threat. California doesn't want you here and we will cheer when you are abolished and/or jailed.

Ok, but that's worse. I mean, you do get how that's worse. Right?

#USOpenCup

THERE'S ONLY ONE KNOXVILLE! #USOC2026

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Yes! Wait...

Highly recommend season 2 of the 'Future of our Former Democracy' podcast, which looks at Germany's PR system and compares the success of their far right AfD--which has surged but remains out of govt-- vs the MAGA mvmt which is doing a lot of damage to the country/democracy/the world.

FC St. Pauli | FC St. Pauli awards Peace Prize – supporting civil… FC St. Pauli has presented the Peace Prize for the first time. With this award, the club honors individuals and initiatives that actively stand for…

FC St. Pauli presents the Peace Prize in the US for the first time. The award honors individuals and initiatives that stand for solidarity, participation, and respectful coexistence. The first recipient is Wes Burdine, owner of the Black Hart of Saint Paul in Minnesota.

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Orban consolidated power by making the electoral system less proportional and gerrymandering districts of very unequal sizes.

That gave Orban supermajorities when the opposition was divided and less popular—but it turned an opposition landslide into a supermajority that can now dismantle the regime

Me, sowing an electoral system so I can get a constitution-amending supermajority on a smaller share of the vote: Haha fuck yeah!!! Yes!!

Me, reaping an electoral system where they can get a constitution-amending supermajority on a smaller share of the vote: Well this fucking sucks. What the fuck.

We won’t know until final vote tallies, but it’s likely that Orbán‘s emulation of the US electoral system — making elections much more winner-take-all and gerrymandered — has blown up in his face.

Should be a warning to the GOP: if you lose badly enough, any gerrymander can become a dummymander

more seriously congrats to the hungarian people for kicking that asshole out

Children in Juárez, Mexico, watched a live broadcast of the launch of NASA's Artemis II mission. JOSE LUIS GONZALEZ/REUTERS

call me a liberal nationalist but I feel proud to export an American culture of space exploration, multicultural immigrant cuisine, the Black American music tradition, football basketball baseball, NY Jewish comedy, land grant universities, and social libertarianism

Our Climate Future: A Forum with California's Next Governor YouTube video by California Environmental Voters

Who is better on climate, transit and housing, Steyer or Porter? My impression, based partly on this Enviro Voters forum is Steyer, though Porter was better than the others. Those are more important issues, to me, vs whether someone is a billionaire, or an asshole, etc. No rapists, obvs.

Have you looked at proportional representation? www.prorepcoalition.org www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_27... protectdemocracy.org/work/proport...

This is so fucking cool.

Oh yeah, this one too. ffs.

Just re-upping this.

This is key. Folks in and around the Dem party fear proportional representation because they assume (probably correctly) that it will cost them some seats. The tradeoff is a solid governing majority they can work within, and progress on issues that huge swaths of voters support.

Time Zone - World Destruction (1984) YouTube video by Adam Ford

So long Afrika Bambaataa. See you soon! youtu.be/4VgLkk_drx4?...

Alchemist Community Development Corporation broke ground on a new public market in the River District which will have a corner store, a cafe and leasable spaces for emerging restaurateurs to get established. Can't wait!

Read more at: www.sacbee.com/news/busines...

Proportional ranked choice voting with lists. Best of both worlds! (Kind of similar to what Australia does in their Senate and state legislatures.

Under the Constitution right now, the only way to add Senators is to add states. Douglass Commonwealth! But yeah, the Senate is maybe the most undemocratic thing about our Constitution.

Something exciting will be happening here tomorrow morning: the groundbreaking ceremony for the Alchemist Public Market here in the River District! Guest speakers include @dorismatsui.bsky.social and Mayor McCarty.

I guess technically you could change the Senate classes, and every two years have 16 or 17 states elect both of their senators at the same time by RCV? That would be interesting but maybe too weird/disruptive for people.

Just bc you can't change the number of Senators or how they are apportioned two per state without a constitutional amendment. Voting method and number of House reps per district are not spelled out in the constitution. So do think single-winner RCV for Senators would be worse than what we have now?

Just want to throw in that there are efforts to establish proportional representation that folks can support. At the federal level, many progressive and 'moderate' Dems (not enough yet) support the Fair Representation Act. And there are state level efforts like prorepcoalition.org