California's presidential hopefuls and the perfidious Turk | The Drain 🕳️ Get more from The Drain 🕳️ on Patreon

it's very weird weather in California, so you're probably stuck indoors. Keep yourself occupied by listening to the latest from The Drain🕳️

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

California's broken representative democracy, with Caledon Myers of the ProRep Coalition | The Drain 🕳️ Get more from The Drain 🕳️ on Patreon

NEW EP!!🕳️

We spoke with Caledon Myers, founder and Executive Director of the ProRep Coalition, on the movement to un-fuck California's busted representative democracy. It's a good one: www.patreon.com/posts/154100...

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Kempa and Max sit down with San Francisco Supervisor Connie Chan to discuss her historic run to replace
@pelosi.house.gov in Congress.

Enjoy: www.patreon.com/posts/connie...

Possibly my favorite episode yet? www.patreon.com/posts/eric-1...

Sweet Palma and I are reciting some @ericswalwell.bsky.social poetry, as well as giving updates on @cademocrats.bsky.social infighting over the billionaire tax, the gubernatorial race, and more. Mangia!

Now that Prop 50 is set in stone after a US Supreme Court decision, California's gerrymander in favor of the Democrats has left the GOP in a tizzy.

We take a look at the implications this week, and try to find a new home for poor Kevin Kiley of CA-3 🐶: www.patreon.com/posts/kevin-...

Kevin Kiley needs a home | The Drain 🕳️ Get more from The Drain 🕳️ on Patreon

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We're talking:
- The Supreme Court ruling in favor of Prop 50, gerrymandering multiple GOP congressmen into oblivion
- Kevin Kiley hoisting the ol' bindle over his shoulder for a new home in D.C.
- A Democrat posting feet on main
- Labor vs. Newsom

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We’ll be covering La Historia Oficial soon as well, rounding out the River Plate!

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We're taking a look at the Costa-Gavras classic, State of Siege: www.patreon.com/posts/last-o...

anyone have a line on Newsom's new book? Feel like we should cover it on the show...

VIDEO: ICE agent pepper sprays demonstrators, unprovoked, day before Sacramento student protest | The Drain 🕳️ Get more from The Drain 🕳️ on Patreon

As we type, high schoolers and middle schoolers throughout Sacramento are marching on the John Moss Federal Building, where an ICE agent yesterday pepper sprayed two demonstrators.

They're protesting in solidarity with the immigrants and victims in Minneapolis 💜

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NEW: In another act of unprovoked violence, an ICE agent pepper sprays a demonstrator outside the Moss building today in downtown Sacramento

Nothing new under the California sun | The Drain 🕳️ Get more from The Drain 🕳️ on Patreon

It's a new one: We're discussing a potpourri of California storylines, and promising more ICE coverage in the weeks to come:

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friendly reminder that morale is a thing and that it's very easy to make and launch bottles of pee

Ro Khanna outshines Newsom on ICE, billionaire tax | The Drain 🕳️ Get more from The Drain 🕳️ on Patreon

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Did you know there's a CA politician who:

✅ Supports the @seiu-uhw.bsky.social billionaire tax
✅ Actively fights ICE
✅ Calls Israel's genocide in Gaza what it is

And it's certainly not @gavinnewsom.bsky.social. It's @rokhanna.bsky.social

Enjoy:
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🚨NorCal friends🚨

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 💜

not to mention @thedrain.bsky.social ep again but i believe it was palmer lucky who was quoted as whining the ONE TIME ca wealth tax would force tech ceos to become “profit-motivated” instead of chasing their dreamz

time for my medicine (the funkiest intro music in the game)

Ro Khanna outshines Newsom on ICE, billionaire tax | The Drain 🕳️ Get more from The Drain 🕳️ on Patreon

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Did you know there's a CA politician who:

✅ Supports the @seiu-uhw.bsky.social billionaire tax
✅ Actively fights ICE
✅ Calls Israel's genocide in Gaza what it is

And it's certainly not @gavinnewsom.bsky.social. It's @rokhanna.bsky.social

Enjoy:
www.patreon.com/posts/ro-kha...

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The state of Gavin Newsom's presidential prospects | The Drain 🕳️ Get more from The Drain 🕳️ on Patreon

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Fresh after his final, preening State of the State address, @gavinnewsom.bsky.social soft-launched his 2028 push for the White House with a profile in the Atlantic.

Can the AI-era's Patrick Bateman actually win?

(No.)

Enjoy: www.patreon.com/posts/148584...

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Please understand this is happening in literally dozens of locations around the city simultaneously. If an ICE vehicle stops, community members materialize in seconds and do everything they can to stop the kidnappings. We are under siege and using every tool to fight back.

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California says f*ck ICE, and Sacramento's lay of the legislative land | The Drain 🕳️ Get more from The Drain 🕳️ on Patreon

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We're discussing:

- the ICE murder of Renee Good, and California's response
- the death of rice-farming bigot/congressman Doug LaMalfa
- California legislation and new laws in 2026 (yay!)

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The Drain's🕳️ unimpeachable 2026 Hot or Not rundown | The Drain 🕳️ Get more from The Drain 🕳️ on Patreon

It’s 12/31 and time for the Hot or Not Year in Review ep of @thedrain.bsky.social

Anyway, here's to a drainy, pluggy 2026 🕳️💜 www.patreon.com/posts/147039...

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