@schwarzenegger.bsky.social Governor Schwarzenegger, I received your No on Prop 50 mailer. I see no viable solution given while Texas and possibly other Republican led states are planning to rig our voting system. Politics is a dirty business, sometimes you need to get dirty.

I’ve lived through government shutdowns.

Under normal circumstances, I understand why compromises are made to keep the government running.

These are not normal circumstances.

When autocratization is reversed: episodes of U-Turns since 1900 The world is in a “wave of autocratization.” Yet, recent events in Brazil, the Maldives, and Zambia demonstrate that autocratization can be halted and reversed. This article introduces “U-Turn” as ...

“52% of all autocratization episodes become U-Turns, which increases to 73% when focusing on the last 30 years. The vast majority of U-Turns (90%) lead to restored or even improved levels of democracy”

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Punishing college students for protesting him.

Pressuring TV networks to fire late night talk show hosts for criticizing him.

Suing newspapers for reporting he doesn’t like.

If this were happening in another country, what would you call it?

If President Trump gets to run in ‘28 then so does President Obama

Trump is saying Americans shouldn’t pay more for drugs than those in other countries.

But instead of an EO that will get challenged again by Big Pharma, why not work with @sanders.senate.gov & me to make this law!

the thing is, people really do believe that trump can’t be corrupt because he’s rich, and it is hard to persuade people that trump has a different relationship to money than the rest of us (it is a literal fetish object for him)