Especially if they adopt ranked order voting for the primary.
25.11.2025 21:19 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0@mkkraemer.bsky.social
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Especially if they adopt ranked order voting for the primary.
25.11.2025 21:19 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0No surprise here.
www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/d...
Ranked-choice voting didn't *mathematically* change much in Portland, mostly the same people won who would have with FTTP. But it sure did lower the level of rancor a bunch, letting voters have more "expressive power" without worrying about spoilers
24.11.2025 05:46 โ ๐ 97 ๐ 11 ๐ฌ 4 ๐ 2Yes please! Iโm all for it!!
25.11.2025 12:46 โ ๐ 9 ๐ 2 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Moments ago: tenants of the South Shore apartment building that federal immigration agents raided at the end of September held a presser to announce they're forming a tenants union.
They're demanding, among other things, sewage removal and heat and electricity restroration.
More updates TK.
Remember that striking Starbucks workers are asking you not to buy Starbucks right now
24.11.2025 13:51 โ ๐ 2754 ๐ 997 ๐ฌ 16 ๐ 56Hillary was going to give us taco trucks on every corner.
Now, the taco trucks have become one focus of renewed civil society to save neighbors.
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24.11.2025 12:27 โ ๐ 510 ๐ 162 ๐ฌ 11 ๐ 74โOther major cities such as Cape Town, South Africa, Mexico City and Jakarta, Indonesia, as well as parts of California, are also facing day zero scenarios as they sink and run out of water.โ
23.11.2025 22:20 โ ๐ 74 ๐ 42 ๐ฌ 4 ๐ 1AOC on MTG retiring: "She's carefully timing her departure just 1-2 days after her pension kicks in and after making millions of dollars insider trading stocks for weapons manufacturers and others while in office. She is saying a lot but her ACTIONS have not backed up the rhetoric. For all her talk, she's STILL voting with them to gut healthcare and advance self-dealing corruption schemes."
Who remembers those early Palantir trades
22.11.2025 15:08 โ ๐ 8852 ๐ 2262 ๐ฌ 158 ๐ 82#tgdor2024 transgender day of rememberance we remember those who are lost and those who are struggling. We commit to work to honor, support, and protect all our trans siblings.
๐ฏ๏ธ Taking the time this #TGDOR to remember, care, gather strength, and prepare for the next struggle.
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Please understand that "reward people for being healthy", in health insurance, also translates to "punish people for being disabled."
The people who are most vulnerable, most in need, will be asked to bear higher costs, in many cases, pricing them out of accessing health care, into early graves.
Guardian: Utah landscape company Rubicon and employees file federal action alleging former Utah AG, Trump ally Sean Reyes, conducted a public spectacle of a bogus human trafficking raid solely for political purposes, violating federal law. No charges ever filed as a result of the โraidโ.
18.11.2025 14:39 โ ๐ 18 ๐ 7 ๐ฌ 2 ๐ 1Poverty is a policy choice. Concentrated wealth is a policy choice. Inequality is a policy choice. None of it is natural or inevitable. Remember: We have the power to build a system that serves the many, not the powerful few.
19.11.2025 21:01 โ ๐ 6832 ๐ 2118 ๐ฌ 144 ๐ 86I would like to share something.
A year ago, Trump won and I was furious and scared so I sent a text to a few of local women I knew and asked them to join me at a meeting and invite like-minded women they knew. A few showed up, then a few more. We became a group called The Salon and we meet monthly
Theyโd be a lot more dangerous if they were even half as competent as they are corrupt.
19.11.2025 18:59 โ ๐ 19 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0BREAKING: Texas Republicans' redistricting map has been shot down by a federal judge
18.11.2025 18:23 โ ๐ 616 ๐ 116 ๐ฌ 26 ๐ 14Federal Court Blocks Texas Map: โSubstantial Evidence Shows That Texas Racially Gerrymandered the 2025 Mapโ talkingpointsmemo.com/news/federal...
18.11.2025 20:33 โ ๐ 302 ๐ 66 ๐ฌ 10 ๐ 4Trump's economy is being held up by a massive AI bubble.
A recent study found that of 300 companies that owned generative AI tools, 95% reported zero return on their investments.
We will not entertain a bailout of these companies should this bubble pop.
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19.11.2025 02:00 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0Refusing to sign after making a big deal about only Dems being implicated in the files would certainly send a message.
19.11.2025 00:04 โ ๐ 3 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0There was a second discharge petition going this whole time that reached 218 signatures and will now get a House floor vote too. It would reverse Trump's executive order that revoked federal union rights from workers.
aflcio.org/press/releas...
Congress and the Senate have voted to release the Epstein files.
Please remember there's between 200,000 and 400,000 untested rape kits sitting in police stations across America.
Hundreds of thousands of people denied justice.
This is misogyny. This is rape culture.
Let me tell you about the other Epstein files the Trump administration is STILL HIDING โ records that arenโt affected by the bill Congress passed today.
18.11.2025 23:12 โ ๐ 3500 ๐ 1499 ๐ฌ 74 ๐ 157If they adjourn for Thanksgiving then He could feasibly pocket veto, and theyโd have to reintroduce the bill.
18.11.2025 23:53 โ ๐ 4 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 2 ๐ 0Boy is he in the right place at the right time!
18.11.2025 23:46 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0bigly
18.11.2025 23:44 โ ๐ 4 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0HOLY SHIT. I hadnโt seen this!
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It appears he is entering his โFinding outโ era.
18.11.2025 23:38 โ ๐ 3 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 2 ๐ 0If only journalists had the integrity of the Miss Universe Pageant Contestants who stood and walked out in solidarity when the pageant director called Miss Mexico a โdumbhead.โ
18.11.2025 23:35 โ ๐ 49 ๐ 18 ๐ฌ 4 ๐ 0