Jay Wyss

Let your inner Social Democrat out!, Bill! Your transformation will be complete 😂

Sears was insufferable, but I wish Democratic candidates would be more clear and either:
1) Call the GOP culture war out in response
2) Say the Governor doesn't have to make these decisions, and instead defer to localities (which Spanberger did, in a longwinded way)

Stop using Strava's athlete intelligence, it is the opposite of intelligence

Embrace the training method of Norwegian Singles!

What's that Brandeis quote?

“We may have a democracy or we may have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we cannot have both.”

We should be looking at energy independence for all, and the path to peace that can bring - not domination of some over many

Internet platforms cannot continue to make their money on ad revenue. It makes the temptation to exploit negative emotions - outrage, anger, fear, etc. - too strong.

We must force them to switch to a different business model, or everyone is going to be driven insane - like Myanmar in 2017

Trump orders flags to half mast for Charlie Kirk but wouldn't even call the Gov of Minnesota after Democratic elected officials were killed in Minnesota by a Trump supporter. Democratic lives do not matter to Trump

uh, that totally looks like a Google Pixel.

I, for one, don't mind calling it the Department of War. It is more evocative of what DoD actually does.

Now, HOW Trump has renamed it? Yeah, don't like it - but I do like that the language isn't sanitized.

I'm fine with not taking that, provided we tax any loan with stocks as collateral as income.

Letter: Want to stop gerrymandering? Expand the House Gerrymandering — both Republicans and Democrats use it to grab partisan advantage. Voters hate it. It feels like cheating when politicians pick their own voters. And that’s because it is

@ghostofjmadison.bsky.social I got a letter to the editor. How about increasing the size of the house in my local paper

richmond.com/opinion/lett...

CubeAndFourthRootsAtStateLevel

A couple years ago, I did some math setting state house and state senates to the cube and fourth root of their respective populations. You might find it interesting

docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

Respectfully, Will, you're off base. You're making sure2 mistakes

1) Rigging maps is harder when there are more variables to solve for.

2) Statehouses also suffer from enormous democracy deficits! Only a handful of states even come close to healthy representation

#UncapTheHouse

The problem is getting rid of the Electoral College. Amendments are hard. National Popular Vote Compacts are lame.

How would you feel about awarding 1 EV per District and 2 per State that a candidate wins?

I mean, the largest number of people never vote - so wouldn't that just be perpetual gridlock? :p

I slightly disagree, but only because urban and suburban areas are typically more blue. More seats should provide those Americans with better representation, and that's an indirect way of favoring Democrats.

It's a similar note to your pointing out that the GOP would be less beholden to extremes.

I like the way you're thinking. The territories deserve representation, too!

Don't bring a knife to a gun fight.

Now, uncap the House per the Cube Root Rule. That'd mean the House has roughly 700 seats (depending on the exact scenario). This creates more urban and suburban districts and those districts currently favor Dems. That increases Dem chances of winning the House.

#UncapTheHouse

The new states?

North California, South California, DC, and Puerto Rico.

That's *at least* 6 Senate votes for the Dems, and as many as 8. Would it be possible for the GOP to win a Senate Majority? Yeah, but very, very difficult. Think of it as gerrymandering the Senate.

Here's the path to destroying the GOP's grip on American politics and doing so for the rest of our lives:

1. Uncap the House
2. Admit 4 New States

That's it. No constitutional amendments or convention needed. Dems simply need a trifecta, and the willingness to use it.

#UncapTheHouse #51stState

There's this thing called the Internet. People can also remote in from other locations, like state capitals.

Could do something similar with Medicaid, food stamps, etc.

If your company is paying people enough that no employee is on public assistance, give that company a tax break.

If not? The government has the option of going hard and assessing the difference

The way to fight this is to add more seats to the House of Representatives. More seats makes it more difficult to gerrymander, and we haven't had an increase in the number of seats since the early 20th century yet our population is three times larger

Kristi Noem, Tulsi Gabbard, Pam Bondi, Hillary Clinton, and many other examples of women who are part of the problem, not the solution. Men aren't perfect, far from it, but neither are women

It gets to an utter lack of humility among the rich. They see themselves as the main characters is the story of humanity, and not humanity itself as the character.

We don't need them to move forward - we will do that with or without them.

On immigration - it isn't the migrants who are the problem, it's employers who skirt the law and hire migrants under the table for poor wages in bad conditions and don't pay their taxes.

Even Bill Kristol is calling for the abolition of DHS and ICE

bsky.app/profile/bill...

Happy to elucidate further, but if it is a time for change - let that change be radical. It's a new era with new challenges, and it requires new ideas and new thinking.

To me - that means a multiparty and economic democracy with simple, universal systems that treat everyone equally.

This two tier, two party, and two class system where we have choice in everything that matters but nothing that's important has *got* to go.

It's driving us all crazy.