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You may have heard my arguments against the Electoral College before. Here’s a new one the Founders never anticipated:

If the President is elected by popular vote, he probably wouldn’t selectively punish entire states for voting against him.

someone must have told gavin the game involves destroying hastily built shelters

the president of the united states wants to use the american military to kill american citizens on american soil. that's the whole story!

Training the military to “quell civil disturbances” is another step toward authoritarianism.

Linking it to “the enemy from within” is absolutely terrifying since that was the phrase Hitler used for Jews & others considered undesirable.

He doesn’t even hide what he’s doing.

Trump to generals: "Last month, I signed an executive order to provide training for a quick reaction force that can help quell civil disturbances. This is gonna be a big thing for the people in this room, because it's the enemy from within & we have to handle it before it gets out of control"

Trump wraps up a speech to military leaders that represented a major escalation of his effort to weaponize the armed forces into a tool he can use to violently quash domestic dissent. Hard to imagine how anyone with a shred of dignity can keep serving after this, which of course is the point.

Not a bad idea! I'm a huge fan of what they did in Nevada City & Grass Valley with the National Exchange and Holbrooke hotels so something similar would be very cool

When you have an administration that so constantly, shamelessly, openly lies, pretty soon there’s no faith in any information streams coming from the administration, so there’s no way to convey true information in a way that lands right, which leads to more chaos.

If Democrats ever get power again there needs to be a proper reckoning. Criminals need to be indicted, prosecuted and convicted for trying to subvert our democracy and rights for Trump.

There is no room for Merrick Garlands and milquetoast centrists anymore.

You need accountability.

Democracy, more than anything is a practice. I always think that the Civil Rights Movement succeeded because from the Civil War black Americans built institutions: universities, fraternities and sororities, churches, that engaged them in democratic practice.

"“We’ve become a party that too often trims its sails. Too cautious, too rudderless. Too attached to poll-washed, pundit-rinsed, and donor-dried messages,” he said. “What comes out of the wash is all bleached and blow-dried.”

Looked at my data collections for state-backed activity. If the report were a picture:

We’re frogs in the pot about this, I think. We’re so hardened to eliminationist, fascist rhetoric from the right that it hardly makes a dent when a prominent host on a major network suggests exterminating a large group of people. But he did. And nobody on modern Right gives a shit.

Move over Tokyo, the Bay Area is coming for you

Me @ the legislature

they think liberalism is a set of rules for a discourse game, and not a fighting faith and a vision of the good

Completely agreed. I am referring specifically to the diesel fleet and the San Jose - Gilroy segment (and Salinas if it happens) though.

IMO Blossom Hill or somewhere around Metcalf is the logical end point for electrified service at least until HSR arrives. Move CEMOF to the quarry at Capitol too

Same with Caltrain. Run DMUs, sell off the older diesel fleet, save $$$

Multiple things can be true:

Political violence is toxic & Charlie Kirk’s assassination must be condemned.

Kirk was exceptionally talented & helped build a movement.

That movement brainwashed many young men with bigoted, violent poison.

Condemn his murder, but do not lionize him.

Yup. It’s almost like politics is basically marketing lol

Democrats have completely abandoned the idea they can affect public opinion of Trump’s abuses by fighting against them.

Best thing California could do to fight fascism is build more housing.

To put this loan amount in perspective:

California is spending $500 million to widen a 10-mile stretch of Highway 37 in the northern Bay Area (through a wetland, no less).

But $750 million to save the *entire* Bay Area’s transit systems is apparently infeasible.