How much of an impact will SB 79 have on Los Angeles Proposition U (1986)?

The MTG Test is basically a test of someone's threshold tolerance for antisemitism; we are once again learning how many people are totally cool with someone being a vicious ideological antisemite.

Ban them from operating within 50 miles of a school. Force them to read a statement about how evil they are. I want the entire forced birth playbook thrown at these fuckers.

Every state that's about to have their conversion torture ban overturned should put a 1000000% tax on it, do the Texas bounty hunter thing, whatever

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Would be absolutely crazy if he actually let most of these civil rights bills become law without signature for Twitter cred.

This is the second story I read just yesterday of people being put in deportation proceedings for shit they didn't actually do. The other one was about a cop who arrested a delivery driver married to a US citizen who had a bottle of perfume named Opium and the cop arrested him for...opium possession

Finally, the final day for gubernatorial action, 30 days since sine die. Leginfo: 622 bills signed, 40 vetoed, 234 enrolled, 21 listed as “Senate - Unfinished Business” (out of 917 total).

Lots of civil rights bills on his desk. Heading to Pride in the AM so I'm posting this early. #caleg #capol

When I was applying for PoliSci PhDs this is what I wanted to focus on, but lol lmao got in nowhere

RESULT: New Orleans has a new mayor. Helena Moreno, a Democrat known as a progressive member of the city council, easily won today’s mayoral race and cleared the 50 percent threshold to avoid a runoff. She’ll replace the retiring Democratic Mayor, Cantrell.

I love editing Wikipedia, but I don’t want to use that username in public. Would be a shame to part with that contribution history again though.

The average person has three friends (Linux edition):

Some weirdo on Twitter has been absolutely melting down for like 36 straight hours because I posted:

When this is over, do not forget what ICE did, and what ICE is. And do not make room for them in society. Make sure they know that they are, and will continue to be, reviled and beneath contempt.

a state of Puerto Rico could be a light red state if the GOP was even 20 percent less racist

It’s so funny to hear people describe Portland as a war zone because they obviously sound like fascist losers whose children won’t call them back, but they also sound like massive weakling cowards.

Yesterday, the Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to Venezuela democracy activist María Corina Machado

I actually wrote about the collapse of democracy in Venezuela last year, and have an update I just released, looking in depth at the rigged 2024 vote there

mcimaps.substack.com/p/repost-spe...

Second to last miscellaneous dump of bill sigs + 19 vetoes. Notable veto: SB 24 (regulating lobbying by public utilities), due to a “significant clerical error”. Can this be fixed quickly or is it dead for the year?

I was such a critic of this move, but I’m really happy to have been proven wrong.

SPS and the Public Facilities District have done an excellent job partnering to program the stadium for both community and economic benefit.

the kind of thing that is a whole lot more significant given who's in power

Fietser 😉

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Signed: @scottwiener.bsky.social’s SB 41 to regulate PBMs (prescription middlemen). Newsom had previously vetoed a broader version, SB 966, in 2024, but included provisions for licensing PBMs through the state in the 2025 budget. This bill would add additional regulatory guardrails.

Coming out as a big Trader Joe’s hater. It is not a grocery store, all their produce is bad and they don’t usually have proper storage for their other products. They are a glorified snack store that targets the same neighborhoods as Whole Foods yet gets half the heat as them.