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Interested Milwaukee Citizen @citizenmke.bsky.social · 10h

In Georgia, for example, they would get 32 reps. Maybe leave it up to the states what the exact ratio would be (within a specified range), so like 18 single member reps and 14 list seats, allocated to align the final seat count with the party’s state wide share

Interested Milwaukee Citizen @citizenmke.bsky.social · 10h

Feels like an easier sell to say
1) there are now 999 seats in the House. 500 is a majority
2) 5-600 of them are single member constituency seats (allowing every existing member to keep their seat if desired)
3) the final 400+ are chosen passed on state party share

Than other forms of PR

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Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 18h

wow you're telling me that zoomers will come out for a candidate that goes out of their way to activate them

Amanda Litman @amandalitman.bsky.social · 20h

Early vote numbers in NYC paint a picture of an electorate I don’t think anyone could have predicted.

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Interested Milwaukee Citizen @citizenmke.bsky.social · 15h

Dems have won a majority of voters 3x since the GOP last won a majority and yet we’re supposed to be gaslit into thinking at the GOP is the party that actually represents what Americans want

Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 16h

One time. The GOP has won more than 50% of the popular vote <one time> since 1992. And yet, every day, you are bombarded with Takes™️ from Ezra Douthglesias about how deeply unpopular The Democrats and their policy platform are, without any reflection on how the same standard applies to the GOP.

Larry Glickman @larryglickman.bsky.social · 17h

The Dems have won the popular vote in presidential elections six times since 1992 by roughly 5.5%(1992), 8.5%,(1996) .5%(2000), 7.3%(2008), 4%(2012), 2%(2016),and 4.5%(2020).
In that period the GOP presidential candidate has won the popular vote twice: 2.5%(2004) and 1.5%(2024).

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Interested Milwaukee Citizen @citizenmke.bsky.social · 17h

Chicago if all of the freight ROWs could be converted into S-Bahn style service.

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egg price watcher @bluser12.bsky.social · 1d

Zohran is stone cold man. Putting out an ad in Arabic after all the Islamophobic shit that’s been thrown his way? Pure swag.

Dems don’t need to copy his politics or even necessarily his campaign strategy, they need to learn how to grow a fucking spine.

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 2d

أنا اسمي زهران ممدان وعم رشّح حالي لأكون العمدة الجديد في مدينة نيويورك

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Interested Milwaukee Citizen @citizenmke.bsky.social · 1d

Or in a similar note “Mark Hamill from the animated Joker series”

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Interested Milwaukee Citizen @citizenmke.bsky.social · 1d

The original I think would be “Alec Guinness from Star Wars”

paul khruangbin (Dan Lehner) @danlehner.bsky.social · 1d

I think everybody has a “Wallace Shawn from Young Sheldon” — my first one would probably be “Vincent Price, the guy who did the voice of Ratigan in The Great Mouse Detective”

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Xander Lenc @xlenc.bsky.social · 1d

NYC is going to have the world's biggest media-manufactured crime panic in history the second Mamdani is elected. They aren't even going to wait until he is inaugurated. Whether or not you like the guy, you need to start preparing now for the fire hose of disinformation that is about to activate.

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Martin Concagh @mconcagh.bsky.social · 1d

You can tell the Dems are winning the shutdown battle because all the pundits stopped talking about the shutdown

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Interested Milwaukee Citizen @citizenmke.bsky.social · 2d

I thought the old version of the 19 only ran every 45 min or worse (every 3rd 19 went beyond Zellman) so this was supposed to be slightly better but more reliable (since it breaks up the long route)

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Interested Milwaukee Citizen @citizenmke.bsky.social · 3d

It’s finally stopped

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Interested Milwaukee Citizen @citizenmke.bsky.social · 3d

What could possibly have happened to need this kind of response? Is there like warzone going on?

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Interested Milwaukee Citizen @citizenmke.bsky.social · 3d

Fucking hell, the sirens by Water St have been nonstop for like 30 min.

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Interested Milwaukee Citizen @citizenmke.bsky.social · 3d

Yeah, I guess we would see a clearer fall off at $15 than at $7.25.

But raising the minimum wage to $15 probably helps half of all workers by either boosting them above that threshold or by benefiting from the upward pressure of competition against the minimum wage

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Ryan Radia @ryanradia.com · 3d

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Interested Milwaukee Citizen @citizenmke.bsky.social · 3d

What's the economic theory on how a federal $15 minimum wage would change this graph? I guess it would apply upward pressure on wages $15-30 ish?

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Interested Milwaukee Citizen @citizenmke.bsky.social · 3d

I stumbled upon the progressive version of not knowing what NAACP stands for lmao

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Starfish Who Can’t Think Something Witty @irhottakes.bsky.social · 3d

“Tragically, I cannot relinquish my emergency powers back to the Senate until General Grevious is destroyed. You have my assurance it is my top priority, Master Windu.“

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utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 3d

Genuinely hilarious that Bill Kristol has more moral clarity in the moment than Chuck Schumer

Matt McManus @mattpolprof.bsky.social · 3d

If I told 14 year old me this had happened hed say "time to cut back on the beer old man."

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Interested Milwaukee Citizen @citizenmke.bsky.social · 4d

(Which is how basically every post war democracy operates as)

Even now Parliament is considered the ultimate authority in the UK

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Sam Bagenstos @sbagen.bsky.social · 4d

"Having one person as chief executive is democracy’s Achilles heel, the structural feature most responsible for democratic erosion and constitutional capture."

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Interested Milwaukee Citizen @citizenmke.bsky.social · 4d

The “moderate” candidate was proud to use Jefferson Davis’ desk while in the Senate and refused to cosponsor a resolution apologizing for the lack of action by the federal government against lynching during the 20th century.

He also represented MS in the senate since 1978 as a Republican

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Interested Milwaukee Citizen @citizenmke.bsky.social · 4d

Even though both candidates were obviously bad for the Black community, one was way worse than the other, so holding one’s nose to vote for the less bad candidate is still better than not voting at all (and letting the worse candidate win)

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Interested Milwaukee Citizen @citizenmke.bsky.social · 4d

This question reminds me of the 2014 Mississippi Senate election, in which the large Black community turned out to vote in the Republican primary to ensure the more moderate incumbent Thad Cochran survived a primary against the far-right Chris McDaniels.

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