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  • Buchenwald can refuse entry to people wearing Palestinian keffiyeh, German court rules

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  • Way to be completely right and then completely wrong in the next sentence 🤦

  • California Supreme Court declines to stop Newsom's redistricting plan

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  • gerrymandering becomes less effective/ more risky the more extreme you do it, to when you take it to it's extreme or go past it, it backfires.

    [Citation needed]

    Blue states have largely kept their powder dry

    Nope. They may not have been anywhere near as blatant about it as the fascist party, but Dem leadership around the country haven't been shy about giving themselves bigger incumbent advantages via redistricting when allowed to either.

  • California Supreme Court declines to stop Newsom's redistricting plan

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  • Actually, the supreme courts of Texas and California are separate and distinct from each other.

    Texas courts failing to stop partisan gerrymandering aimed at political parties choosing their voters rather than the other way around wouldn't make it hypocritical for those in California to protect the concept of "one person, one vote".

    If anyone is being hypocritical here, it's Mike Johnson (for being against California doing it but for Texas doing it) and zero sum Democrats (for being against Texas doing it but not against California doing it) with no regard for the damage to representative democracy and any third party or independent candidates trying to take on the Neoliberal behemoth that is the California DNC from the left.

  • Andrew Cuomo, Somehow, Wants to Weaken Affordable Housing

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  • Specifically, under Cuomo’s proposal, prospective tenants wouldn’t be allowed to rent a rent-stabilized unit unless they could prove that the rent would eat up at least 30 percent of their household income.

    Am I remembering it wrong, or do you typically get rejected for an apartment if it would eat up more than a third of your income?

    If so, there can be no doubt that Cuomo KNOWS this and wants to make almost all rent-stabilized units empty as a convenient excuse for eliminating them altogether because "nobody's using it anyway".

    Anyways, have a comic

  • Gavin Newsom tops Kamala Harris in 2028 presidential poll of California Democrats

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  • You dont need to like his policies

    That's just it: his policies are how he governs. Awful Neoliberal policies devastating working people to the point that most can barely afford to live is (along with billionaire-owned yellow media) how things got bad enough for a resurgence of fascism.

    That being said, the Neoliberal style of campaigning where the vast majority of their messaging is aimed at converting the increasingly tiny sliver of a demographic that have voted GOP and would ever in a million years vote Dem while ignoring the leftmost two thirds of their own base is a losing strategy that lost to the most unqualified and repulsive presidential candidate in living memory if not ever. TWICE.

    In conclusion: his policies (and the fact that he's almost as corrupt as your average Republican) would make him an awful president, and the campaign strategy of the DNC that he'd doubtlessly go along with would make him likely to lose to someone even worse.

  • Texas Rep. Nicole Collier alleges "illegal confinement" by GOP after refusing police escort to leave Capitol

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  • Not really, no. What nuances are you going to pretend I'm missing?

  • This Motherf*cker

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  • You thought right.

  • Texas Rep. Nicole Collier alleges "illegal confinement" by GOP after refusing police escort to leave Capitol

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  • Has she tried just leaving?

    She's a black woman in Texas. There's a nonzero chance that she'd be assaulted if not murdered by the thug enforcers of fascism for not complying, public official or not.

    I think both sides are showboating for thier base

    In this case, NEITHER side is showboating. One side is committing the crime of unlawful detainment in furtherance of forcing through an authoritarian agenda and the other side is pointing out that she's the victim of said crime and would prefer not to be illegally detained.

    But that is what we get when we choose our representatives via popularity contest.

    If only. Texas is one of if not THE most gerrymandered and otherwise politically rigged state.

    There's more registered Democrats than Republicans in Texas, yet Republicans have a lock on every branch of government due to ratfucking like the aforementioned gerrymandering and making it MUCH more difficult to participate in elections if you live in a blue district/neighborhood and/or are a racial minority.

    In other words, if it WAS a popularity contest, the GOP would lose most elections. Because it's actually a ratfucking contest, they "win" the vast majority of elections.

  • This Motherf*cker

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  • This is your friendly reminder of the original meaning of "woke", which the fascists are trying to erase because it directly threatens the willful ignorance they depend on:

    Woke: aware of systemic discrimination and abuse, particularly but not exclusively racism.

    That's it. That's the basic requirement for being an informed citizen that they want to erase to make it easier to get everyone to conform to their fascist groupthink.

  • California's New Congressional Maps Would Add Five Democratic Seats, Offsetting Texas' Push

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  • I'll shut up when the lesser evil stops being an evil and starts faithfully representing the needs of their constituency or at least anything even vaguely resembling it.

    Until then, I'll keep pointing out that nothing improves when you accept "better than the fascists" as good enough and that the lyrics to this Skunk Anansie song are a Neoliberal opportunist talking to people exactly like you guys.

  • California's New Congressional Maps Would Add Five Democratic Seats, Offsetting Texas' Push

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  • You're on Team Enablers too, I see. Must be relaxing to have no standards or expectations for the people deciding the fate of the world.

  • Gavin Newsom warms to Big Oil in climate reversal

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  • Why would I when you're right? 🤷

  • Gavin Newsom warms to Big Oil in climate reversal

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  • I mean, he was already in the pocket of PG&E, so what's another murderous energy company owner donor added to the list?

    This is a perfect example of how Neoliberals are NOT the same as progressives or even on the same side when it really matters.

  • California's New Congressional Maps Would Add Five Democratic Seats, Offsetting Texas' Push

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  • Translation: the Neoliberal (which is a center right to right wing ideology, not a left wing one) stranglehold on the state will be tightened whether voters want it to or not.

    This is NOT good. That the GOP are doing it too does NOT mean that the Dems should.

    "One person one vote unless the other team is cheating too" isn't how you regain the trust of the electorate after a decade of helping to normalize fascism.

  • Trump Appointee Demands Physical Punishments for Schoolkids: ‘We Gotta Get the Paddle Back’

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  • imo, 'weird' wasn't the correct word, nor was it strong enough

    That's the thing, though: against regular people, it's the mildest of insults if it's even an insult at all.

    Against fascists, thought, it's DEVASTATINGLY effective and here's why:

    Fascist movements depend on being absolutely convinced that they're the only sane and normal ones in a world gone mad because everyone else is an immoral weirdo. That's how they justify all of their atrocities, and it's what their entire shared identity is about.

    When you point out what weirdos their leaders are, that makes them doubt EVERYTHING about them. After all, in their world view, all weirdos are insane and immoral and all righteous people are normal.

  • Anna's Archive: An Update from the Team

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  • Texas adds reason people can be detained for mental illness as Trump urges action on homelessness

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  • Texas adds reason people can be detained for mental illness as Trump urges action on homelessness

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  • Kurt Cobain: just because you're paranoid don't mean they're not after you

    Courtney Love, to herself: oh shit, he's on to me!

    Sorry for getting my 90s conspiracy theory joke on your lovely Catch 22 reference 😁

  • Texas adds reason people can be detained for mental illness as Trump urges action on homelessness

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