So long Afrika Bambaataa. See you soon! youtu.be/4VgLkk_drx4?...

Alchemist Community Development Corporation broke ground on a new public market in the River District which will have a corner store, a cafe and leasable spaces for emerging restaurateurs to get established. Can't wait! Read more at: www.sacbee.com/news/busines...

Proportional ranked choice voting with lists. Best of both worlds! (Kind of similar to what Australia does in their Senate and state legislatures.

Something exciting will be happening here tomorrow morning: the groundbreaking ceremony for the Alchemist Public Market here in the River District! Guest speakers include @dorismatsui.bsky.social and Mayor McCarty.

This article makes me sick to my stomach, mostly because I can totally see this playing out exactly like this.... This is NOT how I want Sacramento to get an #MLS Team..... https://www.quailcitysoccer.com/p/if-this-is-how-sacramento-gets-mls #fedifc #Soccer #USL #SacramentoRepublicFC #SRFC […]

been said before but man it is crazy how bad slavery fucked this country up. nearly everything bad about Trump and MAGA is a direct lineal descendant of enslaver ideology and politics

Y'all, @blakewilley17 is up for Goal Of The Week. You know what to do, let's make sure he wins!!!! www.uslchampionship.com/news_article...

This is apparently the official USMNT song for the World Cup and it's embarrassingly bad.

If you're a USL fan, it's highly likely you should be unhappy that the league's private equity investors are happy about this rumored change in leadership. The investors are with the USL to blow up the valuation over 5 years by any means necessary, sell high and walk away. youtu.be/ausuLWCflQg?...

Agreed! As Lani Guinier wrote long ago, proportional representation means, "All voters are represented by someone they actually voted for." What a radical idea. A representative democracy!

Holy cow, @betterballotsac.bsky.social has only 8 weeks to collect 60000 signatures to get #rankedChoiceVoting on the ballot. Sacramento voters please sign!

Great turnout for @betterballotsac.bsky.social petition campaign launch party. LFG! #rankedChoiceVoting

Thanks @thedrain.bsky.social and @prorepcoalition.bsky.social for working to unfuck our democracy!

Presidential systems are inherently unstable and prone to collapse. A winner-take all electoral system (i.e each voter having just one representative) is not the only option for legislatures — in fact, it’s almost certainly a bad system.

poll finds that of the Trump supporters who support Trump, that they support Trump. stunning news www.gelliottmorris.com/p/2026-03-22...

Every news story I read about the Gov race polling quotes savvy experts with two solutions: Candidates of color should drop out and Dems should spend $ elevating a Republican so the GOP vote will consolidate. None of these serious experts ever suggests we can adopt a normal sane election system.

Yes. A center-left coalition in a multiparty House would exceed the sum of Democrats alone today I'm confident.

My periodic plea: Follow @ap.brid.gy so folks on Mastodon and Bluesky can interact with each other.

Agreed, but even though under PR Dems would lose some seats to a left party, there would likely be a bigger coalition elected to pass things that Dems want to do. Plus Dems could just run candidates on their own terms, and stop bitching about the woke left all the time.

Can't say I love the mayor of Sacramento saying "We also know an MLS opportunity is on the horizon" considering the trouble the Whitecaps are having in Vancouver. Wonder how Sacramento fans feel about that? @aggiepm #usl #mls

Jefferson and Adams died on July 4, 1826, the day of our nation's 50th birthday. You know what would make 7/4/2026 truly America's Jubilee?🙏

And so what will Democrats and California do about it? At some point we need to say, "You know what? We're a democracy of 40 million people, and the U.S. is no longer a democracy at all. So the SCOTUS and Trump can get fucked, and we'll pick our own representatives the way we choose."

Though nothing will drive them away, we can beat them, just for one day...

Fantastic explanation of how our election system takes power away from communities of color and other groups. I hope the resistance/indivisible movement and the broader civil rights movement in the U.S. will take a serious look at #proportionalRepresentation to build a real representative democracy.

With so many Dems running in California’s top-two primary for governor, they could split the vote and lock their party out of the general election – even if most voters favor Dems. The solution? Ranked choice voting. More from Jim Rainey of @latimes.com ⬇️

We don’t have universal healthcare for the same reason that white southerners poured cement into their community swimming pools rather than let their black neighbors swim in them. Racism is ruining ALL of our lives.

Great follow-up to the El Farolito v Sacramento Republic First Round match from @danvaughn.bsky.social First, Kevin Gonzalez is one of the most genuine soccer players that I've had the privilege to come across. Second, this is what you get from an indie media site that has deep roots in the game.

Some Democrats are lame as hell and oppose Medicare for All and abolishing ICE. That's fine, they deserve to be represented in Congress too. One day, we'll have proportional representation, and they can have their own party. But for now, please get out of the way.

El Farolito players entered the stands post-match and got into a fight with the supporters behind their bench

What did I just watch

#USOC2026 Round 1: El Farolito 0-2 Sacramento Republic Several more red cards issued as both sides get into a scrum by the benches following the second goal. Unclear how many or for whom. LIVE (YT): www.youtube.com/live/O-gSlnL... #WeWantTheCup #OpenCupAfterDark

they’re fighting in the stands post El Farolito-Sacramento Republic… insane scenes at the end of the match

END OF REGULATION SAC 0 | ELF 0 #SACvELF #USOC2026 WHY MUST WE ALWAYS GO TO FUCKING EXTRA TIME

According to a new assessment by V-Dem, democracy is back at 1978 levels for the average global citizen. The gains of the third wave of democratization since the mid-1970s are almost eradicated. The U.S. is downgraded from liberal to electoral democracy. www.democracywithoutborders.org/41651/

Polls suggest 2 Republicans and 0 Dems may advance from deep-blue California’s “top-two” primary for governor. If California used ranked choice voting, voters would get more choices & more representative results. 👀 @calrcv.bsky.social

I am old and realizing I have now spent the majority of my life in Sacramento. None of this was what I intended.

Sweet. At @sacrepublicfc.com games you can lock your bike to some temporary fencing in the parking lot and probably no one will mess with it. So that's cool too.

More Americans want to stick with Daylight Saving Time than Standard Time. But mostly everyone just wants to stop switching. #permanentDST www.gelliottmorris.com/p/64-of-amer...

The Supreme Court may soon issue a decision on the future of the Voting Rights Act. @protectdemocracy.org's Michael Latner, Alicia Menendez-Brennan, & Farbod Faraji share how proportional representation can be part of the way forward to defend voting rights.⬇️

Does USL actually respect itself? beyondthe90.substack.com/p/does-usl-a...

don’t forget to destroy your clocks tonight, walk away from your mortgage, just start driving, you’re free

The sun will rise in #Sacramento #California tomorrow at 7:27, 3510 seconds later than the day before. It will set at 19:05, 3659 seconds later than the day before. 🤷

In California's top-two primary for governor, there’s a possibility the vast Dem field splits the vote & 2 Republicans end up on the Nov ballot. A top-four primary w/ a ranked choice voting general election gives voters more choice & representative results. @calrcv.bsky.social's Tom Charron ⬇️

Good morning Bluesky! I’m @sightline.org researcher Al Vanderklipp, and I’ll be fielding your questions about proportional representation today. Reply to this thread and I’ll do my best to answer anything you want to know. ☺️ #AMA

We're ramping up support for our petition drive to place #RankedChoiceVoting on the ballot! If you're interested in canvassing reach out & we'll get you plugged in! We support #RCV for Sac's local elections because voters deserve a fair, inclusive & accountable elections process

So may reasons to support proportional representation-the fact that the Voting Rights Act is on life support is a top concern, but so are reducing extremism, lowering entry for third parties, etc.

USL players are more unified than ever in their fight for professional standards. The players make the Championship league happen—and they’re ready to strike. It’s time for the USL to do the right thing and bargain for a fair contract now.

Oof. I just read your post in the most uncharitable, pedantic way possible, and I gotta tell ya: it's not looking good for you.