Caveat that we don't know how the election will shake out and caveat that the GOP should be banned as a seditious organization, but I think it's pretty clear that one-party rule has been bad for both California and its major cities. A Democratic Party with no competition is one that just stagnates.

I expected to be annoyed by "The [Conserv]atives," a new documentary about the conservative climate movement. But the film caught me off guard with its sincere but searing portrayal, and its key insight: Never, ever be cynical. More in my newsletter: www.climatecoloredgoggles.com/p/climate-cy...

I worked for many years at a small weekly newspaper. Low pay, but I took the job seriously. Reporters routinely confronted editors and the owners, and sometimes there would be yelling. Sometimes I yelled. Can't imagine what I'd have had to say to get fired. CBS leaders must be a buncha pussies.

This was before the state's largest oil driller dropped another $500,000 to support Xavier Becerra. (Chevron did the same later.) www.climatecoloredgoggles.com/p/oil-money-...

If you haven't voted yet (lol) there's still a chance to shut out the Republicans and make them so so sad they give up and stay home in the fall. Progressives vote for Steyer. Corporate weenies vote for Becerra. We can do it if we work together!

Ah cool, so the frontrunner for California’s next governor is already signaling he wants to retreat on the state’s climate goals (via POLITICO)

"I just can't vote for a billionaire!" fer fucks sake y'all... www.politico.com/news/2026/05...

“My father prosecuted the Nazis at Nuremberg. He taught us a strong sense of right and wrong, and I refuse to stand by as Trump and his allies round up immigrants and terrorize our neighbors. Immigrants are the heart and soul of California.” ourunsilencing.substack.com/p/tom-steyer...

Thank you! It's been driving me crazy having to merge into traffic coming down that hill because of all the cop cars in the bike lane. I'm going to start reporting it as well. Is that on the @thecityofsac.bsky.social 311 app?

Picked this up the other day; just made some real headway over a cup of joe. I tend to agree. His background in finance got him a behind-the-scene peek of how oil ran/runs the country; he then proposes a framework of how to fix it within 𝘛𝘩𝘦 (capitalist) 𝘚𝘺𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘮™️. Warming up to Steyer RN

Jay Hansen is the fucking worst.

Opinion: An Open Letter to My Fellow Secretary of State Candidates: Where Is Our Debate About Democracy? By Michael Feinstein, Green candidate for California Secretary of State ivn.us/an-open-lett... #capolitics #caelections #electoralreform #votegreenparty #caleg #votingrights #prorep #rcv

With growing interest on proportional representation in the US, thought I'd re-share this @newamerica.org piece on why I think this systems would be a major upgrade: www.newamerica.org/insights/eig...

“‘I’m going to scrap the current configuration, and I’m going to make sure we finish,’ Becerra said. ‘But we’ve got to do it on budget and on time.’” These … certainly are words. They indicate no knowledge whatsoever of the project, but they're words.

So glad for the opportunity to commute to the office today and spend the first hour listening to the same bitchfest about parking. The productivity is just blazing rn.

Top two is dumb and should go away. But the idea that ranked choice voting is "experimental" and we wouldn't be able to count the votes is equally dumb. Our democracy is broken as fuck and we need to try new things. We can't go back to 2010, much as the consultants may want to.

Hey Sacramento people you can submit a comment online for tomorrow's City Council meeting, encouraging the Council to put Ranked Choice Voting on the ballot this November. Go the Agenda --> meeting --> ecomment --> Matters not on the agenda. Easy! #rcv sacramento.granicus.com/ViewPublishe...

Must read. As this piece lays out, we need a movement for racially just and inclusive electoral reform that looks forward not back. Economic populism and proportional representation are essential principles that can help build the big tent a new non-nostalgic reconstruction will require.

"After the death of the Voting Rights Act, it is nearly impossible to imagine a worse political structure for African Americans than one based on single-member legislative districts. newrepublic.com/article/2106...

Well this sucks. “We have frankly been told that the mayor simply does not have the ‘appetite’ to agendize the item for consideration,” Stein’s email read. “This has been particularly difficult to reconcile given that the mayor stood beside us only five weeks ago at our groundbreaking..."

If it were up to me landlords would be required to keep their buildings tenanted, or pay big fines. But I'm grumpy and this is probably a better approach. Another good idea from council member @caitymapled5.bsky.social

@aoc.bsky.social @sanders.senate.gov if you're out there... prospect.org/2026/05/21/t...

VIDEO: Why Proportional Representation elections are the answer to gerrymandering and fairer representation. By Michael Feinstein for California Secretary of State #capolitics #caelections #gerrymandering #votingrights #electoralreform #redistricting www.youtube.com/watch?v=ypwv...

Ouch!

This was really good!

In this special deep dive episode of the Strength In Numbers podcast, I talk with voting and democracy expert Lee Drutman, who makes a good case for why you should support proportional representation and fusion voting! In pod feeds now www.gelliottmorris.com/p/deep-dive-...

The irony of Brother Jones speaking at the CA State Capital about the attack on Black political representation in Tennessee when meanwhile CA Dem consultants & local business chamber are working hard to prevent one specific community leader from holding office. www.abridged.org/news/fppc-in...

I’ve witnessed a lot of stump speeches & Becerra’s was one of the least convincing. Unfortunately he’s probably going to get the nomination bc CADems & their donors are working hard to ensure it.

Here are some important items on today’s City Council agenda. Budget discussions will continue tonight as well. If you have any questions or concerns, please email my office at [email protected] or call (916) 808-7005!

Slightly increase a band? Galaxie 575

Feels like plurality block voting is going to make a comeback.

I'm also tripping out on Maviglio saying that top-two is not fair to third parties. Lol, I'm sure you care about that Steve. But yeah how are we going to be in 2028 and just voting to go back to party primaries? Let's just do RCV and proportional RCV for the legislature and move forward.

In three minutes of vertical video, I explain why we need multiparty proportional representation, which I wrote about today in @liberalcurrents.com (see article 👇)

One way to sweeten the pot for hesitant congressmen who don't want to risk their positions, which comes with the added bonus of even better representation, would be to expand the size of the US House at the same time as adopting proportional representation. Few incumbents would be likely to lose.

Winner-take-all, single-member district elections can never be fair, competitive, & representative. The Gerrymandering Wars of 2025-26 lay bare its bankruptcy Multiparty proportional representation can be enacted by law. It'd transform our calcified politics overnight by me @liberalcurrents.com

Yes! @dennislytton.bsky.social is spot on, here. This piece is a good run down of how the US can move away from unfair single member districts. www.liberalcurrents.com/proportional...

Is it bad that I'm super annoyed by @sacbee.com sending me emails telling me to keep up my article reading streak and "level up?" It's just one more stupid little thing but fucks sake.

Based and pragmatism pilled www.californiadsa.org/voterguide

Infantino is a soulless goblin who should be tried in the sports version of The Hague.

From last night's gubernatorial debate, via Politico... "Xavier Becerra, Matt Mahan and Antonio Villaraigosa all said that they would sign a bill to boost oil production in the Central Valley if one were to reach their desk. Meanwhile, Steyer and Katie Porter said no." 🤔

"Professor Guinier predicted this problem would worsen as the Supreme Court became more hostile to the Voting Rights Act. She urged us to adopt electoral systems that allow for proportional representation.These systems are less vulnerable to gerrymandering and less dependent on judicial remedies."

40 percent of Americans support ghosts. We are so fucked.

For the evening crowd. My newsletter entry on MLS Next Pro's private equity partnership and how American soccer is further bending to the will of the profiteers. jason-davis-soccer-eagle.ghost.io/rhode-island...

They called it and they’re still correct yalelawjournal.org/article/call...

Reasonable @sacbee.com editorial endorsing Katie Porter.....except that it says absolutely nothing about climate change. Criticizes Xavier Becerra for taking money from "gas giant" Chevron ("disappointing in the extreme") before declaring him the second-best candidate. www.sacbee.com/opinion/elec...

One is endorsed by Bill McKibben, Rebecca Solnit, EnviroVoters, Center for Biological Diversity, Climate Center, Third Act, NRDC & Climate Action California. The other one took a $39,200 check from Chevron to fund his campaign and insisted Chevron is “not the bad guy.” Not a hard choice.

The simplest long-run solution to the gerrymandering wars is a federal law expanding the House and electing members by proportional representation. Alabama has more Democratic voters than Hawaii. Massachusetts has more Trump voters than Mississippi. None of these voters deserve to go unrepresented.

Bananas