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If you had predicted with precise accuracy any of our current top stories this week during the ‘24 election, it would have been dismissed as Trump Derangement Syndrome by most of the professional takesmiths.

Instead of whatever this is, we should have a government getting lots of new homes and apartments built, lots of clean energy built, lots of high speed rail and transit and bike lanes built, human rights for everyone, economic & healthcare opportunities for all, & innovation that leads the world.

Congress could mandate that states use proportional representation, with parties getting a number of seats proportional to their share of the vote. Advocates are already pushing for some states to experiment with this reform.

I’M LOSING MY SHIT THIS IS SO FUNNY

U.S. Sen. Bob Dole’s disdain for Electoral College in presidential elections still matter of debate | via @kansascarpenter.bsky.social #ksleg

you should quit social media if you can. if you can't, you should use apps that give you and old-school reverse chronological feed of posts from people you follow. yes, like bluesky. www.gelliottmorris.com/p/you-should...

wow. WOW.

Play it Later - Gator Days

Kansas House speaker waves white flag on special session as congresswoman considers Senate run | via @crazeywriter.bsky.social #ksleg

“We cannot go back to anything approaching the old constitutional order, which already had been in a long, terminal decline.” www.liberalcurrents.com/the-american...

“70% of wage-earning adults who rely on government programs like SNAP and Medicaid work full-time, many at hugely profitable companies like Walmart and McDonald’s whose low wages are effectively subsidized by tax dollars without any of the blame or paternalistic lectures.”

In my opinion it’s time to retire the Nobel prizes for fields where most of the important discoveries have already been made, like physics, and add prizes for newer fields where substantial innovations occur every year, like speedrunning

Kansas Republican lawmakers are circulating a petition for a special session to redistrict. The goal is to defeat the state's only Democrat in Congress. (via @kcur.org)

Most of the power authoritarians have is freely given. We should not comply with them in advance. Trump is far weaker than he looks. So is the GOP. We should draw them out, drain them at every opportunity, and fight for people’s wellbeing at every turn. We have been sent here to fight for people.

great piece from the always-great @pastpunditry.bsky.social and a welcome antidote to vacuous commentators whose historical memories seem to go back no further than the first iron man movie

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Kimmel’s defiant return highlights one of the most disturbing dynamics of Trump II, that so many people in positions of leadership are chickenshit frauds who would rather fold in advance than put up anything resembling a fight www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

if we are going to have online magazines for Abundance, i think a wealthy patron should fund an online magazine for electoral reform — specifically for furthering the twin causes of proportional representation and democratic revival. seems like a comparatively neglected space

a few thoughts (gift link) www.nytimes.com/2025/09/20/o...

this is, hands down, the best video I've seen on men's influencer content and it's not close either

Sometimes, the YouTube algorithm actually works. Can't believe I've never heard Stromae before but it's really speaking to me right now. youtu.be/VHoT4N43jK8?...

Political violence is often the result of people living in a political system they no longer believe can deliver the things they want or need. We need to change how our political system works so more of us believe that it’s possible to solve problems together through our government.

Yeah, we're cooked. www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8S8pVQq/

This is frankly one of the worst things Donald Trump has ever posted, which is really saying something

Thanks to @kansascity.com for letting me talk about how proportional representation can be a way out of the gerrymandering war going on right now.

A party that gains 60% of the votes should win roughly 60% of the seats. Here’s how to make that happen. | Opinion

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remember folks, we cant have gun restrictions because if we do the federal government will occupy our streets, imprison people without due process, ship dissidents to foreign gulags and things of that nature

Promising support for proportional representation in our new poll. Could approximate with multi-member districts by a simple act of Congress. 9-in-10 adults say that fair elections are more important to them than their party winning (higher than I expected tbh) www.gelliottmorris.com/p/democrats-...

Every Democratic member of Congress should be in the streets of DC saying this dangerous authoritarian escalation must stop. Do they not grasp what’s going on here?

The times, they are a-changin'. Remarkable wave of op-eds on proportional representation this week *alone*: -WaPo / @ishaantharoor.bsky.social www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0... -Kansas Reflector / @rpund.bsky.social kansasreflector.com/2025/08/02/i... Cont./

It ain't going away, no it ain't going away....

Republicans, fearful of losing the House next November, have embarked on an audacious and anti-democratic campaign to hold on to their narrow House majority by rigging the midterms in advance.

If you want to get rid of gerrymandering, the best way to do it is getting rid of single member districts. Congress could change the law which requires single member districts for House seats. Multi-member seats can’t be gerrymandered and would lead to more parties in Congress.

Opinion from Richard Pund: In Kansas and beyond, unrepresentative leaders stymie progress. New election methods could fix that. #ksleg

The only way to get ahead of this relentless assault on representative government is to flip the rules of the entire electoral system. Proportional representation strikes directly at the foundation of gerrymandering, the antiquated single member district.

As always, thanks to @kansasreflector.com for letting me write about our elections again. kansasreflector.com/2025/08/02/i...

You may be thinking "How can an entire political party be organized around the policy of taking from everyone and giving to the rich? No one would vote for them." Well that's where Lying comes in

This decision has implications for 2-3 House seats and determine who controls Congress in 2026. Same voters, same preferences, but judicial whims decide how votes add up. Democracy by dark magic - identical voters in, different majority party out. Presto, change-o.

it turns out that embracing a multi-racial, multi-faith democracy is the best path towards peace in this chaotic world.

Lavos, the alien monster intent on destroying all life, has emerged from beneath the planet's surface to endorse Andrew Cuomo in the New York City mayoral race. "Cuomo has the experience and character necessary to lead," said Lavos, while fire rained from the sky

amtrak’s marketing team gets it

new from me!

Not an original point but worth saying again - there is not a single element in this picture that identifies any of these folks as law enforcement agents. No badges, no uniforms, no vests. Out of context it just looks like a bunch of random guys are kidnapping a mayoral candidate.

It is equally (and in my view more) important to share what we want people to read, as opposed to amplifying the bad.

Trump’s attempts to dehumanize large segments of the American people in order to use military force against them fits the classic definition of “tyranny,” and right wing rhetoric using the phrase “third world” to justify it is no accident (gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Based on crowd-sourced records of No Kings Day event turnout, and extrapolating for the cities where we don't have data yet, it looks like roughly 4-6 million people protested Trump across the U.S. yesterday. That's nearly 2% of the U.S. pop! Mobilized anti-Trump resistance is exceeding 2017 levels

My sign from #nokings Lenexa, KS. Great to see so many people turn out! #ksleg

If that’s what they do to a United States Senator with a question, imagine what they can do to any American that dares to speak up. We will hold this administration accountable.