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In a period of divided government the only kind of votes it makes sense to have are:
1) Bipartisan deals that the president will actually sign
2) Message bills that unite the Dem caucus and embarrass Republicans
Asking for anything else is pointless wrecking.
Representative-elect Melat Kiros: I want to see Medicare for all voted on. I want to see a data center moratorium voted on. I want to see us ending military sales to Israel, ending the war in Iran. And to be clear, my demand is not that Leader Jeffries specifically supports these things himself. My demand is that he lets us vote on it.
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NEW: JB Pritzker tells @BulwarkOnline that Dems should shut down the government when the CR expires in Dec. 11 w/o serious reforms to ICE and interior enforcement.
"I'm on team fight... we can't put up with that any more."
youtube.com/watch?v=xzq5Si8Zโฆ
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The real fight in California is usually inside the Democratic caucus, not between parties.
Enviros, various union factions (they donโt all agree), YIMBYs, tenant focused, and business-aligned Democrats often split on housing, energy, and tax policy.
Hilarious for the spokesman for 50 years of the most innumerate policies ever to end his article expressing their utter defeat with a call to โdo the mathโ.
The voters gave Mayor Lurie everything he wanted. He has more power than any mayor in modern history. He has a Board of Supes that will do pretty much anything he asks.
Now he has to address the cityโs most pressing issues, with no excuses.
48hills.org/2026/11/mayor-luโฆ
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This is absolutely the correct take-away from the results of the election in SF and in the Bay Area. Voters want competent, effective government, not a million veto points and authority diffused over too many people.
sfchronicle.com/opinion/artiโฆ
Trump on Venezuela: "You could call it a territory, you could call it whatever you want."
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Amy Klobuchar pulled off the masterstroke of easily getting elected governor, putting her in a position to pick her own replacement as senator (which given the blueness of the state means she could be picking someone who serves for decades)
Minnesota governor-elect @amyklobuchar (D) on who she will appoint to fill her Senate seat: "I will do right by the state of Minnesota with that person."
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SF conservatives, leftists, look at this picture. Stare at it. Learn to live with it.
Against your wishcasting and calling him a pedo on his unrelated posts, Scott Wiener is your Congressman. May you reactionaries all fall in the dustbin of irrelevance
Decision Desk HQ projects Scott Wiener wins the CA US House 11 General Election
#DecisionMade: 9:21 PM EST
Follow live results here: votes.decisiondeskhq.com/racโฆ
Congrats to the SFDCCC and its Mod leadership. Keep doing popular things the voters like, and never be afraid to admit you made a mistake and correct it.
// from their email just now:
Jon ๐พ๐พ๐พ๐ฅ๐พ๐พ retweeted
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Jon ๐พ๐พ๐พ๐ฅ๐พ๐พ retweeted
It is amazing how this state will DO ANYTHING but build housing.
Jon ๐พ๐พ๐พ๐ฅ๐พ๐พ retweeted
Yeah, there will be no pivot to the center. This is what you get when you have an 80-year-old president who doesn't really gaf about the future of the Republican Party.
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The November election wasn't an indictment on our progressive values. It was an indictment on bad process.
San Francisco's progressive values were in full effect. We passed Props J and C, taxing hedge funds and financing affordable housing, at over 80%. We passed progressive taxes with Props H and RTM to fund transit.
Even the charter reform measures that got so much heat in San Francisco, were actually also passed by progressive Mayors Lee in Oakland and Mamdani in New York City.
What ultimately differentiated the measures that won this election cycle was whether they were built by consensus and collaboration, or whether they were unilaterally pushed forward. The measures that lost, while well intended, often did not have consensus within the labor movement, or were in fact poison pills against other ballot measures.
San Franciscans are smart. Voters can by and large recognize good policy vs political infighting. And that is what this election was about - achieving progressive results through consensus, and no longer through contention.
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Talarico going full YIMBY thatโs my absolute GOAT
Jon ๐พ๐พ๐พ๐ฅ๐พ๐พ retweeted
Now that these rigged maps have spectacularly backfired, can we all get on board with banning partisan gerrymandering now?
Jon ๐พ๐พ๐พ๐ฅ๐พ๐พ retweeted
I am just a tad skeptical that Susan Collins, Thom Tillis, and Lisa Murkowski will spend the lame duck after Republican Ragnarok pre-confirming Donald Trump's lifetime Supreme Court nominee
