Somehow the "we need a big tent" thing never quite extends to, say, democratic socialists, it only extends to people like these who actively help the Republican Party.

Jake Grumbach@jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 2d ago

AHAHAHAAAAA

"[W]e created a highly privatized and commercialized broadcast media system, which ... was very different. We were pretty much a global anomaly by not establishing a more public oriented broadcast media system and, of course, a media system that was dependent on the public airwaves."

Democracy Needs Public Media with Victor Pickard

Victor Pickard returns to Money on the Left six years after his first appearance on the show to discuss the state of the U.S. media system under Trump 2.0. Pickard is C. Edwin Baker Profe…

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Anti-trans laws are anti-democracy. Any laws that discriminate against a group of people hurt inclusive democracy. DCDD believes that transgender people should be free to be who they are.

Inclusive Democracy Means Including Transgender People

Words to Know Accessible means that disabled people can easily use it. This includes disabled people with all kinds of disabilities. Anti-democracy groups are organizations that want to get rid of …

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Update: We now have data from 22 states showing how many fewer kids are receiving SNAP in the wake of deep cuts enacted last year. In just those 22 states, 1.1 million fewer kids are receiving SNAP. Nationwide, that number likely exceeds 1.5 million kids. www.cbpp.org/research/foo...

SNAP Tracker: People Are Losing Food Assistance as the Harmful 2025 Republican Reconciliation Law Is Implemented

SNAP participation nationwide fell by more than 4.5 million people (nearly 11 percent) between the law’s July 2025 enactment and April 2026, based on the latest month of data.

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The Republican Party as well, allowing both MAGA and Never Trumpers to have their own parties. And it's *obviously* the future of the Greens, Libertarians, Peace & Freedom, etc.

Max Berger@maxberger.bsky.social · 4w ago

The future of the Democratic Party is proportional representation. The left and centrists should have their own parties which win representation in Congress that’s equivalent to their support in the public. We deserve a better system that enables more parties—and people—to win representation.

Exclusive: We obtained a leaked playbook that Flock gives to cops to coach them on "how to speak to city council" to avoid getting their contracts canceled. Includes strategies like "own the narrative" by talking to mayor "before public comment periods" www.404media.co/own-the-narr...

‘Own the Narrative’: Leaked Flock Guide Shows How It Teaches Cops to Promote Its Tech

"This document shows a coordinated effort from Flock Safety to compel law enforcement agencies to convince our elected leaders to represent their interests as a company rather than the interests of co...

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Very excited for this new essay at "Can We Still Govern?": The key claim is that planning for a progressive future cannot just focus on new policies. It also has to include - to start with - political power. What does a power-shifting perspective look like? 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/rebuilding...

Rebuilding Democracy Requires Rebalancing Power

What does a power-shifting agenda look like?

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It is crucial to keep saying this, because too many people are going to say, "Let's just move on" if the Democrats win in November & 2028. But we can't just do that & leave the entire competitive authoritarian system in place. We have to become a real democracy. That requires institutional reform:

Mark Copelovitch@mcopelov.bsky.social · last yr.

- DC/PR/USVI statehood - Enlarging the House - MMDs - New VRA - Totally revamping SCOTUS: bsky.app/profile/mcop... - Automatic universal voter registration - Rewriting <all> the "national emergency" laws: bsky.app/profile/mcop... - Subordinating the Senate: bsky.app/profile/mcop... Etc.

Two-party politics inevitably turn into "Us vs. Them" fights that go nowhere. Multi-party politics via #ProportionalRepresentation are much more productive.

Andy Craig@andycraig.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Electoral reform in the US has often pursued an anti-party route, but there's a growing critique of how that impulse has been ineffective or even backfired. Instead, party-strengthening and pro-multiparty reforms like PR are gaining steam. I sat down with @leedrutman.bsky.social to talk about why.

In 1953, Clyde Hill incorporated for the "sole purpose" of protecting lot size requirements, according to contemporary reporting. Clyde Hill's population in 1970: 2,987 Clyde Hill's population now: 3,100

The Urbanist@theurbanist.org · 2mo ago

Clyde Hill voters are set to be asked to approve a 69% city property tax hike this November, to avoid municipal bankruptcy looming as soon as 2030. Without such a move, city officials say, Clyde Hill could cease to exist. Story: www.theurbanist.org/facing-an-ex...

Hoping to add Stanislaus County to this list soon 🤞!

Max Resnik@maxresnik.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Not many things I like more than announcing new Documenters sites!

The Department of Labor’s historic threat to withhold funding from states’ unemployment insurance programs didn’t quite land with the weight the government apparently intended: Several states said they didn’t know much about the new directive.

Trump Is Threatening State Unemployment Funds. Some States Didn't Get the Memo.

If carried through, states could lapse on unemployment benefit payments.

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Yikes! A people unmoored is a people in danger. This doesn't bode well for the future of democracy in America. "Fewer Americans say democracy is central to the country’s identity, AP-NORC poll finds" But that's the least of the many concerning findings in this new poll. apnews.com/article/ap-p...

Fewer Americans say democracy is central to country's identity, AP-NORC poll finds

A new AP-NORC poll finds that as the U.S. prepares for an extravagant celebration of its founding principles, fewer Americans see their country or its system of government as exceptional.

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View from the recently reopened Kenilworth Trail Minneapolis, MN 6/6/26

A new @pewresearch.org study finds that infill housing near jobs, stores, and transit costs governments ~$21,000 less per home to serve, cuts long term infrastructure maintenance costs in half, and generates 13% more in annual property tax revenue per acre than sprawl.

Yes. Its high time people started looking into reforms to unemployment insurance.

Two parties is too few. It's impossible for them to have platforms that make logical sense, and impossible for them to cooperate when they are each other's mortal enemy. #ProportionalRepresentation would fix that.

Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li@sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 3mo ago

one of the cool things about proportional representation is that it opens the door to having functional political parties www.liberalcurrents.com/proportional...

People don't fear AI because machines can think. They fear AI because it's being developed and deployed in a system that puts profit before people. The real question isn't what AI can do, but who controls it and whose interests it serves.

The historic Alfred Street Baptist Church announced it would fund the Black student government whose funding was cut at Mizzou over DEI restrictions “We take care of our own people,” said Rev. Dr. Howard-John Wesley.

Historic Black church in Virginia will fund Black student council at Mizzou, pastor says

“Although they’ve been defunded by the government, we have decided we are not going to let that student organization fail to have programming,” said Rev. Dr. Howard-John Wesley.

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Yesterday, the NCUA announced the involuntary liquidation of People Trust Community Federal Credit Union. Unfortunate news for what had been, and in some ways still remains, a bright beacon in a time of uncertainty and turmoil in the world of community development finance.

America has become a disgraceful country. Wish you were back, Alex.

Alex Ip 葉清霖@alexip718.com · 3mo ago

I'm now staying with my parents in Yuen Long, a transit-rich northwestern suburb of Hong Kong. It's wild how close we are from Shenzhen, and how everything you see in this photo did not exist until after I was born bsky.app/profile/alex...

A NEW TWIST in Africa's soaring solar story: It's now manufacturing its own panels. The factories use imported Chinese cells, which are 40% of the value of panels, keeping much of the value domestically. 9 GW of cells+wafers in Mar/Apr alone🧵

More and more people are realizing that #ProportionalRepresentation is the answer to #EndGerrymandering.

Rank the Vote@rankthevoteusa.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Read more about how #ProportionalRepresentation can limit #Gerrymandering here: https://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/5864273-proportional-representation-democracy/ Then check out how we are taking this on here: https://rankthevote.us/proportional-representation/

Ergo: economic populism deflates rightwing populism, as @zackpolanski.bsky.social @aoc.bsky.social @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social and many others demonstrate.

Bookmark! More evidence on how to break the far right. A welfare state that reduces labour market risk, reduces populist appeal: "Countries that devote more resources to labour market programmes and provide more generous unemployment insurance... tend to exhibit lower levels of populist support."

Can welfare states contain populism?

New evidence shows that countries with more generous welfare state spending and labour market programmes exhibit lower levels of populist support.

blogs.lse.ac.uk

You love to see it! Cleveland Owns is co-hosting a conversation on unions and co-ops May 26 at 7 pm ET in-person and on Zoom. IBEW and USW co-ops will share how unions and co-ops work together to build worker power. Register at clevelandowns.coop

The Cooperative Economy@cooperatives.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Cooperatives and labor unions can work together to form a more democratic economy. Abundance Food Co-op (Rochester, New York) is a unionized community-owned cooperative. It's a business where both the community and the workers have a voice.

New expert survey on the state of US democracy conducted by @scottrw630.bsky.social among members of the American Political Science Association’s Democracy and Autocracy Section blogs.lse.ac.uk/usappblog/20...

critically this was the case in 1870 when the 15th amendment was ratified! there is literally no such thing as partisan gerrymandering and manipulation of voting rules in the south outside of the context of “white reactionaries want to neuter black political power”

Joey Fishkin@fishkin.bsky.social · 4mo ago

All the partisan gerrymandering was always (in part) racial gerrymandering, because the parties' politics were always (in part—but large part) about race. So when you tell Southern legislatures "you can do partisan gerrymandering, but no racial gerrymandering," they know it means they can do both.