Mark Paul
@markpaul.bsky.social
Mark Paul is the co-author, with Joe Mathews, of California Crackup: How Reform Broke the Golden State and How We Can Fix It. He was formerly deputy treasurer of the state of California and deputy editorial page editor and columnist at the Sacramento Bee.
"Strike up the band throw a parade Freedom rings with bullets Cries of children too afraid Am I too numb what have I become American midnight Even in my dark and wildest dreams I never thought I'd see the day I'm just looking for some blue sky To come around my way” music.apple.com/us/album/ame...
American Midnight by The Jayhawks on Apple Music
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The GOP plans to cut Tarrant County's Election Day voting sites in half. One Democratic candidate for Texas House: a "voter suppressed, racially gerrymandered, poll cutting" county that sends letters to living people and declares them dead so they can't vote. The GOP can't win unless they cheat.
You could grow a spine and do your damn jobs.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · yesterdayCornyn: "There's nothing we could do to rein in the president"
🔥 Here's Whitehouse's entire remarkable speech opposing Blanche: "What's left of this committee when we don't demand straight answers? How many times has DOJ been asked what became of the $50k that the FBI reported it handed to Homan? ... our R colleagues see no evil, hear no evil, & speak no evil."
Whitehouse on Blanche: "Today is a sad and embarrassing day"
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credit to this lady for constructing the perfect Do Your Own Research sentence heated.world/p/the-influe...
This is what happens when you simultaneously gut reproductive health and the safety net.
Mississippi Free Press@mississippifreepress.org · 2d agoMississippi recorded an infant mortality rate of 9.7 deaths per 1,000 live births in 2024, the highest the state has seen in more than a decade, according to the Mississippi State Department of Health.
"The federal government receives revenue from all 50 states. Yet it is now spending that money just to help states that voted for the President, while he blames the other states for their misfortunes. Is it a crime? No. Is it impeachable? Absolutely.” open.substack.com/pub/smotus/p...
A president for some of the people
Trump won’t use federal government resources to help states that didn’t vote for him
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It’s important to understand that when 1.2 million Americans are dying from a disease, any government action is excessive and tyrannical, but if a dozen trans women want to play soccer no government action can go far enough
We opened an ICU that had been shuttered for well over a decade so that a hospital that has 18 MICU beds could fit 46 patients on ventilators
Gabriel Bosslet@gbosslet.bsky.social · 3d agoRFK Jr said these words today on national television "There were ICUs that were empty all over the country including in New York at the height (of the pandemic)" hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha You are a fucking idiot hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha <sobs silently>
I worked for New York’s largest medical center at the start of the pandemic. There were morgue trucks on the streets. They set up emergency medical tents in Central Park. Healthcare worker colleagues died. It is horrific that RFK Jr is on national TV lying that ICUs were empty.
This what happens when we don't prosecute "white collar" crime. He's been this way his whole career and gotten away with it.
Eric Umansky@ericumansky.bsky.social · 6d agoJust read these two paragraphs -- on how Trump goes a little Soprano re fundraising. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
It was different memes but I sort of imagine this is how Nazism felt at the start too
Joel S.@joelhs.bsky.social · 2w agoThe use of extremely online memetic aesthetics to support far-right political goals is like something out of Walter Benjamin’s nightmares.
Anti-fascist demonstrators in Miller’s hometown. Not one looks normal?
PEIPolitical 🇨🇦@peipolitical.bsky.social · 3w agoMiller: "It's not a coincidence that when you look at these violent Antifa demonstrations not one of the people that is demonstrating looks like a normal person. Not one looks normal. They're all deformed in some way in their appearance, in their dress, in their mannerism." #cdnpoli
Way past time for politicians to pledge to destroy this industry.
shauna@goldengateblond.bsky.social · 3w agoyeah we’re gonna have to ban prediction markets
Market manipulation for sale - Truth Social to sell trading firms 'fastest' access to Trump's posts www.reuters.com/technology/t...
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wow -- Tillis eviscerates Vought about DOGE's fake budget cuts & tells him, "My understanding is the last time you worked in the business world was at B Dalton's books when you were putting yourself through law school...I don't love the idea of DOGE shit we're picking up because people did it wrong"
The most anti-legal immigrant administration ever just made it illegal for international students to transfer schools or change majors or shift any "educational objective" in their 1st year and for graduate students **at any point** ever, at all. There is no legal basis for this
An administration that spent years aggressively banning transgender troops from serving under the guise of stopping "medical dependency" and "taxpayer-funded hormones" is now setting up a massive, government-funded pipeline for gender-affirming hormone therapy.
Hundreds of Sacramento County homeless people are landing in jail each month.
One-third of people going into Sacramento County’s jail system are homeless
Hundreds of Sacramento County homeless people are landing in jail each month.
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WHCA issues this empty statement as they plan to fete Donald Trump. What a sad joke.
NEW: Financial firms want a bigger piece of the $10 trillion in America’s 401(k) plans, and the Trump administration is planning a regulatory rollback to encourage less-regulated — and often riskier — investments.
Wall Street Wants to Change the Rules for Your 401(k). It Could Put Your Retirement at Risk.
Financial firms want a bigger piece of the $10 trillion in America’s 401(k) plans, and the Trump administration is planning a regulatory rollback to encourage less-regulated — and often riskier — inv...
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My union is in negotiations with the State of CaliforniaI and the state has rejected our economic proposal once again, so I made a tool to explore our wage history. No surprise, California has systematically unpaid state worker for 50 years. realwage.site A few takeaways below 👇
RealWage · CA State Worker Pay
Look up California state employee job classifications, salary ranges, bargaining units, and alternate range criteria from CalHR pay scale data.
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Unlike you young whippersnappers, we boomers learned some history and know that this is not true: Communists killed social democrats.
JP@johnathanperk.bsky.social · last mo.Sadly, it’s a fool’s errand. There are so, SO MANY white boomers and they are famously stubborn when it comes to receiving/accepting new info, particularly from anyone younger than they are. There’s just NO WAY we can do anything to cause white baby boomers from voting for the white Republican.
It helps when you tax oil companies instead of subsidizing them.
It’s really nice to have something American to root for right now. And of course it’s a team of immigrants and the children of service members who are mainly Black and Brown. The USMNT represents MY America.
USMNT Wonderstrike Moments
ALT: USMNT Wonderstrike Moments
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