Sara Cate 🐌

@saracate.bsky.social

Sara Cate 🍄 She/Her 🌲Portland, OR ☔️ A soft and rotten creature with internet access and ADHD 🐌 writer and poet (derogatory)✨ACAB 🐈 all my homies hate fascists, capitalism, and AI ✌🏻Buy my digital zine: https://papersnail.gumroad.com/

there’s a guy in my neighborhood with a cybertruck and when he drives by i give him a thumbs up and when he makes eye contact i turn my thumb down. but i’ve done this enough times that now when he sees me he just starts yelling

To be absolutely clear: This was another Y2K situation. Lots and lots of people worked diligently for months and years, at great cost, taking hours away from their friends & family, to make our elections a bit more free and fair. Voting was still threatened! It still took record-breaking turnout!

Norm Eisen@normeisen.bsky.social · 3d ago

This is so wrong The reason “Trump didn’t steal the elections” is because we & the pro-voter coalition stopped him EIGHT times over the past 21 months Here’s how: a thread (1/x)

There are many big problems Democrats need to address, but a prime objective should be to find the innocent people this fascist regime has kidnapped and shipped to random countries around the world, repatriate them, bring them back to their families, and pay reparations for the horrors they endured.

One thing that’s going to be annoying in the historicization of this moment is the idea that because the Trump regime failed to consolidate authoritarian control, that somehow means they must not have really been fascists. No. They were fascists and bad at it.

Beyond the gratification of watching true goblins eat shit, the reason I've been so moved by the Texas results is because from Elon on down so many nasty bullies have moved there because they saw it as a place mean shitheads like them could rule/plunder, and I love them getting told to get lost.

They murdered bombing survivors. They imprisoned children. They held one of our neighbors on the ground and shot him to death. They invaded our cities. My overzealousness at wanting this addressed is not the problem.

If the democrats don’t take aggressive action, the red wave in 2028 will be miserable. People want Mamdani-style change; basic improvements to everyday dignity. They want prosecution for political crimes. They want rights to be codified, companies to be prosecuted, and people to be protected.

NEW: Democrats have gained control over enough state governments to pass the National Popular Vote Compact and give it a majority of at least 283 electoral votes—13 more than it needs to activate by 2028. My story below explains the path forward for eventually electing the president by popular vote

Map titled “Projected Partisan Control Over State Governments After 2027” from The Downballot. Each state is sized by its 2020 census population and colored by which party controls its government. Full control means the party holds the governorship and legislative majorities. States with divided government where one party holds veto-proof majorities are shown with stripes, since that party has effective control. Population percentages are calculated using 2025 state population estimates. Proportion of population by category:
Fully Democratic: 52%
Arizona: 2.2%
California: 11.5%
Colorado: 1.8%
Connecticut: 1.1%
Delaware: 0.3%
Hawaii: 0.4%
Illinois: 3.7%
Maine: 0.4%
Maryland: 1.8%
Massachusetts: 2.1%
Michigan: 3.0%
Minnesota: 1.7%
Nevada: 1.0%
New Jersey: 2.8%
New Mexico: 0.6%
New York: 5.9%
Oregon: 1.3%
Pennsylvania: 3.8%
Rhode Island: 0.3%
Virginia: 2.6%
Washington: 2.3%
Wisconsin: 1.8%

Democratic veto-proof majorities with Republican governor: 0.2%
Vermont: 0.2%

Divided Government: 22%
Alaska: 0.2%
Georgia: 3.3%
Iowa: 0.9%
Kansas: 0.9%
New Hampshire: 0.4%
North Carolina: 3.3%
Ohio: 3.5%
Texas: 9.3%

Republican veto-proof majorities with Democratic governor: 1%
Kentucky: 1.4%

Fully Republican: 24%
Alabama: 1.5%
Arkansas: 0.9%
Florida: 6.9%
Idaho: 0.6%
Indiana: 2.0%
Louisiana: 1.4%
Mississippi: 0.9%
Missouri: 1.8%
Montana: 0.3%
Nebraska: 0.6%
North Dakota: 0.2%
Oklahoma: 1.2%
South Carolina: 1.6%
South Dakota: 0.3%
Tennessee: 2.1%
Utah: 1.0%
West Virginia: 0.5%
Wyoming: 0.2%
Stephen Wolf@stephenwolf.bsky.social · last wk.

NEW: The 2026 elections could lead to enough states passing the National Popular Vote Compact for the Electoral College to activate it by 2028. Dems have already passed it everywhere they can—adding a few more states could give it a majority of electoral votes www.the-downballot.com/p/how-tuesda...

Map titled "Hypothetical Path to Activating the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact," with the subtitle "How the compact could obtain a majority of Electoral College votes by 2028." It is a stylized map of the United States in which each state is labeled with its number of electoral votes. States are shaded in three colors: green for current members, yellow for states possible by 2028, and gray for states unlikely to join.

A note on the map says the compact would take effect once states with at least 270 of the 538 electoral votes join. Current members and the states possible by 2028 together hold 290 electoral votes.

Current members (222 electoral votes):
California: 54
Colorado: 10
Connecticut: 7
Delaware: 3
District of Columbia: 3
Hawaii: 4
Illinois: 19
Maine: 4
Maryland: 10
Massachusetts: 11
Minnesota: 10
New Jersey: 14
New Mexico: 5
New York: 28
Oregon: 8
Rhode Island: 4
Vermont: 3
Virginia: 13
Washington: 12

Possible new members by 2028 (68 electoral votes):
Alaska: 3
Arizona: 11
Michigan: 15
Nevada: 6
New Hampshire: 4
Pennsylvania: 19
Wisconsin: 10

States unlikely to join (248 electoral votes):
Alabama: 9
Arkansas: 6
Florida: 30
Georgia: 16
Idaho: 4
Indiana: 11
Iowa: 6
Kansas: 6
Kentucky: 8
Louisiana: 8
Mississippi: 6
Missouri: 10
Montana: 4
Nebraska: 5
North Carolina: 16
North Dakota: 3
Ohio: 17
Oklahoma: 7
South Carolina: 9
South Dakota: 3
Tennessee: 11
Texas: 40
Utah: 6
West Virginia: 4
Wyoming: 3

Footer: "States are sized and labeled based on their total electoral votes. Files available at https://the-db.co/data." Source: The Downballot.

three things that should be extremely clear after last night - people hate the tech overlords and you need to go after them - theres no reason to be scared of their money - there is no downside in bringing them to heel

Consider all the ways the American dream won tonight: First Muslim US senator (MI). First openly gay US senator (NH). First Black woman governor (GA). First Latina and first Mexican-American governor of Texas. First transgender state legislator in Alabama. DEI isn't dead. It's inevitable.