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Cake day: June 29th, 2025

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  • You can down vote me every time I point out something you don’t like, but it won’t make you right. The people of California are pissed. LA just had mass protests and Trump called in the US military to silence them. They’ve drawn up a new map and it’s going to a vote. The odds are very good it’ll pass.

    People aren’t going to decamp for over a year away from their families because you demand it. What are you doing?




  • My guy, you know that it’s in the state constitution via the Prop 11 ballot measure in 2008 that redistricting cannot happen outside an independent commission. Voters need to approve side stepping that. Newsom is doing something by quickly putting it to a special vote, but he can’t just overrule the constitution. He’s not the president

    I don’t like Newsom any more than anyone else here, but when the progressive leaders you imagine are now running the Democratic Party step up publicly and take concrete steps to stop this creeping coup, then we can talk.












  • From the NY Times:

    After three hours of talks, President Trump and President Vladimir Putin of Russia told reporters that they had made progress on unspecified issues, but they gave no details, took no questions, and most importantly failed to announce a cease-fire of any kind.

    The meeting broke up several hours before scheduled, and far short of the six or seven hours of discussions that Mr. Putin’s aides said they expected for the talks. The fact that they took no questions made it clear they did not want to be pressed on details.

    Sounds really productive