Blackgaynerd @blackgaynerd.com · 07/07/2026Ending segregationist, anti-density zoning is what real climate action looks like. The turnaround is starting, even in the midst of this deadly heat wave. Watch. 130
Blackgaynerd @blackgaynerd.com · 17/06/2026Last numbers are in. Isaiah Hugley becomes the first elected African American mayor of Columbus-Muscogee, Georgia. 011
Blackgaynerd @blackgaynerd.com · 15/06/2026Sir, I knew Michael Stewart. He was an excellent openly-gay director of Student Life at Macon State College. You, sir, are no Michael Stewart. 000
Blackgaynerd @blackgaynerd.com · 11/06/2026Proportional representation vs. this paper’s description of why “fair (SMD) maps” are better and more enforceable than proportional representation. Trust me bro. 120
Blackgaynerd @blackgaynerd.com · 09/06/2026Might try the mobile editing on this map I made of a (hopefully future) proportional MMD city council map of Columbus-Muscogee. 010
Blackgaynerd @blackgaynerd.com · 31/05/2026Don’t know how FairVote’s sample paper ballot format would handle the 2013 Australian Senate election’s 57 parties above the line or minimum 15 candidates per state below the line. Oval markings are preferred in the US over numeric marks or check marks, so limiting the slots makes sense. 001
Blackgaynerd @blackgaynerd.com · 24/05/2026Looking at Muscogee, Miracle Rankin won Psalmond, Epworth UMC and Beallwood Baptist (formerly Columbus Tech) precincts, all light-pink. 100
Blackgaynerd @blackgaynerd.com · 19/05/2026Election Day thread: I'm assuming that Democrats are currently nearing/past 800k votes. We're heading to 1 million blue votes, I think. 22810
Blackgaynerd @blackgaynerd.com · 18/05/2026Georgia Democrats last led the vote in a gubernatorial primary in 2006. However, 2006 ended up being the worst-ever performance for a Democratic nominee for Governor (Mark Taylor). He also underperformed Dems for SOS, AG, & Commissioners for Labor and Agriculture. Let’s uhhhh, not do that again. 211
Blackgaynerd @blackgaynerd.com · 16/05/2026Among counties, white Democrats constitute the highest percentage of early voters in Athens-Clarke. The next highest is in Taliaferro County, the least-populous county in Georgia and second-least east of the Mississippi River. South of the Fall Line, only Chatham and Glynn figure among the top 25. 120
Blackgaynerd @blackgaynerd.com · 15/05/2026White Democratic primary voter demographics in Georgia 171
Blackgaynerd @blackgaynerd.com · 13/05/2026I wonder what Colin Woodard thinks of this. He’s written about the long political marriage between Deep South and Greater Appalachia, so the Midlands joining in doesn’t seem far off. 120
Blackgaynerd @blackgaynerd.com · 07/05/2026#gapol, Remember when Newt Gingrich and the RNC in the 80s and 90s decided that the single-winner majority-minority districts under the VRA were good to use to flip districts away from white Democrats, and civil rights orgs agreed? Well, then. 000
Blackgaynerd @blackgaynerd.com · 01/05/2026But also, how are you running for top of the ticket and underperform in Muscogee County both "top" of the countywide primary ballot (the District Attorney) and another candidate for Court of Appeals who DIDN'T CAMPAIGN A LICK. This was completely avoidable on the part of Barrow. Never again. 000
Blackgaynerd @blackgaynerd.com · 30/04/2026In the 5/21/2024 primary, Georgia voters cast 526,974 ballots in the Democratic primary for Congress compared to 594,564 Republican ballots. On the same ballots, liberal Supreme Court candidate John Barrow received 526,640 votes compared to Republican appointee Andrew Pinson's 643,131 votes. 111
Blackgaynerd @blackgaynerd.com · 29/04/2026I mean, think about it: are we really going to use this ballot design for all legislative elections when we have elections for 10-20 statewide executive or judicial offices, as well as elections for dozens of highly-specialized local equivalent offices? End the ballot slopulism first. 000
Blackgaynerd @blackgaynerd.com · 16/04/2026Same for the 9 state legislatures which have (or will enact) their own state VRAs. They should probably start enacting multimember PR districts today actually, no need to wait for SCOTUS to kill them too. 120
Blackgaynerd @blackgaynerd.com · 09/04/2026This appeared under the news post. Taboola ads are always horrific. Death penalty for Taboola. 010
Blackgaynerd @blackgaynerd.com · 26/03/2026As a supporter of proportional representation, This is how I view the gerrymandering arms race, and of FPTP, in the long term. 000
Blackgaynerd @blackgaynerd.com · 11/03/2026Talked for the first time since last summer to a former fast food co-worker who was in multiple financial straits over the years. Glad that she's been able to move to the west coast and restart her life with her family's help. But also: 000
Blackgaynerd @blackgaynerd.com · 06/03/2026At a data center town hall here in Columbus Georgia. Very testy. 000
Blackgaynerd @blackgaynerd.com · 05/03/2026As of 5pm 3/5: Democrats have filed for 155/180 HDs, 44/56 SDs, 10/10 state row offices, 14/14 CDs, 1/1 U.S. Senate seats and (I guess) 1/10 District Attorney circuits. Largest field of midterm candidates in three decades in both legislative chambers, with room to grow by noon tomorrow. #gapol 120
Blackgaynerd @blackgaynerd.com · 03/03/2026As of 5pm 3/3: Democrats have filed for 136/180 HDs, 32/56 SDs, 13/14 CDs, 9/10 state row offices and 1/1 U.S. Senate seat. Dem incumbents withdrew filings for two HDs (too early?). 16 Dem state rep incumbents have yet to file for re-election in open HDs. #gapol 121
Blackgaynerd @blackgaynerd.com · 28/02/2026MSNBC once had a livestream called Shift in 2014-2015. Would be interesting if MSNOW brought it back. 000
Blackgaynerd @blackgaynerd.com · 27/02/2026two fucking bastards who want you dead and who instead should be in prison or worse. 010
Blackgaynerd @blackgaynerd.com · 26/02/20262020 was the high water mark for Democrats filing for both houses of the Georgia General Assembly: 42/56 Senate (flipped 1), 141/180 House (flipped 2). We haven’t reached those heights since. Maybe next week will pleasantly surprise me. #gapol 120
Blackgaynerd @blackgaynerd.com · 21/02/2026The entire Apocalypse film series. I watched the first 3 in church as a kid (against my better judgment) 000
Blackgaynerd @blackgaynerd.com · 14/02/2026California, Colorado, Nevada and Hawaii repealed their constitutional bans on same-sex marriage post-Obergefell. In addition, 16 states' remaining statute or constitutional bans on miscegenation were repealed post-Loving. 120
Blackgaynerd @blackgaynerd.com · 19/01/2026With alt-text, because I’ve lived here most of my life and am tired of the South’s generations of cursed shit 050
Blackgaynerd @blackgaynerd.com · 17/01/2026The Virginia Voting Rights Restoration Amendment seems to require completion of parole, probation and fines before automatic restoration of voting rights. That would place Virginia closer to its neighbors to its south (NC/SC/GA) than those to its north (PA/NY/MD). Could’ve had better text. 020
Blackgaynerd @blackgaynerd.com · 12/01/2026TIL that both Harriet Tubman and Alfred Dreyfus received posthumous military promotions in the last two years, both to Brigadier General. 131
Blackgaynerd @blackgaynerd.com · 10/01/2026DC version of the above RCV flag, and a FairVote color version as well 1111
Blackgaynerd @blackgaynerd.com · 10/01/2026My contribution to the Gadsden flag discourse, in light of what's happening in Alaska: 140
Blackgaynerd @blackgaynerd.com · 19/12/2025Oregon could have had real proportional representation in their state house. Incredible: 29319
Blackgaynerd @blackgaynerd.com · 08/12/2025The overall branding for it has been insanely successful for this period ngl. That they got Unilever to put their Dove Soap branding on the campaign has, IMO, allowed it to steamroll through several red state legislatures. 110
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