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Michael Rockhold @mrckhld.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I really wonder what result a proper election in Quebec, with a ranked-choice ballot, would have been. Five serious parties is a lot of parties

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The techbros don't want you to see this trailer. Pass it on.

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Dawna and RealMonkeyCat @dawna9.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The trailer for the documentary that a vacuous billionaire wants disappeared. Like the thousands of federal jobs his doge dudes removed. Like the citizens & immigrants removed from American streets. Please watch & repost. Thank you for your attention to this matter. youtu.be/eY_8SyndC10

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Musk | Official Trailer | Bleecker Street

YouTube video by Musk

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UN Environment Programme @unep.org · 07/09/2026

The math isn't mathing. The world spends more than three times as much on fossil fuel subsidies as it would cost to transition to clean economies for a safe climate and air. The solutions are ready and the money is there. What’s needed now is action at scale: bit.ly/3UFnsYq #CleanAirDay

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Michael Rockhold @mrckhld.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

“If you want to get to get to the heart of Count Binface’s view of democracy…” well OK sure, I guess this is what we’re doing now podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/o...

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Binface vs. the Has-Bin

Podcast Episode · Oh God, What Now? · July 9 · 1h 13m

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Michael Rockhold @mrckhld.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

We should do this in North America too

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Zach Everson @zacheverson.com · 01/07/2026

Trump borrowed more than $50 million from Charles Schwab Bank last year. But what we don't know— 💰️ why he needed the funds 💰️ how he used the funds 💰️ what assets he pledged as collateral 💰️ the exact amount he borrowed 💰️ when it's due ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ @danalexander21.bsky.social for Forbes

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Trump Took Out Mysterious Loan Last Year

Donald Trump secured a massive loan from Charles Schwab Bank last year, leaving his debt profile murkier than it has been in ages.

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Michael Rockhold @mrckhld.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

Yes: “Just accept the science of how stoppable all of this is”

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

It looks like proportional representation with multi-member districts: protectdemocracy.org/work/democra...

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Jen (they/them) says Free Link @knifeboots.xyz · 05/06/2026

One of Anthony Head's lesser-known roles was a guest role on the BBC Radio comedy Cabin Pressure, where he played smooth-talking airline pilot Hercules Shipwright. I highly recommend checking out this show. Here's a clip from the episode "Rotterdam". youtu.be/pvNtxmcqyFc

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Cabin Pressure s3 - Rotterdam

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Michael Anderson @michaelander45.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Where (just spitballing) is the Orlin Ryes act? Republicans are not the only ones who can make political theater out of tragic preventable deaths. And the causal nexus to the government is much stronger here unlike the nonsense that is the Laken Riley act the

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Justin Oaksford @justinoaksford.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

And no more Sweet Alchemy I guess, including the Capitol Hill location

Ko, who owns Sweet Alchemy Ice Creamery and Elixir cafe and bar, brushed aside questions about whether she gathered signatures against the “event as planned” or against what she believed to be the long-term goal of its planners.

“I know these guys and they have been pushing this for a long time. No cars,” she said. “We don’t have the infrastructure to handle a pedestrianized street.”

Ko said she was spurred to action after getting a flier in the mail about the event. She went up and down the avenue asking fellow business owners what they thought, and most either hadn’t gotten the flier or hadn’t read it.

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Michael Rockhold @mrckhld.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

It’s Saturday, so I’m making a sign

Protest sign in progress, reads « Democracy is coming, to the USA »

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Mister X, PhD @suimannux.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

In addition, we need to clean up some of the Founders' most egregious mistakes or even 10 branches won't fix it: 1. Delete SCOTUS. We don't need it. Select 9 random circuit judges per case to become temp Supremes. 2. Delete the Senate. Even Hamilton agreed the Connecticut Compromise was a mistake.

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Oscar P @oscarp.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

With growing interest on proportional representation in the US, thought I'd re-share this @newamerica.org piece on why I think this systems would be a major upgrade: www.newamerica.org/insights/eig...

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Eight Reasons to Champion Proportional Representation for the U.S.

Proportional representation would be a major and much needed upgrade for American elections.

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Michael Rockhold @mrckhld.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

There’s no law that says Canada has to enter the EU as just one country

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raphus.bsky.social @raphus.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

Yea, the actual solution is just to appoint every circuit judge to the Supreme Court and legislate that the court handles cases by random panels of N justices, with en banc review. I could maybe buy an argument that the chief justice has to be included on every panel.

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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Parallel counterfactual: Of 100+ democracies that have been set up since US Constitution in 1787, virtually none have copied US model. (Exceptions I'm aware of: Liberia, Philippines. Could be more.) It's an antiquated, flawed system. US has thrived in spite of it, not because of it.

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Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 11/05/2026

"Under single-member districts, if the second-place finisher gets 49% of the votes, they get 0% of the seats. Under PR, they would get approximately 49% of the seats." www.liberalcurrents.com/proportional...

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Proportional Representation Would Fix That

We can change the structure of elections in America to make them more free, more democratic, and more fair to every voter. Here's how.

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

Proportional representation was (and still is) such an obvious solution for minority representation that Congress had to go out of its way to say courts couldn't impose it as a VRA remedy.

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Dan @grinnz.com · 10/05/2026

The problem causing these problems is representation, and they don't want to solve it (proportional representation + ranked choice voting + national popular vote + end citizens united) because it means they specifically won't have power anymore

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Joshua Foust 🪖🎮 @joshuafoust.com · 05/05/2026

The single most defining thing Elon Musk has ever done is killing untold numbers of people by having DOGE illegally raid and disband USAID. Not rickets, not cars, not even the CSAMbot on X. It’s this, and so many media pundits just choose to unsee it.

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USAID shutdown has led to hundreds of thousands of deaths | Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

The Trump administration’s decision to shut down the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) has resulted in hundreds of thousands of deaths from infectious diseases and malnutrition, accord...

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Michael Rockhold @mrckhld.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

The Fair Representation Act would fix this. Tell your Representative you want them to vote for it. “it is a fantasy that there is some set of single-seat districts that will create 435 compact, competitive, and representative districts.“ www.liberalcurrents.com/lessons-from...

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Lessons from the Redistricting Wars

Gerrymandering is just tweaking a bad system at the margins.

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

Democracy Dies In Unilateral Disarmament The answer is getting ride of single-member districts entirely & adopting proportional representation with multi-member districts. The only good thing about this VRA nonsense is that it raises awareness that there is only one eventual solution:

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Over 200 Democracy Scholars Call on Congress to End Single-Member Congressional District

More than 200 political scientists, legal scholars, and historians released an open letter calling on Congress to reject the United States’ winner-take-all elections.

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Adam Gurri @adamgurri.liberalcurrents.com · 01/05/2026

The solution to gerrymandering has been known for nearly two hundred years at this point. When we take back power we should do a new VRA that requires proportional representation (after we deal with the Court, of course, to ensure the law sticks) youtu.be/T7_LmqR0a04?...

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Just do proportional representation!

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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 29/04/2026

a really cool proposal here from justin briley to not just break the court, but break it up--to reconstitute it as a random panel drawn from the circuits for each case www.liberalcurrents.com/break-up-the...

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Break Up the Supreme Court

The federal court suffers simultaneously from lawless leadership and chronic understaffing. Let's fix both problems at once.

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Proportional representation requires zero consideration of race and produces better minority representation, both partisan minorities and racial minorities, than any attempt to draw majority-minority districts ever could.

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Max D. Stanton @max-d-stanton.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

Let's break up the Court entirely and use random panels of Circuit Court judges to decide SCOTUS cases. Interpreting the Constitution is too big a job to leave to nine hand-picked partisan operatives. www.liberalcurrents.com/break-up-the...

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Break Up the Big Court

The federal court suffers simultaneously from lawless leadership and chronic understaffing. Let's fix both problems at once.

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Michael G. L. @theled.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

I’d like to hear serious people start talking about what needs to happen to assure us that a Trump type individual will NEVER AGAIN gain this kind of power.

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Alan Elrod @aselrod.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

I think we have to face up to the fact that no healthy country re-elects a man like Trump And that problem goes beyond the people who cast a vote for him bsky.app/profile/asel...

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Dennis Lytton @dennislytton.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

If you simply passed proportional representation in an enlarged House in 2029 it would "ban" the far right to about 30% of the share in the House, like AfD in Germany. We don't need one political party, we need five or six.

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

You can still be shocked can't you, even after years of this shit. That sentence chilled me to my bones. To see an American president say that. To see him boast about it.

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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

This is already an indelible stain on our national history, culture, consciousness, influence, standing And EVERY SINGLE member of the group that could STOP THIS immediately—the Republican members of the House and Senate—stands there in the dock of history's judgment, like quislings of other eras

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Michael Rockhold @mrckhld.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

I can’t decide if I’m glad to be reminded that at the very beginning of the liberal era the idea of a free society seemed extremely unlikely

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Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

you know the way "why did the Roman Empire fall" and "what are the causes of the First World War" are big questions that sort of function like Rorsharch tests, allowing people to debate ultimately inexplicable moments in history? "Why did no one stop Trump" a decent future shout for the third.

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Michael Rockhold @mrckhld.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

“Well, it’s really half of one, six dozen of the other” “Let’s go with that last one”

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Michael Rockhold @mrckhld.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

Hey, I love the New York Times, they do a hard job well, but _this_ is how to frame a story about what may be the largest one-day protest in American history

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Michael Rockhold @mrckhld.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

Democracy is Coming! (Parliamentary, proportional, liberal, we have to hope. Not the “one man, one vote, one time” kind)

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Michael Rockhold @mrckhld.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

Emmanuel Grégoire @egregoire.bsky.social today is the mayor-elect of Paris! Good going, Paris

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Brandon - "Fietser" @americanfietser.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

When I say ban them, I mean end the loophole that treats them as unregulated bicycles. They are motorcycles. Require a license, slap a plate on them, and keep them on the road.

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