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kempa 🕳️ @yeshelloitskempa.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

I tried to do a voter guide episode with Robin and it turned into 90 minutes of insults and joyful asides

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Robin Epley @byrobinepley.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

hey check me out on the latest episode of @thedrain.bsky.social, where I just non-stop insult Dave Kempa (to his delight) open.spotify.com/episode/77Vx...

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Getting out the meemaw vote, with Robin Epley

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The Drain 🕳️ @thedrain.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

🚨🚨🚨the latest from The Drain🕳️🚨🚨🚨 We're discussing Google cofounder Sergey Brin, his gut-health MAGA girlfriend, and their plan to stop the surge of economic populism in CA politics. Folks, it's Building a Bitter California: www.patreon.com/posts/buildi...

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Sweet Palma @palma.ltd · 22/04/2026

Saikat Chakrabarti's least-problematic colleague:

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Pope Pho V @cosmoq.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

Thanks @thedrain.bsky.social and @prorepcoalition.bsky.social for working to unfuck our democracy!

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Sweet Palma @palma.ltd · 02/03/2026

🚨🕳️‼️FREE DRAIN‼️🕳️🚨 Kempa and I are back this week, joined this time by SF District 1 Sup. @conniechansf.bsky.social — the prog. powerhouse running to represent San Francisco in Congress.

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Sweet Palma @palma.ltd · 25/02/2026

@edzitron.com thank you for your service bro

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kempa 🕳️ @yeshelloitskempa.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

🚨NorCal friends🚨 Folks are coming out to the ICE HQ building in downtown Sacramento tonight to show ICE that they're not welcome here -- join if you can 💜

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The Drain 🕳️ @thedrain.bsky.social · 25/12/2025

merry christmas, from our foul beast to yours 💜🐶🕳️

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Shivvers in Fear 🙀 @shivvy.blacksky.app · 25/12/2025

Listening to @thedrain.bsky.social and getting irate for the holidays. The only thing I can imagine making food delivery colder/less edible on arrival is taking it to the sky

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San Francisco's drone wars | The Drain 🕳️

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The Drain 🕳️ @thedrain.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

The latest from The Drain🕳️ @palma.ltd and @yeshelloitskempa.bsky.social discuss @gavinnewsom.bsky.social and AG Becerra's former chiefs of staff facing *federal* charges, and also touch on SF Mayor Daniel Lurie's big appointment bungle involving dead animals. Enjoy: www.patreon.com/posts/143963...

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Federal charges against Newsom and Becerra's former chiefs of staff, and SF Mayor Daniel Lurie's animal house bungle | The Drain 🕳️

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The Drain 🕳️ @thedrain.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

The Plug is BACK, baby (also expect a little bonus soon)! In today's episode, @palma.ltd tells us a chilling tale about a California public utility providing its customer data to cops in order to take down "illegal" marijuana growing operations. Enjoy: www.patreon.com/posts/033-sm...

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033 - SMUD narcs on its California customers | The Drain 🕳️

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The Drain 🕳️ @thedrain.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

You can listen to this episode wherever fine podcasts are found, but you can also join our Patreon and subscribe/listen for the low price of GRATIS: 🕳️: www.patreon.com/posts/030-ha...

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030 - Have It Your Way (with Josh Rosa of Better Ballot Sacramento) | The Drain 🕳️

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The Drain 🕳️ @thedrain.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

Today, Josh gives us the skinny on RCV, its practical ramifications for political campaigns, the state of its implementation in Calif., and how we can use RCV to democratize local government 🕳️🕳️🕳️

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The Drain 🕳️ @thedrain.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

It's old hat now, but an overlooked reason for progressive candidates' success in the NY mayoral race is how RCV let NYers transfer their vote to another candidate without weakening the position of their own favorite While it wasn't the decisive factor, RCV DID have an effect on the race 🕳️🕳️🕳️

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The Drain 🕳️ @thedrain.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

🚨🕳️🚨NEW DRAIN🚨🕳️🚨 We're joined by Josh Rosa, volunteer for @betterballotsac.bsky.social to talk about local and state-wide efforts to bring in Ranked Choice Voting to California in a huge way 🕳️🕳️🕳️ Listen: www.patreon.com/posts/030-ha...

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The Drain 🕳️ @thedrain.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

It's a new one! 🕳️ We talked with @ic.institute about their latest California poll, which found: - 71% of residents say the state would be better off with special autonomous status within the U.S. - 44% would vote for a ballot measure for peaceful, legal secession www.patreon.com/posts/029-ne...

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029 - A new poll on California sovereignty, with Coyote Marin | The Drain 🕳️

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California Centric @ic.institute · 06/07/2025

Rumor has it our executive director is going to appear on The Drain again in a couple of weeks. 🤫

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Sweet Palma @palma.ltd · 29/06/2025

Hey I don’t know what log you crawled out from under but if you observe the leadership of the party broadly seems to be more concerned with a fake crisis of antisemitism in america instead of the MANY other actual real crises they HAVE BEEN ignoring for DECADES, in addition to the ones in my OP. 😄

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

If the GOP reconciliation bill passes, ICE gets through FY2029: - $45 billion for detention, on top of the current annual budget of $3.4 billion - $14.4 billion for transportation and removal, on top of the current annual budget of $750 million - $8 billion for hiring/retention - Billions more.

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Sweet Palma @palma.ltd · 28/06/2025

Every single centrist dem with their panties in a bunch over Zohran would rather talk about a mayoral primary election result instead of: • $1T cuts to federal welfare spending • federal thugs disappearing people from their homes • the impending end of birthright citizenship It makes me sick.

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

Wild fact: The U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003 was more popular among Iraqis than the U.S. military invasion of California is among Americans today

@BFriedmanDC on X: This is an ABC/BBC poll of *Iraqis* over time, from 2004-2008. It does not include 2002-2003 when Iraqi support was highest.

U.S. invasion was right/wrong in 2004: 49/39
U.S. invasion was right/wrong in 2008: 49/50

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Do you approve or disapprove of deploying National Guard soldiers to the Los Angeles area to respond to protests over the federal government's immigration enforcement?
Conducted June 10, 2025

YouGov surveyed 4309 US adults

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Sweet Palma @palma.ltd · 19/06/2025

🕳️💦🕳️ THE DRAIN IS BACK 🕳️💦🕳️ 🔓🤑🔓FREE EPISODE:🔓🤑🔓 Apart from touching on ICE we also ask the question: why the hell is Ro fucking Khanna the only California representative formally opposing American intervention in Iran? Should compromised representatives be primaried? Link in the quoted post:

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Sweet Palma @palma.ltd · 19/06/2025

🚨🚨BUDGETWATCH is BACK🚨🚨

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dag @tiedye.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

We probably should all stop going to work pretty soon. At what point do we stop bluffing general strike calls?

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The Drain 🕳️ @thedrain.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

Governor @gavinnewsom.bsky.social has been lurching to the right ever since he started eyeing a 2028 run for the White House. Meanwhile, Democrats are courting Elon Musk after his public fallout with Trump Today we look at the inevitability of a Musk-Newsom alliance www.patreon.com/posts/131166...

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my plug says he loves me @chudwina.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

[trying really hard to rap about being connected] i want to be tied up

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The Drain 🕳️ @thedrain.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

Two years ago a group of activists in Atlanta were trying to stop the construction of Cop City. Now, they're facing the biggest RICO case in US history. We talked with friend/defendant @priscillagrim.bsky.social to get the details, and to learn how you can help: www.patreon.com/posts/drain-...

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California Centric @ic.institute · 29/05/2025

Literally the most fun I have ever had listening to a podcast about our state budget! Like this post if you want @yeshelloitskempa.bsky.social and @palma.ltd to make BUDGETWATCH a regular segment on their podcast 😁

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The Drain 🕳️ @thedrain.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

The latest! Palma and Kempa are diving deep into @governor.ca.gov's state budget decision-making. Facing a $12 billion deficit, Governor Newsom wants to cut Medi-Cal for undocumented residents, close his fifth prison, and give Hollywood more tax credits. We discuss: www.patreon.com/posts/130011...

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The Drain 015 - Newsom's California budget: Prison closures, Ozempic cuts, Hollywood tax credits, and ending Medi-Cal for undocumented residents | The Drain 🕳️

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Sweet Palma @palma.ltd · 27/05/2025

The Drain is back! This week, we're cracking into BudgetWatch: each May, thousands of little deals are made in the warrens under the Calif. legislature to make adjustments to the year's budget – horse trading, pork barrels, virtue-signaling and the eternal deficit struggle...

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Sen. Pumpkin Gogurt @ugarles.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

Be on alert as it is likely that he has already been rehired.

NYT headline: Manhunt Underway for Former Police Chief Imprisoned for Murder and Rape
Subhed: Grant Hardin, 56, escaped on Sunday from a high-security prison in Arkansas, where he was serving a decades-long sentence for first-degree murder and rape.

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Sweet Palma @palma.ltd · 23/05/2025

I was hoping for feature parity between twitter and here, but I certainly didn’t expect it to happen via a regression there. Monkey paw theory is undefeated

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El Faro English @elfaroenglish.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

📢 Today, as El Faro celebrates 27 years of journalism, we launch our digital magazine, Central America Monthly. On the 15th of every month, El Faro English will provide deeper answers to pressing questions in our region. beta.elfaro.net/en/monthly/i...

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Kate Doyle @katidoyle.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

Amazing first edition of El Faro’s “Central America Monthly,” packed full of superb reporting, the now-notorious interviews with El Sal gang leaders (English subtitles), a podcast episode, a deep dive into the Guatemalan genocide trial, and much much more. 👇👇

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Vinniedus @vinniedus.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

"Journalists Exposed Bukele's Ties to Gangs. Then They Had to Flee El Salvador to Avoid Arrest" via @democracynow.org and @elfaroenglish.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=7yIz...

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Journalists Exposed Bukele's Ties to Gangs. Then They Had to Flee El Salvador to Avoid Arrest

YouTube video by Democracy Now!

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𝓂𝓈. 𝓅𝒶𝓉𝒽 @semiopath.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

you can't put the toothpaste back into the tube. and why would you want to? it goes on your teeth.

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Sweet Palma @palma.ltd · 14/05/2025

It’s going great over there lol

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Sweet Palma @palma.ltd · 13/05/2025

Your best friends are back! Kempa and I go through a particularly nasty “sex trafficking” bill with very little focus on helping teens escape abuse, and more focus on bashing gay culture and progressives who won’t toe the line. We also go deep into backpage history and lawfare on sex workers. 👇👇

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The Drain 🕳️ @thedrain.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

Premium episode! We're covering lots of ground with this one, discussing the lore behind Max's deportation from Spain, Alec Baldwin's interest in a friend of the show, and attorneys who tickle defendants with walrus-like mustaches when whispering in the court room 〰️ www.patreon.com/posts/drain-...

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The Drain 012 - Qué Hilaria | The Drain 🕳️

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kempa 🕳️ @yeshelloitskempa.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

The latest! We're discussing the wild new story in Rolling Stone about ChatGPT exacerbating people's bouts with psychosis, and how that dovetails with @gavinnewsom.bsky.social and California's disturbing lack of guidelines for big name learned language models: www.patreon.com/posts/128263...

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The Drain 011 - AI in CA | The Drain 🕳️

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El Faro English @elfaroenglish.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

🚨 A reliable source in El Salvador told El Faro that the Bukele-controlled Attorney General’s Office is preparing at least seven arrest warrants for members of El Faro following an interview with two former gang leaders on their years-long relationship to Bukele. elfaro.net/en/202515/el...

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El Faro Denounces Possible Arrest Warrants for At Least Seven Staff Members in El Salvador

<p>A reliable source in El Salvador told El Faro that the Bukele-controlled Attorney General’s Office is preparing at least seven arrest warrants for members of El Faro. The source reached out followi...

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Sweet Palma @palma.ltd · 05/05/2025

If I sucked you off, would I get an “I Voted” sticker, too?

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