Voters deserve election technology that’s transparent & accountable — not secret software controlled by multinational voting machine corporations.
Our @calmatters.org op‑ed explains why California must make it easier to certify open‑source, paper‑ballot voting systems as an alternative. 🧵
A voter fills their ballot at the Main Street Branch Library in Huntington Beach on Nov. 4, 2025. Photo by Jules Hotz for CalMatters
Opinion | By supporting legislation that makes it easier to certify open source voting alternatives, Newsom can strengthen our faith in elections by protecting vote counting from even the appearance of partisanship or moneyed influence... bit.ly/4kQKEvW
📝 Trent Lange
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De-escalating is an important first step. And only because they know they have serious legal exposure. We've got to keep the pressure on until the hit men and their bosses get jail time.
Love is THE superpower. Every angry, hurtful person (including myself) is hurting in some way, even if they don't know it. See if we can find out how to help...
meditationsinanemergency.com
This Cold Winter, Love Is a Superpower
There are great days and terrible days in history, ...
please take the time to listen, watch. His facial expressions are sooooo familiar.... his statement and emotions are so personal...
@eileenworkman.bsky.social Has done it again....
Simple mantra ... I Can Be Kind, I Will Be Kind.
eileenworkman.substack.com/p/the-only-f...
What's up? This is up..... 10 minutes well worth it...
youtu.be/6l4NbWd21kM?...
"Thiel should heed the Gospels, which warn that “it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God.”
Now there’s scripture worth dwelling on—and it’s a problem that no AI, no surveillance, no power, no money can fix."
🚨BREAKING: With our members by her side, @ramirez.house.gov has *officially* introduced the #EqualTaxAct.
Here's what it does:
✅Taxes millionaire investments like wages
✅Closes billionaire loopholes
✅Boosts the economy & cuts inequality
✅Raises revenue only from the rich
When you get a chance check this out. Gives debate a whole new perspective which doesn't include berating the other side
https://braverangels.org/
#OtD 1 Sep 1937 the USSR began their first deportation of an entire ethnic group moving 175,000 Koreans, including partisan vets, and 8,000 Chinese to unpopulated areas of Uzbekistan and elsewhere. Their homes were mostly given to European immigrants stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/7716...
I have been thinking something similar for months now…. And I know in my heart of hearts it is the only way ….
Try to think of them as hurt children … It helps me perhaps it will help you deal with the outrage, hatred, fear.
Words and sentence structure matter. Let us talk about and promote those wonderful people, events and creations!
https://www.meditationsinanemergency.com/we-were-made-for-this/?ref=meditations-in-an-emergency-newsletter
Great article on how we can take it all back... and it is not violence or retaliation...
https://jamesbgreenberg.substack.com/p/resisting-rule-by-fea?publication_id=4042477&post_id=172383026&isFreemail=true&r=2ccc7j&triedRedirect=true
In MacArthur Park in Los Angeles for a free ska show, and I gotta tell you, it’s really healing to see this pavilion full of dancing, smiling people instead of the fascist goons who trampled through here in July
In my limited reading this end result has been going on since Reagan and potentially since Nixon… rabbit and the hare???
“Because Article V imposes no time limit on the accumulation of these resolutions, the effort can proceed indefinitely, building its count slowly over years or decades.”
you know the funny part is that if ‘they’ keep up this ‘resource extraction’ they are going to extract themselves & all their Assets right out of existence…
Does anyone remember the statement made by someone in the Proj2025 camp who said something like 'it will be a peaceful revolution if they will allow it' (I know it is not exact)?... Well here is the new Handmaid's Tale..
https://jamesbgreenberg.substack.com/p/the-quiet-path-to-a-new-constitution
Every Republican accusation is a projection
So good to know!! I use audio books daily from Los Angeles public library and love it!
Data center energy consumption has reached a record 5% of total US power demand.
#MorePower #EconSky
I’m telling you, if a dude talks non-stop about pedophelia or groomers, check his hard drive…
I spent my many years wandering the Smithsonian, learning everything I could about science, history & culture. It’s personal to me that Trump wants to turn it into a MAGA museum.
It’s not just a war on knowledge, it’s a war on how to know anything at all.
www.mind-war.com/p/the-war-on...
“The potential exists for a general strike. But such a struggle demands new leadership, a new program and a complete fight against the pro-corporate union bureaucracy and the two parties of big business.”
The first time Charlie Chaplin used his voice in a film, he wielded it to forcefully condemn the rising forces of fascism around the globe. Will we listen to his words today?
