Abolish the electoral college, and give all voters, including California’s, a bigger voice in future national elections.
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Read your current events, boy.
New Jersey embraced the blue wave fully too!
Only one GOP congressman remains, after we ousted 5-6 of them in the midterm.
Good. Consign these Republican/conservative/fascist bastards to the dustbin of history.
One down, 49 to go.
Great, now can we do this with the federal government please?
The difference is that everyone knows the game in CA and aren’t throwing hissy fits and lawsuits around to stop the county election officials from doing their job. California allows same day registration and mail in ballots postmarked by election day, so it takes a while for the vote to be certified and we don’t have…
Democrats took over California not through voter suppression, gerrymandering, and lying. Democrats won with an honest campaigning. Republicans took over states like Kansas and Texas with gerrymandering and lying.
Honestly, this situation sucks. Not because the GOP is getting its butt handed to it, or because California’s turning blue. No, it sucks because I really, REALLY want to support and be a part of the state’s new direction of being a progressive and environmentally-minded powerhouse, but I can’t actually live there due…
I’m south of you, in Kansas. Without actual data, I feel like we’re moving more into a two-season pattern: six months of summer and six months of winter. The summers are a little hotter (more days above 90), and the winters are dangerously cold (many more days below zero). Winter definitely hasn’t disappeared here. If…
A little further north from you in central Alberta. As a kid we had snow and feet of snow every Halloween, cold and snow. 6 months of the year we had snow on the ground and when i say that i mean a thick covering.
I see the same thing. I haven’t lived here my whole life, but when I first moved here over a decade ago, every winter brought enough snow to build snowmen. At least once per winter you’d get a three+ foot snowfall.
Yeah, I grew up in the Bay Area and it used to rain when I was a kid. A LOT. It was, believe it or not, kind of a rainy place for a good portion of the year. Those rainy seasons have all but disappeared, while the “fire season” has just expanded and expanded.
it’s difficult to state how fucked we are but this is a good start
Been reading many accounts of brush and forest firefighters over the past couple days. These are people that fly to wherever the hot spots are in the country to fight wildfires. Without fail they all mention that PG&E is notorious for being the worst in the nation at clearing lines of trees or tinder.
It’s amazing how much the weather has shifted in 20 years but people refuse to acknowledge it.
I moved from Texas to California in October 1997 after law school. Since then, I have lived within a few blocks of the ocean the entire time, the first decade in Laguna Beach, and the next a few miles south in Dana Point. I’ve never had AC (a fact that still boggles my Texas-raised brain). I can confirm - however…
And if it turns out that, as some people are saying, Camp was started by a faulty PG&E line, it needs to be dismantled and California’s power given back to California to run. Should’ve been forced to clean house after San Bruno, if not shut down.
I know you focused this on California, but here in Colorado it’s the same story. A few years ago Colorado Springs partially caught on fire. Then Fort Collins. And dozens of little mountain areas without a lot of people but where hundreds of animals for sure burned to death and our skies were choked by smoke and ash.