Nate Blouin

"the GOP cucked and caved in UT" meanwhile the UTGOP... 1. Lawfared for 7 years to stop Prop 4 2. Attemped a constitutional amendment to repeal it but couldn't get enough signatures (lol) 3. Packed the Utah Supreme Court 4. Harassed the woman who wrote the Prop 4 ruling opinion off the Utah Supreme Court 5. Changed the rules so the Legislature chooses the Chief Justice instead of the Justices themselves 6. Invented an entirely new, illegal "Constitutional Court" 7. Tried to start a movement to impeach the Lieutenant Governor over not illegally refusing to enforce the new maps They did literally everything they could do outside of an actual coup

A cis, white, straight male billionaire not only being the most progressive candidate for California governor, but also giving the most compassionate answer about trans people, this gives me hope. California please don’t mess this up.

A new poll shows Ritchie Torres with a wide lead in the June Democratic Party primary for NY-15. But this lead vanished when voters learned he backed the war on Iran, took AIPAC money, and won't fight for Medicare for All. I'm running because the Bronx deserves better. This November, socialism is on the ballot.

I received word that some liberal nonprofits and political consultants are trying to work with establishment Democrats on a political strategy to expand surveillance, militarized policing, immigration detention, and overall imprisonment with re-branded language. Lots of words like "community" thrown in there. This would be a catastrophic moral failure, but also an unbelievable strategic error given how unpopular repression is.  Those of us who want to see a more equal, more just, more safe society must do everything in our power to call thee people out and stop them, and we will.

New York City mayor Zohran Mamdani has collected $9m (£6.6m) in unpaid fines from Amazon, which has been violating the city's clean air laws by leaving engines running on its parked vehicles. His office announced the recovery of the money last week, days after Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos appeared to criticise Mamdani’s push to tax the rich in order to fund education. “Amazon is worth $2tn. Yet it did not deign to pay the millions of dollars it racked up in unpaid fines as its trucks illegally polluted our air and forced New Yorkers to breathe in their exhaust,” Mamdani said in a statement. “We are going to collect every dollar they owe the people of this city.” Lisa F Garcia, commissioner of the city’s Department of Environmental Protection, said: “I applaud Mayor Mamdani and the Department of Finance for securing more than $9m in illegal idling fines from Amazon, which has long been among the top worst idling offenders in the city.” In an interview with broadcaster CNBC last week, Bezos criticised New York’s public education system and said that even doubling his taxes would not help local teachers. “If we ran Amazon the way New York City runs their school system, your packages would take six weeks to arrive,” he said. Mamdani’s administration has prioritised enforcing existing laws against large companies as part of a bid to rein in corporate power and improve public finances. Earlier this month, his office said it had secured a record-breaking $31m (£22.9m) in penalties against negligent landlords.

"the GOP cucked and caved in UT" meanwhile the UTGOP... 1. Lawfared for 7 years to stop Prop 4 2. Attemped a constitutional amendment to repeal it but couldn't get enough signatures (lol) 3. Packed the Utah Supreme Court 4. Harassed the woman who wrote the Prop 4 ruling opinion off the Utah Supreme Court 5. Changed the rules so the Legislature chooses the Chief Justice instead of the Justices themselves 6. Invented an entirely new, illegal "Constitutional Court" 7. Tried to start a movement to impeach the Lieutenant Governor over not illegally refusing to enforce the new maps They did literally everything they could do outside of an actual coup

Thomas Massie says he will publicly read the names of the Epstein clients before his time in Congress comes to an end. Massie says there will be no high-level arrests as long as Todd Blanche and Kash Patel work for the United States government. Massie says Melania Trump knows the truth about Epstein not acting alone. "Todd Blanche is violating the law."

In the words of Ezra Klein: "If they don’t deliver the housing, it does not matter how many laws you pass."

This is one of the big problems with the Democratic Party. It's an A-for-effort party. It doesn't matter if the bills actually make a difference - politicians get rewarded just for trying. If we keep doing this, we are going to keep seeing authoritarians win. In the same time, I actually worked to change climate politics in DC, and that work led to the largest investment in clean manufacturing in US history. That is the kind of step change we need on every issue, including housing. It's not going to be enough to go to DC and pass a bunch of do-nothing bills that barely move the needle.