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Very cool that the #Washington State legislature is considering HB 2210 a bill to allow cities to adopt #RankedChoiceVoting , including multi-winner RCV, which is a form of #proportionalRepresentation. https://app.leg.wa.gov/billsummary?BillNumber=2210&Year=2025

A similar bill (SB 212, 2019) passed in California to be vetoed by Governor Newsom. If he'd signed it, more cities could experimenting with PR right now. But he'll be gone next year, so maybe we should try again! #ProRep #STV #California #democracy #CaLeg

"At least 63 times since 2007, data from some of the 28 human genomic repositories that the N.I.H. controls was improperly released to researchers, used for unapproved purposes or made vulnerable to theft, according to government records" #DNA #CaLeg https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/24/us/children-genetics-race-science.html?

For my fellow #Californians: A breakdown of the new laws starting in 2026. 🐻 Includes consumer protection wins, AI regulations & workplace changes that hit your bottom line. (Credit: LegalMiga on Threads) KNOW YOUR RIGHTS. Let’s go 🧵👇🏾 #LosAngeles #CALeg #NewLaws2026 #PolitiSky

For my fellow #Californians: A breakdown of the new laws starting in 2026. 🐻

Includes consumer protection wins, AI regulations & workplace changes that hit your bottom line.

(Credit: LegalMiga on Threads)

KNOW YOUR RIGHTS. Let’s go 🧵👇🏾

#LosAngeles #CALeg #NewLaws2026 #PolitiSky

Something to celebrate in CA:

9 of @EqualRightsAdvocates bills were signed by the Governor!!

The new laws, all 2025 priorities of our Stronger California Advocates Network, guard against:
- federal attacks on medicated abortion, trans people’s rights, and immigrant families; and
- advance proactive economic policy reform

We are keeping California at the forefront in advancing policies supporting women and families!

#CALeg
#California

https://www.equalrights.org/news/governor-signs-into-law-9-stronger-california-2025-bills-for-gender-racial-and-economic-justice/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=stronger_ca_legislative_update_2025_10_15&utm_term=&utm_content=text_link

https://www.cbsnews.com/sanfrancisco/news/sb79-homes-near-transit-newsom-signs-california-housing-affordability-crisis/ “In California we talk a lot about where we don't want to build homes, but rarely about where we do — until now. SB 79 unwinds decades of overly restrictive land use policies that have driven housing costs to astronomical levels, forcing millions of people to move far away from jobs and transit, to face massive commutes, or to leave California entirely” #transit #housing #CA #CALeg #SB79 #YIMBY #jobs

It appears that California is similar to Virginia, but in a much more confusing and frustrating way. I like this bit: "In practical terms, nearly anyone can sue once a project has been approved." https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displayText.xhtml?lawCode=GOV&division=1.&title=7.&part=&chapter=9.3.&article= #CALeg

This bill protects #pedophiles. #SB577 #CAleg #CApol #ChildAbuse #ChildSexAbuse #California #CriminalJusticeReform www.sanluisobispo.com/opinion/read...

SLO County DA: This California...

We managed to go 7 years since the last proposal to partition California. I just updated Wikipedia with a map of the latest Republican plan to split off inland California from the coastal counties. (And no, it's never going to happen).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Partition_and_secession_in_California#21st_century

#California #Wikipedia #maps #cartography #gerrymandering #redistricting #districting #USpol #caleg

California legislature is back in session for one more month to finish voting on this year's bills. I've updated this summary of housing bills - more than half of the 250+ bills introduced this year are still active. #CALeg
https://tinyurl.com/2025housingbills

One for the PR and legislature nerds (maybe just me!). Some folks worry that a switch to multimember districts and #proportionalrepresentation would lead to confusion about constituent service. "Who's my representative?" In fact, PR would allow representatives, and parties, to get creative and provide better casework to more people. #CALeg #USHouseOfRepresentatives

https://www.politicsinquestion.com/episodes/futureofcasework

Unilateral disarmament in the redistricting wars is no virtue. Keeping your gerrymandering powder dry to force concessions from other states is no vice. #uspol #capol #txpol #caleg #txleg #redistricting

http://blackgaynerd.com/2025/07/18/california-and-other-blue-states-can-re-arm-themselves-through-multilateral-redistricting/

Rare WWII home movies from France show Nazi occupiers having more human respect than ICE occupying Los Angeles today. Proof of our decline?
#LA #CAleg #Immigration #Trump

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WvIlvNB5MKU

https://calmatters.org/housing/2025/06/ceqa-urban-development-infill-budget/ “In practice, that means most new apartment buildings will no longer face the open threat of environmental litigation.” #CALeg #housing #California #CEQA #homelessness #shortage

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/06/25/california-democrats-stage-intraparty-war-over-last-minute-push-to-build-more-housing-00425196 “The housing crisis is the most politically, socially, economically destabilizing crisis in California” #housing #CAleg

ProRep doesn't have any fancy animated videos, yet. But this video by FairVote Canada ( @fairvote.ca ) nicely illustrates how an open-list proportional representation system would work for elections to the California legislature.

Just imagine "districts" for "ridings," "Bear" for "Moose," "Quail" for "Puffin" and, uh, "Beaver" for "Beaver." Voila.

#California #ProportionalRepresentation #democracy #CAleg

https://youtu.be/_S0Pjhh2A9g?feature=shared

Ugh. I may have to get on bluesky, at least for some stuff. I was trying to follow the action on #SB79 and some other housing bills today. Lots of people live posting the hearing over there today, legislators, advocates, etc. But it seems like just very few people here are tuned into #caleg or other stuff I want to follow. (Which makes sense, of course, given the different overall numbers of users.) I really like the everyday anarchism of the fediverse, but it can be hard sometimes.

This Political Science research paper shows that Rent Hikes and Evictions by Landlords are the main cause of Homelessness in California and that it CAN be controlled. #Homelessness #CALeg #GavinNewsom #LA https://preprints.apsanet.org/engage/apsa/article-details/66cfbebd20ac769e5f27a777

The state Senate Insurance Committee doesn't have a chair as the huge fires in LA escalate the state's insurance crisis because of questions around a federal corruption investigation reports Ryan Sabalow for CalMatters

https://calmatters.org/politics/2025/01/california-democrat-senate-bribery-investigation/

#caleg #calmatters

California’s whip-lash were-rich-were-broke-were-less-broke budget cycles are wild, to experience and cover.
To catch up before Gov Newsoms $322 billion budget presentation read this mornings piece by two of my colleagues

https://calmatters.org/politics/2025/01/gavin-newsom-2025-california-budget/

#caleg #california