MAGA hates healthcare.

Being humble is cute!

This, she says, “is where organisation is still the big missing piece – organisation on the ground”. She points to Polanski’s success in boosting the British Greens’ membership, to the point where it has reportedly surpassed that of the centrist Liberal Democrats and even the “natural party of government”, the Conservatives. (On her trip, Swarbrick also met the two leading figures behind Your Party, Jeremy Corbyn and left-wing firebrand Zarah Sultana, but is unsurprisingly more guarded about those encounters, noting only that the nascent party’s internal fighting is “rough as guts”.)

In New Zealand as elsewhere, it tends to be centre-left Labour and Democratic parties that have the strongest ground game. So could the Greens really surpass them? “Over time, yes,” Swarbrick says. One central task is “building coalitions” with faith groups, community organisations and the union movement, although the latter’s historical ties to Labour means any relationship with the Greens “will look different”.

The task for politicians, as she sees it, is to “think beyond electoral cycles” and generate public trust by being less opportunistic. “People, when you talk to them on the ground, don’t just want politicians to turn up when it’s election year and times are easy and they’re cutting ribbons. They want you to turn up when they’re having a bad day and stuff is hard. That process of constant accountability – that is where you build trust.”

This is also happening in the most educated state in the union.

Several other Democratic governors are deeply supportive of trans people, such as Jared Polis of Colorado, J.B. Pritzker of Illinois, Maura Healey of Massachusetts, Tina Kotek of Oregon, Janet Mills of Maine, Tony Evers of Wisconsin, Gretchen Whitmer of Michigan, Tim Walz of Minnesota, Andy Beshear of Kentucky, Laura Kelly of Kansas — and there are several more. Some have signed pro-trans bills into law, but their states haven’t seen such a volume of legislation to protect the rights of the trans community, and in some cases, they have vetoed anti-trans bills. Those who’ve done so include Evers, Beshear, and Kelly, with Beshear’s and Kelly’s vetoes overridden by Republican-majority legislatures.

Newsom outraged many trans people and their supporters, however, with his comments this year on a podcast with right-wing activist Charlie Kirk. Newsom said letting trans girls and women compete in sports alongside cisgender females is “deeply unfair.” Newsom has repeated that a few times, including in the interview with Klein.

But there is no evidence that trans female athletes have an inherent advantage over their cisgender counterparts, and there are many other factors besides gender assigned at birth that affect athletic performance.

However, Newsom has sometimes stood up for trans athletes. He has resisted the Trump administration’s pressures on the state to rescind its trans-inclusive school sports policy.

The interview with Klein also set off another skirmish in Newsom’s feud with right-wing billionaire Elon Musk. Musk has a trans daughter, Vivian Jenna Wilson, who has cut ties with him. Musk repeatedly deadnames and misgenders her.

The nazi scammer may take away the rights of queer people in the near future.

No, having parents mailed social media dangers brochures instead would be a better idea.

You could try https://alternativeto.net/software/quobuz/about/

It’s hard already when parents are overburdened with trying to pay the bills.

Then increase the fines.

You can regulate big tech without banning support groups.

Australia is a nanny state censoring the internet.

Agreed, they’re amoral in that regard.

Too late corporate Newsom, AOC took your place for the presidential position.

Remove the aipac democrat rot!

They’re attempting to make France more transphobic.

Any party can take on first or second place if the leadership is good.

Note that they surpassed liberal democrats in the polls.

She loves having republicans write her own platform.

Thanks garbage first-past-the-post.

That’s being unnecessarily pendant, look at his behaviour and policies instead of how someone is spelling their name.