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Although the constitutional court does have 3 vacancies right now and it does look more conservative at the moment so it's not fully a given that it will get through

The Impeachment process isn't identical between the two. US congress has a lower bar for impeachment but requires a 2/3rd vote in the senate to convict which is where those both failed.

In South Korea they have a 2/3rd threshold to impeach and then it goes to a constitutional court to uphold or not uphold it. The prime minister becomes acting president right after impeachment while the constitutional court reviews it

There's recent precident of the constitutional court upholding an impeachment unanimously in south korea in 2017

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impeachment_of_Park_Geun-hye

Note that it's not a one time increase to that, it's an increase each year until it reaches $30/hr by 2028

Under the proposal, the minimum wage for hotel and airport workers would go up in increments of $2.50 per year, starting at $22.50 in July and moving to $25 in July 2026, $27.50 in July 2027 and $30 in July 2028.

Yes, people organized around the olympics as a reason to push for the higher minimum wage. That's not something hidden that's something in the article

The campaign for the so-called Olympic wage had been spearheaded by Unite Here Local 11, which represents hotel and restaurant workers, and United Service Workers West, a local of the Service Employees International Union whose members work at Los Angeles International Airport. Both organizations staged rallies, led marches and, this week, organized a three-day fast by tourism workers stationed outside City Hall.

Also note that this is a city council decision in LA, not from the Governor Newsom

They're planning on voting again

Opposition lawmakers have submitted another motion for Wednesday, December 11 – the next available date they can vote on Yoon’s impeachment.

They were just a few votes short of the threshold

House seats don't do governor appointment like senate seats (nor would you want Glenn Younkin to make an appointment). They are just vacant until a special election. She's been able to keep up for a while - even fairly recently - from what I had seen (using text to speech to deliver speeches/interviews and the like). I'm not sure what her current state looks like now though

Suhas Subramanyam won the seat this year, someone else will fill in fact fill the seat soon enough

Can't speak for the others but I know I had read that Jennifer Wexton has a terminal illness (she cannot even speak anymore and did not run for reelection). I'd assume that's probably why she didn't vote

The article was using beef and lamb as an example. It holds across much more than those

Plant-based protein sources – tofu, beans, peas and nuts – have the lowest carbon footprint. This is certainly true when you compare average emissions. But it’s still true when you compare the extremes: there’s not much overlap in emissions between the worst producers of plant proteins, and the best producers of meat and dairy.

If you want a lower-carbon diet, eating less meat is nearly always better than eating the most sustainable meat.

It's worth noting the deal also specifically increases taxes for animal agriculture above a certain size/emission threshold

For farmland type, they are specifying low-lying soils as primary targets. Low lying soil specifically because reforestation/rewilding can have higher impact

Another important thing to note is that a large amount of farmland is used for feedcrop production in general around the world. For instance, around 90% of Denmark's cereal crop production goes to animal feed

Denmark is primarily an agricultural exporter. They produce more than they use domestically

We already have solutions, they are largely not technological, but in changing what we consume and produce. Animal products produce substantially worse results compared to any plant-based foods across virtually every metric. Technological solutions don't move the needle much as even worst case production of plants comes out ahead of the best case production of animal products

If I source my beef or lamb from low-impact producers, could they have a lower footprint than plant-based alternatives?The evidence suggests, no: plant-based foods emit fewer greenhouse gases than meat and dairy, regardless of how they are produced.

https://ourworldindata.org/less-meat-or-sustainable-meat

It was decided by a margin of 664 votes (0.21%) according to the article

Also consider running yourself too for those local down ballot races and or encouraging progressives you know to do the same!

https://runforsomething.net/

https://wherecanirun.org/

If you're a US citizen living abroad, there's the Democrats Abroad party chair to reach out to, there are also various US territory chairs too (Puerto Rico, U.S. Virgin Islands, DC, etc.)

Reading more about DNC chair elections, the state party's vice chair usually also votes for chair too (among others). For Texas, that's Shay Wyrick-Cathey (shay@txdemocrats.org)

For what it's worth it looks like his comments about trans people are what produced a large push to get the Texas Democratic party chair to step down. He said he was stepping down the day after he gave an apology

chair@cadem.org or also rusty@cadem.org seemed to be listed on various California Democratic Party documents for him

If anyone else is having any issues finding the contact emails, reply to me with a state and I can try to help you find it!

Then make sure to tell the people actually voting for the chair to give the pushback they need to see that's a mistake. Change is only going to come when we speak up

It's not voted on directly, you are going to want to talk to your state's party chair to try to convince them vote on the type of chair like you would a congress person on a vote for something. In the body of the post, you can find how to find your state's party chair

Here's the table copied over:

That's assuming that all Trump supporters vote down ballot. I've been reading that a non-negligable percentage of Trump voters just voted for president and left down ballot races blank. Considering Trump only won the swing states by tiny percentages, a small percentage of Trump voters leaving blank the rest is easily enough to sway it

For instance, if we look at Wisconsin senate, we see that Tammy Baldwin has almost exactly the same number of votes as Harris (only a couple hundred more), but Eric Hovde shows less substantially votes than Trump got

Results with ~99% reported:

Donald Trump: 1,697,769

Kamala Harris: 1,668,082

(And about 40k for third party)

Vs senate

Tammy Baldwin: 1,668,545 [+436 from Harris]

Eric Hovde: 1,641,181 [-56,615 from Trump]

The best time to plant a tree was twenty years ago. The second best is now

Separate from the Dems, but The Lincoln Project did run some ads aimed literally just at Trump to make him angry at his campaign staff. Here's one example that ran on Fox News during the hours that Trump was most likely to watch it. The Trump campaign ended up sending a cease and desist over it

We have avoided some of the worst case this election. Down ballot dems have done a lot better than for president and that's going to matter to keep them from being able to do anything without infighting fears. We could've been looking at a 57-43 senate should the swing states not have largely split their votes between senate and president. Instead we're likely looking at a 53-47 or 52-48 senate.* The house could've also been worse too.

In state legislatures, dems did fairly well all things considered. State legislatures are the place that resistance to Trump is most likely to really be effective. We've managed to keep a lot of state legislature seats and even flip some in other areas. For instance, we broke up North Carolina's republican super majority for instance which means the Democratic governor-elect can have effective vetos. We kept the 1 seat majority in the PA state house in a funny way of having two seats flipped in opposite directions and canceling each other out

*The Associated Press has called PA for McCormick, but Decision Desk actually thinks that Casey has a ~66% chance of winning still and neither campaign has conceded. McCormick is saying he thinks the call was incorrect and thinks things will could actually flip with the last 100,000 or so votes left to count and or may go to recount

EDIT: and to add on for further context, Decision Desk is usually some of the first to call any race - to the point where some people say their calls are premature. The AP usually calls races after Decision Desk. The AP usually is much more slow on their calls which is why this situation is so strange where the AP has called it but Decision Desk hasn't and thinks it actually has 2/3 odds of going the opposite way that the AP called it