The announcement follows Newsom’s 2024 executive order, which directed encampment cleanups after a U.S. Supreme Court ruling granted state and local governments more authority to remove them.

  • j_roby@slrpnk.netOP
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    Punching back is the absolute bare minimum requirement for a supposed opposition party (looking at you Schumer and Jeffries).

    But Newsom has been repeatedly demonstrating that he is willing to throw our trans friends and unhoused neighbors under the bus for political points. Ask yourself, if he’s willing to betray one group, what’s stopping him from betraying any other group should he decide that it’s politically expedient?

    This has nothing to do with “purity tests”

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      Thank you for being more eloquent with your reply than I was able to be. That purity test comment made me see red. Where else are disenfranchised groups to go, but to the left? How can we be represented if the only place we can turn refuses to represent us?

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        Comments about purity tests are conversation-terminating cliches that should be downvoted.

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      Ask yourself, if he’s willing to betray one group, what’s stopping him from betraying any other group should he decide that it’s politically expedient?

      That’s the idea. That’s the entire idea. Betrayal of the marginalized is centrists’ whole thing.