George Takei  🏳️‍🌈🖖🏽
Representatives should not get to choose their voters. That’s ass backwards.
Jul 10 at 10:33pmWeb
Show threadPooblemooJul 10
@georgetakei Iowa did it a few years ago and people were just not connecting the dots they were rigging it for future elections to make sure their people would win seats in the state house and for the assured win of their candidates by moving them to districts heavily in their favor
Show threaddecapitaeJul 10
@georgetakei Impeach and remove? Someone's using old-hat racist techniques for classist and racist nefariousness aren't they?
Show threadThe Jack of SandwichJul 11
@decapitae @georgetakei Republican legislators: Why would we impeach him for helping us keep our jobs?
Show threadXenogragJul 10
@georgetakei with Texas already being the most gerrymandered U.S. state. It actually is purple if not outright blue.
Show threadThe Jack of SandwichJul 11

@Xenograg @georgetakei if it were blue, Ted Cruz and John Cornyn wouldn't keep getting elected.

You can't gerrymander a US senate election

Show threadXenogragJul 11
@jack_of_sandwich @georgetakei gerrymandering has the greatest effect in House of Representatives elections. The sabotage of Austin, et. al.
Show threadKarsten JohanssonJul 10
@georgetakei Redistricting is nearly only ever done for restricting the opposing party from getting anywhere.
Show threadmtconleyukJul 10
@georgetakei
‘eak’. not ‘eek’.
Show threadHugs4friends ♾🇺🇦 🇵🇸😷Jul 11
@mtconleyuk eke, not eak.
Show threadGrinning Cat   🚫👑Jul 11
@Tooden @mtconleyuk Though "eek!" is an apt description!
Show threadHugs4friends ♾🇺🇦 🇵🇸😷Jul 11
@grinningcat It is. @mtconleyuk
Show threadGregory DodwellJul 11
@mtconleyuk @georgetakei Eke. Matter closed.
Show threadSoozcatJul 10

@georgetakei #Alt4You Image: Gov. Abbott seated at a table, backed by standing supporters, speaking into a microphone.

Jeremy Wallace:
BREAKING: Gov. Greg Abbott has just released an agenda for a special session starting July 21. It includes redrawing the Texas Congressional Districts ahead of the 2026 midterms to help the Republicans eke out more seats in case GOP lose seats in other states.

Beto O'Rourke:
They're trying to rig the maps to avoid accountability for screwing the people of Texas--taking health care away from millions, gutting public schools, failing foster kids, and turning their backs on hungry children.

Show threadTotal ToddJul 11
@georgetakei True. But what is, and what has ever been the point of Beto O’Rourke??
Show threadT🎃NJul 11
@georgetakei There is some vulnerability with over gerrymandering, and with Texas already gerrymandered, let's hope they really go for it and shoot themselves in the foot.
Show threadferricoxideJul 11
@georgetakei

The fuckery never ends...
Show threadIndia Savage AndersonJul 11
@georgetakei
Show threadTom DB 🦣Jul 11
@georgetakei Seats should be in proportion to the number of people in the states. Redrawing districts for red voters means less people in it and that should result in less seats, not more. Mathematics has already been invented, this is a lame effort to reinvent something in a worse image.
Show threadJan BastianJul 11
@georgetakei Best democracy you can buy.
Show threadRorschach Jul 11
@georgetakei
Gerrymandering is the first thing you should abolish or make illegal. I guess that would avoid many problems.
Show threadOrrock LXXXVI XLVIIJul 11

@georgetakei the move comes with risks, according to Politico. If they siphon off too many voters who are safely red to bolster the GOP elsewhere, it could put those GOP districts in play. One thought is that sitting GOP TX members are not happy.

Also, don’t you love how on the one-week anniversary of what killed or disappeared 300 or so TX residents, the GOP is only thinking about their political future.

Show thread3notchJul 12
@georgetakei District maps should be locked in place for 50 years with no possibility of change and then the maps should be reviewed by every federal judge in the region and voted on by the general public.