Joe F Spaulding 🦉

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[Joe F Spaulding 🦉 @beyond_process]

The first mayor in the US to be elected using Ranked Choice Voting was Ann Arbor's Al Wheeler, the first Black tenured professor at University of Michigan. Dr. Wheeler formed the NAACP Ann Arbor Chapter and wrote the bill that became MI's Civil Rights Department. He helped create some of the first housing protection ordinances in the country.

In a racist backlash against his victory, Ann Arbor repealed Ranked Choice Voting in a low turnout election that happened to have record Republican turnout.

Now, election deniers in Michigan tied to Cleta Mitchell (a woman who once chased a garbage truck down the street to try to prove the 2020 election was stolen from Trump), are once again pushing to suppress Ranked Choice Voting, but that's not all. They are also trying to purge the voter rolls of any ethnic sounding names. We know this because "Pure Integrity Michigan Elections" outed themselves to oppose @RankMIVote's petition to bring Ranked Choice Voting to Michigan Elections. *All* of their plans for voter suppression in Michigan in 2026 are in their rumble videos. These moves are so transparently racist, MI Election Deniers like Patrice Johnson are openly *celebrating* what took place in Ann Arbor in the 1970s.

Mayor Wheeler's story is just a moment in the history of Ranked Choice Voting and, unfortunately, racist voter suppression in this country, but it still a powerful reminder of what's at stake in our politics *today*. You can help get the word out about Dr. Al Wheeler and help Rank MI Vote bring Ranked Choice Voting back to not just Ann Arbor, but all of Michigan. You can find all original sources for this video at AnnArborRCV dot com.

[Joe F Spaulding 🦉 @beyond_process]

@ZacharyForMI 1 Scott Weiner > 10 Hasan Pikers

You will not find a better elected official on the issue of housing anywhere in the country than Scott.

And we're in a housing crisis.

[Joe F Spaulding 🦉 @beyond_process]

@shoesonplease You didn't get reposted by me, you're just an idiot and bad at this.

[Joe F Spaulding 🦉 @beyond_process]

Or showing how those meetings ain't really boring

[Khary Penebaker @kharyp]

The reason most people stop paying attention to politics is not apathy. It is exhaustion engineered as a strategy by the people who benefit from low turnout.

The response is showing up to the boring meetings: school board, county board, primary elections, off-year ballots.

[Joe F Spaulding 🦉 @beyond_process]

Rate hike mis huevos

[Craig Mauger @CraigDMauger]

NEWS: Consumers Energy seeks $456 million electricity rate hike https://t.co/EXfPxRwtwS

[Joe F Spaulding 🦉 @beyond_process]

That's a lot of dudes

[David Weigel @daveweigel]

🚨🚨Josh Shapiro wins WelcomeFest straw poll🚨🚨

[Mallory McMorrow @MalloryMcMorrow]

This is gender affirming care.

[NYTPitchbot @DougJBalloon]

I’m Kid Rock.”
“I’m Naomi Wolf.”
“I’m Kanye West.”
“I’m Matt Taibbi.”
“I’m Catturd. Those stories, plus Rob Schneider, tonight on 60 Minutes.”

[Joe F Spaulding 🦉 @beyond_process]

@MI_Republicans Just say you want everybody impoverished so they don't have time to vote for your opponents. Why are you adding extra steps?

[Joe F Spaulding 🦉 @beyond_process]

@jasonwsnead No, this year, there's nothing more fundamental than stopping Donald Trump and his stooges from messing with the count or deliberately destroying the process in a militant way.

[Joe F Spaulding 🦉 @beyond_process]

Solar tech companies are designing around permitting. Array makes mounting systems for solar panels. Their new model causes less erosion risk and has faster installation, both aimed at zoning approvals.

Data centers will too *if* the regulations exist.

https://t.co/9oAHRupxq7

[Joe F Spaulding 🦉 @beyond_process]

Maybe progressive men in particular are not being vetted as strongly as they should be in primaries 🤷🏽‍♂️

[Joe F Spaulding 🦉 @beyond_process]

@faithbl16308165 @RashidaTlaib How many posts on your feed before I see a Benny Johnson or End Wokeness repost? I'm betting I can count them on one hand.

[Joe F Spaulding 🦉 @beyond_process]

Data centers suck, but @RashidaTlaib platforming rightwing hacks instead of Democratic activists who are happy to talk about the same issue without trying to leverage the increased following into white supremacy later seems bad too.

[James Medlock @jdcmedlock]

Abolish it

[Joe F Spaulding 🦉 @beyond_process]

@grok @tommydiesel0104 @burtgurney @atrupar @RonFilipkowski I don't need to put it in a flyer. I need it to be jacked

[Joe F Spaulding 🦉 @beyond_process]

@grok @tommydiesel0104 @burtgurney @atrupar @RonFilipkowski How much more jacked can you do?

[Joe F Spaulding 🦉 @beyond_process]

@grok @tommydiesel0104 @burtgurney @atrupar @RonFilipkowski Claude would never do me this dirty

[Joe F Spaulding 🦉 @beyond_process]

@tommydiesel0104 @burtgurney @atrupar @RonFilipkowski @grok, No, we said more jacked, let's see it

[melissa “cancelled student debt” byrne @mcbyrne]

Over 600K dead from USAID being doged.

Bros like mass death.

[Joe F Spaulding 🦉 @beyond_process]

@headintheoffice Gen X energy

[Joe F Spaulding 🦉 @beyond_process]

@NewsWire_US He means it like the way @TheJimCornette uses "over".

He just doesn't know any better.

The guy works for free without knowing it. After all, his name is Mark-o.