The right gambled, tried to rig the election, lost, and now it’s excuses and tears.

Thanks for everything, Virginia. 🙏🏽

GOP - *gerrymanders*

DEMS - hey stop that no fair

GOP - *gerrymanders even more*

DEMS - we mean it we’re gonna sue

SCOTUS - *legalizes gerrymandering completely*

DEMS - *start gerrymandering*

GOP - HEY STOP THAT NO FAIR!!!! 😭

For the record: The Washington Post can go fuck itself.

Support pro-democracy media that doesn't have its head stuck up Donald Trump's ass. bit.ly/4qmEiFz

Virginia voters just handed Democrats another win in the Great Redistricting Wars Trump’s gerrymandering efforts are backfiring.

Trump thought he could steal the midterms by making MAGA minions rig the House maps.

They thought blue states would sit back and do nothing.

We proved them wrong. Thank you to VA Indivisibles and organizers across the commonwealth for this huge win and your commitment to protecting our democracy.

"I am voting so hard rn". THANK YOU!

Live results: Virginia redistricting special election Virginia voted Tuesday on a redistricting plan with major midterm implications.

AP called the race - YES WINS!

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Live results: Virginia redistricting special election Virginia voted Tuesday on a redistricting plan with major midterm implications.

With 81% of the Virginia redistricting vote in, AP calls it for YES! It passed!

Only 50-60% of the votes from large blue counties have been counted so far, but they're coming in at +42% yes, +62% yes, +17% yes. This site has a great live tracker ⬇️

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#38 in Patel v. Figliuzzi (S.D. Tex., 4:25-cv-02548) – CourtListener.com MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER Granting 25 Opposed MOTION TO DISMISS FOR FAILURE TO STATE A CLAIM (Signed by Judge George C Hanks, Jr) Parties notified. (knp4) (Entered: 04/21/2026)

JUST IN: FBI Dir Kash Patel loses libel suit he filed against former FBI agent Frank Figliuzzi for saying Patel "reportedly" has been "visible at nightclubs far more" than at FBI HQ. Judge George Hanks (Obama/TXSD) says it was "rhetorical hyperbole." Doc: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Fresh from moving to vacate the DOJ’s own criminal convictions of Proud Boys and Oath Keepers for seditious conspiracy, Todd Blanche and Kash Patel have now criminally indicted the Southern Poverty Law Center for infiltrating extremist groups with paid informants—exactly what the FBI does!

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Lawsuit: Blaze’s Crackpot Reporting Prompted a Wild, Unnecessary FBI Raid Quickly debunked reporting based on “gait analysis” was enough to get the feds to descend with a helicopter on a falsely accused J6 pipe-bomber’s home.

New: Kash Patel's FBI launched an unnecessary raid on the home of a former Capitol Police officer, based on Jan. 6 conspiracy theories from right-wing media outlet The Blaze.

This is important and shocking news from NYT.

And it doesn’t mention the DRC third-country deportation program has already begun. ICE sent 15 immigrants from Latin American countries there five days ago.

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Stop privatizing space.

whY iS evERyONe aROunD TRUmP tiEd To EPstEiN?

It’s critical to note that this clip should be taken as evidence that Trump is (obviously) taking cuts of the funds being used to build his new white house ballroom, the arc, etc

The irony is off the charts here.

In the background of Hegseth's video is a painting of General George Washington who famously decreed mandatory small pox vaccinations of his troops - which is credited with allowing the Continental Army to survive and eventually win the Revolutionary War.

You know who else famously used paid informants to infiltrate extremist groups?

The Justice Department.

He just gave away the whole game

GALLEGO: Earlier today, you told Sec. Kennedy that Trump never demanded you to cut interest rates. Is that your sworn testimony?

WARSH: That is, senator.

GALLEGO: Okay. Well someone here is lying then. Because Trump confirmed he pressed you on interest rate cuts.

He's married to billionaire Jane Lauder of the Estee Lauder fortune. Her father, Ronald Lauder, is in the Epstein files 900+ times, is a huge supporter of far-right Israel politicians including war criminal Netanyahu and funds the violent Settlors who murder Palestinians and steal their property.

ELIZABETH WARREN: Did Donald Trump lose the 2020 election?

KEVIN WARSH: Uhm, we try to keep politics if I'm confirmed out of the Federal Reserve

WARREN: I'm just asking a factual question

WARSH: I believe this body certified the election

WARREN: That's not the question I'm asking

Is someone going to tell him that the flu killed more US troops in WWI than any battle did (and that war had chemical weapons so horrific that they were banned afterwards)?

OMFG! 💣💥💣 Kevin Warsh is married to
Ronald Lauder's daughter, Jane Lauder!
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Epstein Files Federal Chair nominee, Kevin Warsh, is refusing to disclose more than $100 million of his assets."

Art collector Ronald Lauder named repeatedly in Epstein files Known art collector Ronald Lauder was mentioned more than 900 times in the Jeffrey Epstein files released by the Department of Justice at the end of January.Rec

5/ Ronald Lauder is mentioned over 900 times in Epstein Files. 🚩 Kevin Warsh
LEON BLACK
Epstein helped coordinate a legal vehicle in 2014, named "Friends Ventures," which allowed Ronald Lauder and Leon Black to share ownership of a $25 million painting, Ja-Was? - Bild by Kurt Schwitters.

8/ Epstein Files Kevin Warsh's confirmation hearing is tomorrow for Federal Reserve chairman and just found out he's married to Ron Lauder's freaking daughter, Jane. Leon Black and Lauder are partners in the art money laundering business with Epstein.
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Ronald Lauder's brother Leonard hosted the 1986 brunch where Trump made his first Russian contact, Yuri Dubinin, and started arranging his first trip to Russia (with Dubinin in 1987). Just after Trump came back he seemed to toy with the idea of a presidential run.
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Senate is voting now to proceed to the budget resolution. It takes a simple majority to proceed. After that, there would be 50 hours of debate, followed by vote-o-rama, followed by final passage. If the House agrees, then would be the process of a reconciliation bill to pump $70 bn into ICE & CBP.

The new money from the Senate reconciliation plan could be used better by directly helping Americans instead of providing more funding for the Department of Homeland Security Select services and how many people could receive any of them through the end of fiscal year 2029 with funding equivalent to what is called for in the Senate Republican budget resolution Table with 6 columns and 2 rows. (column headers with buttons are sortable) People covered by Medicaid Children receiving free school lunch People housed in Section 8 Children given free child care Adults with free community college tuition (two-year degree) Senate stated deficit increase target ($70B) 2,188,000 22,702,000 2,412,000 1,364,000 2,196,000 Maximum allowable deficit increase ($140B) 4,375,000 45,403,000 4,824,000 2,729,000 4,392,000 Notes: Funding could be used for any of these individually, not all in combination. See Methodology for more details. Figures in the $140-billion deficit increase line may not appear to be double the $70-billion line due to rounding. Source: Author’s calculations from U.S. Senate Committee on the Budget, “Concurrent Resolution setting forth the congressional budget for the United States Government for fiscal year 2026 and setting forth the appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal years 2027 through 2035” (Washington: 2026); Congressional Budget Office, “The Budget and Economic Outlook: 2026 to 2036” (Washington: 2026); Elizabeth Williams and others, “Medicaid Enrollment & Spending Growth: FY 2025 & 2026” (Washington: KFF, 2025); Food and Nutrition Service, “National School Lunch, Special Milk, and School Breakfast Programs, National Average Payments/Maximum Reimbursement Rates,” Federal Register 90 (140) (2025): 34827–34830; U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, “Assisted Housing: National and Local” (last accessed March 2026); U.S. House of Representatives, “Division — Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 20…

New from me: Trump's plan to pump more money into ICE and CBP is a missed opportunity to help Americans.

Republicans want to give $70 bn to ICE/CBP, funding them through the end of Trump. Here's what we could do with that money instead.

Read more here: www.americanprogress.org/article/trum...

Not a penny to make life more affordable for American families, but $70 BILLION for ICE to terrorize our communities.

Trump Showers Health Care Crooks With Love His extensive pardons to health care executives convicted of various crimes show that his ‘war on fraud’ in blue states has nothing to do with fraud.

A new report shows that Trump appears to support medical fraud, as long as corporate executives and other elites are the ones committing it. buff.ly/cn3eT0r