Whataboutism is the third biggest red flag in a toxic relationship.

Reading the FT front page story about a Chinese company introducing a battery with a 1500 km range & six minute recharging time & about how two Chinese companies own more than half of the global EV battery market & I am struck by the different realities the US and China occupy. We’ve lost the plot.

GERMAN GOVERNMENT SPOKESPERSON: IF HUNGARY DOES NOT OBJECT IN WRITING, THE 90 BILLION EURO EU LOAN FOR UKRAINE CAN BE DISBURSED WITHIN 24 HOURS

If you like what happened in Virginia, you’re gonna love DC statehood

A dozen red states want to help defend Trump’s anti-mail voting executive order Democratic plaintiffs argue that the executive order would unduly restrict mail voting access and insert federal agencies into election administration — a role the Constitution explicitly reserves for...

🚨BREAKING: Republican attorneys general from a dozen states moved to help the White House defend President Donald Trump’s executive order on mail-in voting Tuesday. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

THEY BREAK UPON US

Hey all you bullies who hate getting punched in the nose, meet Virginia

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Your Student Loans Will Be Transferred To Treasury, But When? Here’s What We Know Critical questions about the transfer of student loans to the Treasury Department remain unanswered, even as new details about the plan are coming into focus.

Your Student Loans Will Be Transferred To Treasury, But When? Here’s What We Know

Subpoenas were issued in probe of Russia ‘conspiracy,’ then DOJ clawed them back, sources say The Justice Department sent subpoenas to witnesses, and then withdrew them, in its investigation of former CIA Director John Brennan for his role in the Russia investigation.

"The Justice Department on Monday night began withdrawing several subpoenas that had been issued just days prior in a criminal probe of former CIA Director John Brennan and a purported conspiracy by the Obama administration to embarrass President Donald Trump..."

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this is how Utah's Congressional map deals with Utah's largest city, cracking it through to the middle into 4 different districts in order to deny it Congressional representation to make sure Dems get 0 seats

I had the opportunity to confront Pete Hegseth's bigoted spiritual mentor, Pastor Doug Wilson, and call him out on his history of hate, his misreading of the Bible, his hijacking of Jesus, and his cosplay Crusading.

It was worth it.

Yesterday, in a Zoom meeting, a white female MAGA coworker, practically in tears, dramatically pleaded "everyone, get out and vote." A black female coworker who votes Democratic said calmly "Always." It was delicious.

Idiots, warmongers, and Catholics
By Jack Ohman

guy who won a statewide race in VA by two points now acting like losing one by the same amount makes an election illegitimate

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

Todd Blanche's Weird Double Standard Protects Sex Traffickers and Racists - emptywheel With the indictment of Southern Poverty Law Center, Todd Blanche demonstrates a double standard regarding whether funding implicates someone in racism and sex trafficking.

Todd Blanche's Weird Double Standard Protects Sex Traffickers and Racists

emptywheel.net/2026/04/22/t...

Ruby Bridges is 8 years younger than the President.

Starting a mid-decade redistricting war only to end up with -1 seats is the same fine strategic genius and subtle grasp of game theory that brough us the Strait of Hormuz.

lol

The DOJ was created to increase the capacity for federal prosecutions during Reconstruction esp. those to be brought under the newly enacted KuKlux Klan Act.

Now the DOJ is being used to prosecute a storied civil rights organization whose central mission has been to expose & dismantle the Klan.

Trump Is Said to Be in Talks to Send Afghans Who Aided U.S. Forces to Congo

15 years ago, a friend and I were upset at the US reneging on promises to Afghan interpreters that we founded No One Left Behind, named in this piece, to advocate for their resettlement. I bring this up to say that this is only the latest in a long line of official betrayals of these people.

Redistricting passed here in Charlottesville by a 70+% margin - the largest "yes" margin of any city/county in the state. I will call Trump and tell him there are "good people on both sides" of this issue.

Same!

The (especially weird) WHCA Dinner magician guy says "Looks like I made your Trifecta disappear" and then Trump stuffs him in a Tomahawk warhead and fires it at Chicago, all live on C-SPAN.

Evelyn Normielib is here and she is politely voting to gerrymander your ass into irrelevance

This is either happening because tech operatives want a Dem split and Becerra maintains the three-way, or because a lot of moneyed interests don't want Steyer or Porter. But the speed with which Becerra went from an afterthought to dominating everyone's newsfeed suggests distasteful things.

I feel seen. 💙🦋

as it becomes clear that Yes has won in VA and gerrymandering will pass, a message to Republican voters:

you brought this on yourselves

you convinced the most fairness-obsessed, That Wouldn’t Be Fair-minded voters in the country to affirmatively vote to put you in the dumpster

you earned this

This is about exposing the SPLC's informants in right-wing extremist orgs and driving them out so they can plot in secret. The bullshit criminal charges are just a bonus.