Phase one of gerrymander FO is well underway. Phase two in November is when the TX mander goes dummy instead of gerry.

When Trump began pressuring Texas and other red states to re-gerrymander their maps, the immediate consensus was that Democratic-led states could do little or nothing to counter it. But it turned out that Democrats were anything but helpless.

The YES has won in Virginia; voters approved the constitutional amendment to adopt Dems' congressional gerrymander.

This is likely to deliver a 10-1 (Dem) congressional delegation in November, compared to 6-5 (Dem) now.

The remaining obstacle: State supreme court will be weighing in still.

Keeping Costs Down for Manufactured Home Owners SF 2691 Senate DFL passes manufactured home owners bill of rights, keeping people housed and protecting them from corporate greed.

Real Stories from Manufactured Home Owners "I feel trapped. With the high level of lot rent, I don't feel that I can sell my house, because who will pay $1,000 lot rent and still have a mortgage?" To pay for increased expenses, "I do have a second job at age 61." "Being able to afford essentials and enjoy life is getting more and more difficult due to high rising prices." "It went from being home to a place we are now stuck in." "It's not right for a company from Utah to be able to buy all the affordable housing and keep upping the rent for their own benefit."

Out of state corporate investors keep buying up Minnesota's manufactured home parks and then hiking up rents to increase profits, making it unaffordable for our neighbors.

We're holding these exploitative corporations accountable by passing the Manufactured Home Owners' Bill of Rights. #mn #housing

Here for the ratio.

My one big theory about why things fell apart when they did is just this Pew chart.

one of the ways the mid to late 20th century political world has distorted the historical memories of even sophisticated observers is in the idea that you can achieve major transformations of american political life through something like bipartisan consensus

The thing is, as dumb as Rudy was in that moment, his action shut down the NBA season, which got EVERYONE’S attention to take COVID seriously and shut down everything — which, if anything, saved millions.

"Your job is so fun," yes, but did you know I have to single handedly fight no fewer than sixth algorithms every day for the privilege of telling people to not set their beds on fire.

"It turns the patrons into demons, and the restaurant into hell. I have never seen any one corporate decision supply more chaos, unhappiness, and disdain for humanity than endless shrimp."

And it's BACK: www.businessinsider.com/return-of-en...

Man, when you compare the bravery of every day Minnesotans to the overpaid cops it’s astounding

With the delay in Brooklyn Park Police entering the Hortman home gaining renewed attention I realized I had memory-holed how #MPD completely botched it when Boelter was on run in N #Minneapolis. He was able to be on loose for hours, then they executing raid w/no warning to neighbors no evacuations!

remember how, in the hours and days after the assassinations became public, we were all being told to thank the cops for their fortitude and bravery

I suppose I should save my take on this for my therapist. But having been raised in an anti-sex religious community, let me tell you ... His idea that liberals are the real sexual purity scolds is a take that has me--a straight, cisgender, monogamous man--livid with the fire of a thousand suns.

SD33 was 9 PF / 4 AC / 5 uncommitted. But at least 3 of the 5 were progressive wing causes and the other 2 were focused on the CD 8 endorsement.

Considering pledged delegates from conventions so far, Flanagan will get the party endorsement six weeks from now. Whether Craig will play spoiler is to be seen.

Stanford? Home of some of the worst pro-COVID misinformation in 2020? That Stanford?

do not forget that we the people have the power to chart a different path than this

strange these op-eds about women being too angry have all come out the last few days when during the same time there's also been a massive investigation published on an online rape academy with millions of viewers a month and none of them have bothered to even cover it, even as news

A hiking path up a mountain

I have been wanting to hike for YEARS but unable because of my spine injury.

It’s taken one year and four months of determination and working hard on my mobility, but today I DID IT.

I could cry. You people have no idea. I never, ever thought I’d be able to do anything like that ever again. ❤️

the good lord invented hunger to get us up and out and hanging with one another, so the devil invented doordash.

Gonna spend the next two years spamming every elected Dem about the concept of "damnatio memoriae." Chisel his name off every inscription. Build over the various Trump Towers like they're Nero's Golden House. Remove him from physical memory, not to forget but as a sign of disrespect to the man.

This is a novelty. The fastest robots are already much faster than any humanoid robot will ever be.

I said what I said about Ossoff being closer to the presidency than Buttigieg or Mark Kelly.

I don't care what your 538, or unsliced polls, or Dem strategists say.

Ossoff would get both high turnout and more than 90% of the Black vote. Buttigieg and Kelly would not get enough votes from Black men.

I don’t want the economy to collapse. But if it does, it should collapse in August or September.

Among Dems - "Do you consider yourself more a member of..."

🟢 A Progressive Movement: 55%
🔵 The Democratic Party: 45%

NBC / April 13, 2026

*sigh*

1. That's not a direct quote. If you're going to put something in quotation marks and then go, "Wow. He just came right out and said it," it should be a direct quote.

2. This speech is from 2018. Don't present it as new/recent.

3. The actual content of the speech is bad enough.

Angela Thompson, Nat Smith, Josiah Hill on stage.

Earlier this month, 244 delegates gathered for the Senate District 33 Convention. Over 150 of them were first time convention goers!

We endorsed:
Angela Thompson for House 33A
Nat Smith for State Senate
Rep. Josiah Hill for House 33B

We’re ready to turn our district all blue in November!

Hey, Beshear, Lis Smith, & associated Majority Dem-types:

If you want to kill group-speak, how about we start with “officer-involved shooting,” “ice agent involved-shooting,” “weaponized vehicle” & other mealy-mouthed obfuscations of state-sanctioned murder?

Contra Andy Beshear’s widely panned remarks today, it is crucial for public speech to carefully use words that respect the dignity of the subjects of that speech.