They think you're stupid.

we must build additional housing in NoVA

"should we really resort to playing dirty to defeat the nazis i–"

yes. kick em in the fucking balls. what kind of question is that. grow the fuck up

Is social media dying? How much did Twitter change as it became X? Which party now dominates the conversation?

Using nationally representative ANES data from 2020 & 2024, I map how the U.S. social media landscape has changed

Here are the key take-aways 🧵

Full paper out now in in JQD:DM!

How the Virginia GOP could've won:

>Don’t target rural areas, focus on suburbs

>Demand Musk not to be an idiot with DOGE

>Don’t siege state elections, rig them immediately

>Zurge rush NoVa to cut off woke

>Ally with laid-off government workers against Spanberger

>ignore bad national brand

Virginia Woolf, more than a hundred years ago:

a video game character stands in front of a voting booth that says vote ALT: a video game character stands in front of a voting booth that says vote

Virginia tonight

for the past ten years, models of the electorate have been increasingly special-casing low-information low-propensity voters, increasingly making the posterior Oops! All Priors!

a) it's unalloyed good news that the redistricting in Virginia is nearly certain to pass

b) the fact that the margin looks like it'll run ~10 points behind Spanberger 2025 points to the limitations of political maximalism -- Virginia is blue enough we can do this, thank god, but it's not popular

AOC talking to RFK Jr. Her facial and hand gesture has the spiritual energy of that Italian hand gesture where you pinch your fingers and wave your hand (the "ma che vuo" gesture).

how it feels to say "sprezzatura"

”How is this legal” is a really funny thing for a republican to say in 2026

Congratulations, Virginia! Republicans are trying to tilt the midterm elections in their favor, but they haven’t done it yet. Thanks for showing us what it looks like to stand up for our democracy and fight back.

THANK YOU VIRGINIA!

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As part of the restoration of the rule of law, every lawyer in the Trump admin who touched this file needs to go to jail.

Sanctions and disbarment are what you do for private abuses of the legal system. Abusing the government power of criminal indictment is another matter, and they keep doing it.

The worst Republican ghouls live in NOVA and they are seething right now.

every conservative political complaint comes back to "those people shouldn't count because they disagree with me"

they like Trump and want to help him rule us like a king

Says the white man who has an airport for a forehead. ✈️🤣

okay "when they go low, we hit hard" fucking rips

asphyxia is a beautiful name for a girl

wow it's almost as if congress should pass a federal anti-gerrymandering law 🤔

if there’s one thing i expect a CIA officer to know, it’s whether or not a given election is gonna be fair #voteyes

The GOP entered this redistricting under the rather childish delusion they were going to gerrymander, and nobody would gerrymander them. In TX, MO, and a half dozen other states, they put their rather naive theory into operation. They sowed the wind, and now they are going to reap the whirlwind

The implicit media consensus is that urban voters should not be able to overrule rural voters, but that rural voters should be able to overrule urban voters, an assumption so axiomatic and unquestionable that nobody even understands they're making it.

baseball crank's problem isn't that the process is bad, it is that he doesn't like the result

it is very funny how these people are so accustomed to essentially bullying democratic politicians that they meltdown when met with appropriate pushback.

in any case, the process to amend the virginia constitution has multiple stages where, at any point, an amendment can be defeated.

Passing the legislature twice with an election in between and then also passing a referendum is common but on the more difficult end of state constitutional amendment methods.