Turns out the paper tiger is orange.

At least 34 tankers linked to Iran, including vessels carrying crude oil, have successfully bypassed the U.S. blockade, per FT

Russian tankers get US Navy escorts.

Q: Obviously you've read The Atlantic article

BLANCHE: I absolutely did not read that article

Q: Have you heard any concerns given your supervision over the FBI about problems w/ drinking?

BLANCHE: I have a lot of concerns, completely around the anonymous reporting that comes forth constantly

Lot of people on the right crying about the Virginia redistricting vote.

We told you this would happen while you were celebrating the illegal off-cycle seat grab in Texas.

Stop playing stupid games if you don’t want to win stupid prizes.

NEW: Justice Dept has just received a USB drive with filings by Ghislaine Maxwell, which includes an amended motion to vacate her criminal conviction & prison sentence

Trump Admin prosecutor says arguments appear "duplicative" and "meritless"

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

If Republicans hate the CA and VA redistricting, they can thank the person responsible - Donald J. Trump.

None of it would’ve been possible without his leadership on this issue.

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.

The Celtics will now play Game 3 on Amazon Prime, which means they will have played on ABC, Peacock and Prime in Games 1, 2 and 3, which is genuinely just completely unreasonable and unacceptable.

💥🔥 Oil rain falls in Tuapse after Ukrainian drone strikes hit Rosneft's refinery and port.

A Federal Judge has TOSSED a defamation lawsuit Kash Patel brought against former FBI official/pundit Frank Figliuzzi.

Figluizzi’s claim that Patel spent more time in nightclubs than at the FBI HQ’s was “rhetorical hyperbole” the Judge rules.

SlimShots: #Eminem #f'djt

🇪🇺🇺🇦 “I expect a positive decision on the €90 billion loan for Ukraine in the next 24 hours.”

- Kaja Kallas
Vice-President of the European Commission

So let me get this fucking straight…
MAGA wants Trump reading the Bible in the Oval Office and the Ten Commandments in public schools, but the Pope should stay out of politics? Be fucking serious

🇷🇺😅 The Chairman of the Communist Party, the second-largest party in Russia, Zyuganov in the State Duma:

"We have told (Putin) ten times that the economy is inevitably going to collapse... If you don't take immediate measures... in the fall we will face what happened in 1917."

That was a coordinated dry run for 26/28 here. They will learn from the mistakes there and try to steal them here.

That's why every election for the foreseeable future must be driven by massive turnout to make it too big to rig. Happened a couple of weeks ago in Hungary and nobody thinks the opposition was not trying to cheat. Hell everybody from Russia, the US GOP including CPAC were trying their best.

The GOP ads were insanely dishonest. Hey Peter Thiel & Co., there may be a place for your ilk but it is not the US.

You thought your $$ could buy your white nationalist fever dream hell hole. You thought wrong. Oh & Hungary’s out too. The options wear thin. Perhaps Mars.

Congratulations Virginia!! Yes Passes!!! Virginia will redistrict.

I am glad this passed but there is something wrong with these numbers. These numbers do NOT follow the trend we have seen in the last year of elections shifting 10 points to the left. Something stinks here.

We are ready for the fight!

@hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social:

“If Florida Republicans proceed with this illegal scheme, they will only create more prime pick-up opportunities for Democrats, just as they did with Trump’s dummymander in Texas. Maximum warfare, everywhere, all the time.”

Full statement👇🏻

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.

Don’t. Print. Lies. In. The. Newspaper.

The actual existing Democrats gained two seats in the House in 2024, & they would have won control were it not for the late, illegal GA/NC gerrymandering.

Amidst all the GOP whining tonight, a reminder that the Democrats would currently control the House were it not for the late, illegal GOP gerrymandering in GA & NC in 2024.

JUST IN: AOC Grills RFK Jr. Over Medicare Advantage Payments Amid Fraud Allegations YouTube video by Forbes Breaking News

youtu.be/E4ruVRwkKGY?...

Here's the video

Incredible shots of the exchange between Rep. AOC and RFK, Jr. at today’s congressional hearing.

(image credit: WSJ reporter @lizessleywhyte.bsky.social)

Thanks for fighting for us all.

You ever try to code switch at work and fail? 😂

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.

Indeed. Complaints about redistricting are invalid. Republicans did it everywhere and invalidated a Constitutional Amendment so they could do it on explicitly racial lines.

There are two choices: use the same levers of power as Republicans do, or let them win. There is no "principled" opposition.