I would submit that a gerrymander by politicians saying fuck the voters and one by voters saying fuck the politicians are two wholly different animals

Virginia voters approve new congressional map favoring Democrats, CBS News projects — CBS News Virginia voters on Tuesday approved a new congressional map that would give Democrats an advantage in 10 House districts, leaving just one safe Republican seat, CBS News projects.

WTG Virginia
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Is that bad? Seems bad

EV sales soar in main European markets as drivers shun expensive petrol Sales of fully electric cars in Europe's main auto markets jumped by almost a third in the first quarter of 2026, as ​drivers looked for alternatives to combustion engines after the war in Iran ‌cause...

REUTERS LIVE:- EV sales soar in main European markets as drivers shun expensive petrol - www.reuters.com/sustainabili...

Sarah Fitzpatrick, who wrote the article on Patel’s excessive drinking, works for The Atlantic. They had been threatened with lawsuits if the story went to print. Her response was basically, bring it on, because she had no intention of stopping the story.

Is it time to abandon hope the Strait of Hormuz will open soon? A consistent theme in global oil markets since the U.S. and Israel attacked Iran is that the effective closure of the Strait of Hormuz will be short-lived, and therefore so will the disruption to the ...

REUTERS LIVE:- Commentary | - www.reuters.com/markets/comm...

The insider trading suspicions looming over Trump's presidency The BBC has found a pattern of spikes in trades ahead of public announcements by the US president.

BBC News - The insider trading suspicions looming over Trump's presidency
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Because this makes sense, it will probably never happen, but just once, if they lifted the cap, it would make the system work as it was designed. Can you imagine how much life could change for people who rely solely on Social Security to get by?

We owe each other a country where at least the things that two-thirds of Americans can agree on actually get done. When something is broken in this country, we have to do what it takes to fix it.

Thank you, Tulsa, for the warm welcome back - and for showing us what a better future looks like.

Sunday Night Q & A A recording from Glenn Kirschner's live video

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Wow missed this.
“Norway reached 117% renewable electricity use in 2023, producing more than it consumes and exporting the surplus. “

Atlantic current shows two-decade decline across four deep-ocean monitoring sites A paper published in the journal Science Advances is adding to the growing body of research showing that the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) is weakening. In this new study, instead...

Two decades of deep-ocean measurements at four western Atlantic sites show a consistent decline in deep overturning transport from near the Caribbean to Canada, matching a weakening AMOC.
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Searing opinion from a federal judge on Long Island, who describes "police state"-like tactics by ICE to arrest peopleand draw up after-the-fact warrants.

He says DOJ is damaging its credibility with the courts by trying to shield ICE from scrutiny. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

It seems like a Prime Minister who continues to get his corruption trial delayed for years because his government is engaged in wars has a personal incentive to keep wars going as long as possible.

MAGA backlash sees Army yank tribute to Purple Heart senator who lost both legs in Iraq

tRump's Army Secretary caved to MAGA backlash and shut down "Soldier for Life" accounts—just for honoring Purple Heart hero Tammy Duckworth, who lost both legs in Iraq combat. Real veterans get erased if they're not tRump loyalists. Pathetic.
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There should be a law passed, and enforced, that we will no longer have for profit prisons of any kind! Ever again! Incentivized incarceration should be a crime against humanity and should be retroactively enforced! They know what they are doing is wrong!

Effective 2025 federal tax rates paid by these corporations:

Alphabet: 8.01%
AT&T: 4.6%
Meta: 3.57%
General Motors: 3.09%
Amazon: 1.37%
Exxon Mobil: 1.31%
Disney: -1.57%
CVS Health: -3.88%

Income tax rate paid by the typical American: 14.5%

This is what a rigged system looks like.

Too many of our kids are getting killed, because of thoughtless assholes like Republican Speaker of the House Mike Johnson.

This mass shooting today happened in his own district. He said “thoughts and prayers” but did nothing AGAIN.

Remember this when we can take back the House in November.

“Into the Wood Chipper”: Whistleblower’s Inside Story of DOGE Shredding USAID, 14 Million May Die A new book tells the inside story of the second Trump administration’s dismantling of the U.S. Agency for International Development, USAID. Its author, Nicholas Enrich, worked at USAID for over a deca...

An estimated 14 million people are projected to die “unnecessarily” over the next five years due to the Trump administration's slashing of USAID.
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Ukrainian forces once again struck the Tuapse refinery, Krasnodar region, in Russia. The entire complex is on fire..

Tehran has ‘no plans to participate’ in new talks, state media reports, as it accuses US of violating ceasefire Reported response comes hours after Trump announced delegation to Islamabad, having earlier threatened to raze Iran’s infrastructure * Middle East crisis – live updates Tehran is not currently planning to take part in new talks with the US, Iran state media reported on Sunday evening, as its military accused America of violating a fragile ceasefire between the two countries, hours after Donald Trump said he was dispatching negotiators to Islamabad. President Donald Trump announced on Sunday that an Iranian cargo ship that tried to get past the US-enforced blockade near the strait of Hormuz had been seized. “We have full custody of their ship, and are seeing what’s on board!” Trump wrote on social media. Continue reading...

Tehran has ‘no plans to participate’ in new talks, state media reports, as it accuses US of violating ceasefire

The FBI Director Is MIA Kash Patel has alarmed colleagues with episodes of excessive drinking and unexplained absences.

No previous American president, in any era, of any party, would have tolerated a drunken, erratic, absent FBI chief
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April 19, 2026 On the evening of April 18, 1775, the people who lived in the British colony of Massachusetts had gone to bed with the sun, as usual.

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A federal judge in Illinois today ruled that the Trump administration improperly coerced Facebook and Apple to remove ICE-tracking apps in violation of the First Amendment. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Texas Medical Board Sanctions Three Doctors for Delayed Care That Led to the Deaths of Two Pregnant Women The two women died during miscarriages. The state’s medical board has ruled that substandard care led to their deaths.

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After Mather student and mom detained by ICE, a school and soccer community are left reeling - WBEZ Chicago After Mather student and mom detained by ICE, a school and soccer community are left reeling  WBEZ Chicago

After Mather student and mom detained by ICE, a school and soccer community are left reeling - WBEZ Chicago

Data expert stunned as latest election hints at bigger GOP losses this fall: "Absolute disaster" www.msn.com/en-us/news/p...

Missouri's murder rate is 73% HIGHER than California’s.

No amount of right-wing spinning can change reality: our state is investing in prevention, enforcement, and is holding criminals accountable.

The U.S. Senator from Missouri should fix his own failed policies before lecturing us.