the spam on my phone is like:

"gerrymandering is bad. vote yes." — barack obama

"gerrymandering is bad." vote no. — barack obama

Republicans, for their part, have cast the push for a new map as a Democratic power grab. “Richmond liberals want to eliminate competitive elections in Virginia,” says an ad from Virginians for Fair Maps, the main Republican-aligned outside group in Virginia.

A more correct way to write this is: "Republicans, who famously love gerrymandering in every other case, are flooding Democratic and Black voters' phones and mailboxes with ratfucking mailers and texts falsely claiming that Obama, Spanberger, and the DNC are against the ballot measure."

Anyway, I'm less than confident about the results tomorrow based on an extremely unscientific sampling of people I've asked around here. An intelligent but not very politically attuned friend was deeply confused by the ratfucking campaign about what Obama endorsed.

Others are sounding squishy.

What is "remarkable," @nytnickc.bsky.social, is that it didn't even occur to you to ask, hey, why are there these mid-decade redistrictings happening in the first place? What did Trump say the goal of them were?

Kinda weird isn't it? Kinda weirder than a "Dems are hypocrites!!?!" angle?

Democrats Once Loathed Gerrymandering. Now They’re Pushing for It.

The words "North Carolina," and "Missouri" do not appear in this piece of shit article.

Neither does the word "decade."

"Florida" and "Texas" appear in subordinate clauses, after words like "After Virginia ..." and "Gov. Gavin Newsom of California framed ..."

www.nytimes.com/2026/04/20/u...

B2B software is named either Andromeda or Thing Doer.

Andromeda uses cutting edge AI, is endlessly configurable, has a huge sales team, and loses tons of money because at the end of the day it does fuck-all.

Thing Doer makes Excel files regulation-compliant, and earns 300 million dollars per year.

Lifestyles of the Rich (I assume) and Famous (I can't stop thinking about them, I'm sure that's common)

the elite aren’t powerful politicians or billionaires. common misconception. the elite is anyone i think is cooler than me, funnier than me, more artistic than me, or generally anyone i resent for daring to be happier than i am despite my immense wealth and political clout

Chicken tikka masala was invented in 1970’s Glasgow by Pakistani born chef Ali Ahmed which somehow makes this funnier to me

The *entire Starmer project* needs to be understood as one big Jobs For The Boys operation. That’s why McSweeney - Labour’s squillionaire bungs officer - spent 2017-19 running around telling dejected MPs to hold tight, because he was going to hook them back up with their clout, status and freebies.

IT IS TOTALLY NORMAL THAT PUBLIC SERVICES COST MONEY

“Over on Twitter, they’re” shhhhh. Shhh.

Shh.

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

crude drawing of a smiling anthrpomorphic dog with a word bubble reading i want them to pay for what they've done

🤗

A public trash receptacle with the words BLOW JOB graffiti-ed on it

guerrilla marketing

book cover: "the role-playing game of the planet of the apes"

lmao this fucking title

Hey man, we cool? I just noticed that when I look at you the reticle turns red.

In the 90s we were SO POOR

how poor were you?

We were SO POOR we couldn't get a whole Ranma and had to make do with one half!

If you want to boil down John Browns message it isn’t “rebellion” it is “slavery is against gods laws and must be fought by any means necessary.“

It was not “vote against the chief executive who is a dang Cheeto”

announcing ILÚVATAR, my multi-billion dollar company which will specialize in the dismantling of all other idiotically tolkien-named entities, that they shalt see that no theme may be played that hath not its uttermost source in me, nor can any alter the music in my despite

Comic of the beetle from the cover of Massive Attack's "Mezzanine" meeting the crab from the cover of The Prodigy's "Fat of the Land".

Hi this joke is for me

god what a perfect post

John Brown's body lies a votin' in the grave
John Brown's body lies a votin' in the grave
John Brown's body lies a votin' in the grave
But his soul goes vo-ting on....

The last election was almost two years ago.

The next one is almost two years away.

The president is engineering & rigging every element of it. You need overwhelming support.

You should fucking Lock In.

It’s a problem that the party that’s supposed to be the one that doesn’t hate us can’t hide their disdain for us. Can’t make a single promise. Can’t stop condescending.

They are still relitigating the last election instead of currently laying the groundwork for winning the next one.

And all of the candidates who need non-white supremacist, non-ableist, non-transphobic votes are very busy bashing the marginalized & disenfranchised.

That’s how you lose again.

Hopefully they'll literally stake the survival of the company on it, so we can stop having to use their piece of shit app.

Gonna really bet on glasses that looks like something an ophthalmologist makes you wear as a child to fix a lazy eye?

Well okay

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