These two editorials by the Washington Post expose how the Republican Party and Democratic Party are held to completely different standards by the media.
Texas gerrymander: “Not a threat to democracy.”
Virginia gerrymander: “Power grab by Democrats.”
If Republicans could just run the government competently while they control the presidency, house and senate, they wouldn’t have to worry about gerrymandering, SAVE Act, or any other efforts to rig the midterms. Maybe the Iran War will save them since voters love it so much.
Reupping this from last Summer on redistricting.
Sometimes, the message gets through.
open.substack.com/pub/therickw...
Republicans define governing as going on Fox News and saying dumb stuff.
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"
It’s official - VICTORY in Virginia as voters approve new redistricting plan with a 10-1 Democratic advantage
This could mean up to FOUR more seats for Dems in House this November
Mike Johnson, consider yourself on notice - the American people are about to FIRE you
Your government refusing to prosecute sexual predators, but protect them instead, only makes sense when you realize your government is being run by sexual predators.
"Whaaaaaa whaaaaaa whaaaaa! They did what *we* did. Only better. NOT FAIR!!!"
They’re taking it well.
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The right gambled, tried to rig the election, lost, and now it’s excuses and tears.
Thanks for everything, Virginia. 🙏🏽
"He is really shitting on the people that call into his own show. And you can tell he hates his life and he hates the other Groypers."
@timmiller.bsky.social, @willsommer.bsky.social and @samsteindc.bsky.social on Nick Fuentes hating his own fans almost as much as everybody else does.
NEW REPUBLIC: “Where Did Millions in Funding Go?”
$63 MILLION companies paid in *settlements* to Trump appears to have vanished (into his pocket) and @SenWarren wants answers.
newrepublic.com/article/2092...
The verdict of a prominent conservative website and magazine:
"A 79-year-old man who has long dealt in chaos is now being consumed by that chaos. His episodes are becoming more frequent, his good days further apart. What he has lost is not a sense of decency or decorum—he never had those...
The Blaze's quickly debunked reporting based on “gait analysis” was enough to get the feds to descend with a helicopter on a falsely accused J6 pipe-bomber’s home.
Will Sommer has new details from the lawsuit.
By going after the Southern Poverty Law Center, the Trump administration has dramatically escalated its attack on civil rights organizations and its defense of white supremacists.
These intimidation tactics won't succeed.
Virginia’s new map will give Democrats the chance to flip four seats currently held by Republicans. That could put Dems slightly ahead in the national mid-decade gerrymandering wars—a result few thought possible when Trump picked the fight by pushing Texas Republicans to redraw their map last year.
By turning Trump's own redistricting gamble against him, Virginia just changed the math on Congress.
Tim Miller: "The government wrongfully seizing money from companies and then not giving it back to them because they're threatening the companies, it doesn't really feel like free market capitalism... I think Joe Kernen would call that something else if it was Obama."
Settee down everyone, it's not that funny
The Onion wants to make us submissive slaves to the New world order.
Correct.
I can’t remember: did Texas even hold a vote to amend their constitution to add their five Republican seats?
Trump is melting down on Truth Social tonight.
Remember, Democrats have repeatedly advanced measures to ban partisan gerrymandering and Republicans have voted against them time after time.
This is the game Republicans wanted to play. OK, then.
BREAKING: The YES vote will WIN Virginia’s redistricting referendum, allowing Democrats to redraw maps ahead of the midterms and potentially flip the state from 6–5 to 10–1 — a four-seat swing that could decide control of Congress.
You can have no rage, Republicans, when you lit the fuse.
You just got outplayed
