the House roster has changed six times in the last ten days. in order:
4/14: Clay Fuller (R-GA-14) sworn in; Eric Swalwell (D-CA-14) resigns; Tony Gonzales (R-TX-23) resigns
4/20: Analilia Mejía (D-NJ-11) sworn in
4/21: Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick (D-FL-20) resigns
4/22: David Scott (D-GA-13) dies
AO3 is hard up recently:
With the VA yes vote, Democrats will emerge with +1 House seat in the redistricting wars Trump kicked off last summer. They are very, very likely to win back the House in November
Support for impeaching Trump is at 55%, according to a new Strength In Numbers/ @Verasight.io poll, with 37% of adults opposed. Crucially 1 in 5 of Trump’s own voters support impeachment.
Read and share:
www.gelliottmorris.com/p/2026-04-22...
it's kinda funny how despite all the cries of "SOCAILISM!!!" the only presidents who nationalize things are republicans
Rep. David Scott, a Democrat of Georgia, has died: www.ajc.com/politics/202...
Scott, who is 80, faced a lot of pushback for choosing to run for reelection this year, amid reports he'd skipped voting in many recent cycles (inc. 2024 presidential race) & faced multiple primary challengers in May
My latest newsletter: Cory Booker went to Michigan and told the voters who sat out 2024 that the problem was them. I don’t think this is good strategy. www.readtpa.com/p/the-scolding
this is objectively not true! people assume that the Teamsters are representative of labour when they are not
We are out of rainbow trucker hats. I repeat: We have sold out of rainbow InfoWars trucker hats.
(We'll restock them. But you can still buy the union-made shirts.)
Regretful Conservative Wakes Up To Find He Drunkenly Got Nazi Tattoo Removed
Regretful Conservative Wakes Up To Find He Drunkenly Got Nazi Tattoo Removed theonion.com/regretful-conservative-w...
It’s coming.
they are calling it the perfect summary of the "keep men out of women's sports" movement
while teamsters and UAW get a lot of attention i feel like people miss out that the average working class person in the US today is (1) a woman and (2) working a service job
case in point
www.glamour.com/story/why-is...
Callais will NOT be today.
SCOTUS issued two opinions this morning, but it did not issue its decision in the VRA case.
Here's a nice little story about my friendship with @lindseyadler.bsky.social, who was around me when most people in my life we saying "you're insane," but she was saying "you're insane, but you're also right, so you should keep going."
Rfk saying this is 🤔, but is meaningful that feels pressured to say it.
Here's the Fifth Circuit's en banc opinion: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
The majority, by Kyle Duncan, is something he's been planning for since long before Trump named him to the bench, it's exactly what was warned of when he was nominated, and today he did it.
Many parents “have no choice but to send their children to a public school.” Morse v. Frederick, 551 U.S. 393, 424 (2007) (Alito, J., concurring). Until today, this reality never meant that parents also have no choice but to accept government-chosen religious scripture that will surround their children. Stated simply, “the right of parents ‘to direct the religious upbringing of their’ children would be an empty promise if it did not follow those children into the public school classroom.” Mahmoud, 505 U.S. at 547. If schools across Texas must display this scripture, then today our court ordains that empty promise.
There is no way that the country can allow the Fifth Circuit's en banc decision allowing forced classroom presentation of the Ten Commandments to exist alongside Mahmoud.
It's laughable. And offensive.
It's discussed elsewhere, but Higginson, dissenting, got the last word — and it's good:
Cross pollination of fascism is a hell of a drug because I look at this and am like “they are trying to do to SLPC what the British did to Mermaids and Stonewall.”
“The idea that donors were defrauded by the existence of one program that’s been known about for 45 years and that had cost the organization just a minuscule portion of its budget in any given year is an unbelievable stretch.”
DC statehood yesterday
It's pretty easy for Hill creatures like to see Chip Roy as feckless because he always stamps his feet and yells about legislation and then votes with Trump anyway. But @saletan.bsky.social flags how he is promoting rampant Islamophobia to advance his career.
www.thebulwark.com/p/chip-roy-d...
Win the political case.
For better and worse, pointing to the $$ right wingers are throwing at an agency voters hate, and describing that it could fund healthcare SHOULD be an electoral layup.
okay "when they go low, we hit hard" fucking rips
These people stub their toe or run out of paper towels and immediately write an OpEd bemoaning the collapse of Western Civilization and demanding that the army drown the streets in the blood of degenerates, it is so profoundly tedious.
They think you're stupid.
