📌In 2010, Virginia Republicans gerrymandered congressional & state legislative maps, packing Black voters into districts to secure an 8-3 Republican U.S. House advantage.
There was no vote, just old-school racism.
Their indignant behavior over yesterday's VOTE is laughable, appalling and pathetic.
📌A staggering 96% of the contributions spent on Virginia’s referendum vote Tuesday came from dark money.
Proof again that Citizens United has done more to wreck our democracy than anything before or since.
IT MUST GO.
The Texas legislature rammed through a gerrymandering bill at the request of Trump.
Virginia actually voted in favor of redistricting to counterbalance what Texas and other Republican-controlled states have done.
Yet only one is considered a "power grab."
Oligarch-owned media in a nutshell.
Right after the race was called, election deniers, anti-voting activists, MAGA faithful, and at least one Trump administration official began flooding the internet with claims that the election was rigged.
www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
Earth Day reminder that Trump’s EPA rolled back regulations governing clean air, water, wildlife, and toxic chemicals.
He’s pushed to open public lands to drilling and mining.
And he’s gutted clean energy programs while promoting dirty fossil fuels.
He’s a danger to our planet and our health.
SCOOP: Two weeks ago, the head of the CDC delayed publication of a report showing covid vaccine cut likelihood of ER visits and hospitalizations by half. Now that report is no longer allowed to be published in CDC’s flagship scientific journal. My latest. 1/2
www.washingtonpost.com/health/2026/...
This is loser behavior.
James Comer is under fire after a memo revealed Republicans are shifting away from traditional hearings on the Epstein Files.
Instead of formal proceedings, the committee is moving to “roundtables”—informal sessions with no authority.
Witnesses are not even required to be under oath.
Trump picked this fight. And make no mistake, it’s a national fight. Democrats could’ve turned a blind eye, or fight back.
They chose to fight back, and I’m here for it.
Thanks in advance, Virginia.
#VoteYesVirginia
This is the saddest graph ever. This timeline sucks.
MORGAN STANLEY: “.. The rise in gasoline prices, when viewed against data on tax refunds, keeps us comfortable with our prior downward revisions to our outlook for US GDP growth.”
SCOOP --> Paramount, Meta, and X are refusing to say what happened to their huge contributions to Trump's presidential library after Sen Elizabeth Warren raised questions about its fund getting dissolved. Ds say tens of millions remain unaccounted for.
Details here:
newrepublic.com/article/2092...
Officials who warned about Russian interference are being treated as the threat, even facing potential criminal charges. At the same time, people adjacent to Russian-aligned propaganda and influence channels are being handed power to investigate them.
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
According to video recordings, when a ship tries to pass through the strait of Hormuz, Iranian navy says: “The Strait of Hormuz is still closed. We will open it by the order of our leader Imam Khamenei, not by the tweets of some idiot.”
Just sobbed hardest I have since my mom died in 2020.
She missed these trials by a few months.
One of most ruthless cancers. Hard to fathom that maybe she'd still be here.
I feel such a hole inside.
In case you're wondering if we should fund mRNA research instead of another stupid war ... yes.
Former president Barack Obama made perhaps his clearest case for supporting Virginia Democrats’ redistricting efforts in a video released Friday. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
The Department of Energy canceled 321 grants worth $7.5 billion last October. Every single one was in a state that voted against the President. Not a single project in a red state was touched.
This week, I asked Energy Secretary Wright a simple question: why?
I think regulating what poor people are allowed to eat is one of the most disgusting things I've ever heard of.
I don't recall any previous transformative technologies that had to be sold to the public so hard. No one in 1999 was going, "Guys. Cell phone? It's coming, whether we like it or not. I think it's important, FOR WOMEN ESPECIALLY, to learn about cell phone. So that we're not left behind!!"
ANOTHER death in ICE detention.
The president cannot reach a financial settlement with an executive branch agency! This is cartoonishly corrupt! Just backing the gold-plated moving van up to the IRS and loading up cash.
A budget is a declaration of priorities. Trump has made clear that you and your family aren't one of his.
The richest 10% of Americans own roughly 87% of stocks.
The richest 1% alone own roughly half of all stocks.
It's worth pointing out once again that the stock market is not the economy.
Look, not everybody needs to be a strawberry, okay? There's room for cranberries in this world too. You can be weird and sour and only tolerated by a handful of people around the holidays. I know you can. You can be fun if mixed with enough vodka. I believe in you. You can live in a bog
"There's only one majority in this country and that's the working class." —Zohran Mamdani
Lori, a small, tan pup with a scruff of white on her chest, is held closely by a person in a black vet scrub. we can tell from Lori's expression she is a bit scared and not sure what to expect.
an x-ray image of Lori's lower torso shows her left hind femur has popped out of her hip socket, the result of being hit by a car.
another angle of Lori, who is lying down inside an exam pillow while her head and hind legs are handled by two vets.
This is Lori. She was wandering the streets as a stray when she was hit by a car. It caused her left hind femur to come fully out of her hip socket. She’s in severe discomfort and needs surgery followed by physical therapy to walk pain-free again. You can help her below ❤️🩹
1510.fan/lori-bsd
Howard Lutnick thinks Trump’s billionaire giveaways are okay, but basic lifelines for hardworking Americans aren’t.
Got it.
A senior Iranian official says vessels transiting the Strait of Hormuz will still be required to pay tolls to the IRGC
