that being said, a referendum that gets more than 50% isnt really a bureaucratic trick is it?

look, republicans set the rules of engagement that literally any bureaucratic trick is fair game and they just never thought dems would agree to those terms

Has not the entire argument in favor of various gerrymanders of the past been “These aren’t racial gerrymanders; they are political gerrymanders and those are absolutely fine”? Because, well. If you win that argument, surely you anticipate this result.

Democrats did not step back. We fought back. When they go low, we hit back hard. We won Prop 50 in California, reclaimed a seat in Utah, pushed back extremists in Ohio and halted toxic GOP efforts in Indiana, New Hampshire, Nebraska and Kansas. Tonight, thanks to the relentless work of Virginia Democrats, led by Governor Abigail Spanberger, Speaker Don Scott, State Majority Leader Scott Surovell and President Pro Tempore L. Louise Lucas, “YES” won and Donald Trump lost. Virginians spoke with a crystal-clear voice, voting to stop the MAGA power grab and protect the integrity of free and fair elections. This war is not over. Next week, Ron DeSantis is hauling the Florida legislature back into a special session to redraw maps because Republicans know they are on the verge of an epic defeat in November. DeSantis is clearly more interested in illegal gerrymandering than lowering the high cost of living or fixing our broken healthcare system. Right now, nearly 5 million Floridians are facing higher premiums because Republicans failed to extend the Affordable Care Act tax credits. If Florida Republicans proceed with this illegal scheme, they will only create more prime pick-up opportunities for Democrats, just as they did with Trump’s dummymander in Texas. We will aggressively target for defeat Mario Díaz-Balart, Maria Elvira Salazar, Carlos Giménez, Kat Cammack, Anna Paulina Luna, Laurel Lee, Cory Mills and Brian Mast. We are prepared to take them all on, and we are prepared to win. Maximum warfare, everywhere, all the time.”

Hakeem Jeffries puts out a FAFO:

"We will aggressively target for defeat Mario Díaz-Balart, Maria Elvira Salazar, Carlos Giménez, Kat Cammack, Anna Paulina Luna, Laurel Lee, Cory Mills and Brian Mast....

Maximum warfare, everywhere, all the time"

Grind the fascists into dust and do not relent until they are broken once and for all

Fuck yes

It's SO satisfying

Folks, Japan is Cool.

Experiencing Shogun, Sekiro, and Ghost of Tsushima all for the first time in the last month has truly been such a glorious experience

Via NYT: Trump Is Said to Be in Talks to Send Afghans Who Aided U.S. Forces to Congo A U.S. aid worker said that the Afghans, who were evacuated to Qatar, would face a choice between moving to the Democratic Republic of Congo and living under the Taliban.

Can you imagine the state of HUMINT? Betrayal after betrayal.

www.nytimes.com/2026/04/21/w...

I was in a college Middle East studies class while the Syrian Civil War was taking place and I would say that everything I read about the likely future of the region was tied for 0% accuracy.

Boomers, man

Extraordinary

I feel like Sun Tzu really missed out on "Invent Pete Hegseth and give him to the enemy"

lol imagine being on a submarine right now

It's very distressing how appealing (not sure that's really the right word here) "Half the population hates me and I hate them right back" is to so many people (men and women alike!)

i think it's just my algorithms since i interact w feminist content and this stuff often cloaks itself in that philosophy, but the fatalistic gender essentialism being fed to young women on social media rn is SO bleak

thinking abt this bc there is currently a controversy on tiktok where people are misreading and spreading a statistic from this article, saying that 62 million men were either in or interested in a telegram chat about drugging and raping their female partners when really it was like 1000 people max

I swear to God if these yankee fascist dipshits ruin my honeymoon because they wreck jet fuel prices permanently

Going Well

this is like *the* paradigmatic "we do not speak each other's language but everyone is cool and friendly here" interaction with strangers

impossible to overstate how poisonous this shit is. dudes on the street smiling and waving at your toddler are an indicator of a happy and functional community

Britain dares to ask the question: What if multiculturalism, but as universally racist as possible

A Christian economy?

Universal healthcare
A livable wage
Debt forgiveness
Care for the orphan widow and stranger

Some real chowerheads in Canada have been spreading the idea that Mexico is on the cusp of getting some mythical tariff-free side deal with Trump, insisting that Ottawa needs to go cap-in-hand to avoid getting left out.

Meanwhile:

If Bliowa is back in play, then the GOP is really fucked nationally.

Tweet by Martina Navratilova. "Predator. That is how he should register. A sexual predator…" quote-tweeting a tweet by "Biology Rules OK" about Dr. Beth Upton, a trans woman

This tweet is highly defamatory and Martina Navratilova should be fired from BBC Sport for it.

It demonstrates an horrendous level of hatred for a trans woman (who was cleared of all wrongdoing in a recent tribunal) because she is a trans woman.