What is funny is California. The Dems preserved GOP seats in 2000 to avoid super majority and the GOP returns the favor with a non-partisan redistricting commission. Neutral redistricting wiped them out so they sued. Then the recent vote happened, further obliterating them.
So much false equivalence in media on gerrymandering in Texas vs California & Virginia. California and Virginia maps approved by the voters. That's a huge difference not enough people pointing out
I have opposed gerrymandering every single time it has come up. It’s a perversion of the political process. I voted Yes in this election without hesitation. Unilateral disarmament is unacceptable.
Trump's in a steady decline with no turnaround in sight.
Right now, Republicans are worried about being outflanked on the right, but as soon as we move past the heart of primary season in May and June, they'll start panicking about the general election and try to escape. It'll be too late.
Today’s Litigation Tracker updates:
-Orgs sue to block DOJ’s collection of confidential voter data for national database
-Environmental group petitions D.C. Cir to compel EPA to regulate pesticide
-Coalition says EO banning DEI policies for Federal Contractors violates First Amendment
And more: 👇
“.. Provision for credit losses increased 72% from a year earlier to $4.07 billion ..”
@bloomberg.com $COF
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TFW Sullivan & Cromwell charges you $1200 an hour for a Yale graduate to ask grok “is this argument sus”
Completely ruthless and craven. “After halting a U.S. resettlement program for Afghans who helped the American war effort, President Trump is in talks to send as many as 1,100 of them to the Democratic Republic of Congo.”
www.nytimes.com/2026/04/21/w...
Court documents show President Trump knew he was going to tear down the East Wing at least two months before doing so, but he never told the public.
Read more on what we learned here:
Not a whole lot here
"...it was almost inevitable that a weaponized DOJ would try something like this. Discrediting the SPLC is a way of retroactively rehabilitating everyone the SPLC ever exposed."
an average of just under 35 percent approval. oof.
"My verdict was that the ceasefire was a shit sandwich, but a shit sandwich we can afford to eat. Since then Trump has screwed up the execution on this, too."
Kerkhoff fended off the first wave of attacks against the Capitol, holding off the mob as it swelled at the foot of the building. She testified in the first Jan. 6 trial against Guy Reffitt. www.politico.com/news/2026/04...
Former Capitol Police officer Shauni Kerkhoff doesn't say how much she wants from the Blaze for accusing her of being the J5 pipe bomber, but it's going to be a big number.
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I'm so old, I know that you don't do pressers at 5:30p because it totally fucks the evening news programs.
This is probably a feature for Trump, though.
Settee down everyone, it's not that funny
"... you need people who are MAGA and who are really competent."
"[Republicans] have overlooked [Trump's] mental disorders in the past— dismissed them. They've overlooked his depravity. They've overlooked the fact that he is an adjudicated sexual abuser. That he's a convicted criminal ... Because it served their purposes. It no longer serves their purposes."
179. Ms. Kerkhoff read Defendants’ November 8 Article in disbelief. Like on January 6, she immediately snapped into crisis response mode. 180. Ms. Kerkhoff had already retained a personal data removal service provider to scan and remove private information from data brokers and “people search” sites in preparation for Trump pardoning the January 6 defendants. She now called immediate family members and pleaded with them to do the same. She even retained and paid-for the same personal data removal service provider for her entire immediate family. 181. Ms. Kerkhoff and Mr. Dickert drove to the grocery store and bought a trunk-load of frozen food. Then, fearful for their safety, they rarely left the house for two weeks. Every time they did, they were followed. They did not know by whom: investigators, reporters, or people who believed Defendants’ false claims and intended to harm them. 182. Ms. Kerkhoff received an enormous, unwanted amount of attention from reporters. Some found her name on Venmo and attempted to send her $1 so they could “connect,” enabling them to send her direct messages. Ms. Kerkhoff was forced to disguise her identity on Venmo and to lock down her profile from public searches. Others reached out to her through Signal. She deleted that app entirely. Ms. Kerkhoff once saw a mysterious man walk up to her front door. He turned out to be a reporter for the Daily Wire. On a Friday night, Blaze Media’s editor-in-chief Christopher Bedford visited her home in Alexandria, Virginia; Blaze Media later reported that he was “pulled over by local police after stopping to observe” it.
Here's what happened after a conservative website suggested that an officer who testified in Jan. 6 cases was the pipe bomber:
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BALDWIN: Do you think NIH should fund less cancer research?
RFK Jr: No, they should fund more, & one of the few agencies that got a raise in the budget was NCI
B: That increase is less than $1m for an institute with a $7b budget. That's a .01% increase. It wouldn't even cover one additional grant
Warsh claimed that the Wall Street Journal had bad sources. Their source was Donald Trump himself. Either Trump lied to the Journal or Warsh just committed perjury.
We agree with the district court. As explained above, those cases—Fogarty and Buck—recognized in 2008 that shooting a non-threatening protestor with a pepperball when the protestor had committed, at most, a minor offense and was not trying to evade arrest, violated the Fourth Amendment. Those two earlier Tenth Circuit cases are sufficiently analogous to the circumstances presented here to have put a reasonable officer in Officer Christian’s position on notice in May 2020 that shooting Epps with a pepper ball in the context of her peaceful behavior would violate the Fourth Amendment. Our conclusion is bolstered by this court’s recent decision in Budaj, which also relied on Fogarty and Buck to conclude that, at the time of these George Floyd protests in May and June 2020, it was clearly established “that an officer cannot shoot a protestor with pepper balls or other less-lethal munitions when that protestor is committing no crime more serious than a misdemeanor, not threatening anyone, and not attempting to flee.” 86 F.4th at 868‒69 (quotation marks omitted).6
10th Cir. affirms jury verdict against police officer who shot a woman with a less-lethal round while she was filming at a George Floyd protest despite being told by his sergeant not to shoot her.
No QI.
www.ca10.uscourts.gov/sites/ca10/f...
Officers’ indiscriminate and excessive use of less-lethal munitions against peaceful protestors was captured by numerous video recordings shown to the jury. Those recordings were taken by protestors, police officers’ body-worn cameras, and Denver’s fixed cameras located throughout the city. After seeing many of these videos of officers using force indiscriminately and excessively against peaceful protestors, DPD superiors, including Commander Phelan, testified that all officers’ actions against protestors were taken according to DPD policy.
In a companion case to the previous skeet, 10th Cir. upholds jury verdict in favor of George Floyd protesters who were attacked by Denver police with less-lethal munitions.
City of Denver liable for policy that led to the attack.
www.ca10.uscourts.gov/sites/ca10/f...
Is someone going to tell him that the flu killed more US troops in WWI than any battle did (and that war had chemical weapons so horrific that they were banned afterwards)?
While DC journos all rush to WHCD, @philinvestigates.com just keeps reporting on the far right in TN.
Be like Phil!
Ossoff: "You were talking earlier about Jared Kushner. The guy leading our diplomacy in the Middle East is bringing in billions from Middle Eastern princes and sheiks and going around the region asking for billions more while he conducts nuclear diplomacy on behalf of the country. It's obscene."
KIM: Are you concerned there could be real long-term effects of this war in Iran with fuel and fertilizer?
WARSH: If my reform agenda stands for anything, it's for the central bank to stay in his lane
KIM: But you're also charged with forecasting
He just gave away the whole game
