Everyone knows the way you change the Constitution is to have six people in robes make up a new Constitution as they go along.

it is very funny how these people are so accustomed to essentially bullying democratic politicians that they meltdown when met with appropriate pushback.

in any case, the process to amend the virginia constitution has multiple stages where, at any point, an amendment can be defeated.

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.

Liberals embracing ruthlessness is the most positive political development in years and will have an impact far beyond mid-decade redistricting.

Congratulations, Virginia! Republicans are trying to tilt the midterm elections in their favor, but they haven’t done it yet. Thanks for showing us what it looks like to stand up for our democracy and fight back.

Starting a mid-decade redistricting war only to end up with -1 seats is the same fine strategic genius and subtle grasp of game theory that brough us the Strait of Hormuz.

FAFO

Thirteen U.S. troops died trying to get these people to safety — Afghan interpreters, soldiers, and the families of our service members. Veterans spent sleepless nights during the chaotic withdrawal fighting to keep them alive. Now our own government is going to abandon them.

Republicans have been operating under the theory that they should maximalize every lever under their power and there will never be consequences to them for that, even if it veered into extra Constitutional action. Hopefully they now are seeing they were mistaken on all fronts.

No we should definitely tilt the playing field against the fascist party. There's a pretty strong case that we should de facto ban the Republican Party.

These guys: “look at me being noble on my high horse,” which is standing on the deck of the Titanic heading straight into the iceberg.

Yes! This is a prisoner’s dilemma issue: every incentive is to go as hard as you can to screw the other side— that’s how you hasten the end of it. It is actually the noble route out of this.

Letting gerrymandering be asymmetrical is the worst of all worlds.

This is far worse than he ever got during his first term, and those numbers probably aren't even directly comparable due to different weighting choices. In 2018 terms this is probably like 31-32% approval

Mayor Mamdani and a group of children hold hands while running through red tape in a hallway.

For too long, bureaucracy kept 7 child care centers across our city empty — spaces that should have been alive with laughter instead collected dust.

We've run through that red tape. This fall, all 7 will open their doors, bringing an additional 240 free 3-K seats & real relief to working families.

Kevin Warsh just lost me. He argues he's going to be an independent Fed Chair, but refuses to acknowledge that Trump lost the 2020 election. If you can't state simple facts when you're in the political spotlight, you aren't independent. You're a coward.

Important that we had like a month of cable news beard pulling about this fellow

Yet again I remind everyone (as Elizabeth does in her very next tweet) that "foreigners are corrupting our pure blood with weakness & disease" is Fascism 101. Not some variant, not some metaphorically similar thing, not some echo -- the thing itself.

NYT: How Trump Won By Not Sending JD

Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker has signed an executive order banning state employees from using insider info to bet on prediction market apps like Kalshi and Polymarket, warning the unregulated boom “opens the door to insider trading and abuse.”

People who sat out the election did us all a big disservice but politicians going out there blasting them is counterproductive. Stop acting like angry posters complaining about the situation and start working to get votes in our column. 2024 doesn’t matter anymore.

Imagine being this clear that you hate your employees and expecting it to go well.

Picture of Ben White with his quote “"I DON'T WATCH FOOTBALL." Ben White when asked if he saw Man City's performance

We’d all do ourselves some good tomorrow by following Ben White’s example.

I think City will drop some points but it won’t be tomorrow. They’ll win 3-0 and we’ll be chasing on Saturday, which is fine.

Pretty dumb to disrupt BlueSky, since like 99% of the people here oppose the war, often vocally.

a Trump post that says "has anybody looked at how badly the country of spain is doing. Their financial numbers, despite contributing almost nothing to NATO and their military defense, are absolutely horrendous. Sad to watch!!!"

stupid Trump tweet for many reasons but one of which is that Spain had higher GDP growth than the US over the last year (3% vs 2%)

John Roberts Is Always a Republican First In public, the chief justice loves talking about how the Supreme Court’s work is not political. His leaked memos reveal just how political the Supreme Court’s work actually is.

In my view, John Roberts's most impressive PR accomplishment is persuading an entire generation of Supreme Court commentators that he is anything other than a Republican politician who uses legalese to implement policies that Republican voters want

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

CMS to ask every state for new audits of health care providers The Trump administration has been heavily focused on combating purported fraud in federal health care programs.

STAT+: CMS to ask every state for new audits of health care providers www.statnews.com/2026/04/21/c...