“All gas, no brakes.”

Most of the worst gerrymandering is not even in Democratic states—but this is getting out of hand.

Texas districts stretch 300 miles. Democrats are at least putting it to voters in California and Virginia.

#Trump is an incompetent loser, per poll aired on #FoxNews

#DonaldTrump lame execution of the #IranWar could push the world into an inflationary period and create global scarcity of food, goods and services.

Oh no — next comes free preschool, free school meals, higher wages, and tuition-free community college.

Truly terrifying stuff.

Age gaps in relationships are not as bad as you think On screen and in real life, they are getting smaller anyway

The evidence suggests relationships with age gaps are relatively happy and last just as long. They do bring some risks, however

New Bloomberg satellite data analysis reveals the scale of US-Israeli strike damage and the heightened stakes of a return to all-out-war. See More in the Big Take: bloom.bg/4tTQ508

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Warsh Ties Himself in Knots to Please Trump. It Can’t Last Would-be Federal Reserve chair Kevin Warsh dismissed concerns that President Donald Trump was trying to undermine the central bank’s independence at his Senate confirmation hearing on Tuesday. Trump has weaponized the Justice Department against the central bank’s leadership and used his social media account to demand lower interest rates and lob schoolyard insults. But to hear Warsh tell it, the greater threat to independence is the Fed itself, which has supposedly lost credibility through so-ca

Would-be Fed chair Kevin Warsh blames the Fed, rather than Trump, for the threat to its independence. That's a convoluted argument (via Bloomberg Opinion)

BREAKING: Dems Remember They Can Play Hardball, Too Virginia voters decide turnabout is fair play—at least for four years.

"Democrats and liberals have likely wrestled Republicans and Trumpists to a draw in the great redistricting war. It’s impressive...Democrats held their own in this contest of political hardball, liberals stepped up and fought back in this bare-knuckle struggle." open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...

Nothing says Happy Earth Day quite like a Texas Baptist Church being condemned because of oil and water spewing in the parking lot. Vote for @Jon_RosenthalTX because Texans shouldn’t have to live like this!

Texas redistricts without a vote, Republicans cheer.

Dems in Virginia respond by putting it UP FOR A VOTE OF THE PEOPLE, it passes, Republican cry foul.

Oh well. Good job Virginia!!

Trump Has Revealed MAGA’s Anti-Christian Nature It’s time for sincere believers to pull the wool from their eyes and see the truth about the president and his followers.

"The particular sacrilege that late stage Trumpism has adopted must be tearing at some hearts...The maniacal vow to destroy Iranian civilization ought to have produced a recoil in any nation with a conscience.

Time to consider that he might be a false prophet."

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I just finished writing my reflections on tonight's big win in Virginia. I've been fighting this fight for ten years, including three cases in SCOTUS. Tonight we won a big one at the ballot box.

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Virginia voters today to the felon squatting in the White House. Thank you!

The Aides Keeping the President in the Dark Donald Trump’s advisers are treating him like he can’t handle the reality of the war in Iran. They might be right—but that fact is a danger to the constitutional order.

Donald Trump’s aides have kept him in the dark on important conversations—and “the ramifications for democratic accountability are serious,” @dgraham.bsky.social argues in The Atlantic Daily:

NatCon is the Thiel-backed conference that has helped propel both Christian Nationalism & JD Vance’s political ascension. Its Statement of Principles—signed by (among others) Peter Thiel—was co-authored by John O’Sullivan, founder of the Danube Institute in Hungary. 1/

BREAKING: Donald Trump just boosted Democrats’ chances of taking the House.

He said the quiet part out loud, “fair elections” means he loses power.

That’s not a warning, that’s a confession.

House Judiciary Democrats are teasing an investigation into FBI Director Kash Patel and The Atlantic's reporting on his alleged intoxication.

What I Saw Inside the Kennedy Center I spent 10 months working at the institution because I thought I could help protect it. What I observed there is far worse than the public knows.

Josef Palermo spent 10 months working at the Kennedy Center because he wanted to help protect it. He reports from inside the "hostile political takeover" of the nation’s cultural center:

Kash Patel’s Erratic Behavior Could Cost Him His Job The FBI director has alarmed colleagues with episodes of excessive drinking and unexplained absences.

Kash Patel’s colleagues are alarmed by what they say is erratic behavior and excessive drinking, Sarah Fitzpatrick reports. More than two dozen people she spoke with described his management failures and conduct that could harm national security.

Let the discovery process begin.

My bet is #KashPatel won’t like the evidence.

Donald Trump has made Venezuela a better place But the American president is misinterpreting an incomplete success

Venezuela was uniquely vulnerable to Donald Trump’s transactional approach, because it has long been corrupt and ideology-free. If the president follows the same model with the Iranian regime, he will fail

Blooming Prickly Pear Cactus on a Sunday afternoon in Central Texas

2 days ago.

#Sopranos

Iran nuclear deal - Wikipedia

So, if my math is correct, #Trump & #Hegseth started a war that cost American taxpayers $55 BILLION just to go back to the #JCPOA that #BarackObama negotiated in 2015 that #DonaldTrump scraped?

ANY QUESTIONS WHY TRUMP WENT BANKRUPT SIX TIMES AS A “BUSINESSMAN” ?

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Well this is fun

EXCLUSIVE: Kash Patel’s colleagues are alarmed by what they say is erratic behavior and excessive drinking, Sarah Fitzpatrick reports. More than two dozen people she spoke with described his management failures and conduct that could harm national security. theatln.tc/SS6krazR

My wife and I have a secret to making our marriage last.

Two times a week, we go out to a nice restaurant and have a good meal and a nice glass of wine.

She goes on Wednesdays and I go on Fridays.

Q: Did Anthropic have a meeting at the White House?

TRUMP: Who?

Q: Anthropic.

TRUMP: I have no idea. *walks away*

Re Trump and Iran:

Is there a single, long German word for "a recklessly foolish enterprise from which you're so desperate to extricate yourself that you give in to the other side but still insist on pretending it's all been a great victory"?