Experts say it’s highly unusual for the White House to tell agents to give up custody of potential evidence in an investigation, as it did with the Tates.
“I’ve never heard of anything like that in my 30 years working,” an ex-DHS official said.
(Published Nov. 2025)
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
We still have a few spots left in our May 2nd memoir writers conference at Rutgers. You can register here: ce-catalog.rutgers.edu/coursedispla...
Ok last post
Good reminder that Black, Asian, and Hispanic voters big part of Virginia Dem coalition
Another election showing a shift from 2024
Also reason why Yes won
Also mailers invoking Jim Crow for No didn’t work and probably backfired
Today marks 10 years since Prince tragically died. To mark that, the Prince Estate has shared the previously unreleased track “With This Tear.”
www.undertheradarmag.com/news/prince_...
NBC News has called the race for the YES.
And now for what you've been waiting for — the reaction of Senator Louise Lucas, one of the main instigators of the 10-1 map. She does not post on here, so linking to her post on X: x.com/SenLouiseLuc...
what remains to be seen:
—What Florida Republicans do in a special session next week.
—What Missouri's supreme court does with ballot petitions to block the new Missouri map (accounts for 1 GOP seat).
—What Virginia's supreme court does with the GOP lawsuit against the Virginia referendum.
We are having a terrible drought in Colorado. Just look what the water authority is doing to cope with this - moving fish so they can drain a reservoir! And it's only April. This is going to be a tough summer.
Digital graphite on toned paper background. A fluffy kitten face, tabby -like markings, large ears with pointy tufts on the ends, mouth wide open. Kitten has a third eye in their forehead and two curling horns. Around the drawing in a scratchy spooking lettering style are the words ‘Maybe it will happen today’ along with some strange glyphs and symbols.
Taken together, these four features can create a trancelike state that can keep us stuck on social media apps or video games for hours. Children are particularly vulnerable.
Polls close in Virginia in an hour, at 7pm ET, and the result could all but decide the fate of four US House seats in November.
And then tomorrow, at 10am ET, the Supreme Court could issue new opinions, and as you know if reading this we’re waiting for what the conservative justices do to the VRA.
They couldn’t make Real Genius today because audiences would be confused why a bunch of nerds would sabotage selling their technology to the military-industrial complex
NEW: Sens. @peters.senate.gov, @padilla.senate.gov, @durbin.senate.gov and @schumer.senate.gov lead 37 Senate Democrats in calling for the U.S. Postal Service not to carry out President Trump's March executive order on mail voting, which is facing five lawsuits
www.hsgac.senate.gov/library/file...
If I have to repost this piece a dozen times to get people to subscribe to Scratch, I will. We are an entirely reader-supported, worker-owned co-op that is aggressively anti-AI, not on Substack, and whose focus is publishing/media.
We’re betting everything on our ethics & our work. talkscratch.com
This would be the most fascinating slow motion car crash to watch if we weren’t all inside the car.
Screenshot of Jamelle Bouie's video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YgMSs_aMP84), "Gerrymandering Is Bad. Unilateral Disarmament Is Worse"
"Today Virginia votes on a constitutional amendment that would allow mid-decade redistricting — redrawing congressional maps in a way that would eliminate most Republican-held seats in the state. Here is why you should vote 'Yes.'" - @jamellebouie.net bluevirginia.us/2026/04/redi...
Just insane slap to the people who so bravely helped us, and then had to flee their country because of a withdrawal Trump agreed to with the Taliban. He is reliably never on the side of human rights
Nothing has killed more soldiers in the history of humanity than disease. While worst is a more complicated question Hegseth is absolutely the dumbest secretary of defense the United States has ever had. bsky.app/profile/ones...
Conservatives think the state should protect them from the traumatizing experience of encountering people unlike them. For some reason this never came up in the heyday of “snowflake,” “trigger warning” or “safe space” discourse bsky.app/profile/kiss...
1 year ago today I was terminated by DOGE from USAID where I worked to get humanitarian aid into Gaza. Everyone I knew across almost 10 years of my career across 3 prior jobs became unemployed as well. My entire LinkedIn network suddenly became "open to work"
I'm a one issue voter. Punishment.
We're open for 10 more days -- till April 30. Check out our fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. Plus, we are now considering graphic narratives and poetry in translation. tahomaliteraryreview.com/issues/issue...
“The unbridled cruelty and violence that he is unleashing and enabling domestically and abroad draws on all its precedents, and can only be fiercely fought – and with urgency – or it will consume all.”
Fortunately he has a plan to capture the daywalker
It is so funny to see all the tech CEOs coalesce around their little trends. They're like 11-year-old girls with charm bracelets.
Thank you, CLMP, for including my book in your poetry lineup for Arab American Heritage Month!
Loudon is unrecognizable, and where I live in Fairfax County is getting to look more like Tysons every day. You’d think the GOP was in charge.
Thank you, CLMP, for including my book in your poetry lineup for Arab American Heritage Month!
