Correction: Utah did retain. Not any more.

I’m thrilled with it.

When Trump began pressuring Texas and other red states to re-gerrymander their maps, the immediate consensus was that Democratic-led states could do little or nothing to counter it. But it turned out that Democrats were anything but helpless.

Why I'm Voting Yes on Virginia's Redistricting Amendment Today Virginia votes on a constitutional amendment that would allow mid-decade redistricting — redrawing congressional maps in a way that would eliminate mos...

the case for strategic gerrymandering youtu.be/YgMSs_aMP84?si…

The implicit media consensus is that urban voters should not be able to overrule rural voters, but that rural voters should be able to overrule urban voters, an assumption so axiomatic and unquestionable that nobody even understands they're making it.

Just remember. Trump and the GOP started this.

We are responding. And there will be justice for what they’ve done.

Sen. Marsha Blackburn: ICE ends plans for Wilson County immigrant detention ‘mega center’ • Tennessee Lookout Sen. Marsha Blackburn posted on X U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement won't proceed withan immigrant detention center in Wilson County.

If it can be done in TN, it can be done everywhere.
#BanConcentrationCamps!

Tennessee becomes the latest MAGAt Party-led state to successfully push back against plans for immigrant holding facilities

tennesseelookout.com/2026/02/25/s...

This is what caused Trump’s meltdown tonight.

The Little-Known Underground Railroad That Ran South to Mexico | HISTORY Unlike the northern free states, Mexico didn’t agree to return people who had fled slavery.

Heard about a musical based on this lesser known Underground Railroad on NPR today called Mexodus (link next post).

Mexico may not have had a perfect democracy, but they did outlaw slavery in 1829, unlike neighbors to their south and north. #hatm

www.history.com/articles/und...

He’s trying to deport Mamdani along with lots of others.

FASCISTS!

“It rolls back the age of forgivable past socialism from 16 to 14. If you had a pinko poster on your wall at 15, you’re out of here. And even if you’ve never breathed a word about economics, you can be denaturalized & expelled under this bill…it includes parallel rules against “Marxism.”

Is Donald Trump About to Launch a Denaturalization Purge? Mass denaturalization could be used to move the country toward the MAGA movement’s larger goal of a white Christian nationalist United States.

“Naturalized citizens are the obvious next category to be added to the purge, and, unlike some of Trump’s other brash eviscerations of due process that his administration is considering, the legal architecture for stripping people of their citizenship already exists.“

key thing we learned from Virginia campaign

Republicans are freaked the fuck out about accountability

Not just Trump, all of them - including their billionaires, like Thiel

They fear what's coming when Dems win - and Dems need to be ruthless about it

who gets to tell trump lol

Vivek Ramaswamy may have stake in company receiving more than $830 million from Ohio • Ohio Capital Journal Ohio Republican governor candidate Vivek Ramaswamy has investments with a venture capital firm that has backed every one of the defense company Anduril's funding rounds. Anduril is receiving more…

Ohio GOP governor candidate Vivek Ramaswamy has investments with a venture capital firm that's backed every one of the defense company Anduril's funding rounds. Anduril is receiving more than $830 million in state incentives to build a production facility ohiocapitaljournal.com/2026/04/21/v...

Evelyn Normielib is here and she is politely voting to gerrymander your ass into irrelevance

as it becomes clear that Yes has won in VA and gerrymandering will pass, a message to Republican voters:

you brought this on yourselves

you convinced the most fairness-obsessed, That Wouldn’t Be Fair-minded voters in the country to affirmatively vote to put you in the dumpster

you earned this

I would submit that a gerrymander by politicians saying fuck the voters and one by voters saying fuck the politicians are two wholly different animals

The YES has won in Virginia; voters approved the constitutional amendment to adopt Dems' congressional gerrymander.

This is likely to deliver a 10-1 (Dem) congressional delegation in November, compared to 6-5 (Dem) now.

The remaining obstacle: State supreme court will be weighing in still.

With the VA yes vote, Democrats will emerge with +1 House seat in the redistricting wars Trump kicked off last summer. They are very, very likely to win back the House in November

Yes. US science needs a Marshall Plan to rebuild in future. We will not fix science by just waiting and hoping the pendulum swings back.

One key:
Supreme Court reform is an absolute requirement. This SCOTUS will not allow the science agencies to do their jobs; it will inject politics.

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

Hats off to you, Virginia! Love, a Californian, whose state also responded to Texas mid-census cycle redistricting ❤️❤️❤️

In the immortal words of Virginia’s L. Louise Lucas…. 🔥🔥🔥🔥

Virginia voters approve Democrats' redistricting plan, giving the party a midterm election boost NBC News projects Democrats will be able to enact a new proposed map designed to net them up to four seats, as they push for control of the narrowly divided House.

“Virginia voters on Tuesday approved a Democratic redistricting plan that could allow the party to pick up as many as four new seats in the midterm elections”

www.nbcnews.com/politics/202...

wait. wait. you're telling me that the equality of citizens *works?*

The meta story of the (imminent) Yes win in VA is the total inability of Trump to ever look down the game tree. He was apparently unable to comprehend that Democrats would respond to his push to redistrict in GOP-run states

This same pehenenon is also why we are losing a war to Iran.

it's also remarkable that *no one else in the gop was willing to explain this to him.*

Greg Abbott was in a solid position to tell Trump, "this is probably going to backfire; maybe reconsider."

Abbott has his own power base, and still looks like a solid lock for governor. but nope, wouldn't do it

A couple of takes today appeared to misapprehend the Virginia and California district proposals as some response to Trump. In fact, they respond to escalating attacks on fair districts by Republicans since 2003 — when Tom DeLay engineered a mid-decade redistricting of Texas.

Many parents “have no choice but to send their children to a public school.” Morse v. Frederick, 551 U.S. 393, 424 (2007) (Alito, J., concurring). Until today, this reality never meant that parents also have no choice but to accept government-chosen religious scripture that will surround their children. Stated simply, “the right of parents ‘to direct the religious upbringing of their’ children would be an empty promise if it did not follow those children into the public school classroom.” Mahmoud, 505 U.S. at 547. If schools across Texas must display this scripture, then today our court ordains that empty promise.

There is no way that the country can allow the Fifth Circuit's en banc decision allowing forced classroom presentation of the Ten Commandments to exist alongside Mahmoud.

It's laughable. And offensive.

It's discussed elsewhere, but Higginson, dissenting, got the last word — and it's good:

And the Supreme Court is sitting on a Alito-authored decision that could throw 19+ minority-majority districts in the South to the GOP in this election or the next, in blatant defiance of a Voting Rights Act overwhelmingly renewed by. Republican Congress.