Reporter: What do you make of Republicans saying that Virginia—
AOC: Wah wah wah.
We have asked Republicans for 10 years to ban partisan gerrymandering. And for 10 years, Republicans have said no.
What they’re just mad at is that they have been accustomed to a Democratic Party that rolls over.
Burchett is right: the most DC thing ever *is* a member of Congress blaming the city for something he and his colleagues did themselves.
🚨BREAKING: The Republican majority on the North Carolina State Board of Elections voted Wednesday to block a proposal that would have prepared local officials for scenarios involving federal agents at polling places and attempts to seize ballots. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
The President and his Administration have already failed twice in court trying to intimidate me, and he's still not letting up. Just more proof that he'll do anything it takes to silence those of us willing to call him out. I'm not backing down — ever.
Famously badly run and unlikable public entity buying famously badly run and unlikable private entity.
You belong here @kylebrandtsky.bsky.social
NEW: On top of all the cuts to legal entries, Trump (i.e. @uscisgov.bsky.social) slashed green card approvals by ~half in an effort to boost ICE arrests of legal immigrants. USCIS has *ended* humanitarian green cards, working with ICE to arrest pending applicants. www.cato.org/blog/uscis-c...
screenshot of WashPo editorial board August 20 2025 "The Texas Gerrymander freakout What's happening in the Lone Star State is not a threat to democracy"
screenshot of April 21 Wash PO editorial board: "Virginia plunges America deeper into the gerrymandering abyss The redistricting scheme was always a power grab by Democrats. Voters went along with it."
listen hun if you can't handle the Washington Post editorial board at their the Texas gerrymander "freakout" is "not a threat to democracy" you don't deserve them at their "Virginia plunges America deeper into the gerrymandering abyss"
When they received the call to respond to an Israeli airstrike in the city of Mayfadoun, in southern Lebanon, most of the paramedics held back, having previously seen colleagues killed by double-tap attacks targeting rescuers. But the medics from the Islamic Health Association (IHA) rushed to the scene. By the time the other emergency workers arrived at the site, they found the IHA medics had indeed been caught in a second strike. They started evacuating their wounded colleagues, only for their ambulances to be hit in two further attacks. One of the paramedics covered his ears and screamed, convulsing in pain as shrapnel shattered the back window of the ambulance. The rescue mission on Wednesday afternoon had turned into a nightmare as Israel carried out three consecutive strikes on three sets of ambulances and medical workers.
Israel performed a literal quadruple tap attack in Lebanon to massacre three separate sets of medics.
Truly pushing the bounds of human depravity.
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Seattle Times lifted my story, and a screen shot that I took at a specific time—of an IG story THE REPORTER WHO WROTE THEIR PIECE mentioned today was no longer available by the time he looked—and did not credit me.
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every conservative political complaint comes back to "those people shouldn't count because they disagree with me"
@radiofreetom.bsky.social hey look finally a Dem you can support
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.
@anntelnaes.bsky.social
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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.
Trump LOSES again. The YES vote has won in Virginia, allowing Democrats to redraw congressional maps. In a huge FAFO story, this was all started by the corrupt, serial lying psychopath trying to rig the 2026 midterm elections by demanding red states gerrymander their districts.
I use to have an emacs thing for ASCII drawings, is there a bsky emacs mode?
Supergluing the church and state
Incredible shots of the exchange between Rep. AOC and RFK, Jr. at today’s congressional hearing.
(image credit: WSJ reporter @lizessleywhyte.bsky.social)
I asked X, Paramount, ABC, and Meta where their donations to Trump's Presidential Library went. None of them could give a clear answer.
Tens of MILLIONS of dollars are missing.
Why should Americans trust that this money isn’t going straight into Donald Trump’s pockets?
Our local McClachy paper became filled with local stories from other McClatchy papers, and very little news from here in 2021. I didn’t renew.
yiiiikes
This is horrific. I feel physically ill.
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The Epstein Class
Seems like a misbranding though, i would have picked Shhhhh.
There is a company called Boom testing a new supersonic design that isn’t supposed to go Boom
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there's a japanese antidiarrheal whose packaging proudly claims to have won the russo-japanese war because it was so effective in addressing dysentery
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.
You know who else famously used paid informants to infiltrate extremist groups?
The Justice Department.
