republicans will yowl and piss and moan and that to my mind is all the reason to do it

CDC won’t publish report showing covid shots cut likelihood of hospital visits The report, which had cleared the agency’s scientific-review process, had been delayed. It now won’t be published at all, people familiar with the decision told The Post.

SCOOP: Two weeks ago, the head of the CDC delayed publication of a report showing covid vaccine cut likelihood of ER visits and hospitalizations by half. Now that report is no longer allowed to be published in CDC’s flagship scientific journal. My latest. 1/2
www.washingtonpost.com/health/2026/...

the conservative reaction to the virginia results remind me quite a bit of their reaction to the 2012 presidential election, where they were offended that democrats ran to win

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.

In general, GOP strategizing these days boils down to "I will do whatever I want and nobody will do anything in response".

Cf. the Bezos Post, "Republicans gerrymandering in Texas is fine, actually" b/w "Democrats gerrymandering in Virginia is a threat to democracy"

The GOP entered this redistricting under the rather childish delusion they were going to gerrymander, and nobody would gerrymander them. In TX, MO, and a half dozen other states, they put their rather naive theory into operation. They sowed the wind, and now they are going to reap the whirlwind

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.

Good morning Weirdos

(even though I'm working on Saturday too)

🖤

Jim is one of our nation’s most eminent virologists. Allowing the flu to spread among our troops is a national security issue, putting military preparedness at risk. This is how deep the rot is among this country’s leadership.

Omg, I just can’t 😂🤣😂
Too bad @theonion.com reports the truth now.
Times have caught up with them apparently.
#SheShed

Speaker Johnson's beginning of the end Trump's elfish toady is quickly losing control of the House.

Wrote about the wheels coming off the house majority, as Johnson lost two key votes in less than 24 hours, and both in ways that suggest he has permanent problems with his moderate wing...and with everyone else. www.publicnotice.co/p/mike-johns...

In both foreign policy and economic policy, the core belief of Trumpism is that there is some button one can press to instantly and easily solve any problem, and every political leader this country has ever had was simply too cowardly to press it. That’s it.

Trump Approval Polling:

Disapprove: 67% (+7)
Approve: 33% (-5)

AP-NORC / April 20, 2026

(% Change With March 23, 2026)

we all know I have no life, so:

Leadership failures led to major Covid outbreak on aircraft carrier, watchdog report finds | CNN Politics The leadership of the USS Theodore Roosevelt failed to put in place measures to stop a coronavirus outbreak on board the aircraft carrier and exacerbated a growing problem by releasing sailors too ear...

The one thing that has taken a U.S. aircraft carrier offline in recent years was not enemy action. It was COVID.

Deciding now to put anti-science culture war signaling over military readiness is a bad idea.

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.

Feel like it should be a bigger story that Howard Lutnick's firm (run by his kids) created a financial product to buy up tariff refund claims at a major discount, and will now be cashing in on the higher costs passed onto consumers.

Spain has recently outpaced the US in GDP growth, emerging as one of the fastest-growing major advanced economies. As of 2024–2025, Spain’s economy is growing at a rate over 3% annually, exceeding the US (~2%) and Eurozone (~1%) averages.

Donald is such an uninformed idiot.

Hahahah

www.playcardle.com

Fingers crossed for you. ❤️

yep

By the way if you click through to link he isn’t engaging in the comments there either.

One of the ways to tell if an expert is full of shit is to check his replies and see if he is engaging with peers questioning his conclusions.
/Crickets…..

crude drawing of a smiling anthrpomorphic dog with a word bubble reading i want them to pay for what they've done

🤗

Tim Apple quit???