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www.thebulwark.com BREAKING: Virginia Redistricting Referendum PASSES

BREAKING: Virginia Redistricting Referendum PASSES #Bulwark

thehill.com Democrats boost midterm edge with Virginia redistricting win: 5 takeaways

Democrats boost midterm edge with Virginia redistricting win: 5 takeaways #TheHill

www.rawstory.com 'Something is coming': Analysts warn Melania's 'can of worms' may be too much for Trump

'Something is coming': Analysts warn Melania's 'can of worms' may be too much for Trump #RawStory

"He's tricking you! You're getting conned just like the MAGA people got conned. He's a very talented con man, but he's a con man."

@timmiller.bsky.social, @jvl.bsky.social and @sarahlongwell25.bsky.social discuss Tucker Carlson’s latest pivot and why nobody should mistake it for sincerity.

a good video with that music, for a palate cleanser
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"You have until November" means "it'll happen by the end of May"

So exhausted. Check on your fed friends (any agency). Check on your public health and science friends.

AOC talking to RFK Jr. Her facial and hand gesture has the spiritual energy of that Italian hand gesture where you pinch your fingers and wave your hand (the "ma che vuo" gesture).

how it feels to say "sprezzatura"

Sen. Jack Reed to Warsh as he dodges questions about divesting his assets: "Excuse me. I must commend you on the way you can circularly go around questions and not answer them. It's a skill. Unfortunately it's not a good skill for the chairman of the Fed."

Rob Schneider did a comedy standup at CPAC and one of his jokes was: "Somalia is not sending their best; they're not sending their doctors or engineers, if they have any... hehehe".

And he still believes Hollywood "blacklisted" him. Maybe they just don't like shitty racist jokes, Robbie.

Don’t be surprised if Trump suggests the Virginia redistricting vote was rigged, because that’s what he does when he loses close votes. Of course, Trump pushed Texas to redistrict without even consulting the voters.

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Woohoo!!! 🎉 🥳 👏

Thank you Virginia!!!! 😊

Virginia Dems just won a major battle in Trump's redistricting war Voters don't like gerrymandering. But they seem to hate Trump even more.

Virginia Dems Just Won a Major Battle in Trump’s Redistricting War.

Anybody running for a position in the administration or in an important position such as the Fed Chairman, should be required to answer who won the election.

If they can’t answer, they should be disqualified.

It’s not complicated.

Kevin Warsh would be one of the wealthiest Fed chairs ever but he says he 'lived the American Dream.' Here's what he wants for the central bank | Fortune During and after the pandemic, the Fed “missed its mark,” Warsh told Senators, and the U.S. economy is “still dealing with the legacy of policy errors.”

Two sides of Kevin Warsh were presented to the world at his Senate Banking Committee hearing this morning. From the Republicans, a “battle-tested” economist, and for the Democrats, a “sock puppet”. https://bit.ly/4mQsOu0

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LEAKED MEMOS show how Chief Justice Roberts pressured other justices to lean heavily in favor of the oil and gas industry to kneecap a major EPA climate-change regulation—even as the court’s liberal justices warned it was an unprecedented, unjustified expansion of the court’s powers. trib.al/RQMIP47

As our co-president @lisa-pubcitizen.bsky.social put it, "this is a craven attempt to silence dissent" by Trump's authoritarian administration.

We condemn this appalling move, and we stand in solidarity with the @splcenter.org

Florida launches criminal probe into OpenAI and ChatGPT over deadly shooting Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier said on Tuesday the state was launching a criminal probe into OpenAI and its ​artificial intelligence app ChatGPT over a deadly shooting last year that ‌killed two people at Florida State University.

Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier said on Tuesday the state was launching a criminal probe into OpenAI and its artificial intelligence app ChatGPT over a deadly shooting last year that killed two people at Florida State University.

Fed's Waller calls for overhaul of regional Fed bank operations Federal Reserve Governor Christopher Waller on Tuesday laid out options for revamping the operational structure of the Fed system's 12 regional banks, calling for consolidation of key ​business functions like human resources, finance, procurement and technology rather than leaving them under ‌the local direction of each bank.

Fed's Waller calls for overhaul of regional Fed bank operations reut.rs/3Qfdqv3

Over the course of a decade, I made lots of trips to #Afghanistan and spent time with US troops throughout the country. One thing they all-- every single one-- agreed on:
♦️They felt the US owed Afghan interpreters & other staff far, far more than a mere salary.

This is how we're treating them now:

Trump Media & Technology Group names Kevin McGurn as interim CEO effective immediately; McGurn previously worked as an executive at Hulu, Vevo, and T-Mobile (Todd Spangler/Variety)

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What horrible thing did he do to get this job?

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Unspeakable evil.

LOL! That'll help those presidential approval numbers! This administration is so hermetically sealed in its right-wing bubble it's incapable of anything but own-the-libs nonsense. Most normal Americans are going to (maybe) read about his and say: "Uhhh, what? How about the price of groceries?"

Did Kash Patel read his own lawsuit?

When asked why he was locked out of his computer — as The Atlantic reported and Patel *admitted* in his lawsuit — Patel denied it happened: "I was never locked out of my systems," he just claimed.

What his lawsuit says: buff.ly/JTRuZKf

Kathryn Bright, 60, a retired captain in the U.S. Air Force, regrets that she supported Trump in the last election. “I feel disgusted with myself, I feel betrayed, like he was a wolf in sheep’s clothing,” she said. Bright lives in a small town far out on Colorado’s prairie and has several disabling medical conditions. She was initially drawn to Trump because of his vows to support veterans, avoid foreign wars and lower costs. “It’s like high school class president: ‘I’m gonna promise we are going to get pizza every single day,’” Bright said. “Then as soon as they get elected they are like, ‘Oh, I lied.’”

You should be disgusted that you betrayed yourself and everyone else, Kathryn!

He was a wolf in wolf’s clothing.
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Last week, Tennessee Republicans passed a disastrous voucher scam expansion that steals our tax dollars and defunds our public schools. Now they’re doubling down. We won’t back down. Tennessee Democrats will fight like hell to protect our public schools. Call your State Rep. now.

Last week, Tennessee Republicans passed a disastrous voucher scam expansion that steals our tax dollars and defunds our public schools. Now they’re doubling down.

We won’t back down. Tennessee Democrats will fight like hell to protect our public schools. Call your State Rep. now.

#sheshed