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.

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

Texas Republicans redistrict without so much as a vote. Lots of celebrating.

Virginia Democrats put redistricting to a public vote. It passes. Republicans burst into full faux outrage.

This is the stupid cycle Dems must break. Stop giving a damn what the GOP thinks and says. #FireXFire!

If Republicans hate the CA and VA redistricting, they can thank the person responsible - Donald J. Trump.

None of it would’ve been possible without his leadership on this issue.

"This is an important thing to think about."

Israel is literally being held hostage by a psychopath trying to stay out of Prison.
Sound familiar?

Texas can force Ten Commandments posters in public schools, appeals court rules In a 9–8 split, judges rejected church/state separation concerns and handed a major victory to religious conservatives

In 1980 the Supreme Court ruled that it's a violation of the U.S. Constitution's Establishment Clause for public schools to display the 10 Commandments. Now this issue will go back to the Trump Supreme Court.

We are moving back in time and it's scary.

www.friendlyatheist.com/p/texas-can-...

Election Live Updates: Virginia Passes New Map, Lifting Democrats’ Midterm Chances

BREAKING:

Democrats pass Virginia redistricting plan!

Trump started this with Texas. Democrats would traditionally blather on about how gerrymandering isn't right, as we get slaughtered by the GOP doing it. Not anymore.

Finally, we're fighting fire with fire.

www.nytimes.com/live/2026/04...

The same way they make fealty to Trump's Big Lie a litmus test, we should make being too cowardly to call it a lie a test for any federal appointment.

Fractures Emerge Between GOP’s Pro-Pedophilia, Extremely Pro-Pedophilia Wings

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Some future zines (ones I want to do limited print runs) will be locked to paid supporters at any tier - that means even a $1/month subscription will grant access to these zines, too!

The free ones I'll be starting to upload are ALTARPUNK and the PaganPunk Community Grimoire.

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Tucker is Really Sorry Serenity now.

"“You know, we’ll be tormented by it for a long time. I will be, and I want to say I’m sorry for misleading people, and it was not intentional. That’s all I’ll say.”

Not intentional? As if he had no inkling that he was peddling the world’s greatest bullshit artist?"

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.

It’s not media cluelessness – it’s cowardice and complicity But there’s another word starting with “C” that describes some journalists: courage.

Journalists might've once had the excuse that the didn’t realize how bad MAGA extremism would be. But they can't plead cluelessness now. What’s left are cowardice, complicity and courage. Pick one.
My Stop the Presses newsletter.

An Explosive NYT Story Illuminates the Origins of the Supreme Court's 'Shadow Docket' Rulings The Times obtained internal court memos showing how John Roberts ran roughshod over traditional court practice

I don't think John Roberts gets as much blame or hate as he should.

Or Mitch McConnell. They both hide in the shadow of Trump's odiousness, but they are key architects of how we got to where we are.

Trump's win condition in Iran is to return to two things he is directly responsible for destroying - an open Strait of Hormuz and the agreements secured by the JCPOA negotiated in 2015.

This man is an idiot. But it doesn't matter because his cult is even more idiotic.

Kevin Hassett: "At the beginning, the president said in four to six weeks we expect this could be resolved, and I think we're getting pretty close to that being accurate."

The war started over seven weeks ago.

Palantir recently published a 22 point manifesto.

TL;DR DEI is bad, fascism is good.

Officials who warned about Russian interference are being treated as the threat, even facing potential criminal charges. At the same time, people adjacent to Russian-aligned propaganda and influence channels are being handed power to investigate them.

www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

Judge rules Trump administration violated the First Amendment in fight against ICE-tracking ICE Sightings - Chicago Land Facebook Group and Eyes Up developer won a preliminary injunction against the government.

Jorge L. Alonso said that the Trump Administration violated the First Amendment when it pressured Facebook and Apple to remove ICE-tracking groups and apps.

Everyone always seems to forget what a piece of garbage Elise Stefanik is

And I’m not even talking about the lies and hypocrisy

In 2022 she endorsed a candidate who praised Hitler and made racist comments about Michelle Obama

And in 2025 accepted an award from a GOP group that ALSO lauded Hitler

Articles about Jared Kushner's diplomatic role with Iran that mention Kushner has received billions from the Saudi government (2/28-4/19):

NYT: 5 of 58
WashPost: 1 of 43
WSJ: 0 of 40
AP: 0 of 26
CNN Wire: 0 of 18
NY Post: 0 of 17
Chicago Tribune: 0 of 4
LA Times: 0 of 4
Boston Globe: 0 of 2

I'm so old I can remember what Trump said on Friday

In a nutshell. 😊

This bloodthirsty, immigrant-hating, pedophile-enabling, Christofascist regime is having a vile, war-mongering, serial rapist publicly read a passage of the Bible, and thinks anyone but the most indoctrinated cultists in this country is going to be fooled. Release the Epstein Files.

- John 4.20.26

“a pretty powerful rejoinder to those who have insisted that the Court’s internal debates in these [shadow docket] cases are rigorous and deeply substantive.”

They paid a bribe. Everyone knows it was a bribe.

The Government's New Domestic Surveillance Machine (And Why It's Terrifying) -- HSTF.gov website YouTube video by Eliza Orlins

The government just built a domestic surveillance machine in every state by executive order. There’s a .gov website bragging about it. This is what parallel construction is and why it matters.

youtube.com/shorts/wiLlu...

I had back-to-back work events Wednesday through Saturday, and spent today crashing and catching up on news, etc.

When it comes to those 62 million views all I can say is sometimes violence *is* the answer.