SCOOP: Trump's secret contract for White House ballroom fundraising shielded donors and excluded White House from conflict-of-interest safeguards.
It took a lawsuit from @publiccitizen.bsky.social and a judge's order to make it public. w @ddiamond.bsky.social
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
This is a REAL post from White House staff. 😯
NOT @theonion.com or @nytpitchbot.bsky.social ...
Without a reopening of the Strait of Hormuz, costs could soar, triggering a cascade of events that cause the fuel system to seize up
President Donald Trump's approval rating held at the lowest of his term in recent days as many Americans questioned his temperament amid the Iran war and a feud with Pope Leo, a Reuters/Ipsos poll found reut.rs/3OkcoNI
Reuters poll: “The six-day public opinion poll, concluded on Monday, showed only 36% of Americans approve of Trump's job performance…Many Americans, including some members of Trump's Republican Party, have some concerns about the 79-year-old president's temperament and mental sharpness.”
Virginia Democrats are on track to flip four seats this fall thanks to a new, gerrymandered map.
Read this analysis from @erincovey.bsky.social and see our race ratings for the new map:
Virginia voters passed a constitutional amendment allowing Democrats to temporarily redraw the commonwealth's congressional map. Below are our race ratings for the new map.
Read the full analysis from @erincovey.bsky.social: www.cookpolitical.com/analysis/hou...
Quite a day in Trump (dis)approval polling.
American Research Group
Strength In Numbers/Verasight.io
AP-NORC
All TERRIBLE numbers for Trump.
Who'll the NRSC, NRCC, and RGA send Trump out to campaign with first? 🍿🍿🍿
cc: @dscc.bsky.social @electdemocrats.bsky.social @demgovs.org #ElectionBluesky
🚨NEW @InsideElections Virginia ratings:
VA1 Solid Dem
VA2 Tilt Dem
VA3 Solid Dem
VA4 Solid Dem
VA5 Solid Dem
VA6 Lean Dem
VA7 Solid Dem
VA8 Solid Dem
VA9 Solid GOP
VA10 Solid Dem
VA11 Solid Dem
www.insideelections.com/news/article...
An active-duty Army sergeant is now trying to stop his wife from being deported after she showed up to an immigration appointment with a valid work permit.
Followed the rules. Still detained.
www.dailykos.com/stories/2026...
2/2 The move, which has not been previously reported, has raised concerns among current + former officials that information about the vaccine’s benefits is being downplayed because they conflict with the views of Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who has been an outspoken critic of the shots.
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/...
Support for impeaching Trump is at 55%, according to a new Strength In Numbers/ @Verasight.io poll, with 37% of adults opposed. Crucially 1 in 5 of Trump’s own voters support impeachment.
Read and share:
www.gelliottmorris.com/p/2026-04-22...
Remember, Democrats have repeatedly advanced measures to ban partisan gerrymandering and Republicans have voted against them time after time.
This is the game Republicans wanted to play. OK, then.
Donald Trump’s aides have kept him in the dark on important conversations—and “the ramifications for democratic accountability are serious,” @dgraham.bsky.social argues in The Atlantic Daily:
GOP - *gerrymanders*
DEMS - hey stop that no fair
GOP - *gerrymanders even more*
DEMS - we mean it we’re gonna sue
SCOTUS - *legalizes gerrymandering completely*
DEMS - *start gerrymandering*
GOP - HEY STOP THAT NO FAIR!!!! 😭
You ever try to code switch at work and fail? 😂
just saw someone call Kash Patel “J Edgar Boozer” and need to lie down
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
It’s OFFICIAL! Virginians just voted YES!!!
Tonight, voters chose to fight back against Trump's power grab and level the playing field.
Thank you.
Washington Post Editorial Board headline: “The Texas gerrymander freak out. What’s happening in Texas is not a threat to democracy.”
Washington Post Editorial Board headline: “Virginia plunges America deeper into the gerrymandering abyss. The redistricting scheme was always a power grab by Democrats. Voters went along with it.”
The Washington Post Editorial Board was fine with Republicans gerrymandering in Texas.
But when Democrats responded in Virginia, it’s a “power grab” that “plunges America deeper into the gerrymandering abyss.”
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.
2015 Lindsey Graham might even support @drannieandrews.com for #SCSen over the spineless husk of a person that is 2026 Lindsey Graham.
#SouthCarolina #scpol #LindseyGraham
Texas redistricts without a vote, Republicans cheer.
Dems in Virginia respond by putting it UP FOR A VOTE OF THE PEOPLE, it passes, Republican cry foul.
Oh well. Good job Virginia!!
NO can still win if Mike Pence has the courage to do the right thing! #Virginia
While the GOP in #NY21 get to slog through intra-party fighting, today is a good day to follow @blakegendebien.bsky.social and support his campaign to flip the soon-to-be-former #EliseStefanik seat 🔴➡️🔵.
blakegendebienforcongress.com
#NewYork
. @redistrict.bsky.social has reportedly seen enough. #Virginia
An appellate court ruled that Texas may require public school classrooms to display the Ten Commandments, setting up a likely Supreme Court battle over whether the Texas law violates the constitutional separation of church and state.
Thirteen U.S. troops died trying to get these people to safety — Afghan interpreters, soldiers, and the families of our service members. Veterans spent sleepless nights during the chaotic withdrawal fighting to keep them alive. Now our own government is going to abandon them.