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.
Bless their little loser hearts, Virginia constitutional amendments first have to pass the full legislature twice before they ever go before voters
you're gonna attend the Raytheon DEI meetings and you're gonna like it
Internet Archive has not, historically or up to today, utilized AI for moderation. Someone on /r/datahoarder hallucinated that idea, putting good AI out of work
The YES has won in Virginia; voters approved the constitutional amendment to adopt Dems' congressional gerrymander.
This is likely to deliver a 10-1 (Dem) congressional delegation in November, compared to 6-5 (Dem) now.
The remaining obstacle: State supreme court will be weighing in still.
NBC News has called the race for the YES.
And now for what you've been waiting for — the reaction of Senator Louise Lucas, one of the main instigators of the 10-1 map. She does not post on here, so linking to her post on X: x.com/SenLouiseLuc...
Interesting: The "YES" actually did better than Jay Jones in the large city of Alexandria (which is done counting), in NoVa.
Yes won by 58% here. Jones had won by 55%, and Spanberger by 67%.
York County got done, and it went from a Spanberger County by just under 1% to a "no" county by 12%.
RESULT... in Coral Gables, FL: The city has overwhelmingly voted tonight to change timing of its local elections to November.
Part of an effort we're seeing nationwide to get higher turnout in local races.
It was one of my 40 races to watch in April. boltsmag.org/whats-on-the...
matches the Jones margin so not exactly shift back.
but i'd wager it is Spanberger voters who don't like gerrymandering. So can be Yes on her and No on redistricting.
but the fact of the matter is that with the notable exception *of* the mid to late 20th century, every major change in our political system and government has been a partisan or ideological political project.
one of the ways the mid to late 20th century political world has distorted the historical memories of even sophisticated observers is in the idea that you can achieve major transformations of american political life through something like bipartisan consensus
Warsh claimed that the Wall Street Journal had bad sources. Their source was Donald Trump himself. Either Trump lied to the Journal or Warsh just committed perjury.
I have to admit I was already aged out of watching SpongeBob SquarePants when this episode originally aired.
But my younger colleagues told me to watch this clip.
the case for strategic gerrymandering youtu.be/YgMSs_aMP84?si…
I'm excited to share that we've made a collection of historic Supreme Court Records and Briefs available via
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I've written a blog post where I go into detail about the importance of this collection.
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Goddamn, they’ve got the whole Giles v. Harris (1903) Supreme Court record here. I had to piece a lot of this together from different sites for a story did on Jackson Giles in 2022.
Lori Chavez-DeRemer resigned today, a week after this:
Gas prices are at their highest level since the pandemic.
Inflation is surging.
Grocery prices are near record highs.
Housing costs are through the roof.
Does that sound like a golden age to you?
it’s so cool how most LA politicians wake up in the morning and are like “how can I make it harder to build housing today”
Our only hope to make LA a well-run, pro-housing city is electing Nithya Raman as mayor
Really happy to have done a very small thing to help make the Supreme Court's historical records and briefs freely available. Thank you to the @archive.org for doing the hard part. blog.archive.org/2026/04/20/u...
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Trump, who said in the 2024 campaign that Kamala Harris would start World War 3, compares his war against Iran to World War II
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US Supreme Court Records and Briefs. Available for free. Digitized from thousands and thousands of Microfiche pages.
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I am neither sick nor sad today! But I am taking the day off from streaming to get some spring cleaning done around the house. We made a nice big list yesterday and I want to get a few things done and build momentum.
Gonna spend the next two years spamming every elected Dem about the concept of "damnatio memoriae." Chisel his name off every inscription. Build over the various Trump Towers like they're Nero's Golden House. Remove him from physical memory, not to forget but as a sign of disrespect to the man.
a real testament to stefanik’s total lack of dignity that she is doing this AFTER trump totally threw her under the bus, backed up, and ran her over just to be sure
