In 2018, I and 75% of the Ohio electorate approved a constitutional amendment banning gerrymandering. In 2021, Ohio Republicans gerrymandered anyway in direct defiance of the state Supreme Court. I wish every Virginia Republican hurting right now a very sincere “lol get fukt you absolute loser.”

Man, what a win for the Blazers. Tom Dundon's going to be waiting at the airport to greet them. Primarily to make sure they all choose the "Wait and Save" option on their Ubers, but still: it'll be nice!

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Now the losing streak is at 12... it goes to show that not even Mamdani can perform Miracles for the Mets.

Into my veins

The Mets are in Hell.

”How is this legal” is a really funny thing for a republican to say in 2026

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Josh Barro • @jbarro • 1h Which stage of grief is this? [quoted post] Casey Mattox • @CaseyMattox_ 2h Among many other things, it is absurd that a 50% +1 vote can amend the Virginia Constitution. Josh Barro @ @jbarro • 1h The whining from Republicans here is just preposterous. Democrats remain willing to prohibit gerrymandering nationally. Republicans thought they were better off fighting this battle state-by-state and are sore that that wasn't true. Josh Barro • @jbarro Anyway since the Virginia-resident class of conservative journalists and operatives have personally come out on the short end of the stick on this redistricting fight, perhaps they can push their party to negotiate a national gerrymandering ban. Dems are ready to take the call.

I regret to inform you that Josh Barro has some good posts today.

You ever try to code switch at work and fail? 😂

every conservative political complaint comes back to "those people shouldn't count because they disagree with me"

Kevin Durant is in his 18th NBA season and LeBron James is in his 23rd, and they're on the floor in a playoff game where each is the best player on his team. That's wild stuff.

i am filled with spiteful mirth at the idea that a fucking republican wants to tell democrats about integrity

I mean, I too can say words. The Astros record is unconstitutional! It violates Art. IV that there are no jalapeño poppers in the house! &c.

That’s not even a fig leaf of legality. It’s just an argument for the raw assertion of power, akin to the argument that the president has an inherent right to impound.

What’s noteworthy about this is that he doesn’t even gesture toward a reason why retrocession might be unconstitutional. He just says that Trump should say that it is.

Lawyer earned his paycheck on that one.

I would submit that a gerrymander by politicians saying fuck the voters and one by voters saying fuck the politicians are two wholly different animals

As someone who lives in Fairfax County I want to be clear in what he’s saying - my vote shouldn’t count for as much as a rural county voters. Simply because there’s more of me than there are of them. So the area with LESS voters should outweigh the area with MORE voters.

Oh yeah, the baseball crank crying tears is delicious.

Let me know when Virginia’s Dem SoS coordinates with a Supreme Court Justice to rig the ballot language to make an anti-gerrymandering constitutional amendment seem like it would enshrine gerrymandering into the constitution.

Kind of struck by how the VA redraw was *extremely* brazen compared to CA

Going from 43-9 to 48-4 is really kind of minor compared to going from 6-5 to 10-1

CA went from 82% —> 92% D seats
VA went from 55% —> 91% D seats

And they released the map in advance! It was kind of insane! lmao

Oh no

Still not over this shit

Everyone knows the way you change the Constitution is to have six people in robes make up a new Constitution as they go along.

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.

State constitutional amendments being easier than federal constitutional amendments is also completely reasonable. States are constrained in how crazy they're allowed to be, the US Constitution isn't.

I tend to agree that US states on the whole make their constitutional amendments too easy and that produces a lot of clutter that should really be in regular legislation, but Virginia-style is totally reasonable. It ups the difficulty by adding time and multiple steps rather than supermajorities.

*or one where initiative amendments have to pass a referendum twice (NV)