With the result in Virginia, here's what we know about how mid-decade redistricting has shifted the landscape.

Across the 7 states with new maps:
—11 districts have shifted toward Democrats;
—9 districts have shifted toward the GOP.

Virginia is for haters

fuck da GOP

Virginia is for haters (laudatory)

The implicit media consensus is that urban voters should not be able to overrule rural voters, but that rural voters should be able to overrule urban voters, an assumption so axiomatic and unquestionable that nobody even understands they're making it.

the newton

Oh this is so rad

Open Measures Timeline chart showing daily number of Bluesky posts containing the phrase "blaze it"

Big spike in posts that say "blaze it" on Bluesky today

VERY COOL PERSON: It's four-twenty, you know what that means?

ME: Hell yeah! [starts shoving blackbirds into a pie]

Yes, it's 4/20 but the sloths act like that every day

this is so beyond surreal. I can't believe they were just, out there. god that's so unbelieveable.

I didn't think the moon was just so... brown!!

“Trust Me: The False Prophet“ on Netflix

Oh I don’t like this filmmaker already.

”I don’t really need to watch another documentary about the FLDS,” I tell myself as I hit play anyway

spending the next few days in northern virginia, if anyone has specific prayers i can invoke to protect me from its evil please pass them along

Katie is watching baseball and for some reason the commentators started talking about K-Pop Demon Hunters, and this led to one of them explaining to the other that BTS is “like New Kids on the Block, or a larger version of Hanson”

This post started a fight in my house

Don't forget there's a mid-credits scene in the S2 finale of The Pitt. Don't want to spoilt it too much but I can't wait to see Dana in Avengers: Doomsday

You know, in hindsight, I wish we hadn’t elected John Roberts as dictator for life. But that’s democracy for you, whaddayagonnado?

The good: Left the house for a non-medical-appointment reason (getting donuts)
The bad: May have had a milk stain on my shirt that I didn’t notice
The ugly: Two “deluxe double chocolate donuts” is probably two too many deluxe double chocolate donuts

And the Lord said: Behold for I have made man.

And the angels replied to the Lord: you screwed up a perfectly good monkey is what you did. look at it. it's got anxiety.

I do not want to create an account or open a subscription I just want to buy a thing and never hear from you again why is this so hard.

the president of the united states is personally looting the treasury to the tune of literally billions of dollars and that he is not being immediately removed from office and tried for high crimes against this country is a devastating indictment of every part of our political system

Megan Rapinoe and Sue Bird Announce Split Nearly 6 Years After Getting Engaged Megan Rapinoe and Sue Bird announced they had split on Friday, April 17, after nearly 10 years together and six years after they got engaged.

Nobody talk to me I’m in mourning 😩😩😩

people.com/megan-rapino...

I Do Not Want To Hear "Thank You" From A Kiosk
I am a Divine Being
You are an Object
You Have No Right To Speak In My Holy Tongue

I did my best, it wasn't much.
I couldn't feel, so i learned to touch.
I've told the truth; i didn't come to fool you.
And even though it all went wrong,
I'll stand before the Lord of Song
With nothing on my tongue but Hallelujah!

(Cohen 1:6)

I hadn’t really clocked the camera angle stuff, but it’s true— it makes it feel very real and immediate. It’s a great show, and frankly it’s much better than the previews make it look. I hate the dramatic music they throw over everything, turning what’s quietly intense in the show into schlock

Always apropo

God I should have made a finale treat, you’re so correct for this