whew

I know Victor Wembanyama is in concussion protocol, but has there been any update beyond? He hit the floor so hard, I'm worried about his jaw and cheek bones.

Give L. Louise Lucas an armored division

Dear Texas,

Don't start nothin', won't be nothin':

I hate everybody who didn’t vote for Hillary Clinton and Kamala Harris.

You all fucking suck.

Bless their little loser hearts, Virginia constitutional amendments first have to pass the full legislature twice before they ever go before voters

Decision Desk HQ projects the VA Congressional Redistricting Referendum will Pass.

While No currently has the lead, based on the location and size of the remaining vote, Yes will take the lead as soon as the remaining counties report.

#DecisionMade: 8:25 PM EDT

NEW — Virginia voters have approved a 10–1 congressional map, putting Democrats in a strong position to flip four seats from red to blue. The new map is now among the most aggressive gerrymanders in the country.

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

Hats off to you, Virginia! Love, a Californian, whose state also responded to Texas mid-census cycle redistricting ❤️❤️❤️

In the immortal words of Virginia’s L. Louise Lucas…. 🔥🔥🔥🔥

Not only that, but CA was contingent on TX going first. The GOP could've stopped the whole thing, but chose to play with fire instead.

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

The DOJ was created to increase the capacity for federal prosecutions during Reconstruction esp. those to be brought under the newly enacted KuKlux Klan Act.

Now the DOJ is being used to prosecute a storied civil rights organization whose central mission has been to expose & dismantle the Klan.

This is so transparent, even for this administration.

The Southern Poverty Law Center was indicted over a discontinued program that used paid confidential informants to infiltrate white supremacist and other organizations, Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche announced. https://cnn.it/3QU7mIk

Silicon Valley has forgotten what normal people want Did the tech industry get high on its own supply?

from the annals of getting high on your own supply (gift link) www.theverge.com/tldr/915176/...

I am so glad that the country is getting introduced to L. Louise Lucas right now bc of her 10-1 Virginia posting.

She’s a treasure and we love her

How Walmart’s Financial Services Became a Fraud Magnet Scammers have duped consumers out of more than $1 billion by exploiting Walmart’s lax security. The company has resisted taking responsibility while breaking promises to regulators and skimping on tra...

Walmart has long been a facilitator of fraud on a mass scale, a ProPublica investigation found.

More than $1 billion in fraud losses were routed through the company’s financial services between 2013 and 2022.

(Published Jan. 2024)

last thought, and i am still thinking through this, is that not only is there nothing wrong with this, it is something to *embrace*. a project of transformation is one way to build a political party into something closer to a political movement.

one of the single most important bursts of legislative activity in the nation's history happened because the governing party did not hesitate to remove their opponents from congress itself when they had the opportunity. 🤷🏿‍♂️

if there is a path to either national nonpartisan redistricting or proportional representation, it is going to go through one party or another. but the first step toward it actually happening is for that party to win power, and you go to war with the system you have, not the one you want.

the shift to a winner-take-all distribution of electoral votes? a partisan project. the development of the mass political party? a partisan project. antislavery and reconstruction? a partisan project. even direct election of senators comes out of populist agitation in the late 19th century.

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

How an 82-Year-Old Great-Grandmother Became a Master-Class Dem Shitposter Meet the unstoppable L. Louise Lucas.

Virginia’s redistricting victory has L. Louise Lucas’ fingerprints all over it.

Read @lauren-egan.bsky.social's profile on the 82-year-old shitposting powerhouse who helped drag Democrats into the battle:

L. Louise Lucas tweet showing an image that says "I fill my bong with Republican tears"

Never change, L. Louise Lucas

Verily, verily, I say unto you: Democrats pay attention to people who vote, not people who won't. Like everyone else, they respond positively to promises, negatively to threats. If you wanted an end to Netanyahu's genocide, you should have voted for Harris, then made clear what you expect in return.

The people who refused to vote for Harris because she was, in their view, insufficiently opposed to Netanyahu's genocide think of themselves as high-minded. They are not high-minded. They are narrow-minded. Booker illustrates that point here.

This will never not be right to me.

Also we had three networks plus PBS and a couple of syndicated channels that showed, like, monster movies (with commercials) and Three’s Company reruns.

And you still needed that booklet.

Truly, we live in a time of wonder.