Hi folks:
Tonight on "A Few Thoughts for Those Who Can't Sleep," I talked about the redistricting vote in Virginia -- what it means -- gerrymandering in the past -- and what to expect going forward.
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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.
Lovely and thank you for bringing us on the drawing journey
FBI Director Kash Patel’s defamation lawsuit against the Atlantic explained: joycevance.substack.com/p/kashs-comp...
This morning, just after 8 a.m., Trump had a long ramble on Truth Social that concluded, “if they don’t, the United States is going to knock out every single Power Plant, and every single Bridge, in Iran. NO MORE MR. NICE GUY!” That’s our start to the week ahead.
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Yesterday I discussed why and how the Battle of Lexington (April 19, 1775) was a community event.
Much like the attacks on We the People now.
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On the “strategic incompetence” of the DJT regime.
DOJ seeks to vacate insurrectionists’ convictions, while going after a former CIA Director: If Trump can make convictions disappear for allies while prosecuting critics, the damage isn’t just theoretical. Once that line is crossed, it doesn’t easily uncross itself. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...
1/The Justice Department has moved to drop the last remaining January 6 insurrection criminal matters: the Oath Keepers and Proud Boys seditious conspiracy cases. Trump commuted their sentences when he returned to office, which got them out of prison, but it didn’t erase their convictions.
Tomorrow on a specially scheduled episode of "History Matters:"
Revolutionary Pushback: Past & Present
Because sometimes, the Revolution has a LOT to say.
To the here and now.
Sunday 10AM ET
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The FBI Director, the DC US Attorney, and the Secretary of Defense walk into a bar.
Apparently like every day.
1/The NYT is releasing internal SCOTUS documents re: 2016 creation of the modern “Shadow Docket” noting Justice Roberts & “other conservative justices have repeatedly empowered [Trump] through their shadow docket rulings. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/18/u...
What is ICE doing with all of that taxpayer money? Although they’re off the front pages, there are substantial problems — but you have to be willing to look across the country & also at policy and personnel changes. I put some of those pieces together here. joycevance.substack.com/p/ice-and-th...
In Maine, ICE brazenly called their operation “catch of the day.” The banal inhumanity of it all is overwhelming. The deaths, the injuries, the conditions in detention, the brazen disregard for people’s rights, including American citizens. And it’s still happening.
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This is all happening because Republicans refused to hold Trump accountable for Jan 6. And now the “Sec of War” is comparing Trump to Jesus. Well done, GOP.
Amazon will pay $20.5 million to settle allegations that two of its Oregon data centers helped contaminate groundwater.
This is exactly why communities across the country are organizing to stop data centers — and winning.
Never doubt your power to change the system.
DOJ released a report claiming the Biden administration “weaponized” it when it prosecuted violations of a law that prohibits violence, threats, intimidation or obstruction used to prevent people from entering reproductive health clinics. That report, debunked here: open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...
They own this. Whatever disasters continue to unfold belong not to the president and his Cabinet alone, but to the entire Republican Party.
Get in, losers. We're applying Christensen's generative rhetoric to de-LLM-ifying prose, and along the way discussing why LLMs talk the way they do. mikecaulfield.substack.com/p/a-300-word...
Perhaps he should read the Constitution.
The First Amendment of our Bill of Rights, for example.
Every time they say they’re the party of law & order, that they’re pro-law enforcement, that DOJ is taking violent criminals off the streets & Democrats are pro-criminal, remember this. It’s all a sham; a mob-style loyalty exercise.
KERNEN: We'd never be able to send anyone back if you needed a judicial warrant every single time
RAND PAUL: Well, I don't think that's true. Obeying the 4th Amendment of the Constitution shouldn't be too difficult. It's something we fought the revolution over.
