They first came up with the idea in 1991 and first tried it in 2003. See Tom Delay and the 2003 Texas redistricting. Their hypocrisy goes back decades.

And anyone who thinks this began 9 months ago with Trump’s pressure campaign to get TX to redistrict ( @npr.org lousy politics reporter), I’m begging you to look up Tom Delay and the 2003 Texas redistricting. Voter suppression and gerrymandering has been the Republican project for almost 3 decades.

And when we race to catch up we’ll face a market flooded with relatively cheap, high quality foreign products.

😘🤌

After watching them give up an another lead to a mediocre team last night, I’ve decided that there’s nothing lovable about the 2026 Mets. So this fits pretty well.

Haitian Immigrant Communities Win Historic Discharge Petition Vote “To our Haitian neighbors in the Massachusetts 7th and across this country—this is for you.”

ICYMI at @americasvoice.bsky.social: Our Haitian neighbors won a historic victory last week, when the House passed legislation extending temporary protections for a further three years. “The bill is the first pro-immigrant bill to pass Congress this legislative session,” noted the ACLU:

NYT Headline: Federal Appeals Court Upholds Texas Ten Commandments Law The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit said the law does not violate the Constitution. The plaintiffs said they planned to ask the Supreme Court to reverse the decision.

Deeply un-American. “Students are neither catechized on the Commandments nor taught to adopt them,” the ruling said. “Nor are teachers commanded to proselytize students who ask about the displays or contradict students who disagree with them.” They’re on the wall of every classroom! Required by law!

lol. *offer not to interfere does not apply to Denmark or Canada, NATO allies we will continue to threaten to invade because our president is a moron.

That sounds like the path to civil war.

Additional counterpoint: tell that to TX, FL, TN, MO, and every other state with a super-gerrymander the GOP put in place over the last 20 years, kicking off this race to the bottom. The GOP project is voter suppression and gerrymandering. High time Dems fight back.

I drove through southern VA about a week ago and there were signs everywhere mainly opposing redistricting (claiming unfairness 🙄 see TX, FL, TN, MO, etc.), but we did see one fairly big sign at a farm we passed that said “Vote Yes Stop the Trump Tax on Farmers.” That’s some good framing.

Opinion | When Your Child Dies of Measles

To RFK Jr. and all the anti-vaxxers: this is your handiwork. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/21/o...

The OP is right about price. And w/r/t quality, Chinese are ahead of us on non-cosmetic quality, like charge speed, battery size/energy density, etc. Not sure, but I assume their luxury products are comparable to US brands (if not to JPN/EU) in fit and finish at substantially lower prices.

There’s truth in that. E.g., BYD was a battery company that decided to make the cars it was building batteries for. BYD R&D was dominated by electrical and computer engineers, not the mechanical engineers that drive traditional ICE design. For better and worse, that’s reflected in their products.

If you had children in school you saw a lot of otherwise sane people go nuts about mitigation. Our small school system did a pretty good job of navigating complex guidelines and getting kids back in school safely, but the board still got trounced in the next election.

Dare to dream!

So the Clean Power Plan was never implemented. Now, want to hear something funny?

The targets in the Clean Power Plan -- for growth in clean energy, for retirements of dirty energy -- were exceeded. Before the deadline. *Without the reg being passed.*

Said with a straight face by the guy trying to blackmail Iran by closing their ports. Just nothing going on in that man’s head at all. The most embarrassing President of my lifetime, and I was alive (and an adult) in 2001.

That was obvious to everyone other than the US media a few hours after the strait’s “reopening” was breathlessly reported by the entire national media as if the war was over.

Nazi officials smiling at a model of a huge triumphal arch they plan to build in Berlin.

Fascists are all the same.

I don’t understand how any competent journalist or media outlet can leave up a headline indicating that the Straits of Hormuz are open hours after it became clear that they are not really open at all. It’s basically administration propaganda and market manipulation. Makes me unreasonably angry.

ANOTHER death in ICE detention.

My oldest is looking at colleges and “serious” adults keep telling him to go somewhere he can “learn” AI so he isn’t left behind. Sounds identical to the PC mania of my early childhood and the “web” push of my late childhood (born mid-70s). But with no socials it came from media and word of mouth.

Yup. When I’m tempted to respond to one of those surveys (and they use clickbait so it’s not uncommon) I try to pop over to my Congressman’s website and submit an email about whatever the survey was touching on. That way I know at least some poor staffer is reading and logging my opinion!

Just FYI, DCCC is not a polling organization. As with most political or charitable organizations’ surveys, that survey’s purpose is to serve as a tool to identify good targets for fundraising. They care more about whether you respond than what your responses are.

TBF, I kind of assumed CPAC Hungary was funded by billionaires and Fidesz (using proceeds gained from graft), not directly from the Hungarian treasury. Probably a distinction without a difference, but it feels worse somehow.

Thank you. That article is the worst kind of reactionary trash. A Nazi tattoo is not youthful indiscretion and if voters don’t know that it’s because our culture is broken, not because they’re right.

Always was. . .

Maybe the progressive failure isn’t that we’re too preachy and out of touch about a man who spent his adult life with a Nazi Death’s Head tattooed prominently on his chest. Maybe the failure is that we let the electorate slide to the point where to a Nazi SS tattoo is just youthful indiscretion.

Unfortunately this is business as usual for red state legislators, who are constantly at war with the blue cities that drive their economies. I mostly follow Nashville since I grew up there, but this stuff happens across the south. And very few non-locals seem to care.