This is a pitch perfect response from @aoc.bsky.social -- she mocks their whining, she brings the receipts and then she uses this move as a sign that Democrats are moving to offense now.

News accounts are straining to portray the Virginia move as a betrayal of Dems' principled opposition to gerrymandering.

It's pure bullshit. Dems passed a 2021 bill ending it for *both sides.* The Dem position is that Trump/Rs don't get to play by their own rules:

newrepublic.com/article/2093...

Two things can be true:

Congress should pass uniform, national legislation reining in partisan gerrymandering; and

Until that happens, or every state adopts an independent redistricting commission, neither party is going to (or, frankly, should) unilaterally disarm.

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…. 🔥🔥🔥🔥

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

Indeed. Complaints about redistricting are invalid. Republicans did it everywhere and invalidated a Constitutional Amendment so they could do it on explicitly racial lines.

There are two choices: use the same levers of power as Republicans do, or let them win. There is no "principled" opposition.

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 few things related to OJ that doesn’t. Watching “Airplane!” now is difficult in that respect.

Wow! I haven't heard or used the "Brutal, Juice" in quite a while, but it was ubiquitous among my friends back in the day.

"Internal documents shed light on Trump’s crusade to vet state voter rolls" #ELB Tierney Sneed for CNN: The Trump administration has been working for nearly a year on an effort to weed out noncitizens from voter rolls using a faulty data system while keeping those plans hidden fro...

“Internal documents shed light on Trump’s crusade to vet state voter rolls” electionlawblog.org?p=155574

Personalist Rule and Cash Payoffs: Notes on Trump’s House of Corruption I’ve described to you many times how TPM was saved by an...

Personalist Rule and Cash Payoffs: Notes on Trump’s House of Corruption talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/perso...

Trump appointees repeatedly show themselves as malignant, incompetent and corrupt.

That is by design.

They further the aims of a mafia state.

They all have to go.

Share a GIF from a WESTERN you love.

It’s in keeping with the basic idea of the original Colorado River Compact, which was to manage the basin’s water through some negotiation and compromise, rather than strictly following the letter of the law. But the legal foundation of prior appropriation hamstrings negotiations at every turn. Farmers account for the overwhelming majority of Colorado water use—almost a third goes to cattle feed alone—and thanks to how the system was initially designed, their prices are absurdly subsidized. One recent study found that while municipal districts pay an average of $512.01 per acre-foot, agricultural irrigation districts paid an average of $30.32 per acre-foot. Fully a quarter of all Colorado water diversions, all to farmers, cost nothing at all. Such a subsidy is difficult to unwind.

TIL that while Colorado basin municipal water districts pay an average of $512 per acre-foot, irrigation districts pay an average of $30--and fully a quarter of all water diversions, all going to farms, pay nothing at all prospect.org/2026/04/17/w...

Is Trump’s Iran War Like a Katrina Moment? It’s no great insight to say Trump’s impulsive Iran War has been...

Josh Marshall: Trump simply has no way to stop the Iran War "from being the big and dominating story. He can't make any shiny object take its place. He's stuck, not just militarily but politically as well."

If you watch and share one thing today make at this. Why is every democrat in the country not talking like this?

the thing to remember is that by the time FDR takes office the depression had been going for three years and the hoover administration looked like a bunch of do-nothing assholes. loudly and visibly saying "we are working to fix the problem!" was meant to bring some calm to the storm. it worked!

Pete Hegseth Nailed It. No Really. You’ve probably seen the story about how, at a DOD presentation, Secretary...

Pete Hegseth Nailed It. No Really.

Something has to be done about the Supreme Court.

"Is a dream a lie if it don't come true, or is it something worse?" Bruce 5:18.

a close up of donald trump 's face with a smile Alt: a close up of donald trump 's face with a smile

Good morning!

Since Trump was re-elected, Forbes estimates—

💰His net worth is up $2.1 billion, to $6.4 billion

💰Eric’s is up 10x, to $400 million

💰Don Jr.’s is up 6x, to $300 million

💰20-year-old Barron is worth $150 million

And Jared became a billionaire last year.

Have a great day!

anyway, if this court is going to act as little more than a partisan legislature than it ought to be treated like one by the actual legislature

Ossoff: I don’t know who placed those trades, but I’ll tell you this: the SEC better find out. And if they won’t, when you elect this new majority in Congress and you give us gavels and subpoenas, we will.

Quote post with something that lasted longer than the Confederacy (1861-1865).

Building the transcontinental railroad (1863 to 1869).

As Trump Rants About Birds and Wind Turbines, the World Passes the US By It’s not hard to look around America today and see signs of...

Josh Marshall: Energy policy in the U.S. is driven by the rantings of a senescent wannabe dictator whose speeches routinely dip into musings about wind turbines and birds. That is what decay and decline look like.

(Trump attacks a ficus plant in the Oval Office, shouting that it is "weak on communism," wrestling it to the ground until he is covered in dirt, finally ripping out its leaves with his teeth)

New York Times: "President Trump unveiled a bold new approach to environmental hazards this morning"

Charlotte Clymer: In the past week, Donald Trump has threatened nuclear war against Iran, called for the genocide of 93 million Iranians, publicly attacked the Pope, and compared himself to Jesus Christ. Recall July of 2024 when every pundit and reporter in American media were urging President Biden to step down due to concerns over his cognitive health. Where are those voices now? Where are the demands for Trump to be removed? Where is the flood of op-eds and cable news panels and social media posts calling for the 25th Amendment to be triggered? Why are you all so silent on this?

Tell me about a part, a moment, a time stamp in a song that has you like this.

At 2:30-2:53, the Righteous Brothers erupt into the sound of pure yearning:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z2vM...