Starting a mid-decade redistricting war only to end up with -1 seats is the same fine strategic genius and subtle grasp of game theory that brough us the Strait of Hormuz.

cumberland strawberries, painted by deborah griscom passmore, 1891

cumberland strawberries, painted by deborah griscom passmore, 1891

Two Palestinians Killed in Israeli Shooting Near West Bank School

Settlers and Israeli soldiers descended on a school in the West Bank -- and started firing live rounds.

Multiple kids were shot and one was killed.

His father was killed by settlers six years ago.

www.nytimes.com/2026/04/21/w...

Purging all the women while Hegseth, Patel, Lutnik and RFK remain

Whomp whomp

Thirteen U.S. troops died trying to get these people to safety — Afghan interpreters, soldiers, and the families of our service members. Veterans spent sleepless nights during the chaotic withdrawal fighting to keep them alive. Now our own government is going to abandon them.

Fascinating. Now kinda cast in the role of the party’s/Newsom’s normie choice but not clear why voters would pivot to him so quickly

A Republican dark money group blankets Virginia with deceptive mailers ahead of redistricting vote Ads targeting Black voters compare Virginia's redistricting referendum to Jim Crow.

If you are watching MSNow, here’s the @ariberman.bsky.social piece on mailers that @jenpsaki.bsky.social just mentioned www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Congratulations, Virginia! Republicans are trying to tilt the midterm elections in their favor, but they haven’t done it yet. Thanks for showing us what it looks like to stand up for our democracy and fight back.

And, you know, just generally that trump/red states picked this fight and Democrats are simply responding in kind. DeSantis is still threatening to create at least two more (allegedly) republican seats in Florida despite the objections of voters.

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

It would be nice if Bluesky worked reliably. I know they had a DOS attack, are there updates in a return of full functionality?

Virginia Dems just won a major battle in Trump's redistricting war Voters don't like gerrymandering. But they seem to hate Trump even more.

Read @ariberman on what the redistricting win In Virginia means for Democrats and the country www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Virginia Dems just won a major battle in Trump's redistricting war Voters don't like gerrymandering. But they seem to hate Trump even more.

Virginia votes to redraw Congressional districts to favor demorcrats after Trump started an arms race.

He got dummymandered

www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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

My most liberal idpol radlib take is that I think it's pretty bad that
right wing forces are actively intervening on behalf of the Klan with the full weight of the state legal apparatus

The meta story of the (imminent) Yes win in VA is the total inability of Trump to ever look down the game tree. He was apparently unable to comprehend that Democrats would respond to his push to redistrict in GOP-run states

This same pehenenon is also why we are losing a war to Iran.

Shero

I'm sure everyone is impatient... but we're basically on Fairfax County time at this point.

Virginia's biggest county (by far) has hundreds of thousands of ballots to report, & this is a massively blue county. That's the story at this moment.

Multiple oil spills are visible from space after Iranian and US-Israeli strikes hit oil facilities and ships in the region, with experts warning of an impending environmental catastrophe. https://cnn.it/3Ovxzwk

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We just crossed “the Bush line”

Trump Is Said to Be in Talks to Send Afghans Who Aided U.S. Forces to Congo

Completely ruthless and craven. “After halting a U.S. resettlement program for Afghans who helped the American war effort, President Trump is in talks to send as many as 1,100 of them to the Democratic Republic of Congo.”
www.nytimes.com/2026/04/21/w...

Betting the @splcenter.org sees a big jump in small dollar donations secure.splcenter.org/page/92241/d...

The Justice Dept’s theory of the case— that the group that single-handedly disassembled the Ku Klux Klan defrauded its donors by concealing that it was using paid informant to do that work and more— has about as much merit as the now-dismissed charges against Jim Comey.

yiiiikes

The My Lie massacre

Ever seen a poll result that is basically telling the pollsters themselves to go touch grass?