"I was ABSOLUTELY told that the Democrats would be bringing knives to the gun fight. What the fuck are they doing bringing guns?" --a whole lot of Republicans looking at the results from Virginia right now
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.
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
while out of one of the many other sides of his mouth Trump is telling Iranians to work with him against their regime cause he’s got their backs
Remember, Democrats have repeatedly advanced measures to ban partisan gerrymandering and Republicans have voted against them time after time.
This is the game Republicans wanted to play. OK, then.
The Onion wants to make us submissive slaves to the New world order.
Correct.
"Court documents show Trump knew he was going to tear down the East Wing at least two months before doing so, but he never told the public."
Here’s the 5th Circuit’s opinion openly and directly defying an on-point Supreme Court precedent that prohibits the display of the 10 Commandments in public school classrooms.
Shameless defiance of SCOTUS, but we’ll see if the supermajority cares. txvalues.org/wp-content/u...
The apparent theory here--SPLC was defrauding donors by paying right-wing extremist org informants, and also took completely legal steps for obscuring the money trail for very obvious reasons on this totally legal thing to do--is ludicrous even by the notoriously malleable standard for wire fraud.
*Benny Hill music intensifies*
Fractures Emerge Between GOP’s Pro-Pedophilia, Extremely Pro-Pedophilia Wings
KETHLEDGE, Circuit Judge. For much of American history, evading excise taxes on liquor has been nearly a national pastime. At the time of the Revolution, one historian has written, “nearly every farmer distilled his own whiskey and deemed it his inalienable right to evade the tax, and resist the collector whenever a favorable opportunity presented itself for doing so.” Gallus Thomann, Liquor Laws of the United States 58 (1885). Soon after the Constitution’s ratification, in western Pennsylvania, this evasion came by force of arms—in the Whiskey Rebellion, which President Washington put down only after assembling “an army larger than any he had commanded during the Revolution.” Gordon S. Wood, Empire of Liberty: A History of the Early Republic, 1789–1815, at 138 (2009). Just after the Civil War, in 1867, a select committee of the House of Representatives heard more than a month of testimony, and concluded: “in the manufacture and sale of tobacco, cigars, and spirits, and especially the latter, the most stupendous frauds are practiced against the government in the collection of its revenue.” H.R. Rep. No. 39-24, at 1 (1867). The following year Congress enacted comprehensive legislation to end those frauds, which among many other provisions included a ban on distilling spirits in one’s home. Now, almost 160 years later, John Ream argues that the home-distilling ban has been beyond Congress’s enumerated powers all along. We disagree with the district court’s conclusion that Ream lacks standing to bring his claims; but we hold that the ban is a necessary and proper means of collecting the federal excise tax on distilled spirits.
6th Cir., 2-1, holds that the ban on home distilling is constitutional as a "necessary and proper means of collecting the federal excise tax on distilled spirits.
Folks, we have our circuit split.
www.opn.ca6.uscourts.gov/opinions.pdf...
Florida's economy works by converting pension funds into real estate speculation & medical debt. I'm impressed it's lasted as long as it has
🚨 NEW JERSEY: Effectuated #ACA enrollment down 11.5% y/y; at least 57,000 have already lost healthcare coverage so far this year:
acasignups.net/26/04/21/new...
The court can dismiss the lawsuit if it "determines that the public interest organization does not have sufficient nexus to the interests involved of the consumer or class to adequately represent those interests."
D.C. Code § 28-3905
One interesting thing about DC's consumer protection law is that non-profits can sue on behalf of the public, without having to name an individual plaintiff.
The Police Benevolent Association is suing the Civilian Complaint Review Board in an effort to return to an era of secret police misconduct records.
The CFPB is set to release its final rule gutting fair lending enforcement tomorrow (it's in the Federal Register's Public Inspection file today). The rule eliminates the use of disparate impact and otherwise implements a November proposal. news.bloomberglaw.com/banking-law/...
⚠️ During the Iran War, the US military has used:
• At least 45% of its Precision Strike Missiles
• At least half of its THAAD missiles
• Almost 50% of its Patriot air defense interceptor missiles
This has created “near-term risk” of running out of ammunition in future conflict.
NEW: In a Harlem foster home, migrant kids say staff threatened to deport their parents if they misbehaved.
I talked to a family of six kids, ages 3-15, who say HHS unlawfully kept them in the foster center, refusing to release them to their parents.
A rather unusual series of events over the past 48 hours has exposed the extent of the CIA’s involvement in counternarcotics operations in Mexico.
A brief timeline to catch you up:
talkingpointsmemo.com/morning-memo...
The FTC is dropping its appeal in the Media Matters case. They've withdrawn the civil investigative demand that is at the heart of the dispute (and presumably also want to avoid a D.C. Circuit decision). storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Klan-run government
This is very informative, and highlights how the seemingly countervailing pressures of centralization and decentralization can and must be made complementary in modern warfare, particularly with drones.
It also reaffirms the advantages of leapfrog development.
The Dutch DPA has launched a consultation on draft guidance about automated decision-making (ADM), including profiling.
Unofficial translation: lnkd.in/e3bn4kp4.
"While the US military says it has turned around over 20 vessels and ‘completely halted’ Iranian trade, Lloyd’s List Intelligence shows a steady flow of shadow fleet traffic in and out of the Middle East Gulf."
NYT INVESTIGATION: As the Trump administration & Congress last year moved to repeal sanctions on Syria, the Qatar-based family that most stood to benefit was privately negotiating a real-estate partnership with Jared Kushner and proposing a Trump golf course in Syria www.nytimes.com/2026/04/19/u...
BREAKING: The so called 'SAVE' Act has FAILED in the Senate and will not become law.
I wrote this piece on how in reality, this is the Voter Restriction Act to prevent women from voting. It is fascism and would have installed Trump as a permanent dictator. www.qasimrashid.com/p/the-save-a...
