i really have to bring my A-game with strahdjammer to live up to all this art 😱

do any religious texts mention golden idols anywhere

Listen, this is tit for tat until a national gerrymandering ban, and R legislatures in FL and OH already did this exact tit to get around their courts so the optimal next step appears to be tat

yes. change the statute on which this decision turned and redistrict according to the legitimacy conferred by the people of the state

virginia voters should call their delegates and senators and demand that they ignore this illegitimate ruling

It's just so fucking depressing all the time

Okay, all in one place now: I explain with only a few expletives why the Virginia Supreme Court’s redistricting ruling is trash and what can and can’t be done about it open.substack.com/pub/statehou...

The big divide in today’s Democratic Party is not liberal-progressive or centrist-leftist. It’s fight-acquiesce.

FWIW: This is essentially John Roberts’s “reasoning” in Skrmetti, so, yeah, don’t laugh too hard.

It appears that Democrats are bound by one set of rules while Republicans play by another, and Republican-appointed judges have repeatedly put their collective thumb on the scale of elections to make sure their party prevails.

This administration ended work from home policies that caused many federal employees who can't afford DC price to leave government. In the meantime, Cabinet Secretaries treat their jobs like a side hustle to their brand building.

All for an opinion that hinges entirely on these fascist fucks pretending that they suddenly care so very much about the institution of early voting, in an off-year state legislative election no less

As venues are struggling to sell tickets, I bet they appreciate the "hope no one gets blown up in the parking lot" message.

The dissenting justices clearly calling out the majority's hackery: "Under the plain language of the statute, early voting begins 'on the forty-fifth day +prior to any election+ and shall continue until 5:00 p.m. on the Saturday +immediately preceding the election+'” (yes, they added the emphasis)

We’re in the “break glass in case of emergency” moment for American democracy. Democrats can create 22 new blue US House seats by 2028 by redrawing maps in: – New York – Colorado – Maryland – Oregon – Wisconsin – Minnesota – Pennsylvania Time to take action.

that the virginia supreme court allowed the referendum to go forward - they could have stopped it - and then ruled this way really gives up the game the only difference between now and then is that the we know the result and they didn't like it

THIS VIRGINIA RULING IS BULLSHIT ....and I explain exactly why here statehouseaction.substack.com/p/may-dazed

State statutes permitting early voting are dependent on the specific definition of "election." Four Virginia Supreme Court justices absolutely decided to engage in partisan hackery in a way I've never seen before in the Commonwealth.

insane every blue state in the country needs to pack their own state Supreme Court immediately if the unelected law wizards want to make donald trump a god-king with a 30% approval rating their power must be broken at every level

Virginia Supreme court has thrown out the voter-passed redistricting referendum, restoring the GOP's seats - the day after Tennessee legislators steamrolled Dems to eliminate the last Dem seat vacourts.gov/static/opini...

America, 2026— 🚫 Redistricting because it's the will of voters ✅ Redistricting to suppress Black votes

I tried to warn everyone what the Roberts Court was about almost ten years ago www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Me: Which voters, exactly? Con: Oh, you know the ones

I need David Attenborough to narrate a video of himself napping at 100

"The Switch is so old," you all said. "I need better graphics," you demanded. "Wah wah," you cried. And now, you sit here before Slippy Toad, the slippiest he's ever been, slippier than a fucking banana peel under a kart wheel, all thanks to the raw power of the Nintendo Switch 2—and you reject him?

Badly losing a war he started for no reason and his public comms strategy is to jam action figures together to make them fight and kiss

A whole Washington Post oped hitting AOC for daring to criticize the robber barons. It’s like Bezos and the Post are trying to make her president.

this photo is going to be in a history book someday and I suspect only one of them knows it

Look at the US, where the Republicans were first to spot that the old “Neoliberalism, engine of freedom and prosperity” stuff was not going to fly any more, so they leaned hard into racism and crushing enemies. Leaving the Dems happily holding the bag for a fucked and obviously corrupt system.

as per melissa's thread, it is really important to understand that a major goal of this administration is the resegregation of key institutions of american society

Multiple women serving sentences for nonviolent crimes at the minimum security prison where Ghislaine Maxwell is now serving time were punished for speaking to reporters about the special treatment Maxwell receives. At least two women were transferred to higher security facilities as punishment.

Trump threatened to nuke Iran during the same press event where he called a woman reporter "baby" and a "bitch" and we'll all just supposed to continue on tomorrow as though any of this insanity is normal or acceptable

You do not hate the DOGE people enough. Boys with toys breaking things they were too arrogant and lazy to understand.

And I implore everyone on BlueSky and beyond to understand the FBI’s refusal to investigate—at all—Renee Good’s death should be understood as racialized mechanism to police white allies of Black and Brown people. You have to see a name a Redeemer Project.

"The Government cannot escape liability for DOGE’s work by scapegoating ChatGPT." A US judge slammed DOGE's use of AI in a decision today blocking the termination of $100M in humanities grants, finding DOGE lacked authority and unlawfully based decisions on race and viewpoint buff.ly/Qw0qcDH

was worried about what i’d do if i couldn’t get my abortifacients in the mail but folks god loves to open a window

NEW: Trump is 0-2 on tariffs after the US trade court today declared his new 10% global tariffs under Section 122 unlawful. BUT the court issued a narrower injunction for the two companies that sued + Washington state, so TBD what's next for other importers buff.ly/mT9AO4c Ruling: buff.ly/4ozbpwr

anagrams for "Kash Patel" include "Leak Paths"

whoever leaked that he’s panicking about leaks is the funniest person in the government

spider-klan, spider-klan faked a cry cause he killed a man spins a web full of lies shouldn't say that i hope

dangerously beautiful outside today; warning it may make you feel hope

Excited to live in a country where you can mail someone a handgun but not an abortion pill

This headline from Justice Roberts and the red banner of what Tennessee just did to Memphis after the SCOTUS gutted the Voting Rights Act..

This is going to be met with a bunch of "that will never hold up in court" responses. Ok. So do it anyway. Force this administration to make its preposterous masking arguments in front of federal judges. Make them defend secret police on the record. Go on the offensive.

One reason Republicans are banning books and classes on race is because reading even one book about Jim Crow or Reconstruction makes it clear that they are hoping to reinstate segregation.

The bumbling WHCD shooter story really fell out of the zeitgeist quickly. Theories why: - Rs opportunistically and incoherently made it about The Ballroom (which is unpopular) - Ds don't even say "this is why we need gun control" anymore bc Rs and SCOTUS won't allow it. So, no partisan fight

Republicans would have done this redistricting anyway, but the fact that it screws one of the guys they kicked out of the lege in 2023, only for the voters to send him right back, probably gives them an extra frisson of excitement.

the basic logic of plessy — that the constitution has no bearing on social inequality — undergirds every roberts court ruling on the state’s ability to deal with the effects of racism from parents involved to calais.

what's great about this photo is it captures a truism of life in 2026: everything's very expensive and deeply concerning with no real path toward it getting better but also the memes are usually pretty good