This, among other reasons, is why VA Dems can’t throw up their hands and wait til next year. Dems everywhere have tragically underweighted the importance of insisting on one set of rules for years. But now the GOP is enforcing double standards at gun point. Accept that passively, and it’s all over.

So Texas, Florida, Missouri, North Carolina, and Tennessee can redraw districts without a referendum and that stands, but when Virginia lets voters decide directly at the ballot box, it gets overturned?

I’ll vote for whichever 2028 candidate promises reconstruction 2.0 at this point

A Georgia couple who terrorized a Black family at a child's birthday party with Confederate flags, racial slurs, guns, and death threats were sentenced for a hate crime. Joe Torres got 20 years; Kyla Norton got 15.

It’s telling that Alabama took 14 years to implement Brown (you MUST desegregate) and < 14 days to implement Callais (you CAN eliminate Black districts if you call them Democratic, but you don’t HAVE to).

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

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

Spanberger should pull a DeSantis and ram through the map. If Republicans can do it, why not the rest of us?

Pope #Leo: - pumps his own gas - climbs ladders and prunes trees (which I do have issue with given his age, though he looks in incredible health, but still) - talks to his brother every day - is tech support for his family from Rome - plays Words with Friends and watches Jeopardy BEST POPE EVER

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

Now that three in five (!) Americans believe Trump is mentally unfit to be president, are the same libs/lefties who *howled* about Dem party and WH staffers saddling us with infirm Biden going to unleash same fury at Trump? Of. Course. Not. The left always eats its own.

I think the fact that Iran apparently blew the shit out of our expensively defended Gulf bases and the regime that refused to embed journos for the first time in our history covered that up should be a much bigger story.

If Weiss were a liberal trying to skew CBS leftward the entire RW universe from Trump downward would be screaming this is what happens when a woman (lesbian no less!) is given a position bc of DEI and affirmative action. Only when conservatives are hired beyond their competence is it OK.

RJK junior league revived measles and now hantavirus by firing all the CDC’s cruise ship inspectors (see below). If we give MAHA moron RFK two more years… he’ll find a way to bring back the Spanish flu and the bubonic plague! www.cbsnews.com/news/cdc-cru...

Unearthed reports reveal that RFK Jr. fired every full-time CDC cruise ship sanitation inspector ahead of the Hantavirus cruise ship outbreak. www.cbsnews.com/news/cdc-cru...

Wait, so farmers are rich and love tax cuts and use slave labor and own gas-guzzling trucks? But still are a protected class that can *never* be criticized because white + farmer/rural is a privileged class scared liberals bend over backwards to praise? Somebody should write a book about this…

"The right never lost their faith that if they were patient and determined enough, the 1960s could be undone — and maybe some of the 1860s too. They knew that even after a statue of a slaveholding traitor is torn down, defeat is not permanent. In fact, that statue may *literally* be raised back up."

If you live in or near Charlottesville I’ll be on a panel at the Pulaski Institution’s “For Good” conference along with @jamellebouie.net tmmrw morning, May8, at 10am at UVA’s St. Paul Memorial Church. (free, but registration required) www.pulaskiinstitution.org/events/for-g...

Trump wasn’t satisfied with turning our European allies against us, so now he’s focusing on offending our Middle East allies. Good job, 🍊 🤡

WADR, sir, Dems lost a net of 1K seats (Congress, governors, state legislators) during your 8 years. Maybe stop trafficking in RW talking points is step 1 to recovery.

Supreme Court rules gaslighting isn’t gaslighting

This is how we destroy ourselves: wrecking the equivalent of the earth’s HVAC unit. Share with your climate skeptic friends and family who believe the planet is too powerful for us to ruin it.

There are 59 Republican senators: the 53 elected to the Senate and the six wearing black robes a block away. Or 60, if you count the broken, oatmeal-brained Fetterman.

Trump is temporary. The damage he’s doing is permanent.

Trump is not “tough on crime” — he shifts priorities away from areas where law enforcement have expertise — like child sex trafficking and white collar crimes — to immigration. He makes us less safe from his wealthy predator friends

Can reporters stop using the word deal? It’s an agreement, a settlement, a treaty, an understanding, an MOU etc. Using the word deal is accepting his simple-minded TV game-show framing and contributes to the bogus drama he is trying to create.

New Marist poll has Dems leading by 10 points among overall voters in the generic House ballot matchup, and by 12 points among independents.

I have 5 Sabres fans in my life, and none of them like to communicate during games bc they are so superstitious and shell-shocked they’re petrified to assume, say, that a 2-goal lead at home after two periods is safe. Understandable. But still: They need group therapy.

Oh, so you mean the US Government has been lying to us about the cost of the war and the "total victory", etc.? Who would have guessed. 🙄

* U.S. AIRLINES SPENT $5 BILLION ON FUEL IN MARCH, UP 56% OVER PRIOR MONTH -- USDOT @reuters.com #$JETS

I discussed my latest piece for @atrupar.com at Public Notice, “The Vanity Presidency,” with @newrepublic.com @gregsargent.bsky.social yesterday. Audio here: newrepublic.com/article/2099...

Trump is rooting against Ukraine because that’s what Russian-back toadies like him, and the conservative media figures also on Putin’s payroll, do.

Translation: “Epic Fury is an epic failure so we’re declaring a separate operation to open a strait that was open before the failure of our other operation that we now hope you will join us in pretending never happened.”

The results in Indiana are good news bc they hitch Republican officials to Trump/MAGA within the party…and Trump is an anchor because, outside third of the country that is both MAGA and still supports him, he has almost zero support. GOP can’t get nominated without him but now saddled with him.

Mark Zuckerberg built a massive data center in Georgia just hundreds of yards from people’s homes. Now the water pressure is gone. Sinks don’t run. Toilets won’t refill. Homes shake nonstop. Power outages are routine.

If only for optics, you’d think GOP Congress would propose, say, $924m for the ballroom rather than the easily-repeated $1b. Which means either they’re (a) morons; (b) proposed that amount because orange daddy made them and they’re sniveling cowards; or (c) both. Submit your answer below.

NBC's CEO is MAGA CBS's news boss is MAGA The NYT is owned by a MAGA billionaire The LA Times owned by a MAGA billionaire. The WSJ is owned by Murdoch WaPo is owned by Besoz

Some ~personal news~

A leading expert on sick people pontificates about sick people:

Star Wars hit screens when I was 10. Formative moment. So I guess I can die now because Luke started following me—yesterday, no less, on May 4!

Given how much Trump relates to, understands, and cares about farmers, these farm failures on his watch are just shocking—shocking! www.nytimes.com/2026/05/03/u...

This is 100 pct correct:

If Mr. MAHA wants Americans to stop taking antidepressants his most effective policy option is resignation. That would immediately make a whole lot of people feel happier—and healthier.

And that's just based on the unredacted documents they've released. There are probably even more.

Mayor Mamdani Is Not Going To The Met,Instead He's Spotlighting Those Who Sustain New Yorks Fashion! Mamdani Says "The REAL Glamour,Are Garment Workers, Laborers,Union Organizers And The Delivery Drivers" end quote!

A Pulitzer for Julie K. Brown. Richly deserved, and overdue!

For West coasters having first cup of coffee at their desks, good morning and here’s my latest piece for @atrupar.com Public Notice—on Trump’s “vanity presidency.” Read, share, forward, comment! open.substack.com/pub/aaronrup...

My latest piece for @atrupar.com Public Notice—about the Vanity Presidency—is now out. Please read, share: open.substack.com/pub/aaronrup...

Trump has called the following people “Low IQ” in Truth Social posts over the past year: Hakeem Jeffries Candace Owens Newsom KBJ Jasmine Crockett Ilhan Omar Rashida Tlaib Tim Walz Kamala Harris AOC Letitia James R. DeNiro Joy Reid Al Sharpton Marge Greene Brandon Johnson Liz Cheney Donna Brazile

"Just as Hitler’s failures led him to resent the German people more strongly and destructively, expect Trump’s growing frustration to result in ever more nihilistic and destructive actions as his term moves toward its end." How to compare Trump/Hitler, from @davidrlurie.com at @atrupar.com's place: