Gas prices the highest in years amid a disastrous war and the leader of the opposition party is busy thanking the White House for posting grainy "UFO" pics 👍

I mean, I think there’s a high likelihood they’re building that “ballroom” to serve as a bunker for operations if violence breaks out when they refuse to handover power. So it’s on their minds because it is their fear.

Yup.

AOC on possibly running for the Senate or President: They assume my ambition is a title or a seat. My ambition is way bigger than that. My ambition is to change this country. Presidents come and go, elected officials come and go, single payer healthcare is forever.

Mayor Zohran Mamdani drew a hard line. He signed an executive order barring ICE from NYC property — schools, hospitals, shelters, parking lots - without a judicial warrant. Sanctuary protections strengthened. Immigrant rights defended. Federal overreach blocked. NYC stood up.🙌🏼🙌🏼

Proud to have the endorsement of Assemblymember Blanca Rubio and to stand alongside her in advocating for Californians. We are united in our belief that children, immigrant communities, and vulnerable people deserve safety, stability, and opportunity.

The gold, 22-foot Donald Trump statue definitely isn’t a false idol. You can tell because Trump’s pastor friend said of the new statue at his Doral golf course, “Let me be clear: this is not a golden calf.”

God: in my book I created the golden calf as a cautionary tale American evangelical pastors: let me be clear, this is not the golden calf from the book Don't Worship The Golden Calf

And while New Jersey and New York couldn’t have done much by 2026, it’s still striking to watch Dems there respond to last week’s ruling promising a response, as if it wasn’t clear since at the latest on October.

And how unready Dems were, for that matter: schemes like California and Virginia sprang up in response to Texas, quite late for Virginia. But it was clear what was going to happen with Callais in June 2025, as soon SCOTUS punted on the prior hearing and ordered expanded one.

Voting rights organizations across the South Friday pledged to oppose the GOP’s efforts to rig congressional maps in its favor after the Supreme Court gutted a key part of the Voting Rights Act (VRA) last week. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

here we go again, the new york times calling an increase of 115k jobs under Trump "solid" while it called similar or considerably bigger gains under Biden "disappointing" or "weak"

The three dissenting justices have the goods: "...today the majority has broadened the meaning of the word 'election,' as used in the Virginia Constitution, to include the early voting period. This is in direct conflict with how both Virginia and federal law define an election."

One must fully understand that the Virginia Supreme Court ruling is not simply overruling the voters based on a technicality--it is overruling the voters on a technicality THAT THEY LITERALLY JUST INVENTED FOR THIS PURPOSE AND EXISTS NOWHERE ELSE IN VIRGINIA OR FEDERAL LAW

"I invite you to join me in prioritizing family" - Melania Trump, in her "Mothers are America's strength" op-ed. 🙄

SEN. AKBARI: “HISTORY IS WATCHING.” Sen. Akbari reminded Senate Republicans majority-Black Memphis is sacred civil rights movement ground — they voted to strip representation from the city and dilute it with white power anyway. @tnsenatedems.bsky.social Full: www.instagram.com/reel/DYFzyvL...

🧵 After the Virginia Supreme Court struck down the state’s voter-approved map and SCOTUS gutted the Voting Rights Act, Republicans now appear poised to emerge with an advantage in Trump’s gerrymandering war. Here’s where things stand👇

"In a normal world, having an outside group pop up over & over to cry about how hard white men have it wouldn't be enough to spark investigations, but here we are. And since the process is confidential, we have no idea how many companies the govt is targeting based on letters from Miller’s law firm"

The party of traditional values.

wow -- Trump appears to call Rachel Scott a "bitch" as he finishes taking questions from reporters

In the face of a fascist takeover of our country & the reinstatement of Jim Crow-era anti-black voting rights discrimination, Spanberger accepting the Court’s illegitimate ruling against Virginia voters is cowardice & collaboration. There is only one proper response that protects our democracy:

BREAKING: A South Carolina House subcommittee voted 3-2 to advance a bill that would delay the state’s ongoing primary to August for lawmakers to potentially pass a new GOP gerrymander before the midterms. A redraw could dismantle the state’s lone blue district, represented by Rep. Jim Clyburn.

The White House released a new “United States Counterterrorism Strategy." The document does not mention far-right violence at all. Instead, it will prioritize the “neutralization” of groups it considers “anti-American, radically pro-transgender, and anarchist.”

Why THE F do you "respect the decision" of this Supreme Court that invalidated the will of the people? WHY, Democrat Don Scott, you feckless, pathetic, weak somnambulist?

You can't "earn" a billion dollars and none of their examples did. Michael Jordan earned $93m playing basketball. He's worth $3.5b today because of our meticulously-engineered legal, economic, and tax structures that prioritize accumulated capital and property over everything else.

The Bezos Post is essentially becoming Jeff Bezos’ personal blog to whine about people who criticize the idle rich like him. A hit dog will holler. Imagine arguing that hoarding billions of dollars is the peak of “human potential” with a straight face.

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

This year is shaping up to be the most expensive midterm election ever, and many billionaires have already given tens of millions of dollars each.

VA AG Jay Jones: "My team is carefully reviewing this unprecedented order and we are evaluating every legal pathway forward to defend the will of the people and protect the integrity of Virginia’s elections."

🔥 Dnipro Osint: 1. Yaroslavl Oil Refinery. AVT-3 unit was hit. 2. Lukoil-Permnefteorgsintez refinery in Perm. Fire recorded at the AVT-5 unit. 3. Yesterday's attack. 2 tanks and AVT-2 installation were damaged. 30–50% of the plant's primary oil refining capacity was disabled.

This. Create new legal pathways. Make up rules. Interpret the law and justify it and sell it and do it. Do it anyway.

The best argument re: Virginia decision I’ve heard. Also, even when Democrats win, we lose, because we haven’t been rigging the game like Republicans.

whoa

Virginia AG Jay Jones: "My team is carefully reviewing this unprecedented order and we are evaluating every legal pathway forward to defend the will of the people and protect the integrity of Virginia's elections."

There was literally a period when I had to calculate if I was fast enough to not only sprint away from a crowd of Nazis but to be out of sight when I got round the corner so they would not know where I lived. That was the reality of the time. "Be strong, or be quick." Those were the options.

BREAKING: The Alabama Senate voted to approve a GOP gerrymandering plan designed to strip Black voters of political representation. The vote comes as Alabamians have already begun casting their ballots in the state’s primaries. The bill now heads to Gov. Kay Ivey (R) for a signature.

⚠️ Tennessee has changed state law to adopt a new aggressive gerrymander that dilutes the state’s only Black-majority district. Although the map is expected to be swiftly signed into law by Gov. Bill Lee, here are the legal challenges the map could face:

When they say the quiet part out loud.

And then read @ariberman.bsky.social and @pemalevy.bsky.social's piece that gets into all of the other terrible things that can be laid at John Roberts feet: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

So, SCOTUS says Red states can ignore the will of the people and gerrymander their districts 9-0 in favor of MAGA But VA Supreme Court says Blue states cannot put the vote to the will of the people and follow through on the people's will to redistrict. Beyond Absurd. 2/2

There it is

He means white people.

Absolutely outrageous Virginia Supreme Court invalidated redistricting referendum approved by the voters when voters haven’t been able to weigh in on a single gerrymander passed in red states

The 🚨 alarmists 🚨 have 🚨 yet 🚨 to 🚨 be 🚨 wrong 🚨

The rules of redistricting are simple: Republicans are free to do whatever they want, and Democrats are also free to do whatever Republicans want.

Based on this Virginia ruling, the Tennessee and Florida maps should both also be shot down. If not, Virginia should just pull a Tennessee and change the rules to ram it though the legislature. 🤷‍♂️

How the fuck does the GOP explain this? www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

"In Trump’s world, the only civil rights worth protecting are those of aggrieved white men. The problem is that while there is no shortage of angry white guys, there’s nothing to investigate unless they have suffered some sort of harm. Enter Stephen Miller's firm, America First Legal."

The Virginia supreme court's ruling today was 4-3, a reminder of the importance of state supreme court justices. Two seats on the Georgia supreme court are at stake in... 11 days. boltsmag.org/georgia-supr...