A reminder while Republicans bitch about Dems finishing the redistricting fight they started: they have full control of gov’t— they can pass a law banning gerrymandering any time they want. They won’t. Republicans aren’t mad gerrymandering exists; they’re mad that they’re not the only ones using it.

Gosh, I guess sending a bunch of Gen Z fascists to fire people willy nilly in the Washington DC area - an area that NoVa depends on economically - had negative consequences for the political party that endorsed that. Too bad, so sad.

NOVA is reeling from the DOGE cuts. I fully expected my neighbors to vote yes and they did. Virginia and California allowed voters to decide. Texas and Florida didn’t.

Every now and then I like to imagine bizarro world NYT headlines on this moment. “Conservatives Once Defended Gerrymandering, Until Virginia”

No! Wait! “Conservative Commentators Defended Gerrymandering, Until It Happened To Them.” The article is just comparing statements exclusively from NoVa pundits with “who lives in a four bedroom home in Arlington” asides.

Sorry you have to learn what it means to deviate off the equilibrium path but it is quite necessary to teach that lesson.

Voters have once again handed President Donald Trump a loss in one of the defining fights of his second administration: the national congressional redistricting race. www.vox.com/politics/486...

We already have "land-based supersonic", it's called "high speed rail". We just have to actually fund it.

Remember, Bluesky is still a little sensitive.

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.

The whining from the worst Republican you know will be quite delicious

From a voter — love to see this!! If YOU have not voted yet — please do! You have until 7pm ET to get in line — and stay in line until you vote. Any Qs? Call the Voter Assistance Hotline: 844-4VA-VOTE. #VoteYesVirginiaToday

I feel like Sun Tzu really missed out on "Invent Pete Hegseth and give him to the enemy"

I agree & Biden's real-world success points to value in having someone who understands how the levers of DC work; which he did better than anyone since LBJ- but also you can accomplish a fuckton of legitimate stuff but the ADHD corporo-media will do their absolute best to ignore it because 'boring!'

I'm in this boat. Was against Biden in the primary, viewed him as a stick in the mud. The level of miracles he was able to make happen turned me into more of an optimist about how government can work and how the Democrats can govern. Even now that has not changed.

Lot of hit dogs hollering in the replies.

Yes but you see, that would require social media leftists to UNDERSTAND HOW ELECTIONS WORK, which they don't. They've been indoctrinated by capitalism to instead see political parties as businesses and candidates as consumer products that they may freely boycott if they find them displeasing.

I personally think that having a labor secretary that wants to kill unions is much worse than that time Biden helped rail workers get what they wanted without not getting paid and pissing off the public but what do I know

FFS some social media leftists called the movie Hoppers "centrist propaganda" because (spoiler alert) the animals DON'T kill all the humans. "There are better solutions to your problems than mass murder" is centrist propaganda to these people. This does not seem sustainable in the long term.

Somehow this is Kamala Harris’ fault, but I haven’t huffed enough of my own farts to figure out how

I've said it before and I'll keep saying it until it stops being true: way too many social media leftists aren't actually anti-genocide, they just think the wrong people are being killed.

They don't care about being complicit, all they care about is whether or not they FEEL complicit.

when my dad deployed anywhere overseas, he always had to get a **battery** of vaccinations.

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People attending the WHCD like Jake Tapper and Jonathan Karl have made enormous sums of money off of Trump books or books slagging Democrats. He is their meal ticket.

I am willing to bet Feige is just as pissed at this as we are and shows that Feige isn't all powerful in that company as people try to act he is

anti-trans, anti-gmo, anti-vax, anti technology especially with regard to health are generally just eugenicists in denial, angry at those who would play god by not letting the weak die or others improve their material conditions.

The appeal to "nature" is the siren song of fascism. It is the insidious lie of the so-called "transcendent" order that seeks to place humanity in its demented thrall, the idea that our desire and need to shape our world and our selves, which itself springs from nature, is somehow not "nature"

16 years ago, Republicans gerrymandered Virginia, taking 8 out of 11 seats in the House of Representatives. Tomorrow, Virginia voters will have the chance to combat Trump's gerrymandering efforts by voting YES on the referendum.

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like i said earlier, i think we really underestimate politically distorting effects of 1. ron paul libertarianism being dead 2. it being uncool to publicly identify as a republican

Bouie’s theory of Trump as fetish onto which the median voter (incredibly derogatory) can project their insatiable desire to consume shit remains undefeated

Too many of our kids are getting killed, because of thoughtless assholes like Republican Speaker of the House Mike Johnson. This mass shooting today happened in his own district. He said “thoughts and prayers” but did nothing AGAIN. Remember this when we can take back the House in November.

Increasingly impossible to exist at all without a tech company claiming control or ownership over you, your identity, and/or any information about you. And, no, "just stay offline" isn't really a solution. We've all but made living without using the internet impossible. We need a better compact.

Government Workers Say They’re Getting Inundated With Religion “This has never happened before,” one government employee tells WIRED. “I have never gotten a message like this from anyone.”

Went to an Autopsy Club meeting yesterday evening It was ‘Open Mike Night’

This graphic is a mess. Let’s clean it up. Opposition infographics are great for outrage, terrible for legal reality. Here’s what’s actually true about Xavier Becerra’s record: 🧵

No left-aligned advocate anywhere can say anything silly or else the Dem Party must bow & scrape & apologize & promise to be more masculine going forward. The president can make a video of himself shitting on Americans from a plane & the GOP will never be asked about it. Those are just the rules.

Fucking hell. Fake maga influencers flooding social media. I guess cuz so many of the real ones are jumping ship? (gift article)

Eryn smacked this post so hard, it's orbiting the moon like Artemis. 😂

I'm on high-speed internet Obama gave us, on insurance Obama & a Dem Congress made sure I couldn't be kicked off of, in a house bought w/a USDA loan Clinton streamlined for me, by a river myDem senator guaranteed water rights for farmers from, watching farms go up for sale under Trump admin failures

The outrage was never about standards, it was about who.

Yikes! Always something… We better wake up to what’s happening online. The right isn’t just posting anymore; they’re scaling influence with AI. 📌 AI-generated pro-Trump “influencers” are surging on social media and are starting to shape what people see and believe.

noticing a theme

Amazing that in the national divorce the libs are getting the NFL, butter and cooking oil, being attracted to adult women, standup comedy, Bud Light, and now also Catholicism

NEWS: Kash Patel’s days may be numbered as those in the White House are concerned with the alcoholism allegations. Trump convenes emergency situation room meeting on the war. The war is set to restart in a matter of days. Sean Hannity renounces Catholicism.

I hate this framing, Trump is doing a crime or a horrible offense against our norms, and people feel the need to throw in a poke at Democrats for some reason? like? why?

For which party? Come on, I can't be the only one who thought it. Fetterman is going to serve as a cautionary tale against "voting for policy" for decades to come. You cannot vote "for policy" in America because you cannot remove anyone from Congress who lied to you about that policy.

The Strait of Hormuz is open but only for captains who sail up and down the east coast of Cinnabar Island and find (but don't catch) Missingno.