Passing the legislature twice with an election in between and then also passing a referendum is common but on the more difficult end of state constitutional amendment methods.

I wish every Republican a very ground under the heel of an angry abigail spanberger

🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉 Fuck these people.

“We are ruled out of Fairfax County and there’s nothing we can do about it” is a heck of a slogan, I love that for the GOP. Sucks to suck.

REDISTRICT EVERYTHING ESCALATE TO DE-ESCALATE GERRYMANDER EVERY SINGLE STATE IMMEDIATELY CREATE A DELICATE BALANCE OF TERROR NOW RESTORE DETTERENCE

The implicit media consensus is that urban voters should not be able to overrule rural voters, but that rural voters should be able to overrule urban voters, an assumption so axiomatic and unquestionable that nobody even understands they're making it.

“enhanced interrogation” instead of torture walked so “detention centers” instead of concentration camps could run.

Conservatives have been trained for decades to think of Constitutions not as agreed-upon rules for fair governance, but as a series of cheat codes and loopholes that let them hold power even when the voters want to throw them out. They won't accept anything less than permanent domination of us.

it is very funny how these people are so accustomed to essentially bullying democratic politicians that they meltdown when met with appropriate pushback. in any case, the process to amend the virginia constitution has multiple stages where, at any point, an amendment can be defeated.

I think if you lie to sell a product on TikTok marketplace it should be a 30 year mandatory minimum

TAke a look, y'all:

the youth soccer generation are trans politicians now and I, for one, am here for it.

We’ve now reached the part of the referendum where everyone lines up, mutters “goodgamegoodgamegoodgamegoodgame“ a bunch of times with a series of low fives - the winning Yes side slightly more enthusiastic about it- and then they bring out baggies of oranges and Capri Suns for the campaign workers.

The rights of liberalism belongs only to liberals

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.

as it becomes clear that Yes has won in VA and gerrymandering will pass, a message to Republican voters: you brought this on yourselves you convinced the most fairness-obsessed, That Wouldn’t Be Fair-minded voters in the country to affirmatively vote to put you in the dumpster you earned this

that time Elissa Slotkin scared that tracker to actual death by knowing his dog's name has now officially been surpassed as the coldest thing a Democratic former spy has done in politics

BlueSky fix your pictures so I can tag all the Virginia Republicans with a picture of a McDonald's job application

Not sure it shows the limits when the referendum is on track to pass, expanding the power of the party exercising *partisan* maximalism. I think it shows that you need to calibrate it.

bluesky or ‘the commons’ which I’m sure many Americans frequent

me before the sex polen kicks in

Basically if someone voted for Jay Jones last year, they would vote Yes They are single issue voters on Trump Virginia GOP did decent job trying to make it referendum on the maps But ultimately just came down to national environment

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A democracy that does not defend itself against fascists by whatever means necessary, including its own temporary suspension, is a democracy that dies.

has anybody plugged the cc leaked code clean room into some other models yet, are they any good? if I have to stop using cc (I am not paying anthropic $200/mo) I'd like to figure out my options

arlington voters when governor spook does a ballot initiative:

I love that every 72 hours or so Donald Trump tries to just quit the war in Iran

In the trenches at verdun: someday this will look silly and antiquated

"nooo!! no kings is useless bc it doesn't burn down a walmart, the cops are fine with it" The cops burning operational capabilities on no kings:

the core conviction of the modern right is that it not only should be, but already is, illegal to be woke

i was like what the hell why would this be the message u subscribe on till i searched it

if this polling result surprises you, i am issuing emergency guidance for you to touch grass immediately

so link payments the company that shows up in all the ecommerce checkouts is either owned by palantir or shoving all it's data into palantir right?

This is such sickening perfidy.

Media needs to stop with "critics say" and just quote the actual language of the bill. HB 249 creates a new category of "seminudity" which can be used to arrest women who aren't nude, but are wearing clothing — leggings, t-shirts without bras — that religious groups feel is too provocative.

I’m gadgetmaxxing

The conservative intelligentsia is just wildly, cartoonistly racist, and the fact that this gets less elite pushback from the prestige media/commentariat than "woke" does is such a damning indictment of our whole society.

Christ, stop to consider a moment *why* Carlson is saying this! It's because he considers Trump a traitor to the far-right cause!

Surely it would be cheaper (and way more honest) just to have Deadpool explain the MCU’s and Disney’s 2020s travails and the resulting narrative retcons directly to the audience, as a one-shot, three-minute prologue to Avengers Doomsday.

The Onion thinks this is satire, but it's not. In a survey published in July 2025, the Canadian firm Leger revealed that 47% of Republicans would still support Donald Trump even if he "was officially implicated in Jeffrey Epstein's sex trafficking activities" (see: leger360.com/trump-epstei...)

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lmao rare to see someone so easily baited in a congressional hearing, but RFK jr is a sucker