Carlos Mendoza, will you please go now? The time has come, the time has come Just go, go, go I don’t care how. David Stearns, will you please go now? The time has come, the time has come Just go, go, go I don’t care how

My god, where do I start? Can’t just be one thing. (Not getting political for this one) The 1986 Mets, Apple Newtons, Almost Home cookies, Perfect Strangers, cheap cable TV, the experience of renting videos, appointment television… And a sense of hope for the future.

Yes! My god I miss Apple Newtons the most. Neither the “apple cinnamon” flavor nor the cheap imitations in dollar stories are adequate.

At the half: Knicks 81, Mets 0.

Every year, the Mets offense winds up being dogshit.

Every time I see Kevin Hassett on TV, this is how I imagine yelling at him. youtu.be/vd8Ngw1ULd8?...

Oh yeah, Sean Dummy, I'm sure the first thing the big oil companies are gonna do is drop the prices "once the strait opens" because they're really interested in "immediate relief" for the American consumer.

Clyburn to Republicans: "Be very careful what you pray for, because what I do believe is that when they finish with the redistricting, there will be the possibility of at least three Democrats getting elected here in South Carolina to the US Congress."

In his first speech as Hungary's prime minister, Péter Magyar called on Hungarian President Tamás Sulyok to resign or be removed: "It's time to leave, Mr. President — while you still can." Sulyok, a Fidesz-backed Orbán ally, sat awkwardly watching in the Hungarian parliament.

Prime Minister Péter Magyar inaugural speech: "The psyche of the whole country was poisoned by politics that was artificially inciting hatred. The Hungarian state is not allowed to do anything like this ever again... This era is, once and for all, finished."

In Donald Trump, Dixie got the president it’s long been waiting for He has championed the confederacy-protecting statues, renaming military bases after their generals, praising Robert E Lee And now-through racist redistricting-the descendants of these traitors are making sure the South rise again

Can the Mets' offense not be such inconsistent shit?

A political cartoon in the Chattanooga Times Free Press

I have been a vocal critic of gerrymandering. But the Supreme Court has unleashed the Republican Party on a gerrymandering spree. Democrats must respond in kind, removing any incentive for Republican states to gerrymander. This isn’t a race to the bottom. It’s a means of avoiding the bottom.

There is no clearer case for the necessity of Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 than how quickly southern states moved to eliminate Black-majority districts and dilute Black power after SCOTUS eroded Section 2. SCOTUS’s reasoning was immediately disproven by reality.

Let me get this straight. Red states can have a governor unilaterally suspend primaries, and GOP legislators draw maps without voter consent. But Virginia runs the most robust democratic process possible, a constitutional amendment via referendum, and the court throws it away?

MacFarlane: People in Virginia voted by the millions. Their voices were heard and now have been silenced. And you want to talk about what starts a political wave in a year like this: a mass of people who think their voices have been silenced. That doesn't stop a wave that fuels one.

Just one thought springs to mind looking at the image... You can always tell a Milford man.

Hungary’s parliament sings “Ode to Joy” — the anthem of Europe — after Péter Magyar is sworn in as prime minister. Hungary is once again a proud member of the European Union.

No problem. Technically, yes. But practically —

We can expect that report around the same time that OJ finds the real killer.

Vientos. Baty. Benge. The kids are starting to come through.

Disgusting. Foul as the Calláis decision is, SCOTUS took great pains to distinguish Milligan from its decision in Calláis. Alabama just can’t stand to see the rest of the Confederacy having fun without it.

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

Black people are giving it these Confederates raw and uncut. This is how it’s gonna be now. You wonder what we’re thinking? It’s this. I believe this is activist Gary Chambers again in Louisiana.

Democrats are going to take the House. The margin may be smaller. It's a kick in the teeth but you have to go out and win elections, not ride waves.

We are getting a lot of messages like this regarding ‘26. Don’t misunderstand me: ‘26 and ‘28 will be akin to the last general election in Britain. They will be votes against. You still have to turn people out, but there is no getting in the way of that. Then the clock will run. It is a short clock.

But the law doesn’t matter to conservative judges. “Heads, Republicans win; tails, Democrats lose.” This is now what passes for justice and law in America.

Tennessee NAACP goes to court to stop "late-decade Congressional redistricting," and the law sure looks to be on their side.

And I’m sure the SCOTUS will fuck them over, too, with their “heads Republicans win, tails Democrats lose” school of legal thought.

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Republicans are... Making everything expensive Making themselves rich Making you poor Making it tougher to vote them out. We have one chance to get it right this November. Redistricting or not, we better not fuck it up.

The Virginia Supreme Court overturned the statewide election approving redistricting. The opinion is so poorly reasoned that it would be comical if it weren't so enraging.

Finally, somebody in legacy media is pushing back.

When the voters approve a map to help Democrats, it's nullified. When Republican legislators approve a map to help Republicans without going to the voters, it's allowed. The system is rigged to help the fascists.

Heads Republicans win, tails Democrats lose. The game is indeed rigged. Against Democrats, not for them.

This statement is about as close as it's going to get to defying the Virginia Supreme Court. In retrospect, the legislature should have tried to jurisdiction strip after it passed the amendment again.

The clearest answer is some kind of Missouri plan. It's how Missouri and Kansas still have sane Supreme Courts. Judges vetted independently and term limited.

Conservative judges in every case: "Heads Republicans win, tails Democrats lose." www.youtube.com/watch?v=t1y5...

All I can think of is the Aldous Huxley quote from Brave New World: "Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored."

I think a lot of people are underestimating just how politically radicalizing this stuff is, when you see what the right is getting away with, including with the blessing of the Supreme Court majority

So when it comes to redistricting, it would seem the courts think... Republicans can redistrict. Democrats cannot.

Saw, but without the white face paint

Can’t help thinking that we’re witnessing the rise of a new Confederacy in the US. The same issues, the same states, descendants of the same people, dragging us all back to the days of slavery.