The Craft was released on this day 30 years ago.

Reminder that Florida voters passed a Constitutional amendment in 2010 banning gerrymandering with 62% of the vote and the Florida GOP just stole the courts and ignored it. By contrast retaliatory gerrymanders in CA and VA passed with the approval of voters. Yet media portrays them as equivalent.

Sir! Your clever plan to say we’ll guide ships through the Strait of Hormuz but can’t explain how except that it won’t involve military escorts and it’s called Project Freedom—very strong, we all agree—has been countered by Iran’s dastardly “nuh uh.” Ships won’t sail, oil price won’t drop. What now?

Good example of how stupid the conservative intellectual interpretation of 20th century US history is; in the 1960s there was a beautiful, brave, heroic movement to end racism which completely succeeded by 1965, at which point the activists all instantly became race-communists and welfare queens.

Democrats just flipped Pearland, Texas. Quentin Wiltz has defeated Republican Tony Carbone in the mayoral race — turning a red seat blue.

thank you sam alito for ending the unconstitutional racial discrimination against white conservatives and allowing them to obliterate federal representation for as many black people as they can manage, as the reconstruction congress intended

Donald Trump was already president once. He illegally imposed a bunch of tariffs, and the predictable retaliatory tariffs hit US agriculture hard. Billions of dollars worth of US crops rotted in storage, as foreign competitors (eg in Argentina) picked up the business. This happened. Brad was there.

Deep contempt for the idea that they’re public servants beholden to law and public, and need to get anyone else on board with anything + really thought the war would quick and easy, so they’d blow past the naysayers, critics, and experts, then get widespread praise afterwards = very dumb failing war

Ashley Padilla is the MVP of the season. I honestly didn’t see this coming after what I thought was an underwhelming debut year. #SNL

Republicans are changing the map despite it being very very close to the midterms. They will do anything they possibly can to avoid free elections

Imagine explaining a “movie of the week” to a Gen Z 👴🏾

once again the unbelievable arrogance of roberts et al is going to genuinely destructive effects on the entire country

The average price of a gallon of gas hit $4.39 this morning — up 9¢ in just 24 hours, and 47% higher before the Iran war.

President Trump signed a bill to fund agencies under DHS other than ICE and parts of CBP. www.notus.org/congress/hou...

I see we're back to "hey you people I've been denigrating, threatening, and vowing to never help, come save me from the problem I caused." I don't expect it to work this time either.

One of the most heavily anticipated candidates drops out after badly trailing in the primary polls.

No sugar-coating the Court’s decision today. Real talk. @allinwithchris.bsky.social

i was told by john roberts and sam alito that racism is over so i won't worry about white republicans in the south jumping over themselves to end black political representation wherever they can

A very important point: In just *three* weeks, Georgia will host two elections for its GOP-dominated state Supreme Court. Democrats have two unusually strong candidates running, and if they win, it would be a major step toward cracking down on gerrymandering.

If Trump were simply lying, trying to make people think he's doing better than he actually is, that'd be bad. But this is decently worse. The lying is the strategy. As if he can get the Ukrainians or Iranians to forfeit sovereignty if only he pretends enough that they have to. That's the whole plan.

Easy to dismiss such reality-inverting BS, but it's the president's strategy for the world's two most systemically impactful wars (Ukraine and Iran): Say the side he wants to lose has been totally defeated, hope that manifests it into being, or at least gets the BS into public narratives for a bit.

They indicted a guy yesterday for posting seashells on a beach arranged in numbers

The Voting Rights Act is essentially dead and it’s quite possible that we will, like when a similar SCOTUS gutted civil rights at the fall of Reconstruction, see a disappearance of much of the Black congressional representation, especially in the most heavily Black states, which are in the South.

I say it again and again: Because we don’t learn the real history of this country, we do not understand what this country is capable of. After 1870, 22 Black men served in Congress. By 1901, because of racist SCOTUS rulings, electoral coups and election cheating and violence, there were none.

"I dissent because Congress elected otherwise. I dissent because the Court betrays its duty to faithfully implement the great statute Congress wrote. I dissent because the Court’s decision will set back the foundational right Congress granted of racial equality in electoral opportunity. I dissent."

“Two Kings” - an official post of the White House.

James Talarico leads both Cornyn and Paxton, per new Texas Public Opinion Research poll.

Laura Dern has joined the cast of ‘The White Lotus’ Season 4, Deadline reports.

Claiming that America’s top national security priority is building the president a special ballroom to host parties would be ridiculous in normal times. It is decadent farce in the midst of a geopolitically significant war, one the president started and is losing. Yet said with a straight face.

TRUMP: I'm not a rapist. I didn't rape anybody O'DONNELL: Oh, you think he was referring to you?

yeah my thought when i hear that is "tell this to the president and his goons"

Senile plutocrat flanked by goggle eyed waste case fbi chief maunders through incoherent presser about incoherent episode - live from DC it’s Saturday night.

If you or someone you know is not the victim of gun violence on any given day in this country… you are simply lucky.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Officer shot in bullet-resistant vest at correspondents' dinner but is expected to be OK, law enforcement official says.

The story of the Iran war is that Trump lost it in the first days. Everything since has been trying to deny that cardinal fact. You can see this by the fact that everything happening since has been trying to break free Iran’s hold on the strait, something it didn’t have before the war.

The White House says real estate investors Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff will go to Pakistan on Saturday for Iran negotiations. JD Vance and Marco Rubio are not going.

The president's son, who was never involved in this industry before his father became president, should not be getting contracts from the Pentagon. This is absurd corruption that Republicans in congress will say nothing about and do no oversight. bsky.app/profile/atru...

Nah. Next year is when we get worsened democratic backsliding via even more explicit rejection of the legislature's constitutional authority, and probably more of the judiciary's too, with defiance of subpoenas and oversight, and greater usurpation of Art. 1 powers. The coup attempt is for 2028-29.

ATLANTA (AP) — US Rep. David Scott, a Georgia Democrat seeking his 13th term in Congress, has died at age 80.

The U.S. is still at war with Iran. A blockade is an act of war. The U.S. Navy has fired on a ship to enforce it. The bombing campaign is over (for now?) but the war very much is not.

So much false equivalence in media on gerrymandering in Texas vs California & Virginia. California and Virginia maps approved by the voters. That's a huge difference not enough people pointing out

When Trump began pressuring Texas and other red states to re-gerrymander their maps, the immediate consensus was that Democratic-led states could do little or nothing to counter it. But it turned out that Democrats were anything but helpless.

Democrats didn’t want this fight in Virginia but the GOP forced their hand and are going to finish it. Knife, gun fight, etc.

VA Dems’ new map would make 4 GOP seats bluer: 1—Rob Wittman: Trump+5 to Harris+8.5 2—Jen Kiggans: Trump+0 to Harris+5 5—John McGuire: Trump+12 to Harris+8.5 6—Ben Cline: Trump+24 to Harris+3 Dems already could flip 1 & 2 on the current map, but their odds would greatly improve with the new map

Decision Desk HQ projects the VA Congressional Redistricting Referendum will Pass. While No currently has the lead, based on the location and size of the remaining vote, Yes will take the lead as soon as the remaining counties report. #DecisionMade: 8:25 PM EDT

The world’s richest man and a kid named “big balls” brought 6.7% unemployment to DC, put uniformed Fed troops in the streets and per conservative estimates cut programs that’ll result in the deaths of millions of people: www.nytimes.com/2026/04/21/u...

New: Congresswoman Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick is resigning from Congress. www.notus.org/congress/she...

I, personally, am here for discovery

This I think is a huge part of the "AI" blowback too. These awful dudes are threatening to blow up society and everyone is vividly aware that society *can indeed be blown up* so people are real touchy about it in ways that probably would have been a lot more muted in normal times.