Don Scott, you are a cuck and a half.

Ignore it, kick it to SCOTUS, let them rule for republicans. I’m in full heighten the contradictions mode.

This.

yes. change the statute on which this decision turned and redistrict according to the legitimacy conferred by the people of the state

Anyway, get to ground. It's always my *advice* [when I offer any]. Get hyper local. Find your people and fight where you are. This is where you can make the most impact and a real difference. Do this as much as you can, take care of yourself, and take care of your people.

This is also how people came to say things like “we protect each other” while also supporting curfews for Black teens.

One of the bad things about red state/blue state thinking is it really allowed people to substitute their politics as the singular motivation for events and ignore the communities that are the targets of exploitation and marginalization.

Yeah when people started suggesting Trump wouldn’t possibly send troops to cities in Republican states I knew the plot was totally lost.

The first guy to say My Goal Is To Drown The GOP In A Bathtub will be the next FDR

virginia voters should call their delegates and senators and demand that they ignore this illegitimate ruling

Virginia Gov @abigailspanberger.com and Democratic legislature should pass immediate legislation to redistrict anyway. If the old confederate states can do it post Callais - so can Dems in Virginia if they care about saving our democracy.

vote, then demand. election day is just one skirmish in an ongoing war.

I am very, very close to agreeing with this idea. The GOP declared war, and we cannot just let them cheat their way to a fascist state.

Exactly this. Supreme Courts don’t get the final word on legislation any more.

This would be the best solution for now, of course (until enough Dems are in power to overthrow ALL gerymandering). But the GOP is trying very, very hard to make it so that such a thing is impossible. It is not hopeless, but we have to do the work to get that blue wave.

So according to the Virginia Supreme Court, Republicans can just rebroadcast, retransmit, or give accounts of games without the express written consent of Major League Baseball and Democrats somehow can’t?

We’re in the “break glass in case of emergency” moment for American democracy. Democrats can create 22 new blue US House seats by 2028 by redrawing maps in: – New York – Colorado – Maryland – Oregon – Wisconsin – Minnesota – Pennsylvania Time to take action.

I've been really enjoying the Friday blog posts as an excuse to talk more about the other stuff I do that connects with my fighting game practice, so if you're into that stuff, come by on Fridays for more of it! Also, don't forget to catch yesterday's #FREELUD Q&A: www.patreon.com/posts/fighti...

You cannot fathom how much Mio wants to play fighting games. If you think you've begun understanding it you have not

That’s exactly what Republicans did in Ohio and it worked out to their benefit. Democrats in Virginia need to do the same.

It is still likelier than not Dems will win by enough to take the House. But if they come up short by some single-digit number of seats and it was... all this... that made the difference, that's a pretty huge leap towards full-blown legitimacy crisis territory.

Oh come the fuck on man how come every morning it’s more Airbud shit to wake up to, except the dog can only play basketball if it’s racist or whatever

The fact that Tennessee Republicans are effectively engineering a coup should not go unnoticed.

Note: Virginia supreme court justices are "re-elected" by state lawmakers, meaning the legislature chooses whether to reappoint them or replace them. Two of the four justices in the majority today against the new congressional map will be "up" by early 2028.

now thats an anecdote with a punch, from Gillian Tett www.ft.com/content/c0ae...

One side is like “can we disenfranchise all the Black voters by this weekend” and the other is like gotta follow the rules that govern the rules that control the rulebook

And now they're using that structural bias in the system to turn it into a permanent advantage that will make it nearly impossible to vote them out of power. It's turning us into an illiberal democracy with a permanent ruling class dominated by white men.

My entire lifetime has seen Republicans benefit from every structural bias in the system: two republican presidents elected while losing the popular vote,the senate being biased towards small rural conservative states,house and state legislatures being heavily gerrymandered, and a captured SCOTUS.

From the Strib to the New York Times to Fox News, media orgs couldn't believe moms, of all people, were leading the resistance to Operation Metro Surge. They should not have been so surprised.

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

I am unfortunately right on both points. Nintendo is increasing the price of the Switch 2, and it's a $50 increase as I expected.

A D.C. report on progress in a new pilot program to reduce school truancy says that while Latino kids are a relatively small proportion of truant kids, those who have been truant have become more truant over fears of ICE activity. One kid, *a U.S. citizen*, was detained by ICE.

They keep telling us the institutional levers are unimportant, and that the will of the people is unimportant. So what lessons do regular people take from this, do you think?

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

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

"You don't understand how politics works" *sees mass detention camps made of chainlink fence & chicken wire* *sees laws that allow indefinite detention w/o trial* *sees courts have 3 y.o. kids sign away rights to family* *sees neonazis platformed on major news outlets* "How did we get here?"

Yeah this was my last decade, and I hope at the very least that everyone who openly doubted my dire warnings and in fact smeared me publicly with gleeful abandon has a really fucking shitty day today and every day

the House is still winnable in the fall - D+6 seems not unlikely - but this means every blue state has its marching orders for ‘28 including for its courts

insane every blue state in the country needs to pack their own state Supreme Court immediately if the unelected law wizards want to make donald trump a god-king with a 30% approval rating their power must be broken at every level

I'm glad they understood the key visual they need to market Young Ladies Don't Play Fighting Games.

The good news is that Nintendo said they wouldn't raise prices this fiscal year. The bad news is the current fiscal year ends in 3 days.

We have a really strong network of pro bono habeas practitioners in Minnesota. I've personally done cases for 34 people on orders for supervision, at this point I can file most petitions less than an hour from when I get a call. But always happy to talk to other folks doing the work!

ICE does not want you to see the cruel reality for children and their families locked up at Dilley. Children like Victor and Monserrat who were picked up at a bus stop miss their dad and school—and it’s not just them. 93 children remain locked up and it’s not right. #FreeOurChildren

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come on kids, get off screens and go outside! get off the road it's for cars don't ride your bike on the sidewalk you'll hurt someone take your headphones off it's dangerous stop being so loud you're disturbing people don't just loiter around go to the park but calm down there's little ones

Folks, pls don't share photos godforsaken Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social thieves circulate. Screenshot of a tweet looks like crap. No credit to photographer, a Black man. Support @nashvillebanner.bsky.social! Credit: Martin B. Cherry/Nashville Banner nashvillebanner.com/2026/05/07/t...

Not an isolated incident @thetnholler.bsky.social stole a video I took of ICE officers mooning a Minnesota crowd several months ago. Never responded to DMs, never responded to comments asking them to credit. I self-funded that trip and shot that video in -10 degree weather Fuck those guys

Trump threatened to nuke Iran during the same press event where he called a woman reporter "baby" and a "bitch" and we'll all just supposed to continue on tomorrow as though any of this insanity is normal or acceptable

Moon Child Remix (Stories 3-5)