The Virginia Supreme Court ruling might've helped fuel a national wave ... that's already forming I don't presume to know what is a "safe seat" in this cycle

Late last night in Denver, Frontier Airlines flight #F94345 struck a person on the runway during its take off roll resulting in the person’s death and an engine fire. Pilots aborted the take off and evacuated on the runway. Authorities are investigating. www.flightradar24.com/blog/flight-...

Frontier plane hits person on runway during takeoff at Denver airport | The Colorado Sun coloradosun.com/2026/05/09/d... Sun App

AOC on possibly running for the Senate or President: They assume my ambition is a title or a seat. My ambition is way bigger than that. My ambition is to change this country. Presidents come and go, elected officials come and go, single payer healthcare is forever.

Peter Magyar sworn in as Hungary’s PM, ending Orban’s 16 years in power https://aje.news/nqvz6v

Vivek gets asked, "What's your favorite place in Youngstown?" : I like long drives. (he meant flights) I like jogging. I like this park 50 miles away.

Their fantasies seem to include the notion that regular people want to be like them and it's just not true.

Was there literally no better way for the secretary of transportation, in the middle of an FAA staffing shortage and at the onset of an energy crisis, to spend his time?

Zelensky has issued a presidential decree “allowing” Russia to hold its annual Victory Day parade in Moscow. The decree provides exact coordinates of the Red Square that shall be excluded from the list of Ukrainian strike targets. Phenomenal power play.

do any religious texts mention golden idols anywhere

The trial in James Comey’s case has now been scheduled for July 15, 2026, in New Bern, North Carolina.

NEWS: Virginia Dems have filed a motion asking the Supreme Court of Virginia to delay issuing its mandate striking down the congressional redistricting referendum. The filing states the Commonwealth intends to file an emergency petition with the U.S. Supreme Court of seeking review of the decision.

And while New Jersey and New York couldn’t have done much by 2026, it’s still striking to watch Dems there respond to last week’s ruling promising a response, as if it wasn’t clear since at the latest on October.

And how unready Dems were, for that matter: schemes like California and Virginia sprang up in response to Texas, quite late for Virginia. But it was clear what was going to happen with Callais in June 2025, as soon SCOTUS punted on the prior hearing and ordered expanded one.

When Utah’s Supreme Court overturned Republican attempt to redistrict they responded by expanding their state Supreme Court. The assignment for @abigailspanberger.com & VA Dems couldn’t be more clear - expand VA’s Supreme Court (in addition to passing immediate legislation to redistrict anyway).

The NAACP has asked a Mississippi federal court to immediately shut down xAI's gas turbines in Southaven, Mississippi, arguing their continued usage poses an immediate threat to public safety. www.mississippifreepress.org/xai-gas-turb...

Trump Media, the parent company of Truth Social, just reported its 2026 Q1 results. It lost $405 MILLION on $900,000 in revenue.

yet according to these 4 justices on the Virginia Supreme Court, the state actually violated the intervening election requirement, bc...early voting started in September 🙃 I wish I was joking ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...

ok, to amend Virginia's Constitution, the legislature must: pass amendment have an election pass the amendment again then let people vote Here: leg passed amendment Oct '25 election Nov '25 passed it again Jan '26 people voted Apr '26 there should be no issue!! ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...

RENMAC: “.. Cyclical upturn in factories. The manufacturing workweek continues to extend with average overtime hours hitting their highest level since June 2022.”

Wealth creates sociopaths.

Trump: "We cut drug prices by 90%. You could say 500%, 600% depending on the way you phrase the statement."

This reminds me of Bessent's comment from a few months ago -- that one of the best ways to fight inflation is "to move to a Red state."

As our K-Shaped Economy morphs further and further into a K-Shaped Experience in America, here are some thoughts on an aspect that doesn't the attention it deserves: relative geographic mobility.

JPMORGAN: We see a “65% probability on the likelihood that the Strait opens sometime in the coming weeks and a 35% probability that it does not happen and a surge in crude prices to $150/bbl or higher delivers recession.”

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) - U.S. forces fired on and disabled two Iranian oil tankers on Friday after exchanging fire with Iranian forces in the Strait of Hormuz overnight. The United Arab Emirates, meanwhile, reported another Iranian missile and drone attack. @apnews.com

Trump's Agriculture Secretary dismisses farmers' concerns about fertilizer costs skyrocketing from the Iran war

NEW: The Trump administration has granted more than 180 polluting facilities nationwide a two-year pause on compliance with Clean Air Act rules. All they had to do was send an email.

Immigrants coming here out of human instinct to move to make a better life that has propelled our existence - promise to also "crack down on border," offer few modest gains & apologize for doing so by also deporting, never make argument immigrants rock. Result: 70K people in horrific camps.

MAGA going full crime spree - talk about "rule of law" and "democracy eroding," approve nominees & sometimes do a bi-partisan with them, promise "unity" & avoid consequences. Result - MAGA has learned crime pays.

Roberts Court acting like the billionaire bought Robbers Court they are - don't denounce SCOTUS as we believe in & venerate "norms" & institutions. Result: Repealing the 20th Century.

Police brutality against Black folks - repeat "we're also tough on crime," denounce BLM protests as "riots," make some soft denunciations, pass some cameras laws. Result: Dems seen as "soft" anyway, increased saliency of fear, regardless of reality voters think crime is up.

Abortion - for decades - labeled "the a-word" with advice not to name it & instead skirt around with "safe, legal, rare," "choice" and being "big tent" that allows right to dominate whole debate. Result: state restrictions, refusal to codify Roe, Dobbs, women dying.

The U.S. military said its forces had fired upon and disabled two more Iranian tankers that were trying to breach an American blockade of Iran's ports, in the latest blows to a shaky ceasefire.

There is no form of protest the Rs would view as legitimate. Dissent is enemy action in their eyes. There isn't anything liberals could say or do that shake their faith in their quest for authoritarianism.

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.

They even say that Blanche's motion reads like a social media post, citing the rules of professional conduct. They further point out that it was filed by "senior attorneys at the Department of Justice (although notably, not by any attorneys who had appeared previously in this case)." 2/

NEW: The National Trust for Historic Preservation has filed it's response to Todd Blanche's wackadoo midnight motion to dismiss the injunction barring Ballroom construction (the one that read like a Truth Social post. They open by listing several lies Blanche told in his motion: 1/

We need fighters. Anyone who thinks a milquetoast, centrist, bought by the broligarchy and AIPAC Democrat candidate is the answer should be ignored forever, moving on. Bold, transformative reform.

The three dissenting justices have the goods: "...today the majority has broadened the meaning of the word 'election,' as used in the Virginia Constitution, to include the early voting period. This is in direct conflict with how both Virginia and federal law define an election."

This will make for the quite split screen for when Florida's conservative supreme court likely ignores the state's 2010 constitutional amendments and blesses DeSantis' +4 map.

FLASH: Virginia Supreme Court, 4-3, overturns redistricting referendum that could have netted Democrats 5 additional House seats. Doc: www.vacourts.gov/static/opini...

Trumpy Fed Governor Miran: "Rather than having lots of people flood into the country, boosting labor force & labor supply & creating new jobs, we've had a total stop & lots of departures. This lowered the break even rate of job growth & is a powerful driver of lower inflation & interest rates."

As venues are struggling to sell tickets, I bet they appreciate the "hope no one gets blown up in the parking lot" message.

The Colorado House and Senate have both passed what would be the first comprehensive surveillance pricing ban in the country. Now Governor Jared Polis just needs to sign it.

‘Guy,’ meaning “person,” comes from Guy Fawkes. Boom.

"“The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass relates only his own views on slavery; we cannot properly assess the merits of his book without giving equal time to his slave owner.”

Rep. Roger Williams on the SAVE America Act: "We want the right people voting"