this is the closest I've ever come to actually suggesting a "one neat trick" suggestion for anything, but I'm so serious here. the Virginia Constitution gives the legislature the power to set retirement ages for judges "REGARDLESS OF THE TERM TO WHICH ELECTED OR APPOINTED." make it 54 right now.

Yeah, nullify this shit

No! The voters already had their say! They voted for new maps! Spanberger can kiss her presidential ambitions goodbye if she doesn’t fight this

fucking do it

I'm also open to this alternative path of using Callais (intentionally in bad-faith) to pass a map by claiming that the status quo map has unconstitutional VRA districts and thus the normal Virginia redistricting commission doesn't have time to act.

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

The GOP gerrymandering the median seat to Trump+8.5 could make the House unwinnable for Dems in all but the biggest of wave elections. Dems have no choice but to redraw maps everywhere they can. By 2028, they may be able to target up to 19 seats the GOP now holds as I've detailed in this thread

The prior authorization process does not prevent or reduce fraud/waste. It exists to punish patients & providers who actually care about them by creating arbitrary obstacles to medical care. There is no evidence in support of any outcomes for them and credible data that they actually harm patients.

It’s especially grating when you remember that we could’ve had Ben Wikler

when they introduced a Disney princess who wasn’t white

The amount of misinformation we’re getting about an incident that just occurred in front of 1,500 news reporters is truly the metaphor of our generation.

this is the world Trump and the quislings at the WHCD have created. a lot of us didn't used to be like this.

most gerrymanders are republican legislators saying fuck the voters these ones are the voters saying fuck republican legislators

Bluesky refusing to load a photo where I can see the alt text is “Virginia state senator L Louise Lucas wearing a 10-1 gauntlet” is a hate crime

10-1

The Fairfax flood is rolling in, hold on to your butts

arlington voters when governor spook does a ballot initiative:

given graham platner’s history of making, shall we say, questionable decisions, how certain are the folks backing him that swalwell-esque stuff isn’t going to drop the second we hit the general election?

In what I am calling the Carpathia Paradox, Trump being so uncannily close to the biblical Antichrist is going to create a whole new set of unlikely believers

this is what i meant weeks ago when i said so much of the aggressive surge in migrant policing felt like a boundary test, where a period of highly visible violence would eventually recede in favor of less visible and more "professionalized" migrant policing at a level beyond its baseline pre-trump.

i will vote for any candidate who offers up this slogan

I genuinely do not understand management's refusal to agree to basic protections, like that they won't replace us with AI. It's baffling. Makes no sense. We're on strike to show management how serious we are about this, and how eager we are to get a contract done!

I'm on the train back to DC – I call on all my colleagues to come back, too. Congress must vote to end this war IMMEDIATELY.

Democrats needs to be heading to DC tonight and gather in Congress to move for impeachment even if Congress led by Republican bootlickers is “on recess.” Schumer/Jeffries should be issuing calls for Dems to get back in DC now while have their leadership staffers prep impeachment resolutions now.

"Moon's haunted"

I’m sorry but even if you’re not religious I think you need to recognize that Donald Trump is literally Satan from the smash hit bestseller The Bible

Imagine if Joe Biden's reaction to US warplanes being downed was simply not giving a shit, especially when the press acted like him presiding over the withdrawal from Afghanistan was an attack on them personally.

I did not realize that JD Vance has a new book coming out about his conversion to Catholicism and I'm sorry but Pope Leo has the opportunity to do the funniest thing right now.

Stop worrying about what YA books to let your kids read and let them sort it out with V C Andrews and cocaine era Stephen King as God intended

Each word of this headline had me turning my head a different way

This horrific story gets worse when you find out how this young woman originally came to the US: as a 17-year-old on Jeffrey Epstein’s plane

That's called a casino.

"I wish a big fracture would start to run through the whole Trumpist movement— base voters, propagandists, court 'intellectuals,' regime officials." [finger on the monkey's paw curls]

Genuinely weird to see these florid fantasies of Donald Trump’s final victory over democracy from the guy who popularized “do not comply in advance.”

Although it would be doctrinally impermissible to assert definitively that any particular person is the anti-Christ, he is an anti-Christ.

noem's dog looking down from heaven

Roses are red Orchids are wired

If you're at the airport and Kristi Noem is doing the ominous little message from the TSA screens, you no longer have to do anything she says. Leave your laptop in the case, whatever.

Now this is the Trump administration we all knew and did not love but was much more amusing

oh noem

for those of you who werent adults during iraq, its hard to overstate how much the media loves war porn. they salivate over pentagon spin briefings. they love stories about all the bombs and how supposedly infallible they are. they love the notion of the commander in chief, in the situation room etc

Three Americans dead and Trump’s UN Ambassador waves it off with some bullshit jingoism. From the people who wailed about Benghazi for a decade. Absolute soulless ghouls.

we finally reached the end of this calendar event i accidentally made 12 years ago

Milkshake puck

some of the olympic women including maddie mastro have been reposting this if you’re curious about the vibe in response to the US men’s little display