The new plan was distributing Democratic voters and consolidating Republican ones, that’s how gerrymandering works. There’s no world in which this is a net positive.

The thing that the actual voters voted in was an amendment to the state constitution. It doesn’t get more democracy than this.

Once the Republicans have locked in control, why would they ever pass that? They’ve had the option to ban gerrymandering before when it would be roughly neutral but refused. Now they’ve engineered an advantage without letting their constituents vote on it. Letting them out of that prison would demolish them.

They’re actually throwing out votes in Louisiana, but sure, because some people had cast early votes that they could change, the votes they cast in a well-publicized effort later didn’t count.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/2026-USCT-Strategy-1.pdf

I also like how the Islamic terrorists are “legacy” as if there’s nothing going on right now that could be generating a whole new generation of Anti-American terrorists. It’s only some old guys who still hate us for our 2000’s freedom.

It’s consecrated for both Islamists and lesbians.

Not “antifa”, anti-fascists. They’re just admitting it now.

It thinks Republicans are. Because passivity from the Republicans in the Senate is all he needs to keep the war going. I certainly have no faith in the military to reject unlawful orders themselves.

At this point I think they’ve pretty much abandoned any trappings that they were just following a judicial philosophy (that just happened to be good for conservative politics). Their recent rulings don’t have a consistent philosophy other than “Republicans should win”. Precedent doesn’t matter, their own attestations don’t matter, originalism doesn’t matter. They’ll rule the same basic case two ways if one is brought by Republicans and the other Democrats.

Remember the “major questions doctrine” they invented so they can decide the text of laws don’t matter if the result is a big change? That seems to be MIA when Trump does wild stuff by executive order alone. Now it’s all just deferring to the executive.

John Roberts is very much not the radical center. He’s a conservative operator through and through, but will sometimes throw the liberals a bone for optics when it doesn’t matter so he can take big swings like this when it does.

…find like minded individuals and start a hit squad for increased odds of success.

Handing off the baton implies to me he has some role in selecting a successor. I don’t even want him to do that. He’s just bad at politics.

Also one of the problems with Mills was being too old, and Chuck is just 3 years younger. Hopefully he takes it personally.

Hundreds! HUNDREDS! In a city of 5.5 million (6.6M in the metro). These are definitely good faith grassroots protesters correctly attributing crime fears to immigration. How else could they get so many people?? Just go ahead and print it in the headline as fact.*

*Edit: It’s kind of worse. If I’m reading the article correctly, the shops were closed in response to the march, not in response to immigrant crime. A+ headline manipulation.

Seriously, when did he ever say he’d be the first DNC chair to publicly release that standard internal document?

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/12/18/dnc-kills-its-own-public-2024-autopsy-00697403

Martin’s decision to withhold the report doubles back on a pledge he made just hours after he was elected to be the DNC’s chair in February. In comments to reporters, Martin committed to the public release of the 2024 report.

At the time, he also questioned why the DNC hadn’t released its 2016 autopsy, when he questioned, “what happened with that … was there any utility in doing that?”

“Of course it will be released,” Martin said in February, referring to a future review on the 2024 election.

They’re working on the other funding in reconciliation, so ICE may still be funded, but that’s not a done deal and at least there isn’t the other pressure of funding less controversial things to give it a boost.

Sorry for being a pattern recognizing being and learning from past experience. Hopefully this is the start of a new Democratic party.

I was sure the Democrats caved when I saw this headline. I don’t know what it feels like to win (even if only temporarily).

Ugh. That’s it. Here’s the text. They erased a bill to fix the graves of American-Jewish servicemembers to pass FISA.

Resolved, That the bill from the Senate (S. 1318) entitled “An Act to direct the American Battle Monuments Commission to establish a program to identify American-Jewish servicemembers buried in United States military cemeteries overseas under markers that incorrectly represent their religion and heritage, and for other purposes.”, do pass with the following

AMENDMENT:

Strike out all after the enacting clause and insert:

SECTION 1. Short titles; table of contents. (a) Short titles.—This Act may be cited as the “Foreign Intelligence Accountability Act” and the “Anti-CBDC Surveillance State Act”.

https://clerk.house.gov/Votes/2026142?Page=2&Date=04%2F29%2F2026

It’s not this one. The vote total doesn’t match.