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TN07 is a story about gerrymandering: the GOP cracked Nashville into 3 districts when it redrew the 2022 map, destroying the Dem seat there.
Fast-forward: a section of Nashville, which just 5 years ago had a Dem representative, is now voting Dem by huge margins but it's been designed to not matter.
Fast-forward: a section of Nashville, which just 5 years ago had a Dem representative, is now voting Dem by huge margins but it's been designed to not matter.
December 3, 2025 at 2:14 AM
TN07 is a story about gerrymandering: the GOP cracked Nashville into 3 districts when it redrew the 2022 map, destroying the Dem seat there.
Fast-forward: a section of Nashville, which just 5 years ago had a Dem representative, is now voting Dem by huge margins but it's been designed to not matter.
Fast-forward: a section of Nashville, which just 5 years ago had a Dem representative, is now voting Dem by huge margins but it's been designed to not matter.
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If you still think that the left is a bigger problem, go get your head examined or admit you have surrendered any sense of morality and elementary decency:
November 28, 2025 at 7:03 PM
If you still think that the left is a bigger problem, go get your head examined or admit you have surrendered any sense of morality and elementary decency:
It’s worth remembering that Schumer helmed the DSCC during the 2006 and 2008 elections, when the Democrats gained massive numbers of seats and took a supermajority with a whole bunch of moderate to conservative candidates… 17 years later, I don’t think he has fully progressed past that playbook.
Wow — Senators Van Hollen, Smith, Murphy, Sanders, Warren, Markey, Merkley, Heinrich have created an official internal "Fight Club."
They're challenging Schumer & Gillibrand's leadership, arguing the party is using an old, corporate-friendly playbook insufficient to take on Trump or win elections.
They're challenging Schumer & Gillibrand's leadership, arguing the party is using an old, corporate-friendly playbook insufficient to take on Trump or win elections.
Chuck Schumer Faces Pushback From a ‘Fight Club’ of Senate Democrats
www.nytimes.com
November 25, 2025 at 6:16 AM
It’s worth remembering that Schumer helmed the DSCC during the 2006 and 2008 elections, when the Democrats gained massive numbers of seats and took a supermajority with a whole bunch of moderate to conservative candidates… 17 years later, I don’t think he has fully progressed past that playbook.
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The TX-18 seat will be filled by a Dem in a run-off (between 2 Dems) on 1/31/26. The special election in TX-7 is 12/2/25. The special in NJ-11 is 4/16/26. If both NJ-11 (likely) and TX-7 (stretch) go Dem, then in April the chamber will be 218-216 until MTG's seat is filled
November 22, 2025 at 1:39 AM
The TX-18 seat will be filled by a Dem in a run-off (between 2 Dems) on 1/31/26. The special election in TX-7 is 12/2/25. The special in NJ-11 is 4/16/26. If both NJ-11 (likely) and TX-7 (stretch) go Dem, then in April the chamber will be 218-216 until MTG's seat is filled
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Conservatives think free speech is when they can say what they want and when you can say what they want. bsky.app/profile/phil...
COLLEGE STATION, Texas (AP) — Texas A&M adopts policy requiring professors to get OK from school president to discuss certain race and gender issues.
November 14, 2025 at 12:40 AM
Conservatives think free speech is when they can say what they want and when you can say what they want. bsky.app/profile/phil...
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A direct email exchange from 2011 between Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell, just released by House Oversight Committee Democrats.
November 12, 2025 at 1:48 PM
A direct email exchange from 2011 between Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell, just released by House Oversight Committee Democrats.
Fell for it… again and again and again
UPDATE: The Senate votes 53-47 to shoot down the Baldwin amendment to extend ACA funds for 1 year. A party-line vote with every Republican rejecting it.
An important vote in this series: Tammy Baldwin’s proposal to extend ACA expiring funds for 1 year. It’s structured as a motion to table (i.e. scrap it from the amendment tree). But it’ll show the appetite (or lack thereof) in the Senate to address this issue.
November 11, 2025 at 2:59 AM
Fell for it… again and again and again
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The proposal's definitions of "race ideology" and "gender ideology" are exactly as thoughtful and workable as you'd expect
November 10, 2025 at 10:59 PM
The proposal's definitions of "race ideology" and "gender ideology" are exactly as thoughtful and workable as you'd expect
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1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️
November 9, 2025 at 9:23 AM
1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️
Brett? Erratic, weird, and emotional?
Our Brett?!
Our Brett?!
Brett Kavanaugh's behavior during today's second oral arguments has been incredibly obnoxious and rude. He is so eager to kill a service member's lawsuit against a negligent government contractor that he keeps interrupting other justices, raising his voice, and getting emotional. Weird and erratic.
November 5, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Brett? Erratic, weird, and emotional?
Our Brett?!
Our Brett?!
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there are basically not enough republican voters to create enough safe seats to withstand the kind of wave that, for example, turned virginia into a democratic supermajority state for the first time in the modern era of its politics
November 5, 2025 at 4:14 AM
there are basically not enough republican voters to create enough safe seats to withstand the kind of wave that, for example, turned virginia into a democratic supermajority state for the first time in the modern era of its politics
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We are seeing not just a merging of different parts of the armed forces; we are also seeing a deprofessionalization. Competent people are fired. Those willing to break the law are hired. Normal practices are abandoned as the new force becomes more responsive to the demand for quotas & brutalization.
Experts warn this aggressive approach will likely fuel greater abuses of civil and human rights, heighten public anger and lead to more warrantless arrests, straying far from the previous stated focus on “the worst of the worst.” “Spectacle, not security.” www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/02/b...
November 2, 2025 at 2:00 PM
We are seeing not just a merging of different parts of the armed forces; we are also seeing a deprofessionalization. Competent people are fired. Those willing to break the law are hired. Normal practices are abandoned as the new force becomes more responsive to the demand for quotas & brutalization.
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They better not go and shake that man’s hand while he’s kidnapping folks from the community that made them
November 2, 2025 at 4:19 AM
They better not go and shake that man’s hand while he’s kidnapping folks from the community that made them
As an American League Supremacist (unless the Yankees are involved), this is truly the worst possible timeline.
November 2, 2025 at 4:25 AM
As an American League Supremacist (unless the Yankees are involved), this is truly the worst possible timeline.
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Two years ago, Nick Fuentes was so toxic that, after I reported on a secret meet he had with a top Texas GOP donor, the party was engulfed in scandal and voted to explicitly ban Holocaust deniers/Neo Nazis.
Today, Heritage Foundation effectively said that "no enemies to our right" includes Fuentes.
Today, Heritage Foundation effectively said that "no enemies to our right" includes Fuentes.
Heritage president backs Tucker Carlson after interview with Holocaust-denier Nick Fuentes
Kevin Roberts denounced the “venomous coalition” that has criticized the former Fox News host.
www.politico.com
October 31, 2025 at 2:39 AM
Two years ago, Nick Fuentes was so toxic that, after I reported on a secret meet he had with a top Texas GOP donor, the party was engulfed in scandal and voted to explicitly ban Holocaust deniers/Neo Nazis.
Today, Heritage Foundation effectively said that "no enemies to our right" includes Fuentes.
Today, Heritage Foundation effectively said that "no enemies to our right" includes Fuentes.
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Democrats have this idea that you can carve out razor-thin positions on the ideological spectrum and that will come through to voters. No!
The right is going to call you pro-trans if you oppose bathroom bills. The left is going to call you anti-trans if you say trans women are men.
The right is going to call you pro-trans if you oppose bathroom bills. The left is going to call you anti-trans if you say trans women are men.
October 30, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Democrats have this idea that you can carve out razor-thin positions on the ideological spectrum and that will come through to voters. No!
The right is going to call you pro-trans if you oppose bathroom bills. The left is going to call you anti-trans if you say trans women are men.
The right is going to call you pro-trans if you oppose bathroom bills. The left is going to call you anti-trans if you say trans women are men.
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Emmanuel explicitly says he wants to shift the topic away from trans rights but he does so in the worst possible way.
The solution is to vocally affirm trans rights and immediately ask why Republicans are so laser-focused on the genitals of 13-year-olds. Don't shit on college students instead!
The solution is to vocally affirm trans rights and immediately ask why Republicans are so laser-focused on the genitals of 13-year-olds. Don't shit on college students instead!
October 30, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Emmanuel explicitly says he wants to shift the topic away from trans rights but he does so in the worst possible way.
The solution is to vocally affirm trans rights and immediately ask why Republicans are so laser-focused on the genitals of 13-year-olds. Don't shit on college students instead!
The solution is to vocally affirm trans rights and immediately ask why Republicans are so laser-focused on the genitals of 13-year-olds. Don't shit on college students instead!
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Mr. Political Instincts over here with the dumbest imaginable attempt at moderation on trans rights. You can't say that you'll protect LGBT policy while affirming bigotry in the next breath.
This doesn't appeal to the right, angers the left and reveals you as a worm to absolutely everyone.
This doesn't appeal to the right, angers the left and reveals you as a worm to absolutely everyone.
October 30, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Mr. Political Instincts over here with the dumbest imaginable attempt at moderation on trans rights. You can't say that you'll protect LGBT policy while affirming bigotry in the next breath.
This doesn't appeal to the right, angers the left and reveals you as a worm to absolutely everyone.
This doesn't appeal to the right, angers the left and reveals you as a worm to absolutely everyone.
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This is the thing that I will say in Megalopolis' defence. Yes, it is an utterly disastrous mess of a film, yes, at times, they are clearly running out of money to the point that fluffed lines are in the final cut. But come on, it's not as bad as The Brutalist or Emilia Perez.
The person I was sat next to never came back for the second half of The Brutalist, which is like Babe Ruth levels of calling your shot.
October 30, 2025 at 2:02 PM
This is the thing that I will say in Megalopolis' defence. Yes, it is an utterly disastrous mess of a film, yes, at times, they are clearly running out of money to the point that fluffed lines are in the final cut. But come on, it's not as bad as The Brutalist or Emilia Perez.
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As roughly 42 million Americans face the loss of food stamps, far-right influencers and extremists are using the crisis to push racist disinformation about who receives these benefits.
In reality, the majority of people who receive SNAP benefits are white Americans, according to USDA data.
In reality, the majority of people who receive SNAP benefits are white Americans, according to USDA data.
No, SNAP Benefits Aren’t Mostly Used by Immigrants
SNAP benefits are set to run out on Saturday. Far-right influencers and extremists are incorrectly claiming that immigrants are the main recipients of food stamps.
www.wired.com
October 30, 2025 at 1:47 PM
As roughly 42 million Americans face the loss of food stamps, far-right influencers and extremists are using the crisis to push racist disinformation about who receives these benefits.
In reality, the majority of people who receive SNAP benefits are white Americans, according to USDA data.
In reality, the majority of people who receive SNAP benefits are white Americans, according to USDA data.
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a national movement of "I'm telling daddy"
NCGOP spokesman appears to be threatening @propublica.org's @dougbockclark.bsky.social with retaliation by the Trump administration for reporting on a state Supreme Court justice www.propublica.org/article/paul...
October 30, 2025 at 2:39 PM
a national movement of "I'm telling daddy"
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🚨BIG changes happening -- ICE leadership is being purged tonight. The old guard, which prioritized targeted enforcement operations aimed at people with criminal records, is being replaced with Border Patrol and Gregory Bovino's "Midway Blitz" style.
Think things are bad now? It'll get worse.
Think things are bad now? It'll get worse.
October 28, 2025 at 12:27 AM
🚨BIG changes happening -- ICE leadership is being purged tonight. The old guard, which prioritized targeted enforcement operations aimed at people with criminal records, is being replaced with Border Patrol and Gregory Bovino's "Midway Blitz" style.
Think things are bad now? It'll get worse.
Think things are bad now? It'll get worse.
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Washington Week in Review:
* The East Wing came down
* Statue of Confederate Albert Pike went back up
* The East Wing came down
* Statue of Confederate Albert Pike went back up
October 25, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Washington Week in Review:
* The East Wing came down
* Statue of Confederate Albert Pike went back up
* The East Wing came down
* Statue of Confederate Albert Pike went back up
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i think it’s partly because they’re trying to get construction started before anyone can stop them and partly because he’s in a huge hurry to see this thing built before, well, you’ve seen and heard him lately, you know.
AND ANOTHER THING. WHY WOULD YOU TEAR DOWN THE WHITE HOUSE BEFORE YOU HAVE THE ABILITY TO REPLACE IT? It only takes a couple of days to do the demo! Even for cynical political reasons, having gash on one side and a crater on the other is going to look terrible.
This has been gnawing at me. Apart from the abject illegality, it takes *a long time* to build anything in DC let alone the (theoretically) most secure house of government in the world. AND THERE ARE NO APPROVED PLANS. There's no way this thing get's built in Trump's lifetime.
October 23, 2025 at 9:43 PM
i think it’s partly because they’re trying to get construction started before anyone can stop them and partly because he’s in a huge hurry to see this thing built before, well, you’ve seen and heard him lately, you know.
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One of the things that I’ve been forced to face and take the loss on is that all of the people who critiqued Bernie for his dismissive stances on identity politics were largely correct. This is a very bad response from a guy who should know better.
Bernie about Platner,
“In all due respect, all right, what I'm worried about, 50,000 Americans may die unnecessarily? And you're worried about a tattoo?"
When I asked about his comments about sexual assault, he said "Have you served four tours of duty?" I said "I have not."
Bernie: "Ok"
“In all due respect, all right, what I'm worried about, 50,000 Americans may die unnecessarily? And you're worried about a tattoo?"
When I asked about his comments about sexual assault, he said "Have you served four tours of duty?" I said "I have not."
Bernie: "Ok"
October 21, 2025 at 10:45 PM
One of the things that I’ve been forced to face and take the loss on is that all of the people who critiqued Bernie for his dismissive stances on identity politics were largely correct. This is a very bad response from a guy who should know better.