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William Jones
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Political junkie, cat lover. MVP Kamala Harris warned y'all!
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Utah lawmakers are planning to convene in an unexpected special session this Tuesday. Why? To move the filing deadline for congressional candidates, to give the GOP more time to appeal the ruling that created a Dem seat.

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December 7, 2025 at 3:32 AM
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Elon Musk is about to become the first trillionaire.

The reason poverty exists in the wealthiest country on earth isn't because we can't feed the poor — it's because we can't satisfy the rich.

We should tax trillionaires out of existence.
December 6, 2025 at 9:59 PM
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From @mrwilliamjones.bsky.social www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...
CHC Roundup: Rep. Jim Costa (CA-21) - All About Agriculture
Rep. Jim Costa is promoting a Holiday Cards for Veterans program this month. It is his way of giving back to the people that sacrificed everything for our country.
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December 6, 2025 at 1:05 PM
mrwilliamjones.bsky.social
Rep. Jim Costa is a good example of a "Valleycrat" - a politician in the Central Valley of California who is moderate or conservative on a lot of issues but excellent on others. In this case, Costa excels on agricultural issues the rest of the party usually ignores.

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CHC Roundup: Rep. Jim Costa (CA-21) - All About Agriculture
Rep. Jim Costa is promoting a Holiday Cards for Veterans program this month. It is his way of giving back to the people that sacrificed everything for our country.
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December 6, 2025 at 1:02 PM
mrwilliamjones.bsky.social
Could've funded about 3 years of expanded ACA tax credits with this money. Instead, it was lit on fire. (Heavily) tax the rich.
moreperfectunion.bsky.social More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 2d
Mark Zuckerberg’s gamble on the "Metaverse" has lost his company more than $77 billion.
December 6, 2025 at 12:29 PM
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📣 KEEP THE MOMENTUM GOING: Help flip the Senate blue by donating TODAY! #Blue26

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December 5, 2025 at 10:14 PM
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📣 KEEP THE MOMENTUM GOING: Help flip the House blue by donating TODAY! #Blue26

(updated w/new TX & CA districts)

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December 5, 2025 at 10:12 PM
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UPDATE: As promised:

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December 5, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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Coming today…stay tuned.
charlesgaba.com Charles GetCovered-ba ✡️ @charlesgaba.com · 3d
Sneak peak at a fun (if ambitious) project I'm working on:

There are 38 GOP House members who won by less than 15 points *and* whose districts Trump either lost or won by less than 15 points.

I'm plugging in net #ACA premium hikes for enrollees living in all 38 of their home towns.
38 under 15
December 5, 2025 at 10:48 AM
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the-downballot.com
So it turns out that, with the TX GOP's new gerrymander, there are no fewer than 18 of what you might call "Aftyn Behn" districts. That is to say, seats between Trump +20 to +25—seats Dems probably won't win, but where they could throw a serious scare into the GOP.

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December 5, 2025 at 1:30 AM
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davidnir.com
It's good—very good, and very important—that district courts keep issuing these 100-page rulings upholding the law. It must be incredibly dispiriting to see them overturned in a two-page, lawless, unsigned order, but please, keep them coming. They expose SCOTUS' corruption like nothing else.
December 5, 2025 at 12:41 AM
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taniel.bsky.social
this is the same SCOTUS that's poised to soon drop a bomb of the Voting Rights Act, and likely greenlight more suppressive schemes boltsmag.org/voting-right...
Black Residents in West Tennessee Just Won Fairer Districts. Now Comes SCOTUS. - Bolts
The Supreme Court may further erode the Voting Rights Act in an upcoming decision. Beyond affecting Congress, that would reverberate across local governments nationwide.
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December 5, 2025 at 12:49 AM
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davidnir.com
Yep, the Supreme Court really is just a House of Lords—a purely political branch with bizarre veto power, wielded capriciously and without accountability. Time for massive reform.
December 4, 2025 at 11:59 PM
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stephenwolf.bsky.social
Democrats can retaliate against these GOP gerrymanders with new maps in Illinois, Maryland, Oregon, & Virginia.

They could flip 7 GOP seats to make up for this & new GOP maps in Missouri, North Carolina, Ohio, & possibly soon Indiana.

Imposing costs is the only way to deter the GOP from doing this
Map of a hypothetical Democratic gerrymander of Illinois' congressional map designed to turn the current 14-3 majority into a 15-2 majority in 2026. The districts are colored by the 2024 presidential winner's margin, with Harris in blue and Trump in red. The blue districts sprawl like pasta noodles across the northern half of the state to redistribute heavily blue parts of the Chicago area and use them to outvote heavily red rural areas. An accompanying chart shows that 15 districts would be securely blue while just two would be overwhelmingly red. The 1st, 2nd, and 7th districts would be predominantly Black, the 4th district would be majority Latino, and the 3rd district would be plurality white and 37% Latino. These racial demographics are similar in the existing versions of each of those districts. Image of a hypothetical Maryland congressional map that is gerrymandered to elect an eight-to-zero Democratic majority in 2026 and flip the Republican-held 1st District. All districts are colored varying shades of blue depending on Kamala Harris' victory margin for president in 2024, and an accompanying chart displays those results and the racial demographics. Three of the most heavily Democratic seats have majority-Black populations, an increase from two districts on the current map. Image of a hypothetical Oregon congressional map gerrymandered to elect six Democrats and eliminate the one remaining Republican seat in 2026, with every district shaded solidly blue. An embedded chart shows that Kamala Harris would have won every district by at least 10 percentage points. Harris won by at least 12 points in every Democratic-held district and by 10 points in the Republican-held 2nd District, which includes most of eastern and central Oregon along with part of eastern Portland. Image of a hypothetical Virginia congressional map that is gerrymandered to elect a ten-to-one Democratic majority and flip four Republican seats in 2026. Nine of the districts are securely Democratic and shaded solid blue, one of the districts is overwhelmingly Republican and shaded dark red, and one district is narrowly Democratic-leaning and shaded light blue. An embedded chart shows the results of the 2024 presidential election in each district, with Kamala Harris winning nine districts by double-digit margins and the swing district by 3 percentage points. Republicans votes are wasted by being packed into a single district in western Virginia that Donald Trump won in a 55-point landslide. Black voters would retain their current ability to elect their chosen candidates in the safely Democratic 3rd and 4th districts in the Hampton Roads, Richmond, and Southside regions.
December 5, 2025 at 12:12 AM
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As Justice Kagan begins her dissent by pointing out, what is even the point of trial, of fact-finding, of clear error, of standards of review, when the Supreme Court simply ignores every single part of that and decides everything purely on the papers without any real consideration of the facts?
USTICE KAGAN, with whom J USTICE SOTOMAYOR and J USTICE J ACKSON join, dissenting from the grant of the ap- plication for stay. Over the course of three months, a three-judge District Court in Texas undertook to resolve the factual dispute at issue in this application: In enacting an electoral map slanted toward Republicans, did Texas predominantly use race to draw its new district lines? Or said otherwise, did Texas accomplish its partisan objectives by means of a ra- cial gerrymander? The District Court conducted a nine-day hearing, involving the testimony of nearly two dozen wit- nesses and the introduction of thousands of exhibits. It sifted through the resulting factual record, spanning some 3,000 pages. It assessed the credibility of each of the wit- nesses it had seen and heard in the courtroom. And after considering all the evidence, it held that the answer was clear. Texas largely divided its citizens along racial lines to create its new pro-Republican House map, in violation of the Constitution’s Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments. The court issued a 160-page opinion recounting in detail its factual findings. Yet this Court reverses that judgment based on its pe- rusal, over a holiday weekend, of a cold paper record. We are a higher court than the District Court, but we are not a better one when it comes to making such a fact-based deci- sion. That is why we are supposed to use a clear-error standard of review—why we are supposed to uphold the District Court’s decision that race-based line-drawing oc- curred (even if we would have ruled differently) so long as it is plausible. Without so much as a word about that stand- ard, this Court today announces that Texas may run next year’s elections with a map the District Court found to have violated all our oft-repeated strictures about the use of race in districting. Today’s order disrespects the work of a Dis- trict Court that did everything one could ask to carry out its charge—that put aside every consideration except get- ting the issue before it right. And today’s order disserves the millions of Texans whom the District Court found were assigned to their new districts based on their race. Because this Court’s precedents and our Constitution demand bet- ter, I respectfully dissent.
December 4, 2025 at 11:08 PM
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Kagan's dissent is all scorchers, but this is really frying me. As long as state legislatures wait until the last possible minute, according to the SCOTUS majority, they can *always* get away with rigging the lines—no matter how flagrantly—because it'll be the "eve of an election."
December 5, 2025 at 12:06 AM
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NEW: "George Santos with a Gun" — here's the first in a series of reports based on my 9-month investigation into Rep. Cory Mills. sollenbergerrc.substack.com/p/george-san...
‘George Santos With a Gun’: The Untold Story of Cory Mills, A Mercenary In Congress
The Florida Republican has tried to leverage his legislative role to the benefit of his arms business. With that business now in foreclosure proceedings, Mills has little to show for it.
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December 4, 2025 at 11:21 PM
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The Supreme Court just handed Texas Republicans at least 2 more House seats & possibly up to 5 despite the state GOP explicitly justifying their remap based on an unconstitutional use of race in redistricting.

Unsurprising from this court, and it's a bad sign for the upcoming Voting Rights Act case
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BREAKING: Supreme Court sides with Texas Republicans in fight over congressional map. The new gerrymandered map will be used in the 2026 midterms. The vote is 6–3, with the Republican appointees siding with Texas.
December 4, 2025 at 11:27 PM
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after what the Republicans hacks on SCOTUS just did with Texas, make it 10-1 in Virginia @donscott757.bsky.social!

Republicans started this gerrymander war
bluevirginia.bsky.social Blue Virginia @bluevirginia.bsky.social · 4d
Here's video of Speaker @donscott757.bsky.social telling @larrysabato.bsky.social & the UVA audience that a 10D-1R Virginia U.S. House map "is not out of the question"; we have an "obligation" to "punch back" against the "bully" Trump ("ultimately the voters decide") bluevirginia.us/2025/12/vide...
December 4, 2025 at 11:14 PM
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📣 Dems have overperformed an avg of 13 pts across 60 Special Elections so far!

There's ~30 MORE coming up!

12/09: FL HD-90: Rob Long
12/09: FL SD-11: Ash Marwah
12/09: GA HD-23: Scott Sanders
12/09: GA HD-121: Eric Gisler
12/09: IA HD-07: Rachel Burns

#Blue25

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December 4, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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Proponents of a ballot measure to repeal Missouri’s new gerrymandered congressional map say they plan to turn in signatures next week.

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Missouri campaign to repeal gerrymandered map plans to submit signatures next week • Missouri Independent
The campaign to repeal Missouri gerrymandered congressional map says it will turn in signatures to put the issue on the ballot next week.
missouriindependent.com
December 4, 2025 at 9:56 PM
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the-downballot.com
A Missouri appeals court just handed a big win to reproductive supporters by rewriting a summary of a GOP-backed ballot measure to repeal the right to an abortion after concluding the prior version was misleading in many ways.

Decision here: www.aclu-mo.org/sites/defaul...
December 4, 2025 at 6:57 PM
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Senate Democrats are doing something but too many will still complain.

🗣️This is what being in the minority looks like.

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Democrats will force a Senate vote on a 3-year extension of Affordable Care Act funds
The legislation is all but guaranteed to fail next week, due to widespread Republican opposition, and become a key issue in the 2026 elections as insurance premiums rise.
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December 4, 2025 at 6:16 PM
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CBC Roundup: Congressman Gabe Amo (RI-1) - "This healthcare crisis is by design."
Congressman� Gabe Amo �won the 2023 September Democratic Primary� in an upset, defeating 11 other Democratic candidates�vying to succeed� David Cicilline �in the special election to represent� ...
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December 4, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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esqueer.net
This is like if Tyson stopped selling consumer chicken. RAM is about to cost as much as a brand new pc. The cost of everything from tablets, to phones, to laptops will skyrocket. All because AI data centers are consuming all the available RAM they can get.

www.pcgamer.com/hardware/the...
Crucial memory will soon be a memory itself as Micron abandons consumers in favor of AI data centers
The RAM crisis is just getting started.
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December 4, 2025 at 10:12 AM