Democrats Killed Themselves With the Virginia
Redistricting Ploy
Posted By: Dreadnought, 5/8/2026 6:21:07 PM
Ed wrote about the (mildly) surprising decision from the Virginia Supreme Court to throw out the results of the referendum that would have made Virginia one of the most lopsided congressional maps in the United States, changing the Congressional districts from 5-6 to 9-1 Democrat. The court did not invalidate the map because it was unfair—this is politics, where fairness is in the eye of the beholder and the person with the power—but because the referendum plainly violated the Virginia constitution, which even today is occasionally a no-no.
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The U.S. labor market continued to defy expectations in April, with employers surpassing economists' forecasts and adding 115,000 jobs nationwide.
By the numbers
Economists predicted payroll gains of 65,000 in April, according to a consensus forecast from FactSet.
The unemployment rate, which has hovered above 4% since June 2024, held steady at 4.3%. Health care and transportation/warehousing companies led job growth in April, adding 37,000 and 30,000 jobs, respectively. Federal employment fell by 9,000.
The report follows a strong March report, when employers added a revised 185,000 jobs, according to the Labor Department.
Hasan Piker, a leftist streamer and "influencer," is a real piece of... work. Politically, he's somewhere out there to the left of Fidel Castro.
So, naturally, when the Virginia Supreme Court struck down the redistricting scheme cooked up by Virginia Democrats who didn't bother to read what the Virginia Constitution says about the matter, Piker got himself in, shall we say, a bit of a snit.
Actually, a four-alarm angry rant is a more accurate decision.
In a 4-3 decision, the Virginia Supreme Court ruled that a voter-approved map, which would give Democrats a 10-1 advantage in U.S. House races, violated the state's constitution because of procedural errors in the map’s passage.
A funny thing happened on the way to the (Kia) Forum. The media has begun to take notice of the results emerging from decades of Democrat rule in the Golden State. And suddenly, California dreaming looks a lot more like California screaming – and even the lockstep media can't ignore it.
Democrats have only themselves to blame, not just for the disaster they have made of the state but also in providing the catalyst for the national spotlight on it. In the gubernatorial race, a flood of high-profile Democrats jumped into the jungle primary – also a Democrat innovation – while Republicans had more discipline
Ed wrote about the (mildly) surprising decision from the Virginia Supreme Court to throw out the results of the referendum that would have made Virginia one of the most lopsided congressional maps in the United States, changing the Congressional districts from 5-6 to 9-1 Democrat.
The court did not invalidate the map because it was unfair—this is politics, where fairness is in the eye of the beholder and the person with the power—but because the referendum plainly violated the Virginia constitution, which even today is occasionally a no-no.
Before major dad headed off to bed last night, I told him I wanted to add some of the updates from the British elections, since they'd started coming in and looked pretty gruesome.
'Right now,' I said as I read to him from one Xweet, 'It says Labour has been losing 80% of the seats it contested.'
We were both, like, HOLY CRAP, and off he went to brush his teeth.
Forty minutes later, when I shut everything down, Labour was losing 88% of the contests.
In what had been the most interesting development so far to me, not just how bloody Reform's rampage
LONDON - British Prime Minister Keir Starmer suffered heavy early losses in elections on Friday, showing the depth of voter anger with his government and raising fresh doubts about his future just two years after a landslide general election victory.
Starmer's Labour Party haemorrhaged support in areas reporting results overnight, including traditional strongholds in former industrial regions of central and northern England, along with some parts of London. The main beneficiary was the anti-immigration populist Reform UK of Brexit campaigner Nigel Farage, which gained more than 200 council seats in England, and could form the main opposition in Scotland and Wales to the pro-independence Scottish National Party and Plaid Cymru.
As I wrote, I watched Wednesday night’s LA mayoral debate between Republican Spencer Pratt, incumbent Democrat Karen Bass, and democrat socialist Nithya Raman, and I didn’t think Pratt just won the evening — I thought he creamed his two leftist opponents. Wiped the floor with them, actually.
While they both whined for more state and federal dollars so they can keep spending our money for ever more failure, he kept relentlessly pounding home the theme that simply doubling down on the old ways of doing things is just a recipe for more disaster — and the tired voters of the Golden State have seen enough of that.
Turns out, viewers agree
The 2026 midterms are just a few months away, and the Democrat Party still has no coherent answer to why it lost working-class voters in Pennsylvania, in Michigan, across the Rust Belt, to Donald Trump twice. Rather than reckon with that, the activist base has doubled down: more ideological purity tests, more litmus questions, more performative opposition to anything bearing the Trump name. Its loudest voices are busy policing their own members.
Into that mess steps Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) — not leaving the Democrat Party, but making clear in a Thursday op-ed that he understands exactly what's wrong with it. In doing so, he may have delivered
Thursday on CNN’s “News Central,” senior data reporter Harry Enten said it was a myth that President Donald Trump is losing support among Republican voters.
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As RedState previously reported, red states have not wasted any time since the Supreme Court decision in the Louisiana v. Callais case, which ruled that congressional redistricting based solely on race is unconstitutional. States like Alabama, Mississippi, and South Carolina are putting the wheels in motion to put new or previously drawn congressional maps in place ahead of the 2026 midterms.
The Tennessee General Assembly has also been quick to act, debuting a new map on Wednesday that could effectively make the state 9-0 GOP in terms of congressional representation instead of 8-1 R/D.
On Thursday, the Republican-controlled House passed the map, with the Republican-controlled Senate quickly
I'll disclose my bias straight off: I believe there's a special place in Hell below even Dante's imagination for adults who exploit children. Civilized societies should show absolutely zero tolerance for crimes involving child sexual abuse material or the destruction of childhood innocence.
One of my older sisters once told me that “hate” is a strong word; only say it when it's necessary. Unfortunately, similar to words like “awesome,” “literally,” and “Nazi,” they've been overused to the point where those words lose their strength. Because of what she told me, I've refrained from saying "hate" until the situation demands it.
For me, now, the situation demands it.
US strikes military targets in Iran after
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U.S. forces on Thursday attacked Iranian military facilities following attacks on American guided-missile destroyers transiting the Strait of Hormuz, according to U.S. Central Command (Centcom).
President Trump called the strikes a “love tap” in a phone call with ABC News on Thursday evening. Asked if it means the ceasefire is over, he said, “No, no, the ceasefire is going. It’s in effect.”
Trump also said later Thursday in a post on Truth Social that the U.S. will “knock [Iran] out a lot harder, and a lot more violently, in the future, if they don’t get their Deal signed, FAST!”
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New York leaders are desperately trying to stop billionaire bigwigs from hightailing out of the Big Apple with their cash, businesses and thousands of jobs — as fears mount that Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s policies will accelerate the Empire State’s nation-leading loss of wealth.
The splashy one-two punch of Citadel CEO Ken Griffin and Apollo Global Management honcho Marc Rowan pledging to expand outside New York City has been coupled with a silent wave of businesses “quiet quitting” the city over its hostile environment, insiders told The Post.
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Rep. Pramila Jayapal, D-Wash., made the remarks during a recent Seattle briefing following a congressional delegation trip to Cuba, where she discussed the island’s worsening fuel shortages and U.S. policy toward the communist regime.
"I was in conversations with the ambassadors from Mexico and some other places … trying to figure out how to get oil there," Jayapal said during the briefing, calling the situation on the island "a crisis beyond imagination." Jayapal said the event was
The Barack Obama Presidential Center won't be open to the public for another few weeks, but the gift shop is already up and running. All proceeds will support the Obama Foundation and its mission to "inspire, empower, and connect people to change their world." The foundation is also responsible for funding and operating the new presidential center, which has been described as a "hideous eyesore" befitting the colossal vanity of a tinpot dictator.
So, what are you waiting for? You can help fund Obama's brutalist monstrosity right now by purchasing some of the inspiring items for sale on the center's website. This gorgeous lapel pin ($30) This "unique accessory" was designed
The South Carolina House voted last night to open the door for redistricting in a special session a week from now. The measure still has to pass the South Carolina Senate; however, with the Indiana outcome at the forefront of their political future, the redistricting is more than likely.
As a consequence, South Carolina Democrat James Clyburn is potentially going to lose his gerrymandered seat in congress. Given Clyburn’s stature as one of the key architects of the DNC ballot harvesting and election counting fraud via the AME Church network, Democrats are apoplectic.
The Deep State leaked a CIA Iran war dossier to the Washington Post that refutes Trump’s claims that the Iranian Regime’s missiles are mostly decimated.
On Wednesday, President Trump sparred with a reporter in the Oval Office during a meeting with UFC fighters.
The reporter asked Trump about his decision to pause Project Freedom amid a blockade of the Strait of Hormuz.
Trump told the reporter that the US military has decimated Iran’s missile capabilities and they probably only have about 18 percent left.
Families hoping to make memories on a cruise were unknowingly surrounded by alleged child predators working aboard the ships, according to law enforcement officials.
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Well, Seattle, like New York, has elected a real extremist as mayor. Katie Wilson, a despicable woman who looks as though she could be Abigail Spanberger’s sister, and as though she uses a broom for transportation, has decided to singlehandedly drive Seattle deeper into liberal hell than it already is. Like Spanberger, Wilson is tough to look at. True, neither is physically attractive, but the major reason for that is the smug, nauseating arrogance that they reek of. Both have stomach-turning smirks that cement their place in the despicable hall of fame.
Like Spanberger, Wilson wasted little time instituting the Democrat destruction of the city, and even the liberal rag,
Just weeks before Memorial Day and amid the United States’ 250th anniversary year, a city council member in Lynnwood, Washington, launched into a tirade against the American flag, declaring that the Pride flag is far more relatable to her and suggesting the 27 US flags at Wilcox Park should be replaced. According to the Lynnwood Times, Councilwoman Isabel Mata made the remarks during the May 4 City Council meeting while discussing the city’s flag display policies. “To me, a pride flag is way more relatable than an American flag. I would not raise an American flag at my house because I just, I wouldn't. I wasn't even born here.
Earlier this week, we editorialized about the Great Green Grift of the climate hustlers who line their own pockets as well as those of their co-conspirators. Today we dig into the science, which has been repeatedly abused, often abandoned and artfully prostituted to support the global warming racket.
The United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has long been treated as always having the first and last word on global warming. Google’s artificial intelligence says it’s “widely regarded as the world’s leading authority on climate science, providing essential, peer-reviewed assessments that inform international policy.”
The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has classified the hantavirus outbreak as a “Level 3” threat and activated its Emergency Operations Centers, sources told ABC News Thursday.
The designation is the lowest level of emergency activation, signifying that the risk to the general public remains low — in line with information given by the World Health Organization earlier Thursday
The CDC is actively monitoring the situation, including by activating the Emergency Operations Centers.
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Barack Obama appeared on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert Monday night and had the audacity — the actual audacity — to lecture America about presidents misusing the Justice Department.
And he did it with a straight face.
Obama told Colbert that presidents shouldn't be able to weaponize the DOJ against their enemies. "The White House shouldn't be able to direct the attorney general to go around prosecuting whoever," Obama said. "The idea is that the attorney general is the people's lawyer. It's not the president's consigliere." Just let that sit for a second. The man who appointed Eric Holder as attorney general — the same Eric Holder who publicly called himself
Spooked by Creepy Mamdani Video, Billionaire
Prepares to Flee Hostile NYC and Take
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Prepares to Flee Hostile NYC and Take
His Jobs With Him 14 replies
It started with an undeniably creepy, stalky video starring New York City's dashing young communist mayor, Zohran Kwame Mamdani. The mayor posted the video on Tax Day, April 15. In it, he announced the creation of a so-called pied-à-terre tax — a tax on luxury second homes within city limits. That was the commie part of the video; the creepy, stalky part was that he chose to film it in front of a building that houses a penthouse belonging to one individual billionaire. Mamdani called the man out by name — Ken Griffin, founder and co-owner of the Citadel hedge fund and securities empire — and stoked envy by disclosing