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In one of the nation’s final redistricting battles before the November midterm elections, Virginia voters decided on Tuesday to allow Democrats to redraw the state’s House map to give their party a plus.With the passage of the referendum, voters opted to empower Virginia’s Democratic-led legislature to create a congressional map that leaves the state with just one safe Republican district. Prior to the Tuesday vote, Virginia’s 11-member House delegation consists of six Democrats and five Republicans, but this will likely change if court deci

The fallout from President Donald Trump’s unpopular Big Beautiful Bill keeps hitting impoverished red states harder than others a hospitals and voters come to terms with yawning debt and healthcare cuts threatening critical hospitals.Mississippi Today reports state lawmakers face a “daunting task” trying to fill the holes Trump blasted into the state budget with his looming federal cuts. Unhappy with their options, the Republican-dominated legislature failed to address some of the most pressing i

WIRED Magazine reports not just any scammer can use AI to slop together the pretty image of a woman and then market the image on the internet for money – but marketing to MAGA is is something different.“A 22-year-old aspiring orthopedic surgeon from northern India got some money from his parents, but he says he spent most of it subsidizing his licensing exams, and he’s still saving up to hopefully emigrate to the US after graduation,” reported WIRED. “So, he started searching for ways to make additional money online.”He tried different tactics, including YouTube shorts and selling study notes to other med students. But he later hit upon the idea of creating an AI-generated girl using Google G

President Donald Trump has “caved and run out of cards” in the war against Iran, according to an official who served under him during his first term.“Officially, if you are in Tehran right now and you are part of the new government that has supplanted the people who were there before, you are reading this message right now and thinking you are in control of these negotiations,” explained Miles Taylor, who served as Homeland Security deputy chief of staff and senior advisor to former chief of staff John Kelly, in a podcast appear

President Donald Trump is failing both with managing the American economy and prosecuting his war against Iran — and a top political strategist, one who advised the previous Republican president, characterized the current situation as that of a “lost war led by a fool.”“The economy is in free fall — it's in a state of collapse,” Steve Schmidt, who advised President George W. Bush but is critical of Trump, posted on X on Tuesday. “There are fuel shortages all over the world, and diesel is $7 a gallon. In California, there will be food shortages because fertilizer can't make it through t

With U.S. Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick lying about his ties to convicted sex-trafficker Jeffrey Epstein and his son facing scrutiny over alleged tariff ruling profits, Republicans are beginning to see Lutnick’s position as a liability.Raskin, the ranking Democrat of the House Judiciary Committee, is

Republican strategist and President Donald Trump supporter Scott Jennings managed to muddle his signals during a CNN panel discussion over voter apathy, arguing that voters are weary of partisan attacks on the other side while simultaneously attacking liberals as anti-American.CNN anchor Kasie Hunt ticked off survey numbers at the panel table revealing that only 36 percent of people feel the United States is the greatest country and 41 percent believing it is only one of the world’s greatest nations. But 23 percent of people proclaimed flatly that “we're not one of the greatest countries.”After a table discussion on di

President Donald Trump extended his two-week ceasefire in the war against Iran, prompting widespread mockery for him pulling another ‘TACO Tuesday’ — that is, “‘Trump Always Chickens Out’ Tuesday.”On Bluesky, the account Mueller, She Wrote (owner of Muller, She Wrote media) framed the extension with dark comedy, joking that Trump was merely delaying "ethnic cleansing and war crimes again." Journalist Nick Turse wrote "It's TACO Tuesday, again" adding parenthet

Over the course of President Donald Trump’s second term, the United States and the entire world have been thrust into chaos by the administration’s erratic actions. While many have speculated about what pushed the U.S. to elect its highly disruptive leader, renowned historian Timothy Snyder has a theory: it’s an attempt at “superpower suicide.”“I’ve been thinking about how best to characterize what the United States is doing to itself on the scale of the world,” said Snyder on his Substack, “and I think ‘superpower suicide’ is probably the best term.”There are a handful of poi

Since the beginning of President Donald Trump’s political career, writes the Nation, “pundits and religious observers have been asking themselves…just how a thrice-married casino owner who mocks opponents, savors vengeance, and revels in cruelty could become the hero of millions of devout Christians.” In 2016, he won 81 percent of the white evangelical vote — higher than George W. Bush, Mitt Romney, or John McCain in the preceding elections. Then in 2020, Trump secured 85 percent of Americans who both self-identified as evangelicals and attended church regularly. Finally in 2024, he yet again took over 80 percent of the evangelical vote.Now in recent weeks, amidst Trum