John Bowden

Doomsday scenarios of Texas and California going nuclear over redistricting A mid-decade redrawing of congressional maps would have implications far beyond the 2026 midterm elections, write John Bowden and Eric Garcia. The Independent illustrates, with interactive maps by Ali...

Really cool project that @jbowden.bsky.social ,
@alicjahagopian.bsky.social and I worked on for the last month:

Trump set off a nuclear war on redistricting, with Democrats pledging to fight fire with fire. So how would the map look if both sides go nuclear?
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

Doomsday scenarios of Texas and California going nuclear over redistricting A mid-decade redrawing of congressional maps would have implications far beyond the 2026 midterm elections, write John Bowden and Eric Garcia. The Independent’s interactive maps illustrate the Cold Wa...

As Texas House Republicans passed their map, Democrats in California plan to counterstrike. Here's what the congressional map might look like, and what actions Democratic governors can (and can't take). via me and @jbowden.bsky.social
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

Here's Karoline Leavitt truly not knowing what she is talking about:

uhhhhhhhhh

epic re-frame here

Kamala Harris ‘ran away’ from voters says Michigan Democrat vying for Senate ‘These people made a calculated decision about who they needed and who they didn't,’ says Democrat Abdul El-Sayed, who is running to win back those voters his party lost in 2024

Link: www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

A recent poll from the NRSC put El-Sayed 2 points behind
@RepHaleyStevens
. We also talked:
- Reaching younger voters, and why they abandoned the party in 2024
- Gaza, and Biden's decline

I talked to
@abdulelsayed.bsky.social
about the Senate race in Michigan and the lessons 2024 should teach the Democratic Party:

"These people made a calculated decision about who they needed and who they didn't. And it turns out that that decision was way off.”

Let’s just take a moment to thank Donald Jr for his clear eyed, and steadfast determination to get answers with Epstein. He says to ask ourselves DAILY what SCUM would be against disclosure and truth? Hmmm….

Any Democrat who can answer a question without 50 words of focus group-speak stands out rn

Shane Gillis, hosting the ESPYS: “Actually, there was supposed to be an Epstein joke here but I guess it got deleted. Must have probably deleted itself right? Probably never existed, actually. Let’s move on as a country and ignore that.”

Trump to the President of Liberia: "Such good English. Where did you learn to speak so beautifully?"

English is the official language of Liberia...

Riley Gaines spinning coming 5th in a college swim meet into a career as a political commentator says a lot about the dynamics of right-wing punditry.

somehow I don't think the cheap romance novelist who is currently spinning out in this comment section is going to get the message and suddenly become grounded in reality

and these are the voices the party keeps listening to: hyper-loyal, uninformed superfans who think leadership can do no wrong

Trump clings to friendly Fox News as Tucker Carlson and ‘manosphere’ sour on Iran war New media figures like Joe Rogan and Theo Von are increasingly backing away from Trump as he plots war with Iran. They’re driving him back into the arms of Fox News, writes John Bowden

Trump's dig at Tucker over audience size was very telling. He's leaning back into pro-war Fox News as the "manosphere" and paleoconservatives react with horror to the prospect of another war in the Middle East: www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

For our next very expensive study we'll be asking those monkeys with the typewriters if they really understood the theme of Macbeth or not

Does this qualify as waste, fraud, abuse, or all three?

a nation on edge holds its breath as the former host of celebrity apprentice huddles with his advisors, the wrestlemania ceo and the former co-host of fox & friends weekends

Trump isn’t just burning his MAGA coalition over Iran he’s inspiring a new one Trump’s sudden re-embrace of the ‘neocons’ he just recently spurned is leaving Democrats a major political opening — if they can seize it, writes John Bowden

Trump is, by all accounts, inching the U.S. to the brink of war with Iran. By doing so, he's "angrily hemorrhaging" his own voting coalition, one of his supporters wrote on Tuesday.

www.independent.co.uk/news/trump-i...

Democrats Are Wary of Playing Into Trump’s Hands by Supporting ‘No Kings,’ L.A. Protests Some leaders are feeling the long shadow of 2020 demonstrations that sparked GOP backlash

to be clear: when they write "Democrats" they actually mean Third Way and a guy who was a Deputy Mayor 25 years ago

I don't think anybody's quite gotten to the full Mike Lee story. He rarely talks in hallways, now posts conspiratorial stuff regularly, went from 2016 warning against Trump to working with members of his team ahead of 1/6/21.
Lately a cheerleader for nixing NATO, Fed, impeaching judges, etc.

3 months. He's been sitting on this reply for 3 months.

We've got to find better terms than "baseless" for this stuff. Unhinged, Cult belief, there's plenty terms out there the press could use to inform if they didn't think informing you was biased

NEW: The Trump administration has conceded that it improperly deported another Salvadoran man in violation of a court order — blaming a "confluence of administrative errors."

The man's lawyer plans to demand his return.

www.politico.com/news/2025/05...

been saying this for like 3 years now, the core constituency of the "manosphere" is not Gen Z or teenage boys, it is 35-55 year old dudes who wish they were still teenage boys

That common thing where you accidentally refer to yourself as divorced on national TV

Ah yes, as guaranteed in the First Amendment, Americans may enjoy free speech as long as it’s in sync with what the administration is trying to accomplish

Trump's ban on foreign Harvard students halted by judge while lawsuit proceeds The ban has left international students reconsidering their futures at Harvard.

JUST IN: Trump's ban on foreign Harvard students halted by judge while lawsuit proceeds