Jolly Good Ginger
@jollygoodginger.bsky.social

big time gambling addict swears hes clean, and can totally pull the one armed bandit again

This is a very good sign about his understanding of what good governance involves

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Mississippi Republicans respond to Democrats flipping 3 seats & breaking the GOP supermajority, saying Republicans "were the underdogs" due to court-drawn maps.

"It may make them feel better, but it doesn't change the conservative direction or policies in our state legislature led by Republicans."

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If I were the mayor or governor, I would simply not allow masked, armed men to kidnap preschool teachers in front of their children. If this isn’t a red line for you as a leader, then I don't know what you think your job is.

Arrest them. Cut power to their facilities. Send out protection patrols.

Mamdani: My message to I.C.E. Agents and to everyone across this city is that everyone will be held to the same standard of the law. If you violate the law, you must be held accountable.

“How did you receive the foreigner? And did you receive him and welcome him or not?”

Pope Leo XIV challenges us to reflect on the moral cost of policies that target deeply-root immigrants and families.

Breaking the supermajority in the Mississippi State Legislature is a huge deal and a great achievement.

Donald Trump is doing everything he can to cover up the Epstein files. @repstansbury.bsky.social and Oversight Dems will never stop fighting for justice for the survivors of Epstein’s sex trafficking ring.

No matter who you are, if you harmed women and girls, we will hold you accountable.

Democrats: Zohran cracked the code. Chiefly, one phrase dominated his message.

QUALITY OF LIFE

That's it. That's the phrase. That's the promise. Every generation plays video games now. Everyone knows what a QOL improvement FEELS like. That's the promise of '26.

Improve everyone's Quality of Life.

This line didn’t make it into many Trump speeches. 🤡

Key Republicans waver ahead of war powers vote The White House, in an apparent push to get Republicans on board, has increased efforts to brief lawmakers about its legal rationale for boat strikes in the Caribbean.

If the administration thinks it has a compelling case to use military force against Venezuela, it should seek authorization from Congress as required by the Constitution.

Instead it is trying to convince senators to abdicate their constitutional responsibilities.

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v pleased Sotomayor just said this same damn thing at oral argument in the tariffs case like UM didn't we say in the student loans case??

DOJ said this is different bc there's a foreign emergency; Sotomayor said ok bet, so we say global warming is an emergency and then we can have loan forgiveness?

Every time I see Trump claim vast powers over economic policy that the Constitution does not give him, often only for the Supreme Court to step in and go 'seems legit,' I can't help but think about the Court carrying on as if canceling some student loan debt was shocking executive overreach

Again, these maps have got to be causing a massive panic in any state where they're considering gerrymandering.

“.. There were no counties or cities (as of writing) that moved right relative to four years ago. On average, they instead moved 13 points to the left.”

@pbump.com #Virginia
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Defense says that the officer's testimony was "very questionable" because he said the sandwich both exploded in spray of mustard and onions and also landed in its wrapper on the ground.

i’d also say that the GOP’s obsession with this gives candidates an opportunity to articulate and stand up for their values. “i refuse to make anyone feel like they don’t belong in my [state/city/community]. and i want everyone to live the best life they can achieve [insert policy slogan]”

Mamdani: "New York will remain a city of immigrants, a city built by immigrants, powered by immigrants, and as of tonight, led by an immigrant."

I am taking particular pleasure in the complete collapse of trans-as-unbeatable-wedge-issue narrative this morning. It might be an 80-20 issue in voters minds, but it has to be on voters minds to matter. The results in VA demonstrate that it is very much not on voters minds.

Image of Zyahna Bryant. She is wearing a lavender suit.

LOCAL ELECTION RESULT:

Let me congratulate @zysaidso.bsky.social for her election to the Charlottesville School Board.

For those wondering: Zyahna Bryant was a student organizer who led the successful fight in removing two confederate statues from downtown Charlottesville.

I knew it would take less than a day for a tiktok dj to make something.

The entire pundit class has convinced people for so long that their “analysis” was somehow necessary and valuable when in reality it was just a con game to manufacture consent for bias-confirming “strategies” that only benefited the capitalist class and guaranteed pundits career security.

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Yet, he votes by mail and has his whole life. The irony.

He is living in the 1980s in his dementia ridden head when you had to produce an ID to write a check. He’s an idiot.

Love traumatizing children to make childcare more expensive