Sam Wang

Can’t wait for the timeline in which this hypergerrymander eventually gets allowed by the Supreme Court and it delivers, like, one seat for its crafters.

Can’t wait for the timeline in which this hypergerrymander eventually gets allowed by the Supreme Court and it delivers, like, one seat for its crafters.

Queens men meet — Queens Daily Eagle The first man from Queens to be elected president and the first Queens resident to be elected mayor of New York City met for the first time in the Oval Office on Friday.

The Queens Daily Eagle remains undefeated.

Marjorie Taylor Greene just announced she's leaving Congress

second verse on this is one of the funniest things i've ever heard

Senator Lindsey Gramsci

TRUMP [after spending 5 minutes with Zohran]: surplus value, it’s a very wonderful thing, very wonderful, and they’re stealing it. Can you believe that?

We’re going to be looking very strongly at the bourgeoisie, what they’re up to

“And I saw when the Lamb opened one of the seals, and I heard, as it were the noise of thunder, one of the four beasts saying, Come and see.”

“And I saw when the Lamb opened one of the seals, and I heard, as it were the noise of thunder, one of the four beasts saying, Come and see.”

Paging Andy Ogles!

This is delicious.

In reversal, Coast Guard again classifies swastikas, nooses as hate symbols The new order came hours after The Post reported the service would instead classify such symbols as “potentially divisive” under guidelines set for release next month.

The Coast Guard reversed its 'swastikas aren't all that bad' policy just hours after the Washpost broke the story.

It's both surprising, and good, to see that one government agency these days is capable of being embarrassed, and changing course quickly.

www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

Meet the veteran who chases ICE on a scooter Clifford “Buzz” Grambo patrols the streets of Baltimore to keep his neighbors safe—and make federal agents uncomfortable.

The effectiveness of a mass movement scales up out of proportion to its size. 10 people may be 100 times as effective as one; 100 people may be 10,000 times as effective.

Imagine hundreds of people on scooters, doing what Buzz Grambo (that's his name!) is doing: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Read the post - Sam thinks the redistricting might not produce the gains they think it will due to shifts in Hispanic votes.

At this point, so far the net effect of this festival of redistricting is to add 3 seats for Democrats. VA and FL could change that.

Really not worth it for either side, considering what is likely to happen in 2026. And terrible for gerrymandered voters everywhere.

Texas Toast Are the mid-decade redistricting wars winding down?

To read more about where things seem to be headed, see today's (somewhat long) deep dive: samwang.substack.com/p/texas-toast

Trump Rattles Vaccine Experts Over Aluminum

The new CDC page suggesting that vaccines could cause autism makes 10 mentions of aluminum. Experts I talked to said taking it out would crash half of the childhood schedule immediately:

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/h...

New name for the CDC just dropped:

If you receive an illegal order, you have a duty to disobey.

This isn’t controversial.

A President calling for the execution of anyone who reminds service members of this oath is showing us why the duty to disobey illegal orders is so important in the first place.

I still want a newspaper to do an Impeachable Offense of the Day column.

It would get a lot of attention and frankly be quite easy to do.

Some agencies might be able to keep their name, since it's ambiguous which side they are on:

New name for the CDC just dropped:

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And Comey's attorneys -- in ECF No. 208 -- had this to say about Halligan's attempts to "correct" the record.

Rule 606. Juror’s Competency as a Witness

FRE 606 (b) does allow calling the jurors as witnesses to answer these sorts of questions.

www.law.cornell.edu/rules/fre/ru...

The government respectfully submits this supplemental filing to correct the record regarding statements during the hearing held on November 19, 2025, before U.S. District Court Judge Michael S. Nachmanoff, suggesting an issue with the grand jury voting process on the indictment returned in Case No. 1:25-CR-272-MSN. The official transcript of the September 25, 2025, proceedings before Magistrate Judge Vaala conclusively refutes that claim and establishes that the grand jury voted on - and true-billed - the two-count indictment. I. The Court and the Foreperson Confirmed the Vote on the Two-Count Indictment The transcript contains the following direct exchange between the Court and the grand jury foreperson: THE COURT: Sorry, I didn't mean to interrupt you. 10 So you voted on the one that has the two counts? 11 THE FOREPERSON: Yes. See Transcript, Dkt No, 10, attached as Exhibit "A" at 4. This sworn testimony alone establishes that the grand jury voted on the two-count

This is nuts.

Yesterday in the Comey hearing, prosecutors *repeatedly* confirmed that the full grand jury never saw or voted on the two-count indictment.

Now they’re claiming the grand jury *did* vote on it.

Very telling that lawmakers reminding the military to obey lawful orders has hit a nerve among the MAGA elites and Trump specifically

Leans into the Trumpian notion that if the President orders something it’s not illegal - which is patently incompatible with constitutional democracy

social media is such a democratizer

No Kings Find a protest near you today

More on these nonlinearities, which occur in social networks and mass protest: samwang.substack.com/p/no-kings?u...

This is the Democratic “behavior” that Trump says is punishable by death, just in case you haven’t seen it yet.