Democrats ridicule Florida's "DeSantis Dummymander"

"Florida is not going to make a meaningful difference as it relates to their efforts to rig the midterm elections," House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) told reporters at a press conference on Monday.

CJ Warnke, a spokesperson for the Jeffries-aligned House Majority PAC, said in a statement to Axios that "Meatball Ron's Dummymander will not save Republicans," drawing on the derisive nickname President Trump gave DeSantis during the 2024 Republican presidential primary.

: "What the DeSantis Dummymander might lead to is that ... based on our analysis of the map, there are anywhere between 3 and 5 additional seats that Democrats can pick up if we get a turnout that mirrors 2018 or 2020," Jeffries said Monday.

Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Fla.) told Axios there is "no question" Democrats can hold onto some of the seats Republicans are targeting.

Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee executive director Julie Merz said in a statement: "Republicans should be careful what they wish for."

Putin pledges support for Iran in talks with FM Araghchi

Says the President who was Convicted of Sex Abuse for finger-raping a woman... and then convicted for defaming her.

Trumpers are SO proud!!

"White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said Trump's national security team met Monday and was discussing Iran's proposal. But she offered no detail about the discussion or how the proposal was received. She said Trump would address it later.

The Iranian proposal would push negotiations on the country's nuclear program to a later date. Trump said one of the major reasons he went to war was to deny Iran the ability to develop nuclear weapons."

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Yes, but will they promise to stop the Lego War, which they are winning?

Republicans have made the Military Industrial Complex Great Again!

Despite Ike's Warning.

) Ronettes 1965 Short Interview on Hullabaloo.

#17

Chinese comedy.

One supposes then, that whenever law enforcement pays a tipster, they are funding crime.

"The Florida Constitution imposes restrictions on partisan gerrymandering.

In a letter to lawmakers, DeSantis' team argued that population changes in the state since the 2020 census and a pending Supreme Court decision in a redistricting case out of Louisiana justified the state redrawing its maps, although the high court has yet to render judgment in that case."

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They will, of course, do it anyway.

And good on Virginia for fighting fire with fire.

"But that's more fantasy than history. If our country's founders, who were unhappily familiar with Europe's state churches, wanted to create a "Christian nation," they could have written Christian dogma into the Constitution.

Instead, they included a ban on any official national religion and an explicit ban on any religious test for public office.

That's why it was so wrong for Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick (R), chair of Trump's "religious liberty commission," to say this month that separation of church and state is "the biggest lie that's been told in America since our founding."

In fact, it is a fundamental American promise that protects religious liberty for everyone. It's a principle we should be celebrating as we commemorate the 250th anniversary of our declaration of independence from England and its official church.

Instead, the Trump administration is teaming up with a bunch of right-wing Christian nationalists for a May 17 event on the National Mall that is supposed to "rededicate" America to God."

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"I am no preacher, but what I have learned in my Baptist Church about the Old Testament prophets makes me suspect that God may not look very favorably on being asked to bless a government that is busy slamming its doors to refugees and taking food out of the mouths of hungry people while its corrupt leaders manipulate the system to enrich themselves."

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lots more at theHill link, including James Talarico.

Drunks are easier to hit... Kegsbreath could have been second on his List.

Trump has been humiliating the US for years now.

Trump kills children hundreds of children in Iran, and hundreds of thousands of children in Africa... but other people are responsible for causing him to be vilified and hated; that's your brain on the Cult of Trump.