Trump’s dismal poll numbers keep dropping (Reuters/Ipsos has his approval rating this week at just 34 percent - about where he was immediately following January 6, 2021). Support for his Iran war is also in the toilet. Inflation - led by gas prices - keeps growing (don’t even ask what we are paying here in California!)
Republicans know they are going to be absolutely ROUTED in November. So it seems they seem to have decided to triple down on their dizzying pace of imposing Project 2025, hoping to lull us into losing our focus (and maybe our determination).
The regime got a huge boost this week from the Supreme Court’s 6-3 decision in Callais v Landry, which put the final nail in the coffin of the Voting Rights Act.
Not gonna lie: This is BAD. Louisiana Governor Jeff Landry immediately seized upon the ruling and declared a state of emergency and postponed the state’s May 16 House primary election so they can squeeze out their existing Black-majority districts - which is now legal.
“Isn’t it convenient how they timed that drop?” asked Karoli. “Like if you if you’d waited another week, it wouldn’t have made any difference in the midterms. But, you know, Alito being Alito, he just gave it enough time to, you know, drop it in time.”
Not all the red states will be able to take advantage of Callais to gerrymander the hell out of their districts in 2026. Governor Brian Kemp announced that it won’t happen this cycle in Georgia because their voting has already begun. The real damage will be felt in 2028.
Karoli points out that “the obvious solution is that we have to change this crazy court …whether we take those matters out of their jurisdiction entirely. Or whether we expand the court.”
And we can DO those things with solid majorities in the House and Senate.
If we previously felt that showing up in droves to vote this year was important - it just became existentially so.
This week, we also touched upon:
The Democrats’ win over DHS funding
Pete Hegseth’s lame testimony to Congress
Trump’s stupid ballroom and obsession with putting his name and face on everything
King Charles’ visit
Brendan Carr vs. Jimmy Kimmel 2.0
The mishegas at the White House Correspondents Dinner
and today’s May Day economic action (NO WORK. NO SCHOOL. NO SHOPPING.)
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