Brian Mitchell

@MeidasTouch Why should SCOTUS have any say over state constitutional issues? Wouldn’t that make state constitutions irrelevant and pointless to have individual states?

NEWS: Virginia Democrats have filed a motion asking the Supreme Court of Virginia to delay issuing its mandate striking down the congressional redistricting referendum. The filing states that the Commonwealth intends to file an emergency petition with the U.S. Supreme Court of seeking review of the decision.

@TPCarney @ChrisCillizza Correct. Districts in theory should be drawn so that people who live in a similar area and that have similar characteristics/issues are grouped together so that their voices can be heard and represented by someone who also lives reasonably near them.

The current Virginia map, which will stay in place for 2026, is a very good map. * The districts respect municipal lines * The districts are fairly compact * The districts are coherent: You can describe most of them. As icing, the resulting party split is proportional.

@MarkWarner Actually it was. Might not be in other states where you D’s and R’s are having a pissing match to essentially disenfranchise the entire nation when it comes to voting, but VA is actually on the right side of this political 🐂 💩

Justice wasn’t served today in Virginia. We must continue to work to preserve and protect our democracy.

@GavinNewsom 🤦‍♂️

HUGE NEWS: California just became the FIRST state in America to provide FREE DIAPERS to all new parents. Launching this summer. Since I became Governor, we have made preschool FREE, school meals FREE, and expanded paid family leave. Stop talking about lowering costs for families — DO IT!

@harrisonjaime @SEC All you have to do is pony up millions more in NIL money and funnel it to the BIG 10…I’m sure you know how to make an NGO to make it happen.

If Black voters and Black voices aren’t considered meaningful enough to fairly represent the South, then maybe we should reconsider representing the South on the football field and basketball court too. .@SEC , don’t stay silent in the face of Jim Crow 2.0. Because once you open Pandora’s box, all kinds of things come out of it. Or maybe it’s just time for our children and these young brothers and sisters to find new playing fields that actually respect their humanity, their voices, and their value. @GavinNewsom @GovPritzker @SpanbergerForVA @iamwesmoore @JoshShapiroPA @GovWhitmer I’m sure y’all can find some scholarship $ for these talented young folks right?!

@danturrentine @sethjlevy Can’t wait to see what crazy stories come out about her in the primaries if she’s still in the pole position closer to voting time. Not a chance in hell the DNC wants her to be the nominee, and I bet they do what they can behind the scenes to ensure she doesn’t.

@sethjlevy Wait until tomorrow’s substack, when I write why she is today in the pole position for the primary 😳

Kamala. As I’ve been saying.

@ClayTravis Feel like this is a 2 part question. Does alien life exist? Almost certainly, the universe is massive beyond our wildest imagination….so is there some form of life somewhere in it? I believe that. Have they visited our planet before? Highly doubtful.

Do you believe alien life exists and that these life forms have visited our planet before?

@BillSimmons Welp my Wiz gonna get the ole screwjob again 😂

Cannot for the life of me figure out why… 1. The NBA moved the lottery to a Sunday afternoon 2. They put it at 3 ET before the 2 playoff games on Mother’s Day no less. It’s almost like they’re trying to sneak it by us. Conspiracy Bill is on alert!!!!!!!!

@chucktodd @BarackObama @SpanbergerForVA I’m just happy that half our reps won’t come from Fairfax now. I am a swing voter but a D rep from DC is way different than a D rep from a more rural area. NOVA is way more crazy liberal than other liberal parts of the state.

Wonder what @BarackObama and @SpanbergerForVA are thinking at the moment. They sure burned up a lot of political capital in the Va remap campaign.

@will_wjacobs3 @ChrisCillizza @SenLouiseLucas The 10 f’n 1 tees are going to be collectors gold on eBay someday tho.

@SenLouiseLucas may be the obvious frontrunner for this week

@EricHolder But you were ok when my state did it? Is it because I’m a White living in a rural area that it’s ok to take away my voting power and give it to rich urban Whites?

My statement on Tennessee’s immoral gerrymander:

@GavinNewsom I mean at this point all the states are just gonna do it so that many people are disenfranchised and just won’t bother to vote. Doesn’t matter the color of your skin. Almost like saying VA redistricting was ok because it erased White redneck districts off the map.

Confederate states are rushing through rigged maps to erase Black districts off the map. If this doesn’t make you angry, it should.

@ChrisCillizza Lol the things we poll about….

Just 1 in 3 Republicans think they could beat a 79 year old man in a fight

@JMUGameday Bahaha they won’t add more mid majors. But they will happily put more in the play in games.

In theory this would allow for more at large mid majors… but I’m sure the committee will do anything in their power to just put more power teams in

@DrewSav True. VA just disenfranchised poor white people who a lot voted for a black lady to be governor. But it’s ok to disenfranchise those people because they’re white. Enjoy eating your lobster poor white folks.

Abigail Spanberger received well over 90% of the Black vote. VRA districts have to elect minority voters preferred candidate. That candidate is not required to be a minority.

@mcuban Actually love the new setup. VA born so kinda forced into being a Wizards fan….and sooooo tired of the crap play just because they’re incentivized to lose currently. Glad to see that even if they’re going do suck I their games might be watchable again because they’ll try.

When you flatten the odds, the number of trades will explode. It was impossible to know who would win the tankathon in the off season, and the leading tankers aren’t trading their picks at the deadline BUT you can have a good idea who isn’t a top 8 team in your conference. And teams will do everything they can to trade for their firsts. Get 2 non playoff firsts in a draft, and you have a good shot of having better odds than the bottom 3 this year. And even 2 picks at 5.4 pct each, makes you the equal of a tankathon 4 or 5 team. The question is what puts you in a position to trade for 1sts? Cap room at the deadline. Teams that were headed to the 2nd apron and needed saving. Give me that future first. Willingness to trade good players. Want my best player. We aren’t going anywhere this season. Give me that future first. I think the games to stay out of the bottom 3 will be fun. I think the protection limits are smart. Don’t want teams in the playin making decisions on draft vs win. But teams still have to figure out how to win and now, grabbing as many picks as possible, is the highest value approach Once you know you have the little c next to your team … can’t make the bottom 3, if it’s before the deadline, you can get aggressive If you don’t have a team you like, you make any trade that gets you a first. Just imagine if you have a good young team. But just not good enough to win a ring. And you believe the best player ever is coming this draft , you literally could trade your future firsts , plus your really good young , valued players and when combined with your own pick, or picks you already had, get 5 firsts that give you, with some luck , a 40.5 pct chance of winning the lottery. Still an almost 60 pct chance you won’t. But it sure would be interesting as it plays out. The good news for the nba, the bottom 3-2-1 is smart. The better news for Shams , the trade rumors are going to be off the charts as teams try to “aggregate up” to get the best odds they can

@IngrahamAngle Lol ain’t no R gonna be governor of California regardless

If the R’s don’t rally to a single candidate, the CA governor race will likely feature two D’s.

@chucktodd And I think 5 reps from fairfax is enough…we would just gerrymander the additional reps so they would have 10

@chucktodd Please no. We’re paying enough partisan hacks at the moment.

There really is only one way to improve representation for all Americans in Congress: UNCAP THE HOUSE! It’s what the founders intended; they did NOT want to see Congressional Districts that were bigger than most major cities. Want to dilute the influence of courts and partisans, UNCAP THE HOUSE!

@BarackObama A couple weeks ago I kept seeing ads on my TV with you supporting gerrymandering. So now it’s a problem? I’m confused.

Today’s Supreme Court decision effectively guts a key pillar of the Voting Rights Act, freeing state legislatures to gerrymander legislative districts to systematically dilute and weaken the voting power of racial minorities - so long as they do it under the guise of “partisanship” rather than explicit “racial bias.” And it serves as just one more example of how a majority of the current Court seems intent on abandoning its vital role in ensuring equal participation in our democracy and protecting the rights of minority groups against majority overreach. The good news is that such setbacks can be overcome. But that will only happen if citizens across the country who cherish our democratic ideals continue to mobilize and vote in record numbers - not just in the upcoming midterms or in high profile races, but in every election and every level.