Mary Green Howle 🙃
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Today is my son-in-law's 40th birthday! Sadly, he gave his life for this country at the age of 25. He will always be my hero. He was the son-in-law every mother-in-law wishes for her daughter. He was old fashioned and loved his girls. Happy Heavenly Birthday Gustavo!
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@JoanneMason11 Looking forward to having you back. Praying for full healing for you.
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Mr. Mason here, Joanne had a quick surgery overnight to fix some bleeding but had a much better day. She was able to read some of you wonderful prayers and well wishes, and wanted to me say "thank everyone for their kindness and prayers, it means so much." Thank you from me, too.
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@ashbinks2588 Too cute. He does have a lot of institutional knowledge at this point.
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@micah_erfan Guessing you’re the kid who doesn’t read the casebook but wants to hear himself talk in class. 🙄
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The Virginia Supreme Court could have ruled the referendum was procedurally defective before millions voted.
The Republican appointed majority explicitly refrained from doing so.
Now they have come back after the fact and struck down the will of the people.
Shameful.
MeidasTouch@MeidasTouch
🚨BREAKING: In a 4-3 ruling, the Virginia Supreme Court has OVERTURNED the redistricting referendum approved by voters last month that could have netted Democrats 5 additional House seats. The court ruled the General Assembly violated the Virginia Constitution in advancing the amendment, nullifying the referendum entirely.
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@AndrewSolender @NoahCRothman @axios Stop buying elections with out-of-state money and start campaigning on the issues. Just a thought.
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House Dems to @axios on Virginia:
"Damn, California and Virginia were supposed to be our bigger ones"
"F*****ck!!"
"Sickening"
"Deflating"
"How many millions are we spending on this when the DNC is in debt and we have 40 frontline races to win?" axios.com/2026/05/08/vir…
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I absolutely love this decision, how it's written. It's so quintessentially old school Virginia, and it makes me proud to be a Virginia lawyer. I was worried this part of our Commonwealth was dead and buried, but it's clearly not.
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@GovernorVA How about the million plus Virginia voters who had already voted in the 2025 election whose rights you were perfectly happy to ignore?
“Pushing back against a President” isn’t a justification for intentionally violating the Virginia Constitution.
Ah the irony, Madame Governor.
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More than three million Virginians cast their ballots in Virginia’s redistricting referendum, and the majority of Virginia voters voted to push back against a President who said he is ‘entitled’ to more Republican seats in Congress with a temporary and responsive referendum. They made their voices heard.
I am disappointed by the Supreme Court of Virginia’s ruling, but my focus as Governor will be on ensuring that all voters have the information necessary to make their voices heard this November in the midterm elections because in those elections we — the voters — will have the final say.
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I was out partying my ass off all weekend long, where the hell were you?
Jay Bee@TheJayBee
Where the hell is Louise Lucas?
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Is everyone in Atlanta this nice all the time? This is like walking through Schmigadoon!
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@elmo Booze might not be the best for Elmo, so I’d say cheese and crackers.
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If Abigail Spanberger and Virginia Democrats had paid attention my October 2025 AG’s Opinion that made clear this scheme was unconstitutional and illegal, they could have saved more than $70 million, countless headaches, and months of obnoxious television ads defending the indefensible.
Instead, they ignored the law, wasted taxpayer money on running a special election, and dragged Virginians through a completely avoidable mess.
Jason Miyares@JasonMiyaresVA
My office just issued an official opinion explaining that the constitutionally required process to amend the Virginia Constitution cannot be short-circuited by a last-minute vote of the General Assembly taken during an ongoing election.
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QME
@JasonMiyaresVA @RBPundit Perhaps the supreme court of Va should have struck this down immediately rather than letting the referendum proceed.
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@KatiePMcGrady They both like football. Much ado about nothing.
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What I wouldn't give to be a fly on the wall when the Secretary of State's advisors told him to give the Holy Father a *checks notes* crystal football.
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@Ravon120 @JonahDispatch Personality is different than authenticity.
Personality in a politician is unlikely to be “what you see is what you get”.
It’s crafted. Performative.
JFK is one example. People who idolized him had little clue who he truly was. Many still don’t care. They fell for Camelot.
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@JonahDispatch Voters have always driven by personality jfk ,Reagan ,Clinton ,Obama , Trump ,Eisenhower , fdr, Theodore Roosevelt ! Way it is !
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Sigh. Authenticity is not necessarily a morally positive quality. People can be authentic assholes. A lot of people fake authenticity really well. Also, the whole cult of authenticity is Rousseauian-populist garbage whether from the left or right.
thedispatch.com/article/trump-…
The Bulwark@BulwarkOnline
"Voters want candidates who are authentically themselves—warts and all. In fact, a candidate’s vices have started to become markers of authenticity." Democratic voters. lnk.thebulwark.com/4wi04P6
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@julie10128 @charlescwcooke @brithume Perhaps the practice of allowing (football) coaches to teach high school social studies hasn’t panned out terribly well . . .
(Not all are unqualified, of course.)
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@charlescwcooke @brithume A world where they don’t teach basic civics.
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What? South Carolina has a black Senator. His name is Tim Scott. He’s a Republican. You can’t gerrymander Senate seats. What world do these people live in?
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