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@mattforney what a load of bs.

Can we please stop with the idea that New England is somehow gerrymandered? This is a county-level map of how New England voted in the 2024 election. The majority of counties are blue, including every county in Massachusetts and Rhode Island. The "40 percent" of Republicans in most of these states are dispersed to the point where it's impossible to stitch a GOP-leaning district together without resorting to insane gerrymandering scams like the Democrats did in Louisiana, where they carved a black-majority district by shoving two cities together that were 250 miles apart. In many cases, particularly in Massachusetts, the "40 percent" of Republicans are in towns that vote 55/45 or 60/40 Democratic. This is first-past-the-post voting, where getting just one more vote than the other guy wins, and where geographic concentration matters more than the overall vote. The only way to increase Republican representation in New England would be to increase the overall size of the House. Massachusetts has only nine seats, Connecticut has five, Vermont has one, the rest of the states have two. If Massachusetts had, say, 20 or 30 seats, a few of them would be reliably Republican. There are other extenuating issues hobbling Republican representation in New England: - Massachusetts: hostile ballot access laws that were intended to cripple third parties but now cripple Republicans because they can't get enough signatures in many districts to even get on the ballot. This is why the GOP punches above its weight in statewide races (the majority of governors since 1990 have been Republicans); it's easier for them to get on the ballot when the entire state is the electorate. - Connecticut: the two red counties are primarily rural and lack enough population for their own districts. - Vermont: only one House district, so gerrymandering and redistricting aren't factors at all. - New Hampshire: voters here are weird and split their votes more than any other state. Extremely common for them to vote for a Republican governor or state representative and a Democrat for federal races. - Maine: ranked-choice voting has nuked the Republicans in almost every race since 2018. This year, even the most pessimistic BLOO WAVE prognosticators are conceding that Republicans will win Maine's second district due to their candidate being former governor Paul LePage. Stop it. Please stop it. You people need an education on how FPTP works, why it's superior to the gay proportional systems that Europeans use, and why it leads to problems like this.

@PaulNiland Hey genius the US was just denied the use of bases AND airspace to conduct military operations in Iran.

Something a lot of people don't see. Trump thinks US troops in Germany are there to protect Germany. They're not. They're there because the US needs the bases to be able to carry out US operations beyond the north American continent. Trump doesn't understand this basic fact.

Dear Democrats whining about Democracy: please explain to America how, out of 21 Congressional seats representing the 6 New England states, there are ZERO Republican Representatives, even though 40% of the electorate are registered Republicans, 48% in New Hampshire alone?

@ConservativeTht @SmokeyJo_17

@Johnny91510015 @ArynneWexler And…?

@Bad_Boy_Tos @ArynneWexler He’s Jewish.

Wonder if they’ll mention Israel

@RealCandaceO he f'd up. he should have just answered the question and it would have been done and dusted leaving her with nowhere else to go. he gave her exactly what she wanted.

This was very well done. It’s not left vs. right anymore no matter how hard they try to force us back into the paradigm. It’s a simple yes or no question. The answer cannot be “well, was Biden mentally fit?”

@Johnny91510015 @ArynneWexler Seriously? Do you know anything about Max? Go ahead and tell me he’s not an anti semite

@Bad_Boy_Tos @ArynneWexler Imagine being in this much denial. Never mind, I guess you don’t have to.

@Johnny91510015 @ArynneWexler Wrong. He is an ideologue incapable of objective analysis.

@Bad_Boy_Tos @ArynneWexler The citation is a Penn State study. Imagine thinking you’re the smart guy here.

@ReverendWarnock You sir are a racist.

Trump's Supreme Court is dragging us back to the dark and ugly days of Jim Crow. x.com/abc/status/204…

@azsweetheart013 You just said that unironically.

You can put lipstick on a pig, it’s still a pig.

@amitylee13 @kellyjohnsonhas Same reason the world is silent against Christian persecution???

Why are American Evangelical Christians so silent on Israel’s destruction of all these ancient Christian villages?

@ZacharyDonnini @DimetrodonD You’re a disgrace. Grow up.

If Republicans aggressively gerrymander the South and eliminate up to 10 Democratic seats under a narrowed VRA, Democrats could become desperate and respond with absurd maps in blue states. This 17-0 Illinois map could become legal, flipping three seats from 🔴 to 🔵.

@ZacharyDonnini Idiot.

If Republicans aggressively gerrymander the South and eliminate up to 10 Democratic seats under a narrowed VRA, Democrats could respond in blue states. For example, this 52-0 California map could become legal, flipping four seats from 🔴 to 🔵.

@ShabbyShambles @AlexanderSoros The Democratic Party is a failed & dangerous institution

@AlexanderSoros We need better leadership. Democratic leadership has lost so many fights the previous generation won. It has cost America liberal progress for decades, and it won't change until we fight for it.

The Supreme Court just made it easier to draw minority voters out of power. That's what today's ruling does. Kagan said Section 2 is now "all but a dead letter." She's right. States can gerrymander by race as long as they call it partisanship, and the Court handed them the playbook to do so.

@ClayTravis 

Kamala is going to be the 2028 nominee. Black women aren’t leaving her corner.

@Johnny91510015 @ArynneWexler Imagine citing max for objective analysis 🤣😂😆

@ArynneWexler Why would they?

@ArynneWexler Bazillion times

@israelUSAforeve Bye.

Prince Harry says, "he’s ready to leave the U.S." Thoughts?

@SenMcConnell Wait, you’re still here?? Retire already ffs.

Clearly, King Charles wants America to know our allies, who came to our aid after 9/11, still look to us for leadership. On the importance of NATO and handing Russia a defeat in Ukraine, his message is crystal clear.

@BillKristol You’re a real ass&ole.

Hey, Trump administration: If we’re suddenly so concerned about violence, how about indictments of the killers of Renee Good and Alex Pretti?