Senstor Warnock: [video clip from Weds]

"The same tools used during Jim Crow, packing and cracking Black voting districts, are back, and now the Court said that’s fine… This is an effort by politicians to choose who their voters are instead of having voters choose their politicians."

#Via Ari Berman / ariberman
2:22 PM · May 7, 2026

"Tennessee Republicans pass new 9-0 gerrymander after SCOTUS destruction of Voting Rights Act eliminating state’s only majority-Black district & last Democratic seat. Splits Memphis, which is 63% Black, into 3 districts to disenfranchise Black voters. Quite literally a return to Jim Crow."

#Via W.E.D.em Boyz / leftistwonk
2:29 PM · May 7, 2026

"Again this should inspire wall-to-wall media coverage for months. The crowning achievement of the Civil Rights Movement is dead. Black people just lost all of their remaining political power in the South. This is a monumental moment in American history that simply isn't being treated as such."

#Via Erik Hane / erikhane
2:38 PM · May 7, 2026

"there's simply no adequate political response to this that isn't based on fully destroying the people and party responsible for it.

that's not ultraleft or fringe to say anymore. we can have a livable country or we can have a country with the Republican Party in it. everyone knows this now, from the most edgy leftist poster to a mainstream liberal. the opposition party can either offer that clearly and loudly, or they can lose."

#Via Leah McElrath
@leahmcelrath
12:29 PM · May 6, 2026

"Disenfranchisement of Black voters is happening at a speed and scale unprecedented in my lifetime."

#Via Derek Powazek
@fraying
3:24 PM · May 7, 2026

"Supreme Court said 'go ahead and do racist gerrymanders' and Tennessee was ready to go.

Democracy doesn't die in darkness - we watch it crumble in broad daylight."

#Via Democracy Docket
@democracydocket
10:28 AM · May 8, 2026

"In a loss for Democrats, the Virginia Supreme Court ruled the congressional map voters approved last month to counter GOP gerrymanders cannot go into effect.

The decision overturns the will of voters for technical reasons and gives Republicans a leg up for the 2026 midterms.

The decision marks a significant and terrifying moment in our democracy as the court allowed an election to be cancelled after its completion."

#Via Josh Gerstein
@Joshgerstein
10:15 AM · May 8, 2026

"Virginia Supreme Court, 4-3, overturns redistricting referendum that could have netted Democrats 5 additional House seats. Doc:"

[pdf link]
https://www.vacourts.gov/static/opinions/opnscvwp/1260127.pdf

#Via Josh Gerstein
@Joshgerstein
10:15 AM · May 8, 2026

"Virginia Supreme Court, 4-3, overturns redistricting referendum that could have netted Democrats 5 additional House seats. Doc:"

[pdf link]
https://www.vacourts.gov/static/opinions/opnscvwp/1260127.pdf

@_L1vY_ @Joshgerstein so only republicans can do it?

@terribletowelie @_L1vY_ @Joshgerstein Dems gotta stop playing defense. They need to attack! attack! attack the MFers!!!

@RiaResists @_L1vY_ @Joshgerstein

#Via Josh Gerstein
@Joshgerstein
10:15 AM · May 8, 2026

"Virginia Supreme Court, 4-3, overturns redistricting referendum that could have netted Democrats 5 additional House seats. Doc:"

[pdf link]
https://www.vacourts.gov/static/opinions/opnscvwp/1260127.pdf

#Via ósanwë 🦭 /isilanor
8:52 PM · May 7, 2026

"the maximalist calculus right after a blue wave midterm simply doesn't work out for republicans but they're doing it anyway.

they're playing w/fire doing this right before democrats take control of a bunch of swing states, and the impact on house control will be relatively low; but republicans have a doctrinal opposition to black people having elected representation, so of course it must happen immediately."

#Via ósanwë 🦭 /isilanor
8:52 PM · May 7, 2026

"they refuse to support nationwide fair districting, not because it would confer any partisan advantage at this point, but because they have a doctrinal opposition to black people having elected representation. it's not a means to an end, it is the end in and of itself."

#Via Fuss / semperfitrex
10:48 AM · May 8, 2026

"Virginia Supreme Court declaring Democratic gerrymandering illegal while Republicans are literally wrapping themselves in Trump flags while disenfranchising black southerners is the most on brand moment for the modern USA."

#Via Sen. Lemon Gogurt
@ugarles
10:03 AM · May 8, 2026

"the game that the republicans are playing is that democrats are institutionally more timid and less likely to wipe local republicans off the map. they are stealing seats now so that they can call for calm later. investigating virginia state sentator lucas is part of the game."

#Via Thomas Lecaque
@tlecaque
10:18 AM · May 8, 2026

"Gerrymandering for me but not for thee, the Republican way.

If the courts and voting cannot achieve redress, populations pushed to despair turn to violence.

Wish they'd read history, not the white mythology Praeger and Wallbuilders feed them."

#Via victoria scott
@victoriascott
10:30 AM · May 8, 2026

"Oh come the fuck on man how come every morning it’s more Airbud shit to wake up to, except the dog can only play basketball if it’s racist or whatever"

#Via Asawin Suebsaeng
@swin24‬
10:26 AM · May 8, 2026

"I think a lot of people are underestimating just how politically radicalizing this stuff is, when you see what the right is getting away with, including with the blessing of the Supreme Court majority."