
Politics Notebook: On the campaign trail
Tim Kaine talks Senate budget votes, and we look at the latest polling in New Hampshire and North Carolina

Tim Kaine talks Senate budget votes, and we look at the latest polling in New Hampshire and North Carolina
The Virginia Supreme Court on Friday handed down its 4-3 ruling, which was, predictably, along the most partisan of lines, to invalidate the April 21 redistricting referendum.
Donald Trump, not at all off his rocker, is, today, threatening Iran with total genocide.

The fill-up cost for the average Augusta County guy with a big pickup truck, and we’ve got more than our fair share of those, has gone up $37.29 since the start of Donald Trump’s war in Iran five weeks ago.
The Trump-MAGA Republican Medicare cuts have 10 Virginia hospitals at risk of closure, according to a new report from the nonpartisan group Public Citizen.
Donald Trump has sacked Pam Bondi as his attorney general, but don’t get too excited, because the next one is going to be just as bad, probably worse.
To understand the Trump regime’s position on birthright citizenship, you need to know this: the case rests on an 1880 U.S. Supreme Court ruling holding that Native Americans can’t register to vote because they’re not American citizens.
I didn’t get out to the No Kings protest in Staunton today; and want to be clear here, it was a conscious decision.
The U.S. and Israel are now at war with Iran, over Iran’s nuclear program, which was supposedly obliterated, per the insistence of Donald Trump, a few months ago by a round of U.S. and Israeli air strikes, but apparently wasn’t.
The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that the Trump regime’s tariffs, implemented under the terms of the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, are unconstitutional, eliciting this predictable response from Donald Trump: “I have a backup plan.”
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