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Saturday, May 9, 2026

Rule 5 Saturday - April Cheryse

I'm April Cheryse. I've been a professional bikini and lingerie model based in Southern California for over a decade, modeling has truly been one of the greatest joys of my life.

Friday, May 8, 2026

Virginia Supes Sink Spandamander

Breaking news almost everywhere: Virginia Supreme Court Strikes Down Gerrymander, Dems to Take a Hit in the Midterms (Athena Thorne, PJM).

"On March 6, 2026, the General Assembly of Virginia submitted to Virginia voters a proposed constitutional amendment that authorizes partisan gerrymandering of congressional districts in the Commonwealth," wrote Justice D. Arthur Kelsey in his preamble to the court's opinion. "We hold that the legislative process employed to advance this proposal violated Article XII, Section 1 of the Constitution of Virginia. This constitutional violation incurably taints the resulting referendum vote and nullifies its legal efficacy."

So the court rejected it not because it was an unfair partisan gerrymander, but because the way Democrats rammed it through violated the state constitution.

Ace just says lol, and gives it four flaming skulls and a pudding cup.

At Hat Hair, Dave Strom thinks Democrats Killed Themselves With the Virginia Redistricting Ploy. It certainly seems like it. Texas and California approximately offset each other. Virginia was hoped, by Democrats at least, to give Democrats a big lead. But in the wake of the recent Louisiana decision, a number of southern states, freed from court mandated restrictions on gerrymandering, are going ahead with partisan redrawing of the boundaries, and it looks like the GOP is likely to come out ahead after all.

As you might expect, Democrats are not taking it gracefully, Sister Toldja at RedState, Hot Takes: Hakeem Jeffries Implodes As Republicans Celebrate VA Supreme Court's Gerrymander Ruling.