Sugano Tomoyuki going today vs Mike’s Reds buzzsaw, good luck Tomo-san.
Supreme Court limits application of the Voting Rights Act on racially-constructed congressional districts, rules Louisiana’s second black district was unconstitutionally designed. Alito wrote the opinion.
I find this “sport” to be amazing. Indoor skydiving or skydancing. I saw a terrific video of Sydney on Facebook, but I can’t find that one on youtube. These are good though.
Well AppleBetty, I’ll be watching them tonight, and tomorrow afternoon too. Headed to Cincy now.
And to all in neoville, start brushing up on your Derby horses. That’s this weekend. I like Further Ado.
I asked Grok what states were most likely to redistrict in response to today’s Supreme Court voting rights act decision. Here’s the answer.
States Most Likely Able and Positioned to Redistrict in Response
States with Republican legislative majorities (and often the governorship) that previously faced VRA pressures, court orders, or threats of Section 2 lawsuits regarding majority-minority districts are the primary candidates. Analysts and officials have highlighted these as poised to act if the ruling weakens VRA enforcement:
• Louisiana — The case originated here. The map with two majority-Black districts was struck down; the state is expected to redraw with fewer such districts. Louisiana officials had already prepared by adjusting election timelines.
• Florida — Gov. Ron DeSantis has signaled interest in redrawing, especially in southern parts of the state, to alter majority-minority districts. Florida has a strong GOP trifecta.
• South Carolina — Republicans have discussed redrawing to target the district held by Rep. Jim Clyburn (the state’s only Black Democratic member) for a “clean sweep.”
• Alabama — Has a history of VRA litigation (e.g., Allen v. Milligan requiring a second Black opportunity district); the new ruling could allow rollback.
• Georgia — Has faced recent Section 2 challenges to congressional and legislative maps.
• Texas — Recently involved in related redistricting litigation; GOP control allows potential aggressive map adjustments. The Supreme Court had previously stayed certain lower court interventions here.
• North Carolina — GOP-controlled legislature has pursued aggressive redistricting in recent cycles and could move further.
• Mississippi — Ongoing issues with maps (including state supreme court districts) tied to VRA concerns; lawmakers have delayed action pending the SCOTUS outcome.
A month from now is the anniversary of the fall of Constantinople to the Muslims in 1453. I think this was one of the biggest events in Western Civilization and Christianity. We would do well to educate people on this.
Just in case anyone is still wondering why “Biden” HAD TO pardon Anthony Fauci for anything and everything past, present and future.
And for posterity…possibly even including the afterlife…though the likelihood is that at that point the good doctor will be spending most of his time beyond the River Styx.
@ Mike Plaiss > “And to all in neoville, start brushing up on your Derby horses.”
Announcer 1: Breaking news! One of the Derby favorites has suddenly scratched!
Announcer 2: And now the horses have lined up at the post, and without Further Ado — they’re off!
@ Kate and Bob: I hope the GOP legislatures don’t make the same kind of arrogant errors as did Virginia.
Q: Do you know the real reason Democrats hate the Second Amendment?
A: They think the shooting sequence is Ready, Fire, Aim.
I’ve seen posts on the first district judge who stayed the election certification because of egregious illegal actions, but there is apparently an equal-and-opposite judge to balance him.
Now in a court near you is The Lobster, a monster over 100 miles long. The only saving grace is that this creature only devours Republicans, leaving roughly half the state with virtually no representation in Congress.
Virginia was a quiet, pastoral state before the creature’s appearance. It was considered the gold standard among states rejecting gerrymandering, with fairly divided districts in a state divided right down the middle. It then elected a governor, Gov. Abigail Spanberger, who assured voters that she was adamantly against gerrymandering and then immediately called for the most radical gerrymandered map in the nation after she was elected.
The mad scientists who created this monster, now called the 7th Congressional District, created other weirdly shaped monstrosities designed to reduce a fairly evenly divided representation in the state to a 10-1 advantage for Democrats.
While one lower court has struck down the plan, another district judge recently looked at the Lobster and ran for cover. Richmond Circuit Court Judge Tracy Thorne-Begland seems to follow the view of the 2019 Godzilla creators that “sometimes… the only way to heal our wounds is to make peace with the demons who created them.”
What is most notable about the opinion is how irrelevant the Virginia constitutional and statutory standards are in the analysis.
…
A mildly amusing (even while erroneous) soft take-down of DJT at Atlantic Mag [archived], “Napoleon, Caesar, Alexander the Great—And Trump“: https://archive.ph/Bysp3
I think this will give the Republicans four more seats
Total Victory: Florida Congressional Maps Are Now Official
National Democrats must be stunned. They need to realize they cannot win a redistricting war with us. We knew from the start: Democrats have already gerrymandered their limited enclaves to death. Now, Florida has officially approved a new congressional map that gives the GOP a boost. It passed easily through the state House and Senate, and now it’s heading to DeSantis’ desk for his signature.
AesopFan, North Carolina is already fairly heavily gerrymandered, but on voting habits, not on the basis of race. Also, we have some legal requirements about compact district lines and not breaking up counties and municipalities unless they’re too large to comprise one district. I don’t expect this ruling to affect us much. Further comments will no doubt flow on Neo’s new post about this.
A meticulously observed and created 4,000 year old Sumerian cuneiform tablet records what was a relatively large—and visible from Earth—meteorite, apparently captured in Earth orbit, which eventually broke up, and rained parts of itself down on that ancient land, resulting in major death tolls, and massive damage.
Linked below is an interesting video, about this Sumerian tablet, held in the British Museum, which has been overlooked until very recently, when current day astronomers fed the very meticulously observed ancient Sumerian astronomical data inscribed on it into orbital calculation programs, which confirmed the accuracy and the very likely reality of the astronomical observations inscribed on the tablet, which talk of a second “stranger Moon” in the sky.*
According to this current analysis, what happened back 4,000 years ago was that a meteorite was captured in a temporary Earth orbit and–for 11 months it was seen and carefully observed in West Asia; a “stranger moon,” which appeared in the sky, getting closer and closer to the Moon for these eleven months, then, it’s obit decayed, and the meteorite apparently broke up, raining parts of it down over Mesopotamia.
Sumerian tablets also chronicled the disasters which resulted, the tens of thousands of deaths, and the major damage to civilization in the area.
Attesting to the reality of these major impacts, current day satellite observations confirmed that there were a dozen or so major impact craters in the area which, until now, had been unobserved/overlooked, unrealized as what they were.
We don’t realize just now how lucky our current civilization has been so far.
Middle of the 3rd inning, and the Rockies are up 4 to 0. And they chased the Red’s pitcher.
I don’t say the Rockies will win — the Reds are clearly the better team — but they’ll give you a game worth watching
Jon Baker
Islam has run Christianity out of the middle east and North Africa. And is running us out of Western countries. The West seems to have signed on to the “gentle Jesus, meek and mild” version of Christianity, which it never was. Christianity does not seem to response to naked evil adequately. The final hours of Constantinople:
Even better than the wonderful time-lapse photography in “The Time Machine” (1960) which warped my brain when I was eight.
P.S. This same meteorite was also seen and tracked for these 11 months by ancient Egyptian astronomers, who called it “the Eye of Set.”
P.S.S. Apparently this cuneiform tablet, full of precise astronomical observations and measurements had, around the time of it’s finding–in the mid 19th century–been interpreted, back then, as being some sort of fictional tale, or as being allegorical in nature, and as not containing real astronomical data.
It has been said that the vast majority of the cuneiform tablets which have been discovered to date are just sitting, unread and untranslated, in various museum storage areas, all over the world.
One wonders what other incredible discoveries might just be sitting there, waiting to be found.
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Mother Nature is a MAD scientist.
How’s about the Colorado Rockies?
Not a contender, but a lot of fun!
With the Dodgers, I just check the standings,
but with the Rockies, I watch the games.
Sugano Tomoyuki going today vs Mike’s Reds buzzsaw, good luck Tomo-san.
Supreme Court limits application of the Voting Rights Act on racially-constructed congressional districts, rules Louisiana’s second black district was unconstitutionally designed. Alito wrote the opinion.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/supreme-court-rules-key-voting-rights-act-rule-republicans-democrats-wage-redistricting-war
I find this “sport” to be amazing. Indoor skydiving or skydancing. I saw a terrific video of Sydney on Facebook, but I can’t find that one on youtube. These are good though.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pmVAkb4naKk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ttSIcT54kKo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RXUwpCUXMQw&t=14s
Well AppleBetty, I’ll be watching them tonight, and tomorrow afternoon too. Headed to Cincy now.
And to all in neoville, start brushing up on your Derby horses. That’s this weekend. I like Further Ado.
I asked Grok what states were most likely to redistrict in response to today’s Supreme Court voting rights act decision. Here’s the answer.
States Most Likely Able and Positioned to Redistrict in Response
States with Republican legislative majorities (and often the governorship) that previously faced VRA pressures, court orders, or threats of Section 2 lawsuits regarding majority-minority districts are the primary candidates. Analysts and officials have highlighted these as poised to act if the ruling weakens VRA enforcement:
• Louisiana — The case originated here. The map with two majority-Black districts was struck down; the state is expected to redraw with fewer such districts. Louisiana officials had already prepared by adjusting election timelines.
• Florida — Gov. Ron DeSantis has signaled interest in redrawing, especially in southern parts of the state, to alter majority-minority districts. Florida has a strong GOP trifecta.
• South Carolina — Republicans have discussed redrawing to target the district held by Rep. Jim Clyburn (the state’s only Black Democratic member) for a “clean sweep.”
• Alabama — Has a history of VRA litigation (e.g., Allen v. Milligan requiring a second Black opportunity district); the new ruling could allow rollback.
• Georgia — Has faced recent Section 2 challenges to congressional and legislative maps.
• Texas — Recently involved in related redistricting litigation; GOP control allows potential aggressive map adjustments. The Supreme Court had previously stayed certain lower court interventions here.
• North Carolina — GOP-controlled legislature has pursued aggressive redistricting in recent cycles and could move further.
• Mississippi — Ongoing issues with maps (including state supreme court districts) tied to VRA concerns; lawmakers have delayed action pending the SCOTUS outcome.
A month from now is the anniversary of the fall of Constantinople to the Muslims in 1453. I think this was one of the biggest events in Western Civilization and Christianity. We would do well to educate people on this.
https://share.google/aI0hH5Svda8B8PzZt
Just in case anyone is still wondering why “Biden” HAD TO pardon Anthony Fauci for anything and everything past, present and future.
And for posterity…possibly even including the afterlife…though the likelihood is that at that point the good doctor will be spending most of his time beyond the River Styx.
“COVID Cover-Up: Hiding Star Researcher Ralph Baric’s Ties To Global Pandemic”—
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/covid-cover-hiding-star-researcher-ralph-barics-ties-global-pandemic
@ Mike Plaiss > “And to all in neoville, start brushing up on your Derby horses.”
Announcer 1: Breaking news! One of the Derby favorites has suddenly scratched!
Announcer 2: And now the horses have lined up at the post, and without Further Ado — they’re off!
@ Kate and Bob: I hope the GOP legislatures don’t make the same kind of arrogant errors as did Virginia.
Q: Do you know the real reason Democrats hate the Second Amendment?
A: They think the shooting sequence is Ready, Fire, Aim.
I’ve seen posts on the first district judge who stayed the election certification because of egregious illegal actions, but there is apparently an equal-and-opposite judge to balance him.
https://jonathanturley.org/2026/04/28/incredible-unstoppable-titan-of-terror-the-lobster-that-devoured-virginias-constitution/
A mildly amusing (even while erroneous) soft take-down of DJT at Atlantic Mag [archived], “Napoleon, Caesar, Alexander the Great—And Trump“:
https://archive.ph/Bysp3
I think this will give the Republicans four more seats
Total Victory: Florida Congressional Maps Are Now Official
National Democrats must be stunned. They need to realize they cannot win a redistricting war with us. We knew from the start: Democrats have already gerrymandered their limited enclaves to death. Now, Florida has officially approved a new congressional map that gives the GOP a boost. It passed easily through the state House and Senate, and now it’s heading to DeSantis’ desk for his signature.
https://thenewneo.com/2026/04/29/open-thread-4-29-2026/
AesopFan, North Carolina is already fairly heavily gerrymandered, but on voting habits, not on the basis of race. Also, we have some legal requirements about compact district lines and not breaking up counties and municipalities unless they’re too large to comprise one district. I don’t expect this ruling to affect us much. Further comments will no doubt flow on Neo’s new post about this.
A meticulously observed and created 4,000 year old Sumerian cuneiform tablet records what was a relatively large—and visible from Earth—meteorite, apparently captured in Earth orbit, which eventually broke up, and rained parts of itself down on that ancient land, resulting in major death tolls, and massive damage.
Linked below is an interesting video, about this Sumerian tablet, held in the British Museum, which has been overlooked until very recently, when current day astronomers fed the very meticulously observed ancient Sumerian astronomical data inscribed on it into orbital calculation programs, which confirmed the accuracy and the very likely reality of the astronomical observations inscribed on the tablet, which talk of a second “stranger Moon” in the sky.*
According to this current analysis, what happened back 4,000 years ago was that a meteorite was captured in a temporary Earth orbit and–for 11 months it was seen and carefully observed in West Asia; a “stranger moon,” which appeared in the sky, getting closer and closer to the Moon for these eleven months, then, it’s obit decayed, and the meteorite apparently broke up, raining parts of it down over Mesopotamia.
Sumerian tablets also chronicled the disasters which resulted, the tens of thousands of deaths, and the major damage to civilization in the area.
Attesting to the reality of these major impacts, current day satellite observations confirmed that there were a dozen or so major impact craters in the area which, until now, had been unobserved/overlooked, unrealized as what they were.
We don’t realize just now how lucky our current civilization has been so far.
• See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UTVpZrBbcUg
Hey, sdferr and Mike,
Middle of the 3rd inning, and the Rockies are up 4 to 0. And they chased the Red’s pitcher.
I don’t say the Rockies will win — the Reds are clearly the better team — but they’ll give you a game worth watching
Jon Baker
Islam has run Christianity out of the middle east and North Africa. And is running us out of Western countries. The West seems to have signed on to the “gentle Jesus, meek and mild” version of Christianity, which it never was. Christianity does not seem to response to naked evil adequately. The final hours of Constantinople:
https://mybyzantine.wordpress.com/2010/05/27/the-final-hours-and-last-eucharist-2/
That was beautiful to watch! Thank you, Neo!
Re: Sunflower video
Quite beautiful indeed!
Even better than the wonderful time-lapse photography in “The Time Machine” (1960) which warped my brain when I was eight.
P.S. This same meteorite was also seen and tracked for these 11 months by ancient Egyptian astronomers, who called it “the Eye of Set.”
P.S.S. Apparently this cuneiform tablet, full of precise astronomical observations and measurements had, around the time of it’s finding–in the mid 19th century–been interpreted, back then, as being some sort of fictional tale, or as being allegorical in nature, and as not containing real astronomical data.
It has been said that the vast majority of the cuneiform tablets which have been discovered to date are just sitting, unread and untranslated, in various museum storage areas, all over the world.
One wonders what other incredible discoveries might just be sitting there, waiting to be found.