“The GOP was dumb, and Democrats owe the Justices another apology,” concludes The Wall Street Journal Editorial Board of the “self-defeating fiasco” of the Republican gerrymandering gambit.
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Board → owe → gambit
President Trump demanded states “redraw House districts” for extra seats, but that meant “Republicans spread GOP voters thin,” letting Democrats carry districts “thought to be safe.”
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Democrats → demand → districts
Now “the left is chortling” over “the magnitude of the GOP gerrymander bungle,” yet (contra hysteria about “the return of Jim Crow”), black Dem wins in majority-white districts debunk “the left-wing conceit that racial gerrymanders are needed to elect black politicians.”
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gerrymanders → chortle → politicians
And so much for Justice Elena Kagan’s claim that the high court had “blinded itself to the very deleterious effects” of partisan maps.
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court → blind → maps
As Dems now “gerrymander their state maps to entrench the new House Democratic majority,” be sure “you won’t hear them — or their media cheerleaders — complaining about” the Supremes’ hands-off approach.
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them → gerrymander → approach
Mideast watch: Who Really Flooded Gaza?
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Who → flood → Gaza
Don’t blame Israel; “it was Hamas’s cannibalisation of Gaza’s infrastructure that made the current floods so bad,” explains Spiked’s Brendan O’Neill.
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O’Neill → blame → infrastructure
Gaza lacks basic drainage because “Hamas spent years ripping water pipes out of the ground to turn them into rocket fuselages” — even boasting, according to The Telegraph, about bending “30 miles of water pipelines” funded by the EU into “an arsenal of home-made rockets” while diverting aid into a “350-mile tunnel system.”
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Hamas → lack → system
For 20 years, “Hamas chose to build not a functioning society but a staging ground for slaughter.”
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Hamas → choose → slaughter
In promoting “the moral absolution of Hamas,” Western activists treat Palestinians as “wide-eyed, child-like victims.”
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activists → promote → victims
“Outdated” rules make union-decertification elections “harder to hold” than necessary, and harder than federal law requires, gripes Mark Mix at The Hill.
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Mix → make → Hill
His group, National Right to Work Legal Defense, has “petitioned the National Labor Relations Board” to fix that and “defend workers’ free choice.”
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group → petition → choice
Since “a recent study found 95 percent of currently unionized workers” never voted for their union, the NLRB should also require union bosses to periodically “prove they have the support of a majority” of employees.
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they → find → employees
Such reforms are “nothing to fear” for “effective unions,” but could be “be the only way out” for trapped workers.
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reforms → fear → workers
Conservative: GOP Can’t Escape Don’s Shadow
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GOP → escape → Shadow
“The biggest factor in the Republicans’ 2026 midterm wipeout was [President] Trump,” argues National Review’s Jim Geraghty, but he’ll never own up to his “role in the coast-to-coast rebuke of Republicans.”
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he → argue → Republicans
Others may try to change the tone, but “Trump sucks up just about all the oxygen in the room,” making it hard for “any other Republican to develop a national reputation while living in Trump’s shadow.
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Republican → try → shadow
Plus, “most of his team believe their role is ‘owning the libs’ by putting on a show” — that “they’re in the content-creation business, when they’re really in the governing business.”
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they → believe → business
All the way through the 2028 elections, it’ll be a brutal struggle to present the GOP “as a potential governing party as long as the administration keeps its current perspective and approach.”
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administration → present → perspective
DSA Eyed for Cuba, China Ties
Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier “is investigating the Democratic Socialists of America over contributions from China and Cuba,” including if “the organization accepted ‘tens of thousands of dollars’ to fund DSA delegations” on a trip to meet “government officials in the two communist countries,” reports The Washington Times’ Susan Ferrechio.
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Ferrechio → eye → countries
The socialist organization appears to have violated a 2025 Florida law that “bans nonprofit organizations from soliciting donations from China, Russia, Iran, North Korea, Cuba, Syria and the now-ousted Venezuelan regime of Nicolas Maduro,” notes Uthmeier, who questions “whether its fundraising from Florida donors has been fully transparent and lawful.”
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fundraising → appear → donors
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