Yes, the Centers for Disease Control is exploding tonight — but we cats are looking back on the first part of this week and not feeling too terrible. Here are a few reasons why:
Democrat Caitlin Drey won a state senate seat in an Iowa special election yesterday. Why is this exciting? Because the district that Drey carried went for Benedict Donald by 11 points last year. Since she beat her Republican opponent by 10 points, that's one big, beautiful swing in our direction. Add that to the state senate seat that we flipped in January in a district that went for Trump by 21, and it's pretty obvious there's somethin' happenin' here.
Also yesterday, a federal appeals court ruled that Pennsylvania must count mail-in ballots that have the wrong dates on their return envelopes. (Hey, sometimes people don't fill stuff out right.) This is a win for Democrats, who use mail-in voting more than Republicans do — and a big defeat for the GOP, which believes that voting should be difficult for everyone except them.
But that was the second piece of good news on the voting rights front. On Monday, a judge struck down Utah's Republican-gerrymandered maps and ordered the state legislature to go back to the drawing board. The best part? Benedict Donald whined about it on his silly social media platform today, but thanks to Gavin Newsom's brilliant parodies of his style, not in all caps. Gee, a lower-case tweet just doesn't carry the same sense of Trumpian grievance and outrage.
Finally, the Trumpsters have embarrassed themselves by failing to get a grand jury to indict the DC Sandwich Guy on a felony assault charge. This is almost unheard of — when the government presents a case, a grand jury almost always follows its lead. But the team led by Judge Box O' Wine just couldn't get it done, and now they have egg on their faces. Or maybe egg salad. Or salami. We cats PURR.
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