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Virginia Republicans move for permanent majority: So, it’s Martin Luther King, Jr. Day. Our first black president is being sworn in for his second term. How best to celebrate? I know! Let’s push through a surprise bill redrawing the districts in Virginia in a way that not only will server to reduce the representation of the political party that consistently wins the majority of the black vote, and screw over a civil rights hero in the process! (via The Maddow Blog)