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  1. Ewers got a lot of help at Texas, and I think his shortcomings played a substantial role in the Georgia and Ohio State losses. Still, I think he could be the best QB on the Dolphins and I'd love to see him succeed at the next level. I don't care about that team at all, otherwise, so what's the harm in rooting for the guy?
  2. this. i assume there's also some lawfare (outside of Texas) they could try since this is related to federal elections, like a restraining order from an indigenous mutiracial nonbinary genderqueer Biden appointee
  3. They can't pass the new maps without a quorum. How would the texas supreme court dispense with that requirement?
  4. Most of them are independently wealthy or have day jobs that can be done remotely. Their families can join them in Illinois. This is too important.
  5. Nothing, but they can just flee again.
  6. They need quorum though. So if the Dems remain strong the redistricting can't pass during this special session
  7. You sure they don't?
  8. On the subject of Texas Dems, I like the effort from the 51 who have fled the state but I've seen this movie before so I'm not going to give any of them any credit until the special session is over. Anything less than an effective opposition is purely performative. In other words, the jury's still out whether we've got fighters or "more of the same" (folders).
  9. bumping this We are here: https://www.cnn.com/2025/08/04/us/texas-flood-survivors Absolutely nothing on FoxNews website https://www.foxnews.com/ Absolutely nothing on MSNBC website either https://www.msnbc.com/
  10. DAF extension watch is officially underway.
  11. He and Deloss totally enabled and culturally epitomized the "country club atmosphere" we became known for. If it hadn't been for striking gold with VY and Colt I think his legacy would have been very, very different and the trajectory of the program would have been quite grim.
  12. Haven't seen a big pop like that since the first quarter of Game 7 of the NBA Finals
  13. Handicap primary challengers who aren't over 65. Maybe like 15 percent
  14. This is the same "lens" that tells us we've been invaded by murderers and rapists and it also tells us the Iran nuclear facilities were totally obliterated and it also tells us Epstein committed suicide and never provided kids to rape for Trump, who by the way did not rape kids.
  15. Epstein files. Now.
  16. I don't think those Valley districts are going to break they way they think unless Trump is on the ballot, and even when Trump is on the ballot and wins (like he did in Laredo for example) the incumbent Dem still does pretty well. They gerrymandered the 15th like hell (adding votes from Wilson and Jim Wells counties) and could only flip the district due to Brandon's unpopularity. I think it was a hold in 2024 because of Trump but it's exactly the kind of race that, in a 2018-style blue wave, a supercandidate (like Beto was in 2018) could help a downballot challenger defeat an incumbent republican. All democrats who tried to act tough on the border FAFO'd https://www.texastribune.org/2024/08/23/michelle-vallejo-monica-de-la-cruz-south-texas-congress-border/ Whoever they try to run in TX-15 assuming this new map holds cannot be weak. I have no idea how popular De La Cruz is down there but she doesn't strike me as particularly charismatic or skilled. Not that I trust the Texas Dems not to fuck this up, but all of those valley districts are winnable.
  17. If memory serves me right, judging by that map, a 9 minute drive on I-35 from a North Austin Home Depot (Howard Lane and I-35) to the Round Rock offices of the Carlson Law Firm (Exit 251) would pass through five different Congressional districts.
  18. https://www.kcentv.com/article/sports/college/baylor/baylors-dave-aranda-apologizes-following-remarks-derogatory-term/500-4620256b-0237-4ce1-85a5-3c22990cacc4
  19. Kevin Nash would kick his ass anyway
  20. It sort of makes sense if those hands had made extensive contact with gross sweat from other men like Epstein
  21. My pet idea is to fracture Congress so instead of one member per district we would have multiple sub-Congressional bodies with one member per body per district, where each body more or less has the same "jurisdiction" as the current Congressional committees. That would in theory allow each district to send someone who truly represents its interests at a greater granularity. For example, a Houston district can send a pro-Oil MAGA guy to the Energy body and anti-MAGA pro-Immigration guys to the Homeland Security body, the Foreign Affairs body, and the Judiciary body.
  22. Mexico was corrupt as hell and they managed to do it.
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