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Viewing Topic: Transfer Cycle 2025-2026 - Helobious Is Getting Those Wrists Ready For Heavy Work
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Conservative groups have crafted a plan for demolishing the federal government’s efforts to counter climate change — and it wouldn’t stop with President Joe Biden’s policies.
The 920-page blueprint, whose hundreds of authors include former Trump administration officials, would go far beyond past GOP efforts to slash environmental agencies’ budgets or oust “deep state” employees.
Called Project 2025, it would block the expansion of the electrical grid for wind and solar energy; slash funding for the Environmental Protection Agency’s environmental justice office; shutter the Energy Department’s renewable energy offices; prevent states from adopting California’s car pollution standards; and delegate more regulation of polluting industries to Republican state officials.
If enacted, it could decimate the federal government’s climate work, stymie the transition to clean energy and shift agencies toward nurturing the fossil fuel industry rather than regulating it. It’s designed to be implemented on the first day of a Republican presidency.
“Project 2025 is not a white paper. We are not tinkering at the edges. We are writing a battle plan, and we are marshaling our forces,” said Paul Dans, director of Project 2025 at the Heritage Foundation, which compiled the plan as a road map for the first 180 days of the next GOP administration. “Never before has the whole conservative movement banded together to systematically prepare to take power day one and deconstruct the administrative state.”
https://www.politico.com/news/2023/07/28/far-right-climate-plans-00107498
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16 hours ago, Viper said:
The first competition between a Ukrainian athlete and a “neutral” russian athlete since the start of the full scale war went exactly as you’d imagine.
Ukraine’s Olha Kharlan defeated “neutral” Anna Smirnova in fencing. Despite Kharlan clarifying before the match that she wouldn’t do the handshake afterwards, the “neutral” russian attempted it anyway and then feigned confusion and hurt when she was rejected. The defeated Smirnova then staged a protest, refusing to leave until Kharlan was disqualified and she was declared winner instead.(Fortunately, she was ignored.)
Absolutely no decency or sense of perspective amidst their country’s ongoing imperial genocide. Turns out russians can protest though.
Not understanding how this is the "first competition" between a Ukranian athlete and a Russian. There's been several high profile incidents in Women's tennis between Ukranian and Russian competitors.
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17 hours ago, sidis said:
this one will definitely make you feel a little bit better about humanity and a good reminder that there are still some awesome people out there working together for worthwhile stuff who don't suck.
My wife and I watched it the other night. I had this same thought. Definitely worth a watch.
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We should take the banner into the 21st century. No more catchy slogans or demands being pulled behind planes. Instead, how about a giant QR code flown right over the pool party with a link to the many instances of institutionalized racism at aggy still occurring to this day.
Come on. I know for a fact many of you like blowing money on frivolous shit
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30 minutes ago, InkaUtexas said:
Post the links man! What they are doing is badass. Work with a group of US/UK doctors who rotate in to support any casualties. Stars, all of them.
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13 minutes ago, Samson's Wig said:
UT alumni of a certain age aren't exactly peaches. I'm sure most here remember the emails during the Eyes of Texas debacle. But aggies do seem to take it to an entirely different level.
I will echo what others have stated here, that the current student body doesn't really look or act like what most of us think of when we think of mouth-breathing, sheep-humping idiots with jizz jars, speech impediments, and lift kits on their pickups. Times have changed, even though the alumni and admin haven't.
Not restricted to the olds, either. My brother's close group of UT friends (all under 40) have gone off the far-right deep end. Most grew up with wealth, went to private schools, etc. Most are pretty successful now. One doctor, couple of finance bros, a few attorneys. They should know better. But the screen shots I get from the text threads are something else. You'd think they were boomers drooling over their facebook accounts and forwarding SPAM emails. Really crazy stuff.
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I've mentioned this before, but if anyone wants to throw some cash towards the Group my dad and brother started up, just PM me. Here's what they've accomplished over the last 12 months and multiple trips to Poland and the Ukrainian border:
QuoteDear Family, Friends and Supporters,
We write on this first anniversary of the launch of “our” TX-WY Mission for Ukrainian Refugees to recall our efforts due to your support and kindly ask that you consider a further donation. What began as a single trip to alleviate suffering of Ukrainian women and children flooding into Poland became, thanks to your unanticipated and overwhelming support, a mission that is now in its second year.
General William Tecumseh Sherman once told a group of cadets “War is Hell” and if you follow media covering the Russian invasion, you will agree. The brutal war on and near the front lines continues, death and suffering are never ending and the destruction of property is immense. As we wrote before, our Mission is engaged on the Second Front: supporting the men, women and children who suffer as collateral damage and yet are vital to maintaining morale in Ukraine. The need for humanitarian aid remains critical and donor support across the landscape is waning.
At this one-year milestone, we celebrate your generous and humbling support, allowing our Mission on the Second Front to accomplish so much - relative to our size. During this past year we:
-Bought and transported more than 80 pallets of non-perishable food and other supplies, which was packaged and delivered to needy civilians in Ukrainian towns and villages;
-Manufactured and transported to Ukraine more than 7,000 pouches of ready to eat meals (each sufficient to feed two people);
-Supported David Craig in his efforts to deliver countless tons of food, pet food, supplies, medical equipment, tools, clothing and other materials to badly damaged towns and villages in Ukraine, through our purchase of five vehicles and provision of a warehouse/home facility on the Polish- Ukraine border;
-Developed and continued to support the art therapy program for Ukrainian youth at the Modalinska refugee center in Warsaw (home to more than 400 Ukrainian refugee children) and at the Museum of the History of Polish Jews;
-Provided van loads of food, water, candy, office equipment, supplies, audiovisual equipment, musical equipment, art supplies, computers, phones, training and basic essentials to several NGO’s managing orphanages, youth centers, refugee centers, and the aid centers at the two main Polish train stations and bus station;
-Introduced Texas Children’s Hospital (TCH) and Baylor College of Medicine (BCM) to Happy Kids, the Polish NGO now caring for more than 2000 Ukrainian orphans scattered around Poland with the goal of building on Happy Kids’ strengths to increase its capabilities to manage the orphan crisis in Poland and prepare for improved orphan care in Ukraine;
-Introduced TCH and BCM to the Lviv Emergency Hospital to foster discussions about possible partnerships in children’s care, medical training and prosthetics; and
We are assisting a US NGO, Sunflower Network, to find support for building a children’s wing to the main hospital in Brody, Ukraine (between Kyiv and Lviv).
In addition, we are in discussions with a US-based property developer in Poland regarding assisting Happy Kids as an advisor on the renovation of buildings in Poland, which will provide homes and other facilities (e.g. psychosocial therapy) for Ukrainian orphans. Further, we are also in discussions with a US-based storage company in Poland regarding refrigerated shipment of our ready to eat meals to Ukraine and other potential joint efforts.
Assessing where we are today, currently, we have approximately $58,000 in our bank account. Going forward, we will spend your donations on the following:
-Continue to ship bulk food into Ukraine (approx. $1,000 per pallet)
-Continue to manufacture and ship ready to eat meals into Ukraine ($4 per 2-person pouch);
-Continue to support David Craig in his storage and delivery of supplies to Ukraine ($850/month for the warehouse facility, plus $3,000 per month for vehicle fuel); and
-Continue to support of the art therapy program at Modalinska and the Museum of the History of Polish Jews ($800 per month stipend for Lilliana the artist, plus $100 per month for supplies and equipment).
We will also continue to be involved as a convener or assist in some way with the following:
-Advice and assistance to Happy Kids and TCH as they work to strengthen Happy Kids;
-Assist Happy Kids to find financial and other support to rebuild or renovate housing and other facilities for the more than 2000 Ukrainian orphans in Poland;
-Assist TCH and BCM as they explore other opportunities in Poland and Ukraine; and
-Advise and assist sunflowernetwork.io in building a new children’s wing to the hospital in Brody, Ukraine.
We remain committed to our Mission. We are a non-organization and thus 99% of your donations go directly to the people in need.
For all those who have helped and followed us over the past year, we cannot thank you enough for your continued support, generosity and trust.
Slava Ukraine!
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https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2023-07-23/video-trans-man-beaten-la-county-sheriff-deputy
QuoteEmmett Brock thought he was dying, and his mind raced. This isn’t supposed to happen to me. This doesn’t happen this way. I can’t die like this.
He tasted the blood inside his mouth. He felt the fists land on his head. And he heard the shouts of the sheriff’s deputy on top of him, pressing him into the pavement of the 7-Eleven parking lot.
Three minutes later, the 23-year-old teacher sat in the back of a Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department cruiser not even knowing, he said, why the deputy had stopped him.
QuoteBefore his run-in with the deputy, Brock already was having a miserable day. He said he’d left his high school teaching job early after a co-worker had harassed him for being transgender. It wasn’t the first time, and he was getting fed up.
A few blocks from the school, Brock spotted a deputy who appeared to be having a heated conversation with a woman on the side of the road. As he drove by, Brock threw up his middle finger. He didn’t even think the deputy would see it, he said.
A few seconds later, he spotted a patrol cruiser following close behind him. It made Brock uneasy. He turned down one side street and then another, trying to figure out whether the cruiser was following him or just going in the same direction. The deputy didn’t turn on his lights or siren, but made every turn Brock did.
Growing unnerved, he called 911.
“Hi, um, I’m being followed by a police car,” he said in a recording shared with The Times. He told the dispatcher that the car was copying his turns, but not pulling him over. He said he wanted to make sure it was a “real police car” and that he wasn’t being stalked.
The two kept talking, and eventually the dispatcher asked: “What is it that you want us to do? If he hasn’t pulled you over, he hasn’t pulled you over.”
Two minutes into the call, Brock cursed and hung up. He kept driving, pulling up outside the 7-Eleven on Mills Avenue in Whittier, planning to buy a Coke before heading to a therapy appointment.
The cruiser pulled in behind him, and the store’s surveillance camera captured what followed. The deputy’s body-worn camera captured the sound.
As Brock stepped out of his car, Deputy Joseph Benza approached and told him: “I just stopped you,” offering no explanation as to why.
Confused, Brock replied, “No, you didn’t.”
“Yeah, I did,” the deputy said. Then he grabbed Brock’s arm and forced him to the ground.
Still unsure what he’d done, Brock said, he began to scream. “What — what are you doing? Oh, my god. What the f— is happening?”
For the next three minutes, Brock struggled and screamed as the deputy held him down and punched him in the head.
“You’re going to kill me,” Brock told him. “You’re going to f–-ing kill me. Help! Help! Help! I’m not resisting!”
His mind raced, turning over thoughts of all the things he’d never get to do in life: Finish grad school. Be a father. Become a professor.
“Help! Help! Help! I’m not resisting!”
At one point, the deputy ordered him to put his arms behind his back — but Brock‘s arms were already pinned under his chest.
“Even when I did get them out the way he wanted, he continued to punch me,” Brock told The Times. “He just kept saying, ‘Stop resisting, stop resisting.’ I didn’t understand why he was shouting that because I wasn’t resisting.”
According to the Sheriff’s Department, two witnesses saw Brock exit his car and struggle with the deputy. One of those witnesses claimed that Brock punched the deputy, which camera footage does not show and the deputy did not allege.
After Brock was in handcuffs, the deputy put him into the back seat of his cruiser. At that point, Brock said, he was trying to make sense of what had happened and why he was on the deputy’s radar in the first place.
It was only later that he learned from paperwork he was given: The deputy said he’d spotted an air freshener hanging from the rearview mirror, supposedly obstructing the view of the road from Brock’s black Honda Civic.
If Benza saw Brock flip him off, he made no mention of it in his report. According to the deputy’s version of events, the force was justified.
“It appeared he was about to walk away from the car and myself,” Benza wrote as part of an 11-page incident report. “His rejection of my traffic detention and his apparent intent to distance himself from his vehicle further raise safety concerns. I know from my training and experience that those who possess contraband items inside vehicles commonly attempt to disassociate themselves from their vehicles when law enforcement is present.”
Though he admitted grabbing Brock’s arm, he said that Brock pulled away and “cocked his right hand back into a fist, indicative of someone about to throw a punch.”
Deciding Brock was “at the onset of assaulting me,” Benza said he tackled him to the ground, adding that Brock had “continuously tried to bite” him. Benza then punched him “approximately eight times in rapid succession.”
“My punches had their intended effect,” he added.
He made no mention of Brock’s cries for help, or that he repeatedly told the deputy that he couldn’t breathe and wasn’t resisting. Instead, Benza’s report noted that Brock “attempted to rip my skin from my hand,” which he said “could result in permanent disfigurement.”
A paramedic’s report from the scene did not mention any bite marks. And when Benza went to the hospital later, the emergency room report noted that he’d told them the bite hadn’t broken the skin and there was no bleeding. A physician’s assistant wrote that there were “no bite marks at this time.”
Medical records do show that Benza fractured his right hand in a “punching injury.”
In interviews with The Times, Brock denied biting the deputy, and his lawyer said it would have been nearly impossible.
“There is no moment that Emmett is not shouting or screaming,” Beck said. “And you can’t talk when your teeth are clamped onto someone’s hand.”
QuoteDeputies took Brock to Coast Plaza Hospital, where he was treated for scrapes, bruises and a concussion. Once he was medically cleared, deputies took him to the station for booking. There, staff took his mug shot and fingerprints. They took his shoes and directed him to take off any jewelry. He struggled to pull his rings off over his swollen knuckles.
By that point, he said, the pain was beginning to set in. “My head was just exploding. I felt like I got hit by a truck.”
It wasn’t long before authorities asked Brock for a statement, during which he explained that he is transgender.
“So you’re a girl?” he said one jailer asked.
Brock said he wasn’t.
Then the man asked whether he had a penis — and Brock said he did. He explained what surgeries existed, and said that he’d been on hormones for years.
After one jailer asked for proof, Brock said, he spent a few awkward minutes in a bathroom showing her his genitalia and explaining the effects of testosterone.
He was placed in a women’s holding cell. It was a Friday afternoon and, with the courts closed, he worried he’d be stuck behind bars all weekend.
It was after dark when one of the jailers told him his family and his girlfriend had pulled together enough money for bail.
He was facing three felonies — mayhem, resisting arrest and obstruction — plus misdemeanor failure to obey a police officer.
Four days later, he lost his job after state authorities notified the school of his pending charges.
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9 minutes ago, GreenspointTexas said:
What will this do to the Mediterranean? Should I encourage my daughter to purchase land in Tunisia?


Elon Musk: Nazi traitor piece of shit [Confirmed]
in Daily Texan
Or you could just stop using the app that is now a playground for the alt-right, anti-Semites, and pedophiles. Tough call, I know.