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Well.. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/18/texas-congressional-redistricting-maps New maps that added five Republican districts in Texas hit a legal roadblock on Tuesday, with a federal judge saying the state cannot use the 2025 maps because they are probably “racially gerrymandered”. The decision is likely to be appealed, given the push for more Republican-friendly congressional maps nationwide and Donald Trump’s full-court press on his party to make them. Some states have followed suit, and some Democratic states have retaliated, pushing to add more blue seats to counteract Republicans. A panel of three federal judges in Texas said in a decision that the state must use previously approved 2021 maps for next year’s midterms rather than the ones that kickstarted a wave of mid-decade redistricting. The plaintiffs, including the League of United Latin American Citizens, are “likely to prove at trial that Texas racially gerrymandered the 2025 map”, so the court approved a preliminary injunction to stop the map’s use for next year’s elections. Texas Republicans, under pressure from the Trump administration, redrew the state’s congressional maps earlier this year to make them more favorable to Republicans. But, Judge Jeffrey Brown wrote, the district changes were not purely partisan. “The public perception of this case is that it’s about politics,” Brown wrote. “To be sure, politics played a role in drawing the 2025 map. But it was much more than just politics. Substantial evidence shows that Texas racially gerrymandered the 2025 map.”
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It can’t be said enough. These people are completely out of control. This is no longer a free country: https://therealnews.com/charlotte-residents-horrified-after-border-patrol-arrests-women Residents in Charlotte, North Carolina are expressing outrage after two local women were arrested for honking their car horn to alert others that US Border Patrol was in the area. Local news station WCNC reported on Monday that the two women, who are US citizens, were taken into custody in the city’s Plaza Midwood neighborhood after Border Patrol agents pulled them over and accused them of interfering in operations by honking their horn. Video of the incident shows masked federal agents yelling at the women and demanding that they roll down their car windows. When the women do not comply, one officer smashes through the window and then he and other officers pull them out of the vehicle
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Could this be the craziest coaching carousel of all time?
Satchel replied to GreenspointTexas's topic in Football
I’d you hire Eric Morris there will be two Tech grads coaching the big boys in LA. -
Quiet piggy! https://www.bbc.com/news/videos/c70j210g4e7o
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Sadly, this craziness is coming to every state university in Texas, thanks to Texas grad and Texas Tech chancellor who went on a years long jihad against DEI: Because of his legislative successes against rights, “Creighton and others like him can now “ dictate what is prohibited in the classroom, control what is taught and create a campus environment that nurtures and supports only some students.”
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Why is capitalism losing favor in Trump’s America? https://www.axios.com/2025/09/08/americans-capitalism-social-big-business-gallup-poll The lowest share of Americans ever view capitalism positively and big business rates even worse in new Gallup data released Monday. Why it matters: Americans' souring attitudes toward capitalism and corporations reflects a growing unease with the economy, rising inflation and a stagnating job market. In another recent poll, 70% of U.S. adults said they had no faith in the American dream of hard work paying off. By the numbers: A slim majority of Americans — 54% — said they have positive ratings of capitalism, down from 60% in 2021. Perceptions of socialism — currently 39% positive — have not changed significantly since polling began in 2010. State of play: For the first time, fewer than half of Democrats view capitalism positively. They're also the only political group to view socialism more positively than capitalism. Ratings of "big business" have dropped significantly, especially among Democrats. However, Americans remain overwhelmingly supportive of small business and free enterprise despite their skepticism of larger market forces.
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At Trump’s direction. Bondi. Patel and company would destroy everything that could bring him down, knowing that he will pardon them. They’d better hope he doesn’t die suddenly.
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They should substitute pedophile for child rapist every time they talk about the child rapists.
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Could this be the craziest coaching carousel of all time?
Satchel replied to GreenspointTexas's topic in Football
McGuire is not going to piggy. Why would he? -
Several House GOP hard-liners are pushing to kill a provision contained in the shutdown-ending funding package that would allow senators to sue the government if their electronic records are obtained without their knowledge, according to two people granted anonymity to share private conversations. That legislative language was inserted in the Senate at the instruction of Senate Majority Leader John Thune, responding to the several Republican senators who are enraged their phone records were subpoenaed as part of Biden-era special counsel Jack Smith’s investigation into President Donald Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election results. https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2025/11/12/congress/house-republicans-push-vote-to-reverse-provision-allowing-senators-to-sue-over-phone-records-00648323
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Nobody really cares about any of that so long as everybody is making gobs of money.
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You want them to get a bye. All four teams earning byes last year, lost.
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Then there’s this: https://www.tigerdroppings.com/rant/politics/barack-obama-just-surprised-an-entire-aircraft-full-of-veterans-on-veterans-day/121205963/
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Catholic priests and religious are being advised not to leave the country:
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From Yahoo News: The United Kingdom is no longer sharing intelligence with the US about suspected drug trafficking vessels in the Caribbean because it does not want to be complicit in US military strikes and believes the attacks are illegal, sources familiar with the matter told CNN. The UK’s decision marks a significant break from its closest ally and intelligence sharing partner and underscores the growing skepticism over the legality of the US military’s campaign around Latin America. For years, the UK, which controls a number of territories in the Caribbean where it bases intelligence assets, has helped the US locate vessels suspected of carrying drugs so that the US Coast Guard could interdict them, the sources said. That meant the ships would be stopped, boarded, its crew detained, and drugs seized.
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