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I worked on a planning project for the OKC region around 2009-2010 and was impressed with everything that was going on back then. Bricktown and Devon Tower were both still pretty new, and I recall there were big gaps in the "urban fabric" around both of those. Strengthening the connections between them or enhancing the immediate areas around them was a big theme of the plan. Did any of those areas eventually get filled in? The filling-in part was something that seemed sorely needed for the city, since many of its major "anchors' are isolated from one another. This was especially noticeable coming from Austin, where all those major activity nodes are clustered in the urban core. For the benefit of Austin people, the way they're set up would be analogous to: The Capitol building would be located about where the old Concordia Campus used to be, but a little bit east of I-35. It's basically in a low-density, residential-type area. The Dell Medical Center would be in Austin's Chestnut neighborhood, a few blocks east of Oakwood Cemetery. And the University of Texas campus would be out by Niederwald. Don't get me wrong, though. I did, in fact, like OKC. It's just that all those things being spread out seemed to hold back the downtown area from being a vibrant urban core back then. To make this post relevant to the thread topic, I didn't visit the museum but did wander around the memorial for a while. It is very well done and should be seen by anyone visiting town.
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Thanks! I had to run to the airport late this afternoon to pick someone up. It looks like they screwed up the data entry for Midland County in that column, although the totals add up to what they should be. Midland reported a third case yesterday.
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I thought he was referring to the two brothers in Eastland County who’ve also been doling out the Christofascist cash to Texas pols.
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Here's how I would group them: Fascists Tacit fascists Partisans: Yay, team! Morons: It doesn't affect me, so why should I care? Denialists
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Yeah, that's a great example. That thread, chock-full of racism, went 44 pages over in the Daily Texan. Finally! Whiteys are vindicated! https://www.surlyhorns.com/board/topic/7866-looks-like-we-have-another-fake-hate-crime/
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That's why so many of them have glommed onto the stabbing. Complete silence about all the other bullshit and injustices going on. But, man, there's a Black kid who stabbed a white kid, and that's one crime they can all rally around and place their confused anger to right their collective consciences.
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Yep. After lying about Abrego being a gang member, JBJ is going on ignore. He's just another authoritarian cult member who's willfully drunk the orange Kool-Aid. Not worth my or anyone else's time. I'd say he's useless, but that wouldn't be the truth. He's, in fact, just another fascist tool.
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@JBJ The regime manufactured this case with how they’re handling these deportations, and now it’s a Constitutional crisis because they are ignoring court orders. Drop your loyalty to the GOP and pick up your loyalty to the Constitution. You're choosing Party over Country, bud. Take a look at what your Party has become and pay attention to what real conservatives like David Brooks and Bill Kristol are saying.
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Our very conservative SCOTUS literally ordered this Administration to facilitate his return so that he could receive due process. If THE COURTS then determine that he should go back to El Salvador, he can at least go home as a free man and not be held in a nightmare prison situation. If you are okay with the Executive Branch ignoring the Judicial Branch and deporting people to concentration camps, then I can only assume you’re simply another stupid little authoritarian who wants to live in a dictatorship, which by definition makes you an enemy of constitutional democracy.
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It's not simply the lack of due process and ignoring SCOTUS's order, which is all very, very bad, but also it's the "where" specifically he's being deported to and held in (paid my fucking money) that makes this so fucking awful. Kafka wrote a story about this once. You should read it. They are lying about him being a terrorist and a member of a violent gang. He has no legal recourse to defend himself. He is being held in a concentration camp (by definition a place to hold people with no due process). It's not like they simply deported him to his own country to live his life as a free man outside the US.
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Fascism has had its place within the American conservative movement for damn near 100 years. It took them a few generations to fully take over the GOP, but Trump's rise put them over the top. 1930s: America First movement, Charles Lindbergh, Father Coughlin, paleo-conservatives. 1950s: Red Scare, McCarthyism. 1960s-1980s: Realignment of the parties with Southern segregationists leaving the Party, with anti-abortion Evangelicals tagging along (often one in the same); Nixon's corruption and the start of the War on Drugs; pissed off Vietnam Vets forming the backbone of the modern gun movement, NRA, Soldier of Fortune magazine; conservative think tanks established; Ronnie Raygun. 1990s-2000s: Pat Buchanan's xenophobia (anti-immigrant, Islamophobia) and economic nationalism, 9-11 Freedumb Fries bullshit got added to the mix; Libaugh and FOX News. 2010-present: Trumpism (a true authoritarian, strong "business man" finally discovered to pick up the mantle); aided by social media. It's certainly been a progression. Planned or not. This is my interpretation and summary of how we got to this point. Edit: I should've started with the 1920s with its anti-immigrant movement and the rise of the KKK as a national movement. And, of course, a lot of that shit just goes back to the Civil War/Reconstruction and Jewish, Italian, and Eastern European immigration during the Gilded Age. There's a singular ideological tent pole holding the whole thing up.
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Noted conservative David Brooks calling for a revolution (basically): What’s Happening Is Not Normal. America Needs an Uprising That Is Not Normal. In the beginning there was agony. Under the empires of old, the strong did what they willed and the weak suffered what they must. But over the centuries, people built the sinews of civilization: Constitutions to restrain power, international alliances to promote peace, legal systems to peacefully settle disputes, scientific institutions to cure disease, news outlets to advance public understanding, charitable organizations to ease suffering, businesses to build wealth and spread prosperity, and universities to preserve, transmit and advance the glories of our way of life. These institutions make our lives sweet, loving and creative, rather than nasty, brutish and short. Trumpism is threatening all of that. It is primarily about the acquisition of power — power for its own sake. It is a multifront assault to make the earth a playground for ruthless men, so of course any institutions that might restrain power must be weakened or destroyed. Trumpism is about ego, appetite and acquisitiveness and is driven by a primal aversion to the higher elements of the human spirit — learning, compassion, scientific wonder, the pursuit of justice. So far, we have treated the various assaults of President Trump and the acolytes in his administration as a series of different attacks. In one lane they are going after law firms. In another they savaged U.S.A.I.D. In another they’re attacking our universities. On yet another front they’re undermining NATO and on another they’re upending global trade. But that’s the wrong way to think about it. These are not separate battles. This is a single effort to undo the parts of the civilizational order that might restrain Trump’s acquisition of power. And it will take a concerted response to beat it back. So far, each sector Trump has assaulted has responded independently — the law firms seek to protect themselves, the universities, separately, try to do the same. Yes, a group of firms banded together in support of the firm Perkins Coie, but in other cases it’s individual law firms trying to secure their separate peace with Trump. Yes, Harvard eventually drew a line in the sand, but Columbia cut a deal. This is a disastrous strategy that ensures that Trump will trample on one victim after another. He divides and conquers. Slowly, many of us are realizing that we need to band together. But even these efforts are insular and fragmented. Several members of the Big Ten conference are working on forming an alliance to defend academic freedom. Good. But that would be 18 schools out of roughly 4,000 degree-granting American colleges and universities. So far, the only real hint of something larger — a mass countermovement — has been the rallies led by Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. But this too is an ineffective way to respond to Trump; those partisan rallies make this fight seem like a normal contest between Democrats and Republicans. What is happening now is not normal politics. We’re seeing an assault on the fundamental institutions of our civic life, things we should all swear loyalty to — Democrat, independent or Republican. It’s time for a comprehensive national civic uprising. It’s time for Americans in universities, law, business, nonprofits and the scientific community, and civil servants and beyond to form one coordinated mass movement. Trump is about power. The only way he’s going to be stopped is if he’s confronted by some movement that possesses rival power. Peoples throughout history have done exactly this when confronted by an authoritarian assault. In their book, “Why Civil Resistance Works,” Erica Chenoweth and Maria J. Stephan looked at hundreds of nonviolent uprisings. These movements used many different tools at their disposal — lawsuits, mass rallies, strikes, work slowdowns, boycotts and other forms of noncooperation and resistance. These movements began small and built up. They developed clear messages that appealed to a variety of groups. They shifted the narrative so the authoritarians were no longer on permanent offense. Sometimes they used nonviolent means to provoke the regime into taking violent action, which shocks the nation, undercuts the regime’s authority and further strengthens the movement. (Think of the civil rights movement at Selma.) Right now, Trumpism is dividing civil society; if done right, the civic uprising can begin to divide the forces of Trumpism. Chenoweth and Stephan emphasize that this takes coordination. There doesn’t always have to be one charismatic leader, but there does have to be one backbone organization, one coordinating body that does the work of coalition building. In his book “Upheaval,” Jared Diamond looked at countries that endured crises and recovered. He points out that the nations that recover don’t catastrophize — they don’t say everything is screwed up and we need to burn it all down. They take a careful inventory of what is working well and what is working poorly. Leaders assume responsibility for their own share of society’s problems. This struck me as essential advice for Americans today. We live in a country with catastrophically low levels of institutional trust. University presidents, big law firms, media organizations and corporate executives face a wall of skepticism and cynicism. If they are going to participate in a mass civic uprising against Trump, they have to show the rest of the country that they understand the establishment sins that gave rise to Trump in the first place. They have to show that they are democratically seeking to reform their institutions. This is not just defending the establishment; it’s moving somewhere new. [NOTE: This is a point that Buttigieg has been making in the last couple of weeks. There's no rebuilding what will have been lost if/once this is all over. We're going to have to build something new to replace some of the shit that kinda didn't work anymore for everyone.] Let’s take the universities. I’ve been privileged to teach at American universities off and on for nearly 30 years and I get to visit a dozen or two others every year. These are the crown jewels of American life. They are hubs of scientific and entrepreneurial innovation. In a million ways, the scholars at universities help us understand ourselves and our world. I have seen it over and over: A kid comes on campus as a freshman, inquisitive but unformed. By senior year, there is something impressive about her. She is awakened, cultured, a critical thinker. The universities have performed their magic once again. People flock from all over the world to admire our universities. But like all institutions, they have their flaws. Many have allowed themselves to become shrouded in a stifling progressivism that tells half the country: Your voices don’t matter. Through admissions policies that favor rich kids, the elite universities have contributed to a diploma divide. If the same affluent families come out on top generation after generation, then no one should be surprised if the losers flip over the table. In other words, a civic uprising has to have a short-term vision and a long-term vision. Short term: Stop Trump. Foil his efforts. Pile on the lawsuits. Turn some of his followers against him. The second is a long-term vision of a fairer society that is not just hard on Trump, but hard on the causes of Trumpism — one that offers a positive vision. Whether it’s the universities, the immigration system or the global economy, we can’t go back to the status quo that prevailed when Trump first rode down the escalator. I’m really not a movement guy. I don’t naturally march in demonstrations or attend rallies that I’m not covering as a journalist. But this is what America needs right now. Trump is shackling the greatest institutions in American life. We have nothing to lose but our chains.
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I probably should have worded it more precisely or with more context to mean the "one person chosen as a member of this Cabinet," which still would’ve been wrong, of course, because here we are. It's not like I expected him to be some savior of liberal democracy. But, yeah, you allude to him turning his back on Ukraine, and I had his previously strong support for them in mind when I typed that up. I was just surprised by how really objectively awful his quick embrace of authoritarianism would be. Mea culpa.
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Looks like they let the guy out. I don't think the regime was ready to fight this one yet.
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No worries, investors. The Emoluments Clause of the US Constitution should put a stop to any corruption by the Executive.
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It kind of looks like the Pentagon at an angle and from above.
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Gotta wait and see if one of the victims was a white teenager, stabbed by a Black kid at a track meet, first. If so, sit back and watch it grow to 18 pages. That is the *only* injustice in America worthy of passionate discussion, happening in the news these days.
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Two shooters, according to that link. One dead; one in custody.
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In normal times, I’d recommend Canada as a safe and easy choice, but right now, I’d start looking at options across the Pond due to the whole 51st state thing.
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Oh, great. Now, I'm a race traitor to boot. This week just keeps getting better.
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This hits too close to home.
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