Posts posted by sasquatch69
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SIAP, but this is infuriating (yet not surprising). GOP operatives falsely inflated pro-Crockett polling to stroke her ego into running, in order to weaken the overall D chances against whoever ends up the R nominee.
QuoteFollowing the NRSC’s polls, other surveys began to include Crockett and showed similar results: She was surging in the primary.
The NRSC then worked to amplify those polls and is taking credit for helping “orchestrate the pile on of these polling numbers to really drive that news cycle and that narrative that Jasmine Crockett was surging in Texas,” the source said.
Crockett herself even admitted she was encouraged to jump into the race by all the positive polling she was seeing ahead of her announcement.
“The more I saw the poll results, I couldn’t ignore the trends that were clear,” Crockett said during her announcement speech.
Crockett did not return a request for comment.
But the Republican efforts didn’t stop there. In what the source dubbed an “AstroTurf recruitment process,” the NRSC had “allies that were seeding these new polls pretty aggressively into progressive digital spaces.”
There were several recruitment phone calls and text messages that went out to Democrats and high-propensity voters across the state that would urge voters to contact and advocate for Crockett to join the race, the source said.
“That was really a sustained effort that we orchestrated across the ecosystem for several months,” the source said. “Not only was it getting positive news coverage, but her office was directly having traffic driven to it in terms of phone calls urging her to run.”
https://www.notus.org/senate/jasmine-crockett-nrsc-texas-senate
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Haven't seen this elsewhere yet, but Bloomberg rarely gets it wrong. I have a feeling the "routine training flight" mentioned above is related to this.
QuoteUS forces have intercepted and seized a sanctioned oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela, according to people familiar with the matter, a move that marks a serious escalation of tensions between the two countries.
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15 hours ago, tx 3 putt said:the onion or real ....
From the WaPo story about this (https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/building-gets-a-new-name-the-donald-j-trump-institute-of-peace/ )
QuoteThe administration’s decision to add Trump’s name to the USIP building comes after the president issued an executive order in February seeking to dismantle the organization, an independent nonprofit group created by Congress. The USIP’s president was removed from the headquarters by law enforcement, and the Trump administration fired nearly all of the USIP’s D.C.-based staff. Some diplomats and former staff say they are unsure what the building is used for now.
So, yet again, it's all just window dressing on an empty shell.
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10 minutes ago, Texzilla58 said:With nil and the portal any program can turn right around. Silverfield and the UM GM have been really good at managing the portal and their retention element. The GM is expected to move to Fayettenam as well. He was able to pull 29 wins in three years solidifying winning teams out of all new players is what’s needed at all but the biggest programs.
the schools that go after old school coaches that think players are there for four years and can’t figure out the portal are going to crash into a brick wall. It’s way more about coaching than scheme.
As a new Ark fan this year with a kid now going there, I am amazed at how many of their fans just expect the glory days to come roaring back. So many of them were begging the school to keep Petrino, whose overall record is spotty at best (and didn't win ONE SINGLE GAME after taking over as interim HC).
I think Silverfield is a decent hire - as mentioned above, he seems to have a strong football mind and understand the new NIL/portal environment. But the SEC is consistently a meat grinder, so if he can't recruit quickly (and get the Waltons/Tysons/Hunts of NWA to pony up even more for NIL), don't expect much to change.Ark is in good shape in most other sports, and the AD Yurachek has been really vocal about needing to fix funding for football now, so we'll see.
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2 minutes ago, HenryJames said:This quote is all you need to know:
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Speaking of crappy SEC officiating, the Razorbacks did themselves no favors yesterday with some bonehead plays, but they were in it the whole game - until the refs decided they shouldn’t be. 18 penalties for 193 yards vs. 4 penalties for 30 yards for Miss. State.
QuoteArkansas (2-7, 0-5 SEC) was penalized 18 times for 193 yards — both single-game program records. The Razorbacks had 15 penalties for 158 yards after halftime.
Mississippi State (5-4, 1-4) was penalized 4 times for 30 yards as it snapped its 16-game SEC losing streak.
Arkansas interim coach Bobby Petrino was clearly upset with the officiating after the game.
“Are you trying to get me fined?” Petrino said when asked if the officials were overzealous. “I do want to say something but I can’t. That’s how they handcuff you. I’ll just say watch the video.”
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2 hours ago, mdmost said:
Yes, the Common app is pretty easy at figuring out who needs what. We sent her scores out a couple weeks ago through the College Board site even though a lot are test optional. There's a checklist the Common app gives on what you need to turn in and what's optional. Though it feels like optional is not really optional unless it's not going to help their application. Our guy said to send her scores to all but two of the colleges she wants to apply to. One was a head scratcher because that school is test neutral and said a score would not be counted against you if you submitted it. He said her school would be on the low end of what they get which is still funny to me as her score is better than 92% of the people who took the SAT.
We plan to apply to these Nov 1st schools by Thursday. We had planned on applying early to UT but when we took the tour on Columbus Day they said don't apply early unless you are completely done and ready because applying early had no bearing on getting in or not it just meant you'd get a decision faster.
We did an open house of UT-Dallas on Saturday. She has a direct admission offer from them through Common and it would save us some money if she lived at home for the first year. I really want her to go out of the city though, just for her to grow as a person. We are facing the very real possibility that maybe she's just not ready. She's applied to North Texas and was accepted already. I think she just wanted that as a backup. UTD would be fine for her as she could double major in psychology and child development. They told her it would just be one additional course since both are under the Psychology department and share most of the same coursework. She wants to be a child/teen therapist. The direct admission offer is confusing. She's not admitted if she applies. She just doesn't have to turn in the personal essay, counselor recommendation, and teacher evaluations/other recommendations. The admissions person we talked to said they'll just flag her application when it comes in so she's put in the highly considered pile.
As a side note, I'm curious why UTD is not part of the UT system's CAP program.
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8 minutes ago, safe sex said:I think the biggest obstacle to decent schools is funding, staffing, and paying the staff appropriately. We could at least try it for once.
Abbott, Morath and the Leg have made that very difficult. So the districts then turn to TREs and bonds, which then the GOP machinery goes into motion to fight. It's happening in several DFW-area districts right now for the upcoming election. Richardson ISD has never had a bond voted down in over half a century, but it may well happen this time.
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On 10/15/2025 at 8:34 PM, bluto said:
they better be careful or Ohare will get his ass lickers on council to name it David duke blvd as bo French and mercy culture cheer on.
Bo French is the worst person to come out of TarCo/FW in a long time, and that is quite a distinction given the competition from Tim O’Hare and some other real winners in past years.
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1 hour ago, shadow_operative2.0 said:
Haven't been to El Fenix probably since LL baseball days, went tonight, was honestly pretty damn happy with it. Fast & hot, $2 draft Modelo pints.
Their chips are definitely from a bag now though, I knew going in that was a popular more recent complaint.
I had the Wednesday special at the DT Dallas location about a month ago and it was the best meal I’ve had there in a long time.
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GoFundMe scraped public IRS data to create donation pages for over 1.4m U.S. nonprofits - including their logos and options for ongoing monthly donations - without their consent. They stood to make millions off of platform fees until a couple folks noticed it and raised a stink.
They've now reversed course on the suggested 15-17% "platform tip" default - but otherwise acting like it's all just normal.
https://thenonprofittimes.com/npt_articles/breaking-gofundme-reversing-course-on-nonprofit-pages/
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I am so, so, so utterly tired of this performative bullshit from our AG. And now that whole Turning Point media ecosystem is dogpiling TCU (and their obsession on X with this week's in-person Pride events honestly makes me worried for their safety a bit). https://www.keranews.org/texas-news/2025-10-02/texas-ag-paxton-to-investigate-tcu-over-turning-point-event-school-says-was-not-booked
QuoteTexas Attorney General Ken Paxton said he intends to “look into” TCU after a conservative activist alleged the university discriminated against her for her talking points.
Chloe Cole, 21, wrote on X that Texas Christian University canceled an event by the school’s Turning Point USA chapter where she was scheduled to speak. However, school officials said the Oct. 7 event was never canceled because it was not booked in the first place.
Kathy Cavins-Tull, vice chancellor for student affairs, said in a statement that the university’s Turning Point chapter requested the university host the event after an unaffiliated party invited Cole to appear on the campus on that date. The requested space was already booked for another student event, she said.
University officials explored options to accommodate the event and notified the group Sept. 25 that a secure space was not available given the short notice, Cavins-Tull said. School officials offered to find another date or space for the event, she added.
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Christmas 2025
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Had a pretty good little Christmas this year. Son is home from his first semester of college, so we’re navigating the dynamics there (he is struggling with it not feeling quite like home anymore, yet not feeling fully at home at school, so we’re trying to help him navigate that with love and grace). My dad is three years into a Parkinson’s diagnosis, and it’s manifesting not with physical issues like tremors, but with mental cloudiness and loss of language facility and processing (proving really difficult to accept for a guy who wrote and spoke publicly for a living). Still, we hosted everyone at our place yesterday for the first time in a while, which was nice, and did Christmas Eve church with my parents as well, which is not common and just felt right.