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These voters were told that Kamala was for “they/them” - and that Trump was for these voters. What we’re witnessing is their shock and surprise at finding out that they’re they/them too.
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Trump administration ends "segregated facilities" ban in federal contracts https://www.axios.com/2025/03/18/trump-end-segregated-facilities-ban-contracts The Trump administration has announced the federal government will no longer unequivocally prohibit contractors from having segregated restaurants, waiting rooms and drinking fountains. Why it matters: The change announced last month in an overlookedpublic memo is a symbolic move, first reported by NPR, and comes after President Trump revoked President Lyndon Johnson's decades-old order diversity and affirmative action practices in the federal government. The big picture: The Civil Rights Act of 1964, as well as many state laws, still makes segregated facilities illegal in all businesses, including federal contractors. Yes, but: Critics say the recent change sends a message about the government's priorities and potentially eliminates a crucial enforcement tool. The change follows the Trump administration's reinterpretation of Civil Rights-era laws to focus on "anti-white racism," rather than discrimination against people of color. Zoom in: A public memo the General Services Administration issued said the change was needed after Trump revoked LBJ's 60-year-old executive order requiring federal contractors to refrain from employment discrimination. The memo also addresses Trump's executive order on gender identity. A clause in the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) said contractors can't "maintain or provide for its employees any segregated facilities." The memo stated that when issuing new solicitations or contracts, agencies could no longer include the clause about the "Prohibition of Segregated Facilities." FAR defined segregated facilities as work areas, restaurants, drinking fountains, transportation, housing and others
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UT's next basketball coach - discussion/debate [Sean Miller Hired]
Satchel replied to alphahorn's topic in Basketball
If Texas continues to be concerned with how the press and other outsiders might view a basketball hire, if said hire is consistent with the Texas brand, or if it is a grand enough hire, then it’s has the potential to be a recurring situation. If a smart, young coach, has a demonstrated ability to construct a roster in an unstable environment, to lead that roster through the required forming, storming, norm ing and performing in short order, and then coach that roster to sustained success, that coach deserves serious consideration and should not be dismissed out of hand because he’s not a household name. -
UT's next basketball coach - discussion/debate [Sean Miller Hired]
Satchel replied to alphahorn's topic in Basketball
And a St. John billionaire has announced he will buy Rick all the players he wants -
UT's next basketball coach - discussion/debate [Sean Miller Hired]
Satchel replied to alphahorn's topic in Basketball
True. Keep thinking inside that box, Texas. -
UT's next basketball coach - discussion/debate [Sean Miller Hired]
Satchel replied to alphahorn's topic in Basketball
Whatever fallout that may have occurred would be long forgotten by now as Texas was would be getting ready for its top 3 seed appearance in the tourney with a McCasland coached team. -
UT's next basketball coach - discussion/debate [Sean Miller Hired]
Satchel replied to alphahorn's topic in Basketball
There will always be intricacies in coaching searches and hires. McCasland was there for the taking. -
UT's next basketball coach - discussion/debate [Sean Miller Hired]
Satchel replied to alphahorn's topic in Basketball
Chuckle, okay. -
We need to do something about these private equity bastards
Satchel replied to Horn Under a Bad Sign's topic in Cloak Room
It’s gonna happen. Trust. https://www.sportsbusinessjournal.com/Articles/2025/02/24/private-equity-is-set-to-revolutionize-college-athletics/ Private equity will invest in college sports, but initial efforts may target a small number of elite college football programs. These programs are likely to adopt innovative legal and governance structures to navigate current uncertainties. As these models succeed, other schools will need to adapt to remain competitive, potentially paving the way for broader private investment opportunities. Over time, private equity is positioned to fundamentally reshape college sports. -
UT's next basketball coach - discussion/debate [Sean Miller Hired]
Satchel replied to alphahorn's topic in Basketball
If Texas had hired Grant McCasland in March of 2023, there would be no need for this thread. -
Setting the bigotry and ignorance aside, this is just rank stupidity and silliness:
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Trump and his people rode the victim train all the way to the White House.
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We need to do something about these private equity bastards
Satchel replied to Horn Under a Bad Sign's topic in Cloak Room
Single-family home prices have risen by 47.1% since 2020, and the average cost to rent a single family home has increased by 30%. This is in large part due to private equity's growing influence in the housing market.Aug 12, 2024 https://www.dallasnews.com/business/real-estate/2024/03/15/gov-abbott-takes-aim-at-investors-hounding-single-family-market/ The WallStreetApes post said “new reports show economists have been lying to all of us about the rate financial firms have been buying up all single-family homes.” It continued by saying in 2023, private equity firms purchased 44% of all single-family homes in America. It said that “means death for our middle class.” Private equity firms are again expected to buy another 44% of single-family homes in 2024, according to the post. By 2030, private equity firms would own 60% of all homes in the U.S., it said. -
This bears repeating: https://www.yahoo.com/news/texas-bill-increase-oversight-universities-222919953.html State lawmakers introduced on Thursday sweeping legislation that would create a new office to police higher education institutions, currently under fire by conservatives who claim they are not complying with a statewide ban on diversity, equity and inclusion programs. The bill also proposes giving universities’ governing boards more power to hire administrators and oversee curricula. The boards have traditionally allowed the institutions they oversee to manage some of those affairs in the spirit of respecting their academic independence. Senate Bill 37 would create an Office of Excellence in Higher Education within the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board. The new office, led by a governor appointee, would be responsible for investigating claims that universities and colleges have broken state laws or their own policies.
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Is anybody paying attention? “Israel warns more to come as airstrikes kill over 400 in Gaza after two months of truce” https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/israeli-military-conducts-strikes-hamas-targets-gaza-army-says-2025-03-18/
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Sadly, Trumpists will repeat that stupid claim.
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We need to do something about these private equity bastards
Satchel replied to Horn Under a Bad Sign's topic in Cloak Room
Who Employs Your Doctor? Increasingly, a Private Equity Firm. A new study finds that private equity firms own more than half of all specialists in certain U.S. markets. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/10/upshot/private-equity-doctors-offices.html -
We need to do something about these private equity bastards
Satchel replied to Horn Under a Bad Sign's topic in Cloak Room
As the saying goes, if you don’t do politics, politics will do you. The same is true of PE firms. I once directly reported to a guy who came to us from a private equity firm. He considered himself to be smartest, hard nosed around, but once confided to me that the unethical predatory practices of his former employer was too much even for him. -
OMB director, Vought, could pick and choose what gets funded in a shutdown. His declaration of what was non essential would not be subject to judicial review in a shut down. How is that anywhere close to helpful to those most likely to be targeted by the guy who said he was wanted to see federal workers “traumatized.”
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Remember when doge reversed their decision to cut SS customer service access to the Infirmed and elderly? Well, they didn’t mean it: https://popular.info/p/exclusive-memo-details-trump-plan An internal Social Security Administration (SSA) memo, sent on March 13 and obtained by Popular Information, details proposed changes to the claims process that would debilitate the agency, cause significant processing delays, and prevent many Americans from applying for or receiving benefits. The memo, authored by Acting Deputy SSA Commissioner Doris Diaz, purports to be motivated by a desire to mitigate "fraud risks." The biggest change contemplated by Diaz's memo is to require "internet identity proofing" for "benefit claims… made over the phone." When an SSA customer is "unable to utilize the internet ID proofing, customers will be required to visit a field office to provide in-person identity documentation." Currently customers can make claims and verify their identity without using the internet or visiting a SSA office. Fraud is extremely rare because there are many safeguards in place. After initiating a call, customers must provide their social security number, date of birth, parents' names, mother's maiden name, and date of birth. After the initial teleapplication is completed, the information provided is checked against tax returns, pay stubs, bank statements, and medical information, depending on the nature of the claim. If there are any discrepancies, a customer may need to mail a copy of their birth certificate to the SSA. About 40% of all claims are currently processed over the phone. Because the SSA serves a large population that is either older or physically disabled, many cannot access the internet. Under the new system, this would force these populations to visit an office to have their claim processed. The Diaz memo estimates it would require 75,000 to 85,000 in-person visitors per week to SSA's offices to implement the policy. SSA offices do not currently have the resources to handle an influx of in-person appointments of this size. In 2023, the most recent data available, there were about 119,128 daily visits, on average, to SSA offices. Eight-five thousand more week visits would be a 14% increase. SSA offices no longer accept walk-ins and the wait time for an appointment, even before these changes, averaged over a month.
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America's Foreign Policy & Other Shit Going On Around the World thread
Satchel replied to bolverk's topic in Cloak Room
French MEP demands the US 'give us back the Statue of Liberty' https://www.france24.com/en/france/20250316-french-mp-demands-the-us-give-us-back-the-statue-of-liberty A French member of the European parliament has called for the US to return the Statue of Liberty originally gifted by the French people to mark the centennial of American independence because the US no longer represents the values that led France to offer the statue. -
The entire country seems to be in a non thinking space right now.
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These people are correct. TDS is really a thing. It’s just not what they think it is: Five Republican Minnesota state senators are set to introduce a bill tomorrow that would classify "Trump Derangement Syndrome" (TDS), which they define as an "acute onset of paranoia" regarding the presidencies of Donald Trump, as a mental illness, according to state documents
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From HuffPost: The Thursday repost on Musk’s X account read: “Stalin, Mao, and Hitler didn’t murder millions of people. Their public sector employees did.” Along with Hitler, the post referred to Josef Stalin, the communist dictator of the Soviet Union until 1953, and Mao Zedong, the founder of the People’s Republic of China, who was responsible for the deaths of tens of millions through starvation and disease. Musk later deleted the repost, but not before X users and others condemned Musk’s apparent defense of dictators responsible for genocide and mass murder. “It is deeply disturbing and irresponsible for someone with a large public platform to elevate the kind of rhetoric that serves to undermine the seriousness of these issues,” the Anti-Defamation League said in a statement . Musk’s disturbing repost targeting public sector workers comes at a time when the billionaire ― now in charge of the new, so-called Department of Government Efficiency ― has been responsible for the firings of thousands of federal workers. That includes workers in critical positions at the National Weather Service , the Federal Emergency Management Agency , the Department of Veterans Affairs , and more.
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I guess it won’t be long before Fort Cavazos becomes Fort Hood again.
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