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Yeah, my sister and her family have lived in Westminster since the early to mid-90s, and I've seen the process firsthand. Definitely jealous about that.
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My best guess is that about half the people who approved it couldn't actually grasp what they were voting for, other than the part that said "prohibit taxes."
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Posting, without comment and for informational purposes only, the Texas constitutional amendment election results by county, because I dig maps and think y'all do, too. Spoilered for those who'd prefer skipping over 17 maps.
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Papers, please. Surly thread of deportation cruelty dominance
bolverk replied to Captainant's topic in Daily Texan
https://www.wired.com/story/fbi-warns-of-criminals-posing-as-ice-urges-agents-to-id-themselves/ Criminals posing as US immigration officers have carried out robberies, kidnappings, and sexual assaults in several states, warns a law enforcement bulletin issued last month by the Federal Bureau of Investigation. The bureau urges agencies to ensure officers clearly identify themselves and to cooperate when civilians ask to verify an officer’s identity—including by allowing calls to a local police precinct. “Ensure law enforcement personnel adequality [sic] identify themselves during operations and cooperate with individuals who request further verification,” it says. First reported by WIRED, the bulletin cites five 2025 incidents involving fake immigration officers and says criminals are using Immigration and Custom Enforcement’s heightened profile to target vulnerable communities, making it harder for Americans to distinguish between lawful officers and imposters while eroding trust in law enforcement. A review of public reporting confirms four of the five cases described in the bulletin. One appears to have gone unreported, suggesting the FBI drew in part on internal law enforcement information. The document was first obtained by the transparency nonprofit Property of the People. On August 7, according to the FBI, three men in black vests entered a New York restaurant claiming to be ICE agents. Inside, they tied a worker’s hands and pulled a garbage bag over the person’s head. Another, believing the burglars’ story, surrendered themselves, only to be kicked to the ground and tied up as the intruders robbed an ATM. The bureau’s advisory urges agencies at every level of government to coordinate to “verify legitimate versus non-legitimate operations” attributed to ICE—a call that frames the wave of impersonations as a national law-enforcement concern. The FBI declined to comment. Its national press office said that it could only respond to media inquiries involving national security, violations of federal law, or essential public safety functions during the government shutdown. Cases cited by its advisory span kidnappings, street crime, and sexual violence: In Bay County, Florida, the advisory says, a woman “unzipped [her] jacket and revealed a shirt that said ICE” and told her ex-boyfriend’s wife she was there to “pick her up,” before driving her to an apartment complex. The woman later escaped. In Brooklyn, it alleges, a man told a woman he was an immigration officer and “directed [her] to a nearby stairwell,” where he punched her, tried to rape her, and stole her phone before police caught him. In Raleigh, North Carolina, it claims, a man “entered [a] motel room and threatened to deport the woman if she did not have sex with him,” telling her he was a sworn officer. He showed her a business card with a badge, police said. The FBI describes a few signs of impersonation: forged or mismatched credentials, outdated protective gear, and cloned vehicle markings. It’s urging agencies to launch outreach programs aimed at identifying fake ICE agents, a step the FBI argues could counteract the mistrust caused by impersonators and strengthen law enforcement’s image. A senior ICE official tells WIRED: “Anyone caught impersonating themselves as a federal immigration agent will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. Impersonating a federal immigration officer endangers public safety and erodes trust in law enforcement.” Federal rules require immigration officers to identify themselves and state the reason for an arrest “as soon as it is practical and safe to do so.” The standard has not changed since it was codified in the 1990s, yet advocates say it is increasingly ignored. “The recent increased presence of armed, masked federal officers completely disrupts and erodes public trust in law enforcement,” says Alycia Castillo of the Texas Civil Rights Project. “Further, the increase in local cooperation with federal authorities through 287(g) agreements has led to a chilling effect on local law enforcement for communities,” she says, referring to a program that deputizes local police to act as immigration agents. “When masked federal agents conceal their identity and authority as a practice, anyone can don a mask and a gun and not be expected or required to verify their authority,” she adds. -
Papers, please. Surly thread of deportation cruelty dominance
bolverk replied to Captainant's topic in Daily Texan
Judge hears testimony about ‘disgusting’ conditions at Chicago-area immigration site A federal judge called conditions at a Chicago-area immigration detention site “disgusting” after detainees testified about overcrowded cells, overflowing toilets and contaminated water. Authorities held up to 150 people without beds or basic supplies at the Broadview facility, which has drawn months of protests and legal scrutiny. A lawsuit accuses the government of denying food, water and medical care while coercing detainees to unknowingly sign documents waiving their legal rights. CHICAGO — A judge heard testimony Tuesday about overflowing toilets, crowded cells, no beds and water that “tasted like sewer” at a Chicago-area building that serves as a key detention spot for people rounded up in the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown. Three people who were held at the building in Broadview, just outside Chicago, offered rare public accounts about the conditions there as U.S. District Judge Robert Gettleman considers ordering changes at a site that has become a flashpoint for protests and confrontations with federal agents. “I don’t want anyone else to live what I lived through,” said Felipe Agustin Zamacona, 47, an Amazon driver and Mexican immigrant who has lived in the U.S. for decades. Zamacona said there were 150 people in a holding cell. Desperate to lie down to sleep, he said he once took the spot of another man who got up to use the toilet. And the water? Zamacona said he tried to drink from a sink but it “tasted like sewer.” A lawsuit filed last week accuses the government of denying proper access to food, water and medical care, and coercing people to sign documents they don’t understand. Without that knowledge, and without private communication with lawyers, they have unknowingly relinquished their rights and faced deportation, the lawsuit alleges. “This is not an issue of not getting a toilet or a Fiji water bottle,” attorney Alexa Van Brunt of the MacArthur Justice Center told the judge. “These are a set of dire conditions that when taken together paint a harrowing picture.” Before testimony began, U.S. District Judge Robert Gettleman said the allegations were “disgusting.” “To have to sleep on a floor next to an overflowing toilet — that’s obviously unconstitutional,” he said. Attorney Jana Brady of the Justice Department acknowledged there are no beds at the Broadview building, just outside Chicago, because it was not intended to be a long-term detention site. Authorities have “improved the operations” over the past few months, she said, adding there has been a “learning curve.” “The conditions are not sufficiently serious,” Brady told the judge. The building has been managed by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement for decades. But amid the Chicago-area crackdown, it has been used to process people for detention or deportation. Greg Bovino, the Border Patrol commander who has led the Chicago immigration operation, said criticism was unfounded. “I think they’re doing a great job out there,” he told the Associated Press during an interview this week. Testifying with the help of a translator, Pablo Moreno Gonzalez, 56, said he was arrested last week while waiting to start work. Like Zamacona, he said he was placed in a cell with 150 other people, with no beds, blankets, toothbrush or toothpaste. “It was just really bad. ... It was just too much,” Moreno Gonzalez, crying, told the judge. A third person, Claudia Carolina Pereira Guevara, testified from Honduras, separated from two children who remain in the U.S. She said she was held at Broadview for five days in October and recalled using a garbage bag to clear a clogged toilet. “They gave us nothing that had to do with cleaning. Absolutely nothing,” Guevara said. For months advocates have raised concerns about conditions at Broadview, which has drawn scrutiny from members of Congress, political candidates and activist groups. Lawyers and relatives of people held there have called it a de facto detention center, saying up to 200 people have been held at a time without access to legal counsel. The Broadview center has also drawn demonstrations, leading to the arrests of numerous protesters. The demonstrations are at the center of a separate lawsuit from a coalition of news outlets and protesters who claim federal agents violated their First Amendment rights by repeatedly using tear gas and other weapons on them. -
Papers, please. Surly thread of deportation cruelty dominance
bolverk replied to Captainant's topic in Daily Texan
VIDEO: Day care teacher detained by ICE agents on Chicago’s North Side CHICAGO — A day care teacher was taken into ICE custody Wednesday morning on the city’s North Side, WGN News has confirmed. The incident happened around 7:05 a.m. at Rayito de Sol Spanish Immersion Early Learning Center, located at 2550 West Addison Street in the North Center neighborhood. An SUV of federal agents followed a car, two people got out and ran inside the day care. The agents pursued the woman inside and took her into custody. Video from the scene captures agents pulling the teacher from the day care. The woman detained is said to be an infant teacher at Rayito de Sol. WGN News has reached out to DHS and ICE for a statement on the incident. This is a developing story. Check back for details. -
Aleksandr heard the whine of an approaching Russian drone. A Ukrainian infantryman on a four-soldier foot patrol, he was picking his way at 2 a.m. through the waist-high vegetation of an August meadow. A high-pitched whir rose in the moonless quiet. An armed multicopter had detected them and was maneuvering to attack. Now luck would influence fates. The soldiers were on a mission to string wire across the forlorn emptiness between opposing trench lines, creating obstacles to entangle Russian infantry and strip invaders on motocross bikes from their seats. Weighed down by equipment, they were caught in the open and exposed. The nearest hint of protection — the woodlot they stepped out from minutes before — was about 300 yards back. Both Russia and Ukraine operate remotely piloted mini-aircraft that watch over the battlefield with cameras and pursue targets on sight. Some drop bomblets. Others sweep low with explosive charges to strike quarry kamikaze-style. All fly more than twice the speed that even a fit soldier can sprint, a disparity ensuring that many engagements end in one-sided agonies and video-recorded gore. In this new form of warfare, chance still plays a role. When multiple soldiers appear together, most drones cannot strike them all. A pilot must decide: This man? That one? The fleeing soldier who tripped, becoming an easy kill? Or the pair running together who might be felled two at once? The pilot chose Aleksandr, a silhouette holding a rifle in tall grass. The drone stopped above him and released a small explosive munition. After a brief free fall, it landed beside him on dirt. Light flashed in Aleksandr’s eyes, accompanied by a blast that threw him down. His luck was bad: Shrapnel tore through him; pain flared in his left leg. His luck was good: The drone did not linger for the finish. It darted away, chasing his peers as they bounded for trees. Bleeding, pressed to soil, he heard more explosions, off in the direction from where he had come. Quiet settled over the field. Gift link. Long read (28 minutes) but well worth it: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/05/magazine/ukraine-russia-war-drones.html?unlocked_article_code=1.y08.O2KZ.yGOvMOdt95zB&smid=url-share
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Go home. You're drunk, @Zepol87. This ain't Tijuana. Sheesh! You can't take that guy anywhere.
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Who? This weird-looking guy whose signature pieces of legislation seem suspiciously focused on culture war kid and trans stuff? The one with the bizarrely shorn mane, pedophile beard, and snearing smile? The one who had a Collin College professor fired over mean speech that hurt his feelings, resulting in losing a lawsuit for violating her free speech rights? The one who went to Baylor? The one who serves on the board of Houston Baptist Christian University, whose president, Baylor-grad Robert Sloan (previous president of Baylor who narrowly escaped being ousted due to "controversial financial dealings" and offering an overly conservative campus vision/plan during a period when they had that basketball murder scandal), sought out and received a waiver in 2017 from Trump 1.0 for offering Title IX because civil rights protections for people who engage in homosexuality are unnecessary, because like "a tendency towards arson or theft" homosexuality is a sinful tendency that stems from a person's individual and therefore chosen "behavior" and who has close ties with Ben Young, pastor at Houston's Second Baptist Church, who's been recently sued filed by current and former church members, accusing him and his family of orchestrating a takeover of the church and its $1 billion in assets by altering the bylaws to grant nearly dictatorial authority to the senior pastor, along with the "Abuse of Faith" investigation detailing cases of sexual abuse by church staff, along with hundreds of other Baptist churches and institutions throughout Texas. And then there's the brother Ed Young back up in the Metroplex, head of the megachurch Fellowship, who's been criticized for his lavish lifestyle and purchase of a private jet, and who's enmeshed in politics, inviting culture warrior conservatives into a house of worship. Nah, it's gotta be some other culty, creepy Bible thumper.
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UPS Airlines crash on take off at Louisville Airport.
bolverk replied to Laxtonto's topic in Daily Texan
I won't even pretend to know shit about fuck concerning airplane stuff, flying, and whatnot. This ignorance led me to google the phrase "compressor stall," which brought up this helpful video, timestamped to a good explanation that even I could understand. -
UPS Airlines crash on take off at Louisville Airport.
bolverk replied to Laxtonto's topic in Daily Texan
Whatever caused it, the left engine looked like it was on fire while trying to take off. Just awful. -
UPS Airlines crash on take off at Louisville Airport.
bolverk replied to Laxtonto's topic in Daily Texan
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UPS Airlines crash on take off at Louisville Airport.
bolverk replied to Laxtonto's topic in Daily Texan
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That’s the nature of the feudal pyramid, where a small elite is at the top -- whether they be aristocrats or oligarchs (as we have in the US, for now) -- acting as leeches on society and above almost all accountability from us peasants. It’s only the king sitting atop his throne who can do shit about it when there are so few checks and balances on authority. I know you’re hyperaware of this, and so please don't take this as me being combative. It’s just a wider truth spoken to the board in general.
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This thread, and just about every other one in the Daily Texan, is political. The mods just pick and choose which they tolerate. I once got into it with Immamac on posting a foreign relations/international news thread here. He justified its relocation to the Cloak Room based on the broadest definition possible for politics: relating to the government or the public affairs of a country (you could substitute in any level of jurisdiction, e.g., city, county, state, etc., though). The point being, any thread that discusses local policies is inherently political in nature, but we (the Surly collective) or they (the mods) arbitrarily choose what’s deemed political or news, based on shifting rules or definitions that have confounded everyone. It, of course, doesn’t help that people’s own implicit political biases at the national level can significantly influence stances at the local level, often with a subtle nod or wink, while pretending not to be "political."
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It's not really a "war" if the other side doesn't fight back. And since we "attacked" first, without provocation in most instances, I don't blame them. Anyone with a lick of sense shouldn't be surprised at all by this. FAFO
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Could this be the craziest coaching carousel of all time?
bolverk replied to GreenspointTexas's topic in Football
With his ties, I could certainly see how that’d help them recruit out-of-state athletes from Texas. -
Isn't that the whole point of royal dynasties though? Be a parasite on society because gawd bestowed onto you some divine status gained solely through birth.
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Were those guys speaking Russian? Of course, I hardly know any Russian except for what I've learned in this thread, but the way they were speaking didn't seem to have the right "cadence" for lack of a better word. Not that it really matters, because it's a multiethnic/multilingual country, but I'm wonder if they were foreign workers. Also:
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ASSHAMMER indeed. Oh, that's not what it's called? Well, it should be.
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