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Bozo's vocal critique against strong mayoral systems has been going on for a while. He's posted about it in the "WTF is wrong with you, Austin?" thread. I happen to agree with him on that point. There's a reason that most Texas cities over a certain size have switched over to a more professionalized city manager/council system. Apparently, NYC has stuck with the strong mayoral system, which is a shame, because it's a ripe situation for ineptitude, corruption, and political favors. That said, I don't have a strong stance on whether Mamdani or Cuomo would be more suited to NYC's approach to self-government. I suspect that Cuomo probably would be more amenable to the corruption and political favors stuff, which probably translates to some degree of effectiveness in terms of "getting shit done," but that wouldn't necessarily make him a better mayor because there remains the question of what shit he would get done. I don't know what their proposals are, because I don't follow NYC politics, so I can't speak to that part.
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Papers, please. Surly thread of deportation cruelty dominance
bolverk replied to Captainant's topic in Daily Texan
@Sbbruin @Foosters I figured this would be of interest to you guys. For months, the day laborers had decontaminated homes that survived the Los Angeles wildfires. Sweating in masks and protective suits, they vacuumed toxic soot and ash, wiped down books and framed photos, and disposed of clothes and furniture that could not be salvaged. One morning last month, they crammed into a small job center in Pasadena, Calif., ready for more work. But on this day, the situation felt too dangerous. It wasn’t the contaminants or toxic fumes. Outside the Winchell’s Donut House just blocks away, federal immigration agents had detained six people. The day laborers went home instead of heading to their job sites. “They’re living in fear,” said Jose Madera, the director of the Pasadena Community Job Center, which earlier this year helped train about 40 immigrant workers in fire cleanup. “They don’t know what can happen if they go to work — are they going to come back?” Immigrant workers are playing a crucial role in the recovery of Pasadena, Altadena and Pacific Palisades after the devastating fires in January. They have hauled debris, cleaned smoke-affected homes and in some cases begun reconstruction in the months since the Eaton and Palisades fires burned more than 16,000 buildings in the region. But raids by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents have plunged workers in various occupations into a state of panic, leading many of them — regardless of immigration status — to stay home. And residents worry that the raids have already hurt recovery efforts in fire-torn neighborhoods. In two dozen interviews, residents, officials, real estate agents, contractors, community organizers and workers described ways in which the Trump administration’s raids have affected the rebuilding process in Southern California. Many of those involved agreed to speak only if they could remain anonymous because they feared retaliation from the federal government. cont'd: https://archive.is/6xqFj -
Just had a nice thunder boomer roll through here with a brief downpour and, now, the lingering pitterpatter of light stuff. Windows are open, and it’s 73 degrees at 12:45 pm in the middle of July.
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Ghislaine "Sgt. Schultz" Maxwell: "I know NOTH-ING"
bolverk replied to Gil Bang's topic in Cloak Room
I gave this the rage-face reaction, because here we have a sitting president threatening to strip a private (albeit annoying, crazy, and vocal) citizen of their citizenship due to their constitutionally protected speech. Fuck that noise. -
"Mexicans aren't going anywhere." "Just the tip" with a bullet. Skeleton hand flipping the bird and words I can't read. If I didn’t know any better, I’d say @Brisketexan is pissed, unless I’m totally misreading the message here.
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Username checks out.
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Besides, USAID is dead now, but we'll still keep giving military aid to Israel.
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Papers, please. Surly thread of deportation cruelty dominance
bolverk replied to Captainant's topic in Daily Texan
George W. Bush tried to do comprehensive immigration reform, including a guest worker program, but Lou Dobbs's nightly screeds riled up the far-right and killed it. A bunch of far-right representatives in the House then tried to pass some reactionary bullshit bill, which kicked off a bunch of protests in the mid- to late aughts. Around that time, the canard of "prayer blankets" for Muslim terrorists found in the desert got thrown into the mix to maximize the fear-mongering. Then, you tie in the current president's racist accusations that the then-current president wasn't actually a citizen, along with all the other racist conspiracy shit about him being a Muslim, and you've remade an entire party into a bunch of reactionary retreads, wholly consumed with an anti-brown bias.- 1197 replies
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I'm sure Angie's getting fed up with our shit. Fucked up mine, too.
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Manifest destiny over God's Promised Land. They’re Sooners. Land Thieves, if you will.
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Back in the day, I had an Aunt Juanita who lived over there on Purdue or Yale. One of the college streets. She had one of those Jesus paintings where his eyes would follow you around the room. Hated that damn place. Edit: It was as creepy af and none of us were/are Hispanic. My dad's extended family all had weirdo names, like Iris, Elda, Royce, and Fleur. I've always chalked the name-thing to rural Southerners from a specific timeframe trying to sound "cool" or "exotic." Edit edit: If you decide to stick around, we've got a few West Texas folk who grew up in Lamesa, Andrews, Meadows (over by Brownfield), Midland, and somewhere around Lubbock. We also have a few who, at the very least, went to school at one of the bible colleges in Abilene. There have also been mentions of Sweetwater, but only as visitors who've been to the rattlesnake roundup there. (Fuck the 'Stangs!) The Coleman area is also in the mix, but I don't think I've ever come across someone from Slaton, Jayton, or Rotan on this site. I think a San Angelo guy (or two) has shown up as well.
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I liked this series. It somehow hit the nerd-core, mindless stupidity, subversively silly, and low-key dark aspects of my humor simultaneously. That's a rare feat. Plus, it's got a bit of heart.
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The last known digital communication from a guy I grew up with was about a week before he caught it. It was similar. That last message, regarding the vaccine and masks was, "I ain't skerr'd," (or a similar intentional misspelling in a PM) shared with with me by another guy I grew up with. Within a month of that statement, he was dead, and this was a year after the vaccine had been out. The dead guy was not obese and only about 50yo at the time
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Yeah, I don't think I've ever seen "State Police" on anything official from Texas. Did you check the plates?
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I know Snyder well, having grown up in Big Spring.
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https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/10/us/politics/gaza-francesca-albanese-sanctions.html Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on Wednesday that the United States would impose sanctions on Francesca Albanese, a United Nations expert on the occupied Palestinian territories, for “efforts to prompt” the International Criminal Court to investigate U.S. companies and Israeli officials. The decision to impose sanctions on a U.N.-affiliated lawyer was highly unusual. An Italian legal scholar and outspoken critic of Israel, Ms. Albanese serves as the United Nations’ special rapporteur for the occupied Palestinian territories. She is not a U.N. official, but was appointed as an unpaid independent expert to monitor human rights issues. Mr. Rubio linked the sanctions decision to a broader American effort to retaliate against the International Criminal Court, which issued arrest warrants for Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister and Yoav Gallant, the former defense minister, last year, accusing them of war crimes and crimes against humanity in the Gaza Strip. At the same time, the court issued a warrant for the arrest of Hamas’s military chief, Muhammad Deif, accusing him of crimes against humanity, including murder, hostage taking and sexual violence. Israel says it killed him in an airstrike, and Hamas has confirmed his death. Ms. Albanese does not work for the International Criminal Court, but she has encouraged it to prosecute Israeli leaders and international companies over the war against Hamas in Gaza. Her often fiery posts on social media have drawn criticism from Israel and its allies, who have accused her of antisemitism. “We will not tolerate these campaigns of political and economic warfare, which threaten our national interests and sovereignty,” Mr. Rubio said. In a phone interview with The New York Times, Ms. Albanese said that she and her supporters were “tired of these mafia techniques of intimidation” from the United States. “I will deal with the consequences — it doesn’t matter,” she said, describing herself as standing “for justice.” She brushed off accusations of antisemitism as an effort to deflect attention from atrocities being committed in Gaza and the West Bank. The U.N. human rights chief, Volker Türk, in a statement on Thursday called for a swift reversal of the sanctions decision. “Even in face of fierce disagreement, U.N. member states should engage substantively and constructively, rather than resort to punitive measures,” he said, calling for “attacks and threats” to stop. Palestinians and their allies often view Ms. Albanese as an unflinching advocate for Palestinian rights at one of the darkest moments in their history. The war against Hamas in Gaza has killed more than 57,000 people, including thousands of children, according to local health officials, who do not distinguish between civilians and combatants. Israel and American Jewish groups have denounced Ms. Albanese for accusing Israel of committing genocide, an accusation they strongly reject. They argue that she rarely condemns violence against Israeli civilians or criticizes Palestinian armed groups like Hamas, whose Oct. 7, 2023 attacks killed about 1,200 people in Israel and ignited the nearly two-year-long war. At the time of that attack, Ms. Albanese said that she unequivocally condemned attacks on civilians, but that the violence had to be taken into account in the context of “six decades of hostile military rule.” The United States has cracked down on pro-Palestinian activism since President Trump returned to office in January, but Ms. Albanese’s advocacy also drew criticism from the Biden administration. On social media, Ms. Albanese has appeared to liken Israel’s actions in Gaza to the Holocaust, as well as agreeing with an image that appeared to compare Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister, to Hitler. After Israeli forces killed Yahya Sinwar, the leader of Hamas in Gaza, she conceded that he had been a military target but called his killing “inhumane.” Before assuming her role, she also suggested in an open letter posted on a personal Facebook account in 2014 that “the Jewish lobby” controlled the United States’ stance on Israel. Ms. Albanese later told The Times of Israel that her choice of words was “infelicitous, analytically inaccurate and unintendedly offensive.” Ms. Albanese’s defenders called the U.S. sanctions an effort to muzzle legitimate criticism of the Israeli military campaign in Gaza. “It’s an effort to censor an important global voice for the purpose of defending Israel’s atrocities in Gaza,” Kenneth Roth, a former head of Human Rights Watch who is now a visiting professor at the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs, said in a phone interview. “It’s nothing more or less than that” Of Ms. Albanese Mr. Roth said: “She has been a very courageous, outspoken voice. I find her to be legally sophisticated, factually accurate and unsparing in her criticism but fair.” In February, Mr. Trump signed an executive order that could bar people associated with the International Criminal Court from entering the United States and from purchasing property and assets in the country. The Trump administration also acted last month against four judges on the court for issuing the arrest warrants for Mr. Netanyahu. The United States similarly imposed sanctions on the court’s chief prosecutor, Karim Khan, in February for requesting the warrants. Last week, in a speech to the U.N. Human Rights Council, Ms. Albanese said that Israel was “responsible for one of the cruelest genocides in modern history.” Ms. Albanese also wrote a report in late June to the U.N. Human Rights Council detailing the profit derived by corporations — including arms manufacturers, banks and large asset managers like BlackRock and Vanguard — from the large increase in Israel’s military budget since the start of its campaign in Gaza in October 2023. In that report, Ms. Albanese called on U.N. member states to impose sanctions and an arms embargo on Israel. She also called on countries to suspend trade and investment relations with Israel, and to hold companies involved in violations of international law in the occupied Palestinian territories accountable.
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More on the Iranian nukes. Free link to NYTimes article: https://archive.is/NCtSK TLDR: Israelis say material is still there but buried, along with all the centrifuges. US agrees says everything's buried. Israel and US say they'll know if digging up material begins. IAEA says some stuff was moved. IAEA has been kicked out of Iran since the bombing, so they're now blind. If Iran starts back up its program, it'll likely be a more secretive and highly dispersed operation.
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More news on France & the UK stepping up. Defense Minister: Britain Ready to Send Troops to Ukraine Britain is ready to send troops to Ukraine to strengthen a potential ceasefire with Russia as part of the “coalition of the willing” plans. Defense Minister John Gillingham announced this, according to Express.co.uk. France and Britain are expected to provide the bulk of the military contingent, although the plan will also require support from the US. The defense minister also noted that a force of 50,000 troops would be created to defend Europe as Britain and France step up military cooperation. Hille added that today’s Franco-British summit will also discuss issues of deterrence “against extreme threats” in Europe. In early April, a meeting of the “coalition of the willing” took place in Kyiv, an alliance of countries that promised to help Ukraine in its fight against the aggressor. British Prime Minister Keir Starmer announced the creation of the coalition on March 2, 2025. Following the meeting, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyi stated that French and British troops would be among the first to arrive in Ukraine. According to the head of state, these countries are key representatives of the European continent. Later it was reported that Britain does not plan to send its troops to Ukraine without security guarantees from the US. Back in January, it was reported that European officials were trying to get the new administration of US President Donald Trump to participate in providing security guarantees for Ukraine.
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https://kyivindependent.com/ukraine-detains-2-chinese-nationals-suspected-of-spying-on-neptun-missile-technology-sbu-says-06-2025/
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There have been a couple of helpful posts about security in the DT thread--still not much detail. I'm screenshotting because it just makes it easier to read here, but I'm also posting links to them if you want to go over there and read them in full. https://www.surlyhorns.com/board/topic/44774-july-4th-hill-country-flooding-tragedy/page/15/#comment-7195407 https://www.surlyhorns.com/board/topic/44774-july-4th-hill-country-flooding-tragedy/page/14/#comment-7195341
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Article about the MAGA daughter of Gen. Kellogg (Trump's special envoy to Ukraine) discussing her role in trying to get through to the White House (she's runs an aid foundation in Ukraine) that they need to support Ukraine more. No paywall: https://www.thetimes.com/us/american-politics/article/meaghan-mobbs-general-kellogg-trump-ukraine-war-h833tkkh2
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Had one in my hometown, too, until the early 80s.
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