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It's an interactive map, so you can zoom in to find your place: https://dvr.capitol.texas.gov/Congress/0/PLANC2308
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Cedar Park/Leander won't even be an afterthought for dear ol' Pete.
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Elon Musk: Nazi traitor piece of shit [Confirmed]
bolverk replied to MaybeACoordinator's topic in Daily Texan
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One way to think about it is that the Electoral College system, itself, is one big gerrymander. The elections ARE rigged.
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I think they did this as a sick joke, but downtown Austin and the Capitol Complex are included in TX-10, the same district that will include College Station.
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There’s a decent shot the next Democratic Presidential Primary election will involve Senators from the above list or the following, and the decision to keep giving arms to Israel will absolutely influence my vote, just as the vote to support Bush's invasion of Iraq did. Right now, I'm becoming a big fan of Chris Murphy. VOTED TO NOT GIVE ARMS TO THE IDF: Angela Alsobrooks (D-MD) Tammy Baldwin (D-WI) Lisa Blunt Rochester (D-DE) Tammy Duckworth (D-IL) Dick Durbin (D-IL) Martin Heinrich (D-NM) Mazie Hirono (D-HI) Tim Kaine (D-VA) Andy Kim (D-NJ) Angus King (I-ME) Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) Ben Luján (D-NM) Ed Markey (D-MA) Jeff Merkley (D-OR) Chris Murphy (D-CT) Patty Murray (D-WA) Bernie Sanders (I-VT) Brian Schatz (D-HI) Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) Tina Smith (D-MN) Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) Raphael Warnock (D-GA) Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) Peter Welch (D-VT)
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To keep score IN FAVOR OF CONTINUED ARMS SALES TO A MILITARY COMMITTING GENOCIDE (at worst) OR ETHNIC CLEANSING (at best): Michael Bennet (D-CO) Cort Booker (D-NJ) Maria Cantwell (D-WA) Chris Coons (D-DE) Catherine Cortez Masto (D-NV) John Fetterman (D-PA) Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) Maggie Hassan (D-NH) John Hickenlooper (D-CO) Jon Ossoff (D-GA) Alex Padilla (D-CA) Gary Peters (D-MI) Jack Reed (D-RI) Jacky Rosen (D-NV) Adam Schiff (D-CA) Chuck Schumer (D-NY) Mark Warner (D-VA) Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) Ron Wyden (D-OR) DID NOT VOTE: Ruben Gallego (D-AZ) Mark Kelly (D-AZ) Elissa Slotkin (D-MI)
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Big City Texas is being disenfranchised by Rural Texas. DFW: 2-3 voices vs. 8-9 Houston: 2-3 vs. 7-8 San Antonio: 1 vs. 4
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Northern Travis and southern Williamson counties, this is who your future Congress critters will actually represent. Only the core of Austin will really have its voice heard. Everyone else in the area will be ignored. One voice against five others. The extreme nature of this gerrymander truly is taxation without representation.
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Gazans are too busy dodging bombs and bullets while starving to death to do much protesting at this point.
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Mystery solved. The report states that it was a personal beef between the two and not politically related. https://www.wxii12.com/article/virginia-councilman-set-on-fire-lee-vogler-danville/65553800
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That whole area from northern Travis County up to Georgetown is fucked on the proposed map. Say you get in your car from North Austin and head up to Ikea. You start out in TX-37, drive a couple of miles through TX-10, then a couple more in TX-11, maybe pass one Exit in TX-17, and you finally reach your destination, only a few miles away in TX-31. Communities of interest, eh? Western Travis/Round Rock is paired up with Livingston in the Piney Woods of East Texas. Round Rock/Pflugerville hangs with Midland/Odessa. Cedar Park/Round Rock goes along with Corsicana. Yeah, buddy.
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Doggett is TX-37, which will be Austin. Casar is TX-35, which will be Seguin, Floresville, La Vernia, and Karnes County. Either Casar has to move or primary Doggett and fight over Austin.
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That's great, it starts with an earthquake
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Israel is well on its way to being seen as a rogue state by most of the world, and it seems Israeli extremists are determined to make that happen. Yesterday, @Satchel posted this conversation between Jon Stewart and Peter Beinart elsewhere from Monday night. It’s very much worth the 18 minutes as it hits on so many of the points we’ve all been making, but from a Jewish perspective.
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I was more or less agnostic, leaning toward disbelief until the last couple of weeks, but now I'm starting to become converted into a believer.
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"There are two peoples living between the river and the sea, not one, and they are entitled to separate states in which each of these peoples enjoys the full panoply of civil and human rights." Britain and France Have Pledged to Recognize a Palestinian State. What Would It Mean? The announcements reflect deep frustrations with Israel’s conduct in Gaza and in the occupied West Bank, experts say. Britain on Tuesday said it would recognize a Palestinian state if Israel did not reach a cease-fire agreement on the war in Gaza by September. Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s move followed France’s announcement last week that it would officially acknowledge Palestine statehood. Both announcements reflect the deep frustrations by both nations with Israel’s conduct of the war in Gaza, analysts say, which has killed tens of thousands of Palestinians and left a population of about two million in a state of extreme privation and hunger. They also came in response to Israel’s actions in the occupied West Bank: Its military activity there has displaced Palestinians en masse this year, settlement plans have expanded, and violence by settlers against Palestinians has risen since the Hamas-led Oct. 7, 2023, attack on Israel ignited the war. That assault killed about 1,200 people and led to the abduction of about 250 others to Gaza. The announcements raise questions about what the recognition of a Palestinian state would mean and what it can actually do. Countries that have recognized the State of Palestine. If the UK goes through with it in September, you have to think Canada, Australia, and New Zealand aren't too far behind.
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I've got about half the days in the forecast above 100. Fortunately, the humidity is pretty low out here. Speaking of which, I came across this summertime dew point map on Reddit and thought I'd share, just because.
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America's Foreign Policy & Other Shit Going On Around the World thread
bolverk replied to bolverk's topic in Cloak Room
Trump's trade policies might push Iceland into joining the EU. Could Iceland Join The EU? Reykjavik Eyes Accession Talks As Security, Trade Tensions Mount When predicting which country would be the next to join the European Union, the smart money seems to be on Montenegro given that it has been negotiating for years and has advanced the furthest of all candidates. Others point to Albania, which is currently making great strides toward Brussels as the next member. There are also some who think that Moldova -- a reform-oriented and ambitious country in the bloc’s eastern neighborhood -- stands a decent chance of becoming EU member state number 28 in the coming year. But the right answer may actually be Iceland. The Trump administration's overtures to annex the Danish territory of Greenland and the prospect of a trade war between its security provider, the United States, and its biggest trading partner, the European Union, have created unease on the North Atlantic island. The current Icelandic government, which came to power last year, has announced that a referendum will be held before 2027 on resuming accession talks with Brussels. Polls suggest a majority would support restarting talks. The country has been here before. It was badly hit by the 2008 global financial crisis, when three of its major banks collapsed. EU membership -- and especially joining the eurozone -- was seen as a way out of the crisis, and negotiations with the bloc began in 2010. Talks were suspended three years later by a newly elected right-wing government. By then, the eurozone was itself engulfed in the same financial crisis, so joining the club and adopting its ailing common currency was no longer seen as a panacea. In those three years of accession talks, Reykjavik opened most of the 33 accession chapters and closed 11. By comparison, the current EU accession frontrunner, Montenegro, has managed to close a mere seven chapters in more than a decade of talks. 'A Sovereign Decision' It’s not for nothing that EU officials believe that Iceland could wrap up the entire process in a couple of years if it was to resume its application -- which according to the European Commission still remains valid. It helps, of course, that the country is part of the European Economic Area (EEA), which means that it -- together with other EEA members Norway and Liechtenstein -- is already applying the EU’s internal market rules. When European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen visited the island last week, she was quick to point out that the issue of future EU membership is “a sovereign decision that the people take here. So, it’s not a topic for me to comment on.” But, she added, “Iceland is familiar and integrated into the single market, we share values, we know each other very well, we are like-minded -- all this is an asset.” Speaking under the condition of anonymity, a European diplomat familiar with the topic was even more forthright. “It would be good if a Western European country would join the EU, especially after Brexit,” they said. “It would show that the club truly is attractive.” Integration would prove seamless, given that Iceland is richer than the EU average and -- with a population of 300,000 -- would be the smallest member state if it joined. While Brussels officially is trying to stay out of the Icelandic debate on membership, it is quietly doing everything to edge it closer. During her visit, von der Leyen promised a trade review to potentially upgrade the EEA agreement. She also struck a deal to protect critical infrastructure that is essential for Iceland, such as subsea cables, and started negotiations on a new security and defense partnership agreement, which would allow closer cooperation on cyber and hybrid threats. The partnership, expected to be ready by year’s end, is especially important for Iceland, which is acutely aware of the need for security cooperation, particularly as both Russia and China are becoming more active in the Arctic region. -
And it still wasn't enough to sate Putin's appetite to erase Ukraine. https://newsukraine.rbc.ua/news/trump-reportedly-offered-to-hand-crimea-and-1753644166.html Austria's Foreign Minister Beate Meinl-Reisinger said in an interview with Die Welt that Trump was ready to "hand over" Crimea and parts of eastern Ukraine to Russian President Vladimir Putin. But Putin chose to keep fighting. The Minister said the situation is clear: Ukraine wants peace, while Russia does not. Putin would have already started negotiations to end the war if he were truly interested in peace. She said Trump had effectively offered Putin Crimea and several eastern regions of Ukraine, and even ruled out Ukraine's NATO membership. Yet, Putin chose to continue his war of destruction against Ukraine. Meinl-Reisinger also rejected claims that Russia holds an advantage on the battlefield. She reminded that the Kremlin is suffering massive losses in Ukraine, and Putin won't be able to ignore this forever. The Minister said that coffins will continue to pile up in Russia, and combined with the country's worsening economic crisis, it is becoming harder for the Kremlin to sustain the war. According to her, Putin realizes he is running out of time, which is why he is escalating the war with such brutal intensity.
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There's some pretty good not-so-subtle snark in this. https://www.thetimes.com/article/a16fff4b-ca9c-45c4-b85d-3168750dff7b?shareToken=aca77cceb9221c90f4b028c72286e055 Russian fans of heavy metal and goth music could face prison after the Kremlin’s top court outlawed the “international satanism movement” as an extremist and terrorist group — even though no such organisation exists. The Russian Supreme Court’s ruling came after appeals from the leader of the Russian Orthodox Church, MPs and other officials. It means that anyone who is alleged to be a member of the non-existent movement could face up to eight years in prison. Critics said the ruling would increase the climate of fear that has gripped Russia since President Putin ordered tanks into Ukraine in 2022. In April, Andrei Kartapolov, a senior MP who heads the Russian parliament’s defence committee, told officials that satanism was a “direct threat to Russian statehood”. He also alleged, without evidence, that Russia’s satanists were funded by the West. Another pro-Kremlin MP claimed that he had received complaints from members of the public about the growing number of “satanic sex orgies” in Moscow and other cities. Although President Putin was once a KGB officer in the officially atheist Soviet Union, he now professes a deep Christian faith. He has described Moscow’s standoff with the West over Ukraine as a battle against the “outright satanism” of same-sex marriage and other LGBT rights. In January, Patriarch Kirill, the powerful head of the Russian Orthodox Church, said that he supported calls to ban satanism because it was an “ideology that destroys our national identity and weakens our people”. Kirill also said that Russian soldiers in Ukraine were fighting for values that were directly opposed to satanic beliefs. That is not true of all Putin’s troops, however. In 2023, as part of the Kremlin’s efforts to recruit convicts for the war, Russia freed from prison a member of a gang that killed four teenage girls in a ritual killing. Nikolai Ogolobyak and his accomplices fried and ate the hearts and tongues of their victims and stabbed one of them 666 times as a sacrifice to the devil, police said. He was sentenced to 20 years in prison in 2010, but was pardoned by Putin after serving six months at the front in Ukraine. Human rights lawyers warned that the Supreme Court’s ruling meant that Russians who listen to heavy metal, goth and industrial music, which often use occult imagery, could be at risk. “Will they put people in jail for T-shirts with pentagrams and goat heads? We won’t risk saying for sure, but the practice of cases involving other fictitious ‘extremists’ can tell us a lot,” said Ivan Pavlov, a prominent Russian human rights lawyer. The Supreme Court ruling, which is due to come into force next month, is expected to be applied retrospectively, meaning that people could potentially be prosecuted for social media posts containing satanic imagery that were made years ago. The full text of the Supreme Court’s decision has not been published, however, and it is unclear what images have been banned. In any case, the law is unlikely to affect Dmitry Medvedev, the former Russian president and prime minister, who has previously spoken of his love for Deep Purple. The British rock group’s songs include Lucifer and Demon’s Eye. Russia has already banned what it calls the “international LGBT social movement” as an extremist and terrorist group, placing it on a par with Islamic State and violent neo-Nazi groups. The same designation has also been used in recent years to outlaw Alexei Navalny, the late opposition leader, and his nationwide network of activists, as well as the Jehovah’s Witnesses. At the same time, Russia recently removed the Taliban from its official list of extremist and terrorist groups, as it seeks closer ties with the de facto rulers of Afghanistan. Since taking power, the Taliban has banned girls from secondary and higher education and barred women from most professions. Coincidentally or not, Russia’s depiction of its enemies in Ukraine and the West as demonic figures comes as the Kremlin boosts its military ties with Iran, where the United States is routinely referred to as the Great Satan. Even some of Putin’s biggest supporters mocked the proposal to officially ban satanism when it was first floated this year. “I have to officially state that I am not worried at the moment about the ‘growing number of satanic sex orgies’,” Yevgeny Popov, a pro-Kremlin MP and state television presenter, wrote in April. “To my shame, I didn’t know that their number had increased.”
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Lindsey's getting primaried. https://apnews.com/article/dans-project-2025-graham-south-carolina-senate-781a780ee4cd701d0b1d52d19e7a2892
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