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  1. 6 hours ago, gmr548 said:

    transition away from oil

    Imagine what we could do if the state government wasn't trying to inhibit renewable energy. 

    "Texas generates more electricity from wind and sun than any other state and has since 2006. It ain’t even close. In 2021 Texas’s output was more than double that of the runner-up, a sizable state that hugs the Pacific Ocean and likes to boast about how green it is."

    https://www.texasmonthly.com/news-politics/texas-number-one-in-renewable-and-nonrenewable-energy/

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  2. 33 minutes ago, bolverk said:

    Many of us have quit Twitter for good (or until Elmo has to sell it) and can no longer read threads. Can you post the whole thing here? If it's too long, try putting it through the Thread Reader app and then post.

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  3. With 1.19 million total residents, Collin County experienced the second largest growth in the country and added 36,364 people last year. Harris County grew by 53,788 residents and is the largest gaining county in the nation. The county is the third most populous county in the U.S. and has a total of 4.83 million.  

    Half of the counties with the highest levels of domestic migration were also in the state. Collin County saw the fourth-largest domestic inflow with 20,749 residents relocating into the area. Denton County was fifth and saw 19,262 people move into the area.  

    Dallas County, however, placed eighth for outflow and saw 34,330 people leave the county, up from the 18,985 who left in 2022.

    https://www.wfaa.com/article/news/local/dfw-surpasses-8m-residents-top-metro-growth-in-nation-census-reports/287-8126e50e-c2ba-4253-af2a-ea047b119a81

     

     

    The Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington MSA, in turn, comprises two Metropolitan Divisions (MDs): the Fort Worth-Arlington MD, which includes Hood, Johnson, Parker, Somervell, Tarrant and Wise counties, and the Dallas-Plano-Irving MD, which includes Collin, Dallas, Denton, Ellis, Hunt, Kaufman and Rockwall counties.

    https://comptroller.texas.gov/economy/economic-data/regions/2020/metroplex.php

     

    Largest Gaining

    Eight of the 10 counties that led the nation by numeric change in 2023 were in Texas. This included Harris County, which added 53,788 residents and was the largest-gaining county in the nation, followed by Collin County (36,364) and Montgomery County (31,800).

    Maricopa County, Arizona, the largest-gaining county in the nation in 2022, dropped to fourth in 2023 with a gain of just over 30,000 residents. Polk County, Florida, ranked fifth after adding 29,948 residents.

    The remaining top five population gainers were all in Texas: Denton (29,943); Fort Bend (27,859); Bexar (27,488); Tarrant (27,301); and Williamson (24,918). Denton County gained nearly 30,000 new residents, pushing its population to just over 1 million and making it the seventh Texas county to reach this milestone. 

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    The Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX metro area surpassed 8 million residents between 2022 and 2023, adding 152,598 residents for a total population of 8,100,037. This was the largest numeric population increase of any U.S. metro area between 2022 and 2023, followed by Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands, TX, which added 139,789 over the same period, bringing its total population to 7,510,253.

    Other metro areas that experienced notable population gains between 2022 and 2023 included Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA (68,585); Orlando-Kissimmee-Sanford, FL (54,916); Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater, FL (51,622); Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia, NC-SC (50,458); and Austin-Round Rock-San Marcos, TX (50,105).

    https://www.census.gov/newsroom/press-releases/2024/population-estimates-more-counties-population-gains-2023.html

     

    418 people a day on average move to DFW. It's spread out over 13 counties, but I think they all get on 35 at some point and damn few know how to drive. 

  4. We're not discussing the state of the GOP in the states that are the ones to worry about. 

    Take a quick look at Michigan. Has she surrendered the office as leader of the party in the state? 

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    “Based upon its initial review, it appears to the Counsel’s office that Ms. Karamo was properly removed in accordance with the MI GOP bylaws,” read the letter, which was obtained by The Associated Press.

    While RNC members are expected to meet following a Jan. 30 winter meeting to make further recommendations, the dispute over the Michigan GOP chair position will likely play out in court in the months to come.

     

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    Karamo, an election conspiracist who refused to accept the results of her 14 percentage point loss in the 2022 secretary of state race, has claimed the Jan. 6 vote to remove her as chair was “illegitimate” and “illegal.” She sent cease and desist letters last week to Hoekstra and other opponents alleging defamation of character and trademark infringement.

    https://apnews.com/article/kristina-karamo-michigan-republican-trump-88f8c427f97a39e71265bb70b883e2c1

    so... definitely maybe. Meanwhile there is not a lotta money in the cash on hand.

     

    let's go see how it's going in Arizona

     

     

    “The release of our conversation by Lake confirms a disturbing tendency to exploit private interactions for personal gain and increases concerns about her habit of secretly recording personal and private conversations. This is obviously a concern given how much interaction she has with high profile people including President Trump,” DeWit said. “I question how effective a United States Senator can be when they cannot be trusted to engage in private and confidential conversations.”

    Arizona is poised to play a pivotal role in 2024 as one of the nation’s most competitive presidential battlegrounds, and with a key Senate race on the ballot, as well.

    https://www.cnn.com/2024/01/24/politics/arizona-republican-chairman-resigns-kari-lake/index.html

    Uhhh. That's great. Just great. I mean really it is if you want Joe and Ruben to win there.

    I saw two signs between Denton and Comanche about Trump. One was a gate that always has something political and the other is a cheesy billboard in Willow Park. "Born in New York but with Texas values" or equivalent bullshit.

    I did see a rando pickup with a rather faded shoe polish message of 'Joe Biden is ruining America' Not really catchy, but it's the sentiment that counts.

    This isn't 2016. 

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  5. On 3/8/2024 at 12:35 PM, T-shirt Sip said:

    Cutting them off is the lazy way of doing it. If they go that route, I'm curious what else they cut corners on. Our standard practice to remove the whole post and take out all of the old concrete before setting the new posts with all new concrete. Typical is to use the same post holes. If the posts have to move, (fence changes from vertical to horizontal or vice versa or you decide to go with a different layout) we then fill in the old holes with the dirt coming out of the new holes. 

    You might want to cross post in the landscape thread.

  6. Y'all think Joe is going to take Michigan for granted and not campaign there? Or where else did she not go visit?

    What about the specials since 22?

    How about 22? The Red Wave that wasn't.

    The news has to sell ad space. They want a race.

     

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  7. I'm guessing this is the default redistricting thread. There's some ongoing discussion in the SOTU thread spurred on by the existence of Troy Nehls. 

    I have Ronny Jackson. I used to have Burgess, but he's going to be replaced with the SIL of Dinesh. Scott Armey tried, but it was epic fail. 

    Denton got cracked. Lewisville the same.

    For the life of me I can't remember the fucker's name that drew the maps. One very nerdy guy that had it down to the street level. 

    I don't know what the current status is on the court case. But, I'm not very optimistic about it. 

    Some plaintiffs’ lawyers said the Supreme Court’s ruling would not change much of their approach to those claims, while others said the decision clarified the complex legal framework needed to prove a violation of Section 2. But they agreed that the court’s ruling dispatched some of the arguments states like Texas might look to in defending against their challenges.

    “One of the things that the majority did is it really refused to rewrite Section 2 along the lines of various arguments that defendants are raising across the country,” said Yurij Rudensky, who serves as a redistricting counsel for the Brennan Center for Justice and represents a group of plaintiffs in the Texas case.

    Like Alabama, Texas had argued in court that Section 2 does not apply to redistricting at all — an assertion the Supreme Court’s majority disagreed with explicitly in its decision.

    https://www.texastribune.org/2023/06/13/texas-redistricting-lawsuits/

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