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I turned my alerts off last year when I was awoken at 3:30 in the AM by the loudest damn alert known to man.  All because someone near El Paso (I believe, don't remember) took a shot at a cop over there.  I'm in the Houston area; not like I'm going to roll out of bed and do anything about it.

After the recent tragedy I got to thinking that maybe I ought to turn alerts back on just in case some life-threatening weather situation rolls up; but I forgot to do it.  Based on this most recent Blue Alert I'm glad I didn't.  We have tornado sirens in the general vicinity so I'll take my chances.

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21 minutes ago, Fudge Nuggets said:

I turned my alerts off last year when I was awoken at 3:30 in the AM by the loudest damn alert known to man.  All because someone near El Paso (I believe, don't remember) took a shot at a cop over there.  I'm in the Houston area; not like I'm going to roll out of bed and do anything about it.

After the recent tragedy I got to thinking that maybe I ought to turn alerts back on just in case some life-threatening weather situation rolls up; but I forgot to do it.  Based on this most recent Blue Alert I'm glad I didn't.  We have tornado sirens in the general vicinity so I'll take my chances.

It's maddening that we have to choose between getting actual lifesaving emergency alerts for tornados, flash floods, etc or getting spammed by statewide "cop got a boo boo" fake alerts

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So apparently an important item in the special session is state redistricting

There’s no emergency like a “we need to do everything we can to overly skew this state’s Republican delegation” emergency.
Fuck them kids.
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59 minutes ago, Sawbonz said:

So apparently an important item in the special session is state redistricting

Yeah not thrilled with that, especially since I've been sitting here with my dick in my hand and no Congressional representation for months in CD18 (thanks hot wheels). Silver lining to this redistricting push from Trump that I have read from several sources is that Texas is pretty much maximally gerrymandered as is, and in order to push it further you will be taking from the safer republican seats and creating an environment where they are more competitive. Could be a bad gambit where in a worst-case scenario for R's they will lose previously safe seats in addition to not gaining any new ones. Here's hoping that's what comes to pass and this whole thing blows up in Trumps face...

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Yeah not thrilled with that, especially since I've been sitting here with my dick in my hand and no Congressional representation for months in CD18 (thanks hot wheels). Silver lining to this redistricting push from Trump that I have read from several sources is that Texas is pretty much maximally gerrymandered as is, and in order to push it further you will be taking from the safer republican seats and creating an environment where they are more competitive. Could be a bad gambit where in a worst-case scenario for R's they will lose previously safe seats in addition to not gaining any new ones. Here's hoping that's what comes to pass and this whole thing blows up in Trumps face...

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My guess is that using AI, friendlier and more corrupt courts, and a gutted watchdog system, they’ll make a stab at it.
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Texas Deserves Far Better Than This

https://www.theringer.com/2025/07/10/politics/texas-flooding-disaster-kerrville-greg-abbott-donald-trump

 

Just now, Mez2 said:

"Unfortunately for Texans, scenes like that press conference from Friday have become all too familiar in recent years. After disasters, natural or otherwise, Abbott and a smattering of public officials arrive in town asking for prayers, promising to assist with recovery, and congratulating themselves for showing up on the town’s worst day. Then they head back home, never to sufficiently address the real issues that had brought them there."

 

 

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3 hours ago, Sawbonz said:

So apparently an important item in the special session is state redistricting

I grew up in Duncanville(southern Dallas County) and my folks still live there.  Jasmyn Crockett is their rep.  She’s one of the big targets they want gone apparently.  My folks love having her as their rep.

Looking ahead, they are going to draw some ridiculous bullshit.  It will get challenged in court, but the SC will affirm whatever is drawn up.  

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There will be one district that includes South Dallas/Dville/DeSoto and Red Oak, Mansfield, east Austin, most of San Antonio, and all of Harris County that’s not currently in the dip shit from Fort Bend’s or the one eyed bandit’s districts

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6 hours ago, Sawbonz said:

So apparently an important item in the special session is state redistricting

 

5 hours ago, Evil Bill Obrien said:

Yeah not thrilled with that, especially since I've been sitting here with my dick in my hand and no Congressional representation for months in CD18 (thanks hot wheels). Silver lining to this redistricting push from Trump that I have read from several sources is that Texas is pretty much maximally gerrymandered as is, and in order to push it further you will be taking from the safer republican seats and creating an environment where they are more competitive. Could be a bad gambit where in a worst-case scenario for R's they will lose previously safe seats in addition to not gaining any new ones. Here's hoping that's what comes to pass and this whole thing blows up in Trumps face...

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2 hours ago, HalfSack Horn said:

I grew up in Duncanville(southern Dallas County) and my folks still live there.  Jasmyn Crockett is their rep.  She’s one of the big targets they want gone apparently.  My folks love having her as their rep.

Looking ahead, they are going to draw some ridiculous bullshit.  It will get challenged in court, but the SC will affirm whatever is drawn up.  

Read somewhere that many Texas Reps are actually not in favor of this, because there are grumblings that if Texas does this, then blue states will start pulling the same shit, and they have a lot more to work with. Take it for what it's worth, since that would require Dems taking the gloves off 

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26 minutes ago, Doc Sam Beckett said:

 

 

Read somewhere that many Texas Reps are actually not in favor of this, because there are grumblings that if Texas does this, then blue states will start pulling the same shit, and they have a lot more to work with. Take it for what it's worth, since that would require Dems taking the gloves off 

Even if Dems went for it, their blue state maps would be struck down once the checks clear to 6 of the 9 SCJs.

Do not get your hopes up that institutions or process will save us. Shit has to burn, and we're nowhere near that point yet. Maybe during Barron I's reign.

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2 hours ago, Sawbonz said:

There will be one district that includes South Dallas/Dville/DeSoto and Red Oak, Mansfield, east Austin, most of San Antonio, and all of Harris County that’s not currently in the dip shit from Fort Bend’s or the one eyed bandit’s districts

Pretty much. There is always more.. 

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