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‘If They Get Away With It in Texas,’ You're Next. Democrats Sound the Alarm on Racist Redistricting Fight. Texas Democrats have a message for all American voters: You’re in the redistricting fight, whether you know it or not.

Texas Dems have a message for American voters: You’re in the redistricting fight, whether you know it or not.

A redistricting bill in Texas, introduced at Trump's demand, would disenfranchise minorities — and could spur retaliatory redistricting across the nation.

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F.B.I. Is Asked to Arrest Texas Democrats in Battle Over House Seats

This is a demand for unconstitutional, arbitrary power. There is no offense against the United States here. The FBI has no role to assist the State of Texas in becoming an authoritarian enclave.

F.B.I. Is Asked to Arrest Texas Democrats in Battle Over House Seats www.nytimes.com/2025/08/05/u...

Live redistricting updates: Trump says Republicans “entitled” to more Texas seats Most Texas House Democrats remain out of the state, depriving the Legislature of its ability to pass new congressional maps and other GOP priorities.

"we are entitled to five more seats.”
Nope.
"Trump won 56% of the 2024 presidential vote in Texas. Under the current map, Republicans hold two-thirds of Texas’ congressional seats; the new map aims to raise that to 79%." www.texastribune.org/2025/08/04/t...

It’s good that they put that ridiculous ed hardy style font on the Robotaxi, so you know immediately to stay far away (and cover your drink).

Seeing one in the wild (on the streets of my South Austin suburb) at 730 am makes me think about all the bad decisions leading to this moment.

This was an outstanding episode of what is quickly becoming my favorite non-Arsenal-specific football podcast.

I encountered this first on PCHH in the discussion of “Song of the Summer.”

The music is delightful.

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Texas House Democrats to flee the state in bid to block GOP’s proposed congressional map The lawmakers’ absence means the lower chamber won’t have enough members present to function, stalling passage of a draft map Democrats have condemned as a political power grab.

@kaylaguo.bsky.social @texastribune.org: Texas House Democrats flee the state to block the GOP's proposed congressional map www.texastribune.org/2025/08/03/t... #txlege

Check out the colossal array of great Murphs in the replies.

Google Will Use AI to Guess People’s Ages Based on Search History Plus: A former top US cyber official loses her new job due to political backlash, Congress is rushing through a bill to censor lawmakers’ personal information online, and more.

Happy birthday to me from @wired.com:

Women's EURO 2025 Finances Bloom Baby Bloom

Much more in today's Women's EURO 2025 blog, which is a free read. Includes competition expenses, net result and comparisons with the FIFA Women's World Cup and Men's EURO.

One more thing: it's staying home.

swissramble.substack.com/p/womens-eur...

Excellent reporting by @gunnerblog.bsky.social.

Last year, we flew to LA to watch Arsenal. Being in a stadium filled with fellow supporters is something we never get to experience in Austin.

It was so much fun to get to be there, even at an otherwise meaningless game.

I’m making my dog mad (delayed walk), so I can watch spurs players slide studs up into our players.

If this gerrymandered proposed map were to put in place, I've identified a 2.6 mile bike ride along Parmer that would take you across FOUR congressional districts!

Effective August 29, imported goods sent through means other than the international postal network that are valued at or under $800 and that would otherwise qualify for the de minimis exemption will be subject to all applicable duties. For goods shipped through the international postal system, packages will instead be assessed duties according to one of the following methodologies: Ad valorem duty: A duty equal to the effective tariff rate imposed under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) that is applicable to the country of origin of the product. This duty shall be assessed on the value of each package. Specific duty: A duty ranging from $80 per item to $200 per item, depending on the effective IEEPA tariff rate applicable to the country of origin of the product. The specific duty methodology will be available for six months, after which all applicable shipments must comply with the ad valorem duty methodology. Longstanding exemptions under 19 U.S.C. 1321(a)(2)(A) and (B) remain in place – meaning American travelers can still bring back up to $200 in personal items and individuals can continue to receive bona fide gifts valued at $100 or less duty-free.

White House just ended the de minimis exemption for all commercial shipments.
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NYC’s Urban Textscape Analyzing All of the Words Found on NYC Streets

This is an incredibly cool project to identify and map all the words that appear on the streets of New York City pudding.cool/2025/07/stre...

A red book cover with a gavel smashing the word Lawless on Leah Litman’s book, Lawless: How the Supreme Court Runs on Conservative Grievance, Fringe Theories, and Bad Vibes.

At this time last year, we were in LA with my brother to see Arsenal play at SoFi in pre-season. It was heaven.

This morning, I giggled audibly at 530 am when I remembered I have a lunchtime webinar to hear Leah Litman, as a little treat to myself.

In Austin, Texas, we have "chicken sh*t bingo" at the Little Longhorn Saloon.

Seeing the push notification in this thread (not sharing), I logged in and canceled my Substack subscriptions, which I should have done ages ago.

I cannot get this content elsewhere, but I also cannot support Substack no matter how much I love the Department of Salad, etc.

If I text my husband or walk into his office to announce that I have something REALLY important to show him: it’s a super cute dog.

100%

I’m so excited to hear this — both literally and figuratively.

I grabbed my phone to mute a super annoying account so forcefully that my phone flew out of my hand and bounced off of the pavement.

One of the best shows of my life was a Herbie Hancock/ Wayne Shorter show in a 300 seat theater in Austin, Texas.

Bravo, @billycarpy.bsky.social!

I misidentified a golden retriever on my porch as an alligator.
(I glanced at the security footage on my watch.)

When I realized it was a neighbor's dog, I ran downstairs to help corral her and found another neighbor having car trouble.

Big 98-degree day in Austin.

say hello to the new college of florida in manhattan

It’s streaming for me on “CBS sports network” on Hulu.

I appreciated the reminder that the match is “tonight” [tomorrow morning at 630 central time].

I might have found my new morning soundtrack, gentle thumps while “vamos” and “buena” and “yes” are shouted encouragingly.

ChatGPT advises women to ask for lower salaries, study finds A new study has found that large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT consistently advise women to ask for lower salaries than men.

It's a bias amplification engine thenextweb.com/news/chatgpt...

Purchased. Last summer, we went to the game in LA and it was a dream. I ended up buying the games for a lot more money as one-offs.