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Democrats in Texas thought this

To be clear, this means there is a very real chance the Court will allow Abbott to expel the Democratic leader this week, thereby opening up the opportunity for Abbott to expel *all* freely and fairly elected absent Democrats. It would be an unprecedented attack on electoral democracy in the U.S.

@GregAbbottTX on X: The Texas Supreme Court has now ordered the runaway ring leader of the derelict Democrats to respond to my lawsuit by Friday. 05 Aug 25

And here we go. The Supreme Court of Texas is playing ball with Abbott. If they go through with this, it's a total breakdown of law and order. Fascism is ascendant.

it has been said over and over but it’s worth reiterating in the face of this horrifying decision: RFK is quite literally joining the war on cancer on the side of cancer

this work saved millions of lives in 2021, won the Nobel Prize in 2023, and is cancelled in 2025

Wikipedia Editors Adopt ‘Speedy Deletion’ Policy for AI Slop Articles “The ability to quickly generate a lot of bogus content is problematic if we don't have a way to delete it just as quickly.”

pay very close attention to Wikipedia to find a way out of the AI slop internet www.404media.co/wikipedia-ed...

I had ordered two "Using AI is Loser Behavior" stickers recently and uhhh I think I'm gonna need to order more than that

Thank you for posting this bc that man is an EA bro/perpetual co-founder who emailed me incessantly a decade ago and this was a prompt to log into linkedIn and block his ass

Average young Democratic talent: 42, policy staffer for a 72 year old Senator or first term state rep whose Congressional district is held by a 68 year old who will never retire

Average young Republican “talent”: 27, jacks off to Spanish nationalist atrocities, GS-12 at DHS, will run for Congress

Oh so we want a CORRUPT corrupt World Cup audience

I want to spotlight the clarity and beauty of the language Kelsey uses: the dead have a right to stay dead.

They do. We're going to need to develop standardized, universal, opt-out-only legal means to allow them to.

To allow /us/ to, for we will all be citizens in the kingdom of the dead in time.

Mr. Texas A sharply drawn, page-turning send up of Texas politics…

With attention on the Texas Legislature, I once again have to recommend Lawrence Wright's "Mr. Texas." It's got everything: adultery, alcoholism, lawmakers living in the Pecan Grove RV Park. Quick read with a doofus protagonist. www.goodreads.com/book/show/78...

We're getting drinks next week specifically so that I can Cry About Work so I guess I should probably tell him that

Easily stopped the creation of hundreds of these guys over the course of his career

I have a high school teacher turned friend whose whole thing was forcing moral education upon boy geniuses in part by being a cool and good dude who would call them out if they behaved remotely like this & who they would rather die than disappoint. I am grateful for that man every damn day.

and as far as responsibility goes, i think ferritor should be held criminally liable for the laws he broke while doing DOGE's work and referred for crimes against humanity

what ferritor needed was moral education — and the limits and boundaries that come with it. he needed to learn that he had obligations beyond his own interests & personal advancement. he needed to learn that he had duties to other people. his parents fostered his brilliance at the expense of a soul.

The Boy Genius Who Killed 14 Million Poor People What is the moral weight of responsibility for the men who carried out DOGE’s work?

i think i disagree with the idea that the ferritor should have been allowed to follow his own path during his schooling, neglecting assignments and being coddled for his apparent genius. i think, in fact, that this was the problem. www.thebulwark.com/p/the-boy-ge...

I'm sorry what

Feel like its a bad sign about the health of the republic that Pritzker has to talk about TX Dems like they’re the Polish government-in-exile in London

Oh and joined a local writing club which has been 🔥

I've gotten weird about step goals (~15-20k/day?) which takes up a good chunk of time

The Texas governor is threatening to expel House Democrats, immediately fill their seats with Republicans he personally appoints, then have them arrested. This is an emergency.

Here's a link to the timestamp when it begins: www.youtube.com/live/14LaOrK...

1. This is going to turn into a real showdown because the Great Khan of the Midwest has apparently offered to help shelter them from Texas law enforcement sent to find them.
2. These state reps (who are paid poverty wages, ftr) are risking extreme legal consequences as this is a crime in TX now.

ICE crackdown imperils Afghans who aided U.S. war effort, lawyers say Advocates fear President Donald Trump’s ambitious deportation plan jeopardizes Afghan interpreters and other allies who worked for U.S. troops during the war.

A disgrace.

“One former interpreter for U.S. forces in Afghanistan was detained by immigration agents after he showed up for a routine green card appointment. A second was arrested just minutes after attending his first asylum hearing in San Diego.”

www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...

Yes it is ridiculous that they have to do this. I understand there's a source of financing but for Texans, a call of support and/or a donation to your state rep's office would be very welcome over the next few weeks

Hell yeah

IVF has always been an untenable question for the pronatalist movement. On the one hand, it alienates the Catholics and anti-choice Evangelicals in their ranks. On the other, IVF allows women to delay childbearing—which conflicts with pronatalism’s desire for a revival of societal misogyny.

The sudden shift from “the Internet isn’t real life” to “the Internet is real life and everything else is irrelevant” over the last decade or so has been absolutely astounding to witness.