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on the balance i think partisan gerrymandering is bad but the only way it ends is if democrats weaponize it against republicans everywhere they can. wiping out republican lawmakers in blue states might bring the GOP to the table to end the practice.

Okay to be fair his wife is extremely cool

Yeah they can talk to me when my neighbors in Austin who all live within a 5mi radius aren't sharing a district with freaking Huntsville, Midland, or Corpus Christie

In Afghanistan, a Trail of Hunger and Death Behind U.S. Aid Cuts Afghanistan has plunged deeper into a crisis marked by levels of child hunger unseen in 25 years and the closure of almost 450 health centers.

In Afghanistan, child malnutrition is at levels unseen in 25 years. The New York Times witnessed hardship across the country in the wake of U.S. cuts.

Would be 0% surprised if Hunt pulls it off & then R donors go all in on hammering the dem racial fracture to victory (as I type that I'm realizing that may well be the game plan UGH)

If Cornyn had behaved 10% less crazily over the past decade (and I guess if we didn't have our own messy primary), Texas dems would have swarmed the republican primary to vote for him.

Cornyn did this to himself. I'm comparing him to Rep McCaul, for instance, who has successfully maintained some distance from the president and regularly outperforms every other republican in his district by 5-10%. Cornyn easily could have chosen to walk that path but he bent the knee instead.

lmao hunt really fucked cornyn up here

I'd put money on 20k

Gonna top 10k measles cases this year, easily

AI is just a cover for trying to ship jobs overseas that weren't previously thought possible to ship overseas part 1 million

Need a catchier tagline, we'll workshop it

A Generational Collapse: Tracking the Toll of Trump’s Humanitarian Aid Cuts - Refugees International The consequences of these cuts have been deadly and devastating and are now coming into focus. Will humanitarian funding ever rebound?

Still can't bring myself to read these, but this is one of the better post-mortems. My last assignment was as desk officer for Bangladesh: 24% year-on-year increase in scabies, 21% increase in child marriage, 17% uptick in already-high child manual labor www.refugeesinternational.org/reports-brie...

I really truly think "minimizing hypocrisy" can go the distance as a foreign policy platform w voters

My latest: A look inside the secretive immigration prisons at Guantanamo—and the ethical questions that doctors and nurses face to treat those inside.

Senator Ron Wyden re posting a dell Cameron post about Ron Wyden sending a letter to John Ratcliffe about concerning CIA activities

Ron really doesn't like it either

they're trying to be coy about salivating over the prospect of raping women, they'll contest that but if pushed to explain, that's exactly what they would describe. forced pregnancy of any kind, by a man or by the state, is gender-based violence

From the San Antonio Express News:

this particular line is maybe the best statement of purpose i have seen for those of us who want a more militant opposition to this administration

Alphabet Plots Big Expansion in India as US Restricts Visas Alphabet Inc. is plotting to dramatically expand its presence in India, with the possibility of taking millions of square feet in new office space in Bangalore, India’s tech hub.

The most predictable outcome of the Trump's hostility to immigrants is mass outsourcing of those jobs from the United States.

This is another example of damage being done to the economy which will be hard to reverse in a few years when people finally figure out how badly Trump screwed things up.

Why did they choose the dumbest possible way to accuse Talarico of racism when everyone agrees Allred ran a horrible campaign

U.S. Rep. Joaquin Castro calls for closure of Dilley detention center amid measles outbreak U.S. Rep. Joaquin Castro speaks during a press conference in San Antonio last week. U.S. Congressman Joaquin Castro, D-San Antonio, is calling for the

"In the interest of public health and safety, Dilley should be shut down immediately," the San Antonio Democrat said in a Monday tweet.

Opinion | Liam Ramos Was Just One of Hundreds of Children at This Detention Center. Release Them All.

"A 2-year-old boy was breastfeeding in detention. One 6-year-old boy had leukemia. An 8-year-old girl began wetting the bed. A 14-year-old girl engaged in self-harm...None of these children or their parents had a criminal history anywhere in the world."
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/01/o...

Certified Chris Hooks Classic, here. It is very detailed and humane in telling the story it tells, which concerns the damage that a small number of snitches, creeps, and dullards have done to this institution, but also about the long history and awful present of snitches/creeps/dullards doing that.

@joaquincastrotx.bsky.social's team is really doing an outsized amount of work in Tony Gonzales's district.

Source: Measles outbreak reported at ICE's Dilley family detention facility DPS troopers stand guard in front of the Dilley detention center during a protest last weekend. After a week of public outcry over the Dilley, Texas South

It appears there is now a measles outbreak at the Dilley family detention facility. www.sacurrent.com/news/san-ant...

I'm setting a midnight cutoff but I will knock 190 doors in Texas CD ten before Friday, receipts to come

definitely follow rob if you are trying to understand the texas special election results from tonight

Okay disclaimer I max out at ~100/day rn but will carry anything over 10 into the week before Friday. MiniVAN screenshot receipts to come

I will personally knock 10 doors for her in the primary tomorrow for each repost this gets, and listen, I've got all day