Stuart98

i have just gotten off a productive call with sauron where i laid out our requests

- nazgul bodycams
- morgul knife must remain sheathed unless suspect is determined to be carrying the one ring
- shelob will be the new point of contact

The Republican position now appears to be that you have a constitutional right to openly carry a gun in public, unless you do so while expressing a view that the government dislikes, in which case the secret police can shoot you to death on the spot.

Reminder that Trump won the counties this clean water pipeline would run through by 37 points in 2024.

Veteran: My oath impels me to be here. I took an oath in 1969 to defend this country against all enemies, foreign and domestic. I had to be here to make sure that no one else was killed the way Renee Nicole Good was killed yesterday.

they murdered Ms. Good.

"The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command." — George Orwell.

The footage is already out there. ICE executed a woman in broad daylight.

NewsNation is manufacturing consent. Why don't their producers look into actual footage of ICE's execution of the woman that's circulating on this site instead of airing the DHS's statement word-for-word?

She has no real way of explaining the danger of their situation to her son, who is 17 years old but cognitively closer to a toddler. And as a single mother too weak to forage, she has no real way of ensuring their survival. She also is too old to benefit from a recent policy change the Thai government made in a bid to prevent mass starvation, granting work rights to some of the 107,000 Myanmar refugees who, like her, live in Thailand’s border camps. Her son never learned to speak, and needs her help with everything from getting dressed to using the toilet. Since the funding cuts, their survival has hinged on the charity of her Christian church, whose members occasionally give her handfuls of their rice. She suffers from diabetes and high blood pressure, and begins to sweat and grow dizzy when her hunger is at its fiercest. Some days, she eats nothing.

when the people who shuttered USAID learn of a diabetic single mother and her disabled son starving to death 9,000 miles away because of aid cuts, they don't see failure or dereliction or tragedy, but rather success: the people they view as unworthy of life are dying

Listening to Utah GOP lawmakers scold us while claiming they avoided partisan data to draw new congressional maps is rich.

Somehow, we are to believe they were unaware of an effort FROM THEIR OWN PARTY to support the map that gave them the biggest electoral edge.

Guess which map they passed. 🤔

Busting Brady Brammer's Bogus Bill YouTube video by Stuart98 (ストゥアート98)

VOD: youtube.com/live/njickRV...

Map 1 (non-partisan map around communities of interest): davesredistricting.org/join/f9d77d2...
Map 2 (Democratic gerrymander): davesredistricting.org/join/bf175a5...
Map 3 (Republican gerrymander): davesredistricting.org/join/fc29958...

Map drawn without regard for partisan data while splitting zero cities. District 1 consists of Davis County (minus North Salt Lake) and counties north of it and the northern and eastern parts of Summit County. District 2 consists of the northern half of Salt Lake County, and North Salt Lake. District 3 consists of Wasatch County, the remaining parts of Summit and Salt Lake Counties, and Provo and its immediate suburbs. District 4 consists of the rest of the state.

A map gerrymandered to favor democrats. District 2 is a double digit democratic district by presidential data and consists of a Salt Lake City South Salt Lake, Millcreek, Murray, Holladay, Midvale, most of Davis County excluding Syracuse and Clinton, as well as Ogden, South Ogden, and Washington Terrace. District 3 is tossup district consisting of most of the rest of Salt Lake County excluding the southwest corner, as well as the Park City area and Provo. Districts 1 and 4 are both solidly Republican districts comprising the rest of the state.

A Republican gerrymander colored by 2024 senate data. District 2 (consisting of Salt Lake, Millcreek, Murray, Taylorsville, Magna, and a string of counties going all the way down to St. George, is the only district that wasn't R+20 or more by this data, being R+15. The rest of Salt Lake County is in a district 4 which also contains Eagle Mountain and a sliver of rural areas in the south of Utah County. District 1 consists of Davis county and counties north of it, except Morgan, while District 3 contains all of eastern Utah as well as Provo and Lehi and their immediate vicinities.

Finished my stream drawing maps and testing them against Brady Brammer's Bogus Bill. The first of these 3 maps, drawn without regard for partisan data, fails Brammer's tests. The following 2 maps, drawn to intentionally favor specific parties, pass them. VOD and map links below:

YouTube video by Stuart98 (ストゥアート98) Busting Brady Brammer's Bogus Bill

In a few hours, I'll be going live demonstrating the flaws in Brady Brammer's bill (SB1011) by drawing maps from scratch on the fly and testing them against his criteria. Should be a fun and educational experience, hope to see y'all there! www.youtube.com/watch?v=njic...

This bill's test passes the vast majority of gerrymanders (including the current one) and fails most fair maps. It is quite literally worse than having no test at all.

Meanwhile all of Oregon, South Carolina, New Mexico, Illinois, Florida, Iowa, Tennessee, and Oklahoma are blatantly missing despite being some of the most gerrymandered states in the country.

What a bizarre list. Pennsylvania has a completely fair map, West Virginia literally can't be gerrymandered (no matter how you draw it you get two safe R seats), Louisiana's map is weird but gets the same 4-2 split a fair map would, Maryland and Kentucky are only mild gerrymanders.

Sorting by attachments also works, though that also pulls up an old version of one of mine due to legislative staff (I assume?) screwing up.

And that's just in the races where running an indy didn't split the vote. We might have an extra seat in the state senate if one fewer candidate ran in SD8!

As lawmakers fight over dueling redistricting experts, Utahns ask: Why not one of our maps? • Utah News Dispatch As Utah lawmakers fight over dueling redistricting experts, Utahns ask why they don't just pick one of their congressional maps.

The second day of Utah’s court-ordered redistricting process saw plenty of fireworks, with Democrats and Republicans fighting over their dueling experts.

Meanwhile, Utahns like Stuart Hepworth have submitted dozens of other maps that they urged lawmakers to consider instead. #utpol

It's decision day for the redrawing of Utah's congressional maps.

Five maps have already been proposed by Utah's GOP majority.

Two more last-minute proposals could shake up the process ahead of today's vote.

🔗 Full breakdown at the link.

www.utahpoliticalwatch.news/decision-day...

nooo you misspelled my name😭

Never gonna stop fighting that fight!

Dutch late night TV has its take

Yeah have to imagine that's what's going on (from both sides)

Hilarious how the New York Post is more distrusted by Republicans than by Democrats.

Only problem is the legislature hasn't been advertising that their map submission portal is up and running again.

Seems they consider public participation via submitting maps to the legislature's website prior to the legislature passing their map to be sufficient, and then the onus would be on the plaintiffs to submit one of those public maps to the court if they approve of it.

Please Mr. Jacobs, don't threaten us with a good time!

/20 In closing, this is the result that the Right, the Federalist Society, the Heritage Foundation, and their crew have successfully fought for: a system where the federal government can deliberately violate your rights and there is no effective remedy - meaning you don’t really have the right.

The Free Speech President has now pulled two of the three major late night hosts off the air through threats and intimidation because of their jokes. Obviously I’m behind Jimmy Kimmel 100% in the face of this fascist garbage. Speech against this admin isn’t just being chilled, they’re freezing it.

A free and democratic society cannot silence comedians because the President doesn’t like what they say.

This is an attack on free speech and cannot be allowed to stand.

All elected officials need to speak up and push back on this undemocratic act.