Abdelilah Skhir

The House online appearance form. All committees meeting today are listed except for the House Select Committee on Congressional Redistricting.

People who came to speak to their elected officials about this are being told they can fill out an appearance card online.

Funny enough, this committee doesn’t show up as an option when you try to do so!

A committee room full of people. A PowerPoint presentation is on the screen.

I’m at the second hearing of Florida’s House redistricting committee.

It was originally scheduled for 9:30am, and over the course of several days was moved to 8:30am, and finally 9am.

Not only will there be no public comment, people are being told they can’t even fill out an appearance card.

Eileen Higgins becoming mayor of Miami is a big deal. Something flying a little under the radar but is also a big deal:

No Carollo, De La Portilla, or Suarez in office for probably the first time in my life.

Miami is (finally) turning the page on its political dynasty families.

A room full of people and PowerPoint presentation on the screen

Packed room and overflow into the hallway for the first meeting of Florida’s redistricting committee.

The chair starts with a statement saying the Legislature’s efforts are not influenced by redistricting around the country or political gamesmanship.

The crowd just burst into laughter. #flapol

Maybe instead of committing atrocities, we could just make the rich pay their fair share and have universal healthcare and affordable housing instead.

Idk, just spitballing here.

Tomorrow from Ezra Klein and Matt Yglesias: the Democratic Party will never win elections again unless it stops listening to its far-left extremists like Bill Kristol

Low Key Legend inbound??? #WWERaw

It’s so much worse reading it with the voice

Know Your Rights | Enforcement at the Airport | ACLU At the border, you are likely to encounter Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers, and you may encounter Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) agents. HSI is part of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). Know your rights in these scenarios.

If you’re flying this holiday season, know your rights before heading to the airport. 

War in Venezuela, Brought to You By the Same People Who Lied Us Into Iraq Washington is making big claims to make the case for U.S. intervention. We’ve heard all these arguments before.

Not the New York Times op-ed by Bret Stephens pushing for regime change!

In America they arrest you if you tell someone else not to commit a crime

📣 Today is the final day to make your Give Miami Day gift.

Because of your support, Miami and all of Florida can be a place where freedom is real and justice is possible.

Donate here: ⬇️

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The public perception of this case is that it’s about politics. To be sure, politics played a role in drawing the 2025 Map. But it was much more than just politics. Substantial evidence shows that Texas racially gerrymandered the 2025 Map. Here’s why. Earlier this year, President Trump began urging Texas to redraw its U.S. House map to create five additional Republican seats. Lawmakers reportedly met that request to redistrict on purely partisan grounds with apprehension. When the Governor announced his intent to call a special legislative session, he didn’t even place redistricting on the legislative agenda. But when the Trump Administration reframed its request as a demand to redistrict congressional seats based on their racial makeup, Texas lawmakers immediately jumped on board. On July 7, Harmeet Dhillon, the head of the Civil Rights Division at the Department of Justice (“DOJ”), sent a letter (“the DOJ Letter”) to the Governor and Attorney General of Texas making the legally incorrect assertion that four congressional districts in Texas were “unconstitutional” because they were “coalition districts”—majority-non-White districts in which no single racial group constituted a 50% majority. In the letter, DOJ threatened legal action if Texas didn’t immediately dismantle and redraw these districts—a threat based entirely on their racial makeup. Notably, the DOJ Letter targeted only majority-non-White districts. Any mention of majorityWhite Democrat districts—which DOJ presumably would have also targeted if its aims were partisan rather than racial—was conspicuously absent.

Here is the federal district court's 2–1 ruling, authored by a very conservative Trump appointee, striking down Texas' new Republican gerrymander on the grounds that it unlawfully discriminates against racial minorities. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

BREAKING: In a 2-1 decision, the three-judge panel in Texas has blocked the state's new congressional map and ordered the state to use the 2021 map for next's year's midterms.

Opinion here:

drive.google.com/file/d/1Af-Q...

#txlege

OLD GUNTHER THEME WE’RE SO BACK #WWERaw

Ballot push to expand Miami Commission, move elections to November passes 10K signatures ‘The message is clear: Miami is ready for a City Hall that works for the people.’

10,000 signatures = 10,000 Miamians demanding change.

9 commissioners instead of 5 for fairer representation. Even-year city elections to increase turnout. Transparent, fair redistricting.

This is what a citizen-led amendment looks like.

Don't Buy Starbucks! At any location, today and beyond, while workers are on ULP strike!

As of this morning, Starbucks workers across the country are officially ON STRIKE. And we're prepared for this to become the biggest and longest ULP strike in Starbucks history.

Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX

Kash Patel’s ‘Effin Wild’ Ride as FBI Director In just one week in October, he ticked off his bosses with premature comments about a terror investigation squeezed in a trip to the ‘Boondoggle Ranch’ on the bureau jet.

New WSJ: After flying an FBI jet to see his girlfriend sing at a wrestling match, FBI director Kash Patel took the jet to a private Texas hunting resort called the Boondoggle Ranch. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

Kash Patel’s ‘Effin Wild’ Ride as FBI Director In just one week in October, he ticked off his bosses with premature comments about a terror investigation and squeezed in a trip to the ‘Boondoggle Ranch’ on the bureau jet

This Wall Street Journal piece on Kash Patel's performance as director of the FBI would probably make you laugh if you forgot for a moment that the guy has some very serious national security responsibilities and that none of this is very funny.

MSN link: www.msn.com/en-us/crime/...

The gear that AJ Styles wore at WWE Crown Jewel was the same gear that was on the Pro Wrestling Illustrated cover that he and John Cena were on.

Judge Young: "This case ... squarely presents the issue whether non-citizens lawfully present here in United States actually have the same free speech rights as the rest of us. The Court answers this Constitutional question unequivocally 'yes, they do.' 'No law' means 'no law.'"

These Cody and Seth promos are some of the most interesting character work I can remember in a while #WWERaw

A room full of people. Jeremy Matlow speaking at the podium

Packed house at Proof for Jeremy Matlow’s campaign. Looks like everyday people are ready for @jeremymatlow.bsky.social to be mayor of Tallahassee.

Virginia sends out the field team and get an entire play clock for free. I like that, we all have an oopsies sometimes :)

Stephanie Vaquer holding the WWE Women’s World Championship belt

Just now watching #Wrestlepalooza so two things:

1. Vaquer vs Skye was as good as I thought it would be. Holy hell

2. Stephanie Vaquer with that belt is MONEY

very few people can get an arena full of people to chant for therapy. AJ Lee is one of those people. #WWERaw

The Lamentation, Anonymous (Georgian), 1470, 📸 by Alex Kim

A dramatic, extremely worrying moment; over 61,000 people held in ICE detention. That is the highest number ever on record in United States history; roughly 6,000 higher than the previous record set under Trump six years ago, and over 21,000 higher than when Trump took office just seven months ago.