Grant Hayden

Among the litany of problems with SCOTUS's decision to stay the Texas map: the majority never acknowledges that "the" partisan impetus to adopt the map as a whole does not in any way preclude the improper use of race as a means to get there.

Which is exactly what the trial court found. In detail.

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oh no starbucks's biggest sales day of the year is this week...

😏

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Maybe Don’t Talk to the New York Times About Zohran Mamdani It’s remarkable, the people you’ll hear from. Teach for even a little while at an expensive institution—the term they tend to prefer is “elite”—and odds are that eventually someone who was a studen…

My old pal Pete Coviello — one of the best writers and thinkers I've ever known — wrote the piece of the moment

lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...

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Mamdani's line that billionaires spent more to oppose his candidacy than he proposed to tax them really says it all.

Like a company that shuts down a profitable location as soon as it unionizes. The principle of maintaining control is more important.

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They are preparing to fight for our freedom.

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People on a DART train holding up their protest signs

People holding up American flags and signs in downtown Dallas.

People wearing frog hats and a man holding up a sign saying “we love America” and “imagine being afraid of diversity but not dictatorship.”

Dallas today

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500+ protesters (plus elk) in a town of 5900 is a pretty good turnout.

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Four bull elk took time away from mating to join the No Kings protest in Estes Park, Colorado. That’s how serious this is.

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🦌 🦌 ANT(ler)IFA 🦌 🦌

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This is my effort to collect in one place the top 3 reasons (imho) why 'the free market' should not even be a starting point for analysis - especially normative (legal,policy) reasoning. Also includes a brief account of how the modern idea of the self coordinating market emerged in fits and starts.

03.10.2025 17:36 — 👍 16    🔁 9    💬 1    📌 0