Raptorpat

great look heading into a primary against john cornyn as the social conservative

Also

Or literally, in the case of their various attempts to roll back citizen ballot initiatives because turns out their constituents still like abortion and minimum wage etc.

Where did the Republican judge contradict SCOTUS?

https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/judge-weigh-blocking-trump-birthright-citizenship-despite-supreme-court-ruling-2025-07-10/

counterpoint - if he successfully manipulates the map for the Trump admin, then he probably doesn't have to worry about people dying anymore

https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2025/07/09/congress/texas-redistricting-2026-midterms-00445561

But also it's an admission that imposing tariffs at arbitrary thresholds has nothing to do with the economy.

Shout-out to @SheemaGorath whose 20th boardiversary was a week ago

happy birthday @jackiemarie90!

elon musk had his people try to "de-woke" the grok AI and it went full nazi

haoppy birthday @nameraka

https://mamdanitimes.com/

he's a former US attorney running as an independent who was always kind of just there in the background, but kind of leading the call to consolidate (probably just to boost name recognition tbh) https://www.amny.com/news/walden-free-market-candidates-mamdani/

The concept is that Sliwa, Cuomo, Adams, and Walden would all agree amongst themselves to collectively support one of the four so that it's a 1v1 race because they are splitting the anti-Mamdani vote, but they're all infighting to be the chosen one.

https://koeppen-geiger.vu-wien.ac.at/koeppen.htm

here is one of the 29 references cited on the wiki page, not that you would know wiki contains references https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4551970/

no one was arguing over a new definition of subtropical