relentlesszebra.bsky.social
Wife, dog mom, runner, career nanny, chronic illness warrior, blue dot in a red state (for now). I love reading, fast cars, and Steelers football.
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Gets Paxton out of the AGs office and he's even more unpopular than Cruz so a well-chosen D candidate and a well-run, well-funded campaign could give us one Dem in the Senate from Texas. A girl can dream at least...
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Nobody from outside TX wants to do the work, even though the payoff would be HUGE because of the amount of political power TX has, if they could just flip more of it blue 🤦♀️ Paxton running against Cornyn in the Senate primary may be a huge gift to TX Dems 🤞
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I'm in Fort Worth itself on the north side and I see it too. I live down the street from someone who's had 🟠💩 flags up for years and I honestly am just happy that they've gone from 3 of them down to 1 😒
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Thanks!
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As are Dems everywhere, I'm pretty sure. I'm super happy for y'all down there, that is really exciting. Sadly for us up here in Tarrant County, we've got asshats gerrymandering the county commissioners court because God forbid the GOP be in danger of losing Tarrant county. But we fight on.
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Where is this from? How was this measured? I'm really curious on this data.
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I don't live in Dallas. I live in Fort Worth, and even with some shifting to the right, which ALL of TX has done recently, Dallas is one of the most liberal parts, and has more D electeds in other positions (pretty much all Dallas Co officials are Dems). Mayor is not all that matters.
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I mean, there's MAGA-aplenty around the whole state, for sure. But Dallas is VERY blue and turned blue before any of the other cities in Texas. Fort Worth is trying to be purple but it's an uphill climb that county leaders are actively resisting 🤦♀️
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... Hi, DFW resident here. Dallas is one of the most blue parts of Texas, and has been a Dem stronghold for longer than pretty much anywhere else in the state. Fort Worth is the largest conservative/rep governed big city in the US.
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That I don't know. I'd imagine it's possible, but it's also probably why they're more likely to cover MUCH more of their faces/heads than a standard medical mask covers - to prevent exactly that if they can.
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But I'm getting really tired of seeing people saying ICE raids aren't happening in red states, people aren't mad about them in red states, etc. I promise we are being targeted and plenty of us are fucking pissed.
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Sadly that bit isn't so true. Medical face masks don't hide all of the features that usually ping on facial recognition.
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We've got Al Green too. And Beto. And James Talarico making good trouble in the state leg. It's not all bad. Just entirely too much bad 😭🤦♀️
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If you lived here for 20 yrs surely you understand the extensive gerrymandering, voter suppression and manipulation that goes on here to keep Republicans in power, no? Tarrant Co commissioner court just voted for mid-decade redistricting that is a blatant attempt to unseat one of 2 Dems on the court
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The AG has all but admitted to interfering with voting in Harris Co in 2020 and that being why Biden didn't manage to flip the state. And the DNC does not usually support candidates in "unwinnable" races which it has decided most of rural Texas is. We're trying our best here.
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They're happening in Texas (source: I live here) but the pushback is not as loud or visible, and the raids aren't as visible either, because they want to make a point in the blue states.
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Synder and his wife moved before the election happened and he's openly stated he would not have come back even if Harris had won, due to the opportunities they were offered in Toronto. We don't need to sink to MAGAs level of misinformation to meet this moment.
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And this is based on what I know personally as well as what I have seen from veterans and active duty service members, reminding one another of their oath to the Constitution, not the president, etc.
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I have faith in the individual people who make up all the branches of our military. To paint them all with the broad brush of MAGA and assume they would all blindly follow illegal orders is to do them a a great disservice.
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If they are called up properly by him, they would be correct to do so. If they have already been called up by their state's governor, they cannot also be called up by the president, and the president cannot just randomly say shit and expect the guard to obey if they aren't activated under Title 10.
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...that's not how the National Guard works. At all. If Murphy calls up the NJ Guard to duty in NJ, he is their commander, and the president has nothing to do with it. Presidents can only call up the Natl Guard in very specific circumstances, as well, cuz they can call the whole reg military.
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The link provided is a gift link, no pay wall.
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We're not going back. Not ever. Not to the dystopia where they live, and not to the status quo that allowed this colossal debacle in the first place.
So take whatever you'll need on the other side of this, wrap your arms around it, and let's get going.
Say goodbye.
We don't live here anymore.
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When all she did, basically, is make it possible for the guy to leave by a door other than the one where the ICE agents were waiting for him? Nope, not even close AFAIK.
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This is where I'm at with it. When all the legal minds smarter than me by far are equally going "wtf this is stupid and obviously intended to do something other than actually enforce the law" I am inclined to agree with their take until convincing evidence to the contrary is produced.
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It technical "obstructed" them but I'm not at all sure it rises to the standard of the charges they filed. If that counts as felony obstruction, then we're going to start seeing a lot of people arrested when they try to protect their neighbors via human chains and other stories I've seen.
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The ABA has been doing that, and so have the state bars of blue states. Several public statements made.
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There was an administrative warrant, not a judicial one, so what she did in theory violated nothing besides their pride.
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They have to be disbarred by the *state* they are licensed in. The ABA doesn't do licensing. And it is entirely possible that they will be disbarred (it happened to several lawyers in Trump 1.0), but that's unfortunately not a quick process.
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Been asking that same question for 3 months now. The silence is deafening from the 2A crowd all the sudden 😒