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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Some of them are doing some of this, but none of them are doing all of it, and that's a HUGE problem when fighting this much disinformation. The old norms of bipartisanship do not apply and are in fact large part of how we got here in the first place.
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Can we not do two things at once? We can apply heat to Republicans AND expect our elected Dems to do the same thing. Dems should not be voting with Rs on ANYTHING, should be highlighting every harm the GOP agenda causes/will cause, doing daily media countering the GOP lies and spin.
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I want to know if ICE agents in places with mask bans (like Georgia or Nassau Co, NY) are forced to observe them. The Georgia one only has a carve-out for preventing the spread of disease and phrased like you can only wear one if you are yourself sick.
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"We are so low but soon we know that the low folk will arise,
And the tyrants in their tow'rs of gold shall hear the people's cries
No more shall they hold us in thrall; their lies we will not heed.
But every heart shall hear the call and the people will be free."
youtu.be/12HwvPpWUx0?...
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We almost flipped in 2020, and the post-2024 analysis being run shows signs that TX may have been manipulated along with all 7 swing states and could have been positioned to flip this time. The TX GOP is trying like hell to suppress Dem votes but we're fighting back.
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And plenty who won't, as evidenced by the tens of thousands who showed up in towns and cities big and small, red and blue, across the whole state today. He's losing Republican voter support steadily.
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Glad to help! My health kept me home from my city's protest today so I've been signal-boosting and trying to add context on things where I can as my way of participating in things remotely 😊
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Sadly, give Austin PD time. They used it Mon night, zero guarantee it won't come out again today 🤦♀️
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Yeah, definitely not with big turnout in places like Waco, Greenville, and Tyler, TX. Those are not left-leaning in the slightest.
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Technically, at least in some states/areas, ignoring a PROPERLY Issued dispersal order is valid grounds for police to start being a bit more forceful. Problem is many times they don't make sure everyone can hear the order and give time for response before they start escalating. (end)
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or if one that wasn't supposed to get in the way of traffic is spilling into roads due to its size. Also sometimes they're just jerks and are very arbitrary in deciding they want the protest to be done now, so they give dispersal orders. (3/)
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Large protests that may involve shutting down streets, etc, usually have permits for certain time windows. So dispersal orders can be because the permit is expired and ppl need to get out of the street for normal traffic to resume, (1/)
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It was just voted on a couple of weeks ago, along party lines of course 🙄 Lawsuits have already been filed over it. The GOP members of the court admit it was done to save their majority but apparently since it wasn't racially driven (lol) that's supposed to be ok.
www.keranews.org/government/2...
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Sorely tempted to steal this turn of phrase, lol. Well put!
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Same here! I had to watch it twice before I believed my own eyes, and that was after being prepared by the photos and videos from places like McKinney and Frisco (also not exactly known for their liberal views, lol).
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Notice how the mayor of FW doesn't go full-throated MAGA in most things? She understands she can't swing that far right or she'll lose enough support that she can be unseated.
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I live in Fort Worth. It's not wanting to believe. It's knowing. They wouldn't be doing mid-decade redistricting if they weren't TERRIFIED of which way the tides in Tarrant are moving, and most of that shift is Fort Worth itself.
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That's usually a sign you've got a good idea in Texas 😂 Bonus points if it'd piss off Paxton too.
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Voter suppression is alive and very well in Texas, and the DNC doesn't consistently fund and support Dem candidates in Texas so our Dems are frequently substantially underfunded compared to their Republican opponents 🙃
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Almost a thousand showed up in Waco, which is *definitely* a good sign.
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My husband was there and his guess was easily 3-5k from what he could see. And Fort Worth is pretty purple, but it's gerrymandered to be more red than it actually is, to my eternal rage.
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There are a few states that would challenge that claim, but TX is definitely up there, sadly. But there are plenty of us fighting the gerrymandering and vote suppression and ugliness to make turn things around.
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I'd rather safe over sorry when the wellbeing of any of the few good Dem politicians we have down here may be at risk 😩
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I'd be suspicious of the "credible threat" claim, but my husband actually left the Fort Worth one early because he saw some dudes acting very oddly around the edges and he is our primary breadwinner.
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Based on my reading of the law, there is no clear exemption for those with medical conditions/immune suppression, etc, which is super fucked up. Guess I won't be going to GA anytime soon.
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I saw a video a while back that this is the extinction burst of the white patriarchy, and with my background in psych that made so much sense. Explains why it seems so much uglier, meaner, more vicious - they know they're on the losing side and lashing out trying to cling to power.
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Literally me with the news out of MN right now 🤦♀️
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Yes and they very obviously have been deployed now and are acting thus my pondering about how fast he'd go back to the courts about the new data.
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They usually have plenty of tasks that need doing in their parishes and dioceses so large numbers doing this every day is probably not feasible but I'd love to see some sort of rotating schedule of some number every day in each city with an immigration court.
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I watched part of it on Don Lemon, they intentionally broke through a barricade further back from the steps in order to engage in peaceful civil disobedience sitting on the steps from what I could see. So they prob knew arrest was a likely outcome.
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Pretty sure that bit of shortcutting merits a warning of "hey, you can't go that way or we'll have to detain you" and not jumping straight to detention. Unless of course, the point of all of this is to provoke escalation, which we know it is 🙄🤦♀️
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Hi, Texan here. ICE raids started in Austin before they hit some blue states, and sure, Austin is fairly liberal for TX. But they are also hitting blood red areas. I've seen reporting on activity in Krum and Bryan in the past week. Fort Worth too I think (which isn't liberal like at all).
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Oklahoma hasn't managed to activate its National Guard for anything except response/cleanup of the OKC bombing since the 70s (and that took over a week) because it requires leg approval, so I'll be shocked if they do. Prob all the rest though.
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For the record, I have an autoimmune disorder and have found that certain nutrition and lifestyle changes have dramatically helped my symptoms. But you know what helps more? MODERN PHARMACEUTICALS that keep my body from attacking itself. Both is usually better than one or the other.