Originally published at: Texas Gets a Pass for a Gerrymandering Free-For-All. Will California Be Given the Same? - TPM – Talking Points Memo
Hello, it’s the weekend. This is The Weekender 
Is What’s Good for Texas Good for California? The Supreme Court ruled Thursday that Texas does not have to redraw its maximal gerrymander, finding that the map is not illegally race-based, and that it’s too close to the election (in 11 months) to require a redraw. …
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No.
That was easy! Ask me another one
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Heather Cox Richardson’s Letter today discusses the 2025 National Security Strategy released in a Friday night dump.
It’s official.
Putin won the Cold War.
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The ‘Affordability President’ No Longer Believes in Affordability
Last weekend, President Donald Trump was branding himself “THE AFFORDABILITY PRESIDENT” and suggesting this message should be the center of Republicans’ midterm election strategy. By Tuesday, Trump had changed his tune.
“Affordability is a hoax that was started by Democrats,” Trump said in a Cabinet meeting on Tuesday.
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The price of beef or eggs is not a hoax donald. I find it extremely difficult to post using civil language when referring to trump.
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Saturday’s Heather Paul & Tim;
And for the Jesus Fucking Christ files;
Donald Trump just removed Martin Luther King Jr. Day and Juneteenth from the list of free entry days at national parks.
They are being replaced with Trump’s birthday.
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Mike Lindell running for Governor of MN? Dear God, the jokes just write themselves!
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Can we add even more reasons to be disgusted by these people? Rhetorical question, folks, you don’t really need to keep proving what despicable scum you are.
Levine told NPR that it was an honor to serve the American people as the assistant secretary for health “and I’m not going to comment on this type of petty action.”
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The headline and story seem to be in slight conflict over the judge’s response. You “scold” a toddler…
A federal judge has launched a scathing attack on the Trump administration for deporting a Guatemalan man in violation of a prior immigration court ruling, calling the removal “blatant lawlessness.”
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So much to unpack:
- THE AFFORDABILITY PRESIDENT” of course that’s the scam!
- " Mike Lindell said that he was “98 percent sure” that he will run for governor." The jokes write themselves but really how is he going to pay for this campaign
- Ministry of Peace don’t you mean Piece
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Texas Gets a Pass for a Gerrymandering Free-For-All. Will California Be Given the Same?
Ask a silly question, . . .
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From the HCR letter-
Observers referred to the document as National Security Council Report (NSC) 88 and noted that it could have been written in just 14 words. White supremacists use 88 to refer to Adolf Hitler and “fourteen words” to refer to a popular white supremacist slogan.
The 14 words: “We must secure the existence of our people and a future for white children.”
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About that new “security policy”
The strategy’s section on Europe represents a more dramatic escalation, warning that European nations face “economic decline” that could be “eclipsed by the real and more stark prospect of civilizational erasure.”
Civilizational erasure?
The document goes on to argue that “over the long term, it is more than plausible that within a few decades at the latest, certain NATO members will become majority non-European,” raising what it calls “an open question” about whether those countries would continue to view their alliance with the United States in the same way.
Oh, gotcha.
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Dear obituary …where art thou??
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That’s not a Dear Leader propensity at all.
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I think that ship has sailed.
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Free admission for US citizens only. Them damn furriners pay regular admission plus the extra hundred bucks we added to their entrance fee. That’ll fix 'em!
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Sometimes, Darr, you have take the bad with the good, even if there’s not a lot of good because of all the bad all the time. It is the penance we pay to hurl calumny against Trump. Or what’s a heaven for?
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Looking forward to the candidates’ debate.
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… fire anyone ‘associated’ with DEI in ‘unlawful’ purge, lawsuit alleges
How quaint, suing for fairness and justice. We know where this is headed - lower courts will hold it unlawful. Eventual appeal to SCOTUS. Game over.
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