Yesterday, more than 50 Texas House Democrats left the state to block Texas House Republicans’ gerrymandered map.
Texas lawmakers returned to the legislature on July 21st, with flood relief at the top of their legislative priorities. But since then, they’ve held one single hearing on flood relief. Instead, they rammed through a heavily gerrymandered map personally demanded by Trump, with the express goal of creating five new Republican seats so his party won’t get wiped out in next year’s midterms. The map guts the voting power of Black and Latino Texans and entrenches Republicans’ rule even more. Redrawing maps usually only happens at the beginning of the decade after the Census is conducted – but when Trump says jump, Texas Republicans say how high.
As long as Texas Democrats remain out of the state, the Texas House cannot conduct any business, including voting on Trump’s map. Let’s be clear: they aren’t running away from anything. They’re fighting, with every tool at their disposal, to save our democracy. And their courage is rattling Republicans: Governor Greg Abbott says he will attempt to remove them from office if they don’t return today and threatened them with felony charges.
Kudos to Texas Democrats for taking this stand. We must all support them however we can in their battle against Trump’s authoritarianism.
Their courage is a potent reminder that tyranny is only possible if we submit to it.
I’m reminded of that one post where a guy said put a sparkly pink unicorn sticker on the best forklift in the warehouse, and confirmed that it is indeed always available for him to use now.
Reblogging myself because… what was that? Five minutes?
O_O
………my friend has made me curious
help me roger
Update: after I reblogged this someone messaged me offering me tickets to the sold out Hausu screening with a Q&A and autograph session with the director
Ok, imagine you’re comic accurate Clark Kent and you’re a working-class immigrant raised on a farm. You grow up and dedicate your life to helping people while being a total malewife to your Pulitzer prize winner girlfriend. You’re despised and targeted by an unethical, megalomaniacal billionaire who thinks his intellect and his power and his wealth entitles him to your inherent abilities and the adoration you’ve earned through years of nonstop altruism. YOU WERE CREATED BY TWO JEWISH MEN IN THE 1930S
And then people complain about a movie about you being too woke
“Maybe I’ll kill that reporter who does all your interviews. Maybe I’ll kill Clark Kent.”
This is the most important line in the movie. I’m 100% serious. It tells you everything you need to know about Lex Luthor’s character. It shows the audience that, despite being almost omnicognizant from the get-go, Luthor clearly has no fucking idea who Superman is, only what he does.
I’ve never seen anyone go from All-Knowing Evil to Absolute Fucking Loser so fast. In fifteen words he went from unstoppable criminal powerhouse to flailing manchild moron. He gave his Evil Dictator demonstration and then turned around, dropped his pants and showed his entire ass. He proclaimed his manifesto of unrelenting ego, turned around, slipped on a banana peel and landed on a whoopie cushion.
And he was so mired in his own sense of superiority that he never even knew it.
clark shouting “people were going to DIE” in the face of the “think of the consequences of your actions” argument is so fucking important to me bc it really IS that simple you can’t look at a genocide and just twiddler your thumbs bc you’re a afraid of the consequences ESPECIALLY when you can do something about it and THATS WHAT CLARK DID. WITHOUT HESITATION. WITHOUT CONSIDERING HOW IT COULD HURT HIM. bc hes a good person and in his brain its really just people were going to die so i had to step in bc what else would it be. superman i love you i love you i love you
The third Superman story ever is about him screwing with a party of billionaires because the head one cut the safety budget that almost got his miners killed. I’m not kidding.
Mass protests erupt all over Scotland as Donald Trump is currently in Scotland touring his golf properties.
The estimated US taxpayer costs of this one trip alone sits around $12 million dollars. He flew all the way to Scotland for the weekend…just to golf.
While 17 million Americans are set to lose their health insurance in the next 10 years, inflation has been increasing to now 2.7%, grocery prices keep trending up, and businesses are being hurt because of Trump’s tariffs…. He’s out here golfing on taxpayers dime.
