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Texas Lopez⭐️ @texaslopez.bsky.social · 20h

Between Section 2 federal enforcement being potentially overturned and the rash of state mid decade redistricting it's leaving no other option besides proportional representation to maintain any sense of fairness in the US electoral system.

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Texas Lopez⭐️ @texaslopez.bsky.social · 20h

Jesus Christ, this sounds exactly like white segregationists in the US South fear mongering about what happens if minorities are allowed to freely vote let alone run for and win elected office. Leave it to someone like Cain to cry about something that will have zero effect on his life.

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Texas Lopez⭐️ @texaslopez.bsky.social · 1d

Bondi is the same woman who took a large campaign donation from Trump and closed the fraud investigation into Trump University without any penalties or charges. She's the definition of failing upwards.

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Texas Lopez⭐️ @texaslopez.bsky.social · 2d

A+ for subversion

Texas Lopez⭐️ @texaslopez.bsky.social · 3d

Dems just have to get rid of the filibuster next time around. They should have in 2021 but leave it to Manchin and Sinema to kill reforms because reasons...

Texas Lopez⭐️ @texaslopez.bsky.social · 3d

Don Draper being absolutely toasted in a pitch meeting was one of my favorite Mad Men moments

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Texas Lopez⭐️ @texaslopez.bsky.social · 4d

My understanding is that those bands and performers have aged into their Vegas residency era now, so the festivals are an add on.

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Texas Lopez⭐️ @texaslopez.bsky.social · 5d

And they want to privatize/cut that as well...

businessnc.com/defense-asks...

Defense asks grocery industry about taking military commissaries private - Business North Carolina

Privatization would be a big deal for the military, if it happens, and a big deal in North Carolina, because we have the fourth-largest footprint of active-duty personnel among the states, with more t...

businessnc.com

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Texas Lopez⭐️ @texaslopez.bsky.social · 5d

Red Scare Canada when?

Texas Lopez⭐️ @texaslopez.bsky.social · 6d

"Priority access" is bullshit language to repeat from this Administration, as if it's just some higher subscription service. It's coercive and authoritarian phrasing to add extra and illegal conditions based only on Trump's fragile ego instead of what Congress passed. Get it together, WP

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Texas Lopez⭐️ @texaslopez.bsky.social · 9d

Bold move to insult and piss off senior Democratic Senators during a government shutdown where you need their votes to fully staff your department. Of course of all the things said about Bondi the word "deft" was never one of them.

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Texas Lopez⭐️ @texaslopez.bsky.social · 9d

It's also not making a good case for her department to get Democratic votes to reopen it fully staffed.

Texas Lopez⭐️ @texaslopez.bsky.social · 10d

He's also claimed he would defeat Lincoln or Washington in a presidential election. He's that delusional.

Texas Lopez⭐️ @texaslopez.bsky.social · 10d

Or he'll cite an approval number from a single issue like border security and claims that's also his overall approval rating

Texas Lopez⭐️ @texaslopez.bsky.social · 10d

You should know when he talks about being the most popular he usually refers to approval ratings only from Republicans. He calls any other poll "fake"

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Texas Lopez⭐️ @texaslopez.bsky.social · 11d

Correct. Once again the GOP are hypocrites on mail in voting which they helped pioneer decades ago to help their own older and rural voting base.
www.npr.org/2020/08/19/9...

Trump, While Attacking Mail Voting, Casts Mail Ballot Again

He voted by mail in Tuesday's Florida primaries but avoided the Postal Service, instead opting to give his ballot to a third party to turn in, a practice Republicans call "ballot harvesting."

www.npr.org

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Texas Lopez⭐️ @texaslopez.bsky.social · 11d

No, being polite to them in public is not the same as being kind to them in private. Don't get it mixed up, especially in the South where in public they'll be in good manners but still stab you in the back.

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Texas Lopez⭐️ @texaslopez.bsky.social · 11d

Floyd protests: Excessive force is illegal and police should be held to account for it

Kirk supporters: Floyd deserved to die and "the left" should be called terrorists and all be put in prison

The Atlantic: Both sides are morally equal in their aims and goals from tragedy

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Texas Lopez⭐️ @texaslopez.bsky.social · 12d

And in turn the conservative party which claims to despise identity politics will use their gender as a woman to tell the broader public that this person is not in fact as conservative as they are called because they're a woman. Double standards being used for dual purposes.

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Texas Lopez⭐️ @texaslopez.bsky.social · 12d

Since you're asking genuinely I will answer genuinely. It's been my experience in conservative Texas that women who identify as conservatives are on the more right wing side of their own party in order to combat the stereotype that as women they can't be as tough or conservative as men.

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Texas Lopez⭐️ @texaslopez.bsky.social · 13d

Once a former US conservatives nightmare. Welfare payments to political supporters paid with a unilateral tax imposed by an overly powerful executive without Congressional approval. Oh to think of the ACA individual mandate now and how the GOP lost their mind over that...

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Texas Lopez⭐️ @texaslopez.bsky.social · 15d

The tv host "military historian" doesn't care about the land, sea, and air upon which the military will be expected to operate in? That's just stupid on a deep level.

Texas Lopez⭐️ @texaslopez.bsky.social · 15d

You sure? This got at it better
bsky.app/profile/mjth...

Fascism is not an on/off switch, it’s a cancer. By the time cancer is detected, you have cancer; but you had cancer before it was detected too.

Texas Lopez⭐️ @texaslopez.bsky.social · 15d

"Aha but is at the lymph nodes yet?! Answer me that good sir!" - TN, probably

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Texas Lopez⭐️ @texaslopez.bsky.social · 15d

As for the rest I see there's plenty of others in this post with Lists and Starter Packs to look at and consider. All my best!