Speaking from a part of the country where ICE came and backed out (for now), we were organizing neighborhood watches hours before the boots hit the ground.

Although ICE might be getting more efficient in every new city, the resistance is also getting more efficient. The people take the latest volunteer training materials from the last occupied city and then they trainthe new city. Moreover, the cities that know it’s coming have been hiring paid community organizers who can help onboard and organize when its go time.

It looks like Brett Ratner was working on it and couldn’t get it picked up. He was canceled for sexual assault and harassment allegations. Apparently he also wanked it in front of the catering staff.

You don’t want to eat more when you taking a glp1.

They’re one of the few drugs that seem to actually address overeating disorders that people have been unable to manage through other means.

Looks like it was tweaked to say “disputed” instead of “unlawful,” since I imagine the Trump admin will try to fight this.

lol. Those Wikipedia editors are fast.

Edit: now it’s a less spicy “disputed”

Not that I know of

This one IS pretty surprising though.

This is kind of like finding out that Ron Jeremy had a trad wife.

Yeah, the final text basically called out a ton of states and operated with the assumption that some GOP gerrymandering was going to happen since efforts were pretty firmly in motion. The button had been already pressed by other states.

https://vig.cdn.sos.ca.gov/2025/special/pdf/text-proposed-law.pdf

TX is going to appeal to the Supreme Court. TX still stands a very good chance of getting their maps.

Also, you can’t really fuck with districts at the last minute. You need time for candidates and elections officials to organize around them.

Also, the GOP is trying this shit in other states.

CA needs to just assume the worst out what the GOP put in motion. This is too hard to counteract late in the game, which is why all this stuff if started going down a year and a half in advance.

Yup. Unless the SCOTUS comes up with some stupid way to prevent California from doing something red states have been doing for years, but without voter approval.

But California and Newsom were pretty clear about this being 1000% about balancing political party power.

lol. And because Texas went ahead with gerrymandering before CA put prop 50 on the ballot, CA removed the “if Texas gerrymanders” clause from prop 50. Since it was happening, they yanked the unnecessary conditional logic.

So now, prop 50 is happening, but Texas is stuck in the mud, and the GOP might get the opposite of the corrupt thing they pushed for. Amazing.

AI turned Trump into blonde Xi Jinping.

That’s my point. All I see is a pedo van now.

Now that I think about it, Megan Kelly does look like that one hot teacher in your school district who eventually gets hauled away for banging a high school student.

Well, if means anything, cutting Salt Lake dems out will only make the new conservative district less moderate. So you’ve got more polarization to look forward to.

He does wear face paint

Picking up a seat is a good thing. The house is tight.

I don’t see why you would do that job if know you’re going to frequently go for weeks / months without pay once every year or two, you’re constantly understaffed, and you’re working like this in 2025…

Other blue states need to do their part, but doing “their own prop 50” probably won’t be a thing.

Every state handles their constitution, legislation and redistricting differently. Politicians in Texas can just redraw districts if they want. In CA, the citizens control the keys to voting districts.

Also, if other states did want to vote on something, they would need to scramble for an expensive special election now. They just missed the annual window to vote.