There was a free speech fight in the courts about the right for women two wear swimsuits, many of them bikinis, while serving coffee in the Seattle area. Since then the popularized alliterative term 'bikini barista' has stuck to refer to all servers that sell hot drinks while in swimwear.
Any state with ruling Republicans is likely to try and follow suit, as Texas leaving would mean they no longer have to votes to win a majority in federal congress or the executive ever again.
Why would that be the case? Nuclear missile silos are concentrated in the north central United States specifically to give them more time to fire before detection and landfall of incoming ICBMs.
The vulnerability of Texas to a submarine launch is too great to consider it a base for launch in a mutually-assured destruction scenario. It also doesn't have any reactors capable of producing isotopes needed for nuclear weapons.
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Infant Mortality Rose 13 Percent in Texas After Abortion Ban, Study Finds ( truthout.org )
8,000 seat TX church attendance after lead pastor (Trump's spiritual advisor) busted for pedophilia
Megachurch pastor and ex-Trump adviser admits child sexual abuse
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2024 Seattle Anarchist Book Fair – September 28th & 29th, 11am-5pm, at The VERA Project ( anarchistnews.org )
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Texas professors want to use abortion ban to punish students for "consensual sexual intercourse" ( www.salon.com )
This Texas Company Is Providing the Jet Fuel for Israel’s Assault on Gaza ( truthout.org )
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Are Men Okay? – SOME MORE NEWS ( youtu.be )
Texas is Coming… For You! – by Steven McCain ( mongoosedistro.com )
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Seattle’s first protected intersection, Dexter Ave N @ Thomas St. ( slrpnk.net )
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Fuck the 4th, Siege the Ports! ( pugetsoundanarchists.org )
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Severe weather in Houston ( slrpnk.net )
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Justice is our demand - No peace on stolen land ( slrpnk.net )
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Day One: University of Texas Austin Students Take the Lawn ( crimethinc.com )
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Texas Attracted California Techies. Now It’s Losing Thousands of Them. ( www.texasmonthly.com )
I Am a Jewish Student at Columbia. Don’t Believe What You’re Being Told About ‘Campus Antisemitism’ ( zeteo.com )
Riot cops line up next to a sign at University of Texas at Austin. ( slrpnk.net )
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Emergency rooms refused to treat pregnant women, leaving one to miscarry in a lobby restroom ( apnews.com )
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State Rep. James Talarico Delivers Sermon Against Christian Nationalism ( yt.artemislena.eu )
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