I suppose it's a good thing nobody really reads the textbook. /s
This truly sucks, because it's cutting off a valid source of information, but given how prevalent the issue is on the internet and how kids have access at a younger age than these ghouls ever did, it's like trying to stop a river with a single stick.
It sounds like you're basically saying that because scientists talk about the negatives of fossil fuels a lot and not as much about renewables' negatives, there's some kind of cover-up effort. Is that what you're saying?
Mortgage holders spending >30% of income on housing: 28.9%
For reference, here are the statistics for the entire United States:
Home price-to-income ratio: 4.7
Median home price: $347,716
Median household income: 74,755
5-year change in median home price: +49.2%
Mortgage holders spending >30% of income on housing: 27.8%
So the home to price income ratio might be slightly better than the national average, but more people are spending more on their mortgage than the national average. So more people in Texas are more broke than they are on average, so not exactly a win.
If I could add, it's likely impossible to say, because evolution is driven by selection pressures.
If the original strain AA has descendent strains AA, AB, and AC, we can't know with any certainty which is more fit to survive, because it could be one, two, or all of them simultaneously.
Seriously, does any Conservative think this is a win? I can almost guarantee it cost more just to pay Paxton to go after them than they're paying in "restitution."
What a fucking joke, our Texas legislature and executive branch is.
If the parties could resolve their issues without a court, then they never should have sued.
Your assumption is that all parties act in good faith. Every case can potentially be resolved out of court. However, Ken Paxton wasn't going to back down just because it was the decent thing to do—only under the threat of losing money and political points (and possibly facing sanctions) in a case he was doomed to lose did he back down.
The purpose of a court case or a settlement is to receive remedy for injustice. If the parties agree out of court what they each deem to be "fair compensation" for those acts of injustice, the court proceeding is rendered moot.
I agree that this was overreach, and Ken Paxton is a fucking ghoul who deserves nothing less than 30 years in a federal prison, but nobody has a legal obligation or compulsion to press charges or continue a lawsuit.
Additionally, Republicans have made a sport out of operating in those gray areas of our legal system to push their stupid culture war bullshit and maintain their thin cloak of plausible deniability. He is going to get away with it, because what he did isn't explicitly illegal, and the hospitals exercised their right not to pursue further legal action.
Yep, keep it up. Surely, beating the drum of the culture war won't backfire at the polls. Ask Ron DeSantis for ideas.
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Seriously though, this will fail on appeal via the first amendment, even if they manage to pass something. "Freedom of expression" is a clearly established as synonymous with " freedom of speech," and as Conservative as SCOTUS is, they haven't signaled they're willing to completely overturn the first amendment for the idiotic culture war (since that harms their own people).
Not sure what mileage he's expecting to get out of this; does he have some delusion that he has a shot at the presidency next time around?