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I play guitar, watch USMLR and NHL, occasionally brew beer, enjoy live music and travel, and practice sarcasm.

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[Houston Chronicle] We endorse Colin Allred in the Democratic primary for Senate (Editorial) ( archive.is )

U.S. Rep. Colin Allred, a 40-year-old, three-term congressman from Dallas who touts his pragmatism and his ability to work with colleagues from both sides of the aisle. Calm and measured, at times to the point of being bland, the civil rights attorney and former NFL linebacker is the establishment choice. He enjoys a sizable...

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I’m leaning toward voting in the republican primary, but I can’t imagine there are more centrist challengers on that ticket. I expect it’s just farther right MAGA die-hards.

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Link for tickets.

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I’ve never been a fan of stouts so that’s fair. They certainly can’t get better if they’re shut down. I hope they can get things cleared up and resettled.

[KXAN] Supreme Court allows federal agents to cut razor wire Texas installed on US-Mexico border ( archive.is )

The 5-4 vote clears the way for Border Patrol agents to cut or clear out concertina wire that Texas has put along the banks of the Rio Grande to deter migrants from entering the U.S. illegally. Some migrants have been injured by the sharp wire and the Justice Department has argued the barrier impedes the U.S. government’s...

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I really wish the headline was more to the tune of “Supreme Court affirms federal government’s supremacy over the border.” The state has no jurisdiction on the matter and the Tres Locos running the show here are just drumming up bullshit headlines to campaign on.

[KXAN] Sen. Ted Cruz in statistical tie with 2 Texas Democrats ( archive.is )

According to findings published Thursday morning by Emerson College Polling and Nexstar Media, the Republican incumbent is locked in a statistical tie with two Democratic challengers. Pollsters asked a group of 1,315 registered Texas voters during the period of Jan. 13-15 who they would support if Cruz ultimately faced either...

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I’m really hoping we get turnout more like 2020 and less like 2022.

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While it was the second highest midterm turnout in Texas in 20 years, it was down 7% from the 2018 midterm. So momentum turned around even though it was above historical average. We need to beat 2018 turnout. If we can beat 2020 turnout (Biden receive more votes in Texas than he did in New York in 2020), then we have a real chance to make a statement. We have to make that statement to get the kind of national investment in the state in 2026 to have a chance at getting turnout high enough to win the flip governor, lt governor, and attorney general. And we need to flip those in order to have a chance to undo the gerrymandered maps and get a representative legislature.

[CNN] Texas has until the end of today to stop blocking federal access to miles of the US-Mexico border ( www.cnn.com )

The Department of Homeland Security warns it will – by the end of Wednesday – “refer the matter to the Department of Justice for appropriate action and consider all other options available to restore Border Patrol’s access to the border” if Texas doesn’t confirm it will “cease and desist its efforts to block Border...

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Abbott, Patrick, and Paxton are all about provoking a confrontation that they can milk for rage-bait headlines. But I’m wondering if this doesn’t somehow tie into Patrick’s that too front Biden from the ballot. Like maybe they’ll say a confrontation would be insurrection against the state or something stupid like that.

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You have a way with words.

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In 2020 we had about 66% turnout. In 2022 it was under 50%. The Governor, Lt. Governor, and Attorney General are always offset from the Presidential election here. So I expect we won’t see any investment in the gubernatorial race unless we have enough turnout to go Democratic in a presidential race. Abbott won by a big enough margin in 2022 I don’t think it’s worthwhile to get a breakdown of native vs transplants. Republican voters showed up and Democratic voters didn’t.

2018: dallasnews.com/…/native-texans-voted-for-native-t…

texasmonthly.com/…/californians-could-ruin-texas-…

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I don’t believe we’ll have a representative legislature, or congressional delegation, until we can flip the state-wide offices. So blue voters in blue cities absolutely matter to get us there. We have to turn out in such high numbers to overcome the gerrymandering.

[AP News] Texas judge rules against GOP lawsuit seeking to toss 2022 election result in Houston area ( apnews.com )

But visiting Judge David Peeples ruled Thursday against her request for a new election. His decision came months after a two-week trial in August in which no GOP voters came forward to testify they were unable to vote because of the problems.

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That would probably play well to the MAGA base in Florida, for a 2024 2026 run for governor.

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Oh it seems the next Gubernatorial election in FL is 2026, so DeSantis won’t have to chose between his VP campaign and the Governorship in 2024. I thought he was going to have drop one and Gaetz was posturing to succeed him. But DeSantis is also term limited and can’t run again in FL in 2026.

[Houston Chronicle] Best Texas City to see October solar eclipse ( archive.ph )

The annular solar eclipse that will travel across the Southwest United States less than a month away, and one of the best places to see it may be at a Home Depot parking lot in New Braunfels, says a new list from Space.com. … The eclipse will hit its maximum at 11:54 a.m. CDT in the San Antonio area, according to NASA.

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I like your style

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Yeah, other states just don’t quite get proximity like we do in Texas.

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Oh man, I though Richmond Arms was closed, but it’s right here on the top of Yelp’s list.

www.yelp.com/search?find_desc=Watch+Rugby&fin…

Never been to the Pheonix, might have to give it a try.

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Apparently Abundant Harvest Kitchen in Spring has been having weekend watch parties the whole time! Houston’s own SaberCats will be present on Oct. 1st for South Africa vs Tonga.

lemmy.world/post/5376447

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Found www.thelaurentattoo.com, could be the winner.

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Yee Haw!

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Just saw this over on Mastodon. I can’t stand that these pricks are still in charge. And the fact that we still have massive voter disengagement allowing them to stay there is all the more depressing.

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I live in Texas, so I absolutely do vote. More Texans voted for Biden than New Yorkers in 2020, when we had 66% turnout.

en.wikipedia.org/…/2020_United_States_presidentia…

en.wikipedia.org/…/2020_United_States_presidentia…

Paxton himself said Biden would have won Texas if he hadn’t shut down mail-in voting.

newsweek.com/texas-ag-says-trump-wouldve-lost-sta…

So I reject the idea that Texas is a lost cause. If we were, Republicans wouldn’t still be trying so hard to suppress our voice. If we could just get the turnout we would win the state-wide offices. Then we could tackle the gerrymandering and have a representative legislature. We just have to actually get out and vote, instead of the craptacular 2022 midterm <50% turnout that saw Abbott, Patrick, and Paxton all reelected.

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I say disengaged to reflect the sentiment of giving up due to the suppression. Biden came within a million votes of winning Texas in 2020, amidst 66% voter turnout. Turnout dropped to under 50% in 2022 and Abbott/Patrick/Paxton coasted to victory. The suppression only works at the state level because the targeted voters disengaged from the process. If we had instead doubled down and gotten up to 70% turnout, we may have seen a Democratic sweep at the state level.

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Yeah. Keeping hope alive for 2024.

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In the case of Beto in 2022, I think you’re right that the party wasn’t doing anything to compete in the state. But I think Beto only ran because the DNC wasn’t putting up anyone. The primary was 5 or 6 no-name folks with zero experience. One didn’t even have a web site. So Beto won the primary with over 90% of the vote. He didn’t really look like he wanted it at all, because clearly his comments on gun control during his presidential run tanked any future state campaigns.

We need someone like Howard Dean back in charge, with the fifty state strategy that paid off in 2008 and 2012. I think Beto can do that for the party within the state, if other candidates will step up. Seems like we have decent options to take on Cruz in 2024.

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AlmaLinux gives up being 1:1 RHEL compatible ( almalinux.org )

In case you missed it, Red Hat announced they will no longer be providing the means for downstream clones to continue to be 1:1 binary copies of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL). Very quickly, both Jack and I shared some initial thoughts, but we intentionally took our time deciding the next right step for AlmaLinux OS. After much...

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They’re staying the course. tl;dr

One option is through the usage of UBI container images which are based on RHEL and available from multiple online sources (including Docker Hub). Using the UBI image, it is easily possible to obtain Red Hat sources reliably and unencumbered. We have validated this through OCI (Open Container Initiative) containers and it works exactly as expected.

Another method that we will leverage is pay-per-use public cloud instances. With this, anyone can spin up RHEL images in the cloud and thus obtain the source code for all packages and errata. This is the easiest for us to scale as we can do all of this through CI pipelines, spinning up cloud images to obtain the sources via DNF, and post to our Git repositories automatically.

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A Walmart in Richmond

houstonchronicle.com/…/houston-gas-leak-alert-pip….

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It’s been cleared now.

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Good

[Texas Observer] Homegrown Neo-Fascist Movement Marches in Austin ( www.texasobserver.org )

Dozens of members of the neo-fascist, white nationalist group Patriot Front marched through the streets of Austin Saturday. The group did not announce the demonstration in advance, leaving no time for opposition groups to mount a counter-protest. It was the largest public gathering of the group’s members since they held a...

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https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/000/002/282/images_do_not_want-741689.jpg

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I think response needs to be exceedingly lopsided. Either nobody pays attention to it, or a counter protest group of significantly larger size shows up.

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Nonsense. Just need voter turnout to skyrocket enough to overcome gerrymandering to take the state-wide offices. Then we can work on fixing the gerrymandered districts and voter supression.

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They’ve been emboldened by far-right candidates winning elections. Gerrymandering districts has contributed to those wins, by forcing the primary candidates to be more hard-line than the rest, as they don’t have to compete for moderate voters in the general. Fixing the elections will snap back to reality the fact that these extreme views are not shared by the majority of society.

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