@_RightDataUSA @RedistrictNet Republicans drawing a needlessly hideous district and then using that as justification for "race based gerrymandering" is crazy.
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@RedistrictNet Maybe when the Supreme Court invalidates racist-based gerrymanders which mandate the election of Democrats (like LA-6), that state can go back to having normal-looking and compact districts.
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Can you identify this congressional district?!
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@Louis_Frood @_divix_18 @4vataruniverse They were kept in cells where they were visible, so I imagine they wouldn't let them exercise enough to produce sweat. Urine is a problem but they were probably kept in a constant state of dehydration, so they couldn't produce large amounts of fluids.
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@_divix_18 @Teletic17 @4vataruniverse That is actually shown in the episode. I'm more wondering about like... How to stop them from waterbending their urine or similar liquids. Katara at one point bent her own sweat. Why didn't they do the same?
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Hama witnessed other waterbenders being tortured and left to die under severe conditions FOR YEARS. It would take a mentally strong person NOT to seek vengeance BY ANY MEANS NECESSARY after going through all that.
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@NXT4EU Secularism is your own religion. Don't impose your religion on us either.
People who believe in God have the full right to express their faith as they please.
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You're enforcing Muslim rules on all politicians.
Europe is secular, we are opposed to religions shaping everyone's way of life.
You are free to do whatever you wish in your free time, (15 mins later) but don't expect others to adapt, we expect you to adapt to our secularism.
Nassreddin 🍉 نصر الدين@Nassreddin2002
Today in Dutch politics: Right-wing parties are mad because there was a 10 minute break yesterday during a committee debate for Muslim MPs to break their fast Why are right-wingers so childish?
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@KylePLMT I do agree with it. Because human life is sacred and should be treated as such. Thou shalt not murder. Murderers should be executed, so as to prevent even more people from getting murdered.
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Republicans have held complete control of the Tennessee Legislature for over a decade.
There are only 25 Democrats in the State House. There are only 6 in the State Senate.
In other words, Republicans have robust supermajorities over both chambers of the Tennessee Legislature, and yet they refuse to abolish and criminalize abortion as murder.
The reason why abortions continue in states like Tennessee has nothing to do with pro-abortion Democrats. The reason abortions continue in these states lies with weak and cowardly pro-life Republicans.
If anti-abortion Christians in the state of Tennessee want to abolish abortion, they need to start replacing any Republicans who refuse to abolish abortion in the primaries.
Foundation to Abolish Abortion@AbolitionistFAA
🚨 BREAKING: House Bill 570, which would abolish abortion in Tennessee, has FAILED. After IMMENSE pressure from the Pro-Life establishment and the left-wing media, NONE of the Republican lawmakers on the Tennessee House Population Health Subcommittee had the courage to motion for House Bill 570 to be heard. Many pro-abortion activists CHEERED in celebration upon the failure of House Bill 570.
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@JamieDyckes @MarkPocan The legislative maps are fine, the congressional districts are not
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@MarkPocan Fair maps....Governor Evers already said the maps are fair...was he lying? Why do you keep countering what Gov Evers said?
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A Supreme Court majority in WI would matter if they would move faster on fair maps for Congress in our state.
Their feet dragging may cost us the ability to have fair maps for fall.
They need to appoint reserve judges to clear the calendars of three Judge panel that heard the case.
WI_RightWing_Ls@WI_RightWing_Ls
Holy shit, Dems could very well have a 6-1 majority on SCOWIS next April, and the 1 “conservative” is extremely moderate and regularly sides with the liberals on the court. LOL
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@Proleterri91426 @TasosKostrivas @DailyTurkic The Greeks of Istanbul, and the islands of Imbros and Tenedos were exempt from the population exchange. The near elimination of the Greek communities there was a result of targeted ethnic cleansing and pogrom campaigns by the Turkish government.
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@TasosKostrivas @DailyTurkic Population exchange was suggested by the Greek government to the League of Nations. Greeks had a bigger hand in that tragedy than the Turks did. So framing the population exchange as a Turkish atrocity is disgustingly disingenuous
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🇬🇷 Greece has banned the Turkish language and headscarves in cities where the Turkish minority lives.
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@StevenJDuffield I'm saying that it's completely unrealistic to think that the GOP can win every single even remotely competitive seat for multiple election cycles, and defend their previous wins in the meantime. It's extremely improbable.
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@Teletic17 Yes, genuine political change in America is designed to take time.
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There are 64 Senate seats in those states I've marked red. Every one of those seats is within reach, but activist-pundits and grifters have to commit to politics and persuasion.
Matt Walsh@MattWalshBlog
If you're willing to accept the "filibuster" excuse for Republicans not passing the SAVE act, or any other significant piece of actual conservative legislation, then what you're saying is that you're okay with Republicans in congress never passing any conservative legislation ever again. Republicans aren't getting a filibuster proof majority. There is no conceivable scenario where that is ever going to happen. It's a laughable idea, frankly. So either we barrel through and advance our agenda by force, filibuster be damned, or it will never happen. Those are your choices.
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@patsopat1 @DrewPavlou What was the dominant language and culture in Constantinople from its establishment up until 1453?
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@DrewPavlou Constantinople was never a Greek city. It was an eastern Roman city. If you want to see a 100% genuine greek city, here it is:
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“Turks are colonisers but Australian are not?”
Yes, this is unironically my actual position.
Britain built a new nation in Australia where no nation and no cities existed before.
Constantinople meanwhile stood as a Greek city for more than 1000 years before Turks conquered it and ultimately ethnically cleansed its Greek inhabitants and paved over its Greek history and identity.
Note that Indigenous Australians are all full citizens with full legal rights in Australia today whereas all the Greeks of Turkey were killed, ethnically cleansed, expropriated, etc.
In absolute terms more Indigenous Australians live in Australia today than at any time in pre-colonial history and their life expectancy went from 30 in pre-colonial times to 70 today.
Turks are colonisers, Australians are not.
East Med Badman 🏝📿 🇬🇷🇵🇸@DIAS
@DrewPavlou @wmarybeard Agia Sophia (no H in Greek name for it bro) has been through many identities. I don’t think it should be a Mosque but at the end of the day it’s on Turkish land, what can we do? But wait….Turks are colonisers but Australians are not?
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Did you know Iran has some of the highest rates of transgender surgery?
In 1987, Khamenei met a trans male and issued a fatwa recognizing gender reassignment to help fix a "trapped" soul in a wrong body.
So now, they often compel gays (homosexuality is illegal) to transition.
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Connor Storrie on the #ActorAwards red carpet, less than 24 hours after his #SNL hosting debut.
(Photo: Getty)
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@hlya71582057285 @Kain_Deacon @MollyCloseBy @JemappelleEve The "Turks" of Crete were Greek speaking Muslim converts, not your typical Turks. They were part of the exchange (as were almost all Muslims in Greece and Greeks in Turkey) and were sent to Turkey, most not even speaking the language.
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@Kain_Deacon @MollyCloseBy @JemappelleEve No, the Turkish population of Thrace is decreasing day by day. You're closing schools. What happened to the Greek and Turkish Muslims in Crete? There used to be Turks living in Rhodes, where are they now?
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Turkey signed the Treaty of Lausanne, which exempted the 'Moslem inhabitants' of Western Thrace—not 'Turkish' ones, and protected the 'Greek inhabitants' of Constantinople. Greece is following the treaty, where did all those protected Greek inhabitants of Constantinople go?
TRT World@trtworld
Recognised as Muslim, denied as Turkish. We examine how law, history, and selective interpretations of the Treaty of Lausanne are used by Athens to deny its Turkish minority their right to ethnic self-identification
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@ArchysLife @constans The Turkish position was that there were ~130k Turks in Western Thrace in 1920, which probably includes all Muslims in the region, not just Turks. Where do you get that number?
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@constans Yes, fown from c. 300.000 in 1923. At a time when the population of Greece was almost half of what it is today.
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@Nowcast_EU Chances of PASOK and PE running together?
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🇬🇷 Greece | Legislative Election polling averages — February 26, 2026
➡️ ND: 31.1% (-9.5)
🟩 PSK: 13.5% (+1.7)
🟪 PE: 10.9% (+7.7)
*️⃣ EL: 9.6% (+5.2)
🟥 KKE: 8.4% (+0.7)
🟪 SYZ: 5.4% (-12.4)
🟦 FL: 4.1% (+3.7)
🟧 M25: 3.9% (+1.4)
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+/- vs. 2023
District-level projection 👇
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@Right_TC @CynicalPublius Thomas hasn't attended in 20 years, Alito in 15
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@CynicalPublius I haven't really looked, but is there any word why Justices Thomas and Alito were not present?
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I give credit to Elena Kagan for showing up at the SOTU.
Good for you, Ms. Justice.
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The US House plans to vote next week on legislation to “propose an amendment to the Constitution of the United States requiring a balanced budget for the Federal Government”, under suspension of the rules needing a 2/3rds vote for passage
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@mc08084 @ShannoMenk @billybinion Isn't that to be expected? A supermajority conservative supreme court is likely to take up cases in order to push things to the right. Obviously the liberal justices are more likely to vote en bloc in such cases, whereas the conservative majority may have varying interpretations.
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@ShannoMenk @billybinion It seems to me that the conservative justices cross over more often.
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For years I’ve pushed back on the claim that the Supreme Court is a radical body of Trump stooges. That claim was never true. But it’s especially absurd now that he’s publicly attacking his own appointees for ruling against his tariffs. Can we finally drop this silly fiction?
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@VoterIndy @SilbersteinMatt @Patrickwebb Subsequent amendments override previous ones. What's how prohibition has repealed.
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@SilbersteinMatt @Patrickwebb That violated the 4th, so the 16th is null and void.
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The income tax is unconstitutional and needs to be abolished.
Libertarian Party@LPNational
ABOLISH INCOME TAX
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@RyanGirdusky Virginia should be red on this map. In 2015, both houses were controlled by Republicans. Just governor was a Democrat.
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In 2015, Republicans were at their political apex in the state legislatures, controlling 20 more state houses than Democrats.
That was supposed to be their trump card for redistricting, but it all melted away over the last decade and with it, the House.
natpop.substack.com/p/in-2030-the-…
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