@TonerousHyus The Hill Country I-35 Corridor would actually be a badass congressional district
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You can actually go 35-3. Just make this district for Austin and San Antonio.
You can also just have 1 Houston district actually. Trump wins every district by >11 even in 2020 on a 35-3 map. District voted for Harris by 37%. It's precisely 764k population.
TheDugOut@The_Dug_0ut
Time for a second look at TX 33-5 after Callais? All are Trump+20 or more
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Unsolicited Infantry wisdom: There are some things worse than death. Looking like a bitch in a high stress situation is one of them.
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@bdquinn Immediately voting to grant emergency powers to the Chancellor from Naboo
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Building a small stadium with a massive jumbotron for our obscenely large House of Representatives would be very American.
ApoStructura@ApoStructura
Just imagine the aesthetics of a US house of representatives with 11,000 representatives.
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@themattosaurus @ApoStructura Would still be too many people. There would be between 30k-60k staff in this scenario (currently ~6,700 personal staffers).
The cap right now is 18 full-time staff in the House, which is arguably not enough.
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Just imagine the aesthetics of a US house of representatives with 11,000 representatives.
Conor Rogers@conorjrogers
No one is ready for the real solution to Gerrymandering: A return to the Constitution's original standard of 1 Member of Congress for every 30,000 Americans, resulting in an 11,000-member House with city-council sized districts so small you can't Gerrymander them if you tried.
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You’re correct. If you use current population statistics, there is about 1 staffer for every 50,000 people. With no change in the number of staff members, having 11,000 Congressmen would mean each one gets .6 staffers.
The most likely solution would be that Members of the same state delegations would share staff and offices.
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@SenatorSol @ApoStructura I imagine they would need less staffers if they were representing 30,000 people instead of 750,000~
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@swd2 What are some examples of a nation that died from lack of immigration
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An aging population with no immigrants is how a civilization dies.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar
Trump: "For the first time in more than 50 years, we now have reverse migration. A beautiful thing actually."
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@capeandcowell Nothing is more permanent than a temporary government program
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They were granted “”temporary protected status”” 15 years ago because of an earthquake.
Fifteen. Years. Ago
Realize where we are.
Congressman Greg Landsman@RepGregLandsman
We forced a vote to extend Temporary Protected Status for Haiti – and it passed. 🙏🏼💙 Grateful for @RepPressley's leadership in this fight to protect tens of thousands of Haitians in our communities from Trump.
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cat passes by the lens of a Ukrainian drone sitting in ambush
Old Footage
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@EricLDaugh The Senate and House are not in session until April 13th.
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🚨 BREAKING: The US Senate just GAVELED OUT mere SECONDS after gaveling in, refusing to even TRY to pass the House bill funding DHS, ICE and TSA
Freaking ridiculous.
Why didn't we even MAKE Dems oppose this common sense, clean bill from Speaker Johnson?
CANCEL RECESS NOW!
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@Polymarket @zerohedge Kind of a best-case scenario when it comes to cyber attacks
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BREAKING: Cyberattack against American breathalyzer test company locks out drivers across 45 states.
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@DiggingInTheDi1 Let’s do all four of those things and it’ll only be $800 billion. Do you know how much we spent on COVID?
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Try to process what an insane amount this is
* You could cover the healthcare costs of every 13-18 year old in America for a year
* You could deport 96 million people, based on Erik Prince's offer of $25 billion for 12 million
* You could give down payment vouchers of $25,000 to all first time home buyers and rate buydowns of 2-3% for young first-time home buyers for that amount
But instead you get to piss it away to ensure Greater Israel forms
Ask yourself who is running your government
Jeff Stein@jstein_star
SCOOP: The Pentagon asked the White House today for more than *$200 billion* for the Iran war supplemental, sources say Some White House aides think Congress won't support b/c it's so big Will tee up giant battle in Congress
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South Padre during spring break in the 2000s was an experience that can’t be replicated today. We forgot how to do it
2001 Live@25YearsAgoLive
Spring break on South Padre Island, Texas. Each year in the second week of March, 125,000 college students descend on South Padre for warm-weather debauchery and fun.
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BREAKING: US officials say Iran has laid mines in the Strait of Hormuz, per WSJ.
Just yesterday, the US said there was no indication that Iran was laying mines in the Strait of Hormuz.
The mines are being described as the "most destructive weapons" that the US Navy has faced.
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@DocStrangelove2 Ope!
Aadil Brar@aadilbrar
🚨 Beijing is pulling out of Afghanistan China's Ministry of State Security has ordered the immediate withdrawal of Chinese teams and interests from the country — and this isn't just a reaction to recent incidents in Tajikistan. The real story? Pakistan failed to protect Beijing's interests. And that failure is now forcing a costly strategic retreat for the CCP. China spent years cultivating influence in Taliban-controlled Afghanistan — BRI ambitions, mining deals, diplomatic normalization. All of that now hangs in the air. This is a significant reshuffling of the cards in the Af-Pak corridor. When Beijing cuts its losses, you know the calculus has fundamentally changed.
@DocStrangelove2 My theory is… we have a “if the U.S. can’t have it, then neither will China” mindset. Destroy the allegiances you’ve created over two decades, and then give everybody a gun. Belt and Road dies in Western Asia.
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So
>Taliban take over Afghanistan getting US equipment
>Pakistan is backed by the US for a long time despite harboring Bin Laden
>both countries are now at each others necks
We are the point where two different groups of direct or indirect US backed entities are now fighting.
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Interstates do not connect cities. They connect military bases. If they can also pass through a city, cool, but that's not the point.
It's called the Eisenhower National System of Interstate and Defense Highways.
Hawaii's interstates connect all the bases to Pearl Harbor.
Ms. Tree; (Vaxxed and Boosted AF * Thanks Science)@Unesdala
@simongerman600 don't forget Hawaii with 3 interstate highways: H1, H2, H201, and H3
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Few know this… but the whole “you’ll need a passport to vote” lie is a psyop started by the U.S. Department of State to get people to buy passports because the Department’s primary source of revenue is passport fees.
A subtle, but genius marketing campaign.
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@ICEgov The U.S. doesn’t torture… we use “enhanced interrogation techniques” 🧐
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This man overstayed his visa... BY 16 YEARS.
We are a nation of law and order — overstaying your visa violates federal immigration law.
New York Post@nypost
Irishman stuck in ICE custody 2K miles from his Boston home for overstaying visa 16 years ago: ‘It’s just torture’ #Echobox=1770826139" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">nypost.com/2026/02/11/us-…
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Oh so that just... worked?
AZ Intel@AZ_Intel_
KMBC: "A woman tried to set a fire at a South Kansas City warehouse that had been rumored as a possible ICE detention center. Earlier today, the company that owns the property confirmed it is no longer moving forward with a sale to the U.S. government."
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