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zoux posted:True enough, but also no polity in the world (?) is doing vaccine mandates. The most important mandates that are likely to happen in the U.S. are from employers requiring vaccination as a condition of employment, and other social restrictions like the Raiders requiring vax to attend their games, or major cities like NYC, NOLA etc. requiring vax to indoor dine, go to bars etc. Mandates where governments force you to vaccinate or else you get arrested or a huge fine are not likely unless things got a lot worse than they even are now.
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# ? Aug 18, 2021 02:32 |
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https://twitter.com/JesseRodriguez/status/1427761231801237504?s=20 hmm til greg abbott has a weakened immune system apparently or he is a huge liar
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# ? Aug 18, 2021 03:13 |
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Badger of Basra posted:https://twitter.com/JesseRodriguez/status/1427761231801237504?s=20 I suppose there is a chance he does have something that results in him being immunocompromised that we don't know about...
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# ? Aug 18, 2021 03:25 |
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https://twitter.com/jenphillipsnews/status/1427800469351636998 This seems way out of character for Paris, but, good for them.
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# ? Aug 18, 2021 04:16 |
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Hawkline posted:I think his monoclonal antibody infusion is also off-label - are the taxpayers of Texas picking up the tab for him just mainlining expensive drugs into his veins? i think vaccines and treatment are free to everybody so i guess joe biden is paying for all this
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# ? Aug 18, 2021 04:27 |
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Hawkline posted:I think his monoclonal antibody infusion is also off-label - are the taxpayers of Texas picking up the tab for him just mainlining expensive drugs into his veins? I saw someone say that being just paraplegic weakens your immune system, so that's probably it. I love Paris ISD's workaround there. Leander ISD also broke and mandated masks today, which is my nieces' school district so I was looking forward to that.
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# ? Aug 18, 2021 04:30 |
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FBS posted:https://twitter.com/jenphillipsnews/status/1427800469351636998 Maybe this will be what provokes Abbott to say "congrats on solving my riddle" this time.
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# ? Aug 18, 2021 04:38 |
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https://twitter.com/hinojosa_david/status/1428022471303868427 GA-16: Forbidding local districts from cancelling football practice
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# ? Aug 18, 2021 17:39 |
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zoux posted:https://twitter.com/hinojosa_david/status/1428022471303868427 SAISD seems to be the district here that has Had It With This poo poo the most. In addition to sticking to their mask mandate, they also announced they're mandating all employees be vaccinated by Oct 15. Meanwhile North ISD (actually the northwestern chunk of San Antonio) just re-enacted their mandate yesterday, and Northeast ISD is having a board meeting tomorrow to vote on it. Maybe patience with this culture war Republican primary bullshit is running out now that the year is actually starting and the last thing anyone wants is hundreds or thousands of kids getting sent home to quarantine in a couple of weeks. (Also, is the dozen balkanized school districts intended to make sure that the money stays in the right parts of town a thing that is specific to San Antonio, or is it like that in the other big Texas cities, too?)
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# ? Aug 18, 2021 18:17 |
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Blotto_Otter posted:. Yes and yes
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# ? Aug 18, 2021 18:19 |
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Blotto_Otter posted:SAISD seems to be the district here that has Had It With This poo poo the most. In addition to sticking to their mask mandate, they also announced they're mandating all employees be vaccinated by Oct 15. Meanwhile North ISD (actually the northwestern chunk of San Antonio) just re-enacted their mandate yesterday, and Northeast ISD is having a board meeting tomorrow to vote on it. Maybe patience with this culture war Republican primary bullshit is running out now that the year is actually starting and the last thing anyone wants is hundreds or thousands of kids getting sent home to quarantine in a couple of weeks. I mean, Iraan-Sheffield ISD (which is somewhere in western Texas?) has had to do that - their two-week whole-school quarantine started yesterday. They're small - from their website it looks like they only have one elementary school - but that's gotta be on administrators' minds. I'm surprised Northside ISD put a mask mandate back, with their whole "we don't want anyone to be harassed or bullied for their choice to wear or not wear a mask" statement; I'm not surprised NEISD wants to wait and see how the vote goes. The only witness the state called in the hearing over whether San Antonio Metro Health could require people in schools and government buildings to wear masks was a NEISD mom, who said she only reenrolled her kids in public school because Gov. Abbott had said there wouldn't be masks, after all. Blotto_Otter posted:(Also, is the dozen balkanized school districts intended to make sure that the money stays in the right parts of town a thing that is specific to San Antonio, or is it like that in the other big Texas cities, too?) I mean, isn't Alamo Heights still literally its own municipality, despite being 100% surrounded by San Antonio?
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# ? Aug 18, 2021 18:33 |
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zonohedron posted:I mean, isn't Alamo Heights still literally its own municipality, despite being 100% surrounded by San Antonio? Yes. There's a bunch of those in the San Antonio area. Hollywood Park, Leon Valley, Olmos Park
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# ? Aug 18, 2021 18:46 |
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zonohedron posted:I mean, isn't Alamo Heights still literally its own municipality, despite being 100% surrounded by San Antonio? Blotto_Otter fucked around with this message at 19:02 on Aug 18, 2021 |
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Blotto_Otter posted:Yes it is, which is its own problem, but even ignoring the handful of enclave towns like that, San Antonio proper is still carved up into a dozen or so districts. (Even AHISD is not coterminous with Alamo Heights, it covers a couple other enclaves adjacent to Alamo Heights plus a small bit of San Antonio.) Okay, that's new to me; I thought part of the reason Alamo Heights resisted being absorbed was so they could keep their own school district fiefdom!
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# ? Aug 18, 2021 18:54 |
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Blotto_Otter posted:(Also, is the dozen balkanized school districts intended to make sure that the money stays in the right parts of town a thing that is specific to San Antonio, or is it like that in the other big Texas cities, too?) Tiny, rich, white enclaves attempting to cleave themselves from the city's tax base so they can hoard their wealth is an American problem.
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# ? Aug 18, 2021 19:05 |
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PostNouveau posted:Tiny, rich, white enclaves attempting to cleave themselves from the city's tax base so they can hoard their wealth is an American problem. Which is why... LanceHunter posted:One of my daydream, "maybe I'll get around to it eventually" ideas is spending the money to get a proposition on the ballot in Austin that will put up toll booths at the city limits between Austin and Westlake (and Austin and Rollingwood). Charge $20 to enter Austin, label it very specifically as a "gently caress you" to those lovely white flight suburbs who leech off of the city but don't pay us any taxes. I doubt it would pass, but I'd love to see the media coverage.
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# ? Aug 18, 2021 19:08 |
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See, us over here in White Haven really have our own thing going on and we don't think our money should go to funding basic services in the inner city. Instead, we're gonna build a $10 million football field. *wins off-cycle ballot initiative by 45 points*
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# ? Aug 18, 2021 19:13 |
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PostNouveau posted:See, us over here in White Haven really have our own thing going on and we don't think our money should go to funding basic services in the inner city. Instead, we're gonna build a $10 million football field. Oh that must be for the peewee team.
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# ? Aug 18, 2021 19:22 |
PostNouveau posted:See, us over here in White Haven really have our own thing going on and we don't think our money should go to funding basic services in the inner city. Instead, we're gonna build a $10 million football field. That's a bit on the nose, come on writers.
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AVeryLargeRadish posted:That's a bit on the nose, come on writers. It rolls off the tongue a bit better than White Settlement, though.
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# ? Aug 18, 2021 19:55 |
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Blotto_Otter posted:It rolls off the tongue a bit better than White Settlement, though. quote:The city got its name because it was the lone settlement of White settlers amid several Native American villages in the Fort Worth area in the Texas Republic territory in the 1840s. The area was called "White" because it was a settlement of White homesteaders, as opposed to other settlements in the vicinity that were composed of both White and Native American residents.
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# ? Aug 18, 2021 20:23 |
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God drat, imagine being that racist. Lol.
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# ? Aug 18, 2021 20:35 |
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in hypothetical 2068 Blue Texas, would it be possible to pass a law that allows a municipality to forcibly annex any enclaves which it totally surrounds?
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# ? Aug 18, 2021 21:43 |
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i say swears online posted:in hypothetical 2068 Blue Texas, would it be possible to pass a law that allows a municipality to forcibly annex any enclaves which it totally surrounds? I imagine those enclaves would be pretty important to whatever coalition resulted in a blue Texas, even in 2068.
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# ? Aug 18, 2021 22:26 |
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Man I cannot wait to bask on the scenic Austin beaches from my oceanfront property in 2068
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# ? Aug 18, 2021 22:31 |
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i say swears online posted:in hypothetical 2068 Blue Texas, would it be possible to pass a law that allows a municipality to forcibly annex any enclaves which it totally surrounds? Yes, municipalities don’t have rights so the state can do whatever they want with them
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# ? Aug 18, 2021 22:31 |
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I can't imagine a version of Texas in the next 100 years where annexation of white suburbs and enclaves isn't political poision.
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# ? Aug 18, 2021 22:47 |
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zoux posted:Man I cannot wait to bask on the scenic Austin beaches from my oceanfront property in 2068 one weird trick to curtail the power of the LCRA
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# ? Aug 18, 2021 22:53 |
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https://twitter.com/TexasTribune/status/1428122913211920389quote:Saying that the federal government will not “sit by as governors try to block and intimidate educators from protecting our children,” Biden said he will use the U.S. Department of Education’s civil rights enforcement authority to deter states from blocking mask mandates in classrooms. Texas gets about 15 percent of it's pub ed funding from the feds, so I guess we'll see if that's enough leverage. Some of it may be statutorily dedicated and can't be hosed with outside of legislative action. I wonder what other levers they can use. https://twitter.com/medenix/status/1428125177393684481 Good news that he's healthy enough to travel.
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# ? Aug 18, 2021 23:50 |
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I am glad Biden is finally stepping up here, but as I always say, the tricky thing is that Texas' government will turn down billions of dollars - even if it functionally destroys the state - to own the libs.
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# ? Aug 19, 2021 01:15 |
Mistaken Frisbee posted:I am glad Biden is finally stepping up here, but as I always say, the tricky thing is that Texas' government will turn down billions of dollars - even if it functionally destroys the state - to own the libs. You're so right, Texas will absolutely kill thousands of its own people, and forgo immense sums of money, to keep their poo poo policy. So frustrating.
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# ? Aug 19, 2021 01:56 |
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JosefStalinator posted:You're so right, Texas will absolutely kill thousands of its own people, and forgo immense sums of money, to keep their poo poo policy. So frustrating. I just remembered that we still haven't expanded Medicaid. Ugh.
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# ? Aug 19, 2021 02:11 |
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https://twitter.com/genefortexas/status/1428080912919629827?s=21 https://twitter.com/genefortexas/status/1428095141995335682?s=21
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# ? Aug 19, 2021 02:32 |
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Gene, u ok hon
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# ? Aug 19, 2021 03:05 |
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lol jesus gene
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# ? Aug 19, 2021 03:24 |
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Lol it took 54 hours and 49 minutes to get my negative Harris County COVID test result. A bit of a jam with the schools starting.
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# ? Aug 19, 2021 03:42 |
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JosefStalinator posted:You're so right, Texas will absolutely kill thousands of its own people, and forgo immense sums of money, to keep their poo poo policy. So frustrating. Abbott and his goons already been doing just that; one of the stimulus bills had a caveat that a portion of federal funding was tied to committing to the state funding higher education at least $1bn. Naturally, they've withheld the federal money until they find out if they can get a waiver for the higher education requirement. Let's also not forget "constitutional carry instead of fixing the grid."
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# ? Aug 19, 2021 12:34 |
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https://twitter.com/nataliemj10/status/1428331850586599428?s=20 Lmao
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# ? Aug 19, 2021 14:25 |
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The amount of non-factual and outright wrong reporting I see on topics I know stuff about makes me question how seriously I should take reporting regarding things I don't know stuff about
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# ? Jun 8, 2024 06:32 |
Motherfucker they got Schliterbahn.
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