American Muslim. World Traveler. Career tekkie and STEM teacher, now retired and living large in Egypt. If you're a bigot, I block you.
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"Growth is code for the extraction of wealth for the 0.01%...."
Oh, for crying out loud, just drop the ideological posturing and do what's good for America, will you please?
People like marketing professor Galloway, who recently said Democrats shouldn't go after Musk's government contracts and review corruption because we should be "pro growth," need to be asked: growth for whom? Growth is code for the extraction of wealth for the 0.01% from the rest of us. What we need is to realign our incentives away from corporate growth to public health and a thriving, dignified life for all.
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And the 2026 lessons continue, even though they are not the lessons some wanted to hear.
We've all seen the Blue Tsunami. Now for the red ripples:
Nevada: Democrats unseat a Republican governor on the top of the ballot. But further down the ballot, Voter ID requirements passed by approximately 62%.
North Carolina: Democrats turn the Senate seat blue. But the state passes measures extending photo ID requirements to postal voting, requiring limits on local property-tax increases, and reducing the constitutional ceiling on state income tax from 7% to 3.5%
Iowa: Democrats unseat a Republican governor and senator. But the election also passes a ballot measure requiring a two-thirds legislative majority to increase income taxes.
Ohio: Democrats flip the Senate seat and Governor's mansion. But downballot a measure passes strengthening constitutional voter identification requirements.
California: Democrats unseat five House Republicans. Looks like it will defeat the billionaire wealth tax proposition by a ten point margin.
Colorado: Democrats win two more House seats from Republicans. But downballot measures pass to segregate school sports on the basis of biological sex, and ban surgeries that alter biological sex characteristics for under 18s.
Wisconsin: Democrats flip the state legislature, but downballot voters pass a ban on race and sex-based affirmative action in public employment, education and contracting.
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And again we see how deep ignorance goes. The Federations did indeed do studies, but @cristi4nov4lli is determined to ignore that little issue.
We debate not against facts, but against the foolish.
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At the end of the Haj period (and Ramadan, per some), it is sharia to sacrifice an animal and split the meat with the poor.
We do this by buying an animal from a halal butcher and having him do all the work. But many Muslims consider it an obligation to do it themselves.
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Gee, what could go wrong?
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BREAKING: California voters just passed Prop 37. Buyers of newly built homes can now put down 3% instead of 20%.
How: the state lends you the other 17% as a second mortgage, funded by up to $25 billion in bonds.
On an $800,000 home that's $24,000 down instead of $160,000.
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This is a lie. This would be prohibited by both the Texas and US Constitutions.
Advise everyone to block "Jimmie". He's not acting in the best interests of Texas or the USA by posting this kind of propaganda.
🚨 BREAKING: GINA HINOJOSA ISSUES ELON MUSK WITH AN ULTIMATUM OVER TESLA’S OPERATIONS IN TEXAS.
Texas Governor-elect Gina Hinojosa has announced plans to introduce significantly higher tax rates targeting Elon Musk’s companies operating in Texas, insisting that Tesla must comply with the state’s new tax requirements or reconsider its continued manufacturing operations in the state.
Under the proposed terms, Tesla would be required to pay the increased tax rate to maintain its production operations, including Cybertruck manufacturing at its Texas Gigafactory, or face the possibility of having production halted.
The development would mark a significant escalation in the political and business tensions surrounding Musk’s relationship with Texas’ incoming Democratic leadership.
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No facts there, of course. You can pretty much get that from the passive-aggressive "I love how..." leading directly to an assumptive close.
Transathletes are banned from the Olympics because of the facts the poster denies exist.
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I apologize for reposing conspiracy slop, but these things occur because people don't understand demographic statistics.
1) They confuse total population growth with voting eligible population growth. The think "Well, if the population in an area grew by 2%, the (next)
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Voting Eligible Population must have grown by 2%."
NO!
VEP moves with age cohorts. "In the last 4 years, how many voters died vs turned 18."
Answer: The VEP > 5%, even though population only > .8% nationally.
THEN.......there is this thing called Turnout Elasticity. (next)
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It's. 1.5B to Egypt, but the strings are the same as Israel; Egypt has to use most of that money to buy US military hardware.
It's a scam, forcing US taxpayers to fund US defense companies. A form of corporate welfare.
Abdul El-Sayed on Israel:
My approach is simple: Treat the government of Israel the way you would treat any other government that did the same thing.
My family comes from Egypt, and I want to do the same thing with Egypt.
Egypt violates human rights law. Egypt shouldn't be getting $3.3 billion of our tax dollars.
And I would hate if somebody would be like, "Well, because you share the ethnicity of 95% of the people in Egypt, for us to say that the Egyptian government is doing terrible things must be anti-Egyptian."
No, it is just applying our principles evenly everywhere.
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For others:
1) She doesn't have this power under the TX Constitution. She will be sued immediately, and we'll find out if the new state Court is partisan or wishes to enforce the law.
2) Texas electricity rates are below the national average.
3) Rate have risen faster (next)
Gina Hinojosa says she'll declare a cost of living emergency on day one and freeze electricity rates
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...to prevent the indy retailers from going bankrupt, AND they still have to do the $50B grid expansion mandated by the current legislature and ERCOT, those costs will get deferred plus interest, CTP/Oncor credit ratings go down, their bond rates go up....(next)
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