Meanwhile, Texas

[Brian Peacock]

Well, the shame and embarrassnent might be bad, but the money is pretty shady too.

[Sean Hayden]

A Southwest Airlines flight with passengers onboard was struck by gunfire as it was preparing to take off at Dallas Love Field Airport in Texas, authorities said.

Flight 2494 was preparing for departure to Indianapolis when "a bullet apparently struck the right side of the aircraft under the flight deck", a Southwest spokesperson told the BBC's US partner, CBS News.

No injuries were reported, and the aircraft returned to its gate and passengers deplaned, according to an airport spokesperson.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvge1qw1283o

[Brian Peacock]

Whose wife has the pilot been sleeping with?

[JimC]

That airplane plumb annoyed me, so I filled the critter with lead!

[Cunt]

https://x.com/DJKryptoni/status/1908493404901621776

This is the Islamic financing institute this Lieutenant is referring to that has an office inside EPIC. (See screen shots below and URL to their site.)
He states that EPIC's been operating for 12 YEARS? How has this been let to go on for so long. It needs to be shut down.
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https://myuif.com/fatawa/

Looks like Texas is leaning into its' fundamentalist' reputation, but in a different way now.

[Sean Hayden]

CLIMATEWIRE | In the past decade, as extreme weather killed nearly 700 people in Texas, the state relinquished $225 million in federal grant money that it was supposed to spend on protecting residents from disasters, federal records show.

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In addition to ceding the $225 million, Texas has not spent $505 million of the $820 million — 62 percent — that it got for mitigation projects nearly eight years ago after Hurricane Harvey killed 89 people and caused $160 billion in damage, records show. The funds remain available.

The unspent money highlights a central flaw in the nation’s approach to protecting against climate change: The federal government gives states and communities both money and responsibility for disaster protection. Yet states and communities often lack the personnel and expertise to spend it fully.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/arti ... rotection/

Uh, then hire outside? I’m sure the Dutch can spend that money, and they’d love Texas!

[Brian Peacock]

Tex-Dutch food is the best too!

[Sean Hayden]

Herring enchiladas! I’m afraid they’d die from the lack of rude, poor bastids, killed by hospitality…

[Brian Peacock]

lol. Stamppot burrito?

[Sean Hayden]

Starting on Thursday, Texas will implement Senate Bill 8 — also known as the Texas Women’s Privacy Act, or more commonly known as a “bathroom bill” — aimed at restricting transgender people’s access to certain restrooms in the state.

Republicans in Texas worked for more than a decade to pass a bathroom bill like SB 8. The new law applies sex-based restrictions on those restrooms and changing rooms in public buildings, schools and universities. It also implements restrictions in prison housing, as well as family violence shelters.

Supporters of the law say it will create more secure private spaces, but opponents worry the law’s unclear guidance on how to enforce SB 8 will cause oversurveillance and public harassment. Here’s what you need to know about SB 8, what areas are affected and why the Legislature passed the new restrictions on restrooms in the state.

https://www.texastribune.org/2025/12/01 ... tions-law/

Who’s got bathroom duty at the courthouse?

[JimC]

Unisex toilets FTW...

[Brian Peacock]

This is probably going to impact tall and butch-looking cis women more than transgender people, who have already developed strategies around this.

[pErvinalia]

Trans women can wizz behind trees, so they'll be alright.