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November 18, 2023

Recurring payment inadvertently selected - how to cancel?

I paid for my star membership with PayPal and - apparently - inadvertently selected recurring vs one time payment. Since I was not logged into my PayPal account I cannot cancel it there as the DU account page advises and PayPal directs me to DU to cancel. Any suggestions?

October 4, 2023

Seems appropriate

Rats are part of a union protest unrelated to TFG - but an oddly fitting image

August 29, 2023

New Texas laws going into effect - a wishlist for authoritarians

Harris county punishment laws, school censorship, etc etc

'Sexually explicit' books: House Bill 900 brings a big change that will happen in school libraries. By next April, book vendors will have to assign ratings to books based on depictions or references to sex.  Books deemed “sexually explicit” would be removed from bookshelves. Those deemed “sexually relevant” will require parents’ permission for the student to check out.
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Distributing 'harmful material': House Bill 4520 says that educators could lose their teaching certificate and disqualify them from receiving retirement benefits for selling, distributing or displaying “harmful material” to a minor. Harmful material is defined as material with a dominant theme taken as a whole:
* appeals to the prurient interest of a minor, in sex, nudity, or excretion;
* is patently offensive to prevailing standards in the adult community as a whole with respect to what is suitable for minors;  and
* is utterly without redeeming social value for minors.”

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Armed officers at schools: House Bill 3 requires schools to have armed officers or armed staff members and train staff to ID students who may need mental health support. Lawmakers gave districts flexibility in meeting those requirements. All classrooms will be required to have silent panic buttons.

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Ban on diversity programs: Senate Bill 17 bans diversity, equity and inclusion offices, programs, and training at publicly-funded universities.

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Regulate sexually-oriented performances: Senate Bill 12 gives the authority to regulate sexually-oriented performances and to restrict those performances on the premises of a commercial enterprise, on public property, or in the presence of an individual younger than 18 years of age; authorizing a civil penalty; creating a criminal offense.

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Election irregularities: Senate Bill 1933 allows the Texas Secretary of State’s Office to investigate election “irregularities” in counties with more than four million people. Harris County is the only area that qualifies under this new law.

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Abolishing elections administrator: Senate Bill 1750 abolished the county elections administrator position in certain counties with a population of 3.5 million or more. In this case, the law only applied to Harris County. 
The powers and authority are transferred to the county tax assessor-collector and county clerk. The county tax assessor-collector shall serve as the voter registrar, and the duties and functions of the county clerk that were performed by the administrator revert to the county clerk



https://www.khou.com/amp/article/news/local/texas/new-texas-laws-september-2023/285-23f52a6b-9672-44ef-bfa8-f315e5fe2b49

February 20, 2023

From a "president" who was afraid to attend a World War I memorial due to rain...

…to a President who isn’t afraid to meet with a key ally, rain of bombs and rockets notwithstanding …what a DIFFERENCE!

November 20, 2022

"Only a good guy with a gun..." but why do so many bad guys have guns?

Nobody seems to be asking that every time that tired old chestnut about the good guy with a gun comes up.

November 13, 2022

Tiffany wedding pics prove TFG lies about his height (TFG image warning)

Tiffany is 5’8’’…TFG right next to her barely an inch taller in his lifts

August 26, 2022

Trump's "Harry Potter Defense"

“He just waved his magic wand over whole boxes of highly classified documents and ‘poof’ he was allowed to take them home”
If you believe that, I got a resort in Florida to sell ya!

Gotta boil it down for the … umm …. “Information Impaired” Trump supporters, so let’s call it the Harry Potter Defense from now on.

June 25, 2022

IVF is on the chopping block next - Thanks "pro-lifers"

In interviews with CNN, doctors who work in the fertility field, and academics who study the legal landscape around it, say there is grave uncertainty -- both about how abortion laws already on the books will be interpreted and about how lawmakers and local prosecutors may seek to push the envelope, freed from the precedents that have effectively shielded the fertility process from government meddling. That lack of clarity, it is feared, will affect the treatments doctors are willing to offer IVF patients and the decisions people will have to make about how to pursue growing their families.

The anxiety was evident in an urgent bulletin from the American Society for Reproductive Medicine sent hours after the leaked draft opinion was published in May, warning that "measures designed to restrict abortion could end up also curtailing access to the family building treatments upon which our infertility patients rely to build their families," society President Dr. Marcelle Cedars wrote.

In Louisiana, legislators are already moving in a bold direction. Lawmakers advanced a bill that would criminalize abortion in the state and grant constitutional rights to "all unborn children from the moment of fertilization." Notably, that bill would remove language in current Louisiana law that refers to the "implantation" of the fertilized egg before it is considered a person.

"A bill like the one that's proposed in Louisiana would prohibit IVF in that state, and that's something we're extremely worried about," Dr. Natalie Crawford of FORA Fertility in Austin, Texas, told CNN. "We don't think people understand the repercussions from some of these proposed bills."


https://abc7news.com/amp/roe-wade-overturned-how-does-v-affect-ivf-and-abortion-laws-in-vitro-fertilization/11992850/

February 17, 2021

I am from the government and I am here to help you turn your power back on

....is a sentence that exactly ZERO Texans would perceive as “terrifying” right now, despite Reagan’s famous hyperbole.

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