in case you haven't been paying attention here's some of what you paid for in recent days;
Monday, September 28, 2026
there are so many dot heads in texas that parts of it no longer look like mexico or vietnam. the great reset involves replacing the natives with 'migrants' as in texas or parts of britain;
Bo French opened the week of September 13 by treating a University of Texas celebration as proof that America had already been lost. The Republican nominee for the Texas Railroad Commission circulated an image of South Asians and wrote, “I heard UT graduation this year looked like this. I didn’t believe it. The problem is now obviously far worse than anyone imagined.” He followed that with a second post. “Like body-cams exposed criminals, social media is exposing how many Americans have been displaced by foreigners. It’s everywhere and far worse than any of us could imagine.”
As a UT Austin alumnus, French’s comments validated a statewide trend I observed from my childhood in an affluent North Dallas suburb all the way through my 2013 graduation from UT. Namely, the demographic transformation of the state, a shift that has only accelerated in the last decade or so.
The demographic shift at UT Austin has been quite stark. The Daily Texan, citing a New York Times analysis, reported that White enrollment at UT Austin fell from 87 percent in 1980 to 44 percent by 2015. Current figures compiled by Data USA put White students at about 31.5 percent, Hispanic or Latino students around 25.5 percent, and Asian students around 22.4 percent. International undergraduates made up about 4 percent in 2025 to 2026, The Texas Tribune noted.
The same pattern defines the state. Texas A&M sociologist Dudley L. Poston noted that Hispanic residents had become the largest group in Texas at 40.2 percent, compared with 39.4 percent for White residents who are not Hispanic. In 1990, those White Texans still made up 60.6 percent of the population, according to the Texas Politics Project. The Texas Demographic Center showed that minority populations accounted for 95.3 percent of nearly 4 million in growth between 2010 and 2020, while White residents who are not Hispanic contributed 4.7 percent. The Bush Center cites projections of a 2050 Texas in which Hispanics comprise 42.7 percent and White residents who are not Hispanic fall to 28.6 percent............more...........
larry johnson describes a change in the putin view of the war;
In mid-September, the Kremlin was signaling that negotiations could resume. Putin had said the trilateral talks with the United States and Ukraine would be unlikely before the State Duma elections, but that Russia would be ready to resume contacts after them. The elections ended on September 20. Within a week, both Putin and Lavrov had shifted from conditional openness to a set of positions that make a negotiated end to the war harder to reach than at any point this year.
The trigger: September 20
The turning point was Ukraine’s drone campaign on election day. Putin said more than 1,600 drones entered the Moscow area that night, with strikes on polling stations, including one in a school he said was virtually destroyed. The chair of a territorial election commission was killed when her home was hit. Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin called the raid unprecedented. According to RT, two civilians were killed in the suburbs and an oil refinery was damaged. Whatever one makes of Russian accounts of the damage, the political effect in Moscow was plain.
Putin: from “ready after the elections” to “we will think twice”
At his press conference in St. Petersburg on September 25, Putin recast the whole negotiating track. He listed a series of Ukrainian escalations: the strike on St. Petersburg’s port during the June economic forum, a campaign against Russian refineries, an attempted blockade of Russia’s Black Sea coast that he said damaged more than 100 vessels, and strikes on commercial warehouses. He said Russia had answered each one, so effectively that Kyiv is now seeking partial ceasefires in the energy sector and the air.............more...........
detroit found a way to get young teens to stop shooting each other and it doesn't include banning those nasty assault weapons with the handle thingy and the part that goes down, as some congressional critters have chosen to speak of them;
Here’s something worth celebrating for anybody who’s tired of hearing that the answer to violent crime is stripping law-abiding people of their rights: a Detroit program that goes after the actual causes of violence appears to be working, and it doesn’t involve a single new gun law.
What the Study Found
According to a study from the University of Michigan’s Poverty Solutions initiative, the city’s ShotStoppers program is tied to a 45% drop in homicides and nonfatal shootings over three years in the Detroit neighborhoods it covers.
The year-two numbers are more granular and hold up on their own. From August 2024 to July 2025, CVI zones saw a 33% decrease in homicide victims and a 38% decrease in nonfatal shooting victims compared to the previous 12 months. In the rest of Detroit over the same window, homicide victims dropped 12% and nonfatal shooting victims dropped 26%. The zones covered by the program roughly doubled the rest of the city on both counts.
For national perspective, the U.S. homicide rate has fallen roughly 30% over the same three-year stretch. A 45% drop in the targeted zones outpaces that and beats the sections of Detroit that fall outside the program. It’s not a randomized controlled trial, but the built-in comparison to the rest of the same city is a lot better than the “we passed a law, look what happened” analysis gun control advocates usually offer.
How ShotStoppers Works..............more..........
i was for the war before i was against it, or was it the other way round. i forget. anyway, vote for me cause you know i'm a great guy who loves his kids, or something like that, as he searches for job security;
Midterms are always hard for the party in power, and GOP candidates this year face a number of headwinds. But let’s be honest: It’s the war, stupid. Voters in Ohio, like voters across the country, are furious at paying more for gas (and everything else) because the president got us into an unwinnable Mideast conflict at the behest of a foreign country. They’re tired of bearing the costs, and they’re tired of being lied to.
So Husted has sought to distance himself from this debacle. “The war needs to come to an end as quickly as possible so that we can lower gas prices,” he told POLITICO this week. “I don’t know anybody who doesn’t want this war to end.”
Of course, Husted is not just “anybody.” He is a sitting United States senator, a member of the body charged by our Constitution with deciding whether or not the country goes to war.
And, as fate would have it, that body had before it yesterday a measure to end the war Husted says he wants to end. Naturally, the junior senator from Ohio was a “yes.” Right?
Alas, no.
Husted joined 48 of his GOP colleagues (plus Democrat John Fetterman) in voting down H.Con.Res.89, a concurrent resolution that would have “direct[ed] the President to remove the use of United States Armed Forces from hostilities against the Islamic Republic of Iran.”
In other words, he says it is imperative for the war to end, and is resolutely opposed to any measures to effect its conclusion. ...........more.........
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