The #Choctaw and the# Irish have been connected for centruires. Both have been oppressed people, the Choctaw sent donations during the Irish Potato famine and the Irish helped during the trail of tears. If you are within driving distance of #Durant#Oklahoma, like #Dallas#texas, why not check out the Friendship Fest this weekend?
Note - "The laws apply only to Harris County, the state’s most populous county. They… "The laws apply only to Harris County, the state’s most populous county. They go into effect on September 1, just over a month before the voter registration deadline. Houston is the seat of Harris County, which is home to the second largest population of Black Americans in the United States." hrw.org/news/2023/07/19/us-tex…
Having seen the 2017 "Great American Eclipse" from Cape Girardeau, #MO, I know that the four or five minutes of totality is worth all the effort it will take to get there. I do not know how worthwhile it will be to travel to see a partial or annular eclipse.
It looks like 40-50 miles SSE of Carlsbad #NM and 60-70 miles W of Odessa #TX. No pager information (probably too small to be worth damage estimation).
Advance teams from another agency have shown up, but they (and most of around 50 other federal agencies) are preoccupied with #Louisiana right now. And I guess parts of #Texas, #Mississippi, #Alabama as well.
So far, no familiar faces from other agencies, but I seeing people from $EMPLOYER that I haven’t seen in person since 2015, 2017, 2019.
♲ @littlewhitty@twitter.com: A TX law encouraging private citizens to turn in abortion providers and anyone who helps someone get an abortion starts Sept 1. Someone already created a site for anonymous tips. It would be a shame if it became unusable because of too many false tips. 😉
Article’s point is not supported by data, neither is the pollies’ point.
According to an #NPR broadcast last night, 40% of failed generation capacity was solar and wind and 60% was gas / oil / coal / nuclear ... but renewables are less than 40% of the total capacity. That means renewable sources failed at a higher proportion than other sources.
But either way, *every* generation source had its own failures, and this doesn’t even count the inevitable downed power transmission lines due to ice.
#Texas needs to take this opportunity to focus their attention on making their generation and transmission grid more reliable in every area.
(And frankly, I think #California could also benefit from learning this and responding appropriately, as our homes are also thinly insulated, and Cal-ISO already struggles during high demand days.)
250 deaths with #covid19 reported today in #Florida and #texas + #california might be another 500. 3 states alone have as many deaths as 50 states a month ago.