OpenShot is FOSS and they support Linux, Windows, and Mac. They seem to be dripping Flatpak in favor of AppImage, though. So that’s gross.

I think they meant civil versus criminal rather than nice vs mean.

Yeah the Democratic primary polling is pretty bonkers. The polling for the general has it potentially being closer than Beto vs Cruz was, though.

• https://www.270towin.com/2026-senate-polls/texas
• https://www.realclearpolling.com/elections/senate/2026/texas

It’s honestly a little crazy to see Hunt polling better against both Talarico and Crockett in the general when he’s polling so low in the primary.

He’s ineligible without a constitutional amendment. He’s originally Ugandan and became a naturalized US citizen in 2018.

He’s not hurting the people he needs to be

As far as I can tell, there are no longer any conservative republicans left.

Texas is a suppressed, nonvoting, fairly purple state.

It’s the turnout that kills us here. In 2018 when Beto nearly defeated Cruz, we had 46% turnout.Historically we have like 25-45% turnout of eligible voters in midterm elections, which are the ones where our state-wide executive offices are elected. We only breach 50% for presidential elections, and even then I think around 63% is the highest. The districts are so gerrymandered, I thin kit would be difficult to flip the state house even with a surge in voters. But if we can flip the Gov. Lt. Gov, and AG in a midterm then we’ll finally have some capacity to try and unfuck the district maps.

If Texas Republican voters give the nomination to Ken Paxton and then lose the main election, they thoroughly deserve the loss.

I made a minor edit.

demvote splitter Talarico

Uh, Talarico announced his primary candidacy 3 months before Crockett.

Looking at their responses on vote411.org and comparing my stances on istandwith.com, they’re like over 90% the same. Also, their policy positions really aren’t that far apart from each other. Crockett is rated as being pro-Israel, while Talarico doesn’t really have a record on that issue. And looking at polling for the general, https://www.realclearpolling.com/elections/senate/2026/texas, they’re both pretty even against Paxton and Talarico has a statistically insignificant better chance against Cornyn than Crockett.

welcome to Talibannessee

Jack Smith was appointed in Nov. 2022 and filed the first charges in June of 2023. Call out Biden and Garland, but Smith was pretty focused and hit the ground running.

I see that https://www.trackaipac.com/ says she’s pro-Israel, but even they don’t indicate she’s received any money. I’m just saying if there’s no proof that she’s taken AIPAC money then stop using that as a talking point against her. Use her voting record and statements, things that are verifiable.

I see that https://www.trackaipac.com/ says she’s pro-Israel, but even they don’t indicate she’s received any money. I’m just saying if there’s no proof that she’s taken AIPAC money then stop using that as a talking point against her. Use her voting record and statements, things that are verifiable.

I don’t know about Crockett. She’s taken money from AIPAC.

I keep seeing this claim but can’t find any source for it. I can find lots of links saying there is no evidence that she has. Like this

https://factually.co/fact-checks/politics/do-james-talirico-jasmine-crockett-accept-aipac-donations-fdd37f

Uncle Clarence is chomping at the bit to hear a case to overturn Obergefell. He said as much in his concurring opinion of Dobbs.

hey my kids used to play this! weird game.

you learn more by having to read a whole page to find a sentence and then write your full sentence answer by hand than you do by hitting ctrl-f, ctrl-c, ctrl-v on the keyboard. You miss out on the surrounding contextual information.

If it’s open source it can be verified that it’s not storing the data.

And I 100% agree that software scanning an ID is an overall bad way to verify. With a CC# validation at least that shows up on my statement, but if my kid is sneaky enough to get mine out of my wallet I have no way of knowing.

I feel like #1 and #2 are problems whether its client side or server side. As for #3 I would lean in the direction of there being a one-time check with no persistent knowledge. Like when you flash your ID to the bartender to order a drink. A client app that scans the ID and returns the answer to the requestor.

But I don’t think there is any way to reliably implement this sort of thing. I think it should really just be left to parental control and monitoring.

Some kind of cryptographic signing of the executable could probably help with that.

Ultimately I don’t believe there can ever be a foolproof solution and the emphasis should be on client-side parental controls.