Doing a good job governing and making people better off then campaigning on that success is legal.

Boring news cycles, but legal.

Short answer is: yes there are voters to sway. Less previous party voters and more non-voters. Texas is among the lowest in voter turnout: https://ballotpedia.org/Voter_turnout_in_Texas

From 2002 to 2024, the average voter turnout rate of eligible voters in Texas was 45.0%. The national average voter turnout rate of eligible voters for this same period was 52.4%.

The fact that Texas is "within a couple points" is wild.

Wtf happened in 2024 that Allred lost by double digits!? But then, he was also polling only a few points behind Cruz and then lost by such a large margin... Massive grain of salt on polling numbers!

She still has an uphill battle. I still have yet to see better Spanish language outreach... Immigration policy backlash can bring out an under-polled demographic if the party makes even a moderate effort.

No matter how mad rural voters are about data centers, they still vote R on cultural issues. There's not that many votes to get there. See: cattle ranchers still supporting Republicans as they are financially decimated by their policies. :(

Full context from the article:

Holdings of U.S. Treasuries slipped to $9.299 trillion in June from $9.371 trillion in the previous month. But compared with a year earlier, Treasuries owned by foreigners were up 2.3%.

Also relevant context are the various exchange rates to foreign countries... Not going to list all of them but here's to a multi-currency index: https://www.marketwatch.com/investing/index/dxy

As well remember this is a nominal number.

Edit to add: the fact that it's going down is not great, but the headline references only monthly which is noisy. Here's also a trend over time from FRED (quarterly): https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/FDHBFIN

TLDR: this might just be a blip, not really any bigger news than the stock market being slightly down any given month. As much as I dislike the current administration don't add this to your doom scrolling just yet.

No one mentioned checking all the seals around the property?

Since the smell is coming from outside, check that all your windows, doors, or any other openings are well sealed. As much as possible keep the bad smelling outside air from seeping in. You don't mention the age of the property, but if it's over 20 years old it's probably leaky af.

You do need some air exchange (clear CO2 & let in oxygen), but if you get it well enough sealed you can then look into an air exchange that you can filter (also reclaim heat / cool).

After that all the air filter & deodorizer suggestions from others will help. But my first thought is minimizing the smell from getting in as best you can.

Biology is the only science in which multiplication is the same thing as division. (attributed to Feynman)

What ever happened to his "Freedom Fuel Network"?

Probably unrelated... /s

They see the propaganda, they don't have the time to dig any deeper than "Democrats are baby killers and Trump will create jobs". The message was a lie, but short enough to get across.

Democrats have terrible messaging, and aren't even trying to hit some of these demographics. I've yet to see a good Spanish language mass media campaign. Some from NGOs, but none from the party.

Texas would be blue if they could competently get out the Latino vote... Instead the white rural voters get to enact their terrible policies :_(

For Dallas your jury summons is a DART system-wide ticket on that morning. Then they'll give you a full day one when you check in.

The main character has a few lines discussing pronouns. And there's the ambiguous gender / cross-gender attractions. Here's a better writeup than I would bother writing :)

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/30/movies/nimona-nd-stevenson-profile.html

The graphic novelist ND Stevenson wrote the trans allegory long before he came out. When it was time to adapt it for a new film, he was ready to go further.

If you're okay with a graphic novel, I recommend Nimona: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nimona

Also has an animated movie adaptation.