It’s that time of year! Time for a bunch of anachronistic hippies to go do drugs in the desert and set a giant statue on fire. Would any of us have imagined that the Burning Man attendees and staffers are a bunch of degenerates? A swamp witch was cast as Jesus Christ Superstar and we have video of the performance. Texas Democrats have fled the state to deny Republicans redistricting plans. Let’s take a walk down memory lane to see all the other times they’ve done this.

SYDNEY SWEENEY’S GUN SKILLS

• Sydney Sweeney OUTED as a registered Republican, while both Trump and JD Vance have thoughts on the matter
• 'Euphoria' star Sydney Sweeney issues statement over mother's 'MAGA' party, yet liberals still attack

JC SUPER CRINGE

• Cynthia Erivo Delivers Powerful Speech About Being ‘Black, Bald-Headed, Pierced and Queer’
• Adam Lambert Defends Cynthia Erivo’s ‘Jesus Christ Superstar’ Casting: “That’s The Point”
• South Park censored after threat of fatwa over Muhammad episode
• 60 Minutes investigates first ISIS-claimed attack in U.S. and what the FBI knew
• Comedian Steven Crowder draws Prophet Muhammad on popular YouTube channel
• Religious Oaths
• A History of Blasphemy Laws in the United States
• Early colonists established blasphemy standards in states
• Anti-blasphemy laws have a history in America
• Religion and the Founding of the American Republic
• The Founding Fathers Were Overwhelmingly Christian, Not Deist
• Declarations of our Founding Fathers
• From John Adams to Massachusetts Militia, 11 October 1798

THE ISRAEL OPTICS

• 32% in U.S. Back Israel's Military Action in Gaza, a New Low
• Open Secrets: Mike Johnson
• Open Secrets: American Israel Public Affairs Committee

TEXAS DEMS ON THE RUN

• Texas House panel passes new redistricting map that adds more GOP seats
• Rucho v. Common Cause, 588 U.S. ___ (2019)
• Congressional District 30
• Plan C2308
• Texas House election results
• Texas Democrats decamp to Illinois to deny Republicans a quorum on redistricting
• Pritzker says Texas Democrats who fled state will be protected amid arrest threats
• Texas House paralyzed by Democratic walkout
• Texas Democrats’ decampment over voting legislation has echoes of 2003 redistricting fight
• Texas Democrats Return, Ending A 38-Day Holdout That Blocked A Voting Bill
• Biggest problem with gerrymandering
• How Democrats learned to stop worrying and love the gerrymander
• Redistricting in Illinois
• 2020 United States Presidential Election, Results by Congressional District
• 2025 Cook PVI℠: District Map and List (119th Congress)
• Illinois Dems carve up liberal giant-slayer’s district in new congressional map
• New York Democrats Introduce New Congressional Map
• “The current national congressional map remains more or less balanced by the usual measures of partisan fairness.”
• Gov. Greg Abbott threatens Texas House Democrats with removal from office for fleeing state