Vox

Is this a new version of “slamming” someone?

Amen, same state where the governor is stalling a special election for an open US representative position because the district is left leaning

It’s also a different type of crude, a lot of US refineries can’t use the light sweet crude that the US mainly has, they are configured to use sour crude that opec mainly has.

That’s the joke.

Bad thing about putting disaster response to the state is that they can decide not to serve a city based on political leanings. Not that this couldn’t be done at the national level, but harder at least. Gov. Abbot did this during Hurricane Harvey to Houston with state funds. Houston had been one of the biggest bastions of democratic voters during the recent elections so they rewrote their state disaster relief funds stipulations to severely underfund areas with high population density.

I have some kudzu i could sell you

They’re saying if you were the only holdup it doesn’t matter. If enough of your semi-close relatives submitted their DNA, yours can be extrapolated reasonably accurately from that.