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On the forthcoming Total Distortion, the indie pop outfit led by former War Party frontman Cameron Smith paints a picture of an artist maturing both as a songwriter and as an individual.

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FEATURE New Texas laws — like family — be wack, but among them, maybe redistricting can be told to sit down.

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METROPOLIS Should city councilmembers be allowed to draw their own voting maps?

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LAST CALL Arlington’s 1851 Club is a zesty, drag-tastic trip.

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HEARSAY Midlake, Ishi, Keegan McInroe, and Mean Motor Scooter hit local stages this weekend.

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INSIDE Like family, Texas’ new voting laws are a little cray.

By Anthony Mariani

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Arlington’s one and only gay bar is a lovely, dizzying, splendiferous hoot.

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With their latest single and long-awaited sophomore album, the indie-pop brainchild of Cameron Smith shows an artist in transition.

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Redrawn voting maps from citizens, city councilmembers, and civic groups are being reviewed by a reactivated task force.

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Drafting new city districts for voting is akin to a highstakes game of Whac-A-Mole. Moving the boundary lines in one district could leave a neighboring district running afoul of state or federal voting laws. Past U.S. Supreme Court rulings, for example, dictate that district populations cannot deviate by more than 10%, meaning that the most populated district cannot be more than 10% larger than the smallest district.

In February, Fort Worth City Council will approve a new 10-district map that will allow for 11 vot-

Static John Scott, a Texas lawyer who briefly worked on a Donald Trump campaign challenge to the 2020 elections, is Gov. Greg Abbott’s pick for Texas secretary of state — the person who runs state elections.

In El Paso on Thursday, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton agreed with a member of a crowd who contended that Trump beat Joe Biden in the 2020 presidential election and that putting Biden in the White House amounted to an “overthrow.”

“We’re sick of the overthrow,” the woman said, according to The Dallas Morning News. “This has been an overthrow, and we expect actually all of you to stand up and proclaim this. With 50 Republican senators, well, at least maybe 40 of them, it’s time to do that, take the bull by the horn. We won. We know that. This is an overthrow.”

“So,” Paxton responded, “let me just say that I agree with you.”

Last month, a new law that restricts voting and election practices used in the 2020 election was signed by the governor after stalling during the regular legislative session and one special session earlier this year. Similar to laws passed this year

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Bruce Miller’s volunteer group has drafted a map that meets the stringent guidelines set by the redistricting task force.

in other states with Republican-majority governments, the Texas law tightens state election laws and limits local governments’ power to expand voting options.

Texas lawmakers just capped a marathon year of legislating, ending that long march by approving new political maps that reflect the growth of the state in the latest census but that don’t match the state’s politics or its demographics.

Those maps are more Republican than the last elections. Trump got 52% of the vote in 2020, but in the new maps, he’d have won in 57% of House districts, 61% of Senate districts, and 66% of congressional districts.

Those districts don’t look like Texas, either. The state has about the same number of white and Hispanic residents in the new census, and people of color made up 95% of the growth of the population over the last decade, but 59% of the 150 Texas House districts on the new maps have white majorities, while Hispanic residents are the majority in 20%. In the 31 Senate districts, 20 have white majorities, seven have Hispanic majorities, and Black Texans have the majority in one district.

All of that adds up. After conservative complaints about the national result in the 2020 election, Texas Republicans have tried to anticipate everything that might play against them in 2022.

This is no way for leaders to convince everyone that elections are impartial and encourage voters’ confidence in their democracy — not all voters, anyway — but it’s enough to convince the majority party’s voters.

In a University of Texas/Texas Tribune Poll in February, most Texans said they believe the election results in the state were accurate, an assessment shared by 88% of Democrats and 76% of Republicans, but doubts about the national result are strong within the Texas GOP ranks: 73% of Texas Republicans said they thought the national results were inaccurate, compared with 89% of Democrats who said the results were accurate.

Scott’s appointment as the state’s next SOS got a thumbs-up from state Rep. Briscoe Cain (R-Deer Park), who said the state Senate should confirm Scott if it gets a chance.

Cain was among the Texans who went to Pennsylvania looking for voter fraud last year. He tweeted and then deleted a photo of himself in a cowboy hat and vest at a Houston airport three days after the 2020 election with the line, “This Texas lawyer is flying to Philadelphia this morning to link up with a team of attorneys from across the country to fight for a fair and honest election in Pennsylvania. #lawyersfortrump”

On Friday, Cain, the chair of the House Elections Committee, issued a statement on official state letterhead calling Scott “the perfect pick to lead the Secretary of State’s Office.”

During the regular legislative session earlier this year, Cain was the sponsor of the elections and voting bill that prompted a walkout by Democratic House members. When lawmakers came back for special sessions, that legislation had a new House author — Rep. Andrew Murr (RJunction) — and was routed through the newly formed House Select Committee on Constitutional Rights and Remedies instead of Cain’s Elections Committee.

State Sen. Bryan Hughes (R-Mineola) was the Senate sponsor throughout the year, and he and Murr eventually got that legislation to Abbott, who was eager to sign it. Hughes was also in that Pennsylvania group of Trump lawyers last year.

He is Scott’s law partner. — Ross Ramsey A version of this story originally appeared in The Texas Tribune.

This column reflects the opinions of the author and not necessarily the Fort Worth Weekly. To submit a column, please email Editor Anthony Mariani at Anthony@ FWWeekly.com. Submissions will be edited for factuality and clarity.

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Councilmember Chris Nettles also submitted a map that fell below the 10% threshold. Nettles said in an email that he temporarily withdrew the map and plans to submit two new maps soon. By the end of last week’s meeting, the city councilmembers and mayor were unable to find a map that met all the criteria set by state and federal law as well as the stated goals of the redistricting task force.

“They got it down to two alternative maps,” Costa said. “Neither of which met all of the criteria, particularly the first criterion about districts having approximately equal populations. They still need to do adjustments. When they increased one district, they would bump another district or two out of the range.

When they tried to fix those districts, they would bump another district. Trying to balance many competing interests is difficult even under the ideal circumstances. You are trying to keep certain neighborhoods intact. In some cases, some neighborhoods alliances want to be kept together.”

Miller said that his group was disappointed when Fort Worth City Council decided to not move forward with a compromise hybrid approach to redistricting that was recently proposed by Costa.

Although the city charter requires councilmembers to vote on the final recommendations, Costa’s proposal would have created an IRC that acted in an advisory capacity.

“The council wasn’t really excited about that idea,” Costa said.

Costa said that allowing the redistricting task force to take the lead on the process minimizes the influence city council has over the process. Councilmembers are not allowed to discuss redistricting outside of public meetings that are advertised 10 days in advance, he said.

From now through December, the redistricting task force will be reviewing maps produced by residents and civic groups. The task force will hold a public meeting in December that will decide which map will be presented to city council’s first work session in January.

The map will be subject to four public hearings in February, Costa said, with a final map being approved by city council in late February.

Miller said his group plans to submit one and possibly several maps for consideration by the task force. Even at this late juncture, Miller sees an IRC as the best model for providing a city council district map that would have a low risk of inviting a lawsuit.

An IRC provides a “means of improving trust in government and citizen involvement,” Miller said. That would be an “important symbolic step in improving race relations in Fort Worth. It would also let the citizens choose their districts rather than [letting] the council choose who can vote for them.” l

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ing members (including the mayor) on city council. Five years ago, Fort Worth voters approved a city charter amendment that required city council to redraw its district map following the completion of the 2020 Census. As Fort Worth’s population edges closer to 1 million residents, the increase in councilmembers would hypothetically allow for more representational leadership.

The process has proven to be complicated for several reasons, and, last week, Fort Worth’s councilmembers voted to reactivate the council-appointed redistricting task force to help ensure that benchmarks on the redistricting timeline are met by February. Assistant City Manager Fernando Costa told me in a phone interview that city staff have gone to great lengths to ensure that the redistricting process is transparent and inclusive. Indeed, volunteer task force members and city staffers have held well over a dozen training sessions to teach Fort Worthians about the redistricting process and even how to draw redistricted maps that can be submitted for consideration by the task force and city council.

Critics of the process note that the city’s approach is out of line with recommendations by the Race and Culture Task Force, which was formed in 2017 in response to public uproar following the heavy-handed 2016 arrest of Jacqueline Craig, a Black mother, by a white Fort Worth police officer. One of the Race and Culture Task Force’s 22 final recommendations accepted by city council in late 2018 was the formation of an independent redistricting commission (IRC). Supporters of IRCs note that the independent approach to redistricting removes meddling from self-interested councilmembers who may be more interested in being reelected than protecting the voting rights of citizens.

Fort Worth’s city council is able to skirt that commitment because the city’s elected leaders only “accepted” the recommendations, a legal term that is nonbinding. Fort Worth’s city charter would also have to be amended to allow for an IRC-redrawn map — something that Costa said could not happen in time for the current redistricting process.

Bruce Miller with Citizens for Independent Redistricting said last week’s Fort Worth City Council Redistricting Work Session — something Miller called “Gerrymandering 101” —is an example of why councilmembers should not be involved in redrawing their own maps.

Several councilmembers, Miller said, referred to the proposed districts in the possessive sense, as in “my district.”

Costa said the aim of that meeting was to allow city councilmembers to introduce their maps and to consolidate the best maps into one final proposal that will be considered alongside submissions from citizens and civic groups like Citizens for Independent Redistricting. Data from Citizens for Independent Redistricting show that Councilmember Cary Moon’s map has a population deviation of nearly 20% — far outside the allowable 10% maximum.

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Redistricting Rumpus It’s not the only thing going wrong for moderate Texans, just the latest in an assembly line of affronts to fairness, equality, and decency.

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and, yes, Bro and Sis have been “stewing” (Bro’s actual term) about this scandalous attack on justice since January, and, no, President Joe Biden is not doing a totally awesome job.

Along with a link to a Quinnipiac poll indicating a 38% approval rating for Grandpa Joe, Bro says, “Left wing whack job polling can’t even protect him. Afghanistan disaster, illegal and open border crossings, senility, inflation (obviously you don’t buy gas for your car), shipping crisis, empty shelves, and on and on. He’s a hack politician, has always been, and his cronies in Big Tech, media, and urban cities cheated to get him in office — over half the country doesn’t view him as legitimate.”

Spoiler alert: Joe Biden is the legitimate U.S. president, and he’s doing just fine, hovering around 50%, which is something his undeserving, unworthy predecessor could have only dreamed about. Biden also isn’t selling access to the U.S. government to Russian apparatchiks for a few million rubles and almost as many golden showers.

The same ol’ right-wing talking points — Dems are the true racists, wanting to keep Blacks and Hispanics “in their place and dependent on the government”; Big Tech is silencing the right; Hunter, Hunter, Hunter — are now being thrown at me as if I were some sort of dartboard in an Irish pub at last call. All I can do is ask them, my beloved siblings, Where in the ever-living fuck are you getting all of this G.D. misinformation?

Their two main sources, as I learn, are something called The Federalist, which turns out to be a blog of right-wing shittery masquerading as intellectualism just because some of the writers took History 101 in high school, and Tucker Carlson, the very same source of utter bullshit who is, legally, not to be believed. That’s not me saying that. That’s actually what a federal judge said, parroting Tucker’s lawyers in a slander case against him: The “ ‘general tenor’ of the show should then inform a viewer that [Carlson] is not ‘stating actual facts’ about the topics he discusses and

is instead engaging in ‘exaggeration’ and ‘non-literal commentary.’ ” But, please, Bro and Sis, keep chowing down on that fully vaccinated a-hole’s rancid B.S. omelets because we all know there’s no such thing as a right-wing echo chamber or virtual sphere where rightwingers talk mainly to other right-wingers and share the same conspiracies and probably ideas for cool swastika tattoos.

Did The Former Guy’s AOL website or whatever ever get off the ground? Asking for exactly *checks notes* two friends.

There’s one on the left, too, an echo chamber, but it doesn’t bother me as much.

We lefties aren’t hellbent on instituting a church-state where you could actually go to jail or worse for, say, masturbating — that’s what we Catholic school kids were taught back in the 1980s. Spank the sexy monkey, burn in fiery hell. Now if the forthcoming Fourth Reich will ban abortion, they will definitely send us males behind bars and beneath some 300-pound former defensive lineman nicknamed Tinky Winky for daring to choke the curvaceous chicken in our own homes. For anyone who also went to Catholic school back in the day, you know that landing in the big house or even going to hell was the least of our worries.

The more immediate ones were open palms attached to homicidal-minded nuns and wooden paddles about the size, shape, and density of boat oars, and Sr. John had no compunction about unleashing her Attitude Adjuster on us in front of the whole class. Ugh. Your face turning red.

Praying blood didn’t start rocketing from your stinging ass cheeks with every whack.

The lovely Nikki Birdsall giggling her feathered blonde head off at you. Christ.

No more of that, please.

Truly, though, with every day that passes, Texas, if not the rest of flyover country, is inching ever more closely toward Gilead. Led by makeup-less clown Gov. Greg Abbott, the Texas lege has spent the past few months passing vile, unpopular legislation, sometimes even in the middle

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the effect of, Great pic. If we only had $285 large to spare, one of these asphyxiating, depression-inducing row houses like the one we grew up in could be ours!

I also added that the home prices in Pittsburgh and other flyover cities are shooting up due to “New Yorkers and Angelenos looking for better quality of life while still making NY/LA money.”

There. That’s it. I said what I said based on quite a few stories I’d read and conversations I’d had with friends back home and in other flyover states. End scene.

My normally chill sister, who got good grades all through college and grad school — shame I need to preface what I’m about to say with that — has decided to go there, as the kids from 2009 say. “IMHO they are wisely leaving blue city policies/crime behind.”

I couldn’t help myself. “Haha. All major police departments have seen their budgets INCREASE!!! There’s no middle class in either city, has nothing to do with crime or ‘blue’ leadership.”

And I’m underlining my point with a link to the Hill story “ ‘Democrat-run cities’ fuel the economy, keep many red states afloat.”

Great idea, Penguins. Let’s pass the puck 50 times before shooting it. That always works great.

With no response making me feel guilty, I switch the conversation to Ted Lasso. I found the season finale pretty damn poignant. My bro and sis, not so much.

Finally, Bro writes off The Hill as more left-wing pabulum.

“Haha,” I text back. “You think nothing that’s not OAN or Fox skews left.

Turns out, they’re all pretty right wing.”

Come on, Letang. We’re the guys in black and gold. Try to remember that, eh?

Ding. It’s my phone again. Now we’re diving straight into Sadtown — as warped as they are, Bro and Sis are still wonderful, giving people who care about their communities and about our family.

However, as I’m now finding out, Bro and Sis believe the 2020 presidential election was stolen (but not the down-ballot elections because that would be crazy!),

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ust trying to watch some hockey on the tube, and now I’m in a flamewar with my family.

Somehow, the subject of politics has come up. Weird, right? That people would be discussing the end of the world during the actual end of the world? This is only important because I dig democracy, love it like a yogi loves The Bends, and because my older brother and sister are farther right of field than 8-year-old me in Little League. They’re the type of people who probably, definitely think pets who don’t go to church twice a week will rot in eternal hell. Sorry, Fluffy. All the other doggie butts smell like Drakkar Noir here.

Better luck next life. Normally, Bro and Sis — plus our no-nonsense 84-year-old mother — talk about harmless stuff. Good TV shows. Travel. Doctor’s visits. A little sports but only a little. Ma doesn’t really care for sports!!! and for good reason. Bro and I are diehards of the same teams and can get a little ragey about their lack of effort and leadership, and it is a lack of effort and leadership making them suck.

Don’t @ us. These are facts. Where’s our coach’s whistles?

The thread has taken a sharp downturn now that I’ve shared a pic of something I thought would be of interest.

Being the normal, fun-loving, share-y guy that I am, I sent them a screenshot of a beautiful aerial photograph of the Pittsburgh neighborhood just north of the one where my family lived decades ago. All the various colors in the clusterfuck of tiny row houses pop, and the hues of the fall foliage cast a bittersweet/nauseating spell.

Having escaped Pittsburgh decades earlier, “escaped” because there’s no work there unless you’re a doctor, lawyer, teacher, or Tom Savini, I had heard all the stories about the real estate in our hometown. Glorified shacks like the ones in the picture and like my family’s old domicile are going for astronomical prices. From a listing of about $54,000 as little as 20 years ago, 309 Taylor Street is now worth more than three times as much, and that’s including fire damage. I texted the panoramic image to Bro, Sis, and Ma, saying something to

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All of these new “laws” are absolutely dreadful, and they’re sure to be challenged in court if they aren’t already. The one that seems most fixable — to my sweet, innocent, pollyannish mind— is redistricting, and here’s why.

Years ago, Texas Republicans, to their credit, started gerrymandering voting

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of the night. What’s that? No, nothing to see here. Just showing up to work at 3:30 in the morning to do some exceedingly popular stuff. It’s so popular, this stuff we’re doing, in the middle of the night, that we just don’t want to be swarmed by fans. Signing all those boobies, kissing all those pasty babies — we all lived through Beatlemania once before. Some of us were even sixth-time grandfathers back then.

No need to re-live the madness here in Austin. You’re welcome!

Not only is a majority of this legislation unpopular, it’s incredibly dangerous. In a state where anyone, absolutely anyone who’s not an infant, can carry a firearm and where lawmakers are paying snitches $10,000 to rat on women seeking federally sanctioned health care, we are inching ever so closely to seeing Mad Max-ian teams of bounty hunters either too dumb or too lazy to hold down real jobs casing women’s health clinics to intimidate, interrogate, and apprehend prospective patients. Good grief, I’m too afraid to google that because it’s probably already happening. How is any of this making Texas safer? Why would big businesses ever want to open shop or relocate here? Bro and Sis are probably eyeing up McMansions in Southlake as we speak.

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districts to ensure GOP rule for years to come. Now that the results of the latest U.S. Census are in, Repubs — who have been in control since the 1990s courtesy of our old friend Mr. Gerry Mander — have been allowed to reshape voting districts again. “To the victors go the spoils,” as the kids from 1828 say. Even though blue-friendly people of color account for 95% of our 4 million new fellow Texans, whites/Republicans control 60% of all districts while making up about 40% of the total population while Hispanics, who account for about 39% of the total population, control only 18% of districts. Blacks sway exactly 0% of districts while comprising 12% of the population, and Asians, at 5% of the population, also are left with a big, fat nothing.

The maps ensure #whitepower just as longtime white/Republican districts are trending blue and as the white/Republican population is shrinking. In the new maps, seats favoring GOP incumbents have doubled, to 22, and competitive districts have shrunk from 12 to just one. Thanks to already gerrymandered districts, Republican congressional candidates control 65% of the U.S. House seats after receiving only 53% of the statewide vote in 2020. Gilead, here we come.

Locally, it’s more of the same. In South Fort Worth, Republican lawmakers chopped up a diverse Senate district into three districts, relegating some Black and Hispanic voters into a white/Republicandominated district that runs south and west, and Hispanic and Asian voters in a lot of North Texas suburbs will have less of a voice now that they’ve been drawn into expansive congressional districts that dip into rural, white districts to create a white/ Republican majority.

“The partisan effects of the maps are achieved by discriminating against communities of color,” said the progressive Brennan Center for Justice.

Coupled with Texas’ other voter suppression tactics — shitting on the Americans with Disabilities Act, encouraging partisan poll watchers, banning 24-hour drive-thru voting, and more — gerrymandering is sure to suppress the voices of voters of color for the next decade and beyond. You know you’ve run out of ideas when you need to physically prevent your opponents from voting. Name a Republican idea that’s neither culturally regressive nor CEOfriendly. Go ahead. I’ll wait. *long, long pause* *falls asleep*

Blackout, I’m thinking, Come on, Matthew McConaughey. If a failing TV gameshowhost/casino-owner/daughter-luster-afterer and successful rapist can rise to the highest office in the land, then certainly an Oscar winner 50 years younger-seeming with a $20 million smile can slide on into the Capitol in measly little Austin.

Amirite, amirite, amirite?!

And like Texas legislative maps of yore, our state’s new maps are already being challenged in court. Last week, the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund (MALDEF) filed a federal lawsuit claiming the maps are intentionally discriminatory against Latino voters, who historically lean left.

This is only the first of what’s sure to be a mess of litigation coming Austin’s way. As usual. The state has been sued multiple times, including by MALDEF, who continues fighting the good fight on behalf of reasonable people and people who understand plain ratios. Two million of our new neighbors are Hispanic, but you wouldn’t know that by looking at the new maps. The number of districts where Hispanics make up the majority of eligible voters has dropped in the House map from 33 to 30, and in the Congressional map, majority Hispanic districts have sunk from eight to seven. Visually, the look of some of these anti-majority districts is striking. Imagine a haphazardly gathered

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Republican-led legislatures in 18 states, including Texas, claim voter fraud is why they’re making it harder — especially for people of color in impoverished communities — to vote. The right still believes in voter fraud despite any evidence that could stand up in court. Wait a sec.

Big Bro blowing up my phone again.

“Mark Fuckerberg paid $500M to set up vote mailboxes in Democratic districts with no chains of custody (led to massive ballot box stuffing), and now Biden and the Democrats are arguing that minorities are too dumb to get voter ID cards,” Bro texts.

“I could go on for another 20 minutes.”

I want to text, “Where’s your proof?,” but the Pens are mounting a comeback.

Nice clear, Tanger. About time.

Big Sis ruins the mood. “Thousands of affiants didn’t have a collective dream.

They saw ballots scanned multiple times, photocopied ballots, empty lot ballots, underage ballots, dead ballots, laws changed unconstitutionally, Dominion machines connected to the internet changing votes from Trump to Biden. It’s obvious it was stolen in every way.”

“Obvious.” Right. WTF, Letang, you turnover machine!

In the state where I am taking in the Pens game, Attorney General Ken “I’ve Been Indicted for Felony Securities Fraud” Paxton spent 22,000 hours searching for evidence of voter fraud but only to turn up 16 cases of false addresses on registration forms out of nearly 17 million registered voters. Don’t listen to what my brother and siter and Paxton and Abbott and the rest of Texas’ Crypt Keepers are saying. The 2020 election, here and nationally, was on one of the safest in history. Texas’ secretary of state described ours as “smooth and secure,” and he’s a Republican.

The real reason Texas is making it harder to vote is that the 2020 election saw higher voter turnout than in any other election since 1992 — and minority voters accounted for most of that growth.

“For decades,” writes election attorney and Democrat attack dog Marc Elias, “the primary reason for spreading the myth of widespread voter fraud has been to justify the enactment of voter suppression laws.

In state after state, Republicans rely on the fear of election fraud to support new laws that make voting more difficult. These laws, which predictably disproportionately

impact minority voters, achieve Republican partisan electoral goals. As one federal court put it, these laws ‘target African-Americans with almost surgical precision.’ ” That’s how we get donut-shaped districts and districts that look like Picassos: surgical precision.

Now that Abbott has signed the new maps into law, essentially guaranteeing GOP majorities in the House, Senate, and the board of education forever, the only political territory with a sliver of opportunity for Dems is the executive branch, and as much as I love Beto, a.k.a.

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And to Republican lawmakers’ claims that they drew these maps “race-blind,” what could possibly explain the double donut-shaped district they created in Killeen, totally disenfranchising the growing Black and Hispanic populations there? They drew a fucking donut!

GOPers went out of their way to cut a hole in the middle of a district to favor white/ Republican voters — how in the everliving hell is that “race-blind”?

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That’s what the average gerrymandered voting district in Texas looks like: a geometric mess, basically. A Picasso.

In a statement, Nina Perales, vice president of litigation for MALDEF, said, “Despite having only recently been found liable by a federal court for intentional racial discrimination in redistricting, Texas has once again adopted plans that dilute Latino voting strength. The new redistricting plans are an unlawful attempt to thwart the changing Texas electorate and should be struck down.”

End Citizens United (ECU) and the Let America Vote Action Fund are also pissed.

“Texas Republicans passed one of the most egregiously gerrymandered congressional maps so far,” ECU recently said in a statement. “The map reduces the number of minority-majority districts, despite the fact that 95% of the population growth in Texas last decade was from communities of color. Texas’ map dilutes the power of the voice and vote of communities of color in a cynical attempt by Texas politicians to choose the voters they want to represent, preventing Texas voters from having the fair and equal representation that they deserve.”

Texas’ population growth accounted for two additional U.S. House seats (the most of any state), and both districts will be controlled by white/Republican voters, based on the new maps. In the lawsuit, MADLEF asks the state to hold elections until the matter is settled, even if the delay extends into 2022, when the Democrats will lose badly. Here and across the country. Do nothing, get nothing. Sorry, but thems the rules, Chuck and Nancy.

The worst part, and there’s always a worst part, is that the mandate the Democrats were given nationally doesn’t mean a thing.

Like memorizing “The Apostle’s Creed.”

Nothing. Or like wearing a uniform to grade school every day just to get your ass whacked by a 220-pound nun with catcher’s mitts for hands. Or like Nikki Birdsall’s curiously inoperable and always changing phone numbers scribbled on Bazooka Joe wrappers blindly tossed at you. Not one thing. Joe Biden, Chuck Schumer, Nancy Pelosi, and the rest of the useless specters on the left will have squandered what will amount to their last federal mandate for the next 30 years or more. For as evil as congressional Republicans are, I’ll say this for them: They are united. And organized. It must be the fear of going to hell or prison and seeing each other there with their pants down that keeps them on point.

The Dems have tried, bless their dusty souls. Online, automatic, and Election Day registration, no-excuse mail voting, two weeks early voting, paper ballots, ban on partisan gerrymandering, Election Day holiday, prohibition on election subversion, small donor matching, and limits on dark money were all part of the Freedom to Vote

Act, “were” because it was just killed by the filibuster. All that a hopeful body can do now is hope Biden does something to urge the Senate to reform the ancient filibuster and pass the act and the John R. Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act with a simple majority vote. Otherwise, democracy is done.

The filibuster of the Freedom to Vote Act was interesting. The filibustering Rs, like a dramatic teenager after an awkward date, did not even want to talk about it. All it took was 41 of them to vote “no” to spike the discussion, 41 tiny voices.

“If you take the states that those 41 senators represent, add up all the population together, you get 24% of the American people,” said Sen. Angus King, “so the situation we’re in now is that 24% of the American people have an effective veto.”

Voting rights legislation is supported by more than 70% of us, we, the people.

“As GOP-led state legislatures like Texas continue to move quickly to draw unfair districts,” the ECU says, “it is urgent that the U.S. Senate passes the Freedom to Vote Act. This legislation is a critical anti-corruption and voting rights bill that would end partisan gerrymandering, ensuring that voters get to choose their representatives, not the other way around.”

Chances of anything good coming out of this are nil, but I wouldn’t be a cardcarrying pinko-commie bastard if I didn’t believe in miracles. If you’re out there, Nikki, let me know you’re still alive and that all the pain Sr. John inflicted on me in public is what really turned you off, instead of just my acne and bad breath.

Whelp. There goes my phone again. *sigh* To a link I’d sent earlier about TFG’s repeated failed attempts to overturn the election through the courts, Big Sis is following up on one of her earlier texts asking me not to insult her and our older brother — sorry, but maybe the terms “crazy” and “tinfoil hats” came from my thumbs — to say, “No cases were heard on the evidence. Those cases you speak of were filed by private citizens.”

I apologize, truly, for insulting my brother and sister and send a link from the conservative never-Trumper blog The Bulwark entitled “Killing the Kraken: Federal Judge Sanctions Trump’s Big Lie Lawyers,” which — along with a text from Ma begging us to stop — puts the issue to bed. For now. I’m headed to Pittsburgh next month for Bro’s birthday. I’ll be spending some time at Sis’ house. The last time politics came up when we were together, there was some shouting and lots of gesticulating. This time, there will be silence. The game is already over.

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We had a date. I know. I know. When I told you to meet me back here for info on Halloween proper, I didn’t realize how much was going on for Dia de Los Muertos. If you’re looking for places to go on Sunday, Oct 31, check out our Night & Day section a few pages back. If you are more interested in the Day of the Dead, keep reading.

The North Fort Worth Historical Society’s 15th AnnuAl

Saints and Sinners Tour

Artes de la Rosa Cultural Center for the Arts at the Rose Marine Theater (1440 N Main St, 817-624-8333) has two days of events scheduled. The celebration kicks off 6pm-9:30pm Fri with an art exhibit, live performances, and a screening of Coco. Then Dia de Los Muertos en Fort Worth starts 10am Sat with a parade down North Main Street leading to a festival from noon to 4pm at Marine Park (303 NW 20th St, 817-392-5700). For more info, visit ArtesdeLaRosa.org.

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To continue the adult fun Saturday, head to Thompson’s Bookstore (900 Houston St, 817-882-8003) for the Night of the Dead Party from 7pm to 2am. This speakeasy-styled event will feature face painting, various performers, tarot card readings, and themed cocktails. Tickets are $15-40 at Universe.com.

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October 30 & 31, 2021 Oakwood Cemetery 701 Grand Avenue Walking Tours: 1:00 pm and 3:30 pm on Saturday and Sunday afternoons.

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After the parade, you might also want to check out the Dia de Los Muertos Celebration: Celebration of Life at the Fort Worth Botanic Garden (3220 Botanic Garden Blvd, 817-463-4160) from 3pm to

9pm. All day, you can view the ofrendas altar and leave a photo of someone you lost.

During the Childrens’ Afternoon (3pm5:30pm), there will be crafts, games, and photo ops with seasonal backdrops, plus food items, paletas, and pumpkins for sale in front of Rock Springs Cafe (3220 Rock Springs Rd, 817-366-1100). From 5:30pm to 9pm, it’s Adult Evening time at the Botanic Garden, featuring live music by the TCU Mariachi Band, Folklorico dance performances, and drink tastings, plus there will be a cash bar and food available for purchase from Rock Springs Cafe. The daytime festivities are free to attend. Admission is $10-15 after 5:30pm.

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Costumes are encouraged at each.

1.) From 11am to 2pm, head to the Black Bazaar at Cravens Park (400 Cravens Park Dr, Arlington, 469-4311911). This free fall festival features art installations, candy, food, games, and vendors. For more information, visit Facebook.com/BlackBazaar.SB.

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At 8pm, you can do the Time Warp again at a screening of the cult Friday classic Rocky Horror Picture Show at the Lewisville Grand Theater (100 N Charles St, 972-219-8446).

As the film is rated R, ticket holders under 17 must be accompanied by a parent or adult guardian who is 21 or older.

Tickets are $10. Prop kits are available for purchase for $10. Tickets and prop kits are available at LewisvilleGrand.com/Tix.

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From 11am to 12:30pm or from 6:30pm to 9pm, attend Make & Take: Monday Decorate Sugar Skulls for Day of the Dead at Central Market (4651 W Fwy, 817-989-4700), a class where you’ll learn how to make sugar skulls using royal icing. Mexican hot chocolate and churros will be served. You will take home three different sizes of sugar skulls that you decorated yourself at the end of the class. This event is for ages 13 and up. (Children 16 and younger must be accompanied by an adult.) Tickets are $50 per person on Eventbrite.com.

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If you are interested in celebrating Dia de Los Muertos in the traditional sense, check out our Big

Ticket column this week (see: pg. 14).

For those who want to honor the holiday sans the religious aspects, Secular Dia de Los Muertos may be for you. This zoom event starts at 5:45pm and will include many Hispanic traditions and rituals that have been redesigned to celebrate the lives of those who have passed, their legacies, and their cultural heritage. For Zoom instructions, visit the events page at Facebook.com/AmericanAtheists.

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Today and Thu, Nov 4, at 7:30pm; Fri, Nov 5, and Wednesday Sat, Nov 6, at 8pm; or Sun, Nov 7, at 2pm, see Smokey Joe’s Cafe, featuring the music of Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller — the writers of hits like “Jailhouse Rock” and “Stand by Me” — at Casa Manana (3101 W Lancaster Av, 817-332-2272). “In an idealized ’50s setting, classic themes of love won, lost, and imagined blend with hilarious set pieces and slice-oflife emotions, sending the audience on a trip down Nostalgia Lane.” The show is suitable for most audiences. Tickets start at $29 at CasaManana.org.

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4.) Are you feeling murderous? The Post at River East (2925 Race St, 817-9458890) is the place to be. From 8pm to 11pm, enjoy an evening of songs about murder and other creepy stuff at Murder Songs at The Post featuring Jacob Furr, Jerry Reynolds, Jerry Abrams, and more.

All ages are welcome. Seating is firstcome, first-served. Tickets are $8 on Eventbrite.com.

5.) In partnership with the Outre Dance Project — a troupe in which the musicians perform live onstage with the dancers — The Texas Theatre (231 W Jefferson Blvd, Dallas, 214-948-1546) is hosting a screening of Beetlejuice with a live ballet pre-show. The ballet performance is at 8pm, and then the movie starts at 8:30pm. Tickets are $17 at Prekindle.com.

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At 7:30pm, see a screening of Tim Burton’s 1988 dark comedy Beetlejuice on Thursday the lawn of the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth (3200 Darnell St, 817-840-2170). While optional, costumes that are family-friendly and non-obstructive — and with no props that could be mistaken for weapons — are encouraged. A cash bar will be available, and Cafe Modern will be selling noshes, including apple cider beignets, mulled hot cider, house-made pan de muerto with cheese and sausage, and pretzels with local IPA beer cheese. Admission is $15 for non-members or free for members.

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3.) At 7pm, head to the Here Come the Mummies Halloween Party at Lava Cantina (5805 Grandscape Blvd, The Colony, 214-618-6893). Tickets are $15-100, and, honestly, I can’t describe this event any better than its promoter already did. “Cursed after deflowering a great pharaoh’s daughter, HCTM has been delivering their brand of terrifying funk from beyond the grave since the year 2000 A.D. While HCTM’s lyrics leave little to the imagination, their wraps have been the topic of much speculation.

Some say they are reincarnated Grammy-winning studio musicians.

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2.) From noon to 2pm, the Fort Worth Museum of Science and History (1600 Gendy St, 817-255-9300) hosts its annual Ick or Treat event. Explore the museum and complete a scavenger hunt to win some awesome treats and have wicked fun with Halloweenthemed crafts and activities. (Note: Costume masks may not cover the eyes.)

Participation is included with museum admission of $12-16 at the doors.

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My first impression of 1851 Club was that it was clean, unpretentious, and welcoming. The staff certainly appeared polite and attentive. During my first trip to the bar, the bartender noticed that I was a new face and welcomed me.

The spacious club has several pool tables, a longish bar in the back with a bright, backlit rainbow, and a central dance floor that is surrounded by a dozen lounge tables. By the drag show’s start time, the club was packed.

I ordered the Ms. Sherry (vodka, orange juice, lemonade), which tasted like a boozy lemonade that wasn’t overly syrupy. The Beehive (Tennessee Honey, 7UP, lemonade) was honey-forward and reminded me of the Bit-O-Honey candies I used to enjoy as a kid. The 1851 (Tennessee Apple, ginger ale, cranberry juice) tasted a bit like an apple Jolly Rancher and left

lingering fruit notes while the Fancy Nancy (Korbel, Chambord, cranberry juice) was a fizzy cranberry delight. Each of the drinks was smooth and had a clean profile. Beyond cocktails, the bar offers wine, beer, and liquor. Jell-O shots were $2 that night.

After a fog machine filled the dance floor and an intricate laser light show transformed the space into an otherworldly experience, the evening’s MC, Kiana Lee, stepped out on the central floor, which had a Halloween-themed backdrop that featured ghostly portraits. Decked in a green sequin dress, Lee made the rounds and sized up the night’s audience.

“Any newbies?” she asked the excited crowd before pointing to someone raising his hand. “You’re not new. Shut up.”

“Hi, Tits,” Lee told one laughing woman who wasn’t surprised by the nickname.

The night’s first performer, Kolby Jack Davenport, took the stage wrapped in a poofy black scarf while lip-synching Lady Gaga’s “Paparazzi.” After dropping her outerwear to reveal a skimpy black leather number, she picked up the tempo and strutted her stuff before an enraptured audience. Salem Moon was a crowd favorite.

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bra, and black hot pants, Moon swirled, gyrated, and danced until the floor was covered in dollar bills. With her long, red dress, Rochelle Roulette had a slow and sultry swagger that the crowd also loved.

The performers took time to engage with the audience. Salem Moon’s parents, who were visiting from out of state, were invited to the stage where they received sustained applause. From the well-crafted drinks to the entertaining and hilarious performances, my first visit to 1851 Club was a thoroughly enjoyable experience.

A few days after my visit, I called club owner Dalton Haynes to learn about Arlington’s lone gay bar. The owner said he bought 1851 Club in January, two days after the previous owners had closed it down.

After years of frequenting the business, Haynes said he couldn’t let it close for good.

“It has been really a home for a lot of people, including myself at times,” he said. “I had a lot of memories of my grandmother. My grandmother and I played poker there every Monday. I lost her last December. We were very close. It was almost in memory to her that I decided to keep this place because there were so many memories that I had with her.”

Haynes accepts the descriptor of “gay bar,” but 1851 Club is really a place for anyone, regardless of their gender identity, race, or religious beliefs, he said.

Shortly after taking over ownership of the business, Haynes said past patrons volunteered to help repaint and upgrade much of the interior. Haynes said he invested in high-quality laser lights and lighting to give the performers the experience they and audience members deserve. Arlington police department, he added, has been supportive and quick to respond to the rare emergency call. The club’s location in Arlington makes 1851 Club a convenient destination for pretty much anyone in North Texas, Haynes said.

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The Fancy Nancy was a fizzy delight.

Kolby Jack Davenport opened with a lively cover of Lady Gaga’s “Paparazzi.”

Although the locations have moved, Haynes has been able to trace the bar’s history back 60 years. During those early years, the bar and club would have been a refuge for the area’s gay community during a time when homosexuality was outlawed. Haynes said his establishment has a mission of providing a safe space for people from all walks of life to enjoy a good conversation, a cold drink, and a fun show. Keeping the historic bar open has been a deeply personal effort.

His grandmother’s death, he said, was “a really devastating time for me and my family. I wanted to save the bar to save those memories of her. In doing that, I feel like the bar also saved me.” l 1851 Club The 1851 ...................................................... $9 Beehive ......................................................... $9 Fancy Nancy .................................................. $8 Ms. Sherry ..................................................... $8

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MUSIC Sur Duda

On the forthcoming Total Distortion, the indie pop outfit led by former War Party frontman Cameron Smith paints a picture of an artist maturing both as a songwriter and as an individual.

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There’s something that happens in that window defined by the turn from your late 20s into your early 30s. It’s a seemingly profound milestone that carries a selfimportant grandeur that it perhaps doesn’t really warrant. Nonetheless, whether you’re paying attention or not, that’s when real adulthood supposedly begins.

With any luck, you’ve experienced some maturation, developed a broader sense of self-actualization, and witnessed an

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almost surprising shifting of priorities.

All the things your parents warned you of and hoped for you. For singer-songwriter Cameron Smith, the crossing of that threshold has certainly seemed to bring with it a certain clarity.

“For me, I can really feel it,” he said.

“I can feel how my mind changes — what it is I want. I can tell what’s working for what actually I want out of my life and the difference [between that and] that kind of groove you get in when you’re still sort of fucking around, when you’re young and still trying to hang out with friends and get rowdy. I’m in my 30s now. I’m tired and don’t like scheduling things,” he joked.

This realization makes up the theme on the appropriately titled “What I Want,” the latest single by Sur Duda, the vehicle Smith uses for his full band-oriented songwriting. Debuting last Friday, the tender, self-reflective ballad represents the fifth track released from Sur Duda’s forthcoming sophomore full-length, Total Distortion.

Due out Nov. 19, the 15-song collection seems to inadvertently expand on the theme of growth and maturity addressed on “What I Want.” Work on the record actually began as long ago as 2018.

As such, the songwriting straddles that critical threshold into “real” adulthood

Smith: “If all we did was play the songs from these two albums for the next few years, it would still be really fun.”

album will be,” he said, “but I really don’t have anything planned, and I have no idea what another album would even be like if I did. If all we did was play the songs from these two albums for the next few years, it would still be really fun.”

Smith is currently working on another proper solo record. A single, “There Is a Place,” was released earlier this year and points to his songwriting’s continuing evolution.

About his music, Smith is poignant with his motives. “It’s just like here’s this thing, and I’ve put a lot of care into it, and I’m going to leave it here for whoever might find it, and hopefully it does something for them. I remember so many times in my life when music was there for me when nothing else was, and there’s something about trying to carry on that tradition.” l

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songwriter. Ironically, some of Distortion’s songs in this vein are so old they actually predate Smith’s time in War Party.

Hooked on Dylan at an early age, trying work like that was among Smith’s first efforts at songwriting. Frustration with his guitar playing and a broken wrist from skateboarding would give way to Smith abandoning the instrument and fronting a hardcore band for a number of years, but as he began to relearn to play during the War Party years, and with his rapid development since, he said he now has the confidence to reattempt some of those initial efforts and give them the attention they deserve.

With an album nearly four years in the making just over the horizon, Smith says he’s unsure of what’s next for Sur Duda.

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“No Sleep,” pulsing synths give way to guitarist Peter Marsh’s hooky single-note runs, a few elements that are essential to the group’s collective aesthetic. Though Sur Duda was originally a de facto solo project begun during the last few years of Smith’s tenure with the now-defunct garage-punk band War Party, Smith is quick to give his band members credit for their personal touches and individual contributions to how the project’s music sounds.

“For a little while I was like, ‘Oh, Sur Duda is kind of this solo thing of mine because I’m like this dictator of it,’ ” he said, “but then it occurred to me, especially on these sessions, if it wasn’t for this group of people, it wouldn’t sound this way.”

Some of the other tracks, like the folkier “Nurikabe” and “Nobody Knows,” hint at Smith’s ongoing development into a more “traditional” acoustic-style singer-

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mentioned above. Smith, now 33, is in a much different place as a songwriter than when many of Distortion’s songs were initially written. Over the last couple of years, he’s trended more toward Dylanand Cohen-esque solo acoustic fare. In fact, Smith’s 2019 album, A Good Way to Say Goodbye, is a sort of companion piece to Total Distortion. The stripped-down eight-song work was recorded in a single day during the sessions for Distortion as a way for Smith to exorcise some of his built-up drive to do that kind of work.

“I think you’re just at where you’re at when you need to be there,” Smith said about the evolution of songwriting.

Some of the material on Distortion sounds like it could have been included on Sur Duda’s 2017 debut, Paper Knife. The bouncy love song “Sashimi” and the album opener “No Sleep” are two such tracks. On

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The first time I heard 2006’s The Trials of Van Occupanther, I was blown away. Here was this band, Midlake, from Denton, doing this honey-brown soft-rock thing to perfection even before I knew I needed more Fleetwood Mac and Alan Parsons Project in my miserable life. I only wish I never would have read the lyrics. The cognitive disconnect between the story — about some sad pioneer-type dude in the woods — and the modern instrumentation ruined the aesthetic experience for me. Now, I hated the preponderance of love songs and “you” songs in rock as much as the next grumpy jerk, but after being somewhat let down by Van Occupanther, I’m not as averse to them as I was.

Turns out there’s a good reason why most songs are about love or “you.” #simplenotsimplistic The sonically beautiful and lyrically draining album did have me wanting more.

They did not disappoint.

Midlake’s next two LPs, especially 2013’s Antiphon, are stellar: highly melodic, seriously groovy, deliciously produced. And the lyrics are decidedly much less Leviathan-centric.

No doubt the Denton quintet will play a little bit from all four of their studio albums — and maybe some from their in-process fifth — 7pm Thu at Tulips FTW (112 St. Louis Av, 817367-9798). Tickets at Prekindle.

what I recall, they were kind of doing that shiny, sparkly dance-pop while wearing Native American headdresses or something? (Lots of people were wearing them back then. Guess it all started at Coachella. Fashion models truly can pull off anything!) Now down to one, um, chief songwriter instead of two, the band takes over Terror! At Texas Live! (1650 E Randol Mill Rd, Arlington, 817-8526688) 6pm Sat with headliners Ghostland Observatory and a DJ set by Dallas’ Neon Indian. Ishi will be performing a lot of if not all of Sweet Gold, his latest album that features contributions from Medicine Man Revival, Nia Brock, Fort Worth homeboy Keite Young, and Cure for Paranoia. Unlike a lot of “local” shows, Ishi goes all out on the spectacle with lots of lights and imagery to accompany the catchy, feel-good sounds.

Tickets are $49-55.

Keegan McInroe at Lola’s Friday

Truly a local treasure, international bon vivant and famous raconteur Keegan McInroe celebrates the release of the single “Never Seen a Ghost” and accompanying video 9pm Fri at Lola’s Saloon (2736 W 6th St, 817-759-9100). Ginny Mac, Jackie Darlene, and Jon Young will open. Cover is $10.

Mean Motor Scooter Saturday at MASS

Kyoto Lo-Fi, Wrex, and Ayden Trammell will open for easily the hardest-working band in the Fort, Mean Motor Scooter, 7pm Sat at MASS (1002 S Main St, 682-707-7774).

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