It's Thursday, November 20th, 2025.

From Peachfish Productions, it's the gist.

I'm Mike Peska.

The theme at the top of yesterday's show was that cruelty might not be the point.

Incompetence might be the modus operandi.

To make a fine point on this point, lack of attention to detail is the

mode. It might also be the median and the mean of this very mean, cruel government. I direct you to

the recent ruling by a federal court that Texas's redistricting plan is unconstitutional.

I do not know how this will all end.

I do know the first court to look at the preliminary redistricting plan said, nope, it violates the law, especially the components of the law that guarded against racist, racial, specific redistricting.

Some context is a two one decision.

It might be eventually decided on by the Supreme Court.

The justice that gets the first crack at it, because it's his job to overlook Texas, is

Samuel Alito.

This all does not bode well or does not bode permanent, let us say, for this ruling. But it is a

2-1 ruling. And right now, Texas, all of their redistricting, which prompted California to

redistrict. That's all up in the air, if not, as of this moment, not allowed. But I looked at

Jeffrey V. Brown, a Trump appointee, who was part of the two, of the

two one. I looked at his decision. And he wrote, he focused on a letter that the federal government

sent to Governor Abbott. And he said that this letter from Hermit Dillon was so bad, offered such poor guidance

that it was his explanation for not just his ruling, but why Texas went down the path they did.

He said that the letter contained so many factual, legal, and typographical errors that it was challenging to unpack

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