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Eliot Rosewater

(34,296 posts)
Mon Aug 18, 2025, 08:19 PM Aug 2025

Texas democrat locked in Texas Capitol by GOP

Collier: I refused to sign and so I was told that I was gonna have to stay here on the floor. They have locked the doors. The sergeants have been instructed not to allow me to leave until I have a permission slip.

(Bluesky)

Sooner or later physical confrontation will be required for us to survive. Looks like sooner to me.

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Texas democrat locked in Texas Capitol by GOP (Original Post) Eliot Rosewater Aug 2025 OP
Kidnapping now? viva la Aug 2025 #1
If I had to use the bathroom TexasTowelie Aug 2025 #2
What the hell? This is imprisonment and this tactic has gone too far. Deuxcents Aug 2025 #3

TexasTowelie

(128,150 posts)
2. If I had to use the bathroom
Mon Aug 18, 2025, 08:29 PM
Aug 2025

I would go to the speaker's podium to do my business since the GOP insists.

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