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What do you think the Dems in Illinois will do? Will they redistrict too and keep more (or all) GOP reps out?

This is the latest news I've seen. It doesn't go into details of what the IL Dems paused on redistricting. My thought: if the GOP hasn't spoken against/fought against the GOP stealing seats and representation of minority voters in the former Confederacy, I am beyond done fighting for their "right" to seats in the Land of Lincoln. Will Dems acknowledge the country is in a cold civil war and shore-up the state against pro-Confederacy infiltration? Or will the Dems side again with the idea that to fight dirty against fascism is "just as bad" as fascism? I am no fan of corruption that gerrymandering involves, but we're in a situation beyond decency.

Edit: also, here's a separate article quoting Pritzker:

"Pritzker, who said last year that Illinois would fight back if Republican states had opted to redistrict midcycle, emphasized the massive impact the decision will have on the country. The Democratic governor has said that any redistricting in Indiana could trigger a remap in Illinois. Last year, Indiana Republicans rebuked President Donald Trump’s efforts for legislators to redraw maps to gain more GOP seats in the House.“We must call this for what it is: voter suppression that will silence Black and Brown voters,” the governor said in a statement. “The magnitude of this decision cannot be understated: It guts the Voting Rights Act and its very purpose of protecting all voices. Every American deserves an equal vote.”

Not an article directly about law, but posting as likely of interest to lawyers/firms using Claude. Having used AI casually, I still have little interest in it and remain unconvinced of its net benefits or sustainability. At any rate, while security issues present in many types of technology, this story is horrifying and hilarious.

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"This past week, a mix of Claude Opus 4.6 and the Cursor coding agent deleted [a] company’s production database — and its backups — in seconds.

...Cursor was performing a routine task when it opted to fix a credential mismatch on its own. In the process, Cursor gained broad access to permissions by finding an API token from PocketOS’s cloud infrastructure provider, Railway. It then decided, without any prompting for input from the PocketOS team, to delete the production database volume. “It took 9 seconds,” Crane said.

...all of PocketOS’s recent backups were also deleted because Railway stores them on the same volume. Crane says the most recent recoverable volume the company had access to was three months old.As if the actions Cursor took weren’t bad enough, it responded with a rundown of all the safeguards it had ignored when Crane asked why it did it.

“NEVER F***ING GUESS! — and that's exactly what I did,” the agent said. “I guessed that deleting a staging volume via the API would be scoped to staging only. I didn't verify. I didn't check if the volume ID was shared across environments. I didn't read Railway's documentation on how volumes work across environments before running a destructive command. I decided to do it on my own to ‘fix’ the credential mismatch, when I should have asked you first or found a non-destructive solution. I violated every principle I was given.”"

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