Americans, please explain. Texas still has a Republican senator, right? So it's only half blue?

The other weakness of the US presidential system is that when the executive and legislature are diametrically opposed (the system wasn't envisioned with parties in mind), they both still have to be able to get stuff done, so the power of the executive is expanded way beyond what's acceptable in e.g. the Westminster (parliamentary) system, and the legislature, which is technically the supreme branch (representing the will of the people directly) has to take drastic measures to overturn executive decisions.

In the Westminster system, the executive necessarily maintains the confidence of the parliament, so it can always get stuff passed through parliament while the opposition in parliament also acts as a formal mechanism to critique it. If party discipline is enforced, though, the parliament can't actually do all that much to control the executive and ends up acting as a rubber stamp (with the opposition possibly loud but impotent).

It also really depends on the local culture: if "backbench" (to use the UK terminology) government MPs aren't afraid to stand up for their values, criticize their party in government and shoot down various laws, parliament really does act independently. On the other hand, if MPs are loyal to their party above all else, there are effectively only two branches of government: the legislature-executive and the judiciary, which necessitates either a powerful (activist) judiciary or a very limiting constitution to maintain balance.

What system does your country use?

"Conservative judges" and "liberal judges" should not exist. Judges shouldn't be aligned with any political party, they should be legal professionals.
Separation of Powers is a great ideal but, unfortunately, the US got it positively wrong letting the president appoint judges. A bit too late to change now, though. (Tangentially, the US actually has very good separation between the executive and legislative branches, which nevertheless isn't useful when they're both controlled by the same personality cult.)

Official subsequently infected with (possibly sexually transmitted) skin disease

Florida man offers his daughters to angry mob to protect his buddy

[…] daughters intoxicate, rape him in ensuing chaos

Florida man genuinely did nothing wrong but the world seems to detest him; friends convinced that it's his own fault

Wikipedia has from the Ming era (much later).

It’s really terrible in Arabic where you have feminine and masculine “you”.

Apparently some Arabic-speaking enbys use the dual form أنتما but as most dialects have lost dual inflections, that's not really practical in day-to-day speech.

Or anyone with a name too palindromic

Whenever I see something like this, I hope it's the good old object-detection or numerical regression kind of AI, rather than LLMs. One can only hope, though.

Brendan Eich, a homophobe and Trump supporter

Even worse, the creator of JavaScript
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Oh really? Why did they switch?