Donald Trump and Republicans in Congress gave $30 billion to ICE. You know what also would have cost $30 billion? Extending those tax credits to help people afford health care this year. We should repeal Trump’s money for ICE and lower costs instead.

I don't envy the person who has to mop Andy Ogles's office.

Strong feeling that Fallout season 2 is going to end just as it's really getting great. This is the problem with 8 episode seasons....

Curt Cignetti is never going to pay for a beer in the State of Indiana for the rest of his life. 🍻

MLK Jr. said America suffers not just from "the vitriolic words and actions of the bad people but for the appalling silence of the good people." Remember this.

I can't tell if this Texans-Patriots game is a good game or the worst game I've ever seen

“stroud takes the snap…”

WHY CAN THESE HIGHLY PAID PROFESSIONALS NOT HOLD ON TO A FOOTBALL?! This is why Houston can't have nice things.

Google AI is fair and balanced.

We don't need Greenland. We need healthcare. We need living wages. We need democracy. We need equality and a real justice system. We need freedom from Russian influence. We need a president who isn't a felon rapist determined to watch his opponents burn.

If you're looking for a sign to switch careers: this is the sign.

They believe the law doesn’t apply to them and that accountability will never come. Whether they’re right won’t be decided by the Constitution or the courts. It will be decided by the resolve and action of the American people over the next twelve months.

Tennessee hasn't levied a state property tax since the 1940s (we pay local tax). Talking about banning a state property tax is like your grandmother announcing at the church picnic that she's swearing off smoking crack. At best, it's unnecessary; at worst, it's time to start asking hard questions.

It's proper for citizens to be very disturbed and disheartened when the secret police is abducting people off the street and the president is threatening to shut down elections

This is some Hans Landa shit.

Episode 5 finally pays off a lot of anticipated scenes, but also advances the plot a bit as well. We're pretty much where we expected to be, now comes the half of the season where we don't really know what's going to happen. #Fallout

Man I am getting a completely different takeaway from this chart than everyone else. This is a sign that electoral politics isn’t really about policy or messaging, it’s about large groups of people reacting to events. People don’t hear arguments, they see things happening and change their stances.

If you need a sign that God works through the Daily Office… read the appointed Psalms for this evening… there is hope in the Lord. Psalm 10 & 11

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Wait, we did what? @pbseons.bsky.social

Can we maybe stop appointing his judges and funding his government now

As someone who went to an Episcopalian high school, I can’t express how crazy you have to act to get them to start with this sort of rhetoric

Stephen Colbert on the ICE murder of Renee Nicole Good: “The message from this administration is clear. Only they determine the truth. And when their forces come to your city: obey or die. And if you die, you clearly didn’t obey. This should be an alarm bell for the entire country.”

baby beluga pod rise up

Awesome

CNN Business seems utterly perplexed by Trump's personalist, authoritarian way of doing business. It's not "left" or "right", it's "me me me."

The problem here is that impeachment is kind of a quasi-judicial function of Congress. A lot of Democrats who run for office - particularly those who have been lawyer-brained - are going to feel like it's wrong to make political promises around something that is kinda supposed to be about justice.

It was only a matter of time. You can't just put a bunch of armed dudes on the streets and expect everything to be hunky-dory.

This week's episode of Fallout has a wholesome message about drug addiction. 🫠

My congressman is objectively pro-predator.

War. War never changes.

It's an old and obvious pattern. An unpopular president - failing on the economy and losing his grip on power at home - decides to launch a war for regime change abroad. The American people don’t want to “run” a foreign country while our leaders fail to improve life in this one.

1. Maduro was an oppressive usurper. - but also - 2. Kidnapping the leader of a sovereign country, and then bragging about taking their oil, without congressional approval, is bad.

I don't care if this is a weak flex. It's my flex and I will flex it all I want. Also literally the whole SEC should be thanking us. Should Texas be ranked #1 next year? LOL of course not, but maybe in the top #10. Eat your cheez-its, Happy New Year, Hook'em Horns.

Fallout, Season 2, ep. 3 ("The Profligate") started off a bit slow, and frankly I had low expectations (it felt like it was just going to be a bunch of cameos). But it came together strong at the end. It still seems like a sidequest episode, but one that may make the main story better. Hot dog.

[watching a pro athlete drop a pass] me: *eating spaghettios for dinner* “what a loser”

Fun fact -- Fort Hood, Texas had a K-Mart up until like 2017. I sort of think of that as the consolation prize that John Bell Hood got for losing the Nashville-Franklin campaign.

That's the secret Cap. I'm always befuddled.

Do I think impeaching Trump should be the most prominent thing Dems run on in 2026? No. I think people are hurting, and we need to address that. But Trump's also the cause of much of that hurt; we need accountability. "Impeach under no circumstances" is the strangest/worst take imaginable.

Happy Pop-Tarts Bowl Day to all who celebrate

Fallout season 2 subplots by how interesting I think they are (after two episodes): 1. Norm and Bud's Buds 2. Cooper / Barb / The Ghoul / House (pre-war)* 3. Hank 4. Maximus 5. Lucy * Presumably there is now also a separate Ghoul subplot after the hospital incident. Trying to avoid spoilers.

Forest and trees re Epstein documents, as of now. Trees: Controversies about particular documents. Forest: Virtually none of the key documents, ones that we know exist, the ones the victims and knowledgeable observers have been demanding to see, have been released. And so the coverup continues.

The Trump-class land yachts will be the most lethal vehicles on the highway, as well as the best looking #goldenfleet

I'm learning new words.

Weissand Effect

Very cool that 60 Minutes -- that boring news show (with the crazy old guy ranting about stuff) your parents watched before football -- is now samizdat.

BREAKING: WATCH the full 60 Minutes CECOT segment here. This was sent to me anonymously. It appears to be the segment CBS' Bari Weiss killed. www.muellershewrote.com/p/watch-the-...

My parents sent me a French coffee press for Christmas; this is my first one. I am kind of obsessed now. If you don't see me for a few weeks I'm probably bouncing around the walls because I had 10 cups of extremely flavorful, delicious coffee.