Not only is this incredibly offensive, it’s also illogical—Talarico is currently a STATE legislator representing ~210,000 people while Crockett is a member of the U.S. CONGRESS representing ~800,000 people.

Fascinating reddit post on how local Republican feifdoms in rural Texas are fed by taking money from schools in cities like Austin, which are closing campuses and laying off staff even though we pay insanely high taxes. Texas is so corrupt, and this directly affects my own children.

See the chart within on Outbound Shipments. Reminds me of covid. Things don't just snap back to normal when the crisis is declared to be over. www.cnn.com/world/strait...

Your regular reminder that Ayn Rand, who was a stupid person with hateful and selfish ideas, died on public assistance that a government social worker helped her sign up for. In the real world, when Atlas shrugs, innocent people die.

Once upon a time, while studying disinfo about the civil war in Syria, I posted my thoughts on Gabbard as a down-the-rabbit-hole serial repeater of Russian-Iranian-Syrian propaganda. Then Jack Dorsey jumped into my DMs telling me I had it all wrong. Strange times. And yet still not as weird as this.

Making A Difference. www.patreon.com/savagechicke...

This is just batshit crazy. You got to be pretty deep into the cult to buy this nonsense. bsky.app/profile/atru...

Brexit fractured the European Union, and broke British politics. A decade on, millions of voters have deserted the two big parties for alternatives. n.pr/4vlJIE1

Apparently the world's elites, in a secret society co-founded by Peter Thiel, have been discussing WWIII and how to build a cult. Get a hobby?

I am pleased to have contributed to @liberalcurrents.com’s “Reconstruction Papers” project. I’ve attached screenshots of my contribution, “Reconstructing the Executive Branch.”

Reporter: The algae is not under control. It's still there, even though they're trying to get it cleared up. Now they're talking about having to drain the whole thing and start over. Literally putting tax money down the drain.

Brexit referendum was ten years ago today.. I wrote this a couple days later. The predictions have held up well- though Brexit did less damage to EU than I suspected and was even worse for UK economy than I imagined. www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/uni...

Before I became a legal historian, I was & still am a political scientist specializing in US immigration law & policy. Here's my contribution of first laying out the case for why major structural reforms need to happen + what they should be. I drew on many excellent proposals already out there. 1/

EXCLUSIVE: Donald Trump is eager to seize the Smithsonian, @clintsmithiii.bsky.social writes. He profiles the institution’s leader, Lonnie Bunch, and explores how he’s managed to survive the chaos—for now. theatln.tc/fpRhFV40

My 10 Year Brexit take: Elites shit the bed. Both major political parties went along with something they mostly knew was a bad idea. They reaped decades-long populist rhetoric against the EU project that they had sowed. They handed governing over to liars and populists.

Smart thread from @brasidas.bsky.social on the fallacy of an apolitical military

I served 5 years at the Pentagon and was in DC almost daily for a run along the National Mall. The entire mall has 24/7 camera surveillance The lies come so easy for Trump and MAGA just goes with it It's a cult

That time Amy Goodman and I interviewed Alan Greenspan about the failure of trickle down economics, his role creating the 2008 financial collapse and the oligarch class, as well as his support for the invasion of Iraq and of shock therapy in Russia. He was mad. www.democracynow.org/2007/9/24/al...

lol

Disabled students in this country are about to get bounced between three different federal agencies just to get the education they’re legally entitled to.

Please do, Elon. (But he won't. He knows the number could end up being closer to 14 million over the next few years.)

Congress is getting ready to remove the requirement that shell companies register their real owners. The bill "will restore America’s status as the leading offshore haven"

I heard they're going to rename it The Jeffery Epstein Deflecting Pool

Fox News used to warn about Strait of Hormuz dangers — until Trump's war: www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/aft...

Putin crawls into bed tonight with a smile on his face. Our country is being betrayed and weakened and it barely makes a ripple in our daily headlines.

The Trump administration just paid Invenergy $765 million to cancel four wind projects. That brings the running total to roughly $2.5 billion in taxpayer money spent to stop energy from being built. Think about that. At a time when electricity demand is rising,

American Jew, here. Rabbi, actually! AIPAC is not, in fact, "Millions of people." It's a lobbying *org* that spends a lot of money to influence lawmakers with the goal of getting substantial military spending to another govt., & associated goals. US Jews are a *people*, with diverse opinions!

Yeah they painted the reflecting pool a dark color and then refilled it with water from the Potomac River and let it cook in 90-degree heat. Next he's going to blame Antifa for putting mold on a loaf of bread he left out for two weeks.

He's not wrong.

Oh so this is why they wear camo

Everybody is also fully aware that weapons inspections were part of the deal Obama struck with Iran in 2015, which you tore up in 2018. These last 8 years without inspection are your fault, so there’s no credit or praise for reinstating them. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

*10 years in prison for touching the reflecting pool* *pardons for burning the Capitol Building*

Ted Lieu: “There is a 24/7 camera that shows the reflecting pool. If someone went into the pool and made a 250 foot gash, it would have been seen trump is lying again. Everyone knows it, but the people at the Justice Dept are randomly going after people to soothe trump’s fragile ego”

I hired Obama to do my rain gutters last fall and his guys never even showed.

Literally broke the law to write his name on public buildings

BREAKING: A federal judge has blocked the Trump admin from implementing a new system she says is "actively" and "haphazardy" purging "non-citizens" from voter rolls using inaccurate data. ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show...

I haven't checked lately but I bet I'm on a million block lists, I also block people constantly, it's the whole reason my experience on here is pretty good I don't think the notion that social media should be a free for all was ever workable or a good idea

On this day in 1870, President Ulysses S. Grant signed legislation creating US Department of Justice. Two primary reasons for DOJ’s creation: protection of formerly enslaved people’s civil rights & to oppose domestic terrorist groups like the Ku Klux Klan. Image: Thomas Nast, “Halt.” Public domain.

I think it’s cool that, unlike Claudine Gay, Monica Crowley actually plagiarized swaths of her Columbia dissertation, but because she’s white and a Republican she faced no consequences and has only thrived in GOP politics. Sort of gives away the game on that stuff, no?

Vance is like if the JEB Bush please clap meme became sentient and ran for office

Actually, we *should* be able to expect the president of the United States to be able to restrain himself from personally threatening to kill the negotiators from another country. It's not that unreasonable at all, you pathetic toady.

Let’s check in on how Jared and Ivanka’s luxury Albanian resort is doing…

SUCK IT

People been attaching -gate to every damn Washington scandal since 1974 but no one wants to call the reflecting pool fiasco "Watergate"? I'd settle for Watergate 2.0 even.

“And if we want to talk about kitchen-table issues, you can make that part of it: The reason that you can't afford your electricity is because of the corruption. The reason that you can't afford health insurance is because of the corruption.” Dems need to beat that drum: “Corruption! Corruption!”

Many lessons to be taken from this new searchable database including: Todd Blanche's gross mismanagement of DOJ over this period Courts saying: 'presumption of regularity'/government good faith simply gone Courts: increasingly sanctioning DOJ attorneys⬇️ www.justsecurity.org/133928/immig... 1/🧵

The impressive thing about Comer is he looks as dumb as he sounds. He’s the total package.