Kelly: He runs around on stage talking about lethality and the warrior ethos.. That’s not the message that should be coming from the Secretary of Defense… He runs around on a stage like he’s a 12 year old playing army. It’s embarrassing.

ICE raids are cruel, inhumane, and do nothing to serve public safety. My responsibility is to be the mayor to each and every person that calls this city their home. That includes millions of immigrants— of which I am one.

With no word from the U.S. Supreme Court coming last week on the Texas congressional map, most players are resigned to the idea that the 2025 map will be in place for the 2026 midterms. Podcast: bit.ly/3Z0lr7x www.cbsnews.com/texas/news/u...

With Democratic redistricting wins in several other states, the new Texas map, should it be allowed to stand, is unlikely to give Donald Trump the edge he had in mind. Podcast: https://bit.ly/3Z0lr7x ⁠abcnews.go.com/Polit...

SB 8 - the bathroom bill - takes effect on Thursday, and the vague enforcement language in it will make abuse and harassment likely. Podcast: https://bit.ly/3Z0lr7x ⁠www.texastribune.org...

How low we have sunk as a country. The US Department of Defense is now run by a rabid war criminal. Ordering the execution of helpless survivors of an attack is ALWAYS a war crime, whether they civilian or military. Pure, mindless, barbarism. www.thedailybeast.com/pentagon-pet...

There is literally no reason for the military to be in D.C.

This is so deeply at odds with the vision and history of America. Take pretty much any ethnic or racial group that are part of the American mosaic America today - they have all faced the same accusation. The moment these accusations are turned into policy are some of the most shameful in US history

this is just gutter racism

Cartoon by @deadder.bsky.social.

⁠Data from a Spokane, Washington Flock camera system appears to indicate that the Johnson County sheriff's office was indeed using it last May in pursuit of a Texas woman on suspicion that she had had a prohibited abortion. Pod: bit.ly/3Z0lr7x rangemedia.co/flock-safety...

Montana initiative to overturn Citizens United. transparentelection.org/about

Texas colleges and universities are becoming nationally notorious for our slipping standards regarding free speech rights on campus. Podcast: bit.ly/3Z0lr7x ⁠https://www.houstonchronicle.com/opinion/editorials/article/free-speech-ut-college-protest-trump-21198378.php

The Trump map plaintiffs argued yesterday against the applicability of the Purcell doctrine, which discourages courts from making decisions that alter impending elections, in Alito's stay of the El Paso decision against the map. Pod: bit.ly/3Z0lr7x ⁠ www.newsweek.com/samuel-alito...

“.. This is X in 2025: Potentially fake accounts crying at other potentially fake accounts that they aren’t real, all while refusing to acknowledge that they themselves aren’t who they say they are — a Russian nesting doll of bullshit.” @cwarzel.bsky.social www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

he never looks at JD that way

They are hate symbols, no matter what the Coast Guard puts in its revised regulations.

"Quiet, piggy!" #DonaldTrump

After weeks and weeks, the University of Texas at Austin remains silent on whether or not they will accept Donald Trump's "compact", which would turn burnt orange into the new MAGA red. Pod: https://bit.ly/3Z0lr7x ⁠www.kxan.com/news/wh...

⁠The national redistricting arms race that Texas Republicans helped Donald Trump start is not going their way at the moment - all eyes on #SCOTUS. Podcast: bit.ly/3Z0lr7x www.texastribune.org/2025/11/19/t...

Prop 50 in California was proposed as contingent upon Texas going through with Trump's redistricting orders - not a failure for our map to pass legal muster. Thus, for the moment, Prop 50 is still in play. Pod: https://bit.ly/3Z0lr7x ⁠abc7.com/post/prop-5...

On the 2021 map, Texas Republicans were faced with sticking with their own arguments or adopting Trump's deeply flawed narrative - they went with Trump, and that may be their undoing. Pod: https://bit.ly/3Z0lr7x ⁠www.dallasnews.com/o...

California's #Prop50 doesn't have the same legal frailty as the blocked Texas map - their voters were asked to vote for it to oppose Trump's power grab, which is 100% political, not racial. Pod: https://bit.ly/3Z0lr7x ⁠prospect.org/2025/11...

Fox Business credulously reports that Saudi Arabia is pushing its investment into the US "to $1 trillion." The entire size of the Saudi economy is $1 trillion. How stupid are these people and/or how stupid do they think their viewers are?

Five corporations control 90% of the US media market. Airlines merged from 12 major carriers in 1980 to 4 today. Four giants control 80% of meat processing. A handful of companies control the pharmaceutical industry. The evidence of corporate concentration is everywhere.

Check out our analysis of the El Paso decision, and what's coming next: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b...

⁠As Trump changes his tune on the Epstein files, Texas Republicans are suddenly also no longer opposed - showing their spineless complicity with the Dear Leader. Pod: bit.ly/3Z0lr7x www.houstonchronicle.com/politics/tex...

If this picture was of Obama, you know @FoxNews would do three weeks solid on why the flag was on the ground. At least three weeks

Epstein survivors release powerful PSA. open.substack.com/pub/aaronpar...

Great idea!!

A real “thank you” to America’s veterans would include services they require to survive. Veterans, we appreciate and honor your sacrifice. #VeteransDay

The days of thanking veterans today and forgetting them tomorrow has to come to an end.

Never forget who sold us out: Hassan King Cortez-Masto Shaheen Kaine Fetterman Durbin Rosen

Tonight was a very bad night.

I heard some old friends at Pod Save America were in town, so I decided to stop by. As we saw this week, we can change this country for the better. But it’s going to take all of us getting organized and having honest conversations about the best way forward.

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Your cat when you're choking to death in your apartment

The 400 richest Americans are now worth a record $6.6 trillion. The entire bottom 50% of America is worth just $4.2 trillion. Read that back. When 400 people control more wealth than half a country’s population, we have a very serious problem.

My 8yo told me she had a dream that she went "taco treating," which is where you go door to door and people give you tacos

Enjoyed very much!

The Trump Admin is justifying its strikes in the Caribbean and off the coast of Mexico through a secret memo it won't share with the Congress or the American people because we know it’s a hastily slapped-together defense of blatantly illegal strikes.

Just noticed this, weird

BREAKING: Texas Democrats ask Governor Abbott to declare a State of Emergency due to upcoming cuts to SNAP.

Kristi Noem says “There's no American citizens that have been arrested or detained." Tell that to George Retes. This U.S. Army veteran and American citizen was wrongfully arrested and brutalized by ICE while simply trying to get to work.

Nice to see Rep Crockett here @crockett.house.gov

Too many Americans either didn’t care or didn’t believe. Hopefully they do now.👇

This was just posted by a CBS News producer on their Instagram stories.

Welch: "This has nothing to do with the shutdown. The law requires and the funds are available to continue SNAP right now without any interruption. So that is a decision the president is making on his own to allow people to go hungry."

Rep. Rosa DeLauro: "On the food stamp issue, the money is there! Let them not get away with saying they can't do it. Their political will isn't there to feed the people who rely on the SNAP program which is the most effective anti-hunger program in the USA."

The forced resignation of Kate Rogers from the Alamo Trust is the latest sad and painful chapter in a horror story being written by increasingly authoritarian state officials, writes the Express-News Editorial Board.