Stop acting surprised by the contradictions. The contradiction is the message architecture.

It's funny until you remember all the bull the TX lege pulled. They held up all business so they could give rich Texans tax breaks for private schools and slow walked infrastructure money for floods AFTER a bunch of kids died. Steve Toth should be laying low, and instead he might go to Washington.

They're not deporting you because you did something wrong. They're deporting you because they have a quota to fill. They get paid by the body, and they sort it out AFTER you've been disappeared.

In case it wasn't obvious, the senate needs a check on Trump's power, and it ain't gonna be John Cornyn or Paxton. The candidate with the juice to win is @jamestalarico.bsky.social

Good thing to remember online right now is that everyone here is very emotionally dysregulated and dealing with that by posting

the war is unpopular but it's also illegal but it also doesn't serve any purpose but it also undermines diplomacy but it also is set to produce the opposite outcome as intended but it also already has hundreds dead and threatens more but it also will not make anything better for anyone but it also

Netflix, you have the chance to do the funniest thing possible.

For those wondering why Talarico is a good candidate, maybe consider this clip. Media matters. Presentation matters. Cutting through the noise —especially in a state like Texas— makes a difference.

One-party rule is destroying Texas. From the rickety power grid, to ICE raids, to the invasion of academia, and on into threats of student arrests, Texans increasingly live in a system that ignores public feedback, turns neighbor against neighbor, and starves the infrastructure that keeps us alive.

You're not someone until Fox News starts bitching about you.

I don't know who needs to hear this, but when the Texas Democratic party fails, the fallout lands everywhere. This isn't about one man or woman or a job. It's about escape from one-party rule. @texasdemocrats.bsky.social #Texas

Crockett v Talarico: you may have heard that the primary candidates for TX are disagreeing about the timeline. Let me say from the bottom of my heart that I don't give a shit.

It’s 2026. There is a measles outbreak in the prison for babies

we said all along that they wanted Gawker dead not because we embarrassed a pro wrestler but because the Epstein story is one Gawker was covering a decade before most other people caught up & was just one of many stories exposing powerful people and their misdeeds

This is grim. www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

I get tired of saying it, but I’ll say it again: the nature of oppression in America is that they workshop it first on Black, Latino, Asian & Native people. But it is always, in the end, coming for everyone.

The arrests of journalists Don Lemon and Georgia Fort are a test for every MSM member with a platform. If you are not voicing your outrage at this blatant violation of the First Amendment, you are utterly discredited as a journalist.

Every time I think about #MeToo I get mad all over again. We had about five minutes of women asking men to simply acknowledge the prevalence of sexual harassment ... and now 5+ years later we're still suffering the flailing, butthurt backlash.

We can’t let them write ICE OUT in big letters on a busy intersection and then double the DHS budget

hey lay off Bovino he's fighting off a spider with a pencil

I no longer read the news. Instead, I read the news makers, looking for the most egregious signs of bootlicking. Congrats, @cbsnews.com. You're far ahead of the pack. I wouldn't trust you to give me my weekly astrology reading, much less updates on current events.

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Truly, everyone who said that calling them Fascist was overreach can go fuck themselves.

All of America's abundance has been purchased through global prestige. We didn't get here by ourselves. And Trump is rapidly squandering it. Imagine seeing his Davos speech and still standing by him.

Everyone stranding up for immigrants today could have done it during the election. Instead, we allowed them to be a punching bag for the GOP. Pretty much everyone is complicit. Now, they're using policy to hurt a lot more people than the families disappearing into the prison system.

The most extraordinary blessing Texas could experience is Talarico v. Paxton, but the gods are not that good. It's the kind of luck we don't actually deserve.

All of this is an extension of the military industrial complex and the police state, and it's a distinction that matters bc we have slowly normalized murder in the streets. Unwarranted search and seizure. Cops dog-piling individuals. Shooting panicked arrestees. If it feels familiar, it is.

FYI: Judge Ellis (Chicago ICE case) noted in November that video evidence shows ICE "brake-checked other motorists in an attempt to force accidents that agents could then use as justifications for deploying force."

US Embassy Bogota hasnt gotten the White House memo that, post abduction, the United States is running Venezuela and the Venezuelan people actually love us now and are very eager to give us their wallets. ve.usembassy.gov/security-ale...

It's 2017 all over again, and we're not allowed to have news that isn't filtered through the Blumpkin Menace. No breaks. If you talk about job numbers, we have to ask what his OPINION of those numbers is. Who gives a shit?

Every time I see Rick Scott . . . .

He does this because it works. The American public hears the bickering and tunes out. It's like a parent that can't arbitrate who ate the bigger slice of birthday cake. It's just too much. Better to pick a side and turn off all critical thinking.

Chris Murphy: "Clearly this is wildly illegal. This is a president who has been operating illegally since he was sworn in -- stealing from the American people, seizing spending power, now dragging America into a war overseas ... Donald Trump's entire foreign policy is corrupt."

when people get too familiar in your mentions

Very surprising that the president who forced himself on women and girls without facing any consequences thinks he can force himself on countries without facing any consequences.

It's like a toilet that brags about how much one on one time it gets with the owner of the house.

That time a professional journalist got mad at me for agreeing with them. I think we've all been there at least once, but it's always baffling.

Capone went to prison for tax evasion, not all the other stuff he did. The general strategy of prosecution is that you never know what will stick, so try it all. I mean, I'd try him for crossing against a light if I thought it would put him where he needs to be.

Love this analysis

Doss Discourse made a video briefly covering some of the historic major wins of the Democratic party. There's a lot around FDR and LBJ, but there's also multiple economic revivals the Dems can accept. And his point was, how many times are we expected to turn things around for folks w/o common sense?

Using AI to monitor schools for thoughtcrime bsky.app/profile/chad...

I love you, Robin Ince!!! Thank you for taking a principled stance. You have my respect forever.

Closing in on the January 1 Polar Swim at Barton Springs. The goal was to swim at least once a week until I become a year-round visitor. Except for that part where I broke my wrist, I've been there AT LEAST once a week since May. Feels good.

1. Paramount's hostile takeover bid for Warner Bros. Discovery exposes Jared Kushner's game Kushner is not running a private equity fund. He's running an influence peddling operation. It's spelled out on page 42 of Paramount's new SEC filing

Just a quick reminder that Mamdani proved you can have a congenial primary competition where two opposing candidates hype each other up. Six months from now, this may prove useful. @jasmineforus.bsky.social @jamestalarico.bsky.social

When the press describes Trump's "power grab" on birthright citizenship, you have to ask, whose power? Our power. Not the senate, house, or the supreme court. Our power. Remember that when you read all those news articles.

And there's my senator, right behind him, cosigning every single racist word with his presence. There you are, Ted. You schmuck. Idiot. Jerk.

Can we inspire regime change by telling the world our leader poops his pants daily? I don't know, but I'm willing to try.