In October, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton sued the manufacturers of Tylenol. But the case wouldn't be heard in Austin or any of the state’s large cities. It would take place in Panola County, a community of 23,000 residents. With @texastribune.org

youre never going to get those people to vote for you, call them stupid weirdos who are dumb and giant idiots and theyre the reason we’re in this mess

i just want talarico to say “if you care more about my taco order than $7 gas you are a giant fucking idiot”

Opinion | Zohran Mamdani's celebration of the Knicks' Eastern Conference Championship alienates New Yorkers who may be fans of other teams.

Cargill’s lockout of 1,700 workers stopped beef production, sending ripples through the supply chain

id feel significantly more optimistic about texas if democrats had spent the last 30 years investing in media infrastructure that told texas residents how corrupt the gop is and how progressive ideas help. instead they parachute in every 2-4 years and hope for the best.

Resistance from within immigrant detention facilities is increasing, threatening to return ICE to the headlines despite the Trump administration's efforts to make us forget. We should gather outside Delaney Hall and other detention centers around the country to support the detainees on strike.

The reason certain people are still on Twitter or complain how this place isn’t Twitter is because for a brief amount of time Twitter allowed specialty journalists, opinion writers, pundits, etc a chance to feel somewhat famous, or that they actually had influence, and they miss that like heroin.

There's a long-shot idea out there to use the Civil War-era False Claims Act (which any American can do) to sue anyone who accepts money from the "anti-weaponization" slush fund. There are treble damages for violations, which could make recipients and even overseers think twice. From me:

I think a lot of people hear about a public official being corrupt and they assume it's about bid-rigging or bribes or stuff no regular person could do, but Ken Paxton also just straight-up stole a guy's thousand-dollar pen and pretended it was an accident

It’s a good joke but it’s also way too “when they go low we go high.” The correct response to “Talarico is vegan” isn’t “no I’m not.” The correct response is “Ken Paxton is a criminal adulterer who protects child molesters.”

Why does Colorado have 33,000 pounds of nuclear waste decaying outside of Denver? And other nuclear power questions, answered.

so like lemme weigh in on this as someone who is more financially comfortable than many in my generational cohort: everything I have gained seems precarious and temporary because I know the people with real money will take it all from me the second they get an opportunity and no one will protect me.

This entire administration is an exercise in discovering why you need government and then scrambling to assemble an arm while cutting off another leg.

Ok this is a truly great tweet

Honestly Hasan piker is a moron who doesn’t matter. That’s why he’s: Visiting foreign nations to deliver aid Supporting multiple local and congressional candidates Running fundraising efforts Maintaining a stream where he explains Marxism for a large young audience Guys such an idiot phony

A decade ago, analysts were calling Spain a cautionary tale. Too much solar, too fast! Today, Spain is rapidly on its way to having the cheapest power in Europe. Maybe this time, solar naysayers will learn... haha, jk, they'll just move the goalposts.

Wealth inequality is surging beyond anything ever witnessed in America. A wealth tax is a necessary precondition for addressing this problem — and protecting our democracy. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/the-logic-of-taxing-great-wealth

This is one of those, "Well, yeah, this should obviously be the law" things where people lose their minds because they can't win without a deck stacked in their favor

The real internet still exists if your heart is pure.

This is happening in 1 hour! Also on Twitch I think: www.twitch.tv/somemorenews

What’s more embarrassing: unfollowing Ian Miles Cheong because he mocks your babymama lusting after Hasan Piker, or making it public that you followed Ian Miles Cheong in the first place? It’s like announcing you’ve stopped masturbating in the aquarium because you’re scared of eels.

This is a really important piece from @joyurcaba.bsky.social. Most people think that the government's restrictions on health care for trans people was limited to minors (which has been the government's messaging). It's not, and people need to know about it.

Sign of the Times: Scripps National Spelling Bee families can't make the short walk from the JW Marriott to Constitution Hall because of the security perimeter around the Ellipse as they build a mammoth MMA stadium at the White House. “Two very disparate forms of entertainment,” said one Bee dad.

just one goddam cabinet meeting where childrens genitals arent a topic of conversation

They stole the internet’s knowledge and all the work that went into it and they want to sell it back to us for a fee. What a business model.

What if taxing the rich works?

Dems are weak fucking losers who take a pool noodle to a gunfight. They fear AOC and Bernie Sanders more than fascism. It's fucking demoralizing. "You need to vote for us, you childish "pie in the sky" progressive baby we have no intention of representing!" Then the GOP calls them communists.

Oil and gas companies drilled and polluted less in 2025, but emissions from each well are rising, Colorado regulators say

The US will rightly be called a banana republic unless those in power/access to power,who have committed multiple crimes whilst in power,are not prosecuted and held to the standards the rest of her citizens are. Us Europeans watch on aghast at the blatant corruption. Excellent pod again from Greg.

The Vatican went and made infographics for the encyclical 👍

I've been on the road for a couple weeks, but I'm back to review @chrismurphyct.bsky.social's book, which releases today. He details America's spiritual crisis and answers why we're all so damn unhappy. In doing so he shows a rare attribute in Democratic politicians: believing in something.

any time i’ve seen the clip of dan soder and will sasso doing “macho man reads charles manson quotes” over the last few days i lose my mind. soder’s chappelle impression is delightful, too.

Y’all really cannot have it both ways. Democrats simply can’t simultaneously be smol beans who we must nurture and protect lest they fall ill to bullies and also the smartest and strongest leaders who only lose because we’re all stupid/sexist/racist/anything other than them personally sucking

I never understand this argument because, okay, what am I supposed to blame the Republicans for here? Winning? Do coaches spend post-game in the locker room screaming at their losing team “you did nothing wrong! The other team was just better at sports” ?

Trump and Republicans want to take America back to pre-Reconstruction. They want to silence Black votes, restrict our fundamental freedoms, and dilute our representation. But we’ll continue to organize, mobilize, fight, and vote for our full rights and citizenship.

@seligmanforag.bsky.social gets at something key here: Even if Polis thought placating Trump was wise, it’s still a betrayal of Colorado’s right to republican government. If that’s what happened, it’s the legislature’s obligation to remove him, quite apart from anything specific about Peters’s case.

100% of Republicans are not I presume child rapists, but I think it's a safe starting assumption about Republicans until they can prove otherwise.

Brian Thompson killing thousands of people by denying medical care to boost the stock price of UnitedHealthcare is just good business Luigi Mangione killing Brian Thompson for denying medical care is The Worst Crime In Human History

Converting to Catholicism so I can tell my bosses using unregulated AI is against my religion and I will sue them like that cake lady who hated gay people if they make me use it

happy memorial day to the post of all time

Three months in: * Iran has ample military capacity * Strait of Hormuz traffic less than a quarter pre-war * highest inflation in 3 years * real wages negative for first time in 3 years * gas prices up $1.40 y-o-y * highest monthly grocery price jump in 4 years And Trump still just flailing around.

People need to worry a little more about themselves and a little less about what I'm going to do with 50 gallons of Arby's sauce

It's the same crap that people pulled when they got outraged about Chappell Roan saying she'd vote for Harris, but not offer some sort of formal endorsement. It's never enough for cultists. It's not enough to vote for their candidate: you have to be their little cheerleader.

Premiere Smith’s illegitimate attempt to end run the system after the system failed to produce her desired chaos is a master class in ratfucking. Here’s how the question is structured: Should Alberta stay in Canada? Yes - Alberta should leave No - Alberta should stay

Narcissists lose their shit when they see someone wearing a mask because it reminds them of their own mortality and there is nothing narcissists process more poorly than having to think about their own death. Same reason they have to scream at you for not eating beef tallow or whatever.

fred flintstone: yabba dabba doo! neurologist [to wilma]: as i was saying, we need to run more tests