Yeah, that comment is fully ridiculous on its face and so mendacious and/or ignorant that the speaker should be disqualified from testifying on any topic: It's just a full-on, bad-faith lie..

Williamson County’s Transformative Justice Program reduces arrests of young adults after intake, study finds www.kxan.com/news/local/w...

I'll support him if he's the nominee, but I hadn't realized Talarico took $ from friggin' Miriam Adelson while his dark money PAC ran smear ads claiming Crockett was put up by Republicans. If you're taking Adelson money, you have NO room to talk. Election day is tomorrow. Smoke 'em if you got 'em.

From a client's perspective, if they're too damn cowardly to fight for themselves, you know for a FACT they're not gonna fight for you. Why would anyone hire a lawyer who's afraid to stand up to bullies?

It's genuinely insane that many of the newspaper columnists who cheered us into the war in Iraq are still employed at big legacy outlets cheering us into a new war with Iran.

There'll be plenty of time to judge whether all these wars are "endless" after some of them end. For now, they keep staring more. In Venezuela, "regime change" just meant installing Maduro's #2; is that the play in Iran for a quickie exit? If so, how cd it be remotely worth it?

I know some Texas "libertarians" and self-styled "small government conservatives" on whose foreheads this post shd be tattooed in reverse so they cd read it every time they look in the mirror. There was some smarmy, self justifying BS coming out of that crowd in 2024 they all shd be ashamed of now.

A weird thing about this new, volitional war is that the oil price spikes are the first thing he's done that's benefitted DT's supporters in West Texas, who otherwise have endured the brunt of harm from his trade policies while oil prices dropped too low to justify drilling/fracking. 1/3

I'd pretty easily grant "greatest hitter." Greatest overall player wd be a tougher sell. Biz Mackey was a better defensive catcher.

My latest, a collaboration between @propublica.org + @nytimes.com, is on the cover of today's New York Times Magazine. The gift link leads you to the excellent audio version of the story by Julia Whalen: www.nytimes.com/2026/02/22/m...

The person who bought this ranch from Epstein's estate is Don Huffines, who is currently a GOP candidate for Texas comptroller.

NEW: As Black History Month comes to a close, CBP appears to have scrubbed stories about Black people and marginalized groups' contributions to the history of the agency from an official page. Archived versions show the changes happened the first week of February:

This is a ridiculous way to characterize John Cornyn in 2026. His primary ads are just as bigoted as the worst of them, and his boast that he votes with Trump 99% of the time is hardly a "kinder and gentler" message: Alex Pretti, Renee Good, and many others are dead bc of his sycophantic votes.

Texas is so incredibly mismanaged, it's now a race to see which area of the state becomes uninhabitable first. Space Karen's new lithium refinery is operational, but Corpus Christi was predicted to run out of water in EARLY 2027 before they ever used a drop.

Sheriff Salazar warns of jail scam that cost elderly couple $25K in Bitcoin payments www.yahoo.com/news/article...

The ONE fighting championship on Prime is comparable to the UFC in all but the highest end, championship level fights. Everything on the prelims and the early main UFC cards are comparable. And the ONE fights feature more disciplines, Muay Thai, kickboxing, etc. UFC = better product, but ONE is fun

In Tarrant County, a long-time GOP bastion, "The early voting period brought 122,184 in-person voters to the polls in the Democratic primary and 91,684 in-person voters in the Republican primary." And this with HEAVILY contested primaries for both parties. Huge shift from prior years.

Good update here on the status of bail reform in Texas mailchi.mp/themarshallp...

Texas - Harris County commissioners approved a $1.25 million settlement to the family of Fred Harris, a 19-year-old man with an intellectual disability, who was murdered at the hands of another inmate inside the Harris County Jail. www.yahoo.com/news/article...

Almost unimaginable anybody actually believed this, but ppl did. Not J.D. Vance, ofc, he's just another grifter. But I know self-style libertarians who claimed they voted for DT on this pretty much as a single-issue. It was always a lie. Now it's a demonstrable one.

Couple this w/ the fact that, after the US literally kidnapped the leader of Venezuela, in an murder spree leaving 80 bodies, they let his #2 ascend and left the regime in place. So even when "regime change" is in the palm of their hand, it escapes their grasp. They do not know WTF they're doing.

Wow, I wish I'd known about this book when it came out. It was right during the Operation Lone Star buildup and may have contributed some needed context to the utterly ahistorical and dumb-as-a-river-rock legislative debates that authorized Abbott's border buildup.

I want to do my part in raising awareness. Texas's Big Bend is set to receive new border security infrastructure, including >100 mi of border wall cutting through Big Bend National Park. Kristi Noem just waived 28 environmental protection laws and regulations to expedite this construction. 🧵 1/4

Hegseth shooting down a party balloon then a CBP drone, twice forcing unplanned closure of the El Paso airport, then demanding to make the system fully autonomous under AI control, is a storyline straight out of the Terminator movies, except the balloon part might get cut bc it's too outlandish.

Dems retaking the House likely won't stop this, but wd provide transparency and a political foothold to make stopping it by 2029 at least theoretically possible. Till then, the only consolation is the Mad King's minions are incompetent fools who cdn't find their asses w/ both hands and a flashlight.

This is a practice and policy that came from local policing -- police and prosecutors can lie to people (witnesses, suspects, etc) and they can pretend to be anyone they want. They can recruit informants who are coerced into cooperating.

Attention Texas BBQ mavens, new MAGA directive for 2026 just dropped: Probably @bbqsnob.bsky.social can help the Admin spread the word. I'm sure nobody will mind substituting liver and onions for their brisket: Think of it as "Not awful, just offal." If we all went vegetarian it'd be cheaper, too.🤷

Good work in this gift link from NYT mapping out #Elon Musk web of obscure LLC’s: his slush funds for bus & personal use w/out accountability—as I’ve reported for yrs— plus political intervention. NYT missed that Elon used $140 mill likely from these LLCs to flip 6 judge seats here in Texas in 2024.

Elon Musk’s Secret Web of Companies in Texas www.nytimes.com/2026/02/27/t...

Last day of early voting is today: Early vote turnout in Texas outpacing past elections, fueled by Democratic primary voters www.texastribune.org/2026/02/25/t...

They also shot down a balloon. This is a different, 2nd round of related incompetence, w/ deeper implications about the seeming complete lack of deconfliction protocols around the border security buildup.

The entire Democratic strategy debate — "moderate" or move left? fight or compromise? — is based on a misreading of data. Voters don't think Dems are too progressive; they think Dems are weak. The actual math on what to do about this isn't even close! New: www.gelliottmorris.com/p/new-poll-d...

I also want Dems to learn to hold Dem politicians, including prosecutors, accountable when they behave in a chickenshit fashion. Progressive prosecutors were a myth. It is an inherently regressive governmental function.

I get the critique in the @texasmonthly.bsky.social story, but my take on @harriscojudge.bsky.social Lina Hidalgo is more sympathetic. She was a 20-something when elected, no expert gave her a shot, then she was attacked relentlessly from day one. She made mistakes, but I give her a tad more grace.

has anyone ever been appointed done a good job investigating law enforcement?

Today, right now, @hennepinatty.bsky.social Mary Moriarty has sufficient probable cause to indict the shooters of Alex Pretti and Renee Good in state court. Let's start there, then see where things go.

On a whim I typed in "University of Texas" into the Epstein files database and the 3rd thing that came up was a UT "study" interviewing men about whether they liked big butts and suggesting their answers revealed something about evolution.

Trump Rescinds Biden Order Tracking Misconduct Of Federal Officers. Are We Surprised? The original order was put in place to prevent police officers with documented misconduct from finding new jobs at different agencies. newsone.com/6850857/trum...

I keep seeing comments like this one at the Star-Telegram and just don't buy it: "Abbott is polling at 49%. That means he only needs 1% of the undecided vote to seal a win." The Tarrant state senate race demonstrated pollsters don't have a CLUE what turnout model to use in 2026.

Dear Dallas friends: these guys are quite literally why we cannot have nice things. The guy who owns it was behind Props S, T, & U. U is why all the money now goes to the cops and S is why the city is running scared of lawsuits. Shun the Express like the plague-carrier it is.

Texas has nine university system boards of regents with nine members each. That's 81 regents, every one of them appointed by Greg Abbott. They have no loyalty or accountability to anyone else. Texas public universities are an ideological dictatorship administered by one person.

Audit all you want, but the reason the budget is upside down and Austin needed a tax increase that voters denied them was the police contract we cdn't afford givng cops 28% raises. Since council is too cowardly to roll that back, and that's cause of the problem, none of this will matter.

A little weird for a pink-slime journalism site specializing in trolling on race to take on sports coverage, but I'll look forward their screeds on reverse discrimination by libs causing lack of white NFL cornerbacks or white American NBA players, I guess.

No one who leaves local policing to join ICE or the CBP should ever be allowed back.

Trump's deemed-illegal tariffs have spurred more than 1,800 companies to seek refunds and is generating an "asbestos level of lawsuits." 🤯 Claims are being securitized and sold for 40 or 45 cents on the dollar.

It is time we stop this madness. Just because you can, doesn't mean you should. We have to stop these billionaires ruining our planet.

So much of this coverage has been around polls showing women wanted to leave the US, but w/ not much detail on whether they're actually doing so, it's interesting to see some data on broader emigration trends. www.wsj.com/us-news/amer...

As we near the end of Black History Month, let's recall that Willie Wells, the negro league @baseballhall.org inductee and probably the greatest shortstop of all time, also played college football for Samuel Huston College. Here he is on their 1924 squad. I've not seen this reported elsewhere.

So much of what the Texas Legislature passes gets overturned as unconstitutional it's getting hard to know exactly what the laws are anymore. aldf.org/article/cour...

Incredible: "The court found that the former Chief of Rio de Janeiro Civil Police Rivaldo Barbosa, Brazilian Congressman Chiquinho Brazão, and his brother, Rio State Auditor General Domingos Brazão, were responsible for ordering the killing of Franco and her driver Anderson Gomes in 2018."