If Dems put up real candidates in strong R districts next year -- both Congress and state legislatures -- I bet they pick up a bunch of surprising seats. This has the potential to be a highly unusual wave election. But we need horses to have a horse race. Better ppl have to run. For everything.

"I should get to tell lies w/o being called on it in the media." www.chron.com/politics/art...

Jimmy Kimmel isn't returning to the airwaves because of "thoughtful conversations" with Disney executives. He's back because consumers sent Disney a clear message: selling out our fundamental rights is not an acceptable cost of doing business.

Not only has no one been held accountable, this year at the #txlege, Greg Abbott tried to gut the Public Information Act to make all records about this and other misconduct incidents secret. The bill died (HB 15) bc the House wdn't agree to deny records to family members of the victims. #txlege

Whether they're blaming vaccines and Tylenol, or selling dubious "remedies," what they're really doing is promoting the perception that families (and especially mothers) can prevent and treat Autism. And thus also the perception that people with Autism and their families don't need social support.

These are war crimes. Full stop.

The wealth tax proposal wd almost certainly find similar levels of support in the US. www.wsj.com/world/europe...

This ought to be engraved somewhere.

What are the names of the U.S. Navy officers carrying out these orders to serially bomb civilian boats that pose no threat to their own vessels, killing everyone aboard? Surely they’ll want to take personal credit for this honorable service and perhaps wear a little campaign medal on their chest.

i think it should be bigger news that the state of texas took over one of the largest public school districts in the nation and appointed a weird linkedin hustle grindset guy to be in charge

A lot of politics of this era is breaking ancient truces and assuming that the other-side won't fight back

So the article quotes the question but doesn't answer the question. The answer is the Katy Police Department. Seems like that matters.

Oooh, political scientists have detected a suggestive pattern! Everybody stay tuned and maybe one day they'll let us know whether we're being governed by fascists or not. If any Texas A&M political scientist ever gave an honest assessment of this historical moment, they'd be fired on the spot.

"history is also going to remember the cowards who definitely knew better but still let things happen—whether it was for money, convenience, or just comfort. Use ... the only phrase that can genuinely make a weak bully go away: F**k you. Make me.”" www.pajiba.com/news/john-ol...

We went to see Laufey last night at the Moody Center and she was SO good, but even more amazing was being in a room w/ 17k young ppl singing along to bossa nova tunes and girl-power jazz ballads, w/ many wearing homemade crowns or elaborate bows. Really fun evening.

Good point.

The Defense Department blacklisted I.F. Stone and denied him press credentials, but in retrospect, he arguably had some of the best real-time coverage of the Cold War. Journalists don't need this "access." Let the sycophants have it and go do the damn job of reporting stories they don't want told.

I knew there was a reason why he wouldn’t take a position requiring Senate confirmation. He, CBP Scott & Modlin are so corrupt it is not funny. www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/t...

This episode is reminiscent of anecdotes from the Nazi German Student League. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/u...

Texas border providers brace for rate of uninsured patients to balloon as Trump budget changes loom www.texastribune.org/2025/09/19/t... via @texastribune.org

Excited for a 6-3 shadow docket decision ruling that it does in which there’s no controlling opinion but Kavanaugh writes a concurrence that’s 20 pages long and somehow contains absolutely no content.

Tesla's robotaxi crashes in Texas are shrouded in secrecy: Incident reports are redacted over possible "confidential business information." www.chron.com/culture/arti...

When your big fears are that your kid might read Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse Five or, God forbid, Pinkalicious (a book that "depicts a child discovering her body has turned pink after eating too many cupcakes"), you've got a pretty cushy life.

Ted Cruz defends Jimmy Kimmel from Trump more than he defended his own wife. Given her Goldman Sachs pedigree and reprehensible choice of a life partner, I would also have gone with Kimmel.

Why am I not surprised that when the tech guys start to buy sports teams, they proceeded to break the salary cap rules? Funniest part is, for all the salary cap shenanigans, the Clips still aren't going anywhere this year. cc: @pablo.show www.si.com/nba/pablo-to...

After high profile expressions of official bigotry at Texas A&M, one suspects employers who see an Aggie ring on the hand of a job applicant may henceforth wonder to themselves, "How will this person fit in with my black or gay employees?" The university is pretty much making bigotry the brand.

Ok my cis friends, we are going to need a lot of you to step the fuck up and fight hard for us www.them.us/story/trump-...

"Acceptable" understates it, he was even more smug than that. The year after the Uvalde massacre, Kirk said US levels of gun violence were "worth it" so gun owners cd resort to violence if they believed their freedoms were threatened. It's ironic his assailant shot him for exactly that reason.

Resolved: After this, I will henceforth respond to every public and private mention of the "Aggie Code" w/ a heartfelt, from the belly, 'F*** off.,'" regardless of the setting or perceived impropriety. IDGAF. The Aggie Code has no value or meaning whatsoever if it tolerates this.

Narrator: Bigotry. The answer is, and always has been, bigotry.

So sorry, ANTIFA. I’m afraid we have to let you go. 😌

A&M has been a shitshow from the moment John Sharp set foot on campus. Now that a former GOP legislator is UT chancellor, and a former state senator is chair of the UT Board of Regents, higher ed in Texas has become completely politicized. What a disgrace. Homer Rainey is spinning in his grave.

This sounds like a fun show www.statesman.com/entertainmen...

Does anyone other than those profiting think this has been a good idea?

I was at the 2nd Farm Aid in 1986 at Manor Downs described in this article.

Elections have consequences. 1/3 of Americans couldn't be bothered to vote in '24. Now, here we are, watching Rome burn while DJT paves over the Rose Garden and gilds everything in gold spray paint — we are witnessing one of the lowest points in American history.

"More than a dozen troopers made over $200,000 last year when factoring in overtime, roughly equal to the starting salary for top public health doctors in the state. Two lieutenants netted more than $300,000."

“These data centers are going to ruin this entire area. It’s going to ruin it for everyone and all their families. “It’s going to take away everyone’s everything, everyone’s peace of mind.” 'Tech takes that soul away': Central Texas emerges as data center hotspot, raising rural concerns

Look, they do not have the capacity or competence to do this at the scale they want you to fear they do, and your fear is precisely their greatest force multiplier. Everybody who is cowed into silence by their threats allows them a smaller pool to focus on.

Q: Do you think it would've been fitting to lower the flags to half staff when Melissa Hortman, the Minnesota House Speaker, was gunned down by an assassin? TRUMP: I'm not familiar. The who?

Pro sports tickets statewide are ridiculously expensive.

At 13, I was riding a mare named Coco -- 1st horse I bought w/ my own $ -- in a dry gulch. She saw a rattler, reared, and I fell. On the ground, I locked eyes w/ the coiled viper for a moment bf it struck -- it flew past my face and bit my horse. I've not henceforth never sought out rattlesnakes.

2025 is the year the book banners took over Texas universities.

But will it be great enough to overcome the simultaneously overwhelming coolness disadvantage, much less the social disadvantages associated w/ being mocked, shamed, and belittled by family, friends, and coworkers?

I know these “interviews” with Justice Barrett are carefully scripted. But if she’s going to keeping urging Americans to “read the opinions,” and not just commentary, it sure would be nice if someone would ask her what we should do when—as is so often the case these days—there’s no opinion to read…

Other people’s kids aren’t real to them. Kirk was a peer.

It's okay, post-Reich historians will eventually get around to it, anyway.

Back in late 2017, I was tentatively working on a story for The Atlantic about Comicsgate and the ways publishers weren’t adapting to their tactic of shrieking swarm attacks to get people fired. Which led to — and you will never believe this — a shrieking swarm attack that got me fired

Yeah, Barney was well-intentioned

Uvalde somehow didn't convince the NY Times that "something is seriously wrong in this nation," but Charlie Kirk's murder is a bridge too far. Shooting school children they've completely normalized, but Kirk's death violated, "basic, common-sense, need-not-be-debated American" values.