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This is funny. Gov. Greg Abbott delayed in scheduling the #TX18 special—which is taking place under the old lines—and almost certainly did so to keep a Dem seat vacant. The court cites that still-ongoing special as proof that reverting to the old lines would not be disruptive. Oops!

You need to make a plan if your kid has special needs.

Very rare to see someone lay out so explicitly that they do not consider "never again" to be a universalist creed. I don't know how people who talk like this can stand to look themselves in the mirror.

The reason we have laws* against bribery is that companies will absolutely bribe politicians at the very first opportunity if it is good for the bottom line, because they see it as a sound business decision, not a civilizational betrayal. /1

Clay Higgins was the only member of the House to vote against releasing the Epstein files. His record also includes allegedly putting a gun to the head of one of his ex-wives, voting for a neo-Nazi, and assaulting an unarmed Black man while working as a cop. @nlanard.bsky.social's post from Sept:

you liberal pussies say that being evil is bad but it actually works super well

There is no batshit far-right idea that the NYT's "reasonable" conservatives will not launder into polite discourse.

It's incredibly alarming what's happening in American conservative churches right now.

I know we're all used to just taking it for granted that GOP politicians are tied up in kooky far-right church circles, and many of them are, but it's genuinely an outlier for Hegseth to be so into this particular weirdo's tiny extremist sect. He's fringe even for the religious right.

at one point, i watched a cook county sheriff’s officer (who appears to be in charge) point out a priest in the crowd. he and a couple officers then went into the crowd , dragged him into the street, and arrested him. situation is still tense as crowd jostles with police to get into the street.

“We are in the middle of a scandal of elites palling around with one of the most infamous child sex traffickers in the world, and this is our political press? No wonder Epstein got away with it all so long: many of the men tasked with being the watchdogs were almost as gross as he was with women.”

Swalwell: Kristi Noem and Tom Homan, you should familiarize yourselves with this room. Get to know that witness chair — you’re going to be parked in it for a long time. Accountability is coming.

Gil is right: South Park gets it. NYT, WSJ, WaPo haven't got a clue... or are afraid to talk about it.

Fox News credulously reports that "the Saudis now say their investment pledge in the US will be increased to $1 trillion." THE ENTIRE GDP OF SAUDI ARABIA IS $1.1 TRILLION, so this is total nonsense.

Run away from Border Patrol, they assault and tackle you and accuse you of assaulting them. Run toward Border Patrol, they assault and tackle you and accuse you of assaulting them. Stand still... you get the idea. www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/i...

I have never seen Trump looking genuinely delighted before

Jim Jordan begged someone to not rat out the sexual assault that was happening at Ohio State. He was crying on the phone. Groveling. This man threw out all his dignity to try and cover for horrifying crimes of sexual abuse. Think about that for a moment.

Massie on Johnson: "He's trying to say that rich & powerful men who were on the plane to Epstein island are now victims because their names would get disclosed. I think that's how a Christian man can stand up there & say a lie like that is he has something in his head that makes it okay"

Yikes

RAJU: What's the impact if the Senate does in fact change this bill? MASSIE: They're part of the coverup. Speaker Johnson's press conference shows he's unrepentent. They have a backup plan. And I think it's gonna work poorly, by the way

i will kind of accept this from some random person who barely pays attention. ben shapiro though? he's just lying

Yes, the vote isn't needed for Trump to release the files. Yes, he doesn't care about laws. But also yes, there are signs that people ostensibly on Trump's side have an expectation that the Congressional vote isn't just performative.

One of these things is not like the other

And a lot of people who would tell you they know better and they’d never find common cause with Larry Summers absolutely did so under the guise of anti-elitism.

Saudi money. Qatar money. Dubai money. @variety.com $WBD $PSKY variety.com/2025/biz/new...

Nearly two weeks of surveillance footage from the Broadview ICE Detention Center has been "irretrievably destroyed" and cannot be produced as evidence in a lawsuit against the government over abhorrent conditions there: www.404media.co/two-weeks-of...

He is just getting so rich it makes him giddy.

The national security concern is that the president is a fucking pedophile

I mean, look, I'm not a reporter, so who am I to talk? But on a day where the president both just called a woman reporter "Piggy" and is celebrating someone who had people bone saw apart one of my colleagues, I might just be a little ready to defend my colleagues and profession. But that's just me

Q: Why wait for Congress to release the Epstein files? Why not just do it now? TRUMP: It's not the question that I mind. It's your attitude. I think you're a terrible reporter. It's the way you ask these questions. You start off with a man who's highly respected asking him an insubordinate question

“How is it that NO ONE in the press corps stands up when Trump slanders a reporter?” Just got this from a reader of @columjournreview.bsky.social

Musk launched DOGE in order to kill the investigations of himself & Tesla at the SEC and NHTSA. The rest of it (starving hundreds of thousands of kids by slashing USAID) was just collateral damage, a distraction.

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Zohran Mamdani has a higher favorability rating than Donald Trump, JD Vance or Chuck Schumer. The most popular political figures in America are Barack Obama and Bernie Sanders www.gelliottmorris.com/p/new-poll-d...

But his emails.

Federal agents wearing tactical gear used chemical irritants on protesters at the Bro-Tex facility in St. Paul. Video by reporter Louis Krauss, who is on the scene.

A big indicator of this fascist moment, for me, was exposing Hanania’s past as pseudonymous white supremacist blogger, him issuing a non-apology apology then writing gutter racist shit under real name, & nevertheless enjoying mainstream success reminder of who he is www.huffpost.com/entry/richar...

Bari Weiss, I believe this is your moment.

Why would the Epstein buddy president go out of his way to help sex trafficker Andrew Tate? Guess some mysteries are unsolvable.

The fact that no one in the room stood up for her says a lot about how we got here bsky.app/profile/pale...

I am just so fucking sick of their fake outrage and fake moral high ground.

Is it a threat to free speech when the President of the United States threatens to yank the broadcast license of a channel whose reporters are asking him challenging questions? I ask because I feel like there used to be tons of pundits worried about free speech. Where'd they go?

This. This all day.

Imagine being such a cretin. Smearing a man who was brutally murdered and dismembered. Another brazen example of the soullessness of Donald Trump. Trump has done and said many outrageous things. This is on top of that list. "Things happen." Exactly what Jesus would have said.

Whoa!

Note: The court ruled that Texas violated the 14th and 15th Amendments by discriminating on the basis of race when drawing its new Republican gerrymander. So this opinion will not be fatally undermined by the Supreme Court's impending blow to the Voting Rights Act; it has an independent rationale.

Here is the federal district court's 2–1 ruling, authored by a very conservative Trump appointee, striking down Texas' new Republican gerrymander on the grounds that it unlawfully discriminates against racial minorities. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...