Cartoonist: Rick McKee

Reminder that, while Texas is a political hellhole, its cities are by and large pretty cool. (Dallas excepted.)

Interesting take on Platner

Let’s build on these successes

New rule, if you're a "how is diversity our strength???" dipshit you are not allowed to root for the team whose star player is an agnostic biracial frenchman representing a majority hispanic city bsky.app/profile/eric...

It's like the parable of the scorpion and the frog but they're both scorpions

Wow

“The Travis County Republicans Facebook group is in disarray as it grapples with a problem: too many members are posting positive things about state Rep. James Talarico, the Democratic nominee for Texas’ contested U.S. Senate seat.” 😹

Today is International Children's Day. "There can be no keener revelation of a society's soul than the way in which it treats its children." — Nelson Mandela

truly impossible to overstate how bad things are if a self-described conservative republican at scalia law is even considering not working for a republican federal government

An inspiring afternoon with @jamestalarico.bsky.social

Because they are concerned not with the experiences of American families but the profitability of the credit card companies

And there you have it!

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Nevada's largest utility says it will need three times the electricity required to power Las Vegas just to handle proposed data centers — and it probably can't do that without fossil fuels. https://to.pbs.org/4c0Eh6n

Good grief. Banning for-profit prisons needs to be near the top of our list of reforms.

A timeline documenting Trump and Epstein's relationship appeared this morning in NYC, on the corner of Mulberry & Grand 👀

Not passing up a chance to grift

Some Voyager episodes now come across as AI propaganda

105 yrs ago tonight and tomorrow, an organized and resentful White mob raged through the African-American neighborhood of Greenwood in Tulsa, Oklahoma—known as “Black Wall Street” for its wealth—burning and looting 35 city blocks, massacring up to 300 African-Americans, and leaving 10,000 homeless.

AI is on the ballot this fall.

Mad Magazine, 1991. They knew even then. Great argument in favor of time travel. #USDemocracy #Voices4Victory

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The Teapot Dome — considered the worst U.S. corruption scandal for a century. One Bribe. One Cabinet official. One transaction. Trump is using the DOJ, insider information, and the legislative process simultaneously to build a corrupt huge financial empire. Trump Must Be Impeached

Thanks Debbie Trump is an obsequious vassal to Putin.

The World Cup is about celebrating exotic host nation cultures

We’ve been in a Great Powers dynamic for more than 30 yrs

America is ruled by losers. Trump: "I always like to hang out with losers because it makes me feel better. I hate guys that are very, very successful and you have to listen to their success stories. I like people that like to listen to my success. ... I'm only kidding, sorta."

The Republicans in Texas have been governing by ideology rather than evidence for decades.

The IDF continuing what they did in Gaza

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Great meeting of the Alliance for Texas History at TCU. The interest and enthusiasm for inclusive, inquiring history is alive and well in Texas.

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The reason the war doesn’t end and prices don’t come down and people are losing health insurance and the measles is spreading is that all the White House does is corruption 24/7.

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on this day in 1953 "Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay become the first people to reach the summit of Mount Everest."

24 House districts in Harris County. Let’s do this!

Great headline

You can bulk edit all your videos to turn this off btw!

“.. Even if the conflict were to be resolved today,” he said, effects would hit the food system “well into late summer and the fall,” or even 2027 .. @bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Well played

What’s more humiliating than having to settle for a bunch of washed-up D-listers for your big marquee anniversary event? When even THOSE folks decide they don’t want to be associated with you.

For anyone in the Austin area: The Austin Civic Orchestra is giving its annual Pops concerts at Zilker next weekend (6/5 and 6/6). They're free to attend. austincivicorchestra.org/event/park-2... In particular, paging @andreagrimes.com, @somewhereinatx.bsky.social, and @evilmopacatx.bsky.social

Instead of a school to prison pipeline, why not make the prison part of school?

I have seen this point made several times in the past few weeks and I really think it's a solid campaign theme for Democrats.