The last time Phil Gramm faced a Republican primary opponent in Texas was 1996.

Trump is now paying these people with your money.

Just sitting here getting all spun up. Lauren McGaughy is a great reporter and a Texan. She knows this isn’t a real controversy. The existence of this piece is proof that fake Republican outrage has a seat at the NYT editorial desk.

Potato egg cheese is almost always the #1 option and at the top of the menu for breakfast tacos in Texas. Embarrassing shit

I’m enraged but not surprised that the New York Times is stupid enough to fall for the Talarico taco bullshit. Literally NO PERSON IN TEXAS is outraged by a potato egg and cheese.

The FBI visited the home of the elections director in Milwaukee, in the context of the Trump administration trying to build more investigations into Trump's loss in the 2020 election: www.nbcnews.com/politics/ele...

Jared Woodfill, the former chair of the largest local Republican Party in Texas, *allegedly* played a Ghislaine Maxwell-type groomer-recruiter role for a monstrous sexual predator and AFTER that story became public the Texas GOP chair and Ken Paxton both ENDORSED WOODFILL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

As a Jew who opposes the Netanyahu imperialist apartheid state: this is a good thread!

It’s important to note that Austin’s #1 Loser Matt Mackowiack is *both* a liar and VERY STUPID.

Krueger Industrial Smoothing-ass government

10 years ago this did was a back bench nobody in the Texas House of Representatives and before that he got hit in the head for a living.

Countdown to an Abbott / Patrick / Burrows presser on, I dunno, an “immigration caravan” or “cartel terrorists” or some such bullshit soon.

New from me @notus.com: Internally, FBI agents are now referring to a "payback squad" based in NY or DC. Its remit? Targeting former government officials. www.notus.org/trump-white-...

I would bet folding money that the analyst behind this particular bit of bullshit shipped their oars and got paid to let the AI assistant write it.

New photos reveal that Brock Pierce cut the ribbon for Trump's golden statue of himself at Trump's golf resort. Brock Pierce was a close friend of Jeffrey Epstein's and emailed him in 2012 that he "had a great time with the girls."

NEW: ChatGPT advised the FSU shooter that a mass shooting would get more attention from media if it involved several children, according to a new lawsuit against OpenAI www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

Sharyl Attkisson thought Obama hacked her computer when the delete key got stuck. I’m not kidding. Link below. She is incredibly stupid. I’ve followed her “work” for over decade because she was also one of the few media people who took the antivax movement’s most crank theories seriously.

“The US Navy fleet is destroyed during the war in Iran while President Trump looks on.”

AOC on possibly running for the Senate or President: They assume my ambition is a title or a seat. My ambition is way bigger than that. My ambition is to change this country. Presidents come and go, elected officials come and go, single payer healthcare is forever.

this is the closest I've ever come to actually suggesting a "one neat trick" suggestion for anything, but I'm so serious here. the Virginia Constitution gives the legislature the power to set retirement ages for judges "REGARDLESS OF THE TERM TO WHICH ELECTED OR APPOINTED." make it 54 right now.

IDF soldier who participated in the mistaken killing of three Israeli hostages in Gaza City in Dec 2023 confirmed to his mother what was widely reported at the time: they killed the men, who were waving white flags, because their unit was under orders to kill all Gazan men they encountered.

This story is WILD. Juan Orlando Hernandez, the Honduran ex-president pardoned by Trump for narcotrafficking, seemingly caught on tape in dozens of conversations (if true), discussing plans with GOP and other figures to attack left-wing governments, and saying Israel paid for his pardon from Trump.

Not just colleges and universities. My kids’ middle school is in the hack too.

We can’t nominate any Democrat who doesn’t put Supreme Court reform at the top of their list.

Hasan Piker and Ryan Grim are now openly encouraging #MESEN presumptive Democratic nominee Graham Platner, who was Grim's bartender at the Tune Inn on Capitol Hill and had a Totenkopf tattoo until last year, to meet with Tucker Carlson, who has platformed numerous Nazi apologists over his career

Remember when you were, like, 9 years old and your folks would bring you to visit an elderly distant relative? Their house smelled weird and they rambled on and you just kinda stood there nodding until it was over? After you’d get to go to Dairy Queen for a dipped cone. That’s the White House now.

We’re still not sure @thebarbedwire.com will make it to its second birthday in August, but this has been some of the most important investigative reporting I’ve ever edited.

Look if you've got a better way to run a country than "putting an illiterate octogenarian bigot on TV every few days to free associate and complain, and then everyone tries to figure out if it means we're about to start a war or not" I'd love to hear it. But the constitution says this is it.

"For this focus group, conducted shortly before a sustained green glow began emanating from the station’s superlaser array, we spoke with residents who said they had backed Emperor Palpatine but now felt conflicted."

Solo is actually pretty good!

How the unreported killing of an American by ICE shattered two Texas families

Assume AI training for K-12 is a good idea. Schiff's bill, the LIFT AI Act, is a grant program for the National Science Foundation. The NSF has no director. The nominee is a Thiel acolyte with no science degrees. Trump just fired the entire Board that oversees NSF. No. Absolutely not.

Paul Pressler is one of the most influential figures you may have never heard of. The onetime judge remade the Southern Baptist Convention, and helped forge the marriage between the GOP and white evangelical voters. As he did so he also committed decades of alleged abuses. A long look at his legacy:

I do think it’s important to try to figure out what Tucker Carlson, a man with tremendous influence in conservative politics, acutely believes as we try to figure out what a post-Trump GOP looks like. I just don’t think asking him is the way to do it because he’s just going to lie to you.

Republicans easily held a state senate seat in Texas today, and significantly overperformed compared to the 2024 elections. In fact, it’s their second largest overperformance of the year, after a February special in Alabama, per @the-downballot.com docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

It's incredibly good that Abdul is doing this and incredibly important that pro-Palestine candidates do this as a general matter, even if they don't get sufficient credit.

I spend a lot of time enraged that rich progressives are too short-sighted and tightly wound to their own flawed messaging. All single races, not the long-term value of an educated public. They don’t think journalism is a good investment. @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social semafor.com/article/05/0...

Tarrytown / East Austin / South Congress

Another day, another miserably delayed Southwest flight. Is there anything hedge funds *can’t* make worse?

Republican who helped violently break the arm of Brian McGinnis — a US veteran speaking against Trump and Israel's war on Iran — is now pushing Congress to support Trump's ballroom to avoid "the threat of violence." "There is no place for political violence in America," he says.

(getting dressed up in a tuxedo to go see an 80-year old racist insult comic who is also a serial sex offender and also responsible for the deaths of innocents across the globe) I'm a journamalist!

No disrespect to Task & Purpose (which is a badass outlet you should read and support!) but I want the @jackmurphyrgr.bsky.social story on this. Was this dude in Delta? ISA? Was he a turd and everybody hated his guts already? Etc. Gimme the juicy shit.

New: The U.S. government detained and deported a 25-year-old man who says he’s a U.S. citizen earlier this month, after police stopped the vehicle he was riding in near Fredericksburg, then called immigration authorities when he couldn’t immediately provide identification or proof of citizenship.

another bombshell investigation from @thebarbedwire.com

Reporter: What do you make of Republicans saying that Virginia— AOC: Wah wah wah. We have asked Republicans for 10 years to ban partisan gerrymandering. And for 10 years, Republicans have said no. What they’re just mad at is that they have been accustomed to a Democratic Party that rolls over.

if you post this clip, you should also post clips from the same episode of him saying the 2020 election was stolen, the civil rights movement was “disgusting,” and trump can’t be racist bc he has sex with black women. tucker didn’t have a change of heart over trump; he had a change in strategy

Narrow Stairs is underrated Death Cab.

the eric adams-ification of John Whitmire continues apace ~ www.chron.com/culture/arti...

So much false equivalence in media on gerrymandering in Texas vs California & Virginia. California and Virginia maps approved by the voters. That's a huge difference not enough people pointing out