I am granting a full pardon to The Hamburglar. (same effect)

Note to Dustin Burrows and the #txlege Democrats who have kept his speakership alive: turns out you don’t actually have to be a coward!

The Missouri secretary of state is stepping into full-on lawlessness: missouriindependent.com/2025/12/09/m...

For less than 50% of the money spent on Wendy Davis in 2014, Beto O’Rourke in 2018 & 22, and Collin Allred in 2024, we could have funded a decade + of party-building, progressive infrastructure, and independent progressive journalism in Texas.

They’re clearly plugging this dude into an IV regularly and, if this were Biden, there would be demands for weekly hour long press conferences from his doctors on his health. But that’s not how authoritarianism works so stop asking questions already.

I consider myself very fortunate to have spent just a hair of time around Dave Richards. I’ve been waiting for someone in Texas journalism to write a remembrance worthy of such a great person. This piece doesn’t disappoint.

Court records show that Cory Mills's company PACEM has privately shipped lethal munitions—including to Ukraine—while Mills has sat on both the House Armed Services and Foreign Affairs committees, @sollenbergerrc.bsky.social writes sollenbergerrc.substack.com/p/george-san...

death cult

no fly list but just for people who watch videos on their phone on planes without headphones

Disgusting and embarrassing from Jeffries.

Totally uniformed wild speculation: 1. Webb Co judge gets in the race. 2. Cuellar gets the pardon. 3. Cuellar drops out. 4. Very hard this late for a good D to put together a real campaign. 5. Webb Co judge gets the seat for the Rs.

Jason Lee Van Dyke was once a leader of the Proud Boys, has posted racist threats online, and sports a white nationalist tattoo. Now he’s running for public office as a Republican. thebarbedwire.com/2025/12/02/j...

More recently, Semafor hosted Megyn Kelly as a key speaker in one of their "restoring trust in news" conferences

Todd Snider w/ Jerry Jeff Walker, Jason Isbell, Amanda Shires - "Mr. Bojangles" www.youtube.com/watch?v=5QdW...

follow friday The Good Olivia @oliviamesser.bsky.social

democrats love all their moderate, progressive, and top-of-the-distribution leaders <3 they can all live in harmony together under a big diverse tent if they restore regional party identities and stop the circular firing squad on nationalized media <3

Ken Starr, immediately after being fired for his role in the coverup of sexual abuse at Baylor: I should reach out to convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein this happened! this is a thing that happened!

This seems like the most straightforward and also basically accurate message.

Senator AOC is definitely going to be an improvement

Whenever in the past 5-6 years anyone says “watched anything good lately?” my response is universally “have you watched PATRIOT on Amazon they only made two seasons but it’s one of the best shows ever made.” This is service journalism from @clairemcnear.bsky.social

Disappointed to see the lack of evidence on a Tylenol/autism link described this way—and by a reporter who normally does good health coverage. There is no causal evidence here, and any story on the subject should make that fact clear. www.texastribune.org/2025/10/28/t...

"experts say" www.cnn.com/2025/08/11/b...

As CNN offers daylong saturation coverage of the podcaster’s funeral, I went back and checked to see how CNN covered Melissa Hortman’s memorial on 6/28, where Walz spoke and Biden/Harris attended. It got about four minutes during the hours it was happening—less than Jeff Bezos’s wedding that day.

Trump wants the Taliban to give Bagram to the ghost of, like, Gorbachev???

NYT: “Tom Homan, who was later named President Trump’s border czar, was recorded in Sept 2024 accepting a bag with $50,000 in cash in an undercover F.B.I. investigation, according to people familiar with the case, which was later shut down by Trump admin.” www.nytimes.com/2025/09/20/u...

I was reliably told celebrating political violence was cause for government reprisal and private sector termination.

If you’re rich and not a coward, this is what you’d refer to as a “market opportunity” to dominate a media ecosystem that’s about to be covered in grotesque government slop. To be a pop of color in a sea of beige will be easier than ever. People will flock to it. You gotta be a little brave, though.

One thing I wish all Democrats knew is that we don't expect you to be fearless. We expect you to be brave. Bravery is not the absence of fear. It is being afraid and moving ahead anyway. If you find that you are neither, then it is time to step aside. There are people who can do this job ably.

Patriot aired only 2 seasons on Amazon Prime and is one of the top 10 televisions ever produced.

Wild. The political murders of legislators in Minnesota were “killings.” The shooting of Kirk which cause is unknown is an “assassination.” They bend the knee without even being asked.

Just last month the FBI forced out its top agent in Salt Lake City, a Pakistani American woman whom a former FBI agent describes as a “legendary case agent who was involved in some of the most significant national security cases of the last two decades.” www.msnbc.com/msnbc/amp/rc...

Spencer Cox: "Our nation is broken. We had political assassinations recently in Minnesota. We had an attempted assassination on the gov of Pennsylvania. And we had an attempted assassination on a president. Nothing I say can unite us as a country. Nothing I can say right now can fix what is broken"

Political violence tears at the fabric of our democracy. This is horrible and wrong. My thoughts are with Charlie Kirk and his family.

Experts Say The Gun is Smoking. These Trump Supporters Aren’t So Sure.

This is the official spokesperson for the White House, stating that the President hopes to deploy the United States military to occupy every city controlled by the political party that opposes him. Explicitly.

This is awfully ominous.

Two things are true: 1. This isn't an image DHS created. They're (troll-ing-ly) turning a Spectator cover *into* a recruitment poster here, which isn't indicated in the screenshot below. 2. Not sure why DHS would promote an image where the officers are wearing…historically distinctive…helmets.

THE ICE AGENTS ARE WEARING FUCKING NAZI STAHLHELMS WHAT THE FUCK COME ON, YOU CAN'T MAKE THIS SHIT UP

Not to mention Texas Democrats’ candidate for Governor.

“SEAL Team 6 launched a failed operation in a nuclear armed country run by a mad man, but don’t worry, nobody told me, the President, anything about it” — Trump’s reflexive denial not really doing him any favors here.

Credulous media will cost us the Republic

Also, no. The Dept of War was something entirely different — it was just the Army. There was a separate Dept of the Navy. (Also, it was never an agency.) The DoD brought together both and added the Air Force and the structure of the Joint Chiefs. This tweet is wrong in a bunch of ways that matter.

which is true? who can say, we're just a news outlet

apology on behalf of arch manning

there is an airline pilot sitting next to me on this flight and he’s currently alternating between watching racist videos on Twitter and sexting someone in like 40 point font

Southwest Airlines you suck so so so much.

EXCLUSIVE: Court docs appear to show that married Trump DoD appointee Anthony Tata had a 'casual sexual relationship as well as a professional relationship' with astrology influencer Amy Tripp, aka Starheal, investing in her company, Starheal LLC, for 5 percent equity. www.thecut.com/article/astr...

This is the key point lefties gotta embrace when it comes to building journalism/media projects. It’s not hacky to say abortion is healthcare, climate change is real, gun violence is bad, and queer people & immigrants are human beings, because those things are TRUE. And journalism should be true!