I think the reason I've been so upset about the Platner thing is like.....is that how people really see vets? PTSD-riddled damage cases not responsible for their own actions? Testosterone-poisoned bastards who are naturally aggressive towards women? Too stupid to avoid getting a Nazi tattoo?

I’m telling you Bernie and the Pod Save America boys are in the full throes of a sunk cost fallacy rationalization spiral. Anyone who was paying any attention whatsoever knew this guy had problems but they were invested and here we are. bsky.app/profile/dtwy...

“Acclaimed novelist John Irving won’t be travelling to the U.S. to promote his new book, because he thinks U.S. President Donald Trump has made his “beloved birth country virtually unrecognizable.” #Sheshed www.cbc.ca/radio/thecur...

Just a side note, you can opt your child out of any state-sponsored biblical instruction.

'Dumbo' shows how cruelty lands on someone who can’t fight back As the story unfolds you feel protective of him long before you feel impressed by him and Dumbo's unique diversity is the thing that frees him "Dumbocrats" isn't an insult take their elephant too

I just returned from college orientation w/twin #1, at a TX state university. I found a thing in the music bldg that reassured me a bit that Abbott & his goons haven't fully wiped out DEI initiatives at our universities. It's a small thing but it's still standing.

big part of the disconnect for people who are less familiar with cattle is they don't see the rear of the animal that's covered with shit as often as those of us who have raised beeves. nobody who has ever worked with cattle are under any illusions about how this happens.

Could you at least interview Rep. Tom Kean Jr. on these new policies? Find out what he thinks about people taking government money without working or proving they are too sick to work.

She looks pathetic in the end. "I traveled all the way to Wisconsin for this interview!" Whiny. What professional says something like that?

Twin #1 got his university housing assignment yesterday. His roommate and our cat have the same first name. I think it's a good omen.

Better Than the Usual News: Trump’s auction of oil leases in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge drew limited interest, with no major companies bidding and only two participants, who agreed to pay $3.7 million for five tracts.

Vengeance is all I want out of political life anymore. A better world? May my children build it. First, for us and for them, revenge.

GOP Rep. Louie Gohmert: “I think Ken Paxton is the most corrupt Attorney General we've had in my lifetime.”

Someone needs to track that man (the “son”) down & offer him a lifetime of private security (or witness protection) and far more money than the religious right may already be paying him to actually tell his TRUE story.

‘Men and boys need to see this’: Jo and Kush and the joy of Race Across the World

"This summer, more than half our population became second-class citizens. Every one of our neighbors with a uterus became the property of the State. And nothing is more un-Christian." - U.S. Representative James Talarico Senate Candidate, Texas

#Project2029 idea: 25 consecutive missed votes by a representative automatically vacates their seat and triggers a special election to replace them

This isn’t right v left or city v country. It’s Texans standing together against the Tech Barons that would pluck the wings of the American Eagle to feather their own nests.

Roll a monumental arch into D.C. hide healthcare inside

And since Busby was a man of faith, let me say that the death penalty is profane. In the Old Testament sense. If man is a creation of god, then caging and killing people is an affront to god. More practically, the death penalty is an irreversible endpoint of a DEEPLY flawed system. Abolish it.

Allred's excuse for voting with Republicans on the Laken Riley Act and the No Bailout for Sanctuary Cities bill is that Biden was president. Here's a news flash: Immigrant families always deserve due process protections. We need leaders with the moral clarity to stand up for what is right. #TX33

Imagine walking into the restroom at a national park to find someone field dressing a deer. As you tiptoe through blood pooled on the floor, you can't help noticing a sink full of fish guts covered by eleventy jillion flies.

This is the Canary. If you are in Tarrant County, you are on the frontline. Get involved. If you are in a safe blue space, consider supporting the candidates and orgs in Tarrant. This is the moment. open.substack.com/pub/christac...

If "influencers" who live everywhere but Texas are exhausting you 🧵 (It's helpful)

Don’t worry about James Comey. He’s a very smart wealthy man with great lawyers. He’ll be fine. This is being done to scare the rest of us. 🫩

A guy once posted that then-President Obama "will have a 50 cal in the head soon," and "shoot the nig." 9th Cir.: " It is difficult to see how a rational trier of fact could reasonably have found that either statement, on its face or taken in context, expresses a threat." 652 F. 3d 1113 (2011)

Unfortunately the GOP’s slogan is “Fuck them people”

Please god let this case go to a jury. I need to see “HANDBOOK SECTION: NO DOES NOT MEAN NO” blown up on a piece of posterboard.

Why would anyone in Abilene vote Republican when their future was bought and sold by Republicans in exchange for Billionaire money? Texans are coming for you Republicans. For selling the rest of us out. #TxLege open.substack.com/pub/lonestar...

My mom worked for the Railroad Commission for 30+ years. No one ever threatened to fire her after an election. Texans who serve the public shouldn’t have to fear for their livelihoods.

Failing that, I want to hear about people sacrificing their careers doing the wrong thing. I'm starved for consequences.

Like a Secret Service member. It'd be nice to hear of one of them doing the right thing.

Can we attack a country with a vast healthcare or grocery deposit after we get done stealing whatever these guys have

Evergreen t-shirt idea: "H-E-B did more for me last week than TxLege ever has."

If someone at the DNC isn’t already putting this in ads…why campaign when your opponent will do it for you?

Minesweeper: Strait of Hormuz edition

The Voucher Watchdog Reporting Portal is live: osod.org/voucher-watchdog-reporting-system/ Texans can confidentially report potential fraud, discrimination, misuse of public funds, & other concerns. Texans deserve transparency about this $1b taxpayer-funded voucher program. #txed #txlege

These pro-Crockett ads say they are paid for by "American Sovereignty." As MoJo has reported, this is a right-wing group that ran pro-ICE ads during the Super Bowl, whose operatives have ties to Elon Musk's America PAC www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Holy moly East Texas, who knew!

Anyone who says something like this clearly knows nothing about Jame Talarico. The man has an established record in the Texas Legislature. He's not going to move to the right. He believes firmly in separation of church & state. I know this, and I'm an atheist.

Texas Young Democrats ENDORSE @jamestalarico.bsky.social!

State‑of‑the‑Union: - Concentration camp network - Roving detention squads - Surveillance state expanded - Rival violence normalized - Citizens shot - Free press silenced - Healthcare gutted - Affordability crisis - Abortion rights stripped - Constitution ignored - Courts captured and complicit ...

After two days of EV in Tarrant County, the momentum continues. After day 1, Dems outvoted Reps by 1,843 votes. After two days of EV, Dems have outvoted Reps by 3,770 votes. 👀

It makes sense that Rick Perry endorsed John Cornyn because they both failed meats.

New from @stevanzetti.bsky.social: In court filings, prosecutors have cited protesters’ all-black clothing, zines and flyers they possessed, their use of the encrypted messaging app Signal, even possession of first aid kits and Faraday bags to argue that they were part of a criminal conspiracy.

Let’s build a Habitat for Humanity house in Northern Colorado! Viewers have raised $50,000 in one time donations. And monthly donors to the Word of Thanks Fund will kick in about $50,000 more. I’ll match the next fifty $5 donations to @GreeleyHabitat: give.greeleyhabitat.org/campaigns/43...

Dataset 11 doc 2730274 lists an Anal Wand Fork Handle in an index I'm so sorry I looked that up