Pat Hicks

This is how we fight Trump and Musk. 3.5% of Americans is 11,000,000 people. On May 11th at 11:00 we become the calvary. #11,000,000onthe11th bbc.com/future/article…

@SaraForTexLege Well, then you and I need to have a conversation about property taxes in the worst way.

I was super confident in November of 2024. I thought for sure we were going to win up and down the ballot. I was clearly wrong. My response was NOT to double down, my response was to force myself out of my bubble and into my community to hear what people were *actually* thinking and voting for. I am now thoroughly immersed in a bipartisan community where we have agreed that the elections in Texas will swing on 4 issues: Public education Property taxes Healthcare access and affordability Cost of living That’s it. That’s what voters in Texas are asking for, and what they will vote for. Voters in 2024 didn’t care about Project 2025 because Covid inflation had whacked them and we simply did not do a good enough job communicating the steps we had taken to recover. Democrats ran on saving DEMOCRACY when the general population was just out here trying to save MONEY. So for those exact same reasons, you sound about as informed now as I was in October of 2024. People who are trying to feed their families and fill their gas tanks don’t care about fringe statements or a candidate’s dietary preferences. Hard days are ahead for Republicans. Clock it.

BREAKING: The latest whistleblower report re: DOGE’s alleged compromise of SSA’s databases has dire implications for the Trump-backed so-called “Save America Act,” which requires that all 50 states submit their voter registration lists to the DHS’s “Save” voter purge system that depends on SSA’s data. I’ve updated my summary of the Act to reflect this underreported connection. 1/ #NoOnSave #ProtectOurVotes

Does jiu jitsu involve punching yourself in the face?

Elon Musk gets property tax abatements in Texas and we don’t. Oh, and his data centers are sucking our state dry. Thanks, Abbott.

Trump has "TDS" "Talarico Derangement Syndrome"!🤪

Trump went on an unhinged rant against James Talarico this morning. Republicans are scared of losing Texas. While Trump is spending his Sunday morning being hateful towards James, James is spending his Sunday morning loving his neighbor and God at church

Bob Mueller was one of the finest directors in the history of the FBI, transforming the bureau after 9/11 and saving countless lives. But it was his relentless commitment to the rule of law and his unwavering belief in our bedrock values that made him one of the most respected public servants of our time. Michelle and I send our condolences to Bob’s family, and everyone who knew and admired him.

That's too optimistic. If everything went right, and it will not, we will be a full DECADE of coming out of the shitshow worst President in history. A decade.

TSA is largely funded by a tax on every ticket. It adds $5.60 to every one-way ticket & $11.20 to roundtrips. Everyone in line right now is already paying the TSA fee, even for free reward travel. The government has previously diverted that money to the Treasury. Pay the agents.

@FurkanGozukara coincidence?

Absolute bombshell. FBI files prove Epstein top recruiter Jean Luc Brunel offered to flip and expose the entire trafficking ring for immunity. The DOJ completely ignored him to protect the elites until he was found dead in a prison.

Here’s what nobody tells you about being the most powerful man on earth. At some point, you stop being powerful. And then, rather inconveniently, everything you did while you were powerful becomes somebody else’s problem to sort out. Donald Trump is currently in year two of his second term. He has renamed a cultural institution after himself, closed it, unleashed what can generously be described as a paramilitary immigration force on his own cities, and apparently authorised military strikes where survivors were finished off in the water. He did all of this with the serene confidence of a man who has never once faced a consequence. And here’s the thing. Domestically, he may be right. His own Supreme Court essentially invented a new legal principle specifically for him, which is a level of judicial favouritism that would make even a dodgy FIFA referee blush. But the International Criminal Court did not get that memo. Neither did Germany. Neither did the Netherlands. And critically, neither did Scotland, where Trump owns a golf course he may never visit again without a very awkward phone call from The Hague. Rodrigo Duterte thought he was untouchable too. He is currently attending his war crimes trial via video link from a detention cell in the Netherlands. Which is, one has to admit, not how most people picture retirement. His cabinet will spend the next several decades buried in lawsuits, disbarment proceedings and foreign legal complications. There will be no quiet farm. No memoirs tour in London. No honorary degrees. Just paperwork. Eternal, relentless, internationally sourced paperwork.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ Stay connected, Follow Gandalv @Microinteracti1

@Microinteracti1 @DoesnGood Beautiful.

Robert Mueller died last night. He was 81 years old. He had a wife who loved him for sixty years. He had two daughters, one of whom he met for the first time in Hawaii, in 1969, on a few hours of military leave, before he got back on the plane and returned to Vietnam. He had grandchildren. He had a faith he practiced quietly, without performance. He had, in the way of men who have seen real things and survived them, a quality that is increasingly rare and increasingly mocked in the country he spent his life serving. He had integrity. And tonight the President of the United States said good! I have been sitting with that word for hours now. Good. One syllable. The thing you say when the coffee is hot or the traffic is moving. The thing a man who has never had to bury anyone, never had to sit in the specific silence of a room where someone is newly absent, reaches for when he wants the world to know he is satisfied. Good. The daughters are crying and the wife is alone in the house and good. I want to speak directly to the Americans reading this. Not the political Americans. Just the human ones. The ones who have lost a father. The ones who know what it is to be in that first hour, when you keep forgetting and then remembering again, when ordinary objects become unbearable, when the world outside the window seems obscene in its indifference. I want to ask you, simply, to hold that feeling for a moment, and then to understand that the man you elected looked at it and typed a single word. Good. This is not a country having a bad day. I need you to understand that. Countries have bad days. Elections go wrong. Leaders disappoint. Institutions bend. But there is a different thing, a rarer and more terrible thing, that happens when the moral center of a place simply gives way. Not dramatically. Not with a single catastrophic event. But quietly, in increments, until one evening a president celebrates the death of an old man whose family is still warm with grief, and enough people find it acceptable that it becomes the weather. Just the weather. That is what is happening. That is what has happened. The world knows. From Tokyo to Oslo, from London to Buenos Aires, people are not angry at America tonight. Anger would mean there was still something to fight for, some remaining faith to be betrayed. What I see, in the reactions from everywhere that is not here, is something older and sadder than anger. It is the look people get when they have waited a long time for someone they love to find their way back, and have finally understood that they are not coming. America is being grieved. Past tense, almost. The idea of it. The thing it represented to people who had nothing else to believe in, who came here with everything they owned in a single bag because they had heard, somehow, across an ocean, that this was the place where decency was written into the walls. That idea is not resting. It is not suspended. It is being buried, in real time, with 7,450 likes before dinner. And the church said nothing. Seventy million people have decided that this man, this specific man who has cheated everyone he has ever made a promise to, who has mocked the disabled and the dead and the grieving, who celebrated tonight while a family wept, is an instrument of God. The pastors who made that bargain did not just trade away their credibility. They traded away the thing that made them worth listening to in the first place. The cross they carry now is a costume. The faith they preach is a loyalty oath with scripture attached. When the history of American Christianity is written, this will be the chapter they skip at seminary. Now I want to talk about the men who stand next to him. Because this is the part that actually breaks my heart. JD Vance is not a bad man. I have to say that, because it is true, and because the truth matters even now, especially now. Marco Rubio is not a bad man. Lindsey Graham is not a bad man. They are idiots, but not bad, as in BAD! These are men with mothers who raised them and children who love them and friends who remember who they were before all of this. They are not monsters. Monsters are simple. Monsters do not cost you anything emotionally because there is nothing in them to mourn. These men are something more painful than monsters. They are men who knew better, and know better still, and will get up tomorrow and do it again. Every small compromise they made had a reason. Every moment they looked the other way had a justification that sounded, at the time, almost reasonable. And now they have arrived here, at a place where a president celebrates the death of an old man and they will find a way, on television, to say nothing that means anything, and they will go home to houses where children who carry their name are waiting, and they will say goodnight, and they will say nothing. Their oldest friends are watching. The ones who knew Rubio when he still believed in something. Who knew Graham when he said, out loud, on the record, that this exact man would destroy the Republican Party and deserve it. Who sat next to Vance and thought here is someone worth knowing. Those friends are not angry tonight. They moved through anger a long time ago. What they feel now is the quiet, irrecoverable sadness of watching someone disappear while still being present. Of watching a person they loved choose, again and again, to become less. That is what cowardice costs. Not the coward. The people who loved him. And in the comments tonight, the followers celebrate. People who ten years ago brought casseroles to grieving neighbours. Who stood in the rain at gravesides and meant the words they said. Who told their children that we do not speak ill of the dead because the dead were someone's beloved. Those people are tonight typing gleeful things about a man whose daughters are not yet done crying. And they feel clean doing it. Righteous. Because somewhere along the way the thing they were given in exchange for their decency was the feeling of belonging to something, and that feeling is very hard to give up even when you can no longer remember what you gave for it. When Trump is gone, they will still be here. Standing in the silence where the noise used to be. Without the permission the crowd gave them. Without the pastor who told them their cruelty was holy. They will be alone with what they said and what they cheered and what they chose to become, and there will be no one left to tell them it was righteous. That morning is coming. Robert Mueller flew across the Pacific on military leave to hold his newborn daughter for a few hours before returning to the war. He came home. He buried his dead with honour. He served presidents of both parties because he understood that the institution was larger than any one man. He told his grandchildren that a lie is the worst thing a person can do, that a reputation once lost cannot be recovered, and he lived that, every day, in the quiet and unglamorous way of people who actually believe what they say. He was the kind of American the world used to point to when it needed to believe the story was true. He died last night. His wife is alone in their house in Georgetown. His daughters are learning what the world is without him in it. And somewhere in the particular hush that falls over a family in the first hours of loss, the most powerful man and the biggest loser on earth sent a message to say he was glad. The world that loved what America was supposed to be is grieving tonight. Not for Robert Mueller only. For the country that produced him and then became this. For the distance between what was promised and what was delivered. For the suspicion, growing quieter and more certain with each passing month, that the America people believed in was always partly a story, and the story is over now, and there is nothing yet to replace it. That is all it needed to be. A man died. His family is broken open with grief. That is all it needed to be. Instead the President said good. And the country that once stood for something looked away 🇺🇸 Gandalv / @Microinteracti1

I just officially became a delegate to the Texas State Democratic Convention where we Will officially nominate James Talarico to be the next Senator from Texas. I'm so excited!

3-time Trump voter in Texas: “I’ve supported Mr. Trump in every election that he’s been a part of. We just never thought that this would come and affect us in the construction industry, but most importantly affect our economy here in South Texas”

.@JDVance owner Peter Thiel, says America is like Weimar Germany in the 1920s: “Liberalism is exhausted… Democracy whatever that is, is exhausted… so we have to start talking far outside the Overton Window.” Holy shit. He is literally taking Hitler’s side to justify himself. This was precisely what the Nazis tried to sell to Germans, that Weimar was “too liberal” and needed “strong leadership” to save it from degeneracy. To make this super clear, Thiel’s doing this at a talk to promote German philosopher Carl Schmitt, who was a prominent member of the Nazi Party. youtu.be/vfbndRTlsg4?si… I cannot emphasize enough that this psychopath will be running the country if we don’t protect this election. #PFT

🚨 Epstein’s accountant just testified under oath: The Epstein estate settled with Jane Doe 4 — for both Epstein and Trump. Jane Doe 4 alleged to the FBI that Epstein abused her at 13. And that Trump abused her at 15. The Jane Doe 4 files were missing. Discovered only through the Maxwell discovery when lawyers noticed Bates stamp numbers were gone. Those files surfaced after Trump bombed Iran. The lawyer tried to walk back the settlement testimony. The accountant refused to confirm or deny. Trump started a war the same week the Epstein names were supposed to drop. Never stop connecting the dots.

Could we make a law that presidential candidates must be fully knowledgeable in Constitutional law?

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