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Happy Texas Independence Day VOTE Love your neighbors, treat all w respect & humility Protect nature, preserve what we have for future generations Follow science, stay curious "Texas has yet to learn submission to any oppression, come from what source it may” -Sam Houston

Donald Trump’s son takes a large financial stake in an online gun delivery company. The Trump admin looks to change the rules, allowing for online gun ordering and delivery. This isn’t a coincidence. This is more shameless Trump family corruption. meidasnews.com/news/donald-tr…

When we came into office, we uncovered a $12 billion budget deficit. Today, I’m proud to say we brought it down to zero. We didn’t close the gap on the backs of working people. We closed it while funding parks, libraries, safer streets and making historic investments in public housing. Call it Pothole Politics. Call it Democratic Socialism. It's government that delivers for the people who make this city run. That’s what New Yorkers deserve. And that’s what we will keep fighting for every single day.

Joe Biden was actually a pretty good President. He was flawed. But there were some real strengths too. Most of the criticism of him is fake. He didn't have "open borders," and he actually had a strong economy and led us out of Covid pretty amazingly. The first two years were two of the most productive years of any Congress since LBJ. People forget that. Yes, he funded Israel's genocide and that's a very big black mark against him. I'm not excusing that. But that doesn't change the positives. That's one of the problems we have now. Democrats have to be sainted and flawless while Republicans can be pedo-apologists.

The industrious people of Texas are bringing in companies from Israel and Canada to build their water supply and sell them water in perpetuity

According to the UFO Files scientists at NASA recently decoded an alien radio signal that originated over 8 billion years ago around the time the Universe was formed. It said: "Iran is two weeks away from having a nuclear weapon"

Goes w/o saying that if Joe Biden ever showed this level of dismissiveness toward the financial suffering of Americans, the entire media industrial complex would have collapsed on itself like a dying star in outrage but it's Trump, so this won't even be remembered by the weekend.

It was great joining @JamesTalarico and @GinaHinojosaTX today in Texas. They're working hard to make a difference in the lives of all Texans, and will be able to do even more as your next Senator and Governor. Let’s get it done, Texas!

TRUMP: We have a ballroom that's under budget. It's going up right here. I've doubled the size of it because we obviously need that. REPORTER: The price doubled TRUMP: I doubled the size of it, you dumb person. You are not a smart person.

It never stops boggling my mind that the Trump family--while raking in billions of dollars from oil barons abroad in corrupt quid-pro-quo cash--still goes to the additional trouble of all these little rinkydink schemes to bilk the truest MAGA believers out of $50 here, $100 there

EXCLUSIVE: Former Texas Lottery Executive Director Gary Grief was indicted in Travis County last month on a first-degree felony charge of abuse of official capacity involving more than $300,000. The indictment was dismissed a day later “at the prosecutorial discretion” of an assistant district attorney, according to court records

Trump April 23: I contacted people "that have worked for me in the past, doing swimming pools," and one gave me a great price on the Reflecting Pool project Trump May 4: "I have some very good contractors," asked three of them to "do me a favor fellas" and go look at the Reflecting Pool, and the best one gave me a great price Trump today: The Reflecting Pool contract "went to a contractor I did not know, and have never used before"

President Obama just appeared at a taco restaurant in Austin with @jamestalarico and @GinaHinojosaTX. They chatted with restaurant goers and as he left, Obama said, “remember to vote!” to big cheers:

Yes! They in fact do all taste different and serve different purposes. Let me explain, the more intact you keep an onion; rings, frenched, half moons, julienne; the more of their full flavor you preserve. There’s a membrane in between onion layers (you may know it as that “slimy” thing you have to dry off). This membrane keeps the layers from essentially dissolving into themselves, and keep sugars and acids in.

Kinda funny that Texas is forcing public schools to put up the 10 commandments while my synagogue has this post up on the wall

It's hard to explain just how detached from reality President Trump's conspiracy-theory-filled social media posting spree last night and this morning was. One easy example: The president shared a completely made-up and frankly nonsensical "quote" about former president Obama the post attributed to GOP Sen. John Kennedy. The fake quote originated with a "satire" website, basically a fakery factory, that invents stories to be shared by online conservatives; per the fact-check website Lead Stories, versions of this particular fake quote have been wrongly attributed to everyone from Kash Patel to Madonna. leadstories.com/hoax-alert/202…

I happen to be reading Lord Chesterfield's letters to his son, written in the 18th century. There are a ton of letters and, frankly, most of them are quite boring. But this passage from a letter he wrote in October 1748 stuck out to me. It feels pertinent to the discourse about the coming Swatch x Audemars Piguet collaboration, which has some people feeling a certain way. An excerpt from his letter: "What the French justly call les maniéres nobles are only to be acquired in the very best companies. They are the distinguishing characteristics of men of fashion; people of low education never wear them so close, but that some part or other of the original vulgarism appears. Les maniéres nobles equally forbid insolent contempt, or low envy and jealousy. Low people in good circumstances, fine clothes, and equipages, will insolently show contempt for all those who cannot afford as fine clothes, as good an equipage, and who have not (as their term is) as much money in their pockets: on the other hand, they are gnawed with envy, and cannot help discovering it, of those who surpass them in any of these articles, which are far from being sure criterions of merit. They are likewise jealous of being slighted; and consequently suspicious and captious; they are eager and hot about trifles because trifles were, at first, their affairs of consequence. Les maniéres nobles imply exactly the reverse of all this. Study them early; you cannot make them too habitual and familiar to you." In plainer, more modern English, Chesterfield here says that people of truly high status exhibit emotional discipline and a generosity of spirit, so that they never sneer downward or seethe upward. They are not concerned with small rank signals, such as who is wearing what. Bristling at whether someone is wearing a cheaper version of your watch, and thus possibly diluting your status, is itself a mark of low character and thus status. I should add that, when you read Chesterfield's letters, you find him to be often very self-serving. He's not concerned about morality for its own sake, but how the appearance of virtue frames him as a gentleman (and therefore a man of higher status). But I found the passage above to be nice, nonetheless.

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@NoContextBrits Bro out here repackaging tweets from 3 years ago:

Some will get this.

Gina Hinojosa at the Texas House Public Education committee calling out how the STAAR test is ineffective for evaluating students, how AI in schools is experimenting w students education, and addressing public school closures? Put her as Governor now! Texas needs her leadership

Every time I go to Houston, I enjoy it immensely - even if/when the weather is awful. It's such a culturally and economically vibrant place at all levels of society. It's also extremely lush in many older neighborhoods with all the live oaks and occasional palms.

@JamesTate121 Gotta get that diaper money; good on her for calling the bluff

For eight years, Ashley St. Clair was a paid soldier inside the MAGA influence machine — posting from Mar-a-Lago, coordinating talking points, and building the infrastructure of right-wing online outrage. Now she's on TikTok releasing the screenshots. White House officials. Private group chats. Thousands of dollars per post, deposited to personal accounts. Behind NDAs. She estimates 99 percent of the largest right-wing influencers are compensated — and none of it is disclosed, because courts have ruled political speech doesn't require the same transparency as commercial advertising. This is not a conspiracy theory. This is a confession. From someone who ran the operation. The Logical Leftist breaks down exactly how the MAGA influence machine works — and what happens when one of its architects finally talks. Watch: youtu.be/PkFwe0X0nh4