Amber Puga

Ken Paxton is the most corrupt politician in America.  He embodies the broken system we’re running against. It’s time to come together: The People vs. Ken Paxton

It’s amazing. Chip Roy and John Cornyn both trump boot lickers, still thrown to the wolves. You either have to be 100 percent committed to the cult, or you’re out. If you want to walk a line, you’ll get crushed. But telling the truth and doing right will free your soul

@unclebarkycom Trump shows loyalty and uses people for his advantage.

Cornyn kissed Trump's ass until the very last second of his campaign. But in the early going, MAGA Texans are blindly following the endorsement of Paxton by their exalted lord & savior. Looks very much like it will be Talarico vs a Trump clone who likewise is a corrupt adulterer.

Guiding Arsenal to their first Premier League title in 22 years 🔝 Mikel Arteta is your @barclaysfooty Manager of the Season 👏

"Based on what I've heard" means "According to my baseless fantasies." The budget deficit last year was $1.8 trillion. The claim that there's $1.8 trillion in fraudulent payments is the same kind of delusion/lie that explains why DOGE was such a failure.

John Cornyn sold his soul to MAGA. Ken Paxton never had a soul to begin with. It’s Talarico or bust here in Texas.

@mavsmarie RFK JR is a idiot

at this point SNL can’t even make up this type of shit

@scottbraddock I am sure glad I voted absentee.

From a volunteer for Cornyn's campaign talking about Paxton supporters today: "I worked a local polling location with a Cornyn sign. In 20 years of doing this I have NEVER been treated so poorly. A guy tried to spit on me. What the actual fuck"

Always harming our veterans.

As though they had not been doing everything possible to sow distrust in our democratic institutions...that is the autocratic playbook.

Two Trump judges blocked this discriminatory map—it’s a good first step, but probably won’t hold with this Supreme Court.

@JVMonte2 A Day In The Life

The Beatles released their eighth album “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band” on this day in 1967. Its release was a defining moment in pop culture and has since sold more than 32 million copies worldwide. What are your thoughts on this album? Favourite tracks? #Beatles

A vengeful, corrupt, selfish, boastful man, much loved and admired by 30% of Americans

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We’re calling it: The war in Ukraine has entered a new phase. @KatStepanenko and I have authored a new special report studying how Ukraine is actively challenging the positional character of the war that has dominated the battlefield since 2023. Data on Russia’s battlefield performance indicates that the character of the war is shifting in favor of Ukrainian forces – at least for now. Russian forces rates of advances are stagnating while Ukrainian forces are employing novel tactics and operational concepts in efforts to break out of positional warfare. Neither Russia nor Ukraine can conduct operational maneuvers yet, however. The bottom line is that the war in Ukraine is competitive and far from stalemated. Ukrainian forces are out-innovating Russian forces in both military technologies and in applying these new technologies in effective operational concepts that can help Ukrainian forces break out of positional warfare. Ukraine is employing mechanized equipment in tactical maneuvers in ways that were impossible 12 months ago. Russia’s ability to conduct infiltration missions will likely continue to degrade as Ukraine’s intermediate-range strike campaign pushes Russia’s logistics and forward operating bases further away from the frontlines, reducing resourcing to sustain infantry tasked with infiltration missions. Ukraine may be able to scale these effects if they resourced properly by international partners. Ukraine’s advantage in intermediate range strikes is notably not permanent, and Russia will very likely eventually develop countermeasures to mitigate Ukraine’s advantages. Ukraine’s international partners thus have a rare and temporary opportunity to help Ukraine exploit favorable battlefield dynamics while Ukraine has the upper hand. Key Points of the report: • Russia’s rate of advance is plummeting during the Russian Spring-Summer 2026 offensive. • Russia is losing more soldiers to make fewer gains, with monthly Russian casualty rates reportedly outpacing monthly recruitment since December 2025. • Ukraine is starting to regain more ground than it is losing for the first time since 2023. • Ukraine’ recent counterattacks feature unique characteristics and deviate from key trends that defined the positional character of the war since 2023. • Ukraine is conducting a pattern of more frequent mechanized counterattacks at the tactical level for the first time since 2023. • The Ukrainian command’s operational planning is maturing. • Ukraine’s early 2026 counterattacks in the south were successful likely due to better planning and preparation of the battlefield. • Ukraine has been conducting a coherent campaign to suppress and destroy Russian air defenses since late 2025, in order to shape the battlefield as part of more sophisticated campaign planning. • Ukraine significantly intensified its intermediate-range strike campaign against dynamic targets in Spring 2026 in order to degrade Russian logistics at operational depths ahead of planned Ukrainian maneuver. • Ukrainian forces started actively disrupting Russian railway logistics in occupied Ukraine and Russian western regions in Spring 2026. • Ukrainian intermediate-range strikes are already achieving notable operational effects, including degrading Russia's ability to use the key Russian highway connecting Russia to occupied Crimea and GLOCs around Donetsk City. • Ukrainian forces decisively seized the initiative in intermediate-range strikes by fielding new technologies such as the US-made Hornet strike UAV, among other systems. • Ukrainian forces are achieving temporary tactical drone overmatch in some frontline sectors, which is slowing Russian offensive operations by degrading the effectiveness of Russian shaping operations. • Ukrainian forces likely achieved tactical drone overmatch in certain frontline sectors after degrading Russia’s drone capabilities in late 2025 to early 2026 - primarily by suppressing drone launch positions and increasingly intercepting Russian tactical UAVs. • Ukraine’s degradation of Russian forces at operational depth combined with tactical-level drone overmatch likely is creating vulnerabilities in the Russian lines. • Ukraine’s intermediate-range strike campaign is likely far from its zenith, assuming continued support from Ukraine’s partners, and will likely intensify over 2026 as Ukraine fields new weapons capable of striking Russian’s operational rear. Link to full report: understandingwar.org/research/russi…

Miles Davis Born on this day in 1926 - I Fall In Love Too Easily -

Dr. Jonathan Reiner: "The president has severe daytime somnolence. He falls asleep very often. He's fallen asleep in the Oval Office on multiple occasions with people talking to him in the cabinet room, and I was concerned yesterday that he might have fallen asleep at Arlington National Cemetery during Memorial Day observances. Chronic insomnia is a severe illness. It can result in an increase in risk of dementia, decrease in cognitive effects in older people."

Texas protects predators and the GOP protects predators

I laid out these arguments in a Feb. 1 @nytimes essay. Putin has entered the autocratic backfire stage of rule.