Steve Labinski 🐘🥧

Workin on the websites.

@JamesTate121 I’m voting in an election today!

I've been saying this for a while. He wants to hunker down and never leave. I'm sure he's trying to figure out how to avoid even having an election. He told the cult last time if they voted in 2024, they'd never have to vote again.

@AndriaDont99498 You’re a dingbat.

Where do Indians get the money for gas stations, and if they have that kind of wealth why don't they stay in India where the dollar goes much further?

Tony Soprano on homosexuality - an excellent scene! Did you know June is Pride Month?

Paxton’s problem is he’s a phoney. He raised money promising people that he was fighting for traditional marriage all while inventing new sex position with his paramour at the Four Seasons hotel in Austin. Paxton lied. You are correct that this ought to be simply a matter between the Paxtons - but he’s sending out press releases crowing over defending the display of the Ten Commandments in Texas schools. This is his career. I don’t mind it when I have a different opinion from a politician when I can *respect* them. That’s being an adult, and adults should run our great country. Paxton a phoney. He’s a poser. And John Cornyn isn’t.

Ken Paxton vs. John Cornyn What Ken Paxton did in his personal life and marriage is between him, his family, and God. He’ll answer for those choices himself. But I have a problem with the argument that “he failed at his marriage, so he’ll fail as a senator.” As Texas Attorney General, Paxton has done an effective job and has strongly backed the America First agenda and President Trump’s priorities — priorities that 77.3 million Americans voted for in 2024. Cornyn talks about integrity, yet his campaign ads themselves are often filled with spin and selective messaging. More importantly, many voters feel he has dropped the ball on advancing the agenda they elected him to support. To be fair, the Border Patrol union has supported Senator Cornyn for years because of the support he has given them and his involvement on border issues. He helped secure border funding and, around 2017, played a role in advancing infrastructure projects related to staffing, resources, and technology. He also helped get a facility renamed in honor of a fallen agent. So there are understandable reasons they support him. But endorsements alone don’t determine my vote. Unions, labor groups, business organizations, and political leaders endorse candidates for many different reasons. Sometimes it’s because they genuinely support them, sometimes because of policy priorities, relationships, strategy, or political obligations. With that said, while President Trump’s endorsement matters, support from Turning Point Action (@TPAction), Brandon Gill (@realBrandonGill), @CPAC, my state representative @AndyHopperTX, and even Paxton’s former opponents @WesleyHuntTX and @aaron_reitz carries significantly more weight with me. #TeamPaxton #TeamTexas #TeamAmerica

@Dr_TheHistories Everybody Ought to Have a Maid!

The ancient Greeks invented democracy, theater, the Olympics, and apparently the world’s first “labels are for soup cans” discourse. Ancient Greece did not have a word for “homosexuality” the way we understand it today. They did not sort people into neat little boxes marked gay, straight, or bisexual. What mattered to them was status, power, age, and who held control in a relationship. The entire framework was different. A powerful adult man could sleep with women, male lovers, sex workers, or basically whoever fit into his social world without anyone deciding that was his entire identity. The scandal was not same-sex desire itself. The scandal came if a freeborn man was seen as passive, submissive, or giving up social dominance. Masculinity was treated like a rank you had to defend at all times. Which, honestly, too many men still take to heart. Greek art and literature are packed with desire between men. Plato wrote about love between men as a path to beauty and wisdom. The Sacred Band of Thebes was an elite military unit made up of male couples who were said to fight harder because their lovers stood beside them in battle. Alexander the Great openly grieved Hephaestion like a spouse when he died. None of this was hidden in whispers or coded glances. It was woven into public life. Women, meanwhile, got shoved to the margins of most Greek records because ancient misogyny was working overtime. That is part of why figures like Sappho stand out so sharply. Her poetry about love and longing between women survived thousands of years because it was too powerful to erase completely. The Greeks were not “progressive” in the modern sense. Their world was deeply unequal and brutally hierarchical. But they also remind us that sexuality has never been as fixed, tidy, or binary as modern culture pretends. © Bil Browning

@feelsdesperate This is very well written!

I was still kind of a lib in 2020 but I was totally unmoved by Floyd’s death. It wasn’t revelatory to me (just an ugly, pointless, small tragedy) and I didn’t think it meant anything. What I’ll always remember was how it felt to remain completely sober while so many people were swept away - it was disorienting to be in a totally different reality than the dominant culture, I almost felt like I was on drugs.

@David_in_DFW They let Richard Pryor get away with stuff on that episode because they really wanted him to host.

Just because Richard Pryor is trending. 😁 Scene from the SNL "Exorcist II" sketch, featuring guest host Richard Pryor, which aired on December 13, 1975, during Season 1. 😂

@BrianRoemmele “They turned it into low rent housing.”

Heavy Metal, 1981 A dystopian future New York City. Harry Canyon is a cynical cab driver navigates a crime-choked, neon-drenched version of the city with flying cars, corrupt officials, and casual violence set in 2033.

This Memorial Day I found myself pulling down my DVD copy of the World at War biography series about WW2. Disc 1 is the rise of the “new Germany” 1933-1939 and it’s simultaneously capitulating and chilling. The interviews with the regular Germans are fascinating. A ton of today’s political debate are the direct legacy of what happened here.

@truecrime80 @Manhattva The original post has 9.5 million views! No one cares?

@desslocktx @Manhattva Then he should quietly get a divorce and not humiliate his wife and family. He’s being selfish. No need to make a public announcement. Literally no one cares.

Anyone that applauds this or calls his behavior “brave” should be shunned. Dude destroyed 14 years of a woman’s life, that he made a covenant before God, to be with. Because he wants to have gay sex. I have no idea how this ever became normalized

"And please keep your clothes on, too. There aren't many more sickening sights in this world than you with a few drinks in you and your skirt up over your head." George to Martha -Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf

@homonatian "And please keep your clothes on, too. There aren't many more sickening sights in this world than you with a few drinks in you and your skirt up over your head." -George to Martha, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf

As we go into pride month could we please all keep our clothes on?

@HistoryBoomer @JoshPhillipsPhD My advise for most folks …. Just skip down and read the Shakespeare plays. As works of fiction, you can learn empathy - people with tragic flaws. Most dorks on this site speak about people and things like they’ve never read a novel.

100 books?!? Americans can read that many! Here are 30 must-reads: 1- Iliad - Homer 2- Odyssey - Homer 3- Oedipus Rex - Sophocles 4- Medea - Euripides 5- History of the Peloponnesian War - Thucydides 6- The Republic - Plato 7- Nicomachean Ethics - Aristotle 8- Aeneid - Virgil 9- The Bible - The Big Guy 10- Confessions - Augustine 11- Divine Comedy - Dante 12- The Prince - Machiavelli 13- Hamlet - Shakespeare 14- Macbeth - Shakespeare 15- King Lear - Shakespeare 16- Don Quixote - Cervantes 17- Leviathan - Hobbes 18- Second Treatise of Government - Locke 19- The Spirit of the Laws - Montesquieu 20- The Social Contract - Rousseau 21- The Wealth of Nations - Smith 22- On Liberty - Mill 23- Communist Manifesto - Marx and Engels 24- On the Genealogy of Morals - Nietzsche 25- Pride and Prejudice - Austen 26- Moby Dick - Melville 27- Madame Bovary - Flaubert 28- Middlemarch - Eliot 29- War and Peace - Tolstoy 30- The Brothers Karamazov - Dostoevsky

@BlueBoxDave Ending the filibuster harms small states like West Virginia. They will have less power - bills passed will be dominated by giant states like California and Texas. Listen to conservatives! Don’t end the filibuster!

He chose Paxton because Thune wouldn’t nuke the filibuster. That was the deal offered.

@JarrodRodrigue1 When it comes to potassium, the stakes are pretty high.

4oz of beef has the same potassium as a banana

As y’all are my witness, I’m making a pot of beans this week.

I’m just saying we have open primaries for a reason. For like thirty years I have listened to Texas Republican Party apparatchiks push for closed primaries, caucuses because they want to reverse engineer a system that gives them power. They don’t want competition. Just be skeptical!

@desslocktx Yes. And just like racially gerrymandered districts its time has passed.

We need this in South Carolina. Just like Voter ID it has bipartisan support from voters but our politicians keep disregarding our wishes!

On the other hand it helps you see how the “you have always been lied to” line is Leftist political rhetoric.