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A lot of folks forget… Texas hasn’t always been red. 🤠 When Democrat Ann Richards was governor, Texas ranked 7th in education. After nearly 30 years of Republican control, Texas now ranks 40th overall in education & 47th in reading. It’s past time for a change. 🌊

@LisaForCongress Lol

Virginia tonight proved one thing: When Democrats can’t win fairly, they change the rules. That’s not democracy. That’s a power grab. Shameful.

@VinnyMartorano How about we go back to calling it 1st street, like it was before?

Austin City Council is giving YOU the opportunity to weigh in on what they city should rename Cesar Chavez Street to: They've asked City Manager, TC Broadnax, to hold a series of in-person and virtual meetings, and surveys, to gather public input for a new name. He will then present those inputs and findings to city council at their May 26 work session. What should the city of Austin rename Cesar Chavez Street to? @cbsaustin

@ThatEricAlper Eating dinner early

What’s an “old person” habit you’ve adopted because it’s actually a really good idea?

Aged like a glass of milk left out in the sun

@SaraForTexLege I am here for it

There’s an undertone to how this primary is playing out that is starting to show up in my conversations on the ground, but that I haven’t seen show up on the feeds yet, and it’s this: First, Talarico absolutely is winning over Republican voters. I’m hearing it often at this point. Secondly, it’s his message that is doing it. The “move forward in love” message is hitting HARD. I have had people tell me that they are just so tired of the fighting. They are tired of the chaos. They are tired of just hate… all … the … dang … time. People are exhausted. They want politics to be boring again. Like there’s this collective sigh of “enough.” While the Republicans continue the constant onslaught of fear tactics and blatant lies, we’re gonna Care Bear Stare our way to our first statewide victory in Texas in 30 years.

@BlueBoxDave You’re not from Texas are you?

Who is the intended audience for this? Anti border wall outdoorsmen in Texas?

We are all on the same team! #TeamTalarico

@moodyforelpaso @jamestalarico This would make a great children’s story! Sort of reminds me of Elf telling his own story 😂 but seriously, a great story

In 2008, a UT student named @jamestalarico was phone banking into #ElPaso to help me flip a House seat. Ten years later, I got to welcome him into the #txlege after he flipped a House seat. Yesterday, I was incredibly proud to vote for James as he works to flip Texas!

@Vossvik7 Yes, cats are sent to protect us. Mine will paw at me until I wake up if I’m having a bad dream. She also does this when she wants breakfast at 4:00 am 🤷🏻‍♀️😹

Last night I had the strangest experience I wanted to ask if anyone else has ever had a pet alert them in a health crisis and maybe save their life. Here’s what happened: I was sleeping propped up on 3 pillows because I have broken ribs and pneumonia and it’s been a very rough past week. I was wearing a sleeping mask to help me sleep when all of a sudden I was awakened by my 6 yr old Russian Blue/Siberian cat, Luna, very deliberately pawing at my mask until she pulled it off my face. As I slowly started to wake up, I heard my very congested breathing and started choking on all the fluid in my lung. I coughed it out and was better eventually. My cat then pressed her body against my head and just leaned into me so hard while purring louder than she ever has. I don’t know for sure, but I’m pretty sure Luna saved my life. Do cats do this?! 🐈‍⬛😻 Here is my little helper:

@cmclymer She was STUNNING 🥇

ALYSA LIU WINS GOLD!!!! OMG!!!🥇

@Devan_Kaney I’m old enough to remember when this is exactly how it was done

Can we all agree it would be so much easier if airlines simply boarded the back of the plane first and worked their way down? Let first class people sit in a lounge or something idk. Like how has no one implemented this.

@CoffindafferFBI Who thinks *God Bless America* is the national anthem 🤔

Who wears their hat and doesn't stand during our national anthem/God Bless America? #SuperBowl #SuperBowlLX

This video should unsettle anyone who takes the United States seriously as a nation. Because it exposes something dangerous: the trivialization of the world's most consequential office. It shows how carelessly the power, credibility, and accumulated moral authority of a superpower can be squandered for a few seconds of viral attention. In any other major democracy, this behavior from a head of state would trigger a constitutional crisis. Paris would burn. Berlin would convene emergency sessions. In the Nordic countries, resignation would follow within hours. Across functioning democracies, the public, institutions, and political class would recognize this for what it is: an assault on the dignity of the state itself. Leaders are not free to perform as entertainers without consequence. National honor is not personal property, it's held in trust. But the United States is not just another country with a provocateur in charge. It is the linchpin of global order. It maintains formal alliances and security guarantees with forty to fifty nations. It underwrites the financial architecture, trade systems, and diplomatic frameworks that billions of people depend on daily. When the American president speaks—or posts—it doesn't land as satire, meme, or personal whim. It reads as a signal about what the country is becoming. American power has never relied solely on carrier strike groups or economic output. It has rested on something more fragile and more valuable: trust. The belief that beneath domestic turbulence lies institutional seriousness, predictability, and a baseline commitment to dignity. That belief is now disintegrating in real time. Millions of American companies operate globally. They negotiate multibillion-dollar contracts in environments where reputation is currency. Boardrooms in Frankfurt, Singapore, and Dubai aren't debating whether a post was clever—they're asking whether the United States remains a reliable partner. Whether agreements signed today will be honored tomorrow. Whether American leadership has devolved from institutional to purely theatrical. Consider tourism, which sustains millions of American jobs—airlines, hotels, restaurants, museums, entire regional economies. Soft power isn't an abstraction. It materializes in flight bookings, conference locations, study-abroad programs, and decades of accumulated goodwill. A quiet, decentralized boycott doesn't require government action—only a collective sense that a nation no longer respects itself. Now picture this image being studied by foreign ministers, central bank governors, defense strategists, and sovereign wealth fund managers. Picture them asking a coldly rational question: How do we write binding thirty-year agreements with a country whose public face will be this, relentlessly, for years to come? How do we plan for the long term when the tone is impulsive, mocking, and unbound by the gravity of office? This is where the real calculus begins. Trillions in foreign capital depend on confidence that America is stable, credible, and rule-governed. That confidence is now being traded for what, exactly? Applause from an online mob? A dopamine rush from manufactured outrage? Content designed to dominate the news cycle rather than serve the national interest? Every serious nation eventually confronts this choice: burn long-term credibility for short-term spectacle, or safeguard the reputation previous generations bled to build. The United States spent eighty years constructing an image of reliability, restraint, and leadership under pressure. That image wasn't born from perfection—it came from a visible commitment to standards that transcended impulse. This isn't a partisan issue. Europeans who value democratic norms recognize something ominously familiar here. Americans—Democrat and Republican alike—who believe in responsibility and restraint should see it too. Power attracts scrutiny. Leadership demands discipline. A superpower cannot behave like a reality TV contestant without paying a price. The presidency is not a personal broadcast channel. It's a symbol carried on behalf of 330 million people and countless international partners who never voted but whose lives are shaped by American decisions anyway. Every post either reinforces or erodes the idea that America can be counted on when it matters most. So the question is no longer whether this is offensive. The question is whether this is who America chooses to be: a nation that trades a century of hard-won reputation for viral moments. A country that replaces statecraft with content creation. A republic governed like a season of reality television. History offers a harsh lesson here. Great powers don't fall because enemies mock them. They collapse when they begin mocking themselves—publicly, proudly, and without grasping the cost until it's far too late. Stay connected, Follow Gandalv @Microinteracti1

For Renee Nicole Good Killed by I.C.E. on January 7, 2026 by Amanda Gorman They say she is no more, That there her absence roars, Blood-blown like a rose. Iced wheels flinched & froze. Now, bare riot of candles, Dark fury of flowers, Pure howling of hymns. If for us she arose, Somewhere, in the pitched deep of our grief, Crouches our power, The howl where we begin, Straining upon the edge of the crooked crater Of the worst of what we’ve been. Change is only possible, & all the greater, When the labour & bitter anger of our neighbors Is moved by the love  & better angels of our nature. What they call death & void, We know is breath & voice;  In the end, gorgeously,  Endures our enormity.  You could believe departed to be the dawn When the blank night has so long stood. But our bright-fled angels will never be fully gone, When they forever are so fiercely Good.

@statesman day 4 of home delivery service and it’s the 2nd time your carrier failed to deliver the paper.

@ontexasfootball @BobbyBurtonOTF @BlakeMunroeOTF @CJVogel_OTF @JeffHoweOTF @GHamiltonOTF @AmandaMAtwell @marcusmyers @willmatthewsnow 31-27 Texas 🤘🏽

Alright y'all, it's that time. What’s your final score for #Texas vs #Georgia on Saturday? Drop it in the comments. Let’s see who calls it right. 🤘🔥

@TexasLonghorns 🤘🏽🤘🏽🤘🏽🤘🏽🤘🏽🤘🏽🤘🏽

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@FortyAcreVibes @universitycoop Texas 17 - Vandy 9

Drop your official Texas/Vandy score predictions here- If anyone nails the winner and score perfectly they’ll win 2 tickets to Texas vs Arkansas at DKR on 11/22 AND a $100 gift card to @universitycoop 🔥 Must be following me to be eligible to win 🤘🏼

@dieworkwear The Queen life chose her 👑

it's crazy that if you're a cat, you're only two life outcomes are either eating out of a trash can or being adopted by someone who treats you like a little baby and gives you everything even when you're annoying