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A relevant Texas image today: President George W. Bush and Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, D-Houston at the signing of the 2006 Voting Rights Act Reauthorization The 25-year reauth extended key VRA provisions including Section 5 (preclearance), and passed unanimously in the Senate

SCALISE: We've delivered. People will remember that two years ago, we were paying almost $6 a gallon for gas. Right now it's in the $3s KERNEN: When were we paying $6? SCALISE: Two and a half years ago KERNEN: That wasn't the average price SCALISE: We are lowering inflation KERNEN: We are actually above where we were then. Two years ago the average was $3.65.

The Trump administration has downsized US science by historic margins — but it's not just via grant or workforce cuts. Our new @nature analysis reveals the government has cut more than 100 scientific advisory panels across all major science agencies.

Today at Rate Field, 25 candidates from 15 different countries were sworn in as U.S. citizens during a naturalization ceremony!

GOP Rep. Don Bacon: "I think it's a little silly. We laughed at Russia when they had pictures of Lenin and Stalin everywhere. China had pictured of Mao everywhere. North Korea has Kim Jong Un. We're America and I think we do less of that."

BURGUM: Understand -- there are times in North Dakota when the wind does not blow and the sun doesn't shine KING: Of course. That's where batteries come in

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Former Chicago White Sox shortstop Alexei Ramírez tested positive for four anabolic steroids at the World Baseball Classic in March where he set a record as its oldest ever player. abc7chicago.com/post/ex-mlb-pl…

@WhiteHouse There are around 4,000 species of bee native to the United States. It’s more than just the honeybee! 🐝 If you want to learn more, these books look like good places to start:

King Charles: The Magna Carta is cited in Supreme Court cases as the foundation of the principle that executive power is subject to checks and balances. *Members of Congress applaud*

Ronald Reagan was shot at the Washington Hilton hotel 40 years before a man allegedly brought a gun to the White House Correspondence Dinner. Rather than demand a bunker disguised as a gaudy, $400 million taxpayer-funded ballroom for social events, he supported the Brady bill.

Sue CBS for editing trump's interview to make him appear sane. They are lying to the public!

@shesbonky My now late teen son watching a Parks and Rec ep for the 100x since he was young: I get that joke now

being genX is wild because why was i allowed to sit next to my mom, as a 5yo, and watch a primetime tv show about medics in the korean war the shock when i realized (as an adult) that hot-lips houlihan and frank were having an affair because FRANK WAS MARRIED like wtf

@RemoteWorker12 [ drunkenly yelling at people walking in ] : absolute trash

@GeoffCorr @cevangelista413 I agree. However, I would also be less motivated to light up the grill after watching a highly anticipated MCU movie that ends up being trash. Only risk I see in this approach.

People should start tailgating before movies. Firing up the grill in the AMC parking lot.

They want to spray carcinogenic glyphosate all over Forests across America. A war on Nature.

Republicans spent years posting “8646.” They printed it on shirts. They fundraised on it. Zero indictments. Comey indicted today for “8647”.

Think for a second about *why* they’re dismantling the EPA: they want corporations to have a free pass to pollute and poison us as much as they want.

We live in a world where Trump can post this, but James Comey apparently gets indicted for laying out some seashells saying 8647 and then apologizing and deleting the image.

Sinking into the dark ages

Not so long ago, Donald Trump posted a picture of a bound & gagged President Biden in the back of a truck. Trump didn’t apologize & he didn’t take it down. I wrote about it here; the analysis stands up in light of the indictment of Jim Comey today. joycevance.substack.com/p/we-need-to-t…