Folks outside of Texas may think that people are cherry picking terrible photos of this guy. They aren't . Every photo of him just naturally looks like the mugshot from a DUI arrest.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 19h agoQ: You said Talarico had a head start on you. Given that, do you have any regrets about going on a vacation in the summer [to England] when you probably needed to be back in Texas to help start getting Republicans together? PAXTON: No. I had to see my daughter and my granddaughter.
El-Sayed: Now Mike, I'm just going to remind you: if you don't know how to say the name, keep the name out your damn mouth. Or just call me Abdul, But I got some opinions about his name....
huh wonder why people are rebelling against this technology oh well guess we’ll never know
WTF? Amazon received a permit from the state of #Texas allowing its new gas power plant to emit 33 million tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere — the largest single source of pollution in the United States. newrepublic.com/post/214111/...
Amazon Is Creating the Biggest Pollution Source in the Entire Country
Amazon has bought a site in Texas where it plans to build a data center campus.
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McGowan: The president's personal defense attorney should not be the attorney general. The man who ignored the Epstein victims and then moved Ghislaine Maxwell from a maximum security prison to where she is now, should not be the attorney general. I think Cassidy is a spineless coward.
He had to stop taking Propecia because it interacts with dementia meds. So he took a low profile trip to CA last week to buy what he considers to be a realistic hair piece. (Allegedly)
Trump takes a break from fear-mongering about communism to brag about seizing the means of production: "We had a problem with Intel. And we settled the problem. They gave us 10% of the company. That was worth $12 billion."
lol okay. if you exclude all the lost jobs it's a pretty strong number.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · yesterdayKevin Hassett on Fox News argues that if you exclude the sectors that lost hundreds of thousands of jobs, "you actually had a number that was about plus 100,000" 🙃
As a recovering code switcher I peeped that it was The Real Him that almost said it too
Ida B Wells' Winchester Rifle@dytsras.bsky.social · 22h agoFor YEARS, I been waiting for this to happen every time I watch the news
A deep dive into Friday's jobs report revealed some statistics reached their worst levels in at least 10 years.
Kevin Hassett Thinks Ignoring the Dismal Jobs Numbers Makes Them Disappear
On top of the fact that the U.S. economy lost 23,000 jobs...
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Ken Paxton looks like a guy at a carnival who makes a living guessing people’s weight. You give him money, he gropes you, gets his jollies and drools out a number. Are there enough Texans like him to vote for more corruption?
Forcing leaders to take incredibly unpopular and damaging positions like this is the side effect of how narrow control is in the house rn.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · yesterdayMike Johnson defends Max Miller despite horrible abuse allegations: "We don't take disciplinary action against members for allegations. It's in his own words 'a nasty divorce proceeding' ... he thinks it's a hit job on him."
ok but steak n shake is frying up their french fries in beef tallow now, put that in your “economic” report but you wont
Carl Quintanilla@carlquintanilla.bsky.social · yesterdaySCHWAB: “.. The labor force participation rate has given up all gains since February 2021.” #LFPR
That's not a complaint. That's a confession. A sitting U.S. Senator just admitted, out loud, that his party has completely abandoned its constitutional responsibility. No pushback. No oversight. No spine.
if you take the arguments for capitalism at face value, what we have right now is very distinctly not that
laura olin@lauraolin.bsky.social · yesterdayAbdul El-Sayed on capitalism: “I’m capitalist who just knows about capitalism. I have a bad habit of reading, I’m so sorry.”
“If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor.” - Archbishop Desmond Tutu One side wants fascism. The other side wants healthcare as a human right. To even attempt to conflate the two is absurd.
CHARLAMAGNE: Why you wanna ban weed? TALARICO: No, no, no, I’m for legalizing weed CHARLAMAGNE: Oooooooooohhh
“President Trump raged at the assessment his national-security team gave him at Camp David on Friday, which showed that the U.S. military was running low on the munitions that would be necessary for Trump to order an escalation against Iran.”
Jonathan Lemire@jonlemire.bsky.social · 2d agoNEW: The United States is running out of missiles The Pentagon is worried about protecting assets in the Middle East and around the world. Trump lashed out at officials about the depletion And the shortage may force the U.S. to settle for a bad Iran deal www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...
Jessica Pegula d. Kamilla Rakhimova 6-4 6-0 in Toronto Solid win for Pegula. This is her 40th win of the season, more than any other woman on tour. 2-time champion at this event, she’s won in both Toronto and Montreal. ✅5th Canada R16 She loves it here. 🇺🇸
The president's authority as "commander in chief" refers to the military only. The president cannot use executive orders to expand the definition of who is eligible for birthright citizenship under the Fourteenth Amendment. The president's aide saying these things is a virulent white nationalist.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2d agoStephen Miller: "The president is using his authority as commander as chief to sign an executive order using the new ruling the Supreme Court issued to expand the definition of people who are ineligible for birthright citizenship. That includes, for example, alien enemies ... "
this is the mindset every Democrat needs to have when the primary ends while discussing campaigns. let's put our differences aside and focus on getting viable candidates taking on fascism pass the goal line this November.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2d agoElizabeth Warren on Francesca Hong: "Look, if she wins the nomination, I am there to help however I can. I want to see Democrats win in November."
El-Sayed, every day for the last 15 months: I am running to get money out of politics, put money in your pocket, and pass Medicare for All. This is what my campaign is about. The media, for some reason:
#StupidSuez@diplomatofnight.com · 2d agoCNN had Abdul El Sayed on last. night and asked him five questions in a row about Israel and zero on healthcare, affordability, housing, or local Michigan politics.
Under Hegseth, Women’s Share of Top Military Promotions Plunged This Year The percentage of high-ranking officer nominations going to women is currently at its lowest level in over two decades. Via @cj-robinson.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/08/06/u...
