The GOP county exec in Tarrant Co (Fort Worth) often kicks people out for speaking up to protest county govt actions at public meetings. Today he shut it down amid outrage over the plan to cut nearly half of election day polling places this year (as he himself faces a heated race for county exec)

Jen Rice@jenrice.bsky.social · yesterday

In TX: Tarrant County Judge Tim O'Hare just CLEARED the meeting room, kicking out public speakers who are opposed to the GOP plan to cut half of the battleground county's Election Day voting locations for November:

Man, we are about to see some *crazy* panicked attempts at voter suppresion in this state

ashley 🌹@clearlyashley.bsky.social · yesterday

yall remember the Texas Fox News poll? yeah it’s real. they’re on the money

He serves in the branch that the Constitution specifically charges with the duty of removing the President for criming.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · yesterday

Cornyn: "There's nothing we could do to rein in the president"

This is ridiculously scary. Yes, we are currently talking about ballrooms and reflecting pools and inflation and Iran and Venezuela and Epstein and crypto grift and the moral rot of the GOP. But all that is going to be forgotten soon. Shit is about to get real, as they say.

Zeke Hausfather@zekehausfather.com · 3d ago

I'm not sure folks have realized just how crazy the second half of 2026 and 2027 will be for global temperatures – on the back of a record-smashing El Niño event. Here is my latest estimate of where both years will end up compared to global temperatures since 1850.

Research on immigration flows can point to complex, heterogeneous effects. But in research on increased immigration _enforcement_, negative social consequences are pretty much the rule. Arrests, detentions, and deportations make everyone worse off.

Jake Grumbach@jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 3d ago

This paper shows that immigration enforcement can _increase_ crime. Undocumented immigrants already have the lowest crime rate, but tough-on-immigration policy makes immigrants less likely to report crime. So immigration enforcement worsens the problem it was ostensibly meant to solve

The disclosure marks the first time a bank has formally tied money laundering concerns to Trump's family business.

Capital One says it closed Trump Organization's accounts after anti-money laundering probe

The disclosure marks the first time a bank has formally tied money laundering concerns to Trump's family business.

reut.rs

It's pretty infuriating that Trump is denying disaster aid to Oregon for political reasons and I have barely heard anything about it, while Biden was falsely accused of doing the exact same thing to North Carolina and millions of people believed that

The Red Sox went 21-4 in July That .840 win pct is the highest in a calendar month in franchise history, min 15 games

"Who are you going to believe, your lying wallet and mounting bills or the demented President who shits himself and is fixated on the reflecting pool while downplaying Iranian attacks on the continental United States?"

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 5d ago

CNN: 65% of Americans say Trump's policies have worsened economic conditions, that's 10% more than in the finals months of the Biden administration. What do you say to that person who's part of that 65%? KEVIN HASSETT: I just don't believe a poll like that

A shakedown www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

Trump 9 points underwater *IN TEXAS.* It's literally impossible to tell how the media would cover a Dem President with equivalently low approval ratings (because there's never been one before) but you'd be hearing LAME DUCK every 15 seconds

Hyde T. Voltyge@hydevoltyge.bsky.social · 6d ago

Folks... this is a reputable pollster.. And the gov race!?! With "extremely interested" voters it's 53 Talarico - 47 Paxton. GOV: Abbott 50 - Hinajosa 49 !!!! Article claims "extremely motivated" there... 53 Hinajosa - 47 Abbott. Yeah uh what??? www.foxnews.com/politics/fox...

At any other time, the false Hearn indictment under the demand of the president would result in impeachment and removal. But naked corruption and thuggery doesn’t matter anymore and this isn’t even the worst scandal of the day after Trump accused MN of domestic terrorism.

This is not just about rewriting the past; it's also an effort to make any future effort to hold this administration responsible for its brazen criminality seem like more "weaponization of the justice system"

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 5d ago

Trump says he wants people to be reimbursed for being the victim of weaponization by Obama

oh is it caravan season again it always comes around so fast

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 5d ago

Trump: "If we're not in office our country will be invaded at levels that make Spain look small time. That's gonna be a talking point for the midterms."

So basically an adversary could attack any blue state and Trump wont care because he doesn't see himself as the President of the "United States" Without a doubt the most worst president we've ever had. Anti-republic, anti-democratic, anti-constitutional just devoid of basic dignity

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 5d ago

Trump: "We heard in Minnesota there was a cyberattack and they blame it on Iran. I don't think so. I blame it on Minnesota because they're grossly incompetent. Iran's got bigger problems than worrying about Minnesota."

This should be an enormous scandal, and grounds for impeachment.

Murshed Zaheed@murshedz.bsky.social · last wk.

“Trump has rejected disaster aid for Democratic-run states at the highest rate in the 47-year history of the Federal Emergency Management Agency.” Right now people in blue states are basically paying federal taxes as if they’re colonized territories of red states. www.politico.com/news/2026/03...

If the entire Democratic Party is being asked by the press and pundits about a few DSA candidates in NYC, it seems like the entire Republican Party should be asked about their colleague who has been credibly accused -- by another colleague's daughter -- of repeated acts of violence.

Eric Umansky@ericumansky.bsky.social · last wk.

GOP House member--and fmr Trump advance man--allegedly -threw boiling water on his then-wife -held a gun to her head -broke his daughter's collarbone. She's 2 -abused abuse a fmr Trump WHer too When a reporter asked him about it , he threatened to block their # www.nytimes.com/2026/07/28/u...

bUt He donATES his saLAry

Unusual Whales@unusualwhales.bsky.social · last wk.

Donald Trump has earned more money in his first and second year, in his second term as president, than in the previous 60 years of his life, per Bloomberg.

The Trump administration and everyone working in it are incompetent clowns and I hope they never find work again. And many of them deserve to be tried criminally.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2w ago

WELKER: Is America backing away from a larger attack bc our stockpile has been depleted? WALTZ: We have to take a step back. A lot of our stockpiles were depleted because of Biden WELKER: But you acknowledge they're depleted? WALTZ: No. And the people leaking this nonsense deserve to be in jail

After 9/11, the U.S. didn't reach 600 casualties in Afghanistan until mid-2005, nearly four years into the war

Timothy McBride@mcbridetd.bsky.social · last wk.

Iran war casualty count eclipses 600 as Pentagon quietly changes accounting www.cnn.com/2026/07/26/p...

NEW: In a stunning admission, the Trump administration admitted in court documents that it canceled billions in energy grants to states "based solely" on politics -- and whether that state was represented by Democrats and backed Harris in 2024. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/24/b...

Trump Administration Admits Canceling Grants to States That Did Not Vote for Him

Federal officials said in court documents that they halted billions of dollars in funding for energy projects to states “based solely” on whether they backed President Trump in the 2024 election.

nytimes.com

The right's whole shtick was that Obama and Biden were puppets who just read what was put in front of them by their staff, but he's Trump just admitting it. No big deal.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2w ago

"That's what they give me to read, so what can I tell you? ... I don't know what the hell that means" -- Trump is surprised by the stuff he's straight up reading from the text that was prepared for him

When 13 soldiers died on Joe Biden’s watch because Biden was *ending a war* that had killed Americans for two decades, these people acted like Biden shot the soldiers himself

Matt Negrin still host of Hardball on MSNBC@mattnegrin.bsky.social · 2w ago

Not a single network aired this on their nightly news broadcasts yesterday. They described Trump overseeing a "somber ceremony" and called it a "moving moment." The only way to know what trump actually said about the soldiers he killed is to follow aaron rupar which no offense to aaron is insane

Not a single network aired this on their nightly news broadcasts yesterday. They described Trump overseeing a "somber ceremony" and called it a "moving moment." The only way to know what trump actually said about the soldiers he killed is to follow aaron rupar which no offense to aaron is insane

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2w ago

Trump on fallen US troops: "All of them said very strongly, 'We cannot let Iran have a nuclear weapon.'"

Saudi Arabia helped plan 9/11, but sure, Trump can sign off on making them a nuclear power...just because. Iran though, who was adhering to the JCPOA, let's go to war with them and shut the Strait of Hormuz and kill American service members...also just because.

The Wall Street Journal@wsj.com · 2w ago

President Trump has formally approved a landmark agreement with Saudi Arabia that will provide the country with a civilian nuclear program and potentially open the door to uranium enrichment in the kingdom’s territory, according to U.S. officials.

Worth emphasizing that the trans woman at the center of all this didn't actually do anything wrong or inappropriate. The complaint is literally just someone upset that someone they could tell was trans was in a locker room.

The New York Times@nytimes.com · 2w ago

A moment at a YMCA in Sandpoint, Idaho, has shown how some conservative groups hope to use transgender women in women’s bathrooms to roll back a far broader set of civil rights protections.

sure would be nice if a single journalist could respond with "you don't have a constitutional right to eat at olive garden"

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2w ago

Scalise: "For God's sake -- you can't get pasta at Olive Garden without a picture ID! Why not be able to show a picture ID to vote?"

Even Benghazi (an act of terror not a US choice) didn’t lose freedom of passage for oil tankers! Imagine if Obama arranged it. That’s the Iran War only much worse!

4.5 Benghazis BY CHOICE

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2w ago

Trump offers sales pitch for his war: "Afghanistan War: 20 years, 2,000 DEAD. Iraq War: 9 years, 4,600 DEAD. Vietnam War: 19 years and 5 months, 58,220 DEAD. Korean War: 3 years and 1 month, 36,574 DEAD. Venezuela War: 1 day, 0 DEAD. Iran Military Conflict: 4 months, 18 DEAD."

You might get sick of hearing this but if he keeps doing it I'm gonna keep saying it: this is an unconstitutional impoundment, violating both Congress' Article I spending authority and the 1974 Impoundment Control act, and immediately impeachable.

Catherine Rampell@crampell.bsky.social · 2w ago

Trump administration pauses $1 bln in Medicaid payments to California, Minnesota www.reuters.com/world/us-hea...