Tax-free weekend coming up in Texas. Make sure you know which sub-$100 items are exempt (E) and which are taxable (T). comptroller.texas.gov/taxes/public...
Dan Meeps
@onekneedjacks.bsky.social
Generally set apart from a sentence by an explanation point (or by a comma when the feeling's not as strong).
Why be just a KFC when you can be a combination KFC/Pizza Hut/Taco Bell?
Dare Obasanjo@carnage4life.bsky.social · yesterdayCEO of KFC says he wants the company to focus less on fried chicken.
Texas deserves a Senator who will punish flagrant corruption rather than sign off on it, and I hope to hear @teamtalaricohq.bsky.social say that loud and clear until the repetition becomes nauseating. Cornyn is cool with corruption. Paxton is corrupt to the core.
Courtney Bublé@courtneybuble.bsky.social · 2d agoTillis and Cornyn announced they will now vote for Blanche. Now the question is, can he get confirmed before August recess starts?
Yikes, Burgum throwing himself under the bus. No assertion that DOI provided accurate testimony or hard evidence inculpating the specific alleged vandals, Hearn included. Just pretending that bolstering Trump's bogus narrative justifies screwing over strangers.
Helen Kennedy@helenkennedy.com · 4d agoOh my. Pirro v Burgum is on people. (Cannot see how they both stay in their jobs)
Collins, Husted, and Sullivan all voted to confirm Jeanine Pirro.
Trumpism (defined as Fuck You, You Can't Make Me, Do What I Say Or Else) is a political-ideological success in that it enabled and empowered Voughtism and Millerism. Trumpism (defined as Trump Knows Policy, including Build The Wall, Repeal And Replace, Tariffs, maybe MAHA) far less so.
Chris Hayes@chrislhayes.bsky.social · 5d agoSomething I think that underlies a lot of debates within the Democratic party and center-left right now is whether or not you think Trumpism has been successful as a political and ideological project. (Not, obviously, whether it's been good or not).
Did subscriptions rise? Who knows! But you bet your sweet ass subscription *starts* *ticked up* like a mofo.
Natalie Korach@nataliekorach.bsky.social · 5d agoNew: Washington Post Opinion editor Adam O’Neal is leaving, he announced in an internal memo Friday
Talarico at 51 means it's time to hit the gas now. Force Republicans to start spending big or cut bait. He can demonstrate moral clarity and put Paxton in a vise with a strident cross-partisan anti-war campaign: save our troops, save our money, put Congress back in charge.
Another benefit of a strong grassroots AOC campaign is it would push the establishment to coalesce around a mainstream-progressive unity candidate over a moderate who touts (futile) crossover appeal.
Hamilton Nolan@hamiltonnolan.bsky.social · 6d agoThe left needs a candidate it can unite around in the 2028 primaries and AOC is the only real choice. Nobody else checks all of the boxes. Every other option is worse. If she doesn't run, it's a missed opportunity of historic proportions. www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/aoc-must-r...
That Cornyn and Tillis are only now coming around to thwarting Trump's self-interested steamrolling of Congress suggests Republicans have been just as bad as Democrats at anticipating how expeditiously Trump would drive his administration and his party into a ditch. Senate brain kills.
Market Hall has needed a thorough renovation for at least 20 years now, but it's a shame that the dog shows, reptile shows, and travel shows will have to look for other spots.
Robert Wilonsky@robertwilonsky.bsky.social · last wk.Trammell Crow's Market Hall has long been "the world's largest privately owned exhibition hall." It was Dallas' OTHER convention center, but it was for locals, not out-of-towners. Come week's end, the days of boat shows, guitar fests & political rallies are over. www.dallasnews.com/opinion/comm...
Sure seems weird the Consumer Product Safety Commission is demanding detailed emergency room visit records, including personally identifiable information (PII), from a hundred hospitals. Oh wait, ah, yeah, there it is. kffhealthnews.org/health-indus...
![Pressure on Hospitals
CPSC Chief Data Officer Elizabeth Puchek, who joined the agency late last year after engineering [highlighted] U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services’ [end highlight] data system, has told hospitals in emails that they must seek an exemption from the program if they decline to share patients’ emergency room records with Konza.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ppappkmqzwohcsveymatn76q/bafkreifizyn3sf6wwmu76ky6gfzterfzgbw53p256rrylto6lodq6mk6fa)
Water rights and federal science research are the most hyper-specific, but moving NM up in the queue also puts a huge spotlight on Medicaid funding and administration and its relationship to rural healthcare delivery.
William B. Fuckley@opinionhaver.bsky.social · 2w agoWhat’s the funniest hyper-specific New Mexico issue that might be become more nationally prominent due to the primary change? Lotta physicists there who are the kind of people who donate and vote in primaries, maybe some esoteric Los Alamos specific thing becomes prominent
The cultural right claimed it was about preserving Scandinavian (i.e., white) culture. Horseshit, obviously. To reactionaries, the concept of sharing in something does not exist. Either a "tribe" owns the thing entirely, or its integrity is gone. The same went for suffrage, baseball, and marriage.
Adam Serwer@adamserwer.bsky.social · 2w agoAnd just from a dad’s perspective, it seems to me one of the explicit aims here is to make black girls feel like they are ugly. Like why else are you angry about a black little mermaid. And yes I take that shit personal.
Very cool to see the WHCA and Trump himself turn the Epstein reporting into the ESPYs. Complete insulation from reality.
Dan Diamond@ddiamond.bsky.social · 2w agoRemarkable camera angle of President Trump as he listens to Wall Street Journal reporters receiving an award for their investigation into Trump’s relationship with Jeffrey Epstein — which they pursued despite Trump’s threats and lawsuit.
Would you rather receive an immediate slam-dunk $50K or take a 50/50 shot at receiving $50K for yourself and an additional $50K apiece for 19 other people of your choosing?
*More* open? Moreso than the previous leader, whom the White House claimed was supposedly weeks away from getting his hands on one?
FinTwitter@fintwitter.bsky.social · 2w agoIRAN’S NEW LEADER IS MORE OPEN TO PURSUING A NUCLEAR WEAPON, US INTELLIGENCE SAYS – NY TIMES
Will Hegseth's testosterone screenings and supplements begin with the Commander-in-Chief?
Offer condolences, absolutely. Do not, however, lionize.
Joc Pederson can dress like the Grinch whenever he wants now
Lands did not actually attest under penalty of perjury that the caulk or sealant had been cut. He attested that *there was an NPS report* of a cut with a knife or razor. He did not attest to the veracity of the report or the size of any supposed cut.
PBS News@pbsnews.org · last mo.In a court filing, Deputy Director for Operations Frank Lands says the cut damaged the foam sealant that was installed as part of the site's $16 million renovation.
Delay during Rangers-Marlins because a traffic cone made it onto the field. Must have been the Scots.
Fox News: 21 people shot in Chicago over the weekend Trump, shortly afterward: *22* people shot in Chicago over the weekend bsky.app/profile/matt...
Sahil Kapur@sahilkapur.bsky.social · last mo."Trump keeps bringing up the number 22." Taking out 22 ships in Iran war. 22 fountains. A pool built 22 years ago. A flight 22 hours long. A story on NYT's page 22. 22 specialists at Walter Reed checkup. 22 Nobel economists. www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...
Jeffries, Ossoff, Talarico, and other Democratic men under 60 should call Republicans "puerile" so condescendingly and so often that it becomes a 2026 Word of the Year candidate.
post malone ergo propter malone@proptermalone.bsky.social · 2mo agoi think boarding school teenage masculinity is a part of masculinity but not of manhood. we have to get away from the concept of the opposite of "man" being "woman." the opposite of "man" is "boy"
SpaceX doesn't bring in money or turn a profit, but supposedly all the other big businesses that do make money will soon start paying SpaceX to launch satellites and host data infrastructure, and every earthly person, corporeal and corporate, will pay for grok to artificially intelligently do stuff
Charlie Warzel@cwarzel.bsky.social · 2mo agoi would like smart people who understand the economy to explain the SpaceX portion of this graph to me like i am a small child
Trump DOJ: Everything is national security, except for actual national security, which is woke
molly taft@mollytaft.com · 2mo agoNEW: the US government intervened Monday on behalf of xAI in a lawsuit over its gas turbines, claiming that the company needs to run the turbines in order to power Grok, which is "vital" for national security lots of wild stuff in the filing:
1) The comity here ain't helping. 2) Nonetheless, good to see Dems taking over what most would expect to be a Republican-dominated cultural occasion. 3) Can't blame Warnock for once again stepping up and mogging all his colleagues (save LBR).
Senator Amy Klobuchar@klobuchar.senate.gov · 2mo agoHappy National Seersucker Day! Great to join my colleagues from both sides of the aisle in kicking off summer with this time-honored tradition.
