Owl Jolson 🗽🐸 🌊 🇺🇸⚖️

@owl-jolson.bsky.social

Curmudgeon; Liberal; Lawyer; Fan of jazz, wine, Frank Capra, baseball, the Great American Songbook, Faulkner, the Marx Brothers, Thurber, the 20th Century, and dogs. Dallas & Taos. No DMs.

How is Texas AG Ken Paxton able to own a 5-bedroom, 3-story “modern luxury” Oklahoma lodge worth over $1.6 million on a $153K government salary? Asking for a friend who’s still waiting on that public servant lifestyle. 🤔

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How is Ken Paxton able to own at least 15 real estate properties worth around $9 million—including a $1 million property in Hawaii with an ocean view—on his government salary of $153,000 per year? Explain it to me like I’m five.

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Conservative media tells Texans to "stay the course" and vote Republican. Texas has floundered because of years of Republican corruption. Now they want the people to vote for yet another corrupt official - Ken Paxton. If you want change, vote for Talarico.

Todd Blanche is violating federal law by covering up the Epstein files. Rather than confirming him as attorney general, the Senate ought to demand his prosecution.

Gas is high. Groceries are high. Rent is high. Wages are stagnant. Another forever war. ICE is committing murder on our streets. We can’t eat fresh produce and our national monuments and parks are being pillaged. But, at least the president has made billions of dollars in the last year…

In the past week, Ken Paxton has been found to have illegally voted six times under a false address and to have spent Independence Day in London with his mistress—threatening to drop his support among MAGA Republicans down to 99 percent.