Ken Paxton’s records do not show a business purpose for travel to Albania, Aruba, Australia, Costa Rica, the Czech Republic, the Dominican Republic, England, Estonia, Finland, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Malta, Mexico, Poland, South Africa or Taiwan. with @texastribune.org

Ken Paxton’s Security for Travel Cost Taxpayers Millions. Just 1 in 6 of His Trips Had a Stated Business Purpose.

Records show the Texas attorney general has taken nearly 1,000 trips during his tenure, costing $3.3 million in security. We could only connect 138 of those trips and $553,000 in security costs to sta...

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If I weren't going to be at NWSA in ATL on Nov 7, I would 100% drive to Hartford, CT, and go to this incredible-looking 1-day symposium on Creative Writing in the Age of AI at the Mark Twain House. It's also being livestreamed! Go! Or watch! Tell me all about it! marktwainhouse.org/2026/10/05/t...

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Can just one reporter please ask Trump to name the “eight wars” that he settled? 🤨

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 4d ago

Trump: "There's never been anybody in the history of the Nobel Prize that deserves it more. I settled eight wars. I stopped the total obliteration of the world."

Psycho. He’s an absolute psycho.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 4d ago

Trump: "There's never been anybody in the history of the Nobel Prize that deserves it more. I settled eight wars. I stopped the total obliteration of the world."

Another idea: bookshop.org/p/books/a-co...

A Compendium of Supernatural Entities Found in the Government Girls Higher Secondary School

A boundary-pushing fantasy that blends magical realism with dark academia, perfect for fans of Bunny by Mona Awad and Motherthing by Ainslie Hogarth.In the oppressive heat of a small Tamil Nadu town, ...

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Bookshop.org@bookshop.org · 5d ago

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A friend has a theory why Tucker Carlson is suddenly anti-Trump: He sees the end and understands that the first person who was hanged at Nuremberg was a publicist who shot or killed nobody, but published extreme-right propaganda that created the conditions for it to happen. Julius Streicher.

Damn, and you MAGA fools wonder why everyone laughs at you. Because you let these dipshits post ignorant, pathetic bullshit like this.

Trump is a greedy, stupid, incompetent, sadistic, serial sexual sexual abuser, and traitor. The idea he was a successful businessman who was (even remotely) qualified to serve as POTUS is the biggest fraud ever perpetrated on the American people.

British people had no idea of all the greatness headed in their direction.

The Story of Writing@sownow.bsky.social · 6d ago

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Fortunately, people at NYT recognized that this was a historically bad sub-head for a story. It now reads: "is the latest sign of how the White House is asserting more control over grants." But SOMEONE WROTE THAT ORIGINAL HEADLINE.

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"creative" is an interesting choice of words here www.nytimes.com/2026/10/02/u...

Exactly 😤😡

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If you vote legally, he's going to jail.

today in depressing takes, like "the war with iran probably isn't going to end"

The Return of the Cutting-Off Way

Structural changes are driving us towards a more chaotic world, defined by "neither peace nor war, but conflict."

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So you know previous waves of technological fabulism the tech companies threw a little loose change at social behavioral research and user interface experience. whats interesting about AI interesting is that they aren’t even pretending to care about how people use the technology.