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Texan.

What the fuck do you mean “speaking out”?! He stalked her when she was a girl and is using NBC to continue to insert himself into her life four decades later. This is not news, this is aiding and abetting. @nbcnews.com should take this down and apologize.

NBC News@nbcnews.com · 22h ago

John Hinckley Jr., who shot President Ronald Reagan in 1981 in an attempt to impress Jodie Foster, is speaking out about the Academy Award-winning actor more than four decades after the assassination attempt.

Thought experiment for the people who hit publish on this: Would you do the same kind of article over Christians attending memorials for the Oklahoma City bombing? No? Why not? Why commission, write, edit and sign off on publishing this?

CNN@cnn.com · 5d ago

Twenty-five years after the mayor of New York City became the champion of America's grief and resilience at the time of the 9/11 attacks, families of those killed are split on whether the current mayor should attend the annual remembrance. https://cnn.it/4zkKYdc

Bill Cassidy finally figured out a way to bump his RFK Jr. confirmation vote out of the first sentence of his obit.

it's so funny to me that crockett's whole theory of the case was that texas is a secret blue state with gajillions of nonvoters she could turn out and that dems were being totally underestimated but now that she's not on the ticket she's like "you know texas hasn't had a dem senator since the 90s"

Steve M.@stevemnomoremister.bsky.social · last wk.

Sometimes I think the one thing all Democrats agree on is that Americans shouldn't vote for Democratic candidates. www.yahoo.com/news/politic...

Quite an upset in the #KSGov Dem primary. State Sen. Cindy Holscher, who came out against data centers and the Kansas City Chiefs stadium deal, has defeated state Sen. Ethan Corson, who had a big financial edge and an endorsement from term-limited Gov. Laura Kelly.

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People keep comparing 2026 to 2018 but I’m starting to wonder if 2006 is more apt. President who mistook electoral victory for popular domestic mandate? ✅Caught in his own unpopular Mideast war? ✅ And a scandal-plagued Republican Congress? ✅ FWIW 2006 was a D +8 national popular vote margin. Hmmm.

It's important not just to memorialize people's professional achievements, but also the kind of people they were. This article detailed serious sexual assault allegations against Nims Purja, which the NY Times repeated in its reporting of his death, but many outlets did not.

For Female Climbers, Dangers Go Beyond Avalanches and Storms (Gift Article)

Women are increasingly reporting sexual harassment and abuse in the sport, including accusations against the renowned climber Nirmal Purja.

nytimes.com

NEW: Nate Schatzline is a voting fraud conspiracy theorist who believes he is at war with demonic forces and has close ties to a movement of "prophets" that helped spark Jan 6. So why did Gov. Greg Abbott just give him a $275,000 job as a senior advisor on "election integrity" issues? (Gift link).

He Sees Politics as a Spiritual Battle Against Demonic Forces. Now He’s Advising the Governor.

Meet Nate Schatzline, the Christian nationalist and former state representative who is helping Greg Abbott manage “election integrity.”

texasmonthly.com

This immediately makes me think of the Jacob Soberoff story told to @chrislhayes.bsky.social: during the LA fires, Katie Miller was calling Soberoff asking for help for her family, while Trump was like blaming the fires on forest sweeping and FEMA was a joke. The Millers are truly despicable people.

Jon Cooper@joncooper-us.bsky.social · 2w ago

Fauci Diaries Expose Depths of Katie and Stephen Miller’s Hypocrisy Before Katie and Stephen Miller called for Dr. Fauci’s imprisonment, they were actually on very friendly terms. The two Millers are equally despicable human beings.

Deportations are death sentences. "[The couple was] killed weeks after González de la Cruz self-deported to be with her husband, who was deported last year. Their 14-month-old daughter was found crying beside her mother’s body. The child showed signs of dehydration." www.stlpr.org/law-order/20...

Overland couple shot dead in Guatemala after local ICE stop led to deportations

The couple’s 14-month-old daughter was found crying beside her mother’s body in a sugarcane field last week, according to Guatemalan authorities and media.

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A Texas letter carrier collapsed and died on his route Monday during an extreme heat warning. The next day, Republicans on the Education and Labor Committee voted to permanently block a rule guaranteeing workers water breaks and shade in dangerous heat. Working shouldn't be a death sentence.

Texas USPS worker dies after collapsing during extreme heat, sparking scrutiny

While it's unclear whether Thakkar's death was directly related to the triple-digit heat that day, neighbors told local media they believe the extreme temperatures may have played a role.

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Ossoff: "We've learned in recent weeks that Mike Collins's office was briefing Nick Fuentes and other prominent white supremacists on its efforts on behalf of a prominent Holocaust denier, and that Mike Collins has had a neo-Nazi propagandist based on his property."