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Learning, exploring and anxiously resisting. Love is love. djt is Satan.

Ballou on Epstein Files Hearing: There were just long periods of silence in the courtroom as the DOJ struggled to articulate why it couldn’t follow the law here. I had never really been in a hearing like that, where one side was just silent on their own arguments…

NEW: As you know, I FOIA'd the initial Epstein redaction training materials. Last month, the FBI admitted they have them but refuse to hand them over. Today, DOJ goes further, saying the training videos "have a combined length of one hour, 13 minutes, and 14 seconds." 1/

Tallarico had a smart and funny promotion, offering a pen, a simple pen, with the words “not Ken Paxton’s pen” printed on it. I went to order one for a friend and found it was sold out. That’s a good thing!

Thanks to Trump, fossil fuel industry reaps record windfall profits. The world's largest oil companies are now holding a record cash pile: The top 5 international oil companies generated almost ~$70 billion in free cash flow in Q2 2026, the largest amount on record. This includes ExxonMobil, .

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THIS is the part of James Talarico’s campaign I really like. He’s going into deep-red Texas, talking directly to people about the shit they’re actually dealing with: housing, utility bills, cost of living, corruption. And then he LISTENS.