Paxton has his aide step and doesn't answer when someone asks him "how come on a government salary you own over 15 houses?"

If Joe Biden rolled out in public with that thing on his head, boy howdy.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 17h ago

Trump on Democrats: "They will overturn it if they take over. All of the things, including men in women's sports, transgender for everyone, they will overturn it if they get in. We can't let that happen." 🤔

the Army spent $500 million building a factory for 155mm shells in Mesquite, Texas. It got shut down last year without producing a single usable thing.

Matt Novak@paleofuture.bsky.social · 15h ago

Yeah we’re definitely out of missiles

"Meta would not comment directly on the pages, but said it had 'clear policies in place which anyone using our monetisation tools must comply with' and that 'it is not Meta's role to police offensiveness'". Fuck Zuck.

Bruno J. Navarro@brunojnavarro.bsky.social · 8h ago

An ABC NEWS Verify investigation has found Facebook's parent company, Meta, is directly paying several controversial content creators including a white nationalist with Neo-Nazi links and a prominent anti-vaxxer.

He talks like a pop up ad that opens 3 unrelated tabs every time you try to click on the main article.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 21h ago

Trump: "You see it in the blue states run by Democrats -- everything is filthy dirty all the time. The cities stink The sidewalks are loaded w/horrible stuff. I don't want to use the term bc my wife hates it. She hates it when I imitate no men in women's sports, when I do the weightlifter."

Conversely, this is an excellent opportunity for trans supporters to change noses and bridgework from without.

@transmetalmum.bsky.social · yesterday

I've heard that the GC event in Belfast encouraged people to join trans supportive groups in order to change 'hearts and minds' from within. Organisations need to take note that this is most certainly a problem and it needs nipped in the bud.

UPDATE: The federal government has awarded the contract to provide legal service for unaccompanied immigrant children to a boutique firm in Houston, Texas, that doesn’t specialize in immigration. This will include children in Connecticut. www.politico.com/news/2026/08... #nutmegsky

26-employee Texas law firm gets $150M to represent 24,000 children in immigration court

None of the Burke Law Group’s lawyers list immigration law as an area of expertise, per the firm’s website.

politico.com

Joshua Eaton@joshuaeaton.bsky.social · 6d ago

The contract that provides legal services to these immigrant children in federal custody expires today — both nationwide and here in Connecticut. The Acacia Center for Justice, which holds that contract, told me yesterday they have not seen a plan to replace it.

Big tax results out of Missouri tonight: Voters statewide rejected by an huge margin a GOP ballot measure to phase out the income tax. They also renewed a sales tax to keep state parks free. And Kansas City approved a package of $1.7 billion of bonds for infrastracture.

Bernie Moreno puts Max Miller in the dumpster hours after the Congressman refuses to exit his increasingly contested race.

This is fantastic.

Kathryn Tewson@kathryntewson.bsky.social · 4d ago

Grandma out here yelling at dudes that testimony is evidence 💪

Here in Illinois, we’re providing $400 to families who lost federal food assistance thanks to Donald Trump’s cuts to SNAP.

Illinois to send $400 food relief payments to thousands of families in August

The new $70 million program provides one-time $400 payments to eligible Illinois households that lost SNAP benefits under new federal work requirements.

stlpr.org

BASH: How do you prepare for next pandemic? RFK Jr: We did almost everything wrong B: But what about now? K: We need to protect our rights B: ? K: During covid we dismantled our rights B: But I'm asking what *to* do K: You were part of the problem B: You want to sit here and attack me?

Am told at the blue ash Ohio ICE office today that a bunch of springfield Haitians were told to just “check in” at are now having ankle monitors put on them, which, uh….. they’re not supposed to be fucking doing that

Traveling day today, which requires the following: youtu.be/Cjr5U7g6aiA?...

Paul Pena - Jet Airliner (The Original)

YouTube video by badnewsbarnett

youtu.be

60 years ago yesterday. 50 years to the day after this disaster, the Texas GOP made it legal to carry concealed firearms on campus. I don't miss working in the building next to the Tower, seeing some of Whitman's bullet holes in the walls every time I walked outside.

UT Tower Shooting, no. 2 (1966) - Neal Spelce Collection

KTBC-TV footage from the August 1, 1966 UT Tower Shooting by gunman Charles Whitman

texasarchive.org

Windfall profits should be taxed 100%.

Sanho Tree@sanho.bsky.social · 5d ago

“Chevron just announced its highest quarterly earnings ever. Shell clocked its second-highest quarterly profits. And while ExxonMobil's profits came in beneath what Wall Street analysts had expected, it still managed to double its earnings compared with this time last year.“ Tax them into oblivion.🤬

Sometimes in a library I imagine each book as years of an author’s life such that you are standing amidst uncounted hours of effort and concentration like some oasis of meaningful time.

Anyway back to my ongoing theory that women use AI to get more done and men use AI to get out of doing more.

one of the Sisyphean goals of my life is trying to convince somebody, anybody, to make a serious attempt to roughly quantify whether police in the US cause more deaths than they prevent

Erin Fogg says Free Link@criminalerin.bsky.social · 6d ago

Ah well what's the torturous needless preventable deaths of thousands of people a year when a stolen car is now pancaked into a tree

Trump's fascism is a boot, stomping on a garden rake, forever: "The timing is nothing short of ironic. Open enrollment for Medicare Part D coverage begins on Oct. 15. Less than 3 weeks before the midterm elections, America’s most reliable voting bloc will receive notice of higher healthcare costs."

Opinion | Trump’s Medicare change comes at a curious time

Less than three weeks before the midterm elections, America’s most reliable voting bloc will receive notice of higher healthcare costs.

ms.now

“If Elon Musk ran the GPS system, you’d hear abt it nonstop, valorizing this great man who built something so remarkable and valuable. But since it’s govt invented, owned, and operated, it just works, quietly and without fanfare… that’s…ideology, not so much what you hear about, but what you don’t.”

Google Maps, Uber, and Wall Street Run on Socialism: How the U.S. Government Built the Global Positioning System

The Federal government built a global navigation system, nicknamed "Lighthouses in the Sky" on which Google Maps, Wall Street, and shipping rely. Just don't call it socialism.

thebignewsletter.com

ICE spokesperson manages to cram an impressive number of flat-out lies into this statement: www.texasobserver.org/ice-car-chas...

We're heading to Berkshire County tomorrow and I'm quite frankly looking forward to the local the crime scene: www.berkshireeagle.com/news/central...

Stolen John Deere Gator recovered after weeklong chase by Pittsfield business

After a weeklong search spurred on by social media tips, Western Mass Power Equipment in Pittsfield finally had a stolen John Deere utility vehicle returned on Wednesday.

berkshireeagle.com

With 94 days to go, and a new FOX News poll shows Talarico leading Paxton. www.fox7austin.com/news/texas-s...

New poll gives Talarico slight lead over Paxton, shows governor’s race tied

A new poll from FOX News shows Democratic candidate James Talarico with a slight advantage over Republican Attorney General Ken Paxton in a contentious Senate race that remains extremely close as Nove...

fox7austin.com

A billion dollars is the socio-economic equivalent of a loose nuke, and we should work with the same urgency and ruthlessness to prevent the acquisition of the former as we do the latter.

Robert Reich@rbreich.bsky.social · 6d ago

Elon Musk is planning to spend at least $100 million to help Republicans in this year’s midterms. That’s just 0.014 percent of his current $702 billion net worth. Oligarchs can rig the system at the expense of everyone else, and only spend pennies doing so. We must get Big Money out of politics.

oh, interesting... apparently one of the Moda Center stooges is on camera saying he knew we were outside counter-protesting and our ejection from the game was related to this fact? this just gets cooler and cooler

well, a couple of Moda Center "Guest Experience" stooges just tried to tell my friend that she couldn't wear a shirt that says "F*CK TRANSPHOBIA" in the building because "there had been complaints" and "you can't wear shirts with profanity" we laughed and went to our seats

Like the hypocrisy and the open corruption, the naked, brazen lying is itself aspiring authoritarianism. They aren't lying to cover anything up. They're saying, "We know we're lying. You know we're lying. And we know you know we're lying. And there's nothing you can do about it."

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last mo.

BASH: But it peeled off. Why did that happen? BURGUM: It didn't peel off. There was vandalism. There was box cutters. There have been 7 arrests. BASH: There are photographs of people cutting a 350 foot gash in the reflecting pool? BURGUM: Dana, I'm not sure why you keep questioning it

FLASH: Justice Dept seeks to dismiss Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool criminal case against former Olympian David Hearn Trump Admin acknowledges: "Damage to the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool in June 2026 was the result of flawed installation by the contractor"