Austin J Webster

Education advocate. Frequent traveler. Occasional photographer. Views my own. We're all stories in the end, just make it a good one...

[Austin J Webster @AustinJWebster]

Is there a single agency secretary in the entire Administration that isn’t just an absolute fuckin moron? Like, is Marco Rubio actually the most competent cabinet member? Serious question.

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

Energy Secretary Chris Wright: "Solar is irrelevant in the winter"

(this, dear reader, is false)

[Paco is a Second-Round Duck! 🦆🏒 @PacoTorresCA]

Dear out-of-state pundits & press:

You’ll excuse me if, as a California voter of color, I’m not willing to reduce my options to exercise my right to vote because you can’t be more fucking patient waiting for election results from a state you don’t even live in.

[Austin J Webster @AustinJWebster]

To be clear, I am against USMNT because they suck.

[Gregg Beerholder 🍺 @MLShater]

It sucks seeing how many Americans are against USMNT due to the politics of the country when you consider we are a team full of immigrants. USMNT mirrors the melting pot in which America has always been.

Players shouldn’t have to atone for the sins of our elected officials.

[NYTPitchbot @DougJBalloon]

Whether it's Donald Trump having the DOJ shake down the Treasury for a $1.8 billion slush fund for traitors or Bill Clinton talking to Loretta Lynch on the tarmac for five minutes, both men had inappropriate interactions with the Department of Justice.

[Paco is a Second-Round Duck! 🦆🏒 @PacoTorresCA]

Nearly all of these are policy ideas that Republicans in CA advocate for. Those proposals would meaningfully reduce access to the ballot for lawfully registered California voters, and disproportionately affect voters from communities of color.

[Austin J Webster @AustinJWebster]

This Administration is full of idiots.

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

ANGIE CRAIG: I don't think you understand the difference between error rates and fraud rates. I honestly don't. SNAP has one of the lowest fraud rates of any program

BROOKE ROLLINS: You can't be serious when you say that

CRAIG: Your own data says that

[NYTPitchbot @DougJBalloon]

Bari Weiss is murdering 60 Minutes the right way.

by Ezra Klein

[Austin J Webster @AustinJWebster]

Genuinely impressive that Cillizza continues to crank out the most dog shit takes possible time and time again…

[Chris Cillizza @ChrisCillizza]

The media narrative over the last 24 hours is that Scott Pelley is a hero for speaking truth to power.

I fundamentally disagree. And believe the conversation about Pelley and CBS News more broadly is missing the most important point.

Link to my full piece in next tweet.

[Austin J Webster @AustinJWebster]

@ClaraJeffery @ChrisCillizza Clara nailed it.

[Professional Zoomer 🌹 @Zoomer_Doomer_]

So she’s like clearly having a mental breakdown right?

[Austin J Webster @AustinJWebster]

In today’s edition of “Shit that was entirely predictable,” we have…

[Kyle Clark @KyleClark]

NEW: Tina Peters, newly freed by Colorado Gov Jared Polis (D), begins her MAGA media tour by telling Steve Bannon that Democrats are cheating on elections and she was imprisoned as retribution for exposing voting machines that flip votes.

[Micah Erfan @micah_erfan]

Why is the mainstream media always talking about California's problems, and never about the insane conditions in red states?

[Acyn @Acyn]

Ossoff: This is what small men like Donald Trump and JD Vance and Stephen Miller will never understand—that our national greatness flows not through our blood or our genes, but through our ideas.

Americans are not a race, we're a people united not by ethnicity, but by our shared convictions, and that is what makes us exceptional

[Acyn @Acyn]

Ossoff: He’s trying to put his face on the money. He's building a monument to himself . But see, Atlanta, he's doing these things now because no one will honor him when he’s gone… because he's a failed president and a national disgrace.

[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

Follow the money on this one. It is rotten to the core.

The Pentagon just lent $620,000,000 to a tiny North Carolina startup called Vulcan Elements. The company is two years old.

It had fewer than 50 employees.

And three months before the deal was announced, Donald Trump Jr.’s venture firm quietly took a stake in it.

Here is the part the administration tried to bury.

Of the dozens of companies the Pentagon was weighing, Vulcan was the only deal initiated by a top White House aide. That aide was Peter Navarro, a close friend of Trump Jr. The order came down to move fast.

One official put it plainly: The call came from the White House. We have to get this done.

Staff worked late nights to push it through in weeks. Deals like this normally take many months of vetting. And when it closed, Vulcan’s valuation jumped from about 200 million dollars to roughly 2 billion.

A windfall for the investors, including the president’s son.

This is public money. Your money.

Routed through the Pentagon to enrich the president’s family and their friends. The Bush administration’s own chief ethics lawyer called it corruption we pay for.

And there is more coming.

A drone parts company Trump Jr. holds a stake in is also under Pentagon review.

This is not a one-off. It is a pattern. The president’s family is treating the federal Treasury like a private bank, and the bill lands on every taxpayer.

https://t.co/4kB1cZNmlE

[Paulina Mangubat 🫏 @paulinaVEVO]

I said what I said.

[James Talarico @jamestalarico]

I want to thank Senator John Cornyn for his years representing our state. 

We don’t agree on everything, but we both still believe in public service.

To Senator Cornyn’s supporters: you have a place in our campaign.

[Austin J Webster @AustinJWebster]

Whelp, DSCC is about to light a bunch of money on fire in Texas…

[Austin J Webster @AustinJWebster]

What credibility?

[Post-Left Watch (postleftwatch.bsky.social) @PostLeftWatch]

Briahna Joy Gray: "I know many, you know, people on the left who would happily vote for Tucker Carlson before AOC.

I am frustrated by that dynamic because I, you know, I don't want Tucker Carlson to be President, I also can't see myself damaging my own credibility by telling someone to vote for AOC."