BiteSizeActivist🇺🇦

Making sense of politics—so you know where to push 🗳️⚡

[BiteSizeActivist🇺🇦 @BiteSizeAct]

A conservative woman I know reached out about the shutdown. She asked her family to donate to food banks because they rely on SNAP.

[Tommy Vietor @TVietor08]

This is ridiculous from @marcorubio. He had to catch up with Trump's son in law DURING a meeting with the president of the UAE?

[Adam Klasfeld @KlasfeldReports]

Trump benefits from a status quo allowing him to fabricate an audacious lie, prop it up with the machinery of the federal government, and count on media conventions to describe it merely as an untested claim “without evidence.” https://t.co/3Av0h8dGWs

[Bayliss Wagner @baylisswagner]

New: @HouseJudiciary Dems are investigating Texas AG & GOP #TXSEN nominee @KenPaxtonTX over his lawsuit into ActBlue & "failure to investigate WinRed"

The inquiry cites my past reporting on WinRed complaints for @ExpressNews/Hearst. Story via @JohnnieMo:
https://t.co/id2ZLlt171

[Jon Favreau @jonfavs]

America's new spy chief:

✔️ Investigated for manufacturing fake mortgage fraud allegations
✔️Responsible for Trump's AI Jesus post
✔️ Treasury Secretary told him "I'm gonna punch you in your fucking face" and "I'm going to beat your fucking ass."

[Scott Braddock @scottbraddock]

Schools shutting down and Republicans are upset their ISDs aren't getting the funding that was promised. Flashback: This was the day Speaker Burrows endorsed Little Gov Patrick's school finance plan when no Texas House member had seen it #TxLege

[Timothy Snyder @TimothyDSnyder]

Crimes of far-right anti-American terrorists celebrated by far-right anti-American regime
https://t.co/34dwQR9q4Y

[Chris Tackett (aka See It Name It Fight It) @cjtackett]

I don’t think Chairman Buckley understood he was asking questions of the indomitable Alé Checka, as she zipped around him at every point he was trying to make. This is Part 3 of our friend and 18 year FWISD teacher Alé Checka giving comments to the Texas House Education Committee

[Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @ReichlinMelnick]

OUTRAGEOUS. The husband of this US citizen did literally nothing wrong. He submitted his renewal to @USCIS five months before his status was set to expire. Then the government just sat on his paperwork and did nothing, and his protections expired.

[Chris Tackett (aka See It Name It Fight It) @cjtackett]

“Do Not Roll The Tape, Under Any Scenario” is how Tarrant County Commissioners Court ended suddenly yesterday (5/12/26).

Commissioner Simmons wanted to talk about things. Commissioner Ramirez DID NOT. Now I definitely want to see the tape. How about you?
#wakeup #tarrantcounty

[BiteSizeActivist🇺🇦 @BiteSizeAct]

Ahhh, "No-bid" contracts. Takes me back to the Iraq war/Halliburton days.

Are y'all tired of the #FakeFiscalConservatives yet? If their whole schtick is to save taxpayers money why no-bid? #GriftingOfPeople

[David Fahrenthold @Fahrenthold]

NEW: The cost of President Trump's plan to repair the Reflecting Pool has jumped by 88 percent, to $13.1M, gov't records show.

The price appears to include a 20 percent profit margin for Trump's handpicked contractor, who got the job in a no-bid contract.

https://t.co/r17oy8J5eX

[ProPublica @propublica]

Billionaires are using a loophole to avoid Medicare taxes. Closing it — and eliminating other ways around the tax for wealthy business owners — could raise more than $250 billion over 10 years for the program.
https://t.co/oEnZemp7n9

[Daniel Dale @ddale8]

It's hard to explain just how detached from reality President Trump's conspiracy-theory-filled social media posting spree last night and this morning was. One easy example: The president shared a completely made-up and frankly nonsensical "quote" about former president Obama the post attributed to GOP Sen. John Kennedy. The fake quote originated with a "satire" website, basically a fakery factory, that invents stories to be shared by online conservatives; per the fact-check website Lead Stories, versions of this particular fake quote have been wrongly attributed to everyone from Kash Patel to Madonna.
https://t.co/iuGHS09Zxs

[Texas House Democrats @TexasHDC]

47th.

That's where Texas ranks in funding to our neighborhood schools.
Rep. John Bryant said it on the record today. Republicans control the budget. Republicans choose 47th.

Texas teachers and kids deserve a Legislature that picks them instead.
#txlege @JohnBryantForTexas

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

How do you cover this? A previous president would have received wall to wall coverage for even one of these tweets. And yet Trump floods the zone and the media cannot and often will not cover the sheer extent of his insanity and indecency.

[Tommy Vietor @TVietor08]

Incredible tweet from Junior

[Bayliss Wagner @baylisswagner]

After a 2021 investigation by @ShaneGoldmacher @nytimes, the FEC urged Congress to ban pre-checked donation boxes.

ActBlue has since banned it in most cases, the platform told me, while WinRed has not. WinRed didn't respond to my request for comment, nor did Paxton. 6/

[BiteSizeActivist🇺🇦 @BiteSizeAct]

"Rules for thee, not for me" is the Republican way...

[Bayliss Wagner @baylisswagner]

NEW: Texas AG Ken Paxton sued Dem fundraising giant ActBlue last month while complaints about the platform he personally uses, WinRed, piled up in his own office, per records we obtained.

Some donors say they lost thousands to recurring charges they never meant to authorize.🧵

[Representative Mihaela E. Pleșa @plesafortexas]

A seat in the Texas House does not belong to a political party.

It does not belong to a map.

It does not belong to party leadership.

It belongs to the people.

That should not be controversial, but in Texas, too many politicians have drawn themselves districts where the only election that matters is the primary.

That changes how people govern. It makes politicians more afraid of losing power than failing their constituents.

I wrote about why competitive districts matter and why democracy works better when we have to earn your vote.

Read and share: https://t.co/YjnjVywyr3

[Mother Jones @MotherJones]

The recent Supreme Court decision in Louisiana v. Callais effectively killed the last remaining provision of the Voting Rights Act of 1965.

And it represents the life's work of Chief Justice John Roberts.

Here's how Roberts has been steadily working for more than 40 years to destroy the country's most important civil rights law:

[Alejandro Serrano @serrano_alej]

ICE deported 25-year-old man last month who says he’s a U.S. citizen, after a traffic stop in Central Texas.

https://t.co/64PfLhIRio