Scott Ballentine

IT consultant - Switched to e-cigs after 30 years of smoking - My opinions are my own

[Houston Chronicle @HoustonChron]

Celebrate peak crawfish season with Houston Chronicle restaurant critic Bao Ong on a guided Viet-Cajun food tour through Asiatown. https://t.co/FwnXvxINri

[KC Concepcion @KCTheKid7]

This is MY story! So, to all the NFL GMs out there, and kids who are just like me — I wrote this to you. @PlayersTribune 
https://t.co/6ED4YvRA6M

[The Players’ Tribune @PlayersTribune]

“I’m the best receiver in this draft. But, at the end of the day, I’m so much more than just a football player.”

@AggieFootball WR @KCTheKid7 has something to say before the @NFL Draft. https://t.co/pB1i4Ygxi0

[Bernard Taylor @BTForCongress]

Do you remember in The Lion King when scar told the hyenas if they helped him become king he will make their lives better and then their lives didn’t get better and he blamed them for it.

And upon realizing this, the hyenas ate him.

Do with that story what you will.

[Roshan Rinaldi @Roshan_Rinaldi]

BREAKING: A beer was thrown at President Trump during a press conference this afternoon in Washington. Trump was unharmed. Since the beer was a draft,... he was able to dodge it.

[Acyn @Acyn]

Talarico: I am tired of being pitted against my neighbor. I'm tired of being told to hate my neighbor. It's been more than ten years of this kind of politics. Politics as bloodsport, politics as trolling and owning politics as total war. It tears families apart. It ends friendships, and it leaves us all feeling terrible all the time. 

We cannot defeat the politics of division with more division. We can't win their game. We have to change the game. This campaign is rooted in a fierce love for this state, for this country, and most importantly, for all of our neighbors.

[Rick Wilson @TheRickWilson]

Lewandowski on the phone with Pam Bondi.

"Hey...we matched on Fascist Finder..."

[Tim Miller @Timodc]

Wow the Republicans in Texas are rigging the vote against Mr. Wow. MAGA voters should not show up in protest.

[Chris Bakke @ChrisJBakke]

Kash Patel arriving to the Situation Room, after mishearing that he was part of "Operation Epic Furry"

[James Talarico @jamestalarico]

America is praying for Austin.

But there is something profoundly cynical about asking God to solve a problem we're not willing to solve ourselves.

God moves and works through us. God has no other hands but our hands.

We must act.

[Scott Ballentine @Bullheaded67]

https://t.co/UvEjqASk7A

[Andrew Bates @AndrewBatesNC]

🚨 It takes a lot to be a "holy shit" moment in 2026.

But on the same day as Trump's State of the Union, @NPR caught @TheJusticeDept illegally hiding Epstein records alleging that @POTUS "sexually abused a minor."

[Scott Ballentine @Bullheaded67]

Rep. James Talarico On Confronting Christian Nationalism, And Strange Da... https://t.co/IFOo9PrI4J via @YouTube

[James Tate @JamesTate121]

Good point.

[Republicans against Trump @RpsAgainstTrump]

Jessica Hauser, Alex Pretti’s final nursing student, posted this on Facebook:

“I was Alex Pretti’s final nursing student. He was my friend and my nursing mentor. For the past four months, I stood shoulder to shoulder with him during my capstone preceptorship at the Minneapolis VA Hospital. There he trained me to care for the sickest of the sick as an ICU nurse. He taught me how to care for arterial and central lines, the intricacies of managing multiple IVs filled with lifesaving solutions, and how to watch over every heartbeat, every breath, and every flicker of life, ready to act the moment they wavered. Techniques intended to heal.

Alex carried patience, compassion and calm as a steady light within him. Even at the very end, that light was there. I recognized his familiar stillness and signature calm composure shining through during those unbearable final moments captured on camera.

It does not surprise me that his final words were, “Are you okay?” Caring for people was at the core of who he was. He was incapable of causing harm. He lived a life of healing, and he lived it well.

Alex believed strongly in the Second Amendment and in the rights rooted in our Constitution and its amendments. He spoke out for justice and peace whenever he could, not only out of obligation, but out of a belief that we are more connected than divided, and that communication would bring us together.

I want his family to know his legacy lives on. I am a better nurse because of the wisdom and skills he instilled in me. I carry his light with me into every room, letting it guide and steady my hands as I heal and care for those in need.

Please honor my friend by standing up for peace, preferably with a cup of black coffee in hand and a couple of pieces of candy in your pocket, just as he would. He would remind you that caring for others is hard work, and we must do whatever it takes to get through the long shifts. Step outside with your dog, breathe in the world, hike or bike as he loved to do, and let yourself find peace in the quiet moments within nature. Stand up for justice and speak with those whose views differ from your own. Hold your beliefs with strength, but always extend love outward, even in the face of adversity.

Take one step, no matter how small, to help heal our world. Through these acts, carry his light forward in his name. Let his legacy continue to heal.”

[Andrea Junker @Strandjunker]

“Get it all on record now — get the films — get the witnesses — because somewhere down the road of history some bastard will get up and say that this never happened.”

Dwight D. Eisenhower, after visiting liberated concentration camps in April 1945

[Tim Miller @Timodc]

👀 @SarahLongwell25

[Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney]

MORE: Plaintiffs in the case have added a declaration from a pediatrician who sought to administer aid to Alex Pretti after he was shot. "ICE agents appeared to be counting his bullet wounds." https://t.co/2Jw11lIAvO

[Pete Buttigieg @PeteButtigieg]

If there was ever a moment for libertarians and conservatives to step up and join the rest of us, we’re in it.

Americans have to unite and stop this descent from a freedom-loving nation into the kind of place where masked, militarized government agents are sent to politically noncompliant areas to roam the streets, terrorize civilians, and deploy violence with impunity.

[James Talarico @jamestalarico]

They shot Renee Good in the face.
They kidnapped Liam Ramos.
They just executed a man on the street.

Unmask them. Prosecute them. No more secret police.