Hannah Villarreal

a disappointed yankees fan

[best of demi @archivefordemi]

WE BLINKED.

[Variety @Variety]

The Jonas Brothers and Demi Lovato pose together at the #CampRock3 world premiere.

[Javan Gonzalez @JavanGonzalez]

I don’t think y’all realize how much more a Governor Hinojosa would impact the daily lives of Texans than any federal race.

@GinaHinojosaTX would fundamentally change Texas for the better if elected to Governor.

[Gina Hinojosa @GinaHinojosaTX]

Always remember that San Antonio residents & most Texans face skyrocketing electric bills because Greg Abbott let gas companies make record profits during Uri.

Then Abbott got $1 million from the gas company CEO.

It’s the Greg Abbott Corruption Tax. https://t.co/TCcEdzcHSL

[Headquarters @HQNewsNow]

Sen. @DickDurbin: Prior to this hearing, Mr. Blanche told me he made a mistake by creating the January 6th slush fund. With witnesses and my staff to what I'm about to say, when I asked him about this under oath, Mr. Blanche falsely claimed that he never made this statement. That's not true. Mr. Blanche's willingness to casually lie under oath about a statement he made in a room full of witnesses shows the lengths he will go to avoid offending Trump.

[Hey Jo🤍 @joe_jo9]

‘We’re just getting started’ might be the funniest thing Greg Abbott has ever posted. After 11 years as governor and 30 years of Republican control, that’s not a slogan. It’s a confession. Thirty years in charge, and he’s acting like they just inherited the job. 🤣🤣🤣

[Texas Democratic Party @texasdemocrats]

Democracy is worth defending. Thank you to the leaders who showed up in Tarrant County to fight back against voter suppression.

[NBA @NBA]

The energy in the building when @wemby threw this down in Game 7... that's what Dunk Week is all about 😤

[Marco Foster @MarcoFoster_]

James Talarico: “I have a legislative record, Ken Paxton has a criminal record. That is the difference in this campaign. Ken Paxton is the most corrupt politician in America and he should be nowhere near the US Senate”

[Adam Schwarz @AdamJSchwarz]

Genuinely looks like a scene from a Batman movie where a cartoonishly evil villain somehow makes it onto the airwaves to rant against the establishment.

[Gina Hinojosa @GinaHinojosaTX]

🚨NEW POLL🚨 we are within ONE POINT of beating Greg Abbott.

Texans are sick and tired of Greg Abbott's corruption. We are ready for change.

[Occupy Democrats @OccupyDemocrats]

BREAKING: TMZ's Harvey Levin releases a viral and deeply moving defense of "amazing public servant" Dr. Fauci and calls the MAGA attacks on him "one of the most heartbreaking things" he’s ever witnessed in government.

This is truly a must-read...

"I have not used TMZ's YouTube channel to vent personal feelings about issues, but I'm going to do that today," Levin said. "Watching Anthony Fauci before a congressional hearing taking the Fifth Amendment is just one of the most heartbreaking things I have seen in government in my lifetime. And this is something we need to reckon with."

"I'm going to say up front, I have problems with the way the CDC handled COVID," he continued. "I think that they did damage to children, to adults, and I don't think they did it maliciously. I think they did it because they were using their judgment and were overprotective, and I think at times overstated things, things they said they knew but really didn't. And I have personal problems with the way that COVID was handled."

"That said, Anthony Fauci, over a period of decades, has been an amazing public servant. In the 80s, I had many friends who died of AIDS, a horrible, painful death. And I had friends who lived because of Anthony Fauci, because he was willing to look at experimental drugs in a different way than they had looked at them before, and that really resulted in lives saved."

"And he has done so many other things in his career to thwart epidemics, to save lives, not just in the United States, but all over the world."

"He has been a dedicated public servant who could have made a lot more money outside of government than inside, but he stayed."

"And now we are at a point where members of Congress, and yes, you, Rand Paul, are on a witch hunt. And the best I can say for Rand Paul is that he's being really honest. I mean, he has said now, over a period of years, he wants Anthony Fauci in a jail cell. He has said it out loud. He wants him in a jail cell. That's the point of this hearing. That's why they're doing this."

"They want to take something that Anthony Fauci says and then claim it amounts to perjury, and they want to prosecute him, they want to convict him, and they want to throw him in prison. That's the point of this hearing. There is no other point of this hearing."

"There could be. I mean, there are things they could certainly ask him, but he can't answer, because if he answers, it doesn't matter what he says. You know, if you can prosecute somebody for frickin' seashells on the beach shore, then you could certainly prosecute somebody for what they say in a congressional hearing."

"And that's the climate we're in. We are in a Senator Joseph McCarthy climate, where there is such fear that people have, and legitimate fear, that they'll end up in prison for what they say, no matter what it is, if they are on the wrong side of somebody in Congress or the administration, that they have been silenced. And that's where we are right now."

"We are in Senator Joseph McCarthy territory. And the idea that you have to watch this man take the Fifth Amendment, and again, I will say that I disagree personally with some of the CDC decisions. Absolutely, I did. That said, he's a public servant who worked for us and saved lives for decades. And we are turning him into what Rand Paul wants to be, a criminal. And Rand Paul has a political agenda, and it is prevailing here."

"Watching Rand Paul order security to throw Anthony Fauci's lawyer out of that hearing was unbelievable to me."

"We are in a dark period of America," he concluded.

More public figures need to speak out like this immediately. Republicans are scapegoating Fauci because they can't handle the truth that Donald Trump was directly responsible for COVID-19 getting as bad as it did. He downplayed it from the very start, undermined experts, and spread dangerous misinformation.

Meanwhile, Dr. Fauci did everything in his power to save as many lives as possible, urging Americans to wear masks, socially distance, and treat the coronavirus like the deadly threat it was. He's an American hero.

If anyone should be hauled in front of Congress to testify about their behavior during the pandemic, it's Trump.

Please ❤️ and share if you think the world needs to hear this message!

[Team Talarico @TeamTalaricoHQ]

.@JamesTalarico: Ken Paxton has not accepted any of these debates yet.

When I get tough questions, I answer them. When Ken Paxton gets tough questions, he runs away — literally runs away from reporters, from voters, from anyone asking hard questions.

If you've given an Epstein-style sweetheart deal to an admitted child predator, you should have to answer the public's questions. If you were reported to the FBI for bribery by your own staff, you should have to answer the public's questions. If you become a multi-millionaire on a government salary and now own 15 homes on the public's dime, then you should have to answer the public's questions.

I get it. If I had Ken Paxton's record of corruption, I wouldn't want to answer these questions either. But he's asking for your vote and your trust — and the people of Texas deserve answers.

So I've challenged Ken Paxton to these 3 televised debates. The networks have already set the dates and the times and the locations. We're just waiting on Ken Paxton.

I'm not afraid of tough questions. We'll see if Ken Paxton can say the same.

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

I agree, we need transparency.

Why did Donald Trump say in private that Covid was worse than the flu but say the opposite in public?

Why did Trump defend the Chinese government’s handling of it at the start of the pandemic? What private conversations did he have with Xi?

Did Jared Kushner reportedly leave blue states to fend for themselves as the virus ripped through them?

[Headquarters @HQNewsNow]

He has harsher words for Dr. Fauci than his fellow Republican Congressman who allegedly abused his daughter

[melissa ☆ BND x3 @wadesknife]

“GHOST RIDER AND SHANG-CHI! WE NEED U TO DISTRACT DOOM!” #sdcc
ghost rider and shang-chi:

[philip lewis @Phil_Lewis_]

Representatives for Taylor Farms called the White House to try to delay a recall tied to one of the largest foodborne illness outbreaks in U.S. history

https://t.co/QHjk3PKib7

[San Antonio Spurs @spurs]

the @wemby moment that became the @NBA2K cover 🔥

[Thomas Massie @RepThomasMassie]

Congress is not serious.

We are voting on a stock trading ban for members of Congress…

BUT Republicans added voter-ID in the legislation.

Not to get Dems to vote for voter-ID,

but to get them to vote against the stock trading ban, so they can use it in the Nov. election.

[San Antonio Spurs @spurs]

The first cover in 2K’s 25-year history to have teammates included 🤝

(via @NBA2K)