HotTubTony

#Chiefskingdom #rolltide #blm a #retweet is not an endorsement

[Tyler Tarabocchia @iamtylertnt]

Buffalo Bills Just Built THE WORST STADIUM in NFL #nfl #nflfootball #football #trending #bills

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

NEWSNATION: Here's the record -- inflation 3.5%, higher than earnings, gas is $4 a gallon, electricity prices continue to go up, and GDP is at 1.5%. Why do Republicans deserve to keep power?

RNC CHAIR JOE GRUTERS: Biden's disastrous economic record

[ABC7 Eyewitness News @ABC7]

The Orange County Sanitation District continued work this week on a controversial sewer easement project, demolishing another backyard pool as a legal battle with homeowners along Rhone Lane moves toward trial. https://t.co/nvRxFYef0o

[Jamison Daniel @AntiquarianMuse]

Preach! Every. Single. Word.

[Joaquin Castro @JoaquinCastrotx]

Texas DPS pulled over Jesús Bracho as he was arriving to work. When they stopped him, he told his 9-year-old daughter Katherine to go inside his boss’ house.

DPS called ICE and took Jesús. ICE agents came back and then forced him to lure his daughter out so they could take her too. She was scared and didn’t know where she was going.

Katherine is a student at Bonnie Ellison Elementary. Jesús is a hardworking mechanic and doesn’t have a criminal record. They’ve been locked up at the Dilley Trailer Prison for over a month.

Governor Abbott has ordered DPS troopers to help ICE arrest hardworking folks and children in our community.

I am calling on ICE to immediately release Jesús and Katherine and stop fueling Trump and Abbott’s mass deportation machine.
#FreeOurChildren #ShutDownDilley

[philip lewis @Phil_Lewis_]

1.5 million cartons of eggs have been recalled for Salmonella — here’s what you need to know (and do) to stay safe https://t.co/trO771j8z9

[Democratic Wins Media @DemocraticWins]

BREAKING: In an amazing moment, James Talarico just went on The Breakfast Club and broke down the corruption that led to Texas’ ban on marijuana. This is a must-watch.

[The Tennessee Holler @TheTNHoller]

“Does America feel great again?”
“No. Not at all.”

[Jack Fink @cbs11jack]

NEW: In Arlington, former Tarrant County Judge Glen Whitley, a Republican, just endorsed Democrat @jamestalarico for U.S. Senate over Republican @KenPaxtonTX. Whitley said, “I’m ashamed that Ken Paxton is even on the ballot. He’s the most corrupt politician Texas has ever seen.”

[HotTubTony @HardyHottub]

@ATLUncensored 😂😂😂😂

[Jesus Freakin Congress @TheJFreakinC]

🚨BREAKING: An ICE agent admitted, ON VIDEO, that he had no legal justification to keep questioning a U.S. citizen about his immigration status…

But continued harassing him anyway, while illegally detaining him… in Eagle, Idaho.

In the video, mask ICE agents approach a construction site. One masked agent orders a man to put down the pole he’s carrying, so he can question him… while another agent walks up to a man who is setting concrete.

The man setting concrete tells the agent he isn’t going to talk to him because he’s working.

The agent ignores him and says…

“Where were you born? We are looking for someone.”

The man tells him he doesn’t care who they’re looking for… He’s working.

Instead of leaving him alone, the agent gets in his way, and demands his identification.

The man says he doesn’t have an ID on him… So, the agent demands his name.

The man tells him he’s a legal U.S. citizen, and that’s all he needs to tell him.

The agent ignores that, and keeps harassing him with…

Where were you born?
Where are you from?
The United States?

The U.S. citizens keeps trying to tell the agent he needs to work before the concrete is sets, and tries to walk away.

But the agent keeps following and blocking the U.S. citizen until he finally tells the agent to get off of him, and demands the agent’s name and badge number.

The agent responds… “I’m asking YOU the questions.”

Then, another agent says, “Let’s go.”

And the agent finally walks away, saying…

“Okay, that’s fine. HE’S NOT OUR GUY ANYWAY.”

THEN WHY THE HELL DID YOU KEEP HARASSING HIM?!

ICE cannot just stop or detain someone because they want to know where they were born.

The Fourth Amendment protects people from unreasonable seizures, and ICE agents need reasonable suspicion to detain someone for immigration questioning.

And if this was just a “voluntary conversation,” the man was free to walk away.

Instead, the agent followed him, blocked him from working, repeatedly demanded his identity and birthplace, and continued confronting him AFTER he tried to walk away.

And that should piss everyone off.

Because this wasn’t about finding the person they were looking for…

The agent admitted that he KNEW the man wasn’t their guy.

But that didn’t stop the armed federal agent from following and harassing a U.S. citizen.

And it’s exactly how constitutional rights disappear… one “small” violation at a time… until we’re expected to accept the government treating our rights like they’re optional.

[Jen Rice @jen_rice_]

In TX: Tarrant County Judge Tim O'Hare just CLEARED the meeting room, kicking out public speakers who are opposed to the GOP plan to cut half of the battleground county's Election Day voting locations for November:

[HotTubTony @HardyHottub]

@littlekeish Wow!

[Taylor Rehmet @TaylorRehmetTX]

Tomorrow, the Tarrant County Commissioners Court will consider a proposal that would reduce the number of Election Day polling locations from 316 to 176, a roughly 45% reduction.

County leaders say it's about saving money.

The problem isn't that they don't have money — it's what they've chosen to spend it on. The county has paid millions in jail-related lawsuit payouts and hundreds of thousands defending gerrymandered maps. Now they're telling voters they can't afford to keep polling places open.

Protecting the right to vote should never be treated as an expendable line item.

Keep the polls open.

[philip lewis @Phil_Lewis_]

WASHINGTON (AP) — Ohio Sen. Moreno says Rep. Max Miller should not serve in House after abuse allegations from Moreno’s daughter.

[WOOK! @madeyawook]

Apparently, Barbershops around America are empty with some barely seeing 2-5 heads per day because no one wants to pay these high prices anymore…

$100 for a Fade is crazy😭

[Hunter Biden @HunterBiden]

We all knew he was lying about the Reflecting Pool. The problem is that he lies so often that it’s almost impossible to keep up.

So I asked AI to compile claims from just the past twenty-four months and then checked them against official data, contemporaneous reporting and independent fact-checks.

Here is a partial list of 86 lies:
1. He promised to bring prices down “starting on Day One.” Grocery prices remained high and continued rising.
2. After winning, he admitted that prices are very hard to bring down once they have gone up.
3. He said egg prices had fallen 93 percent. They had not fallen remotely close to 93 percent.
4. He said he inherited the highest inflation in American history. He inherited an annual inflation rate of 2.9 percent.
5. When corrected, he changed the claim to the worst inflation in 49 years. That was also false. Annual inflation reached 23.7 percent in 1920.
6. He said there was virtually no inflation during his first term. Consumer prices rose approximately 8 percent.
7. He repeatedly claimed he had already brought inflation down, including during periods when the annual inflation rate was higher than the 2.9 percent reported shortly before he took office.
8. He told Congress inflation was “plummeting.” Prices were still rising overall, including major household expenses such as housing, electricity and medical care.
9. He claimed to have secured $18 trillion in new investment.
10. He then raised the figure to $19.2 trillion.
11. Even the White House’s own tracker listed far less, and its total included multiyear pledges, purchasing agreements, previously announced projects and commitments that might never become actual US investment.
12. He said America was building more factories than ever.
13. He said factory construction was rising.
14. He said the country had achieved its highest growth ever. Manufacturing employment declined, factory-construction claims depended on cherry-picked categories, and economic growth was nowhere near a historical record.
15. He called the country he inherited a dead country. The US economy grew 2.8 percent in 2024, faster than every other major wealthy economy except Spain.
16. He says foreign countries pay his tariffs. American importers pay them and frequently pass the cost on to American consumers.
17. He said the evidence overwhelmingly showed consumers did not pay his tariffs. Economic studies found that American consumers and businesses absorbed nearly all their cost.
18. He said tariff revenue came with “no inflation.” Prices continued rising, and economic research found that the tariffs themselves increased costs for American consumers and businesses.
19. He repeatedly said drug prices were down 70, 80 or 90 percent. No broad measure of prescription-drug prices showed anything close to those reductions.
20. He said Medicaid was “left the same.” The Congressional Budget Office estimated that the legislation would reduce federal Medicaid spending by roughly $930 billion over ten years.
21. He said Americans were “not going to feel any of it.” The Congressional Budget Office projected that the legislation would leave approximately 11.8 million more people uninsured.
22. He said the Medicaid changes touched only waste, fraud and abuse. Independent analyses found that the legislation reduced coverage and federal spending far beyond fraudulent claims.
23. He said he had eliminated taxes on Social Security. The law created a temporary deduction, unavailable to many beneficiaries, that expires after 2028. It did not abolish taxation of Social Security benefits.
24. He said taxes would rise 68 percent without his bill. No credible independent estimate came close to supporting that figure.
25. He then declared, “I’ve kept all my promises and much more.”
26. He publicly promised at least 53 times to end the Ukraine war within 24 hours, or even before taking office.
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[Heated Rep🔥rts @heatedreports]

🚨#BREAKING: Watch new video of the gunman opening fire and firing several shots into a parked Tesla in Twin Falls, Idaho, where he then opened fire at an In-N-Out Burger, where dozens of people ran to take cover

[Dallas Texas TV @DallasTexasTV]

Federal lawsuit filed to try and stop the recent ban of THC products in Texas

[Texas Cannabis Collective @txcannaco]

Seeing this posted everywhere. THIS WAS ALREADY THE CASE FOR POSSESION OF MARIJUANA CONCENTRATE! Legally purchased edibles from Boston-felony. Legally purchased vape from Cali- felony. Legally purchased dabs from Colorado-felony. Plant grown in your house and converted to butter using that cool magic butter machine- felony. Anything non TCUP approved- felony. Surprisingly flower possession is only a Class B misdemeanor.

Previously legal isomerized THCs derived from hemp, like D8 and THCP, now join regular marijuana concentrate.

Welcome to Texas yall! #txlege