Jason Balcauski

Consultative salesman, science and music lover. Co-founder of @ATXBrightLights

[Gigi @Gigi_chienergy]

The screwworm program wasn't charity, it was a $10 million fence that kept a billion-dollar problem from eating our own livestock alive. That's the thing with most USAID funding: it looks like "aid," but it's really cheap self-defense. Solve a problem there, and it never lands on our doorstep. But sure, let a bunch of guys who can't define DEI without Googling take a chainsaw to it. They didn't stop to ask, "Will this cut hurt us too?" Unless that's the point, burn it all down and call it efficiency.

As usual our inept agriculture secretary, blaming the Biden administration as usual, instead of offering a solution to the problem they created.

Texan here

A screwworm infestation is a nightmare for cattle, causing horrific wounds and economic devastation. For Texas, the situation has escalated dramatically in the last 24 hours with the first confirmed case of New World Screwworm (NWS) in over 60 years! This could have been avoided!

Infested animal can kill a cow in less than two weeks.

Treatment is extremely difficult and time-consuming, requiring the painful removal of every visible larva and deep disinfection of the wound. Ranchers no longer have much experience with this labor-intensive process, and there is currently no approved pharmaceutical treatment to make it easier.

This has triggered a massive economic threat. The USDA estimates that a widespread outbreak would drain an astonishing $1.8 billion from the Texas economy alone in livestock deaths, labor, and medication expenses.

How will this affect you? Tightening supplies will drive already high beef prices higher.

[unusual_whales @unusual_whales]

BREAKING: More than half of the publicly identified donors to President Trump’s White House ballroom project have won new or expanded federal contracts worth more than $50 billion, per WaPo

[JustDario @DarioCpx]

To go out publicly and say what he is saying, @edzitron has balls the size of the Las Vegas sphere

[Jason Balcauski @JasonBalcauski]

@ggreenwald watch out for unexploded ordinance!

[Sam Block @theblockspot]

The best story in baseball is clearly, without question, the Chicago White Sox.

They have gone from awful, to bad, to a legitimate threat in the American League.

They have to be taken seriously.
They are loaded with young talent.
They are awesome.

[Jason Balcauski @JasonBalcauski]

@GregAbbott_TX I bet their lights stay on in a snowstorm, though

[Texas State Parks @TPWDparks]

Meet our newest addition: Silver Lake State Park. 🥳

Just two hours west of San Antonio, this incredible landscape will expand recreational opportunities for Texans and generations to come.

📲 Learn more about this acquisition: https://t.co/YCYmogJKBZ

[Jason Balcauski @JasonBalcauski]

@thatdayin1992 you left out Venezuela

[Jason Balcauski @JasonBalcauski]

What in the actual

[More Perfect Union @MorePerfectUS]

A judge has ruled that corporations can vote in some Delaware elections.

Delaware Superior Court Judge Craig Karsnitz said the town of Fenwick Island was not diluting human votes by allowing companies ​and other legal entities that own property to cast votes in municipal elections.

These "legal entities" and corporations make up about 12% of registered voters in the town.

In total Delaware has far more ​corporations chartered in the state than residents.

Judge Karsnitz rejected the constitutional arguments of the ACLU, including the claim that "entity" or corporate voting dilutes the political power of living people.

[Jason Balcauski @JasonBalcauski]

@BasedMikeLee NO

[ARIatHOME @ARIatTWIT]

craziest violin solo I’ve ever heard in my life probably 😮

[White Sox on CHSN @CHSN_WhiteSox]

MUNETAKA MURAKAMI HR NO. 20🚨

THE MOST HOME RUNS BY A ROOKIE BEFORE JUNE SINCE 1901 🤯

[Jason Balcauski @JasonBalcauski]

@jason_howerton you're an absolute clown if you think Paxton is any of those things

[Bev 🇨🇦 @Garnet_2203]

Smart men are never conservative 🤷‍♀️

[Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald]

There was only one thing that surprised me about the Jubilee with MAGA die-hards.

It wasn't that some people scream and refuse to stop talking. It wasn't that these were mostly young people cheering and finding purpose in wars but never fighting in them. It wasn't that their politics is more of a cult of personality. All expected and found in all factions.

It was that, despite being political junkies, they had no idea about Trump's enormous corruption scandals because the corporate and independent media they consume doesn't mention it. They had no idea it existed:

[Jason Balcauski @JasonBalcauski]

@ATXVideos @toofound what do you think?

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Robber vs different kinds of dog breeds

[📹 Jonny Devaney]

[The Resonance @Partisan_12]

POMPEO🤡: You don't let a radical regime close off the global economy by firing Shaheed missiles.

Stephen Walt: You do know, Mike, that we started the war.

POMPEO🤡: No, no, no.

Stephen Walt: They weren't firing those missiles until Israel and the United States attacked Iran.

[Brian Allen @allenanalysis]

Trump is now reportedly responsible for roughly 27.7% of the entire U.S. national debt accumulated under all presidents combined.

That is an astonishing figure historically.

The national debt just crossed $39 trillion.

President Trump has added roughly $12–13 trillion to the debt across his two terms in office.

That’s approximately 30% of ALL U.S. national debt accumulated since 1789.

In 2016, Trump said he would pay down the national debt “over a period of eight years.”

Instead:

- First term: +$7.8 trillion
- Second term: roughly +$4–5 trillion already

And yes, COVID affected first-term spending.

It does not explain adding another trillion dollars every five months without a pandemic.

A political movement built on:
“fiscal conservatism”
“small government”
“balanced budgets”

has now overseen the largest debt expansion tied to any single presidency in American history.

[Jason Balcauski @JasonBalcauski]

@DropSiteNews MAGA = 🤡