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[Julie Johnson for Texas @juliejohnsonTX]

Last year, Abbott said TX would be the “centerpiece” for AI data centers in the entire world. Now Texans are fighting back over water, power & rising costs — and Abbott is scrambling to clean up the mess he helped create. He can change his talking points. He can’t change his record.

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

Trump denies the claims about him in the Epstein Files. They’ve never been fully investigated by authorities, let alone covered in the press. Can you imagine if these claims appeared in the files about Biden? Can you imagine the GOP reaction? They’d talk about nothing else.

[P a u l ◉ @SkylineReport]

REALITY CHECK:

Abbott attacks Gina Hinojosa for supposedly wanting to “let China buy Texas land.”

But Abbott has been governor since 2015.

Beginning in 2016, Chinese billionaire Sun Guangxin bought more than 130,000 acres in Val Verde County.

Texas did not enact its broad foreign-adversary land-purchase restrictions until 2025.

And the law applies prospectively.

So if allowing those purchases is the indictment:

WHY DOES ABBOTT’S OWN DECADE IN OFFICE DISAPPEAR FROM THE BILLBOARD?

[Mother Jones @MotherJones]

Late last month, ICE put 12 Somali men on a plane and told them they were being deported to Somalia, according to interviews with community leaders, friends, and family members who are in touch with the detainees.

Instead, they arrived at the notorious US military base in Cuba, where seven or eight of them remain. https://t.co/N8dkIWVLZZ

[Scott MacFarlane @MacFarlaneNews]

ANOTHER VANITY PROJECT

Rep. Jared Huffman (D-CA): "The National Park Service hired a company to start working on the historic public golf course at East Potomac Park without any announcement, without a word to any of us, without a single public hearing. This is not just any old golf course. This is a beloved public space with huge historic significance. Donald Trump is systematically moving to take this historic, publicly accessible resource and turn it into another gilded private golf club for the mega-rich"

[steven monacelli @stevanzetti]

The Republican candidate for Texas Railroad Commissioner, speaking to the CEO of a news website that is published by a guy who donated $5k to French's campaign

[Scott Dworkin @funder]

Homeland Security officers were told to pull your birth date and partial Social Security number.

Then log into your state's voter site as you.

Forty a day. Twelve minutes each.

Someone inside talked.

https://t.co/JyVzzndNOA

[Headquarters @HQNewsNow]

Ron White to Joe Rogan: Talarico didn't cost this state $6 million in fines and lawsuits, and that happened with Ken Paxton. Guess who paid that $6 million? You and me paid the $6 million for his bribery. His own party impeached him. He's a criminal. He's a piece of shit.

[CALL TO ACTIVISM @CalltoActivism]

🚨BOOM: Jon Ossoff just exposed it. Trump dismisses AI concerns as a HOAX. But what Trump isn't telling us: Don Jr.'s firm 1789 Capital invests millions in AI labs.

Trump has a financial stake in ignoring the danger. Follow the money.

[MothersAgainstGregAbbottPAC/MothersforDemocracyPAC @MomsAGAbbott]

No boys play girls' sports in Texas. But let's not forget that his AG, Ken Paxton let his buddy, a pedophile, out of jail. Or that the people that Greg Abbott surrounds himself with get busted for molesting children. Like this Gateway Church minister. So who's the real threat to girls? Republicans are!

[CBS News @CBSNews]

CBS News Exclusive: New photos reveal widespread damage at multiple U.S. positions across the Middle East caused by Iranian attacks. https://t.co/QgNALeIu3x

[Scott Braddock @scottbraddock]

Among the reasons it's so bad: Gov Abbott's property tax commercial is his attempt to explain within 30 seconds why Texas taxes are so high when he's been governor for more than a decade.

[Nan @CommonSense_58]

@GovHotWheels_TX

[Gorrillazz @Goggsbabs]

@GovHotWheels_TX Too late - your report card is in. You wouldn’t last a minute in the private sector…

[JjRy1127 @JjRy1127]

@GovHotWheels_TX Heard that before... lies

[anthony sims 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸 anthony-sims.bsky.social @deadacated1]

@GovHotWheels_TX Even time Abbott runs for office, he promises to reduce property taxes.
Every. Single. Time.....

[Wallaby @Wallaby]

@GovHotWheels_TX Why didn’t Abbott fix it the last time he ran for office or the last time we were in session? Now he can only fix it if he is re-elected. He won’t fix it because it’s the right thing to do. He will only talk about helping Texans until he is elected and then we rinse and repeat.

[Aurora @Aurorabfar]

@GovHotWheels_TX

[Diego Bernal @DiegoBernalTX]

We--I--filed bills to keep homeowners in their homes and reduce the tax burden big business push onto neighbors. The bills never moved. DOA.

This is a hoax, a desperate plea as he gets revealed for being legislatively empty when it counts.

[Texas Tribune @TexasTribune]

Noah Betz, a Gen-Z political wunderkind who graduated from Texas A&M with a degree in business administration in 2023, holds the second-most powerful position in the Texas comptroller's office, which oversees the state’s finances. https://t.co/WubvheHfoZ