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Endlessly curious... suffering from #unmanageablecomplexity... Student of humanity cheering for our perseverance until a better tomorrow.

[Verboten🔕 @TCognizer]

@DavidYankovich @jdawsey1 @Marston4ca42 We’re also revealing critical failure points of existing US legal infrastructure/political systems… or are We?

I’ve contended long ago that Trump et al. were ostensibly not clever/knowledgeable enough to have ferreted out as much insight as was acted upon. #Usefulidiots

[Verboten🔕 @TCognizer]

@CSalcedoShow Salcedo, you & your ilk are dolts and will soon reap the harvest you’ve sown.

This John Cornyn is the real one post being cut from the MAGA dole & only now acts in America’s interest because his participation in the Great Grift has ended. They’re all looters you’re cheering for.

[Verboten🔕 @TCognizer]

@JohnCornyn @WSJopinion Senator, this will not vindicate your complicity in all of the destruction that has been wrought.

Congress should’ve put a stake through so much more of Trump over the last decade during which you willfully carried water for him that your last minute about-face is meaningless.

[Verboten🔕 @TCognizer]

@LindseyGrahamSC Lady, STFU

[goma @soigomaa]

My "Roman Empire is the realization that my life is a lottery win. Somewhere in Sudan, Pålestine, iran, Afghanistan, Iraq or Congo, there is a boy smarter than me. He is more disciplined, more resilient, and holds more potential in his single finger than I do in my entire career.
The only difference? I am siting in a train and he is sting in the rubble of his dreams.
My "bad days" are his wildest dreams.
My "burnout" is a luxury he can't afford because his only job is staying alive.
It's geographical luck and it's a haunting injustice that we all refuse to acknowledge and look away

[Verboten🔕 @TCognizer]

@WhiteHouse The audacity of these motherfuckers…

You work for US, assholes. You will not tell your bosses what to do, fucksticks.

[Verboten🔕 @TCognizer]

Excellent

[Team Talarico @TeamTalaricoHQ]

.@JamesTalarico: We have a government of, by, and for the billionaires. Those billionaires buy politicians like Ken Paxton. And then those puppets turn around and rig the rules of the economy in favor of those billionaires at our expense.

Everywhere I go across the state of Texas, all of us are drowning. We can’t afford the basics—groceries, gas, insurance, utilities, prescription drugs—the things we need to survive. No matter how hard we work, no matter how much we save, those ends never seem to meet.

This is more than just a political battle. This is a battle for the kind of economy that we will have going forward. That is what this fight is all about.

[James Talarico @jamestalarico]

Ken Paxton was indicted for scamming his own friends.

He convinced them to invest hundreds of thousands in a company while secretly pocketing a commission.

Paxton sold out his own friends for a quick buck. What makes you think he won't sell you out in the Senate?

[Team Talarico @TeamTalaricoHQ]

This is the crowd to see James Talarico tonight in Ken Paxton’s home county.

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

BLANCHE: Who the president chooses to pardon is not a problem, period

IVEY: What's the legal basis for that statement?

BLANCHE: The Constitution

IVEY: The Constitution does not give him the authority to pardon in exchange for payments. It does not permit bribery

[Verboten🔕 @TCognizer]

@WhiteHouse @Republicans Fuck that.

Americans have NEVER been a people to resign themselves to blindly trust the government.

It will not work out well given what you and your lackeys are doing, you sick fuck.

#trumpsgascrisis #TrumpPedófilo #TrumpPedophileTerrorist #MAGAisacult

[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

Follow the money on this one. It is rotten to the core.

The Pentagon just lent $620,000,000 to a tiny North Carolina startup called Vulcan Elements. The company is two years old.

It had fewer than 50 employees.

And three months before the deal was announced, Donald Trump Jr.’s venture firm quietly took a stake in it.

Here is the part the administration tried to bury.

Of the dozens of companies the Pentagon was weighing, Vulcan was the only deal initiated by a top White House aide. That aide was Peter Navarro, a close friend of Trump Jr. The order came down to move fast.

One official put it plainly: The call came from the White House. We have to get this done.

Staff worked late nights to push it through in weeks. Deals like this normally take many months of vetting. And when it closed, Vulcan’s valuation jumped from about 200 million dollars to roughly 2 billion.

A windfall for the investors, including the president’s son.

This is public money. Your money.

Routed through the Pentagon to enrich the president’s family and their friends. The Bush administration’s own chief ethics lawyer called it corruption we pay for.

And there is more coming.

A drone parts company Trump Jr. holds a stake in is also under Pentagon review.

This is not a one-off. It is a pattern. The president’s family is treating the federal Treasury like a private bank, and the bill lands on every taxpayer.

https://t.co/4kB1cZNmlE

[Verboten🔕 @TCognizer]

@KenPaxtonTX You’re a very poor example for ANYONE to emulate, let alone elect.

Thanks for giving Texas what it has needed since Ann Richards- a great leader from the other side of the aisle. #TalaricoForTexas #DemsUnited #TexasSenate2026

[DevilDog Diaries🇺🇲 @cjdelgross]

The relationship between Texas AG Ken Paxton and Austin real estate developer Nate Paul is the foundation of Paxton's entire political scandal, including his 2023 impeachment.

Here is exactly how the quid pro quo allegedly worked, according to House investigators, whistleblowers, and court records:

1. The Alleged Favors Paxton Did for Nate Paul:

Interfering with the FBI: After the FBI raided Paul’s home and office in 2019, Paxton used his office to try and obtain unredacted federal files to hand over to Paul. He even hired a special prosecutor to investigate the FBI agents who targeted Paul.

Halting Foreclosures: During COVID-19, Paxton’s office rushed out a midnight legal opinion specifically designed to stop foreclosure sales on Paul’s properties, saving him millions.

2. The Alleged Kickbacks Nate Paul Gave Paxton:

Hiring Paxton's Mistress: Paul employed the woman with whom Paxton was having an extramarital affair, allowing her to move to Austin and keeping the relationship hidden from Paxton’s base.

Home Renovations: Paul allegedly funded high-end remodeling and repairs on Paxton’s personal home.

3. The Burner Accounts and Spy Tactics:
To keep the relationship secret, investigators revealed the two used burner phones, secret email addresses, and an Uber account under the alias "Dave P." so Paxton could slip away from his security detail to meet Paul and his mistress.

4. The Whistleblower Fallout:
When Paxton's own top, conservative senior aides realized what he was doing, they reported him to the FBI for bribery and abuse of office. Paxton fired them, triggering a $3.3 million whistleblower lawsuit that ultimately exposed the corruption and sparked his historic impeachment trial.

While Paxton was ultimately acquitted by the GOP led Texas Senate, Nate Paul recently pleaded guilty in federal court to financial fraud. It wasn’t a "partisan witch hunt", it was a textbook web of political favors and personal leverage.

[Verboten🔕 @TCognizer]

Go Talarico!

This is the kind of matter-of-fact, data first approach we need to adopt to begin the process of taking down all of these corrupt fascists who have saturated & degraded American public life & critically damaged the future of this once great nation. #Texas #Talarico

[Team Talarico @TeamTalaricoHQ]

This is Nate Paul.

He was under FBI investigation for fraud. His real estate empire was collapsing after 18 properties filed for bankruptcy in a single year.

He wrote Ken Paxton a $25,000 check.

Then Paxton directed his AG’s office to hand Paul confidential investigative files.

They blocked foreclosure sales on his properties.

And they sided with Paul against the charity he was accused of defrauding.

Nate Paul even employed Paxton's mistress at Paxton’s recommendation.

Paxton's own senior staff reported his corruption to the FBI. They were fired.

This is what Ken Paxton does when he’s in a position of power — and it’s why he should be nowhere near the U.S. Senate.

[Verboten🔕 @TCognizer]

@WhiteHouse Perfectly insane and untrue.

[Natasha @Natasha_Brynn1]

Four month ago, Alex Pretti was murdered by Donald Trump’s ICE.

RETWEET to honor Pretti’s life of service ❤️

[Jake Justice @jakecobb]

They want you to forget. They don’t want you to see this.

Keep sharing this so we can’t forget what they did to us that day.

[Willie Ross Jr. Knee Deep @RossKneeDeep]

By Jasmine Crockett:

"Hey Tim Scott,

You spent years tap dancing through every interview, every speech, every Sunday show appearance telling America that racism was basically over and that your success story proved everybody else just needed to work harder and complain less.

You carried water for people who mocked civil rights, demonized poor people, gutted diversity programs, attacked voting rights, and treated Black history like a disease.

And for what?

No VP slot.
No cabinet throne.
No real power.
Not even basic respect.

You confessed your admiration on national television for people who viewed you as nothing more than a convenient talking point — the “See? We have one!” guy standing in the background smiling on cue.

Then the second you showed the smallest trace of independence and questioned that disgusting Obama monkey post, your own side turned on you like starving wolves.

Suddenly the loyal house servant wasn’t loyal enough.

Now you’re sitting in a car recording cellphone videos reminding the world that you’re still Black.

Trust us, Senator — nobody forgot.

The problem is that you spent so much time trying to convince other people that racism wasn’t real that now, when it smacks you directly in the face, you want sympathy from the same community you lectured for years.

You defended the people stripping away protections for minorities, women, the poor, and working-class families. You stood beside people cheering the destruction of programs our grandparents marched, bled, and died for.

And now you look shocked that the crowd you entertained never actually saw you as an equal.

The Bible talks about the Prodigal Son returning home after losing everything.

But the Prodigal Son came home humble.
You spent years helping burn the house down.

And now you’re politically homeless:
too Black for the people you defended,
too eager to defend them for the people you abandoned.

That’s the tragedy of selling your dignity for a seat at a table that was never meant for you.

Tim, you may be the PRODIGAL SON, BUT YOU CAN’T COME HOME."

We saw it coming. He didn't want to.

[Verboten🔕 @TCognizer]

@laurenboebert Dumb bitch… WTF is wrong with the people of CO that they would allow themselves to be represented by an idiot like you?!?!

[Verboten🔕 @TCognizer]

@LauraLoomer Bitch, you are a rough weak.