For 32 years, Republicans have controlled every statewide elected office in Texas.
When Ann Richards left the Governor’s mansion in January 1995, Texas was ranked among the top 10 states in education, 5th in reading, and 6th in math.
After three decades of one-party rule?
Texas has dropped to 41st in education overall, 34th in math, and 44th in reading.
reminder that Biden specifically pushed to get infrastructure projects funded in red states as a gesture of goodwill
now Trump cancels projects in blue states out of spite
these people are evil, plain and simple
James Talarico: “You may not be interested in politics, but politics is interested in you. Your boss at work, he cares about politics. Your landlord, he cares about politics. Your insurance company cares about politics. Until you care about politics, they’re gonna keep using the political system to screw you over”
Reporter: Isn’t there concern that this slippery slope to socialism inevitably ends up as full-blown communism?
AOC: I mean, no. I think that’s very silly. We can’t even raise the minimum wage. Do they really think communism is going to happen? No. They’re trying to scare people because they don’t want us talking about the fact that we all have a right to health care.
So they want to call everything they don’t like communist because if people actually wake up to the fact that their elected officials are screwing them over when they get here, they’re going to realize they deserve better and that health care as a right isn’t crazy. They want to call this stuff communist because they don’t want us to realize that the rest of the developed world has guaranteed health care. They want to call it communist because they don’t want you to know that Germany, Italy, the UK, Canada—everybody else—has it better than us, and we spend the most money for the worst care in the developed world.
Jon Ossoff lays into RFK Jr for his role in the ongoing Cyclospora outbreaks:
"He cancelled the CDC's required FoodNet monitoring of Cyclospora and he refuses to answer my inquiries."
We are supposedly at war to stop Iran from enriching the uranium we “obliterated” over a year ago.
Yesterday we signed a deal to help Saudi Arabia enrich uranium.
The first time the United States has ever helped another country enrich uranium on foreign soil.
The Saudis refused the inspection protocol 140 other countries accept. Too intrusive, they said.
Trump agreed. He signed a national security waiver to get around the rule.
The Saudis paid Kushner $100 million. They put $2 billion into his firm. They put another $6 billion into LIV Golf, which pays Trump properties to host its tournaments. They signed ten billion dollars in Trump-branded real estate deals in Jeddah and Riyadh. All in just the last few years.
But sure. My paintings.
Reacher star Alan Ritchson on the Epstein files:
Get loud and stop bowing down to people that have power. You got power too, man. The fucking Epstein files. Where are they? It's a fucking law, bitch, show it. You fucking pedophiles. This is my fucking politics, dude. Don't you want to see what's in there so that we can hold people accountable? That bitch has the keys to the nuclear codes. Like, dude, what? Go to jail.
The FDA has announced that 1.6 million eggs have been contaminated with salmonella, forcing a nationwide recall.
Last year, the Trump administration scrapped regulations to limit salmonella and laid off hundreds of food safety inspection workers.
18 months. $5 trillion fucking dollars in 18 months. And we still don't have healthcare. And they gutted education. And food assistance. And food safety, and clean air, and clean water. And cut 300k federal jobs. Where the actual fuck is that new spending actually going?
As a reminder, Pete Hegseth was pushed out of TWO veterans nonprofits amid financial mismanagement allegations, running groups into debt, overspending on parties/events, and treating funds like personal accounts.
Now, he has just about bankrupted the Pentagon despite a record budget and is demanding another $1.5 trillion.
It’s worth noting that Taco Bell identified the source before the FDA did and promptly pulled it. Basically, Taco Bell is now a more reliable authority than the FDA
This document is a bone-chilling signal that the new McCarthy era has already begun.
But it is all the more bone-chilling to see that the entire report was 100% written by Claude.
We are asked to prepare for a lethal LLM-powered Red Scare. What a dreadful time to be alive.
So let me get this straight:
The guy who made the least, Joe Biden, had every accusation, investigation, and smear imaginable thrown at him.
Meanwhile, the guy raking in money hand over fist gets a complete pass from the same press corps?
Do I have that right?
1. Trump does so much crazy, corrupt shit that things can get lost. Last week, Trump embarked on what might be his most brazenly corrupt scheme yet, and it got far too little attention. Here's what you need to know:
Pat Tillman was shot 3 times in the back of the head from 10m by a fellow soldier after he started speaking publicly against the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. And we dilute his memory on purpose each year. Makes me sick.