Chris Smith

that's my internet fish face!

[LanaQuest aka RosaSparks @LqLana]

Ken Paxton has yet to explain why he rubberstamped the release of Adam Hoffman who raped his son’s six-year-old best friend for three years.

Ken Paxton has yet to explain why he voted using an inaccurate address.

Ken Paxton has yet to explain how he was able to afford 15 houses.

Ken Paxton was impeached by his own party.

Ken Paxton is a corrupt pedophile protector. He has no excuse because there are none.

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#DemsUnited

[Chris Smith @cwsmith61]

@USDswimdive Let’s #GoToreros

[Delores ☮️ @dd560a]

I truly believe that history will show Mr. Schmidt to be absolutely correct. Over the weekend, Republican Steve Schmidt, who ran John McCain's 2008 campaign for president, was interviewed on MSNBC.
In response to a very general question regarding the Trump Presidency, Mr. Schmidt spoke for two solid minutes and gave the most insightful and brutally honest response of what the Trump Presidency has done to our great country.
“Donald Trump has been the worst president this country has ever had. And, I don't say that hyperbolically. He is. But he is a consequential president. And, he has brought this country in three short years to a place of weakness that is simply unimaginable if you were pondering where we are today from the day where Barack Obama left office. And, there were a lot of us on that day who were deeply skeptical and very worried about what a Trump presidency would be. But this is a moment of unparalleled national humiliation, of weakness.”
"When you listen to the President, these are the musings of an imbecile. An idiot. And I don't use those words to name call. I use them because they are the precise words of the English language to describe his behavior. His comportment. His actions. We've never seen a level of incompetence, a level of ineptitude so staggering on a daily basis by anybody in the history of the country who’s ever been charged with substantial responsibilities.”
"It's just astonishing that this man is president of the United States. The man, the con man, from New York City. Many bankruptcies, failed businesses, a reality show, that branded him as something that he never was. A successful businessman. Well, he's the President of the United States now, and the man who said he would make the country great again. And he's brought death, suffering, and economic collapse on truly an epic scale."
"And, let's be clear. This isn't happening in every country around the world. This place. Our place. Our home. Our country. The United States. We are the epicenter. We are the place where you're the most likely to die from this disease. We're the ones with the most shattered economy. And we are, because of the fool that sits in the Oval Office behind the Resolute Desk.

[Team Talarico @TeamTalaricoHQ]

James Talarico is hosting a statewide grocery drive for middle class Texans during Republicans’ midterm convention.

Tickets to the convention cost $20,000.

Talarico collected over 20,000 pounds of groceries.

[VANITY FAIR @VanityFair]

In one of the most explosive moments of ‘Musk,’ the new documentary from filmmaker Alex Gibney, Elon Musk's ex-lover Ashley St. Clair suggests that Musk interfered with the 2024 election, recalling that he left the Mar-a-Lago celebration early and later told her he knew it would go in Trump’s favor.

St. Clair says that Musk had a “degree of certainty” about the results before they came in that “I had never seen before.” And told him she didn’t want to know more because she didn’t want to be “deposed,” to which, according to St. Clair, Musk replied that she was wise https://t.co/AY9rCkmYUf

[Chris Smith @cwsmith61]

@toddarcher We gotta get you a better phone

[Lesley Abravanel 🪩 @lesleyabravanel]

On Sept 13, 2001, Trump gave two interviews, claiming first he sent over 100 men, then inflating it to hundreds of workers at Ground Zero. Years later, he claimed HE worked the pile. FDNY logs prove zero Trump crews existed.

[JT Ennis @jt_ennis]

NEW AD: AG Paxton’s “Top Cop” Endorses James Talarico

Texas Ranger David Maxwell: “In Texas, no one is above the law — not even the Attorney General. Today, I’m endorsing James Talarico because Texans deserve a Senator who serves the people — not a crook who serves himself.”

[SUNNY LEDFURD @SunnyLedfurd]

this one is gonna hurt some of yall but it’s true…one thing about the 80s was country music had zero presence in youth culture. Heavy metal, new wave, a new thing called rap music..pop music had an adult lean to it..and society was better

[The cfb lliason @realfbllliason]

I guess people thought I was joking when I said SLO and Cal Poly is one of the most incredible places in all of college football. The natural beauty, the scenery, the Central Coast—there are very few places not just in this sport but in the entire USA blessed with a setting like this. Absolutely breathtaking. 🏈🌊

[Chris Smith @cwsmith61]

@SecretaryBurgum @USGS This might be the dumbest thing yet

[👑 ♤ Lake Ontario  @LakeOntario16]

I was given my name by the Iroquois Nation many hundreds of years ago. By 1660 my name was printed on maps by the Europeans as they accepted the Native name which means Beautiful waters.
In 1867 the Canadian government decided to use my name for their providence.

[Chris Smith @cwsmith61]

@Riffraff3232 Impossible to find a good one anymore. They all want to make craft cocktails. A little personality would go a long way

[Chris Smith @cwsmith61]

@BEisenhart When I coached my sons baseball team I rotated every kid around the diamond. One dad asked why his left hander was playing third base. I had to explain that every kid plays every position no matter what..they’re 6.

[Chris Smith @cwsmith61]

@AdamKinzinger Kinda cool

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

The doctor who delivered Dolly Parton in a one-room Tennessee cabin in 1946 was paid with a sack of cornmeal. Her father farmed other people's land and could not read or write. Eighty years later, the reading program she built in his name has mailed more than 300 million books.

She wrote "I Will Always Love You" on the same afternoon she wrote "Jolene," as a goodbye to Porter Wagoner, and released it in 1974. Elvis wanted it. The night before the session, Colonel Tom Parker called and said Presley would only record it if they got half the publishing, meaning half of everything the song ever earned. She had been in Nashville ten years by then. She said no, and cried all night. Whitney Houston cut her version in 1992, held number one for fourteen weeks, and Forbes later put Parton's royalties from it near $10 million. She put some of that money into an office complex in Nashville and called the place the house that Whitney built.

Dollywood opened in Pigeon Forge in 1986 because she wanted paychecks in the county she came from. Around 4,000 people work there now. Three million visitors come every year. The University of Tennessee put its economic impact at $1.8 billion, and it is the largest employer in Sevier County. Since 2022 the company has paid tuition, fees, and books in full for every worker from their first day, seasonal hires included.

Wildfires tore through those mountains in November 2016, killing fourteen people and destroying more than 2,400 buildings. Her foundation was handing out money within 48 hours. Every family that lost a home got $1,000 a month for six months, regardless of income. The final check was $5,000. Total delivered: $8.9 million.

In April 2020 she sent $1 million to Vanderbilt for coronavirus research. When Moderna's vaccine results ran in the New England Journal of Medicine that November, her fund appeared in the footnotes.

Carl Dean, her husband of nearly sixty years, died in March 2025. The note she wrote to fans afterward ended with the same five words she wrote for Porter Wagoner back in 1974. She died in Nashville today. Her family asked that instead of flowers, people give to the Imagination Library, which still mails 3.4 million books a month to children who will never get to meet her.

[Lyndon Baines Johnson @lyndonbajohnson]

Fuckin' tort reform. -OS

[San Diego Toreros @USDToreros]

America’s Finest City. America’s Most Beautiful Campus 🌴☀️

Just another day at USD.

Thanks to @ThePrincetonRev for the recognition — and many more!

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#GoToreros

[Lorraine E-Van-Off @LorraineEvanoff]

OMFG

"look, Secretary of Defense is not an entry-level position. it’s a role that’s traditionally been held by lifelong military professionals — for a good reason: the Department of Defense is a ginormous bureaucracy, with millions of employees and a trillion-dollar budget.

Piss-Drunk Pete Kegstand has zero qualifications to be running any of that shit. the only thing he’s ever run in his life is his fool mouth.

he’s a weekend chat-show host. he’s the guy Fox News called when they needed a buffoon to pull goofy stunts, like getting drunk on New Year’s Eve, or flipping a skateboard up into his own nuts.

this silly dipshit was barely one step up from a birthday party clown, and now he’s running the entire military? that’s fucking insane.

so no one should be surprised that ‘hey, let’s not run out of missiles’ wasn’t on his to-do list. counting isn’t in Pete’s skill set.

and Donny has no one to blame but himself. he’s the one who made all these dumbfuck hiring decisions. he’s the one who saw Pete flattering him on Fox News and said ‘yeah, here’s my guy, straight outta Central Casting.’

that’s how we ended up with a piss-drunk incompetent in charge of the military. it’s how we got a reality-show never-was in charge of making sure planes don’t fall out of the sky. it’s why the State Department is now run by a neutered coward who is too terrified to point out that his shoes don’t fit. it’s why we have a woman who organized rigged wrestling matches now in charge of education policy. it’s why a sleazy fake-diet-pill-selling scam artist is running Medicare and Medicaid.

not one of these ass-clowns has any idea how to do the important jobs they were handed. they’re all making it up as they’re going along. it would be hilarious if it weren’t totally fucking terrifying.

so, what’s Donny and Petey’s brilliant plan to solve their weapons shortage? they’re going to yell at defence contractors until they magically shit out more bombs.

Deputy Defense Secretary Steve Feinberg wrote to industry leaders on Wednesday, saying they had no more than 21 days to submit plans to “drive significantly faster, more aggressive delivery schedules and/or increased production for critical capabilities,” according to the memo, which is previously unreported.

“Years-long development cycles are not acceptable,” Feinberg wrote. “We must dramatically accelerate our program schedules and expand our production capacity now.”

oh yeah, sure. I’m loving this idea. ‘hurry the fuck up and cut corners’ is exactly the kind of work ethic you want to bring to the development and assembly of explosives.

what could possibly go wrong?"

a war, but with morons, by @itsJeffTiedrich https://t.co/qjF7MTxOXk

[Chris Smith @cwsmith61]

@USDToreros What about swive?