Elyse Yates

Public affairs, press, digital media, research, data, music and family. From Texas.

[Elyse Yates @elyseyates]

And here we are.

[NEWSMAX @NEWSMAX]

A government agency spending $300 million in taxpayer dollars to produce sterilized flies sounds like a dream scenario for a DOGE team looking to cut waste, fraud, and abuse. https://t.co/3lGn15PndO

[Rep. Jack Kimble @RepJackKimble]

Wait, so he wasn't married at the time? I don't trust any guys who date before they're married. How would they even know what they want yet? This is deeply troubling.

[Laiken Jordahl @LaikenJordahl]

BREAKING: DHS just waived all environmental laws to blast border barriers and roads through Big Bend National Park.

This marks the first time in American history the feds have gutted dozens of laws to push industrial-level construction through a national park.

[Boston Smalls @smalls2672]

Kinda wild how much graham platner is being discussed by everyone. Every news station. Every media piece and now Ken paxton is not being discussed anywhere.

[Hunter Biden @HunterBiden]

Denise- I say this to everyone. The thing that was killing me more than anything else was not the crack it was the vodka. Alcohol is the worst drug of them all. I was drinking a handle a day while smoking crack. It’s the hardest to stop and the easiest to start. It’s the only drug (outside of benzos) you can die withdrawing from. And I know why you drink. You drink because at first it works. Don’t want to feel the way you feel. Well for people like us we know the answer. But you can stop- but rarely alone. Ask for help. Get honest with someone you trust and tell them you need help. We are never alone. I see you. I hear you. The one thing we all have in common is pain. We think we are alone but we are not. I have faith in you. I really do and I don’t even know you. It’s so much better on the other side.

[Team Ossoff @TeamOssoff]

Ossoff: Last September, the President of Kazakhstan calls Donald Trump and says he wants to grant tungsten mining rights to an American company. And the very next month, Eric and Don Jr. get a stake in the American company pursuing the mining deal.

Six days later, six days after Prince Eric and Prince Don get their stake, Kazakhstan announces this company will get, “The largest known undeveloped tungsten resource in the world.” A few more weeks go by, and then the U.S. government, run by their father, sets aside 1.6 billion of your tax dollars to fund and finance their mining project. In Kazakhstan.

All this while you pay more for gas, for groceries, for health care, and that's just the tip of the iceberg.

[Janice Hough @leftcoastbabe]

Hey media

Not a Platner fan, but why is he a nonstop story and not Ken Paxton's TWENTY indictments by a GOP led-Texas legislature, securities fraud charges and his wife's filing for divorce on "biblical grounds?"

[Elijah Wood @elijahwood]

For the first time yesterday, I experienced the new @alamodrafthouse QR code ordering system and I can tell you it’s truly awful. Rather than making ordering food and drink more efficient, it actually adds steps to the process AND if you want to order additional items during the film you HAVE to open your phone. No, your cute reference to that irony in your How To Alamo video doesn’t negate how ridiculous this is. Please don’t cut corners with your staff and revert back to physical menus and order cards.

[Jen Robichaux @JenRobichaux]

I spend a lot of time reading local Austin news - journalism, editorials, newsletters, press releases... whatever I can get my hands on.

I've built a webpage to start archiving all the information that I come across. Find it at https://t.co/kAuqQrNmWu

This is just the start. I have hundreds more documents in my queue which I'll be adding in the coming days and weeks.

Let me know if you have feedback or if there's a publication that I should be subscribed to!

[SNY Giants @SNYGiants]

Abdul Carter says he will only address Jaxson Dart introducing Donald Trump one time:

"Some things are bigger than football, and this is one of those things.

Jaxson is one of our leaders - he's the face of our franchise. He represents himself and what he does, and he represents all of us.

If he chooses to align himself with a man like President Trump, it's my responsibility based on what I believe and what I stand on to not only show my teammates that I'm against that, but to show the world.

That doesn't mean that we have to spread hate. That doesn't mean that me and Jaxson hate each other or we have beef. I sit next to Jaxson every day - we're close, we talk.

As long as we make sure we have the same goal as a team, and our goals align - which they do -that's all that matter.

I just want to move past this."

[Lesley Abravanel 🪩 @lesleyabravanel]

Reporter: Ken Paxton is calling you 'Talafreako.'
Talarico: He just released child rapist Adam Hoffman from jail after his wealthy atty friends got involved. Hoffman was supposed to serve 25 years to life. He served less than a month. The Epstein class has no place in Texas.

[Daniel Goldman @danielsgoldman]

I spent two hours yesterday at Delaney Hall in Newark where 700 detainees are being held by ICE. What I saw and heard was horrific: worm-infested food, no access to medical care, no way to connect with their families.

Many of the detainees were lawful visa holders, including one 18-year-old who is missing her graduation and prom because she is being held in a cell.

This is not America. This is unacceptable, and it has to stop now.

[Rachel Bitecofer 🗽🦆 @RachelBitecofer]

Beltway media has their panties in a bundle because @TheDemocrats dropped an F bomb but totally silent when Trump calls their female colleagues bitches and piggy. 🙄

[Charlotte Clymer 🇺🇦 @cmclymer]

A lot of people who have never set foot in Texas and don't know the first goddamn thing about Texas sure seem to have a lot of opinions on who's electable in Texas.

[James Talarico @jamestalarico]

Ken Paxton is the most corrupt politician in America. 

He embodies the broken system we’re running against.

It’s time to come together: The People vs. Ken Paxton

[Jonathan Richie @JRichieTX]

What I’m hearing from people on the ground: the runoff will all come down to which candidate gets more votes. #analysis

[Crazy Vibes @CrazyVibes_1]

Dear Gen X,
I’ve been watching 80s movies and I just need to know…WHERE WERE YOUR PARENTS??
Every child was just wandering the earth unsupervised like a raccoon with house keys. Riding bikes across town at midnight, fighting ghosts, investigating murders, befriending cryptids, hacking government computers for funsies…
And the parents were ALWAYS “out of town” or “working late” while the only adult-adjacent supervision was some random 16-year-old who got dragged into the chaos.

No cell phones. No helmets. No adult supervision. Just vibes, life lessons, and several near-death experiences.

You all weren’t “raised.” You were lightly monitored feral creatures with a bike and unresolved trauma.

I’m genuinely shocked there are enough of you left to populate an entire generation.

[Acyn @Acyn]

Talarico: I’m an eighth-generation Texan. I’ve been eating barbecue since before Ken Paxton’s first indictment. And if all they have on me is lying about me being a vegan, I feel pretty good about our chances this November.

[Elyse Yates @elyseyates]

@Generation4580 @gabriel_zucman Or have the people who used the infrastructure of the state to make money pay for the use of the infrastructure.

[Elyse Yates @elyseyates]

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