Lisa Jordan

[Popular Liberal 🇺🇸 @PopularLiberal]

WOW! James Talarico just packed the Plano Event Center in Collin County—blew the roof off Ken Paxton's own backyard—with 4,000+ people, standing room only, and lines wrapped around the building.

This is the county that launched Paxton's career, the same county where his securities fraud mugshot was taken 15 minutes up the road, and the same county Republicans called "unflippable."

And a Democrat just brought the house down in it.

Talarico looked at that crowd and said what we're all thinking: "They're afraid of this movement. They're afraid of this crowd in Plano, Texas."

Damn right they are.

Paxton's out here calling him "Talafreakco" like a middle school bully while Talarico's selling "I'm a Talafreako" shirts and outraising every Senate campaign in Texas history.

First quarter: $28 million, more than double Beto and Colin Allred combined.

Real men don't lie and cheat their way through life. They don't scam their own friends for a quick buck. They don't serve themselves—they serve others. Ken Paxton has escaped accountability for 4,000+ days. But accountability is coming November 3.

Democrats, pay attention. This is what it looks like when you run on corruption, not away from it. This is what it looks like when you fight in their backyard and win the crowd.

The suburbs are shifting. Collin County is shifting. Texas is shifting.

Retrumplican crook politicians don't own you. You own them.

LFG TEXAS!!!

[Travis Akers 🇺🇸 @travisakers]

Trump said he just completed his “every six month physical.”

His last one was on May 26th, 46 days ago. It’s not normal to have a physical every month and a half.

And it’s certainly not normal to take a third cognitive test in a year.

[Aaron Parnas @AaronParnas]

Epstein survivor Lara Blume McGee confirms the Justice Department has not released all of the Epstein files.

She tells me there were recordings of crimes from inside of Epstein's townhouse.

[Craig Spencer MD MPH @Craig_A_Spencer]

Another American has tested positive for Ebola in Congo.

And this morning, I learned that the U.S. will not be bringing this patient home.

Instead, they will be sending them to Germany. Yet again, the U.S. is abdicating our moral responsibility for our own.

Over the past decade, we have spent hundreds of millions of dollars to build specialized facilities across the U.S. for moments exactly like this.

We have amazing, well-trained experts available around the clock, ready to take care of patients with Ebola or other special pathogens.

But instead of bringing Americans home, we outsource our responsibility.

The German teams are incredible, and I have no doubt this person will receive exceptional care.

But a decade ago, we showed that we can safely transport Americans from Ebola outbreaks to these specialized facilities back home.

The U.S. is trying to fully externalize this threat, pretending it can wall it off and snuff it out from afar. That strategy is bound to fail.

For everything we’ve learned fighting Ebola outbreaks over the past decade, there’s so much we’ve obviously forgotten.

[Kyle Whitmire @WarOnDumb]

1/ Imagine a candidate for higher office kept as much as $1 million that was promised to veterans’ charities.

Would that be bad?

Now stop imagining. Let’s talk about Tommy Tuberville. 🧵

[Ben Penn @benjaminpenn]

Scoop: Trump DOJ to drop charges for alleged $722M crypto Ponzi schemer, just before trial.
BitClub mastermind said he'd built scam on backs of "idiots" & "sheep."
He hired Trump-connected lawyers to lobby DOJ HQ for relief, overruling NJ prosecutors. https://t.co/ainn5TQytu

[Sean Casten @SeanCasten]

McCarthy on 1/13/21: "Donald Trump bears responsibility for Wednesday's attack on Congress by mob rioters"

15 days later he kissed the ring, and has since never taken his lips off this flawed womanizer.

[POLITICO @politico]

Trump ousts members of bipartisan election commission ahead of midterms https://t.co/PnJyScPcER

[MeidasTouch @MeidasTouch]

If the Strait of Hormuz is already open, as the Trump administration has repeatedly claimed, why is it now demanding that Iran publicly acknowledge it’s open and pledge to stop firing on commercial ships? Which is it?

[The Green Dragon Tavern @greendragonhq]

James Talarico: “We don’t need any more pedophile protectors in our government.”

🔥🔥🔥

Talarico showed up at corruption HQ (Ken Paxton’s office) and demanded the release of the Adam Hoffman files.

For those who don’t know: Ken Paxton gave his friend Adam Hoffman an extremely lenient deal after Hoffman repeatedly raped an 8-year-old boy. Hoffman was sentenced to 60 days in jail but released after just 29 days for “good behavior.”

Hoffman kept his law license and never had to register as a sex offender.
Is this the kind of guy you want in the U.S. Senate?

[FactPost @factpostnews]

Reporter: This was a landmark housing bill. Trump refusing to sign it is going to reflect poorly on Republicans. I was talking to a Senate GOP aide who told me, "Never in my lifetime have I seen a president so deliberately attempt to lose majorities for his own party."

[Dow @mark_dow]

The market is overweighting the inflation from the Iran war/oil and underweighting the inflationary impulses from policy.

Trump's economic policy, simply put, is Max Pump. He doesn't care what it costs or what the implications will be once he's gone.

All of his policies so far have been--to one degree or another--inflationary

Deficit: inflationary
Tariffs: inflationary
Politicizing the Fed/loose money advocacy: inflationary
Immigration: inflationary
Energy policy: inflationary
Corruption: inflationary
Aggressive military build up: inflationary

So, even if the war were to be resolved tomorrow, we're still going to have an inflation issue. Rampant inflation? I don't think so. But creeping inflation or at a minimum inflation stubbornly not going back to target? Almost certainly.

[FactPost @factpostnews]

Donald Trump on his housing affordability plan, in his own words:
—"It's so unimportant"
—"It's a big yawn"
—"I don't think about Americans' financial situation"
—"I don't want to drive housing prices down. I want to drive housing prices up"

[Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1]

BREAKING: The Trump White House just ousted all three sitting members of the U.S. Election Assistance Commission — hamstringing the bipartisan agency ahead of the midterms.

The EAC helps state and local officials run elections, including by certifying election equipment. https://t.co/DBaRuFaWJB

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

it wasn't long ago that we had FBI directors who didn't post like jilted pre-pubescent boys

[PatriotTakes 🇺🇸 @patriottakes]

Trump Announces Refusal to Sign Housing Relief Bill “In Protest”

High home prices continue ahead of midterms

https://t.co/fv1TbfC2DL

https://t.co/fv1TbfC2DL

[FactPost @factpostnews]

Fox: The MOU was not good. We need a different negotiating team. This team can't do it, with the vice president leading the way

[S.V. Dáte @svdate]

Have been saying this for years.

Read one of his transcripts out loud, so you will actually hear yourself say the words, and tell me he is not out of his mind.

[Mike Pence @Mike_Pence]

“The President is right that his tariffs are at work—in destroying U.S. jobs and raising prices. The U.S. has lost some 75,000 manufacturing jobs since January 2025, including 25,900 in motor vehicle and parts production.”@WSJ https://t.co/QVLG6tlJkV

[Headquarters @HQNewsNow]

Vance: My life is-- dude, totally transformed. People go to the grocery store for me. I don't have to cook anymore because I have an army of people willing to cook my food. No more TSA lines for me.