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Vote blue. Avid reader. Theatre person. She/her.

[Team Talarico @TeamTalaricoHQ]

Unearthed footage of Ken Paxton caught on camera fleeing to Utah to go on vacation during Texas’ deadly winter storms in 2021

Q: Do you have anything to say about the failure of ERCOT this past week?

Paxton: *runs away*

Q: Sir, what are your plans going forward in terms of litigation to to hold these people accountable?

Paxton: *keeps running away*

Q: We're just asking you to comment to Texans? They want to hear from you, sir.

Paxton: *keeps running away*

[Bill Kristol @BillKristol]

That's why we at the Bulwark do not take the Trump regime at face value.

[Jon Cooper 🇺🇸 @joncoopertweets]

Good morning from Lake Ontario. ☀️

[Martina Navratilova @Martina]

Fuck off Bessent, just fuck off.

[The Tennessee Holler @TheTNHoller]

🤥 Trump regime Commerce Secretary (and Epstein Pal) Lutnick: “Data centers don’t use water.”🤔

Another blatant and obvious lie. They think we are all idiots.

[David J. Bier @David_J_Bier]

I testified yesterday at a hearing, again about immigrants and crime. Nothing makes the Republicans more infuriated than pointing out that immigrants lower the crime rate.

[The Best @TheBestqueenx]

😂

[Sarah Longwell @SarahLongwell25]

I don’t think we spend enough time talking about what a profoundly unprincipled hypocrite Speaker Mike Johnson is.

[James Martin, SJ @JamesMartinSJ]

I go among trees and sit still.
All my stirring becomes quiet around me like circles on water.
My tasks lie in their places
where I left them, asleep like cattle.

Then what is afraid of me comes and lives a while in my sight.
What it fears in me leaves me,
and the fear of me leaves it.
It sings, and I hear its song.

Then what I am afraid of comes.
I live for a while in its sight.
What I fear in it leaves it,
and the fear of it leaves me.
It sings, and I hear its song.

After days of labor,
mute in my consternations,
I hear my song at last,
and I sing it. As we sing,
the day turns, the trees move.

RIP Wendell Berry

[Agent Self FBI™ @AgentSelf99b]

MAGA was right and I’m actually a bit humbled.

They warned me that if I voted for Kamala Harris, gas prices would go up, we’d be at war in the Middle East, and inflation would increase, all within two years.

They were right, I voted for Kamala Harris, and all this happened.

[Michael McFaul @McFaul]

If you can't get along with Canada, you are really not very good at diplomacy.

[Tea Pain @TeaPainUSA]

Food so good you grow an extra finger!

[Jamie Bonkiewicz @JamieBonkiewicz]

Nothing makes MAGA Christians angrier than actual Christianity.

[Karol Molinares @KarolMolinares]

STOLE. They STOLE $10M from low income, medically needy children.

Stop with the “misappropriated” BS.

[Chef José Andrés 🕊️🥘🍳 @chefjoseandres]

My message to the IDF officer who ordered the airstrikes on World Central Kitchen and to the people who bomb and smear humanitarians — and to the leaders who have the responsability to stop it..

[Tom Powell Jr @RealTomPowellJr]

Why I'm Boycotting MAGA-Owned Small Businesses

[Bill Kristol @BillKristol]

In the midst of an awful lot of ever-so-sophisticated equivocating and oh-so-thoughtful-chin-stroking and too-clever-by-half-over-thinking, I just want to say, simply and unequivocally and for the record:

The Resistance Libs Were Right.

[Michael McFaul @McFaul]

If we elect a Democrat in 2028, I will do everything in my power, whether inside or outside of the government, to unravel Trump’s illegitimate oil deal with the illegitimate dictatorship in Venezuela. I hope CEOs of American companies tempted to get involved in this Trump deal instead think about the long term financial interests of their shareholders and the reputations of their companies. Exploiting resources of the Venezuelan people without their permission is both immoral and not a sustainable economic play.

[Roland Ley @RolandLey]

@McFaul It's eerie how this post still works if you replace Venezuela for US in it.