Paulette Wilson

[Kellis Robinett @KellisRobinett]

Jerome Tang never filed a lawsuit against K-State, but both sides have been working behind the scenes on a settlement. The end is in sight.

[Ted Cruz @tedcruz]

this is chickenshit

[Hunter Biden @HunterBiden]

When I heard about Senator Graham’s death last night, the first thing I thought about was not all the things he said and did in service of Donald Trump. I thought of the time before Donald Trump when he was a brother to Senator John McCain.

A time when senators from different parties could fight about politics and still be friends. A time when a conservative Republican from South Carolina could say of my father: “If you can’t admire Joe Biden as a person, you’ve got a problem. He’s the nicest person I’ve ever met in politics. As good a man as God ever created.”

That is the Senator Graham I will remember today. Not because I have forgotten what came after. Because in that memory there is hope. Hope for a country where brothers can fight like hell over policy and still share a meal, and a laugh, and the loss of the people they love.

I will choose to remember the time before Trump. Because I believe in an America after Trump.

[Covie @covie_93]

No ballroom for trump, give him some thoughts and prayers and a bulletproof backpack.

That's what schoolchildren get.

[Tim Fitzgerald 💙☘️🌾 @LifeofFitz]

Thank you to ⁦@Thekstatefan⁩ for his amazing list and allowing me to borrow his latest K-State Top 10.

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[Kaye @KayeSteinsapir]

This is revolting from the President of the United States. We are being led by a narcissistic sociopath who delights in cruelty and divisiveness.

[Bernie Sanders @BernieSanders]

If you're the Qatari royal family worth $335 billion, Trump gives you an Air Force facility in Idaho.

If you're the President of Argentina, Trump gives you a $20 billion bailout.

If you're an American whose health care premiums are about to double? Tough luck.

[Meacham @MeachamDr]

In the end, he’ll just be remembered as a petty, thin-skinned narcissist who was able to dupe millions into thinking he cared about them while serving his own interests.

[Occupy Democrats @OccupyDemocrats]

BREAKING: MAGA world explodes in rage over a report that Pope Leo XIV is going to replace the New York cardinal who compared Charlie Kirk to "Saint Paul" with a pro-immigrant, anti-gun bishop.

And it gets even better...

According to "Letters from Leo," a Substack run by former Democratic nominee for Congress Christopher Hale, a large swath of Catholics are furious that Cardinal Timothy Dolan went on Fox News last week and called Charlie Kirk a "a modern-day St. Paul." He also referred to Kirk as a "a missionary, an evangelist, a hero."

Paul is one of the most important figures in the history of the Christian faith, responsible for large, crucial segments of the New Testament. Charlie Kirk was a racist demagogue who raked in tens of millions of dollars pushing hateful, divisive rhetoric. The two men could not have been more dissimilar.

Hale writes that many Catholics are "appalled that Dolan would elevate Kirk to saintly status" because of his "divisive and hateful track record." Kirk was Evangelical, not Catholic, and Hale states that his "incendiary rhetoric" was clearly "at odds with Catholic social teaching."

In his piece, Hale also points out that Kirk called Leo's predecessor Francis a "Marxist who calls himself the head of your church." No cardinal should be heaping praise on a man who attacked the leader of his church, but clearly Dolan is more interested in the culture war than in upholding his duties to the Church.

Kirk also went after Leo, stating that he "was retweeting George Floyd propaganda" before he became Pope. Clearly, Kirk had no respect for the Catholic Church, which has increasingly come into conflict with MAGA over Donald Trump's cruel anti-migrant policies.

Hale also slammed Kirk for his racist remarks including his shockingly bigoted assertion that Black women "do not have the brain processing power… to be taken really seriously" and have to “steal a white person’s slot" through affirmative action. Kirk also smeared MLK Jr. as "awful" and "not a good person."

Hale went on to contrast Dolan's skin-crawling, fawning discussion of Kirk with Pope Leo's far more evenhanded, yet still compassionate approach. While Leo has avoided discussing the murder personally in public, the Holy See Press Office stated that he is "is “holding Charlie Kirk and his family in prayer,” and that he “expressed concern about political violence."

Crucially, the Pope Press Office also urged people to "refrain from rhetoric and instrumentalization that lead to polarization rather than dialogue." That kind of rhetoric is exactly what Cardinal Dolan is engaged in. By elevating Kirk to the level of sainthood, Dolan is tacitly endorsing all of the vile things that Kirk said over the course of his life.

"Catholics are left in dismay, wondering how any church leader could see a man who sowed so much division as a latter-day Paul," Hale writes about Dolan.

Thankfully, Dolan submitted his "obligatory retirement letter" to Pope Francis earlier this year when he turned 75. Pope Leo will now get to pick his successor.

According to Hale, the "top candidate" is Bishop Daniel Flores who is stationed in Texas and has carved out a reputation for himself by confronting gun violence and the border "crisis."

"Don’t tell me that guns aren’t the problem, people are. I’m sick of hearing it," Bishop Flores tweeted after the horrific Uvalde mass shooting. "The darkness first takes our children who then kill our children, using the guns that are easier to obtain than aspirin. We sacralize death’s instruments and then are surprised that death uses them."

Flores has also pushed back against Trump's immigration policies—

“I feel that as a (bishops’) conference, we must express ourselves more strongly when it comes to the dignity of immigrants, to say that they are not criminals, that they are vulnerable families and we need to invite all the governments involved, not just the U.S., to defend the migrant as a human being, to not cast the person aside as someone who doesn’t matter and is a problem,” he said to the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB).

Flores would be a massive improvement over Dolan, who seems to have missed his calling as a far-right podcaster. His record is littered with disturbing remarks. He rushed to defend American police in the wake of the George Floyd protests, and stated that while "black lives matter" "all lives matter" and "police lives matter" too. He also argued against removing statues of Confederates and slave owners. The sooner he's replaced, the better.

Please retweet and ❤️ if you hope that Pope Leo replaces Cardinal Dolan ASAP!

[Sara McGee for Texas HD 132 @SaraForTexLege]

Hi. Big one here.

Here is a list of what Donald Trump has spent (or committed to spend) in just 8 short months on ONLY vanity projects:

•White House ballroom: $200,000,000
•Qatar plane retrofit: $400,000,000
•Rename Dept. of Defense to “Dept. of War”: $3,000,000,000 (could run into “billions,” using $3B as a high-end placeholder)
•Rename “Gulf of Mexico” to “Gulf of America”: $50,000,000 (federal + state/local/signage/textbooks)
•Military parade: $45,000,000
•National Garden of American Heroes: $34,000,000
•U.S. 250th celebration: $100,000,000
•Air Force One upgrade/manuals (separate from Qatar jet): $84,000,000
•Oval Office redecoration: $1,700,000
•Golf weekends: $18,200,000

Total ≈ $3,932,900,000 (~$3.93B)

To put this in perspective, $3.93 BILLION would be enough to house every single homeless Veteran in this nation.

You don’t hate Donald Trump enough.

[Theo Baker @tab_delete]

To be clear: It's not "ABC pulls Jimmy Kimmel after comments about Charlie Kirk," it's "ABC pulls Jimmy Kimmel after threats from Trump FCC chair"

The distinction matters here.

[Mike Stanley @Stanimal032]

Hate these catch rules.

You can break the plane on a run and get the ball immediately knocked out and it’s a TD.

Catch the ball in the end zone, go to the ground after both knees were down and then it pops out after you roll over and it’s somehow not a catch.

[Coach Curtis Kelly @CooleyKellz7]

I seen the world, literally & there is no place like Manhattan, Kansas.

[Captain Obvious™️ @TheFungi669]

Kamala Harris used the tiebreaker vote to help the needy.

JD Vance used the tiebreaker vote to help the greedy.

Shame!

[The Lincoln Project @ProjectLincoln]

Reminder: the Taylor Swift and Bruce Springsteen posts are just to distract from the Qatari "gift" or the fact that he's trying to rip Medicare and Medicaid from millions of Americans right now.

[Nancy Pelosi @TeamPelosi]

After months of Republican lies, we now have confirmation in their newly released budget: House Republicans want to make America sicker and poorer — to make their ultra-rich billionaire donors even richer.

We won’t let them! #NoMedicaidCuts

[Harry Psaros @PittGuru]

BIG FOOD is lying to you.

Seed oils, toxic hormones, and artificial dyes are k*lling you…

Here are 11 American foods that are banned in other countries: 🧵

1. Bread (made with Azodicarbonamide)

[Jack Schlossberg @JBKSchlossberg]

President Trump is obsessed with my grandfather — but not in his life or what he achieved in it. No, just like @robertfkennedyjr @realdonaldtrump is only interested in JFK’s carcass.

1. Thread or whatever

[PoliticsVideoChannel @politvidchannel]

BREAKING: People on X are sharing this Photo of Joe Biden with the hashtag #WeMissJoe

[Amy McGrath @AmyMcGrathKY]

The irony of Trump talking about respecting the law when he is a felon still astounds me. Then he talks about respecting law enforcement after he pardoned all the violent rioters who attacked police on Jan 6th. What a sad moment in political history we live in right now.