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Coffee until Wine

[dar ☕️🔜🍷 @n8ive_texan]

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[dar ☕️🔜🍷 @n8ive_texan]

@CharlotteAlter What alternate universe are you living in?

[dar ☕️🔜🍷 @n8ive_texan]

@texasrunnerDFW But it has a privacy fence

[dar ☕️🔜🍷 @n8ive_texan]

@DeanAbbott Yes, get two ✌🏽

[dar ☕️🔜🍷 @n8ive_texan]

@crunchycorvid Add gloves, heels, statement necklace, dramatic eye makeup

[💕 Brittany Belle 💕 @BrittanyinTexas]

A lot of folks forget… Texas hasn’t always been red. 🤠

When Democrat Ann Richards was governor, Texas ranked 7th in education.

After nearly 30 years of Republican control, Texas now ranks 40th overall in education & 47th in reading.

It’s past time for a change. 🌊

[dar ☕️🔜🍷 @n8ive_texan]

@LisaForCongress Lol

[dar ☕️🔜🍷 @n8ive_texan]

@VinnyMartorano How about we go back to calling it 1st street, like it was before?

[dar ☕️🔜🍷 @n8ive_texan]

@ThatEricAlper Eating dinner early

[dar ☕️🔜🍷 @n8ive_texan]

Aged like a glass of milk left out in the sun

[Stephen Miller @StephenM]

To anyone still gullible enough to fall for scummy media hoaxes: Trump said warmongering neocons love sending your kids to die for wars they would never fight themselves. Liz Cheney is Kamala’s top advisor. Liz wants to invade the whole Middle East. Kamala = WWIII. Trump = Peace.

[dar ☕️🔜🍷 @n8ive_texan]

@SaraForTexLege I am here for it

[dar ☕️🔜🍷 @n8ive_texan]

@BlueBoxDave You’re not from Texas are you?

[dar ☕️🔜🍷 @n8ive_texan]

We are all on the same team! #TeamTalarico

[Team Talarico @TeamTalaricoHQ]

.@JamesTalarico: I am here in one of the reddest parts of Texas because I am tired of being divided into teams—red versus blue, rural versus urban.

The truth is, we're all on the same team. Do you struggle to afford the high price of everything? Do you carry the weight of student debt and medical debt? So do I.

Those billionaire-run platforms and predatory algorithms want to divide this team.

The most radical thing you can do in an era of division is bring people together. We have so much more in common than they want us to realize.

[dar ☕️🔜🍷 @n8ive_texan]

@moodyforelpaso @jamestalarico This would make a great children’s story! Sort of reminds me of Elf telling his own story 😂 but seriously, a great story

[dar ☕️🔜🍷 @n8ive_texan]

@Vossvik7 Yes, cats are sent to protect us. Mine will paw at me until I wake up if I’m having a bad dream. She also does this when she wants breakfast at 4:00 am 🤷🏻‍♀️😹

[dar ☕️🔜🍷 @n8ive_texan]

@cmclymer She was STUNNING 🥇

[dar ☕️🔜🍷 @n8ive_texan]

@Devan_Kaney I’m old enough to remember when this is exactly how it was done

[dar ☕️🔜🍷 @n8ive_texan]

@CoffindafferFBI Who thinks *God Bless America* is the national anthem 🤔

[Gandalv @Microinteracti1]

This video should unsettle anyone who takes the United States seriously as a nation.

Because it exposes something dangerous: the trivialization of the world's most consequential office. It shows how carelessly the power, credibility, and accumulated moral authority of a superpower can be squandered for a few seconds of viral attention.

In any other major democracy, this behavior from a head of state would trigger a constitutional crisis. Paris would burn. Berlin would convene emergency sessions. In the Nordic countries, resignation would follow within hours. Across functioning democracies, the public, institutions, and political class would recognize this for what it is: an assault on the dignity of the state itself. Leaders are not free to perform as entertainers without consequence. National honor is not personal property, it's held in trust.

But the United States is not just another country with a provocateur in charge. It is the linchpin of global order. It maintains formal alliances and security guarantees with forty to fifty nations. It underwrites the financial architecture, trade systems, and diplomatic frameworks that billions of people depend on daily. When the American president speaks—or posts—it doesn't land as satire, meme, or personal whim. It reads as a signal about what the country is becoming.

American power has never relied solely on carrier strike groups or economic output. It has rested on something more fragile and more valuable: trust. The belief that beneath domestic turbulence lies institutional seriousness, predictability, and a baseline commitment to dignity. That belief is now disintegrating in real time.

Millions of American companies operate globally. They negotiate multibillion-dollar contracts in environments where reputation is currency. Boardrooms in Frankfurt, Singapore, and Dubai aren't debating whether a post was clever—they're asking whether the United States remains a reliable partner. Whether agreements signed today will be honored tomorrow. Whether American leadership has devolved from institutional to purely theatrical.

Consider tourism, which sustains millions of American jobs—airlines, hotels, restaurants, museums, entire regional economies. Soft power isn't an abstraction. It materializes in flight bookings, conference locations, study-abroad programs, and decades of accumulated goodwill. A quiet, decentralized boycott doesn't require government action—only a collective sense that a nation no longer respects itself.

Now picture this image being studied by foreign ministers, central bank governors, defense strategists, and sovereign wealth fund managers. Picture them asking a coldly rational question: How do we write binding thirty-year agreements with a country whose public face will be this, relentlessly, for years to come? How do we plan for the long term when the tone is impulsive, mocking, and unbound by the gravity of office?

This is where the real calculus begins. Trillions in foreign capital depend on confidence that America is stable, credible, and rule-governed. That confidence is now being traded for what, exactly? Applause from an online mob? A dopamine rush from manufactured outrage? Content designed to dominate the news cycle rather than serve the national interest?

Every serious nation eventually confronts this choice: burn long-term credibility for short-term spectacle, or safeguard the reputation previous generations bled to build. The United States spent eighty years constructing an image of reliability, restraint, and leadership under pressure. That image wasn't born from perfection—it came from a visible commitment to standards that transcended impulse.

This isn't a partisan issue. Europeans who value democratic norms recognize something ominously familiar here. Americans—Democrat and Republican alike—who believe in responsibility and restraint should see it too. Power attracts scrutiny. Leadership demands discipline. A superpower cannot behave like a reality TV contestant without paying a price.

The presidency is not a personal broadcast channel. It's a symbol carried on behalf of 330 million people and countless international partners who never voted but whose lives are shaped by American decisions anyway. Every post either reinforces or erodes the idea that America can be counted on when it matters most.

So the question is no longer whether this is offensive. The question is whether this is who America chooses to be: a nation that trades a century of hard-won reputation for viral moments. A country that replaces statecraft with content creation. A republic governed like a season of reality television.

History offers a harsh lesson here. Great powers don't fall because enemies mock them. They collapse when they begin mocking themselves—publicly, proudly, and without grasping the cost until it's far too late.

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[Amanda Gorman @TheAmandaGorman]

For Renee Nicole Good
Killed by I.C.E. on January 7, 2026

by Amanda Gorman

They say she is no more,
That there her absence roars,
Blood-blown like a rose.
Iced wheels flinched & froze.
Now, bare riot of candles,
Dark fury of flowers,
Pure howling of hymns.

If for us she arose,
Somewhere, in the pitched deep of our grief,
Crouches our power,
The howl where we begin,
Straining upon the edge of the crooked crater
Of the worst of what we’ve been.

Change is only possible,
& all the greater,
When the labour
& bitter anger of our neighbors
Is moved by the love 
& better angels of our nature.

What they call death & void,
We know is breath & voice; 
In the end, gorgeously, 
Endures our enormity. 

You could believe departed to be the dawn
When the blank night has so long stood.
But our bright-fled angels will never be fully gone,
When they forever are so fiercely Good.