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“A crucial midterm contest is happening right now in Texas, one that could determine the future of the state,” @adamserwer.bsky.social writes, and he's not referring to the Senate race: “Who will succeed Ken Paxton?”

Last week I wrote about how Texas politicians’ “free speech” campaign has led to a campaign of academic censorship in the state’s universities that exceeds even the McCarthy era (🎁🔗) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1...

Disgusting

Jack Smith: "Our investigation developed proof beyond a reasonable doubt that President Trump engaged in serious crimes against our nation ... rather than accept his defeat in the 2020 election, he engaged in a criminal scheme to overturn the results and prevent the lawful transfer of power"

Karl Rove, the former adviser to President George W. Bush, does an impression of Donald Trump at #TAF26, in response to the president calling him a “stone cold loser.”

"Texas is real." Top Dem pollster John Anzalone just did a striking survey with Trump's pollster that finds Talarico +4. On the pod, he explains why he thinks Texas really is gettable this time for Dems. He says the likely path to majority is TX AK ME NC. Listen: newrepublic.com/article/2156...

BREAKING: 20+ Republican leaders just endorsed James Talarico over Ken Paxton.

Control of the Senate will hinge on a handful of competitive races this November, with nominees of both parties honing talking points about their opponents. Here is a fact check of some of those claims.

I truly believe in ten years not a single person will admit in polite company to having supported Trump. Honest to God I fully believe that

Texas has not elected a Democratic senator in nearly four decades. Could James Talarico’s openness about his Christian faith change that?

The Trump administration is so opposed to socialism that it has acquired — sometimes by coercion — equity stakes in 30 companies so far. www.cato.org/blog/governm...

I'm not sure folks have realized just how crazy the second half of 2026 and 2027 will be for global temperatures – on the back of a record-smashing El Niño event. Here is my latest estimate of where both years will end up compared to global temperatures since 1850.

Dr. Fauci is a hero. He really is. He helped guide America thru a mass death event. Millions more could have died but they did not, thanks to him. Everyone over 70 owes him a debt. It is disgusting that we live in a country that not only dishonors him but actively smears his good name.

Brutal photo caption from The Guardian: “Gianni Infantino carefully explains to Donald Trump that he is not part of the Spanish national team.”

We just committed a war crime destroying a desalination plant in Southern Iran. Iran responded.

Ossoff: "If there is one person who committed election fraud in Georgia, it is Donald Trump"

Dems have dumped Swalwell and platner Republicans have nominated Ken Paxton

@ashleyrparker.bsky.social descended into the "delightful rabbit hole that is mah-jongg," which led to her buying a $300 ticket to a Dallas tournament, "the equivalent of someone who has just discovered rec-league basketball deciding to show up at WNBA tryouts." theatln.tc/d7efJNfo

I had the opportunity to interview @govandybeshear.bsky.social as part of the Humphrey-Mondale dinner. We discussed how he reaches voters who watch a lot of Fox, the opportunity Trump's debasement presents for Ds to seize the mantle of morality, & more Thanks to Arc Initiatives for setting this up!

New in PN: Trump's cognitive impairment endangers us all "No one in the administration has offered a remotely plausible explanation for Trump’s various physical ailments, and any questions about his clear cognitive challenges are met by the White House with disdain, denial, mockery, and lies."

Gotta say this headline from AmericaToday cheered me. "The (Economist/YouGov) poll found the U.S.-born Pope Leo had the highest net favorability rating of a group of public figures they polled at plus-37 percentage points. Trump had a minus-17 rating, a difference of 54 percentage points."

BREAKING: Austin, Texas police searching for active shooter who carried out 9 random attacks in recent hours. Multiple victims. Call 911 if seen. - Austin American-Statesman

Legal question: will posting this picture get me indicted for threatening Trump?

Enten: "These are the worst numbers I've ever seen for any president on inflation. Trump is 49 points underwater. Biden -- inflation absolutely crushed his presidency -- but at his worst he was only 43 points underwater. Trump is in a worse position on inflation than Jimmy Carter was!"

All this could have been prevented.

This is so well done. 👌

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Do it.

Erratic. Can’t finish sentences. Often confused. Illogical train of thought. Word finding difficulties. Developing and worsening gradually over time. The President is exhibiting all the signs of dementia.

“.. Manufacturing in the US is as stagnant as ever.” 😞 agglomerations.eig.org/p/does-a-leg...

Trump: "The president of the United States, Gavin Newsum, admitted he has learning disabilities"

Dear World, Don’t help him. Oppose him. Defy him. Embarrass him. Arrest him, if you’d like. We’re not with him. Sincerely, Decent Americans

This is your criminal government, Americans. A rogue bandit state stealing Venezuela's oil, massacring Iranian schoolgirls and now planning to "take" Cuba because Trump says "I can do anything I want with it." Patriotic Americans must end this madness.

Support the fundraiser by making a donation or spreading the word about this initiative: kyivindependent.com/crowdfunding...

Character and decency matter.

No one should be using ChatGPT or partnering with OpenAI for anything.

Deadly lunacy

Once again, I am promising Democrats there are literally thousands of former department of justice people who will crawl over broken glass to prosecute this administration given the chance

The Craven Broadcasting System thought it better to cower from Brendan Carr rather than air this thoughtful Colbert interview with @jamestalarico.bsky.social. It was fifteen minutes well spent this morning to watch it. youtu.be/oiTJ7Pz_59A

Thank you to the Houston Chronicle for their enthusiastic endorsement. I'm not sure I could put it better than: “Goodwin is ready — and her quiet, take-no-prisoners competence is a style that Texas hasn’t seen in years. ...Austin’s snakes won’t know what hit them.” #GoodWin4Texas

"It's a blowout" -- Enten details numbers showing that Democrats are +39 with independents (!) on affordability

At a confab of European leaders last week in Brussels after Trump’s Davos speech on Greenland, the right-wing pro-Trump prime minister of Slovakia told them that Trump had seemed “out of his mind” and “dangerous” during the one-on-one meeting he’d just with him at Mar-a-Lago.

lol is the “deal” that the United States gets what it currently gets, but everyone gives Trump a shiny object so that he’ll be distracted?

No one can be watching this Davos speech and reach any conclusion but that the President of the United States is mentally disturbed and that something is deeply wrong with him. This is both embarrassing and extremely dangerous.

Tylenol during pregnancy is safe without increased risk of autism, ADHD, or intellectual disability of offspring A new review of the evidence just out www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...