Matt Wright

Yo La Talafreako (Fundraiser concert in Austin tonight. Perfect night for it.)

I'm ignoring all "what the Democrats should do if they win" discourse - partially because I'm too worried about what's happening now, but mostly because I think those decisions, if they exist, should be made by the people who did the hard work of winning.

this is going to turn me into the independent restaurant owner joker

This report is genuinely overwhelming, in terms of the evidence both against Trump and of a ham-fisted cover-up. Including one instance in which Ghislaine Maxwell was actually about to mention one of Trump's young accusers and Todd Blanche told her to stop talking. The media response is "yawn."

“My Catholic Latina opponent wants to impose Sharia Law” is a hilariously desperate closing message. thehill.com/homenews/617...

The havoc The Apprentice unleashed on the world www.gelliottmorris.com/p/poll-low-i...

The fact that the president's doctors are giving him the dementia test over and over again -- tracking his decline, most likely -- and that the president keeps bragging about having to take that test should be a five-alarm fire.

Rarely can you chart quality of life dropping for an entire society like this

This is so fucked up

Neil Bush, brother of George W. Bush and son of George H.W. Bush, has posted a political message on Facebook for the first time, saying he voted for James Talarico for US Senate over Ken Paxton. Bush says he isn't just opposing Paxton, he has come to admire Talarico.

It remains so dark and infuriating that inflation will undo the GOP and not the immigration pogroms and murder of protestors in broad daylight

nope, lol, for some reason Siri voice in the kitchen revulsed me

There is absolutely no viable path forward for this country that doesn’t hinge on extreme accountability for everyone involved in this administration. They’re going to whine about politicization and credulous media types will echo them, but the thing is, they’ve committed tons of obvious crimes!

Youth (2026)

“If ICE is going to act with criminal impunity, why should we cooperate with them at all?” www.texasobserver.org/wilber-garce...

Trying to convince NGO leaders and elected officials to take this seriously made me leave politics. Earned media is a hostile hellscape compared to where it was 20 years ago and there are very few people and orgs in positions of power trying to fix it.

I still don’t understand what GOP primary voters were thinking

This post just made me wonder for the first time: how do we know dinosaurs had tongues? How do we guess how big they were? What’s the history of tongue evolution? What a marvelous, weird device. (Might’ve also had some good scotch tonight.)

Please give me 5 game series on easier to stream options

It's underdiscussed, but a huge driver for the GOP's descent into chud-dom is the fact that they can win control of Congress and the Presidency, not to mention the Supreme Court, by appealing to a small but intense coalition of American voters.

It would be a monumental improvement for America, but especially for the Republican Party, if we elected the President through a plurality vote.

it's evidently too much to ask the rw justices to consider the irreparable harm to individuals treated to such inhumanity. they are complicit in this criminality. shame on all six of them. and shame on us for having a system that allows this illegality.

Texans, heads up: I got caught up in this when I moved this summer and changed my address for my drivers license, which never updated. I was still registered, but at my old address. Check and update here: goelect.txelections.civixapps.com/ivis-mvp-ui/...

this makes me angry. But more than that, even, this makes me so sad in a way I find hard to articulate.

Screenshots of despair

The best thing anybody can do to get democrats elected is volunteer to get democrats elected. It's a way to get active, connected and involved in your community, while beating back the horrors a tiny bit through being singleminded at the task. Posting through it is not enough.

Good news: a federal judge just paused Wilber's deportation. The government shouldn’t be allowed to shoot you from an unmarked vehicle and then cover it up by deporting you. Keep speaking out, it's working.

That’s a pretty interesting point.

I've spent a lot of years studying a lot of collapses, and the truth of the matter is that they're always mundane: mild climatic shifts that reduce crop yields, a dumbass in power who makes some terrible decisions, neglecting things that obviously matter but the will to fix them can't be summoned.

this thread turned out to be much longer than I intended if you have the ability to spend $39 on funding a kick-ass feminist media brand for a year, here's the link, I'm hoping to recruit 9 more new @theflytrapmedia.com subscribers before I zZZzzZZ tonight www.theflytrapmedia.com/no-slop

I never post about work, but we’re workin’ on something that’s getting close in North Austin

Hooooly shit

1000% this

You can be unhappy with Talarico's statements, you can even vocally criticize him for it. But I've spoken with the families that Ken Paxton has terrorized and I'm amazed at anyone who would avoid the opportunity to throw him in the metaphorical dustheap of our politics

AI this, fascism that, and then this British illustrator I follow pops in the TL with…