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mikepm.bsky.social

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Old Texas Lawyer

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Flock cameras have no place in Texas. They can piece together an exact map of your behavior — the places you went and how long you were there. Flock calls this “pattern-of-life” mapping. Texans call it something else: government overreach.

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What do these corporations all have in common? -SpaceX -Palantir -RTX -Northrop Grumman -Microsoft -Nvidia They are all corporations whose stock Trump just purchased — and who do business with the Trump administration. We must not become numb to this blatant corruption.

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The president has no role in elections. Six disgraceful partisan hacks on the Supreme Court have just given him a lawless green light to manipulate votes by mail for voter suppression. The Roberts Court majority fits more in Putin’s Russia

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Government contractors are bulldozing parts of the environmentally sensitive Big Bend National Park as the Trump administration pushes forward with a $46.5 billion effort to expand a wall and other security infrastructure along the border with Mexico.

washingtonpost.comBulldozing begins at Big Bend National Park for border constructionEnvironmentalists say the planned patrol roads, vehicle barriers and cameras will irreversibly reshape the renowned park in Texas.

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The congressional switchboard number is (202) 224-3121. Put it in your cell phone. Use it. If you're not calling at least once a week, you're not doing your part.

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Trump was literally quoted as saying he doesn't care. This comedy team never disappoints. It's the political party for stupid people, unfortunately we have no shortage.

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Meanwhile, a year ago, Rep. Murphy said that he and Trump were “taking a hard look” at the country’s spending. The deficit was $35 trillion then. It’s now $40 trillion. Good job, guys.

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So now the next step is to find out what Capital One's months-long anti-money laundering review by professionals with decades of law enforcement experience discovered about Trump's 300+ accounts...

MeidasTouch@meidastouch.com

Phang: "Capital One said, 'We don't want the business anymore of the 45th president of the United States, his businesses, his failed sons, and his revocable trust.' So you can imagine -- I am just hypothesizing... but it suggests whatever Capital One uncovered was pretty bad. Makes you wonder..."

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The tricky part for a future Dem Admin is going to be finding a way to divest the US govt from these companies without tanking their stock price & hurting them over the long term. What Trump is doing is a fundamental tenet of communism while he distracts by claiming Dems are.

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To pretend there is any moral equivalence between the parties when it comes to handling moral depravity is to become an apologist for the party that has eschewed every standard of decency in favor of ruthless pursuit of power and cultist loyalty to a depraved narcissist

contrariannews.orgThe Contrarian | Jen Rubin and Norm Eisen | SubstackUnflinching journalism in defense of democracy. Click to read The Contrarian, a Substack publication with hundreds of thousands of subscribers.

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@pkrugman.bsky.social is right Iran taught foreign governments not to fear American might; China, along with the crypto industry, has taught rogue countries that they needn’t fear American financial control; and Ukraine has taught foreign governments that they don’t need American support

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Trump has said that Democrats are hardcore, godless communists and that communism is a cancer to be destroyed. Yesterday, Trump said he told Intel that the U.S. wanted 10% of the company to solve their problem. That is literally communism. JFC

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The orange felon blames mail-in voting, immigrants and felons for destroying America, yet he marries immigrants, he votes by mail and he’s a convicted felon. Funny how that bullshit hypocrisy works.

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Johnny Joey Jones - "In Cuba poverty is $2 wages in this country it's almost $70,000 a year." Jones was way off as the poverty rate is $15,960 for one person. Fox often says Democrats are out of touch elitists. 🤷‍♀️

Post whenever a Republican mouths off about the Biden economy.

Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈@josephpolitano.bsky.social

American factory construction continued declining in official data released today as CHIPS Act projects finish, IRA projects get cancelled, and tariffs weigh on nearly all industries Total US factory construction is down 30% from its 2024 highs and 20% over the last year alone

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Do you have any idea how much money is being spent *right now* on smearing Talarico as trans, as unmasculine, as an alien figure who is not one of "us" Texans? For him to be doing better on character and values than Paxton is amazing. Just ask Texas whisperer @amandamarcotte.bsky.social

Greg Sargent@gregsargent.bsky.social

This is really something: Majorities of Texas voters say Talarico has good character and the right moral values. Paxton is underwater on both of those. I argue here that Talarico is flipping some of the usual scripts on masculinity and Christian faith: newrepublic.com/article/2125...

The description of the abject partisan hackery is worth the read, although there should be more derision cast upon the Fereralist society. When I was in law school, 30+ years ago, Federalists claimed it was all originalism. In practice, their analysis turned out to be pop-history rationalizations.

Josh Marshall@joshtpm.bsky.social

The Supreme Court’s Corruption Must Be Broken talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/the-s...

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Trump thought suing the BBC would intimidate them. Instead, they turned his own lawsuit into a legal headache that could force him to defend his actions surrounding January 6 under oath. That is the kind of self inflicted karma no political strategist could have scripted.

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pass our law or we'll try to overthrow the republic every time we lose an election. because we're criminal degenerates.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Rep. John Rose: "If we don't have secure elections, then we'll see events like what happened in 2020 happen again and again" (He means Republicans losing ... )

It should be remembered that although not disproven, the scientific consensus is that the lab leak is the least likely explanation for the origin of COVID. However, Gabbard proceeds as if ththe lab theory were proven.

Roger Parloff@rparloff.bsky.social

This is great story by colleague @noupside.bsky.social . It dissects not just of this particular Tulsi smear, but the whole genre of Tulsi's smears—and, indeed, the whole genre of conspiracy theorist smears used to defame so many decent people every day. www.lawfaremedia.org/article/tuls...

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Paul Krugman on the degradation of the US military “Hegseth judges officers not by the content of their character but by the color of their skin or their gender.”

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It can't be pointed out enough that every study or commission looking to uncover voter fraud has basically found it to be almost non-existent. So why are Republicans passing laws to cure nothing, because the real point is voter supression.

Brian Tyler Cohen@briantylercohen.bsky.social

Learn more about Utah Republicans' efforts to find noncitizens on its voters rolls-- only to find *one* (who never voted!) at @democracydocket.com:

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If my math is right, the crime rate for pardoned insurrectionists is roughly three times higher than that of immigrants.

Anna Bower@annabower.bsky.social

NEWS: A @lawfaremedia.org report finds that *97* Jan. 6ers who received clemency for their role in the attack were arrested, charged, or convicted of subsequent crimes—a number much higher than previously reported. Incredible work by @katherinepomps.bsky.social www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-...