The Great Bambateuthis

NEW AD: Have you seen these anti-Talarico attack ads? Elon Musk paid for nearly all of them. The world's first trillionaire knows if he drags the most corrupt politician in Texas across the finish line, Ken Paxton will owe him everything. Elon Musk: Texas is not for sale.

Vivek Ramaswamy is a truly pathetic excuse for a man.

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Pete Hegseth says there needs to be serious consequences for people who commit crimes, just jotting that down for future reference.

You really can’t make this shit up.

I’ve known many other defense secretaries, starting with Cap Weinberger, who served as defense secretary under Reagan. I can say without fear of contradiction that Pete Hegseth is the stupidest and least qualified of them all. He is a danger to the entire world. He must be impeached.

Here @apnews.com I fixed this headline for you. He didn't use a "rare authority" he violated the constitution. You're blatantly buying into administration talking points by saying he has "authority" to just decide not to spend Congressionally approved funds at the last minute

Sen. Susan Collins helped steer millions in federal defense contracts to Navatek, whose CEO illegally funneled thousands of dollars to her campaign. The FBI sought to launch a probe and was eyeing Collins and other lawmakers. Then Trump gutted the unit in charge. THREAD 🧵

15/ ProPublica is revealing the existence of the case for the first time. We reviewed a trove of evidence gathered by the FBI and thousands of pages of legal records, and have independently corroborated much of Kao’s account. This is the first piece of an ongoing series:

14/ He eviscerated the specialized FBI and DOJ teams handling public corruption investigations, some of which were involved in Trump-related cases. And the government stopped talking to an informant who had offered a road map to corruption in Congress.

13/ By the end of 2024, FBI agents had enough evidence to pursue a sweeping bribery probe that could ensnare top lawmakers of both political parties. They asked their supervisors to approve a new investigation. Then Trump returned to the White House.

11/ Even Navatek’s executives were surprised at how far their money went in D.C. “It was eye-opening for me, frankly. ‘Oh my God, all of it is for sale. It’s all for sale,’” former executive Eric Schiff said.

Alert ⚠️ An ICE officer shot 28-year-old Wilber Rafael Garces Perez in North Austin today after a traffic stop. He was shot in the torso and hospitalized in serious but stable condition. His attorney says Perez, a Venezuelan national, entered the U.S. legally and had a valid work permit.

Fascinating

THIS 👇 HERE.......

Photo of the decade: AfD leader Alice Weidel

Love, love, love this. ht: @scottlincicome.bsky.social

American democracy is under siege…

Is there no other

Why, Timothy!

Breaking: Karoline Leavitt leaving the White House to spend more time lying to her family.

Any Democrat that votes for Todd Blanche as UNITED STATES ATTORNEY GENERAL in these times we are in,must 100% absolutely be primaried!

Susan Collins voted to give ICE and CBP $70 billion. She owns the consequences of that vote.

My time in the Senate will be devoted to ending DEI and affirmative action in the workplace. by Darline Graham Nordone

Reminder Ken Paxton who is running for Senate in Texas pardoned his friend who was in jail for raping a boy for years. Oh well, let's move on.

Energy Secretary Chris Wright: "Solar is irrelevant in the winter" (this, dear reader, is false)

To the extent SCOTUS is articulating a principle (other than letting the GOP have its way in election cases), it's: a state can do whatever it wants at the last minute to change the rules of an election, & courts can do nothing about it — even with evidence of intentional discrimination.

The lesson Israel has learned, time and again, is that it can commit genocide and other atrocities with near-total impunity. Now it's exporting the Gaza playbook to Lebanon. Israel's war in Lebanon is killing thousands and displacing millions. NO MORE U.S. AID TO ISRAEL.

They stole the internet’s knowledge and all the work that went into it and they want to sell it back to us for a fee. What a business model.

i love her make her president

CARTOON OF THE DAY 😕🇺🇸 (From @andertoon.bsky.social )

Q: “To African-Americans concerned this is going to draw Black members of congress off the map, what do you say?” TRUMP: “I think it's been a wonderful process.”

Supreme Court Holds, 6-3, That Black People Voting Violates Rights Of White Voters

Priorities dontcha know

There is no clearer case for the necessity of Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 than how quickly southern states moved to eliminate Black-majority districts and dilute Black power after SCOTUS eroded Section 2. SCOTUS’s reasoning was immediately disproven by reality.