That feels like an important life lesson

Ooh

I don't have time to wait for the ants! We have a birthday party on our hands!

I have purchased a 5 year old girl an ant farm.

It, obviously - now that I have it in my hands - didn't come with any ants.

Where the hell do you buy live ants for an ant farm in Dallas?

How 2 fringe groups and a friendly judge helped pull off Sheriff Chad Bianco’s ballot seizure Emails obtained by CalMatters trace the development of a years-long case that ultimately led to the unprecedented seizure of 650,000 ballots.

Anat Rubin and I co-wrote a story for @calmatters.org about the people behind Sheriff Chad Bianco's "election investigation" -- sovereign citizens, Christian nationalists, and "constitutional sheriffs."
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We are hoping to be in California soon!

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My brother is in Abilene! I’m in Dallas.

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🧵Missed diagnoses, delayed treatment and poor medical care are driving record deaths in ICE custody.

@kolyncheang.bsky.social and I spent months investigating the deaths of ICE detainees across the US. Over and over again, we found lapses in treatment that proved fatal.

Where do you live? Surely that's basically normal, that it's significantly more expensive. Does your country process oil internally? I'm not saying it shouldn't — just that prices like that seem like a domestic choice made as a policy.

Gas is $10 a gallon for you?

A sticker of Kamala Harris that says “you coulda had a bad bitch” on a gas pump

Spotted in abilene Texas:

Pending before the Supreme Court are three disparate cases, each with the potential to remake rules on district boundaries, campaign finance and the eligibility of certain mail-in ballots. These rulings, issued in the middle of the election season, could potentially confound voters, scramble overworked and threatened election administrators, and alter campaign strategies in the middle of heated election contests. And depending on how the justices rule, these decisions may have cascading effects including new court challenges, legislative changes and even more uncertainty in the months before the midterms. The justices can avoid this confusion entirely. In June 1964 the court issued a landmark decision in Reynolds v. Sims that helped cement the principle of “one person, one vote.” Yet the ruling made clear that it need not be applied to that fall’s fast-approaching elections. Whatever this court ultimately decides on the merits in these cases, it should apply the same principle.

My New One at MS Now: “Three ways the Supreme Court could upend the midterm elections” — A Call for Court To Take Timing into Account in Callais, NRSC, and Watson @msnownews.bsky.social

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He hath risen, but I don’t think that crawdads are gonna make it:

Check out video of White-Winged Dove, Northern Cardinal landing on Jessica’s Bitchin Birdbuddy feeder Beautiful video of White-Winged Dove, Northern Cardinal landing on Jessica’s Bitchin Birdbuddy feeder located in Dallas, United States!

They chased off a dove who - if you keep watching - keeps waiting by the fence for them to leave and they do not leave. This is a cardinal feeder, dove guy. Get out of here with your soft coos. app.mybirdbuddy.com/media/dallas...

I feel a lot better about this now

God I forgot about this

are you joking or is that real and I can stop feeling out of touch

i'm gonna openly admit to y'all that before i listened to my podcasts this morning i kind of thought artemis ii was a movie that was coming out today.

Picking a gas station you could find anywhere and offering it as an example of this place isn't particularly creative, and it doesn't particularly offer any particular feeling about this particular place. It's just a description of a normal thing.

I don't think the words he's chosen, or the scene's he's chosen to tell, actually describe this place at all. I get no sense of the place from it, other than it's a smaller town than he's used to personally.

That's the very restaurant i refer to here! My dad is a regular there.

My mom *just* told me they went to Oasis to celebrate a friends birthday with dinner.

Oasis. You know, the same place that sold the 18 y/o Uvalde school shooter the AR-15 he used? That Oasis.

News at 10: People are sympathetic to people they know and who have objectively been treated pretty badly.

Adding: Of course the interviewee is playing pinochle.

Why is it news that people anywhere might not like seeing a neighbor dragged and humiliated?

MA'AM.

"As locals prepare to join the highway, journeying towards larger destinations, they come upon the dwelling of a fascinating creature of the plains: A business owner. He has decorated it with native baubles. We watch as he sells both guns and gas."

No one would be like "look at this fascinating rural creature. She owns a nail salon, and yet, a boutique."

Also, just this is important: Lots of unexpected places (to you) sell guns in small towns. There is a restaurant in South Texas that sells guns. My dad loves it. You often run multiple businesses out of one place you own because there are NO OTHER BUILDINGS TO BUY. THIS IS NORMAL.