Celebrating the 250th anniversary of the United States with the dumbest, most corrupt president ever in power is a bit like celebrating a wedding anniversary after your spouse murdered all your children and drained your bank accounts.
“Until he’s ejected from the White House, all our rights are in danger.” trib.al/px0mk6o
For a long time - decades, probably - I've said that love is what you do, not what you feel.
I don't know why it has taken me so long to make the same observation about hate.
Hate isn't what you feel, it's what you do.
If what you do harms a group of people, guess what?
Would you look at that! Need more of this in TX.
Class act, our president. 🙄
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Not sure if I've told this story before. I needed my birth certificate to renew my TX driver's license a couple of years ago. I ordered it from NY state. Nine months & $60 later, I got it.
The SAVE Act is voter suppression & a poll tax.
I didn't know anything about Joe Kent before I read his resignation letter. This totally tracks. Let's just blame the Jews.
"Why, with an entire Jewish communal infrastructure dedicated to fighting antisemitism, are we failing to focus on the most troubling manifestations of the crisis? Why are our legacy organizations getting it so wrong?"
Must read. Change is possible, even in Texas.
Screen shot of Talarico's post stating that "the FCC banned our Colbert interview" and my comment, "CBS rolled over in advance. Your statement misrepresents the facts."
In a time where a lot of people barely even read the headline, words matter. Framing matters. I'm not a fan of intellectual dishonesty. It's important to note the mechanisms at work in this situation, not oversimplify what happened to ignite your base. YMMV. I stand by my comment.
As I said elsewhere, CBS fell for the "nice little network you got there" game of the criminal Trump administration. Complying in advance is a sure way to lose your constitutional rights. Also, the equal time rule isn't new. Words matter. Actions matter. I don't need the hyperbole.
Yes and precision in words matter, at least to me. YMMV.
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I was heading out to vote for you this morning & now I have to rethink my choice. CBS rolled over in advance. Your statement misrepresents the facts. I'm disappointed.
Came here to say this. CBS fell for the "nice little network you got there" game played by the criminal Trump administration. I'm disappointed to see Talarico misrepresenting the situation.
🧵Make sure you navigate OP's whole thread. Absolutely horrific, maybe even worse than I realized. DHS and the entire criminal Trump administration has got to go.
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Stop cooperating with the surveillance state. Ditch those Ring cameras!
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Insightful analysis of the Democratic win in the Texas Senate District 9 race by @cjtackett.bsky.social .
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While I think this is a purple, not a blue, wave, I'm happy that my neighbors have finally gotten tired of the Tarrant county GOP BS. People over party.
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After being held in two of them as a boy, I fought for decades urging America to never again build concentration camps and put human beings in them. It breaks my heart to watch this happen twice now in my own lifetime.
If any of the rich complain, they should consider that taxing the rich is far better than eating the rich.
The only constant in Trump's politics is that he doesn't have any beliefs in the way that most of us conceptualize what "a belief" is. What he claims to believe at any moment is just what he thinks is necessary to say right then and there to gain advantage for himself.
Today's the last day of early voting in the TX Senate District 9 runoff. Check the county website for open polling locations & times due to weather. Saturday 1/31 is election day, 7am-7pm. Say no to Patriot Mobile scum and Vote for Taylor Rehmet to bring sanity to the TX Leg!
Eliminate DHS. Impeach Bondi. Remove Stephen Miller. Prosecute the murderers. Impeach, convict, remove, and further prosecute Donald J. Trump. May he rot in a rat-infested prison cell for the rest of his sorry life.
They executed him. Cold blooded murder.
Good!