Citing 'Two Corinthians,' Trump Struggles To Make The Sale To Evangelicals Donald Trump went to Liberty University, a Christian conservative school, in hopes of winning over the faithful. He stumbled and likely didn't change Ted Cruz's advantage with the group.

But ... I thought he read Two Corinthians.

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James Talarico: Working Texans are paying more in taxes than they did last year, and they are paying about twice what billionaires are paying.

I think we should close these loopholes — and we should ensure that next time tax day rolls around, the average Texan is paying less than a billionaire.

I’m not sure I’d rest easy on the promise of a purple handed 80 year old pathological liar.

My cat is the same. He snacks on a little dry food, but greatly prefers wet, and I add a bit of warm water to it, as well. He's turning 12 and so far, so good.

Maybe Trump Should Not Have Given This Speech His address raised more questions than it answered about the war in Iran.

Maybe giving this speech was a bad call. (And who wrote this mess?) Trump is clearly lost; admitting it to the rest of the world is a bad idea.

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Bank of America settled with Epstein survivors for $72.5 million.
No criminal charges. Just a check.
They made $27 billion last year.
That settlement isn't accountability. It's the cost of staying above the law ...when you're large enough to afford the invoice.

Pete Hegseth Is Vice Signaling The defense secretary is trolling America.

Pete Hegseth, national disgrace:
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Mr. Simmons, a bereaved father, demonstrates utmost decency in every aspect of this story. Hegseth should be fired for blatantly lying and misrepresenting these devastated parents of dead soldiers.

It took U.S. years to lose a war in Vietnam. Trump lost one in days. | Will Bunch It's increasingly clear that Trump's war of choice in Iran has failed spectacularly. America learned nothing from past war failures.

U.S. leaders were told: "declare victory and go home" in Vietnam as early as 1966, but fought for 7 more years and thousands of pointless deaths

The Trump regime has lost an even more senseless war in Iran in just 2 weeks. The time for leaving is now

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We're tracking who was in White Man's Unions in the counties surrounding Houston. We know alot about the Jaybirds in Fort Bend, and the WMUs in Grimes, Waller, Wharton, Liberty. But any of y'all have stories from grand daddies about Brazoria, Montgomery, Walker, etc.? -OS

Tell Mombanddade that they are going to need another shelve.

The Trump administration could really restore confidence by getting the entire Cabinet to ride a tanker through the Straits of Hormuz to show everyone how safe and easy it is now.

They could bring along a lot of MAGA influencers and Fox News hosts to broadcast it all live!

Usually I rotate more than 2 at a time, but I have to say, Matt, that is some killer toast. Some people don't understand when I say my toaster is a cast iron skillet, but . . . yeah.

Cats tell you a lot about time, about its preciousness, about its hard facts. Cats tell you that summer 2021 isn’t summer 2022, like you’d thought. You live with cats all your life and eventually can’t help but begin to measure your life in cats. Those measurements can be sobering. My childhood cats and early adulthood cats are all gone, all but one of my full adulthood cats too, and I’m now fully in middle-aged person cat phase. Fucking hell, is that the time already? Remind me what the next stage is, and the one after that? Actually, on second thoughts, don’t. Leave me here a bit longer, suspended in soft delusion. But also all this is messed up because if there was any justice cats would live longer than us. Cats should live as long as other bibliophile animals such as tortoises and bowhead whales. Longer, perhaps, as they have better comic timing and far more to offer on a cold winter’s night.

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Well, one or two thought about it. You're reminding me of the days when a senator with a flask in his pocket couldn't make Secretary of Defense, but anyone in their right mind would take Tower over a C-17 full of Hegseths.

So you don't heave a missile into an elementary school, then fire a second missile into the school to finish off the survivors is why a professional military engages in dumb, politically correct rules of engagement. But no, American exceptionalism > 175 schoolgirls.

This reminds me of how Trump whipped into a blind panic about Obama’s handling of Ebola and then when Covid hit under him became the “this is fine” dog.

Pete Hegseth’s Moral Unseriousness The defense secretary appears unable to approach matters of life and death with even the slightest bit of reverence or humility.

The article title is about "moral unseriousness." I would say it's more about moral depravity.

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This dude is the bad guy in every single movie made about high school ever

He was a racist….with a podcast….. a shitty one at that…….. who said rape had grey area’s ….. and if his child was raped he would force her to carry ………….

🔥 @jamestalarico.bsky.social : “The only minority destroying America is the billionaires. We are focused on the wrong 1%… it’s not left vs. right, it’s top vs. bottom.”

Huh. No regime change.

Kind of interesting that our mandated nuclear posture review is going to boil down to “whatever we said about eight years ago.”

This is fantastic. I just wish they had courage before they announced retirement

Blind man. Burmese Rohingya. Buffalo. Buys curtain rod for stick. Walks. Gets lost. Ends up on porch. She calls cops. They come. Drop cane. Can’t understand. Beaten & Tazed. Detained. Plea deal. Released CPB. Drops 5 miles from home. Tim Hortons. 8 pm. February. Now. Dead. USA. 2026.

Awfully hard to square the claims that ICE is focused on removing violent criminals that are so dangerous we can't let them be around with the fact that ICE tricks their targets by pretending to need help and waiting for neighborly types to respond by offering to help a stranger for free.

This Is How a Child Dies of Measles When your family becomes a data point in an outbreak

My most authoritarian opinion is that the MMR vaccine should be mandatory, with only medical (not religious or floofy) exemptions allowed. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Just like with Brazil arresting their insurrectionists rather than re-electing them, other countries are holding their Epstein-tied politicians accountable far better than we do. www.bbc.com/news/article...