Kellye Burke

It’s always so interesting to get hot takes from people who 1) don’t live in your state (Texas, in this case) and 2) don’t appear to have done any canvassing of actual voters in the primary

Actual Texans aren’t making these declarations.

Figurines of Brady Bunch and Partridge Family fighting each other

I have created a diorama of the Partridge family attacking the Brady Bunch family. My life is very boring.

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GOP Congressman Says ‘Muslims Don’t Belong In American Society’ Rep. Andy Ogles of Tennessee also called it “a lie” that diverse groups of people can respectfully engage with each other.

The Christian nationalist Republicans who feel comfortable saying this about Muslims in public undoubtedly say it about Jews in private too. www.huffpost.com/entry/andy-o...

From Abraham Lincoln to… Donald Trump? A history of the Republican Party – Part I: From anti-slavery origins to white conservative domination, 1850s to 1990

I wrote about the Republican Party’s historical trajectory:

From Abraham Lincoln to… Donald Trump. How the hell did we end up here?

Some thoughts from my new piece - an attempt to identify key moments and dynamics in the history of the modern Right:

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Paging @notpodium.bsky.social

Corpus Christi careens toward water catastrophe City officials expect to reach a “water emergency” within months and run out of water next year. That would halt jet fuel deliveries to Texas airports, hike gas prices and trigger a local economic dis...

Soo Corpus Christi is nearly out of water and will likely hit a crisis point within months. If nothing is done, and so far Texas Politicians don’t seem to be taking it seriously, the entire city would essentially shutdown hurting fuel and gas prices

www.texastribune.org/2026/03/08/t...

ICE Detention of Teen Musicians Roils Texas Mariachi Community Two brothers who were recognized by their congresswoman last year, along with their parents and younger brother, are facing deportation.

Two brothers from South Texas and their high school mariachi bandmates were recognized by their congresswoman last June for winning a state mariachi competition. Nine months later, the brothers, along with their parents and younger brother, are in ICE detention and facing deportation.

NO NO NO YOU DON’T

GUYS LET ME PLEASE SPREAD THE GOSPEL OF FREE TAX USA

federal is free, state is $16, handles even my chaotic freelancer taxes just fine, same step-by-step “designed for normies” kind of interface as TurboTax but NOT EVIL

tell everyone you know

www.freetaxusa.com

republicans have literally made everything worse and harder and more terrible over the course of my entire life and somehow* they keep coming back to power bc of our feckless corporate press and a weak willed opposition 😒

*sob

She’s a Triple Trumper

I legit feel like Lady Lindsey is drunk most of the time.

Are you in a bed *at* the rodeo?

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I’m owed at least $200 for olive oil alone

I didn’t mean literally (I know they’re technically Roman Catholic) but they sure seem to love the Evangelical/ Christian Nationalist world view

The deliberate destruction of our soft power is what goes me the most angst. We can turn our military course around with a change in leadership. But State? That’ll take the rest of my earthly life and being this exposed is terrifying.

There are 6 on the Supreme Court!

“Asked if Americans should worry about Iran retaliating against Americans on U.S. soil, President Donald Trump responded, ‘I guess.’”

I love that JVL has brought ‘splosionmaxxing to our lexicon

So, voting is now part of GOP hostage negotiations

Cricket’s Revenge

Justice for Cricket

Is it because he had his girlfriend killed or because he’s gonna lose his primary?

Any time someone gives me shit about Texas I point to Ron Johnson