Durwood Wiggins

ICYMI — Trump forgot where his father was born. Cant wait to read @jaketapper’s book about this

As Trump’s strong-arm tactics to gerrymander Texas showed, voting maps in the Longhorn State are controlled by Republicans

The confusion regarding maps here mainly affects areas that support Jasmine Crockett

Now-is this merely the GOP’s racism or are they that scared of her

The answer is “yes”

ICE under Trump 2.0 built an unprecedented media operation - deploying videographers to raids, pumping out edgy social posts, swiping pop music for hype videos - and the main metric for evaluating its impact shows that Americans now hate ICE more than ever

www.washingtonpost.com/technology/i...

Here are the 16 articles of impeachment facing Ken Paxton The articles — including bribery, dereliction of duty and disregard of official duty — do not include four accusations originally adopted by the Texas House.

Remember when 😐🇺🇸

Here are the 16 articles of impeachment Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is facing

www.texastribune.org/2023/09/01/k...

Results: Progressives win all four of these primaries, ousting incumbents Cunningham, Willingham, and Majeed, while Pierce held off Wray’s comeback.

extraordinary night for state progressives in North Carolina

via boltsmag.org/whats-on-the...

ChatGPT is struggling so badly from the boycott that it’s already running new ads in the App Store.

DOJ Changes Course Last night, I wrote to you about reporting that the Trump administration would stop defending the clearly illegal executive orders the president issued last March.

DOJ is supposed to be slow and deliberate when it makes decisions—take the time to get it right. It’s rare, in fact, I can’t remember any other time when we’ve seen the sort of whiplash change in position we’re seeing right now. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

IRGC Destroys Second US THAAD System in Gulf, Wipes Out UAE Radar and $1.1 Billion Qatar Early Warning Shield — Iran Declares Missile Dominance - Defence Security Asia IRGC precision strikes reportedly destroy a second US THAAD system, its UAE radar, and Qatar’s $1.1 billion early warning system, exposing fractures in America’s Gulf missile defence architecture and ...

so Iran has apparently knocked out and destroyed / disabled to some extent two U.S. THAAD batteries

This is a massive deal. Aside from the expense, this is not a weapon system we just have a ton of lying around. You don't replace these easily.

defencesecurityasia.com/en/irgc-dest...

They were from Nebraska, Florida, Iowa and Minnesota. One was wrapping up his final deployment and hoped to open a martial arts studio.

The four named were assigned to the 103rd Sustainment Command in Des Moines. They were Capt. Cody Khork and Sgts. Nicole Amor, Declan Coady and Noah Tietjens.

Texas is close to not being a functioning democracy

It’s the hardest place to vote because Republicans have put impediments in place based on totally bogus vote fraud concerns - that they just make up

The courts have become complicit in this effort

What we’re seeing in Texas now is a disgrace

This is nuts and I don't understand why it isn't the top story in every news source. The lights are blinking red, you guys.

This innocent little girl was killed by our bomb, with our money, in our name, without our permission. Shame on the United States. We have become a stain on the planet.

GREAT NEWS: In yet another Democratic upset, Alex Holladay has defeated his Republican opponent in the special election to represent Arkansas’s House District 70.

This is a flip from 🔴 to 🔵.

There's been a lot of debate within the Democratic establishment about what rhetoric to use via ICE.

Well, an incumbent doesn't lose by 48 percentage points very often—and her vote on collaborating with ICE was the defining issue here.

WATCH — @senpeterwelch walks through a no-bid $143,000,000 contract that went to @KristiNoem’s spokeswoman Tricia McLaughlin’s husband’s company that had just been formed.

She should be impeached for this outrageous scandal alone.

Yet it’s barely a blip in this corrupt regime.

Republicans have caused total chaos in Dallas County. It's instructive.

Whether or not Trump attempts some sort of executive order to nationalize election administration, Republicans have an endless number of paths to create absolute mayhem in November.

Sell your soul to maga when you know better, and you’ll get Dan Crenshaw’d or Chip Roy’d and lose

A democratic candidate just won in the *checks notes*

Arkansas state house special election.

Flip from R to D.

Wow!! Paxton - who is a candidate for the same Senate race, as Crockett, just got the Texas Supreme Court to pause the extension of time for Democratic voters to vote in Dallas, an extension a lower court granted for 2 hours because of confusion all day. Paxton clearly wants to make trouble.

RESULT: Over & over, Democratic lawmaker Shelly Willingham helped the North Carolina GOP override the vetoes of Governor Stein & Cooper.

He lost just now to a progressive challenger, 56% to 44%.

(And he's likely one of several in this position. Stay tuned.)

“They’re supposed to ask what the community wants — and I haven’t heard one person say the tunnel. This is not a real solution.”

NASHVILLE folks at the Sen. Oliver & Councilwoman Porterfield town hall overwhelmingly oppose Elon’s teslas-only tunnel.

I’m thinking that if you’re contemplating pardoning Tina Peters , you must be flying high on some natural medicines yourself- so you better stay off the roads too.

Graphic of Gina Hinojosa. It features a picture of Gina in a blue shirt with the text, "Midterm news: Gina Hinojosa wins Democratic primary for Texas governor."

Texans are ready for a governor who fights for quality health care, combats rising costs, and strengthens public education.

Congratulations, @ginafortexas.bsky.social on becoming the Democratic nominee for governor!

An important result from western North Carolina.

As we reported at Bolts, Moore seemed to be the establishment Democratic choice—facing a career public defender—but broadly supportive of criminal justice reform & critical of the new state law restricting bail: boltsmag.org/buncombe-cou...

Cornyn torching Paxton:

"Judgment Day is coming for Ken Paxton."

BREAKING: The Texas Secretary of State DID NOT UPDATE the precinct maps on their website last December. MY GOD @msnowreports.bsky.social

They cut Meals on Wheels for seniors, doctors for the VA, and food for American children - but send billions of taxpayer dollars to the Middle East for an unnecessary war of choice.

By the way, Democrats have now flipped 27 legislative seats in Trump 2.0.

Republicans are still stuck at zero.

Even in 2017-18, the GOP managed to flip a few. This time, just a goose egg, despite several good chances.

The Real Story Behind the Midnight Immigration Raid on a Chicago Apartment Building The Trump administration has claimed the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua had taken over the building. But new documents make no mention of the gang and reveal federal agents had information about “ille...

DHS repeatedly said that an aggressive apartment raid in Chicago last fall was prompted by intel on a gang takeover.

Documents show the real story behind the raid was to target alleged squatters — with the landlord's blessing.

So now the total number of countries attacked by Trump is 8. 9 if you count his sending US military into US cities.