Petree09

Speaking as a Texan: yeah, I agree

But that’s the conservative viewpoint on the commerce cla…. Wait…

"Any event you go to, people ask about it. It's like the border used to be," said Dave Carney, the top political strategist for Mr. Abbott. "What are you doing about Shariah law? What are you doing about the Muslims taking over the state?'"

It will surprise y’all to hear that there are no “Muslims taking over the state” and there is no “sharia law” in Texas that threatens anyone.

This is genuinely disgusting.

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/10/u...

"If the government may simply seize *someone* without due process, there is no check on its ability to seize *anyone*."

Perhaps the most fundamental check against tyranny. And it is gravely threatened.

So, her anecdotal examples of something being not abnormal are (1) a guy who was arrested at the time for the thing, and (2) a guy who was forced to flee the country because of the thing? Really?

Or they just want to rely on others to do it instead?

Snip from Ana Reyes's memorandum opinion temporarily blocking end of protection status for Haitians in U.S. that reads in part as follows: There is an old adage among lawyers. If you have the facts on your side, pound the facts. If you have the law on your side, pound the law. If you have neither, pound the table. Secretary Noem, the record to-date shows, does not have the facts on her side--or at least has ignored them. Does not have the law on her side--or at least has ignored it. Having neither and bringing the adage into the 21st century, she pounds X (f/k/a Twitter). Kristin Noem has a First Amendment right to call immigrants killers, leeches, entitlement junkies, and any other inapt name she wants. Secretary Noem, however, is constrained by both our Constitution and the APA to apply faithfully the facts to the law in implementing the TPS program. The record to-date shows she has yet to do that.

A few partners at law firms that capitulated to the administration reposted this on linkedin.

I guess they (and admin at certain universities) still don't realize that it takes someone to stand up and pound the facts and law in the first place? And call out the administration when it has neither?

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I know there are a lot of people outside of Texas who don’t care what’s happening here. And I’m not going to pretend like this is a sea change until it happens. But if nothing else, I hope this scares the shit out of the people in Austin.

Ignore your constituents at your own peril

👏👏👏deep in the heart of Texas

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Sometimes the maths don’t maths the way you want. Probably should’ve funded education better 🤷‍♂️

Yes!

Following the killing of AFGE Member Alex Pretti and the subsequent slanderous rhetoric that followed from top Trump administration officials, AFGE National President Everett Kelley issued the following statement: “Yesterday, AFGE brought together labor and faith leaders from Minneapolis and across the nation to mourn our fallen brother from Local 3669, Alex Pretti. We honored his life and legacy and lifted up his family, his friends, his union, Minneapolis, and our nation in prayer. “Today, we demand accountability. “In the immediate aftermath of Alex’s killing, DHS Secretary Kristi Noem betrayed the public trust by slandering the good name of our union brother and calling him a “domestic terrorist.” Alex Pretti was a patriotic ICU nurse at a VA hospital who devoted his life to serving America’s veterans. That claim was reckless, defamatory, and unsupported by the facts. Noem was preceded in this false statement by Stephen Miller, Deputy White House Chief of Staff, who is also the architect of the chaotic and failed immigration policy in Minnesota. “Our demand is clear: Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, who was responsible for carrying out the policy that led to Alex’s needless killing, and Deputy White House Chief of Staff Stephen Miller, the architect of that policy, must resign immediately. If they refuse, President Trump must dismiss them.

The American Federation of Government Employees, which represents border patrol officers at the National Border Patrol Council, calls on Kristi Noem and Stephen Miller to resign or be fired

A photo of the man murdered by ICE today, just before the shooting. He’s standing and holding a phone in his right hand and holding his empty left hand to the sky and looking behind him at a woman running away while an ICE agent closes in on him from the front. On the ground behind the man is a woman that the victim will soon try to help, leading several ICE agents to attack him and pin him to the ground, before shooting him several times.

We’re supposed to believe this is a domestic terrorist attacking ICE with a gun

And legally carried, just like so many encourage law abiding citizens to do

Already seen some MAGA folks saying he shouldn’t have been carrying if he was going to put himself in that situation. As if these same people didn’t celebrate Kyle Rittenhouse

Remember when these guys lied that they were preserving Confederate monuments because you had to leave up the whole messy contested historical record rather than erasing history?

Meme of block tower captioned as “global economy” being supported at the base with a single block captioned “outlook”

Today’s realization

He is five years old. He has the same name as my now-adult son. They used him as bait for his father—who does not have a deportation order. His family did not know where he was for nearly 24 hours.

He is five. Years. Old. He probably says “I’m this many years old.” He has a cute hat.

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Fightin Texas Aggie basketball 👍

Great courthouse

Trump’s Inner Circle, On the Record (Part 2 of 2) Susie Wiles discusses the Epstein files, Pete Hegseth’s war tactics, and “retribution” against Letitia James.

"But Wiles conceded that attacking targets on Venezuela’s mainland would force Trump to get congressional approval. 'If he were to authorize some activity on land, then it’s war, then [we’d need] Congress.'"

- WH Chief of Staff Susie Wiles, Nov 2, 2025 interview

www.vanityfair.com/news/story/t...

Going full Ted Lasso goldfish-mentality?

It really is true that everyone on Bluesky is 38 because I too just finished The Muppet Christmas Carol.

And did NOT die.

@brendelbored skeets “something you can say for Bluesky is that no other website is cranking out Muppet Christmas Carol Tiny Tim jokes like this place” Underneath that @antlervel.vet skeets “That is not dead which can eternal lie, Like Tiny Tim, who did NOT die”

The algorithm works

Genuinely curious what other amici in history were as directly responsible for a SCOTUS decision as @martylederman.bsky.social's amicus was here

Whoop!!!!! 👍

Just to recap:

The TikTok ban? Bad.
The SCOTUS ruling upholding the TikTok ban? Also bad.
Trump choosing not to enforce the ban? More bad.
The Trump-backed mostly-US consortium taking over US Tiktok? You guessed it...bad.