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YouTube video by Lone Star Left Greg Abbott Has Been Practicing In Political Favors For Decades - Money For Play News Piece 1997

Great find from @lonestarleft.com, on the heels of the recent Public Citizen investigation into Greg Abbott's pay-to-play tactics that have landed him millions of dollars in campaign donations. He's been doing it for decades.

This! 👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽

Yes indeed! What do you do when you're covering a lying, bloviating politician who revels in attention, good or bad? Ignoring him or covering him neutrally or even covering him critically doesn't work. You've got to try something different! Clip and save this chart:

H-E-B will have a new president next year.

Roxanne Orsak, the San Antonio grocery giant’s chief operating officer, will take over in January, becoming the first woman to serve as president in H-E-B’s 120-year history. bit.ly/3VLVSpI

YouTube video by KDEM Bexar County Republican Take Vacation over Duty: Texans Lose

Republicans are (rhymes with) mirthless. youtu.be/nw3OeRqKP_8?... @bexardems.bsky.social

Chart shows Detention Population, Among Those Arrested by ICE in the Interior, by Criminal Record. The chart shows three lines; Prior conviction, pending criminal charges, and no criminal record. From 2019 through September 2025, the largest group is people with criminal convictions, with much further down people with pending charges. But starting in January, those without criminal records spikes dramatically. In July it crossed pending charges and in the latest data it jumps above criminal convictions.

🚨NEW: For the first time in history, the single largest group of people arrested in the interior and sent to ICE detention is people with NO criminal record.

As of yesterday's data release, 40%(!) of those arrested in the interior and detained by ICE had no prior conviction or pending charges.

“We’ll Smash the Fucking Window Out and Drag Him Out” We’ve documented nearly 50 incidents of immigration officers shattering car windows to make arrests — a tactic experts say was rarely used before Trump took office. ICE claims its officers use a “mini...

6/ This isn’t the first time ProPublica has reported on ICE under Trump 2.0 acting in unprecedented ways. In July, my colleagues @mckenziefunk.com and @nicolefoy.bsky.social documented ~50 incidents of officers shattering car windows to make arrests.
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Nothing unites the world like a Trump speech at the UN. They all agree to go get drinks afterward.

Show up,daily, everyone is needed in order to save our democracy, and to become the society WE CAN BE.

Wise words from Michelle H. Davis of @lonestarleft.com: “You want the national party to change? Stop doom-posting and start filling state chairs.” AMEN! Precinct (neighborhood) chairs are essential for distributing info. Contact your Democratic Party’s county office and offer to help. #ShrinkThePink

Wow.

Not at all surprising, but wow.

Blatant corruption is perfectly fine (encouraged, even) in this administration.

Cardinal Timothy Dolan failed to report direct admissions of rape by multiple priests, lobbied against extending the statute of limitations for sex abuse, and moved money off the church books to hide it from victims of sex abuse. In case you were wondering.

Trump administration to add $100,000 fee for H-1B visas The Trump administration is targeting a visa widely used by tech companies and other employers to hire foreign workers.

Of all the stupid things that this regime has done, this is right up near the top. Postdoctoral researchers come to the US on H-1B visas. This will further destroy the US science enterprise. Stupid stupid stupid.

Donate to @pbsnews.org with the money you’re saving on canceling Disney+!

Such good news! 💙

YouTube video by Randy Rainbow He Just Can't Wait to Be King! - Randy Rainbow Song Parody

Lyin’ King! www.youtube.com/watch?v=u8lR... Thanks, @randyrainbow.bsky.social! 🦁

Brazil's Bolsonaro sentenced to more than 27 years in prison for coup attempt A panel of Brazilian Supreme Court justices has sentenced former president Jair Bolsonaro to 27 years and three months in prison after convicting him of attempting a coup to remain in office despite h...

Good to see some countries know how to deal with seditionist leaders.

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Jeffrey Epstein Email Trove Reveals Ghislaine Maxwell’s Secrets A cache of 18,000 messages obtained by Bloomberg News reveals Maxwell’s deep ties and involvement with the disgraced financier and sex offender.

NEW: We got access to Jeffrey Epstein’s personal Yahoo inbox — more than 18,000 emails.

It shows Epstein’s world in his own words: an unfiltered look at how his operation worked, who enabled it, and how Ghislaine Maxwell stayed at the center of it all.

House Dems should drop a ‘Charlie Kirk Gun Safety Act’ on the floor just to make Republicans go on record voting against it.

@democrats.org Please chime in!

How Much Is Trump Profiting Off the Presidency? A comprehensive estimate of how much Trump and his family are making, from hotel mega-deals to crypto schemes, has been elusive—until now.

How much money is Donald Trump really making off the Presidency? David D. Kirkpatrick spent months tallying up how much the Trump family has pocketed off Trump’s time in the White House—golf course by golf course, crypto deal by crypto deal.

a weird yell took down Howard Dean, but a depraved book from one of the worst sex traffickers of teens that contains a disgusting handwritten note from the current president, who is also an adjudicated rapist, causes the GOP to unite to protect him

the parties are not the same

We’re visiting San Antonio and after a full day of doing stuff I asked husb “what did we do this morning?” and he couldn’t remember either. Total blank.

Y’all… we visited the Alamo. We didn’t remember the Alamo.

Incredible showing for democracy and against occupation today.

Channel 4 is own by Sinclair.

It’s a replica of the famous Rose Window at Mission San José, one of our five Spanish colonial missions, which includes the Alamo. (The five are a UNESCO site.) It’s a quatrefoil, an ornamental design of four lobes. Learned while training to become a professional tour guide here in San Antonio!

((HUGS)) I think it’s worse on the parents than it is on the kid.

The only thing the @democrats.org are good at is selling my phone number to the highest bidder. I’m sick of the endless texts.

I completely understand; however, just know that all of Texas’ major metropolitan areas are BLUE. San Antonio recently elected a gay female military veteran as our mayor. Voter suppression and gerrymandering keeps Texas in a stranglehold.

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