Bryan Edward Stone (שָׁלוֹם)

If he can give (very) religious Texans a sense of inclusion in the Democratic party, I’ll give him a pass. He speaks their language. And his points do not align with the far right.

Let’s get one thing straight: We are not a Christian nation. We are a nation where you are free to be a Christian.

Your religion guides you, not all of us. It’s as simple as that.

I get that, he's about all religions. I'd prefer he were about none. The job he's running for isn't about religion.

Carter never concealed his faith, of course, but I don't recall he foregrounded it as much or deployed it defensively as much as Talarico does.

When MLK and other civil rights leaders made the Christian case for equality, most of the Black people they addressed and energized were Christian.

This is different. Talarico makes a class-based argument, which necessarily involves non-Christians too. Are they included here? Are they helped by it?

If I were Christian I'd probably find this message inspiring and refreshing. As a non-Christian I find it extremely unsettling.

Talarico makes an important and essential argument about class, but is there not a more inclusive way to make it?

(Don't get me wrong, I'll be voting for him. But still.)

Yet.

Don't imagine it. Wait for it.

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...

Just a reminder that Muslims have been on this continent since the first arrival of non-Indigenous people. They were among the first generation of Americans, and have been here ever since.

Tweet feom Rep. Andy Ogles, @repogles. Marcha 9, 2026. Muslims don't belong in American society. Pluralism is a lie.

American society is pluralism. It literally is nothing else.

wow

One of the things we’re experiencing right now that makes all this worse is narrative rupture. The stories most of us have told ourselves abt this country are (& have been) plainly wrong. In the absence of new stories that reflect actual reality, what we get is stasis.

May happen yet.

It would help if Texas would stop building massive data centers and crypto mines.

Yeah, thanks. Honestly don't know what's going to happen. 💧

This all ends with the world populated only by a hundred thirsty trillionaires.

TACO time.

Why are we still fighting wars for oil when we really should be fighting wars for water?

Americans have a weird tendency to think that their right to choose their own government gives them the right to choose someone else's.

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...

Hey, I got a promotion!

Lord, may we wake up tomorrow without some new thing to worry about.

When Greg Abbott thinks a Texas school district might be teaching woke, the state takes it over. But when a Texas city is running out of water, that's a local concern.

Also, I really think an imminent water emergency in a major Texas city is something that state officeholders running for reelection should be asked about. A lot.

After a Decade of Missteps, a Texas City Careens Toward a Water-Shortage Catastrophe - Inside Climate News CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas—The imminent depletion of water supplies in Corpus Christi threatens to cut off the flow of jet fuel to Texas airports and other oil exports from one of the nation’s largest petr...

This is definitely not the kind of news you like to see about a place you live.

insideclimatenews.org/news/0803202...

Yeah, our city government screwed us down here.

That's a generous explanation.

The proof of Trump's disregard for American troops is in the boxes, not on his head.

Walid Khalidi, an exceptional Palestinian scholar and one of the most important memory-holders of Palestine has passed away.

Honestly don't know which people he means.