Drew Landry

LULAC v Perry (2006) may have made #SCOTUS directly or indirectly responsible for what it is taking place in Texas. #txlege

From Quorum Report and @scottbraddock.bsky.social, Texas House Dems found their spine and are breaking quorum. #txlege

Thanks! I think Talarico is fantastic and his constituents are fortunate to have a decent human as their representative in the State House.

My latest in the Lubbock A-J. Hope you can check it out. #txlege

49 days 21 hours and 37 minutes till fall.

Translation: But, I tried, bro!

Breslow suuuuuuuuuuucks.

Will the Supreme Court hear Ghislaine Maxwell’s case? While President Donald Trump fields questions about a potential pardon for Ghislaine Maxwell, the Supreme Court is also playing a role in the debate over her future. As of Monday, […]

Will the Supreme Court hear Ghislaine Maxwell’s case?

Here's what you need to know about her appeal

A great thread. #txlege #thc

Yeah. He was 65 and cancer took him.

Ugh!

😢

Damnit.

RIP Ryne Sandberg.

Opinion | If Only My Father Could Choose to Deny the Holocaust

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com

“At 96, my father is one of the last living Holocaust survivors. He also has Alzheimer’s. The disease has not brought him the forgetting that would be a gift to him,” Orli Peter writes in a guest essay.

Author of Texas Abortion Ban Denies He Paid for Abortions Amid Bombshell Allegations from Former Exotic Dancer Capriglione authored Texas’ “trigger ban,” which banned abortion when Roe v. Wade was overturned. He announced he wouldn’t seek reelection.

NEW bombshell allegations from the Texas Legislature today. The author of Texas’ abortion “trigger ban” has been accused by a former exotic dancer of paying for abortions. He has denied the claims and threatened to sue the outlet that ran them. More:

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#kayfabe perhaps?

Ghislaine Maxwell Can’t Help But Notice Interview Room Covered In Plastic Sheeting TALLAHASSEE, FL—Perplexed that the Department of Justice had chosen a setting with such strange decor to ask her about Jeffrey Epstein’s co-conspirators, Ghislaine Maxwell confirmed Thursday that she couldn’t help but notice her interview room was covered in plastic sheeting. “Wow, you’ve got the whole room tarped up—you guys doing some painting later?” said Maxwell […]

“Wow, you’ve got the whole room tarped up—you guys doing some painting later?” said Ghislaine Maxwell theonion.com/ghislai...

Roddy Piper, gone. Macho Man, gone. Warrior, gone. King Kong Bundy, gone. Andre the Giant, gone. Syco Sid, gone. Yokozuna, gone.

All of them main evented Wrestlemania with Hogan, who is now gone.

Trump has opened up ‘a nuclear arms race’ on gerrymandering At President Trump’s request, Republicans in Texas and possibly other states are eyeing redistricting plans that could add seats to their U.S. House majority. Democrats are warning they might retaliat...

Also, NY and NJ have constitutional amendments barring mid-decade redistricting and strong limits on partisan gerrymandering.

So it looks like Dems, once again, are ill prepped to fight the GOP. #txlege

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Texas to Ohio to Missouri, the GOP are happy to gerrymander for the president. But while California threatened, Illinois, NY, and NJ stay silent on the issue.

Remember, Illinois has Dems holding 14 of 17 seats, Maryland 7 of 8, Wash St. 8 of 10.

#txlege

The most intense dissents of the term During the 2024-25 term, the court was unanimous 42% of the time in its Opinions of the Court. In the remaining 58% of such cases, the justices’ dissents were typically […]

Who dissented the most? The least? What were the most memorable quotes?

These questions and others are answered in this new post on the term's most intense dissents

Haha!

Belinda Carlisle is wildly underrated.

Because Astros fans are more obnoxious than Yankees fans.

A COVID-era Western, a slasher sequel and a 50-year-old classic to watch this week Filmmaker Ari Aster, who wrote and directed Midsommar and Hereditary, returns to theaters this weekend with a conspiracy-laden story set in the spring of 2020.

Filmmaker Ari Aster, who wrote and directed Midsommar and Hereditary, returns to theaters this weekend with a conspiracy-laden story set in the spring of 2020.

CBS is ending ‘The Late Show with Stephen Colbert’ next year | CNN Business In a shocking move, CBS is ending “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert” next year, potentially exiting the late-night television business altogether.

I wonder what other shows Il Duce will want canceled.

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No doubt the @googoodollsmusic.bsky.social put on a great show in Ft. Worth. Thank you!

Depicts storming of the Bastille on July 14, 1789.

On this day in 1789, French citizens stormed the Bastille, which was a prison that symbolized the tyranny of King Louis XVI. This sparked a revolution that not only changed France but Europe and then the world.

Viva la France! 🇫🇷

#BastilleDay

How to handle far-right politics? Finland has some suggestions. Many Western democracies are worried about far-right parties’ popularity. But some are finding that letting them into government actually brings them back to earth.

Best way to deal with the far right is to let its leaders be a part of the governing. Shunning them only makes them popular.

Just look at Finland for the best example.

From the @csmonitor.bsky.social.

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RIP David Gergen. You were one of the good ones.

The Outsider Podcast Flood; Wu; Interview with MAGA founder

The Outsider Podcast has a new episode. Click below to listen to the interview I had with @democracymoms.bsky.social. It is a good one!

#txlege

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Texas to take up congressional redistricting in special session The new maps could strengthen Republicans’ hold on the House ahead of the midterms.

It’s on the governor’s call. #txlege

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