Lea Teagarden aka @tencentdress

And that’s not just me taking sides. Mace is DEMONSTRABLY coming apart at the seams. She needs to be under care and possibly even an authoritative care overseen by an officer of the court or a Power of Attorney.

I hope you aren’t drunk and took your staff’s advice, Rashida and I don’t know this man and feel confident he didn’t care about us. Please restrain from drinking too much as you have been warned from your staff and stay off social media when you are drunk. I pray in his holy month you find peace and respect for your self,

uhhh oh my god

Democrats stop making “conceding points” your opening gambit, part infinity

Siding with the Constitution isn't siding with Iran.

I hate how accurate this tweet is.

Middle East crisis live: Kuwait mistakenly shoots down three US fighter planes, as US says Iran’s ‘reckless’ attacks threaten regional stability Israeli military says fighting Iran-backed Hezbollah could take ‘many’ more days; US crew bailed out safely after crash-landing, says Kuwait

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From The Guardian: Experts have said the attacks by Israel and the US on Iran are illegal, as they were in violation of the ban on the use of force under the UN charter and international law. Here is an extract from an opinion piece by Kenneth Roth, a Guardian US columnist and former executive director of Human Rights Watch who believes the attacks on Iran were an illegal act of aggression. We shouldn’t beat around the bush: Donald Trump’s and Benjamin Netanyahu’s military attack on Iran is an illegal act of aggression. There is no lawful justification for it. It is no different from Russian president Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine or Rwandan president Paul Kagame’s invasion of the Democratic Republic of Congo. The United Nations charter allows the use of military force in only two circumstances – with authorization of the UN security council, or as self-defense from an actual or imminent armed attack. Neither was present. In his video justification for the war, Trump spoke of Iran’s “imminent threat”, but there is no evidence to support it. He recited a litany of past attacks that he attributed to Iran, but none of them is ongoing or imminent. At best Trump sought to prevent future harm – Netanyahu used the term “pre-emptive” – but prevention is no justification for war because it would open Pandora’s box to countless armed conflicts.

It's an illegal, immoral war.

Put ICE agents on the front lines. They are already in costume.

You cannot talk like this about any other minority in America.

And if it was any other president’s adviser who said something like this about any other minority, it’d be the instant end of their presidency.

Love that Thiessen is trying to pull the same "You're either with us or you're against us" shit that ghouls like him did during the Iraq war.

Judah Friedlander, a silly man in a novelty hat with giant writing on it

Tobin Bell, playing a sickly dying villain who looks like hammered dogshit

Donald Trump, a sickly dying villain who looks like hammered dogshit and is also wearing a novelty hat with giant lettering

The Alt text is priceless. Thank you.

SC budget lawmakers don’t approve ‘Big Beautiful Bill’ tax deductions for tips, overtime or elderly New federal tax deductions typically reduce South Carolina income tax bills, as well, but not for 2025 returns. Lawmakers rejected conformity.

There was very little benefit for average Americans in the BBB, but the tax deductions for OT and people over 65 were the exception. Now SC Republican lawmakers have rejected those deductions. www.postandcourier.com/news/sc-reje...

Add-backs happen when a federal deduction is not recognized by the state. So an older couple could deduct an extra $12,000 from their federally-taxable income for 2025, but would have to add that amount back to the income South Carolina would tax. Republican lawmakers said their plans for income and property tax changes will bring more tax savings than conforming with the federal tax rules, by hundreds of millions of dollars. But the Big Beautiful Bill deductions would have particularly benefitted people who earn tips and overtime, while the new income tax plan for 2026 tilts the financial benefits to higher-income taxpayers. Under the so-called "no tax on tips" federal deduction, a bartender, for example, could potentially reduce their federally-taxable income by $25,000. That deduction could also have reduced their South Carolina income tax bill by as much as $1,500. But now it won't.

South Carolina Republican lawmakers helping their wealthy friends, while screwing over the hardest working people as well as people over 65.
Please tell me why people continue to vote for these clowns.

how do you come up with this😭

I just want to live in a country where the leader can’t enrich themselves with our tax dollars, the government does what the people want, and the wealthy have to follow the laws.

You know, like a democracy.

Opinion | One Man Stole $660 Million. He’ll Never Pay It Back.

“Illiberal governments tend to live or die by their ability to sustain corruption. They rely for support on a network of oligarchs, who in turn are tied to the administration’s success. It happened in Hungary, Turkey, Russia and increasingly, it is happening here.”

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/18/o...

Everybody hates Cory Sex workers, bankruptcy, stolen valor, a restraining order, and Trump's “Complete and Total” endorsement for Congress.

Cory Mills had a restraining order placed on him last year. Veterans accuse him of greatly exaggerating his military record. He is rumored to have drunkenly punched someone during an overseas congressional trip. And his international arms company is deep in debt.

Our latest:

I absolutely guarantee you he didn’t say any of this

152. Nothing at the facility made it physically impossible or unreasonably impractical to allow George to make a phone call, to be presented to a judge for a hearing, or to take a shower. 153. Nothing changed from those conditions for the next day (Saturday). 154. Still no hearing with a judge, no shower, no phone call, no ability to contact an attorney. 155. George’s family was frantically searching for him. 156. His wife, mom, and aunt cried out to anyone who would listen and help. 157. A farm-labor union, United Farm Workers, discovered that George was being held at the Metropolitan Detention Center. 158. On Sunday morning (the third day of George’s detention), the union started reaching out to media outlets and scheduled a press conference for Monday morning in front of the Metropolitan Detention Center, with George’s family planning to attend. 159. The Associated Press, Washington Post, and Los Angeles Times asked the Metropolitan Detention Center and/or Department of Homeland Security about George’s detention and the planned press conference.

George Retes sued the Feds on Wednesday. The suit really lays out the extent to which USG had disappeared him until UFW figured out where he was.

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They are pretending they don’t understand the way tariffs work.

Scientists Discover How To “Switch Off” Cancer Genes for Good A new study shows that targeting key epigenetic proteins may permanently switch off cancer genes. Scientists at Monash University, working with Harvard University, report they have found a way to perm...

Oh, my goodness, this is a huge breakthrough in cancer research. This is another example of why it is crucially important to fund basic scientific research.
Scientists Discover How To “Switch Off” Cancer Genes for Good share.google/WFhMJP5m3AK4...

BREAKING:

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — New Mexico attorney general reopens investigation into allegations of illegal activity at Epstein's former Zorro Ranch.

Revealed: Epstein cultivated relationship with CBP officer, causing US investigation Guardian review of US justice department files reveals Epstein interacted with six CBP officers. The officer investigated denied any knowledge of trafficking underage girls

NEW: Jeffrey Epstein cultivated relationships with CBP officers at the airports he frequented.

Epstein emailed and texted with six CBP officers, invited them to his island, visited with them at the airport, and frequently sought to determine who was going to be on duty when he was traveling

A fun thing to do is look at Amazon’s price history tool.

Prices remain steady on most things over the last 30 days. Toggle it to 90 and almost everything spiked 30%

Wow.

‘Residential protesting’ could be a crime in Minnesota under new GOP proposal A bill that’s backed by a coalition of GOP lawmakers set to be proposed at the start of the upcoming session would make “residential protesting" punishable under Minnesota law.

The GOP is once again showing its disdain for the Constitution.

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Colbert Doesn’t Give an FCC About Calling Out CBS

Stephen Colbert said that the FCC and CBS - which is in no way a compromised or complicit organization - wouldn’t allow him to broadcast an interview with Democratic State Rep James Talarico. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/17/a...

Never forget.

I was working on LGBT rights legislation in Springfield in 2017. Jesse Jackson was in the Capitol one day I was there. He was swarmed by people, and took time to talk to everyone he could. He asked me questions about the bill and had a thoughtful conversation when he could have easily moved along.