Navy Vet. You're either at the table or on the menu, VOTE!
Dallas, TX
Joined April 2009
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Dealing with anxiety is a burden. For the most part I can deal with my anxiety but when I find myself in a situation where my actions cause me to feel helpless my anxiety kicks in. When it kicks in I try to find a solution to the cause of my anxiety. – at Garland, TX
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Little campaign that could? Rep @GinaHinojosaTX raised $13 million to @GregAbbott_TX's $20 millon this reporting period. She's got $4 million cash on hand to his $17 million. And Abbott is burning cash like nobody's business - he started the year with $105.7 million #Txlege
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WATCHING—The U.S. State Department is monitoring a reportedly fatal case of "pneumonia of an unknown etiology" linked to a plague research laboratory in Russia. Health authorities in Russia's Irkutsk region launched anti-epidemic measures after an employee of a plague institute was diagnosed with "pneumonia of an unknown etiology”. The lab involved is the Anti-Plague Research Institute in Shelekhov, in southern Siberia, Russia. The statement comes after some Russian media and public figures reported a death potentially due to the plague and linked to a lab worker. Russian officials did not provide further details on the worker. Amid the investigation, some protective measures have been announced in the region. A mask mandate has been implemented at the Irkutsk Aluminum Plant in Shelekhov, according to the plant's director, Artem Fominykh.
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She wouldn’t tolerate Ken Paxton’s immoral and corrupt conduct.
But she expects Texans to.
Vote @jamestalarico
#TXPol: "I'm Texas Senator Angela Paxton. People have asked my thoughts about this election and turns out, I have some ... I'm voting for the Republican ticket on November 3rd."
Texas PAC is up with a new ad featuring Angela Paxton, Ken Paxton's estranged wife.
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This is bad….
Trump is banning students majoring in degrees that don’t make enough money from taking out college loans. Degrees for social work, art, religious studies, teaching aides, and music will be hit the hardest. trib.al/NmmAzhf
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I don't believe this for a second. Do you know how much the FBI would be shouting with glee if they arrested thousands of terrorists? Yet we haven't heard a peep.
"Because of the good work that the men and women in this building and throughout the country — we have identified 2,150 terrorists that came into this country underneath a different name, and had taken on a different identity." @SecMullinDHS
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The Rangers have drafted a whopping 35 players in the 1st round over the last 20 years. Of those 35 players, only 1 has a higher bWAR with Texas than Wyatt Langford, yet I still feel like he's left meat on the bone. (FTR, Joey Gallo: 14.0 bWAR, Wyatt Langford: 13.3 bWAR)
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📌Weather alerts can be confusing, but knowing the difference between a Watch and a Warning could save your life. Here’s what you need to know when severe weather threatens. 📢
#preparedness #preparation #weather #preparednessmonth
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UPDATE: Tim Tebow announces he is “pausing” his relationship with Life Surge following our @pablofindsout x @MotherJones investigation.
Our previous request for comment from Tebow, in reply to our detailed list of questions, still stands.
More to come.
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The horror has come to our city: ICE has shot a person in Austin this morning.
As the facts emerge, I am demanding a full, independent investigation, immediate release of the body camera footage, and accountability for any ICE officer who broke the law.
Over and over, ICE has shot people and then lied about what happened. We can see the lies with our own eyes. We will demand truth, transparency and accountability.
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SCOOP: GOP Texas Senate candidate Ken Paxton has repeatedly left a plot of land in Maui off his financial disclosures, but the land, controlled by a trust, owes several thousand dollars of property taxes on it with penalty fees and interest now due too, per a county record I saw.
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The Siena poll released today offered Spanish and English interviews & the Hispanic findings?
Paxton 31%
The Emerson poll today offered only English & the findings?
Paxton 39%
That’s the whole difference in the race folks. That’s why you need people who understand this stuff!
Hispanic voters: Texas Senate (Siena)
🔵James Talarico 62%
🔴Ken Paxton 31%
9/8-9/11
Link: reconmr.com/wp-content/uploa…
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Millions of undocumented immigrants file taxes, because the IRS has historically cared only about whether you pay taxes and protected taxpayer data.
But with mass deportation rampaging through every part of the government, the IRS may now take steps to discourage tax filing.
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This is incredibly disappointing and exactly why Texas needs stronger laws governing the use of AI in political advertising. We have more work to do.
I supported former Republican Speaker Dade Phelan’s legislation to address this issue because these protections should apply to everyone, regardless of party or political affiliation. Voters deserve to know that what they are seeing and hearing is real not AI-generated content designed to deceive or mislead them. Campaigns should be run on facts, ideas, records, and reality. Our elections and Texas voters deserve nothing less. @DadePhelan #txlege
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This is a deeply corrupt system, where the Trump admin is trying to trick immigrants into missing court hearings by rapidly rescheduling the time and location of hearings and not sending out notices in time.
They want people to miss court. That’s the clear goal.
SCOOP: Immigrants are being rapidly reassigned to in-person immigration court hearings at buildings that are not immigration courts + with minimal notice. The pop-up courts come as EOIR is looking to rapidly acquire space throughout the country.
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Turns out when you fire every almost judge that grants asylum on a regular basis and purge the appellate body setting immigration law precedent of all but loyalists, the outcomes become nearly pre-determined.
This is an administration that actively seeks to destroy due process.
Asylum denial rates reach all-time high — 94% — under Trump, TRAC reports washingtonexaminer.com/polic…
