Yellow Dog Democrat, preaching the Organic Gospel, cook,gardener, jazz fan, USAF brat, HOOK'EM HORNS, retired, militant Centrist.

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Blue Armadillo retweeted
The Good Liars posted this. Can someone make this video go viral? He lives in DC. I would love for his ass to get fired ftom his job. What a monster! One of this most horrific human beings. Find him! 😳👇
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Blue Armadillo retweeted
Grok corrects its master 👇🏽 👀
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Dan Patrick told voters who did not like his stance on THC not to vote for him knowing the overwhelming majority of Texans disagreed with him and the position the alcohol lobby bought. If a politician says “I don’t care what my constituents clearly want, I do what I want” then he does not deserve their votes. There are two other options on the ballot.
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Blue Armadillo retweeted
All this talk of a ballroom to service the super wealthy while the rest of us continue to pay more for healthcare and basic essentials makes me think of this powerful political cartoon from 1906, the artist is William Balfour Ker.
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The Texas Quote of the Day: "The Karankawas had a warrior culture without the resources of a war economy. Before the Spanish came, they had mastered life on the inhospitable seacoast and on the open prairies and thorny brushlands of South Texas, but in the end they didn't have the horse mobility of the Comanches or Apaches or the control of established trading roots, as the Caddos did. They became a people on the edge, crowded out, haunted down, Forced to choose between a constrained existence in the missions at La Bahia and Refugio or an increasingly hazardous raiding life. They clashed with the Lafitte brothers and their heavily armed pirate Arby on Galveston, and with James Long and his men, and were finally driven off the island they once commanded. When the first wave of Austin's colonists arrived at the mouth of the Colorado River, a Karankawa band didn't hesitate to attack. They killed four men and made off with the supplies the settlers had brought with them by schooner. Austin led a militia to hunt down Karankawas in the sporadic war that followed, a conflict that flared for decades and in the long run did become the war of extermination he had predicted. The surviving Karankawas who were not wiped out in Texas melted away across the Rio Grande in the 1850s to blend with other coastal tribes, losing their coherent identity as a people and leaving behind only a lingering legend of cannibal ferocity." ---- Stephen Harrigan, "big, wonderful thing: A History of Texas," 2019
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Blue Armadillo retweeted
Hey @AmericanAir this is your new employee C Anderson. He wouldn’t allow my violin from the 1800s in the overhead, even though everyone had already boarded and it fit fine. Every AA employee I’ve spoken w at CLT said he was wrong. We had to leave and rebook. Total BS. FU AA.
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Blue Armadillo retweeted
A rabbi's response to our President calling Jews "lacking knowledge and disloyal" if they vote Democratic: Rabbi Danny Maseng writes: As a Jew Since you called me out as a Jew, Mr. President, since you thought to call me disloyal or lacking knowledge by not voting for you, I’d like to respond to you personally, even though I have no illusions you will read this. As a Jew, Mr. President, I am commanded to love the stranger who dwells among us no less than thirty-six times in the Bible you claim to treasure. I am commanded to have one law for the stranger and the citizen. No exceptions. As a Jew, Mr. President, I am commanded to pay my employees on time, including undocumented workers at casinos, construction sites, or golf courses. As a Jew, I am commanded to repay bank loans and investors. As a Jew, I am commanded to never bear false witness. As a Jew, Mr. President, I am commanded to guard my tongue and speak no evil. As a Jew, Mr. President, I am commanded to never embarrass my fellow human being in public, lest I be accused of spilling their blood – including Ted Cruz or the late Senator and war hero, John McCain. As a Jew, Mr. President, I take great offense in my president attacking Denmark, a country that gallantly saved its Jews from the Nazis, while most of Europe fell asleep. As a Jew, Mr. President, I take umbrage in my Grandfather, the sainted Dr. Rabbi Harry S. Davidowitz, who inhaled poison gas in the trenches of WWI as a US Army chaplain, being called disloyal because he voted Democrat. As a Jew, born and raised in Israel, I take offense at you calling me disloyal to America AND to Israel because I oppose your inept, ghoulish, uncouth, deceitful, inhumane farce of leadership. How many tours of duty have you performed for Israel during wartime? Or, for that sake, the USA? As a Jew, Mr. President, I reserve the right to oppose Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib (neither of whom called upon the help of a former KGB operative to help them in their election to office), while simultaneously condemning your divisive, racist rants and policies. As a Jew who has proud Republican family members who I love and cherish, I am ashamed of what you have done to the Republican party; to conservative ideals – even if I do not share all of those ideals. As a Jew whose Christian uncle fought heroically at the Battle of the Bulge for our country and for the salvation of Europe – I am ashamed by the mockery you visit upon his sacrifice. As the son of a Christian pilot, later converted to Judaism, who led American pilots to glorious victory over Nazi Germany, I am outraged by your embrace of neo-Nazi’s and racists in America (that same pilot, who became a squadron commander in the Israeli Air Force, and fought for Israel’s independence). As a Jew, I am disgraced by your fawning adoration of the worst dictators of our century – you violate Christian and Jewish values by doing so. As a Jew; as a well-informed Jew who loves and cares deeply for Israel and for America, I condemn you and call you out for the divisive fool, the ogre, the ghoul that you are. May my soul not enter your council, let me not join your assembly.
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Blue Armadillo retweeted
Ukraine will defeat Russia.
Ukraine will defeat Russia
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I don't trust Nate Silver as far as I could throw him. Get your ass out and vote
🚨POLITICAL EARTHQUAKE: Republicans are getting crushed across the Senate map. Nate Silver’s averages have Democrats LEADING in all 10 of these key races: NC +9.9 GA +9.1 NH +7.1 MN +4.6 OH +4.1 AK +3.6 MI +3.4 ME +2.8 TX +2.6 IA +1.1 Let’s bury them at the ballot box. #VOTE.
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Blue Armadillo retweeted
A few folks don't know what I am referring to here. Both Crockett and Allred are out of state, campaigning in other states for other people. She's in Oregon, and he is in GA. We need all hands on deck in Texas right now with 1 week of EV left.
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Markwayne Mullin says ICE agents can serve warrants at your polling place. Congress banned armed federal agents at the polls in 1865. A county in Virginia just told him so in federal court. #VoteEarlyDay dworkinsubstack.com/p/i-foll…
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As turnout in Texas nears 3 million votes, Hispanic turnout is now exceeding presidential levels. More Hispanics have voted than did at this point in the 2024 presidential election. What's driving this huge increase? Young voters.
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Blue Armadillo retweeted
1. The Justice Department has no standing to sue election authorities in Alaska. 2. The Constitution empowers states to administer congressional elections. 3. Alaska's courts have already addressed and solved the issue. 4. And what about the voters who mistakenly thought they were voting for challenger Sullivan instead of Senator Sullivan? 5. As ever, it's a Trumpian press-release lawsuit designed to intimidate and inflame.
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US energy company execs have resigned in disgust as the Trump family is caught secretly expediting the funneling of $25 billion from a sanctioned Russian energy giant in exchange for allowing Russians to obtain a natural gas project in Alaska. According to investigations by The New York Times and Financial Times, Russia's Novatek allegedly concealed its financial involvement in the American project through a UAE-linked intermediary. Gentry Beach, a longtime Trump ally and close friend of Donald Trump Jr., signed an agreement with Novatek to pursue natural gas development in Alaska. Reuters documented the arrangement in February. Meanwhile, Vladimir Putin discussed this cooperation on the Alaska energy project with Trump's representatives, Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, during negotiations involving Russia and Ukraine. The controversy deepened when Polar Train LNG's CEO, Joel Riddle, raised concerns about concealed Russian financing and possible sanctions violations. He departed in September, followed by other senior executives. The Financial Times also described discussions about a potential arrangement under which Novatek would provide technology for the Alaska project in exchange for sanctions relief benefiting its Arctic LNG 2 development in Siberia. According to The New York Times, Riddle and two other departing executives warned the Trump administration about the Russian financing and urged officials to investigate. The White House maintains that the project was mentioned only briefly and that no detailed discussions took place. There is no established evidence that Kushner or Witkoff knew about the allegedly concealed financing. Polar Train LNG denies wrongdoing. The central question is how a sanctioned Russian energy company became involved in a major American energy venture while Putin was discussing potential economic cooperation with Trump's representatives and a longtime Trump family associate was pursuing a separate agreement with the same Russian company. Selling Alaska to the Russians or selling Ukraine to the Russians - to the Trump family it's all the same. ft.com/content/e9cfbfbb-e65a…
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Blue Armadillo retweeted
Putin's diesel arrives in New York Nov 7 aboard the Agioi Fanendes: 40,000 tons, the first Russian fuel cargo since 2022. It's coming in on a Treasury license that sidesteps federal law. New York should refuse to be the loading dock for Putin's war chest. 🧵 1/5
EXCLUSIVE: Tanker carrying 40,000 T of Russian diesel heads to New York after Putin-Trump deal, data shows reut.rs/47zYFZ2 reut.rs/47zYFZ2
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Blue Armadillo retweeted
Replying to @krassenstein
He’s literally the worst candidate I’ve seen in years. My father lives in Texas and is a Republican who just voted for Talarico yesterday. When I asked him why he said that after he saw him speak at a rally, he knew he was being sincere and would actually help Texans who deserve better than the obvious corrupt and spineless fraud that Paxton is. I couldn’t agree more.
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WOW! Another big win for Californians, @CAGovernor Gavin Newsom, @AGRobBonta, and the rule of law! In Newsom v. Trump, the Court makes it official: Trump violated the Constitution and the law when he claimed there was a “rebellion” and took over California’s National Guard last year. Very important precedent ahead of Election Day!
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