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Open Thread: Potentially Good News (for Democrats) Out of Texas

by Anne Laurie|  July 10, 20255:00 pm| 87 Comments

This post is in: Local Races, Republican Politics, Republican Venality

The wife of Texas AG Ken Paxton has filed for divorce, saying:
“I believe marriage is a sacred covenant and I have earnestly pursued reconciliation. But in light of recent discoveries, I do not believe that it honors God or is loving to myself, my children, or Ken to remain in the marriage.”

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— Jon Cooper (@joncooper-us.bsky.social) July 10, 2025 at 3:11 PM

Cynic that I am, I’d have guessed either Angela’s legislative pension had finally vested, or some unusually ugly business misdealings had been uncovered. But the Texas Tribune says it’s (officially) adultery:

… “I believe marriage is a sacred covenant and I have earnestly pursued reconciliation,” Angela Paxton, R-McKinney, said in a post on X. “But in light of recent discoveries, I do not believe that it honors God or is loving to myself, my children, or Ken to remain in the marriage.”

In his own statement, Attorney General Paxton cited the “pressures of countless political attacks and public scrutiny” as the reason the couple had “decided to start a new chapter.”

Attorney General Paxton is currently running against U.S. Sen. John Cornyn in next year’s Republican primary, after close to a decade as attorney general. Senator Paxton was elected in 2019 to represent the North Texas Senate district that her husband represented before his elevation to statewide office. She was reelected to another four-year term in November.

Paxton’s record of aggressively suing the Biden administration is matched only by his penchant for scandal, culminating in his impeachment by the Texas House of Representatives in 2023. The Republican-controlled Senate acquitted him after a nearly two-week trial.

Angela Paxton attended her husband’s trial but was not allowed to vote on any issues or participate on deliberations over whether to convict or acquit.

The impeachment claims focused on benefits Paxton provided to Austin real estate developer Nate Paul, as well as an alleged extramarital affair the attorney general had with a former Senate aide. According to investigators, the affair ended briefly in 2019 after Angela Paxton learned of it, then resumed in 2020. The woman he allegedly had an affair with was called to testify before the Senate and came to the chamber, but left without speaking.

BREAKING: Texas' hottest political couple is no more – State Sen. Angela Paxton is filing for divorce from her husband, Attorney General Ken Paxton, citing adultery and "recent discoveries." Here's my report on "Keeping Up With the Paxtons" in @chron.com www.chron.com/politics/art…

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— gwen howerton (@kissphoria.bsky.social) July 10, 2025 at 3:04 PM

The couple has been professionally (as well as Biblically) joined at the hip for decades, so this must’ve been something very unpleasant…

… The news of the divorce could complicate Ken Paxton’s run for U.S. Senate, where he is seeking to topple longtime incumbent John Cornyn in what is expected to be a gruelling Republican primary next year.

The Paxtons first met at Baylor University in Waco, where Ken was student body president. Angela and Ken married in 1986, and have four children and three grandchildren. After receiving a master’s degree from the University of Houston-Clear Lake, Angela taught math in Collin County public schools before becoming a counselor at a private Christian school in Frisco, Texas. She would eventually be elected to the Texas Senate in 2018, where she became one of the most conservative lawmakers in the state, regularly pushing for hard-right priorities on education and anti-LGBTQ+ issues.

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Ken, meanwhile, would go on to the University of Virginia, receive a law degree, and serve in both the Texas House of Representatives and the Texas Senate before being elected as the state attorney general in 2014. Like his wife, he has been a champion of anti-abortion and anti-LGBTQ+ causes. The Paxtons have been inseparable during their political careers, with Angela accompanying Ken on the campaign trail and touting herself as “a pistol packin’ mama and my husband sues Obama.” In 2019, Angela introduced a bill that would give her husband immunity from securities regulations—something he had run afoul of several years before…

like, paxton testified about his affair in his impeachment trial, with his wife — who is a state senator — sat and listened! so whatever it is, it’s worse than that! i love it when terrible shit happens to terrible people!

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— GOLIKEHELLMACHINE (@golikehellmachine.com) July 10, 2025 at 2:32 PM

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Talked to a friend who is active in Texas GOP politics and this was Cornyn firing a warning shot at Paxton by leaking evidence of a long term affair just to his wife before it goes to the media.

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— Gaius (from Tribunate) (@gaius.bsky.social) July 10, 2025 at 2:45 PM


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did John Cornyn honeypot Ken Paxton? many are saying

— post malone ergo propter malone (@proptermalone.bsky.social) July 10, 2025 at 2:22 PM

So… is this potentially good news for Colin Allred, or just John Cornyn?

New: Democrat Colin Allred launched his campaign for U.S. Senate on Tuesday, making a second run at the upper chamber after failing to unseat U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz last year.

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— Texas Tribune (@texastribune.org) July 1, 2025 at 9:43 AM

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The Texas Flood Tragedies Continue

by Anne Laurie|  July 9, 202510:22 am| 100 Comments

This post is in: Economics, How about that weather?, Republican Venality

Hope of finding survivors of the catastrophic flooding in Texas is dimming a day after the death toll surpassed 100.

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— The Associated Press (@apnews.com) July 8, 2025 at 1:00 PM

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As heartbreaking news continues to emerge from central Texas, @chastenbuttigieg.bsky.social and I are thinking of everyone affected and grateful for the extraordinary work of first responders.
Here are some ways all of us can help:

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— Pete Buttigieg (@petebuttigieg.bsky.social) July 7, 2025 at 10:11 AM

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Sometimes calls for prayer are sincere and sometimes they are an argument: a claim that this is God’s fault and our choices and policies have nothing to do with it.

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— Popehat’s Interests First (@kenwhite.bsky.social) July 6, 2025 at 10:37 AM

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*Taking* blame, NYT. Taking.

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— Jacob T. Levy (@jacobtlevy.bsky.social) July 8, 2025 at 9:48 AM

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well, you do if there's a fucking wolf

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— Philip Bump (@pbump.com) July 7, 2025 at 11:30 AM

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Texas inspectors signed off on Camp Mystic’s emergency planning two days before flooding killed more than two dozen people at the summer camp.

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— The Associated Press (@apnews.com) July 8, 2025 at 8:11 PM

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Staff at FEMA haven't received any internal communications from the agency or department leadership since the deadly floods in Texas, which is unheard of in the wake of a major disaster.
Acting Administrator David Richardson is "nowhere to be found."

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— Marisa Kabas (@marisakabas.bsky.social) July 8, 2025 at 9:42 AM


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I've reviewed a copy of today's FEMA daily briefing and the numbers are damning.
Surge Capacity Force is activated when considered a "catastrophic disaster" response. The TX floods have not been classified as such, though that may change with rain/thunderstorms in the national weather forecast.

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— Marisa Kabas (@marisakabas.bsky.social) July 8, 2025 at 11:13 AM


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"The decision to leave added to the mounting accounts of how camps & residents in the area say they were left to make their own decisions in the absence of warnings or notifications from the county."
This is the result of allowing American hyper-individualism to influence how we govern—it's deadly.

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— Marisa Kabas (@marisakabas.bsky.social) July 8, 2025 at 11:20 AM

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Texas found $11 billion for troops and razor wire at the border and migrant buses, even with oil-billionaire tax cuts. But its coffers went dry for warning sirens to confront a climate crisis it claims is made up
How Texas flood exposed warped priorities. My column www.inquirer.com/columnists/a…

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— Will Bunch (@willbunch.bsky.social) July 9, 2025 at 7:48 AM

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remember how with Uvalde the day-of actions by the people supposed to act in a crisis kept looking worse and worse and worse and worse the more we learned?

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— post malone ergo propter malone (@proptermalone.bsky.social) July 6, 2025 at 6:17 PM


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"Its God's fault we sent those emergency notifications when most of the people who needed to see them were fast asleep"
~ Trump's press secretary takes "passing the buck" to a whole new level by passing it all the way to the throne of God

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— Ragnarok Lobster (@eclecticbrotha1.bsky.social) July 7, 2025 at 4:53 PM

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www.cbsnews.com/texas/news/f…

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— Mia Farrow (@miafarrow.bsky.social) July 7, 2025 at 7:14 PM

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California has deployed an additional 18 Urban Search and Rescue Team members to Texas to assist with ongoing response efforts related to severe flooding impacts.
The scale of devastation Texas is experiencing right now is unfathomable, and we're proud to lend a helping hand.

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— Governor Gavin Newsom (@governor.ca.gov) July 8, 2025 at 5:36 PM

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Central Texas is one of the most dangerous regions in the U.S. for flash flooding. Here’s why. via @texaspublicradio.bsky.social

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— NPR (@npr.org) July 6, 2025 at 5:09 PM

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He's correct. However, the statement will lead to the idea that NWS wasn't able to handle working this event, and that's untrue because they did and they did it remarkably well.
Let's staff up the WFOs and focus on saving FEMA!

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— altNOAA ???? (@altnoaa.bsky.social) July 6, 2025 at 2:07 PM

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DOGE considered @noaa.gov & the @nws.noaa.gov
to be “waste fraud and abuse.” FEMA, the Federal Emergency Management Agency is next.
MAGA – serious question. Do you still think they care about you?
The cruelty & lack of humanity are abundantly obvious.

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— TizzyWoman (@tizzywoman.bsky.social) July 6, 2025 at 11:52 AM

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There were a lot of folks here insisting yesterday that weather service cuts had no impact on Texas flood deaths. There’s zero way you can draw conclusions like hours later. Important follow up here. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/05/u…

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— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm.bsky.social) July 6, 2025 at 8:56 AM


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Another big issue is that Kerr County didn't have a flood warning system:

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— Jonathan Gilligan (@jgilligan.org) July 5, 2025 at 11:22 PM


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When you live somewhere and disaster strikes, it makes no sense to pretend it isn’t personal. For me, there’s no other way to process terrible things than to make journalism. To my friends from home who went to Camp Mystic and Heart O' the Hills — this is for you.
thebarbedwire.com/2025/07/05/c…

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— Olivia Messer (@oliviamesser.bsky.social) July 5, 2025 at 7:58 PM

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Do you have any idea how many children are in America, the liberal media never highlights all the ones who don’t die

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— Popehat’s Interests First (@kenwhite.bsky.social) July 6, 2025 at 10:20 AM


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yeah as a note the whole disaster declaration he signed that everyone effusively praised him for?
they want to get rid of that. Just block grant to the states and call it good.

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— Schnorkles O'Bork (@schnorkles.bsky.social) July 6, 2025 at 5:35 PM

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I can't (nor do I want to) imagine the pain of losing a child. But if my child died I would want to know who was at fault for their death and want those people prosecuted to the fullest extend of the law so no other family suffers the same unbearable pain.

— Dean Obeidallah (@deanobeidallah.bsky.social) July 5, 2025 at 10:54 PM

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The price of tax cuts for the wealthy? Our lives. #Texas

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— Center for Economic and Policy Research (@ceprdc.bsky.social) July 7, 2025 at 5:10 PM

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Chuck Todd suffers from terminal bothsiderism.
Texas has been under GOP control for the past 30 years.

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— Ragnarok Lobster (@eclecticbrotha1.bsky.social) July 7, 2025 at 11:23 PM

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Extremists, right-wing influencers and GOP lawmakers spent the days after the tragic Texas floods pushing conspiracies about "weather weapons."
On Sunday, a weather radar system was vandalized and one extremist group is taking credit
with @mollytaft.com
www.wired.com/story/texas-…

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— David Gilbert (@davidgilbert.bsky.social) July 8, 2025 at 6:07 PM

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Open Thread: The Dignity of Honest Work

by Anne Laurie|  July 8, 20252:56 pm| 146 Comments

This post is in: Immigration, Republican Venality, Show Us on the Doll Where the Invisible Hand Touched You

ah yes. a great leap, in a forward direction

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— Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li (@sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com) July 8, 2025 at 11:38 AM


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So all my patients who are working three jobs and currently on Medicaid need to get another job. 🙄

— Salty Doc (@silver-denoument.bsky.social) July 8, 2025 at 10:47 AM


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47% of people in the United States. are not working per Paul Krugman. So I looked it up. 18% are seniors over 65. 22% are children under 18. 13.9% are on Social Security disability totaling 53%. Unemployment is at 4% which economists consider full employment. Who is not working?

— J'Net (@jannetteb.bsky.social) July 8, 2025 at 11:10 AM

The GOP doesn’t actually want ‘honest work at an honest price’, they want indentured servants, at least until they’re able to achieve their ultimate fantasy of a return to chattel slavery. Yes, it would theoretically be possible to return to a (mostly) ‘all-American’ farm/factory workforce (even without the simplest & most honest solution, citizenship for the immigrants currently doing those jobs)… but it comes with a cost, and not just that of steeply climbing grocery prices…

This shows a profound misunderstanding of how these jobs work! You are often hired for set periods of time, most of the time, you won't qualify for health insurance or are on something like a 1099.

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— Schnorkles O'Bork (@schnorkles.bsky.social) July 8, 2025 at 10:29 AM

For instance: farms in the mountain west tend to hire for a period of around 5-6 months, and most people who work the fields and the harvest move to processing in the winter months.

The other thing to note is the pay doesn’t suck! The idea that “pay a little more and Americans will take it”

IS actually kind of dumb. Most entry level farm laborer positions I see start at around $20-24 an hour with guaranteed weekly overtime (typically 8 hours) in low cost of living areas.

If you have a CDL, make it more like $35+. And there’s bonuses and more OT during harvest.

Basically: you can increase the pay of farm laborer positions and you may get a couple more people if you go to $30 an hour or something, but in reality, these positions are already paying comparatively quite well for the skill suite required.

Not to over glamorize the work, obviously. Moving pipe is murderous on your body.

I know American citizens who harvest chase because they have in-demand skill sets. They live basically for free (because the farms bring them in for harvest and pay for hotels, etc.) make 100k-esh a year, and honestly do well for themselves.

Their bodies are also toast by their late 50’s.

(Yes, I still miss Ozark Hillbilly, too.)

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I mean, nationalizing industry, arbitrary personalist rule, forcing the urban city dwellers to the farms.
🤔

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— Schnorkles O'Bork (@schnorkles.bsky.social) July 8, 2025 at 10:46 AM


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Malthus-ass government.

— Schnorkles O'Bork (@schnorkles.bsky.social) July 8, 2025 at 10:52 AM

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Open Thread: The Cruelty Stupidity Is the Point

by Anne Laurie|  July 4, 20256:44 pm| 58 Comments

This post is in: Open Threads, Republican Stupidity, Republican Venality, Show Us on the Doll Where the Invisible Hand Touched You

You can't make it up
MAGA Congressman Derrick Van Orden-a huge supporter of the Big Ugly Bill
Who published this repugnant post cheering the fact that the law would gut Medicaid and SNAP
Is now BEGGING the Democratic governor of his state
To save the very hospitals that he just voted to close

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— Adam Cohen (My Personal Views Only) (@axidentaliberal.bsky.social) July 4, 2025 at 10:23 AM


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Not the Onion, as the youngs say…

If Republicans were completely confident in their #BigUglyBill, they wouldn't already be begging Democrats to save Republicans' asses/bail them out.
Republicans' strategy is/always has been to blame Democrats for negative impacts of Republicans' actions.
www.msnbc.com/top-stories/… #Medicaid #WI03

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— donnayoungdc (@donnayoungdc.bsky.social) July 4, 2025 at 4:55 PM


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Also, he's doing this so when things close anyway, he can blame democrats on general and this dem governor in particular, "see, I tried, but those evil evil DEMONCRATS" he still doesn't actually give a shit about whether it closes or not

— Allegedly Joel (@allegedlyjoel.bsky.social) July 4, 2025 at 3:08 PM


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Rep. Derrick Van Orden (R-WI) is indeed a little bitch

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— Marisa Kabas (@marisakabas.bsky.social) July 2, 2025 at 2:37 PM


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What do people think of Ms. Cooke’s chances?

Help me defeat him >>

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— Rebecca Cooke (@rebeccaforwi.bsky.social) July 3, 2025 at 9:44 PM

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Fireworks Friday Morning Open Thread

by Anne Laurie|  July 4, 202511:14 am| 154 Comments

This post is in: Open Threads, Proud to Be A Democrat, Republican Venality, Show Us on the Doll Where the Invisible Hand Touched You

Who are you gonna believe — me, or your lying eyes paystub?

NEWSNATION: It's estimated that more than 32k of your constituents will lose access to healthcare, nearly 19k will lose food stamps. If that's true, how is this bill good for your constituents?
MIKE LAWLER: Those numbers aren't true … Dems are putting out numbers they're making up out of thin air

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— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) July 3, 2025 at 7:41 PM


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A. People will experience the effects
B. Even without this bill Repubs were screwed; remember, they were slaughtered in 2018, & 2022 they had the worst midterm of a party not in the White House since 1934
C. It’s easier to convince ppl they’re being screwed than that they’re being helped…/1

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— Dana Houle (@danahoule.bsky.social) July 4, 2025 at 2:13 AM


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D. Midterms are generally more about turnout than persuasion. People whose local hospital or grandma’s nursing home are closing may not vote Dem but they may not come out to vote Repub either
E. There’s actually paid media; by spending $ on ads Dems can circumvent the press

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— Dana Houle (@danahoule.bsky.social) July 4, 2025 at 2:18 AM


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(Assuming there are elections) this plus the inevitable recession and they’re toast. Oddly confident of this

— Gore Vidal Sassoon (@jimmyjazz1968.bsky.social) July 4, 2025 at 1:23 AM


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— Gore Vidal Sassoon (@jimmyjazz1968.bsky.social) July 4, 2025 at 1:27 AM


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Great piece…if you think people making over $100K are the GOP’s base (Harris won them), if you think Medicaid cuts won’t have big immediate effects (they will), if you think people making +$100K have no loved ones on Medicaid (many do) & if you think healthcare of $100K+ won’t be affected (it will)

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— Dana Houle (@danahoule.bsky.social) July 3, 2025 at 6:36 PM


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Jeffries: I think it was because the framers of this great country, they were fed up with project 1775. So they implemented project 1776.. Understand what our journey teaches us is after project 2025 comes project 2026. And you will have an opportunity to end this national nightmare

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— Acyn (@acyn.bsky.social) July 3, 2025 at 1:36 PM

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Open Thread: Let the Record Show…

by Anne Laurie|  July 3, 202510:58 am| 263 Comments

This post is in: Open Threads, Proud to Be A Democrat, Republican Venality, Trumpery

Jeffries: "Every single one of the signatories voted for a House bill that undermined the clean energy economy, noted that it would hurt their own constituents, voted for the bill anyway, and the begged the Senate to make it different. That's not how we should be legislating in the US House."

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Jeffries says he "still has a lot to say" (it's pretty clear he's going for the record for longest Magic Minute speech)

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— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) July 3, 2025 at 10:09 AM

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But the NYTimes genuinely admires the Felon-in-Office’s savvy…

As Shawn McCreesh and Tyler Pager report, House Republican holdouts were apparently swayed to support President Trump’s tax and spending bill by signed merch and photographs with the president.

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— David Gura (@davidgura.bsky.social) July 3, 2025 at 8:03 AM


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It's a sacrifice I'm sure they'd make again.

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— Schnorkles O'Bork (@schnorkles.bsky.social) July 3, 2025 at 9:56 AM


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More seriously: I'd guess they actually didn't have the votes and it was pretty unsure, but the entire thing became necessary as various reps realized there wasn't an alternative.
Long term, this probably breaks the current caucus. It's already forced multiple retirements.

— Schnorkles O'Bork (@schnorkles.bsky.social) July 3, 2025 at 10:02 AM


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Trump can't even remember what's in the bill these maroons think he's gonna remember what they want him to impound

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— Schnorkles O'Bork (@schnorkles.bsky.social) July 3, 2025 at 10:45 AM

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Open Thread: GOP Drama Llamas Every One

by Anne Laurie|  July 2, 20252:52 pm| 237 Comments

This post is in: C.R.E.A.M., Open Threads, Proud to Be A Democrat, Republican Stupidity, Republican Venality

12? That seems significant, and I'd bet on Fox News actually having the whip count right.

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— Schnorkles O'Bork (@schnorkles.bsky.social) July 2, 2025 at 10:37 AM


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Also, notable that Harris got on Newsmax or similar today and said "yeah 4th of July isn't probably happening"
I guess I'll currently believe it when I see it – I expect Johnson to jam his caucus and them to fold.

— Schnorkles O'Bork (@schnorkles.bsky.social) July 2, 2025 at 10:39 AM


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HOUSE UPDATE: The procedural vote to advance the Senate-passed One Big Beautiful Bill Act is stuck at 204-212 and is being kept open.
16 Republicans haven't voted.
Democrats have full attendance (something they've struggled with all year) and are unanimously voting no.

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— Sahil Kapur (@sahilkapur.bsky.social) July 2, 2025 at 1:54 PM


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A bunch of House Republican holdouts just voted yes. They have the votes to move forward. Again, this is just the procedural vote, not on passage of the bill.

— Sahil Kapur (@sahilkapur.bsky.social) July 2, 2025 at 2:09 PM


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MEANWHILE: House Freedom Caucus leaders are circulating this document torching the Senate-passed "big beautiful bill." They say it increases deficits and contains insufficient clean energy cuts, inadequate Medicaid rules, "excessive port for Alaska and Hawaii," among other grievances.

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— Sahil Kapur (@sahilkapur.bsky.social) July 2, 2025 at 1:00 PM


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Thanks to Senate Republicans, 17 million people will lose their health care.
Thanks to Senate Republicans, three million Americans, including veterans and seniors, will lose food assistance.
Thanks to Senate Republicans, families will see their energy bills go up by $400 a year.

— Kamala Harris (@kamalaharris.com) July 1, 2025 at 2:16 PM


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Senate Republicans are doing all of this and more — hurting working people across our nation — in order to pay for $1 trillion in tax cuts for billionaires.
There is still time to stop this bill before it passes in the House. Call 202-224-3121 and tell your representative to vote no.

— Kamala Harris (@kamalaharris.com) July 1, 2025 at 2:16 PM

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Jeffries is now naming and shaming House Republicans in swing districts and citing figures of how many of their constituents will lose healthcare and food assistance

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— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) July 2, 2025 at 10:25 AM

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I think some people might be a bit confused at my optimism in terms of the fallout of the murder bill and I simply cannot emphasize enough how the people whose lives most depend on the infrastructure this bill specifically is gutting voted for Trump by like 30 points.

— the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) (@merovingians.bsky.social) July 1, 2025 at 9:39 PM

and it’s not a ‘my life gets shittier’ thing, it’s a ‘rural hospitals closing is a death sentence for entire communities’ thing

like it’s grim as hell and there are certainly Dem voters in the firing line here but statistically Evil BBB is taking Obama-Trump voters and feeding them through a woodchipper

rural and exurban life is not sustainable. it has persisted despite the decimation of the industry that put people out there in the first place because when you got sick there was a hospital depending on medicaid cost sharing. as the population grows older, this of course only gets worse

yeah we don't need the car dealership owners to turn on him and more importantly, the GOP (there will be a LOT of Good Tsar Bad Boyars in the next decade), we need their customers living under their little fiefdom bsky.app/profile/jake…

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— the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) (@merovingians.bsky.social) July 1, 2025 at 9:46 PM

for those lacking basic reading comprehension including certain hack journalists: bsky.app/profile/mero…

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— the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) (@merovingians.bsky.social) July 1, 2025 at 11:39 PM

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trumpism as peronism but only because he seems himself as evita

— QuoProQuid (@quoproquid.bsky.social) July 1, 2025 at 5:28 PM

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