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So #Trump’s interview with Tucker has already been recorded so it can be carefully edited? Do I have that right?

What a typically cowardly move.

HURRICANE HILARY

CALL THE MEDIA’S BLUFF WITH THE TRUTH ABOUT THE BIDEN ADMINISTRATION’S ACHIEVEMENTS!

🔺Most of what we see and hear on all media highlights GOP politics, including their indicted candidate, other GOP presidential contenders, and all those flapping lips that spout MAGA LIES.

🔵 Don’t let them have the last word. #TootTheTruth about the Biden Harris successes in
🔹JOB GROWTH,
🔹CLIMATE POLICY,
🔹INFRASTRUCTURE PROJECTS,
🔹LOWERING DRUG COSTS,
🔹EXPANDED ASSISTANCE FOR VETERANS, etc.

WHAT CAN YOU DO? The more we toot about Pres. Biden’s accomplishments, the better chance we have in getting out the blue vote.

#BidenHarris2024
#GOTV

I don’t know who needs to hear this, but you’re truly doing your best, everyone is struggling right now, life is HARD and please give yourself some more grace.

I’d really like you to be around for a while, so please take care of yourself. You’re the only ‘you’ out there. 💜

If you ever think your vote doesn’t matter, take a look at what happened in MN. 321 votes was the difference between nothing moving forward and a progressive triumph this session.

NPR: BREAKING: The #Texas House has unanimously voted to expel Rep. Bryan #Slaton (R).

Last time a member was expelled in Texas was in 1927.

Slaton, who resigned ahead of the vote, was found to have violated rules for supplying alcohol to his 19-year-old intern and having sexual intercourse with her. https://www.kut.org/politics/2023-05-08/texas-lawmaker-resigns-after-committee-finds-he-had-inappropriate-relationship-with-aide

Texas lawmaker resigns after committee finds he had inappropriate relationship with aide

A Texas Republican has resigned from the Texas Legislature after an investigation found he had sex with a subordinate after he served the 19-year-old staffer alcohol at his apartment earlier this year.

KUT

An appreciation of Eunice Foote, the suffragist and scientist who — way back in 1856 — conducted the first known experiment to demonstrate that CO2 was a heat-trapping gas …

…. and who, when writing up a paper of her findings, theorized that if the Earth’s atmosphere accumulated lots of CO2, the planet would warm up also

Alas, her work was lost to history until quite recently: https://clivethompson.medium.com/the-19th-century-woman-who-predicted-global-warming-af93f6b473ce

A “friend” link in case you’re not a Medium subscriber: https://clivethompson.medium.com/the-19th-century-woman-who-predicted-global-warming-af93f6b473ce?sk=2132215cf9d7a17c2f7d1e43d0ffd7af

The 19th Century Woman Who Predicted Global Warming

By now, we all know the problems of greenhouse gases. Burning fossil fuels creates CO2 — with methane sometimes as side product as well — and it traps the sun’s heat. The result: Global warming, and…

Medium

State Sen. Roland Gutierrez, a San Antonio Democrat who has become a fierce champion of the families impacted by the Uvalde school shooting, is "very likely" to run against Republican U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz in 2024.

Read about it here: https://www.chron.com/politics/article/tx-sen-roland-gutierrez-very-likely-17906748.php

#tedcruz #texas #politican #election2024

TX Sen. Roland Gutierrez 'very likely' to challenge Ted Cruz in 2024

Gutierrez has served in the Texas Senate since 2021 after previously serving over a decade in the House.

Chron

The CEO-to-worker pay gap at America’s largest public companies is now 399-to-1. In 1965, the ratio was 20-to-1.

This explosion in CEO pay relative to the pay of workers isn’t because CEOs have become so much more valuable.

They've just gamed the system to line their pockets.

Texas teen at the supermarket accidentally opens the door to the wrong car. She’s shot.

Kansas City teen goes to get his little brothers and accidentally rings the doorbell of the wrong house. He’s shot.

Car full of teenagers looking for a party accidentally turns into the wrong driveway. They’re shot.

OH dad mistakes 16-y-o daughter for an intruder, shoots her. She died.

These stories happen every day in America and school security or mental health access won't solve them. Only #GunControl.