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Brendan Boerner
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Dad, Programmer, Rabbit Whisperer. Dog Dad. Working to turn TX blue. Harris-Walz stan. #RuleOfLaw #Democracy #AuDHD #NativeTexan
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From 2023, I think even more true today.
A Xeet, Alex Fernie @FernieCommaAlex The next decade is going to be defined by incredibly rich people underestimating how fucking mad the rest of us are. 2:55 PM 13 Jul 23
October 26, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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Hi 👋 from Central Texas.
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October 18, 2025 at 5:36 PM
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Yes, the GOPAC memo of 1990 -

www.wikiwand.com/en/articles/...
October 13, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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A Trump post on Lie Social celebrating his cancelling Kimmel and saying "that leaves Jimmy and Seth ... on NBC."
September 18, 2025 at 7:43 AM
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Are you a Texan? I am and was here when this happened in 2003 at the behest of then House Majority leader Tom DeLay.

They are not going to break quorum for the next 2 years at $500 / day fine plus lost income.

But they did get the issue national attention and Blue states are responding.
A white T-shirt with text, THE KILLER D's <Image of a caped crusader with the letter D on its chest> Fighting for Truth, Justice and Fair Play in the 78th Texas Legislature.
August 19, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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TFW you are having a flashback to a bad trip.
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August 4, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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Good thing she wasn't in Texas last night. 🙄
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July 20, 2025 at 1:29 AM
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IMHO the common thread is the donor class. And so weird how they resemble Republican talking points.

I assume I'm not the only totally square normie voter who'll be wondering if a Democratic candidate for any office represents my values or the donors.

The primaries next year will be interesting.
Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com 🔥Respect to Jasmine Crockett, a true fighter & fierce voice for accountability. She's raised millions, mobilized the base, and never shied away from confrontation. But here's a warning: Dems in Congress better start backing the real fighters or risk alienating the base. Screenshot of article from The Grio: Jasmine Crockett pulls back from helping Democratic Party after some claimed she's 'not a team player' The Texas congresswoman tells theGrio she will be focusing her attention more on engaging Black churches and spending more time in her district and home state. GERREN KEITH GAVNOR JUN 27, 2025
June 30, 2025 at 2:02 AM
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A personal thunderstorm materialized over my house and dropped 0.5".

I wish The Orange Menace the same luck.
Screenshot of weather radar showing tiny thunderstorm cell right over my neighborhood.
June 14, 2025 at 10:07 PM
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June 8, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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I did ☺️
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June 2, 2025 at 2:11 PM
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That's a beautiful dog, a Great Pyrenees?
A GSD with front paws on a leafy tree, looking up, in a park.
May 29, 2025 at 8:07 PM
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Party hopefuls looking for ways to mark themselves as different from the rest of the pack today have other, better options. The best way to demonstrate a measure of real independence from the Democratic Party is to tell the truth about what really ails it: wealthy, clueless donors; an approach to public policy incommensurate with the scale of the challenges the country faces; a quasi-religious faith in the virtues of bipartisanship; a related and willful blindness to the depths of the Republican rot beyond Donald Trump; and a blindness, just as consequential, to the structural features of our federal system that will continue pulling governance to the right. All are much deeper problems than Joe Biden’s ego and those who chose to flatter it. All will be much more difficult to resolve. But if Democrats are looking for a reckoning, there are quite a few to be had in that mix.
May 23, 2025 at 1:14 PM
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April 7, 2025 at 2:29 AM
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1/2 Ada and I had a great time @ Hands Off! Taylor. #HandsOff

It's a great feeling to meet other Patriots for Rule of law.
April 5, 2025 at 9:53 PM
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I think it would be consistent with "Defend Institutions" from Timothy Snyder's "On Tyranny".
March 16, 2025 at 2:50 AM
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How it started / how it's going
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March 12, 2025 at 6:21 PM
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My favorite part. 😈
For now, another executive branch lawyer tells me that under civil service law this finding that the terminations were unlawful can create serious jeopardy for the government employees who executed (i.e., signed) the terminations, including fines, debarment from government employment and other serious civil sanctions. So those people may already have a problem. And if DOGE decides to ignore these findings, DOGE operatives may have a much harder time getting those federal HR officials to keep executing these terminations in the face of this finding.
February 24, 2025 at 9:26 PM
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"Oh, Dana" is when he realized, "This woman is my wife?"
So she consulted her best source. "I came home and I asked my husband," she recalled. "I said, 'Wasn't that like the Bay of Pigs thing?' And he said, 'Oh, Dana.' "
February 19, 2025 at 2:20 AM
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We can't unify because Republicans since Nixon use polarization for power. They have elevated power over country. Add to that growing an alternative facts ecosystem.

TBD if Trusk Admin is the truly bad thing which will penetrate the layers of propaganda.

www.newyorker.com/magazine/200...
Nixon was coldly mixing and pouring volatile passions. Although he was careful to renounce the extreme fringe of Birchites and racists, his means to power eventually became the end. Buchanan gave me a copy of a seven-page confidential memorandum—“A little raw for today,” he warned—that he had written for Nixon in 1971, under the heading “Dividing the Democrats.” Drawn up with an acute understanding of the fragilities and fault lines in “the Old Roosevelt Coalition,” it recommended that the White House “exacerbate the ideological division” between the Old and New Left by praising Democrats who supported any of Nixon’s policies; highlight “the elitism and quasi-anti-Americanism of the National Democratic Party”; nominate for the Supreme Court a Southern strict constructionist who would divide Democrats regionally; use abortion and parochial-school aid to deepen the split between Catholics and social liberals; elicit white working-class support with tax relief and denunciations of welfare. Finally, the memo recommended exploiting racial tensions among Democrats. “Bumper stickers calling for black Presidential and especially Vice-Presidential candidates should be spread out in the ghettoes of the country,” Buchanan wrote. “We should do what is within our power to have a black nominated for Number Two, at least at the Democratic National Convention.” Such gambits, he added, could “cut the Democratic Party and country in half; my view is that we would have far the larger half.” The Nixon White House didn’t enact all of these recommendations, but it would be hard to find a more succinct and unapologetic blueprint for Republican success in the conservative era. “Positive polarization” helped the Republicans win one election after another—and insured that American politics would be an ugly, unredeemed business for decades to come.
February 18, 2025 at 8:20 PM
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February 11, 2025 at 1:49 AM
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#IamIN #NoSpendFriday
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February 9, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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Given that malign actors have hacked the US Treasury protect yourself by doing a credit freeze.
Contact information for Equifax, Experian, and TransUnion to freeze your credit. Equifax: https://www.equifax.com/personal/credit-report-services/credit-freeze/ Experian: https://www.experian.com/help/credit-freeze/ TransUnion: https://www.transunion.com/credit-freeze
February 3, 2025 at 11:33 PM
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We're alarmed bc we're paying attn. People who only read for instance NYT or WaPo have no idea we're deep in multiple constitutional crises.
New York Time's homepage Monday 2/3 about noon central showing no mention that we're in multiple constitutional crises. Washington Post homepage Monday 2/3 about noon central showing no mention that we're in multiple constitutional crises.
February 3, 2025 at 7:59 PM
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A simulated bumper sticker, "Giant Meteor: Just End It Already".
February 3, 2025 at 3:28 AM