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Brandon Kraft
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A guy from Austin. WordPress things at Automattic.

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In the end, there are two more young people who are the victims of gun violence in our country. There are probably two dozen more across the country today. Too many.
November 28, 2025 at 12:06 AM
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Everyone (esp media) pay attention. In 2021 almost every Republican attacked the Biden administration and State dept for being too slow in approving Afghanistan special visas as Afghanistan fell.

Now they are attacking Biden for doing what they asked him to do.
November 27, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Smart timing. Congressmen can draw congressional retirement after five years in office. MTG is resigning after five years and two days. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/us/politics/marjorie-taylor-greene-resigns.html #uspol
November 22, 2025 at 1:54 AM
Processing the weekly cash deposit from the baseball fields concession stand… someone paid for candy and a soda with two $2 bills: one a 2017 series and one a *1928* series.
November 17, 2025 at 5:41 AM
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No vote is necessary. He can just tell Pam to release the files. Done and done.
Trump: "House Republicans should vote to release the Epstein files, because we have nothing to hide."
November 17, 2025 at 2:56 AM
Let's say the Trump administration has been tremendously successful, I'd still want to clear up if POTUS is involved with child sex crimes, human trafficking, etc.

Hell, I'm Catholic. Plenty of priests seemed great had a very dark side. Must be exposed, held accountable, and victims acknowledged.
Trump on Epstein Files: I don’t want to talk about it because fake news like you—you’re a terrible reporter—fake news like you just keeps bringing up to deflect from the tremendous success of The Trump Admin
November 17, 2025 at 1:00 AM
I was old enough to learn a lot from the Starr Report when my hometown newspaper published it in full and delivered it to my family's front door as a special section in the Sunday edition.

But not old enough to vote for him.
"People like you voted for Bill Clinton, you stood by Bill Clinton"

Ma'am, I was 7 years old the last time Bill Clinton was on a ballot.

My only feelings on him were I'd get mad when I'd come home to watch Days of Our Lives and my mom would tell me it'd been preempted by his sex scandal again.
November 16, 2025 at 9:46 PM
While true, too much of sports is already this. Maybe you're not playing in an arena at the White House, but between the owners on one side and the evolution of sports betting...
ROYVAL: “.. To fight in front of them just seems like some f***ing Hunger Games-type of f***ing s***. I don’t give a f*** to fight in front of a bunch of f***ing billionaires and rich people that f***ing could give a s*** less about me. .. F*** you guys.”

@si.com
www.si.com/fannation/mm...
November 16, 2025 at 9:18 PM
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Also in here: DHS responded to the faith-led protest yesterday, calling participants “violent rioters” and “imbecilic morons” who need to “get a job.”

Asked about the statement, one UMC pastor who participated in the protest told me: "This is our job." religionnews.com/2025/11/15/a...
November 15, 2025 at 7:58 PM
The trooper was relieved of his game day duties and DPS OIG is investigating.
normal things happening
November 15, 2025 at 10:43 PM
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normal things happening
November 15, 2025 at 6:40 PM
The ball was definitely knocked out but looks to have been recovered by the QB. A lucky break for the #Irish. Now, what’s happening in BCS right now. #aggies???
November 15, 2025 at 6:51 PM
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"300 agents stormed the building, rappelled from a helicopter, knocked down doors and hurled flash-bang grenades. Agents ziptied and detained many US citizens for hours..."

Prosecutors have not filed a *single* criminal charge against anyone arrested that night:

www.propublica.org/article/chic...
“I Lost Everything”: Venezuelans Were Rounded Up in a Dramatic Midnight Raid but Never Charged With a Crime
Authorities said Tren de Aragua “terrorists” had taken over the building. A ProPublica investigation found little evidence to back up the government’s claims. For the first time, the Venezuelans arres...
www.propublica.org
November 15, 2025 at 1:39 AM
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sing this song every time JD and the Supremes walk through the door
November 13, 2025 at 10:48 PM
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1) Ethics officials at Fannie Mae investigate how Bill Pulte got Letitia James mortgage docs
2) They send findings to Inspector Gen. of FHFA, which Pulte heads
3) IG sends it to Lindsay Halligan, new USA prosecuting James
4) IG and ethics officials are all fired.

www.wsj.com/finance/regu...
Exclusive | Fannie Mae Watchdogs Probed How Pulte Obtained Mortgage Records of Key Democrats
FHFA’s acting inspector general handed the probe report to the U.S. attorney office that had indicted New York Attorney General Letitia James.
www.wsj.com
November 13, 2025 at 10:42 PM
You know Musk isn't an Austinite based on this alone. 😂 Everyone knows, no matter when you moved to Austin, you consider yourself an Austinite when you say that too many people are moving here changing why you moved here.

www.statesman.com/news/article...
Elon Musk urges people in L.A., New York to move to Austin
Elon Musk touts Austin on social media, urging people in L.A., New York and other hubs to move as Tesla and SpaceX expand in Texas.
www.statesman.com
November 13, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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Important to understand the Epstein stuff and the fascism and the corruption are, in a lot of ways, really all the same story from different angles: powerful men who can and do abuse vulnerable people around them because they can, and because systems of elite accountability catastrophically failed
November 12, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Bets on individual pitches? Sigh.
Major League Baseball said its authorized gaming operators will cap bets on individual pitches at $200 and exclude them from parlays, a day after two Cleveland Guardians were indicted and accused of rigging pitches at the behest of gamblers.
MLB, sportsbooks cap bets on individual pitches in response to pitch rigging scandal
Major League Baseball said its authorized gaming operators will cap bets on individual pitches at $200 and exclude them from parlays, a day after two Cleveland Guardians were indicted and accused of rigging pitches at the behest of gamblers.
bit.ly
November 11, 2025 at 1:33 PM
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you know what people love? working more to haggle for health insurance costs
Trump: "I want the money to go into an account for people where they buy their own health insurance. It's so good. The insurance will be better. It'll cost less. Everybody is gonna be happy. They're gonna feel like entrepreneurs. They're actually able to go out & negotiate their own insurance"
November 11, 2025 at 12:54 AM
If it weren't impacting real people in real life, it would be absolutely hilarious for anyone to believe that the ACA subsidies are going to be brought up to a vote.
November 10, 2025 at 5:36 PM
I just realized that, somehow, I didn’t add any of my allergy meds into my weekly medicine holder thing. And today I’m feeling it. Hard.
November 5, 2025 at 10:34 PM
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Defense says that the officer's testimony was "very questionable" because he said the sandwich both exploded in spray of mustard and onions and also landed in its wrapper on the ground.
November 5, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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A 34-year-old as a politician: My god he's like a baby. It's like they just elected an infant to be their mayor.

A 34-year-old as an athlete: You have to admire the bravery of him attempting that dunk, knowing full well the grim reaper is right behind him.
November 5, 2025 at 5:45 AM
Austin’s Prop Q, approving a property tax increase for a variety of things, doesn’t look like it’ll pass based on the about half of the votes cast. IMO, too much loose spending by the city lately & too bleak of an economic outlook for people to feel great about this. #atx
November 5, 2025 at 2:44 AM
That's not how facts work.
LEAVITT: It's absolutely true that there's fraud in California's elections

Q: What's the evidence of that?

LEAVITT: It's just a fact
November 5, 2025 at 2:17 AM