Nina Davis
ninapluscats.bsky.social
Nina Davis
@ninapluscats.bsky.social
Contented cat person, obsessed with politics--national and local. Also a big fan of chocolate, our local deer, walking all over Lakeway, & cinnamon rolls (not necessarily in that order). My blog is https://ninawriteorwronginlakeway.com/ I live in Texas.
Las Cruces had its NO KINGS rally today, downtown on Main Street. HUGE turnout! Lots of creative signs and repurposed Halloween costumes. A mountain of donations made to the local food bank. ZERO hostility or violence. Tons of happy honks and friendly waves from the heavy street traffic.
October 18, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Parthenon Cruz... This jerk is never in Texas when he is needed. Why do Texans keep voting for him and his sorry ilk?

www.texastribune.org/2025/07/07/t... via @texastribune.org
Ted Cruz was vacationing in Greece when the deadly Texas floods broke out. His office says he took the first flight home.
Texas’ junior senator was visiting Greece Friday when the Texas flood turned deadly. Cruz, who did not return until Sunday night, communicated with officials from Athens.
www.texastribune.org
July 8, 2025 at 11:56 AM
Abbott forced Texas Republicans to vote for school vouchers, threatening that otherwise he would veto their bills & make their primary elections a bloodbath.

In private school voucher push, Gov. Abbott breaks through by playing hardball www.texastribune.org/2025/04/17/g... via @texastribune.org
In private school voucher push, Gov. Abbott breaks through by playing hardball
Anti-voucher Republicans said they voted for the bill so they could fight to improve it, and also to fend off political retribution.
www.texastribune.org
April 18, 2025 at 11:35 AM
John Lithgow reads Timothy Snyder’s Twenty Lessons. 10 excellent minutes!

Nina Davis
ninawriteorwronginlakeway.com

Twenty Lessons, read by John Lithgow open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...
Twenty Lessons, read by John Lithgow
Key selections from On Tyranny, for viewing and sharing
open.substack.com
March 30, 2025 at 2:46 PM
US Rep. Al Green stated the bottom line on school vouchers. See image.

The Austin American Statesman today ran it today, as its Quote of the Week.

Nina Davis
ninawriteorwronginlakeway.com
March 23, 2025 at 4:52 PM
SCOTUS expert Adam Liptak's 2-minute video explains what is really going on, as Trump releases a flood of executive orders, daring the courts to stop him.

www.nytimes.com/video/us/pol...
Video: Are We in a Constitutional Crisis?
Adam Liptak, who covers the Supreme Court for The New York Times, says the right question is not whether there is a constitutional crisis, but rather how much damage it will cause and how the American...
www.nytimes.com
March 21, 2025 at 11:40 PM
Great article by Dan Rather on the killer abortion law in TX. He says bills are pending in TX Lege to clarify the medical exception and save lives of miscarrying women. Hope they pass, but I have been disappointed by Texas too many times.

Women in Texas Are Dying open.substack.com/pub/steady/p...
Women in Texas Are Dying
Republicans pressured to “clarify” state abortion ban
open.substack.com
March 20, 2025 at 12:14 AM
Blame Canada
Our warmongering, drugged-out conspiracy theory
open.substack.com
March 16, 2025 at 5:23 PM
‘Stocks down, measles up.’” — JIMMY FALLON

Yep—that’s America under Trump.
March 11, 2025 at 2:09 PM
The DOGE Helpline open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...

From Timothy Snyder. Brilliant.

Nina Davis
ninawriteorwronginlakeway.com
The DOGE Helpline
Comms from Armageddon
open.substack.com
March 8, 2025 at 11:56 PM
So, DOGE wants to spend $25,000 to install a washer and dryer on the 6th floor of the federal office building where Musk and his band of youthful hackers have set up camp. THAT’s efficient….
www.politico.com/news/2025/03...

Nina Davis
ninawriteorwronginlakeway.com
IKEA beds? Dressers? Inside the ‘exceedingly odd’ DOGE office setup
Details of the arrangements at GSA offer a window into the lifestyle of DOGE workers.
www.politico.com
March 7, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Trump got his bathroom reading material back. His DOJ returned all the boxes of classified documents that he stole from the White House when he evacuated in early 2021. So, the mountain of classified material is back at Mar-a-Lago, to be handed out as party favors. www.cnn.com/2025/02/28/p...
Trump takes seized boxes back to Florida on Air Force One | CNN Politics
President Donald Trump on Friday transported back to Florida with him boxes of documents that the FBI had seized from Mar-a-Lago after executing a court-ordered search warrant in August 2022.
www.cnn.com
March 7, 2025 at 3:01 PM
“When you hamstring the IRS,” Koskinen added. “it’s just a tax cut for tax cheats.”

www.propublica.org/article/how-...
How DOGE’s Cuts to the IRS Threaten to Cost More Than DOGE Will Ever Save
The Trump administration claims gutting federal agencies will save money, but cutting the IRS means the government collects less taxes. “If you’re interested in the deficit and curbing it, why would y...
www.propublica.org
March 5, 2025 at 1:40 PM
February 28, 2025 open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...

Heather Cox Richardson, American historian, explains the Trump/Vance Feb. 28 ambush of President Zelenskyy, of Ukraine better than anyone else.

Listen to her 6-minute video, or read the transcript.

Nina Davis
ninawriteorwronginlakeway.com
February 28, 2025
A newsletter about the history behind today's politics.
open.substack.com
March 2, 2025 at 1:57 PM
The DOGE origin story…. Only possible amidst the duality of sheer incompetence and overarching greed that shaping Trump 2.0. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/28/u...

Nina Davis
ninawriteorwronginlakeway.com
How Elon Musk Executed His Takeover of the Federal Bureaucracy
The operation was driven with a frenetic focus by the billionaire, who channeled his resentment of regulatory oversight into a drastic overhaul of government agencies.
www.nytimes.com
February 28, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Trump posted this AI video of his Gaza Plan with approval. There are just no words ….
www.youtube.com/watch?v=PslO...
Donald Trump shares bizarre AI-generated video of 'Trump Gaza'
YouTube video by Guardian News
www.youtube.com
February 26, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Just 25 seconds, and it has a hopeful ending.

President Musk open.substack.com/pub/contrari...
President Musk
*Record scratch*
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February 23, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Interesting reading, as Trump dismantles America, laws and the Constitution be damned. It is exactly what we deserve, for putting a flagrant felon back in the Oval Office.

Is That Legal? A Guide to Trump’s Big Moves So Far. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/20/u...
Is That Legal? A Guide to Trump’s Big Moves So Far.
Examining the legality of 38 major actions the president has taken in his first month.
www.nytimes.com
February 21, 2025 at 4:59 PM
In this 26-min podcast, top NYT reporters covering Trump discuss his recent strategies (an avalanche of executive orders, rewriting history on Ukraine and much more, upending American culture) to succeed in his 2nd administration, and finally become King. Chilling.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ryob...
Trump 2.0: Rewriting Histories | 'The Daily' Political Round Table
YouTube video by New York Times Podcasts
www.youtube.com
February 21, 2025 at 2:17 PM
And, in America, we have re-elected Trump, supported by the worst of the underbelly, and he has now populated his administration with madmen and extremists.
February 21, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Trump tells the court that Musk doesn’t run DOGE. (Who does? Sorry, that’s a secret.) In fact, DOGE isn’t even a govt agency. All these lies insulate Musk and DOGE from oversight. Crazy stuff. www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...
Opinion | The alarmingly nebulous role of Elon Musk
Musk is the face of the Department of Government Efficiency — but he's not its administrator, according to the Trump administration.
www.msnbc.com
February 20, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Musk is making a killing, by killing the government agencies that regulate his many companies—SpaceX, Tesla, Starlink, X, and more.

Elon Musk’s Business Empire Scores Benefits Under Trump Shake-Up www.nytimes.com/2025/02/11/u...
Elon Musk’s Business Empire Scores Benefits Under Trump Shake-Up
Government investigations into Mr. Musk’s companies are stalling amid President Trump’s firings and Biden administration resignations.
www.nytimes.com
February 12, 2025 at 3:12 PM
SCOTUS expert Adam Liptak discusses Trump’s power grabs and Musk’s wild actions, on NYT’s The Daily pod today, just 26 minutes. A Constitutional Crisis. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/12/p...?
Are Trump’s Executive Orders Creating a Constitutional Crisis?
Unpacking the debate around President Trump’s executive orders.
www.nytimes.com
February 12, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Read HCR's 2/7 Substack, with Sen. Angus King on govt's intentional/wonderful cumbersomeness as protection from the swift/arbitrary ways of corp CEOs. He refutes Curtis Yarvin's doctrine Musk, Vance, etc. are trying to substitute for democracy.
heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/february-7...
February 7, 2025
Maya Miller of the New York Times reported today that the congressional phone system has been jammed with tens of millions of calls from outraged constituents contacting their representatives to deman...
heathercoxrichardson.substack.com
February 8, 2025 at 6:36 PM