@drensteppur
Texan, shiftless layabout, wearily homosexual. user policy guru for a large tech company. safe use policy, data security, malicious user behavior analysis, phishing & impersonation prevention, cloud data protection & best practices.
DoD readily leaking suggests the strike order came from very high up. For all Hegseth's crimes, I'm not sure he would knowingly order the murder of hundreds of schoolgirls. And I doubt Trump is picking targets.
But Miller would order it, and DoD wouldn't protect him.
I've said this a couple times now, but: *something* happened here that this administration cannot admit to. And give that this administration happily admitted to murdering fishermen in the Caribbean for sport, whatever went on last weekend has to have been BAD if they're trying to hide it.
damn, if the Childcrusher 5000 GTX pickup truck owners can’t afford gas, how are they going to be able to tote their massive loads of a single loaf of bread and a canned Starbucks latte
One of the primary reasons the State Department exists is to serve Americans abroad, and they're desperately failing at that right now. I’ve heard from many families whose loved ones are stranded abroad.
The Trump Administration must get our people home.
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ftr, my former US Navy officer ex brought up exactly this several weeks ago while we were chatting about this chud over drinks in Dallas. Platner's sleeve tattoo would *NOT* have gotten him thrown out in 09 because all you had to do was sign a sheet of paper telling the USMC you already had it.
one of the reasons that I'm very down on our chances here in Texas atm is that, once you count the outside dark money that will come flooding in, they're almost certainly going to outspend Talarico 10:1. it will be the largest ad spend & on-the-ground mobilization for a statewide race, ever.
oh, Cornyn is going to have a quarter billion dollar war chest by late summer, and there will be dark money spending likely in the *high* nine digits. Texas will be the most expensive Senate race ever just from the Republican side of things because they're going to throw everything they have at it.
people On Here not developing healthy expectations for TX *and* spinning up very, VERY intense parasocial relationships with Talarico is going to be just horrid for teh discourse all the way until November. I'm genuinely sick of hearing about this race already, and I'm a Democratic voter here!
Lol they're not too bad so far, but give it an hour or two
like, I'm sorry, but if the question is, "do we bundle big for Texas *or" for an open seat in Montana & for Ossoff in Georgia?" the answer is CLEARLY not Texas.
putting all of that potential cash into Montana makes 100x more sense than Texas now that there's an open seat there and Cornyn looks much stronger than expected. Talarico will have plenty of small dollar donations; the bundlers with the *big* money should look elsewhere.
Like he could've just come out of the White House every morning like a cuckoo clock, said something outrageous to make his base happy, then went to golf. And people would call him an economic genius because he grew gdp and tamed inflation. But here we are.
Stock market tanking again today and oil *way* up. What's crazy is Trump could've just rode out the current regression to the mean on inflation, combined with an apparent productivity boom. Instead, did the opposite of econ 101: kicked out workers, reduced immigration, started wars of choice.
buuuut since he's in a runoff, it might just default to the crazy gun guy who's running against him, tho? the law isn't particularly clear afaik when a runoff is involved, all of the laws specifically address primary day only.
he has to submit a written & signed request for ballot removal to the Texas Sec. of State, and then the TX Republican party executive chair will then basically have carte blanche to name whoever they want as the nominee, as long as they make the request 71 days before the election.
Currently watching workshops for Gaza admin having a huge meltdown over Iranians pointing out the ayatollah was a conservative
I guess I'm showing my age a bit because they haven't had a big window like this for probably 10+ years, but I remember when they used to give you the entire month to claim it. as much as they charge us for everything now, they should at least give us a few days.
learned the hard way last year that Starbucks will only give you a free birthday drink *on your birthday*—instead of giving you a week or more to claim it like they did in the past. showed up FIRST THING at 5 a.m. this morning to make sure I got mine today lol.
Kalshi employees "kind of understand that without the tweets and the streamers and all of the social-media stuff that the traders do for them, usually just for free, their marketing would be a lot harder," said Jack Campion, 20, a junior at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a Kalshi affiliate. In September, Kalshi briefly signed up a 15-year-old videogame streamer who goes by vertid online to promote its brand on X as an affiliate. A week later, Kalshi ended the partnership. "Yo brother, legal team confirmed that we can't work with minors rn," a Kalshi employee wrote to the user in messages reviewed by the Journal. "Kinda sad tbh."
what the fuck are we doing
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Casey Means still doesn’t have the votes. Keep the letters coming.
lolol I'm legit shocked that they haven't gutted the national petroleum reserve yet; you just know that it's coming! I also wouldn't be surprised if there's going to be some kind of targeted relief for insurance policies for shippers, but that's not as immediate a fix.
good contribution here, too! it definitely ranks up there.
oooh, good arguments here. not sure I agree with them 100%, but there's definitely a debate to be had. feels like we're not really going to have a clear answer for many years down the road, when this war is (hopefully?) far in our rearview mirror, tho.
god help me and fuck Chuck Schumer, but it's genuinely bullshit that Schumer is the key image here. it was a party line vote, with Schumer voting against. only Dem that broke ranks was Fetterman, of course.
*looks at racial demographics where Democratic turnout increased the most last night*
yeah, it's actually kind of concerning that her slapdash campaign put up dictator-like numbers in Dallas & Houston against him! it speaks to a pretty questionable long term outlook wrt where those general election votes are supposed to run up the board in November.
yeah, the TX GOP runs what's arguably the most airtight political operation on the planet, the fact that this race got away from them like it did is pretty shocking. if they talk Trump into an endorsement, it means they're reclaiming control.
my personal hot take on WHY this happened: if you live anywhere in Texas, you know that about a month ago, multiple pro Cornyn PACs started running ads attacking Paxton's multiple extramarital affairs, and I genuinely think this turned the tide.
Cornyn is in the driver's seat atm. This is a really stunning turnaround from just 48 hours ago when it looked like this was handily Paxton's race to lose. Trump jumping in probably seals the deal—the only questions are just how painful does Paxton want to make this, and does he drop out?