Astroñoratx

Close-up photo of the legs and feet of JD Vance and Marco Rubio showing some comically oversized shoes

It gets better. Here's Vance and Rubio in the Oval Office...

Since the disastrous Citizens United decision, dark money spending in elections has grown tremendously.

In 2010, there was $144 million of dark money spending. In the 2024 election cycle, there was nearly $2 billion of dark money spending.

It's time to pass the DISCLOSE Act.

The Texas law is written in a way where this wouldn’t work. And sxsw is a Texas event. We might hate it, but it happens here.

Particularly in Austin. It is one of the few places in Texas where trans people can count on their neighbors for support.

Jim Cramer suggests on CNBC that Trump could “bomb Tehran into the Stone Age” until Iran reopens the strait, citing U.S. bombings of North Vietnam in the 1970s. Carl Quintanilla points out to him that Hanoi won that war.

Are we going to start rooting for a military coup? 😵‍💫

And we can go back later for new replies! It’s the gift that keeps on giving.

The replies made my morning… now excuse me while I sob for a minute.

Evergreen.

One thing I've been stressing is that, if Hormuz traffic remained stopped, the monumental oil supply shock will manifest as sharp price spikes in wealthy nations that sap disposable incomes

In poorer countries, the shock will manifest as outright physical shortages.

Como si nadie prefiriera un mundo sin guerra y con menos carencias. En serio no se qué tienen en la cabeza.

WTH 😨

That’s just extra cruel…

The rage about all the research that will be lost due to these white supremacist creatures… I don’t think it will ever subside in me.

Elizabeth Warren: "I am a hard no on a supplemental. This is not a war the American people want us to engage in. This is not a war that makes us safer ... No. No more money. The only thing Congress has the power to do is to stop actions like this through the power of the purse."

I used to waste years preparing gourmet meals. It was creative, an expression of my humanity, and fostered zen.

Thanks to McDonalds, I don't have to do that!

#Satire

Tariffs tariffing

goddamn is this a breath of fresh air after Allred 2024

An hour apart. Perhaps we should stop treating the mindless weathervane spinning in the breeze as if it has a clear strategic direction we can ascertain.

Cut it out. You should meet my neighbors. Decency is what most people are looking for. Certainly what Dems in Texas are looking for. He fits the bill.

If you are watching Trump's presser right now, you are seeing beyond reasonable doubt a person not mentally suited for any position of responsibility. Even running a small store.

GOP members of the House and Senate: You are seeing this too.

Argh. This is terrible!!

The Gámez-Cuéllar family has been released from Dilley! We just picked them up.

And many places have terrible or non existent public transportation.

This is not true—driver’s licenses aren’t acceptable under the SAVE Act without additional proof of citizenship. The fact that they keep doing this sleight of hand should make clear that the SAVE Act is not something that “every American gets”

We need your drone interceptors for our war, but we won’t thank you and our propaganda will claim that we made them.

How many impeachable offenses a day now?

oh just a thought if your plan for overthrowing the Iranian government depends on the Iranian public rising up, you likely shouldn't have defunded the American government run news agency that speaks in Farsi.

Current and former Block workers say AI can’t do their jobs after Jack Dorsey’s mass layoffs: ‘You can’t really AI that’ The CEO said he cut the company’s workforce by 4,000 people – almost in half – because of gains in AI productivity

Hopefully, there will be more articles written as follow-ups to when CEOs lie about laying off workers by claiming AI is replacing them. The news media needs to stop doing stenography and free PR work for tech CEOs.

it is genuinely very funny how many big name/shop analysts have gone on tv in the last 24-48hr and been like "man we didn't think this administration would be so stupid" like, come on