Your daily reminder this should be the biggest scandal in American politics right now but nobody seems to care.
Ken Paxton freed a man who raped a boy for 3 years. He also doesnt have to register as a sex offender.
www.texastribune.org/2026/05/19/k...
Critics are pointing to two other serious felony cases that the attorney general’s prosecutors took to trial that ended in mistrials and, eventually, plea deals.
As disastrous screwworms arrive in Texas, critics point to cuts made under the Trump administration's Department of Government Efficiency, which terminated a USAID screwworm monitoring project.
Paulley Ticks
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Perhaps an opportune time to review how Abraham Lincoln and Donald "Bone Spurs" Trump characterized Americans who died fighting for their country:
www.notus.org/2026-electio...
Tim Onion
A Job Market Leaving Young Graduates Behind Could Scar Them for Years
The labor market has improved, but people entering the work force are having a harder time starting careers, a dynamic that has had permanent effects in the past.
www.nytimes.com/2026/06/05/b...
Raw Story
Jon Martin Kitchen
It appears that masked men abducting folks off the street and executing American citizens wasn't a winning political issue in Texas, especially for Texas Hispanics.
Case in point, a 2026 special election in a Texas State Senate district that voted strongly for Trump in 2024:
A Texas lawyer who helped lead Republican Ken Paxton’s defense during a 2023 impeachment trial said Paxton “has lost sight of his core mission.”
Hegseth at Normandy:
"Sadly, today, different European beaches are stormed by different dangerous ideologies. Beaches in Spain and Italy and Greece and Bulgaria. Boats and men arrive. When will European capitals do something about that invasion? Or is it too late? I pray not, and I believe not."