BREAKING: Judge Angel Kelly blocks Interior Sec. Doug Burgum's “Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History” Order as "a dangerous precedent of censorship and sanitization" and orders DOI to "restore and reinstall" removed materials "forthwith."
ORDER: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Chris Geidner
Gerald is fantastic—he saved the Daily Texan from financial ruin, and is no right-wing stooge. But that doesn’t change the fact that this is a terrible situation. www.kut.org/austin/2026-...
"Mr. Trump has no right to expect that the Senate will confirm an attorney general with a track record of disdaining the law and using law enforcement as a partisan weapon," writes the @nytopinion.nytimes.com editorial board in a sharply worded piece. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/15/o...
Bigotry. “How can I possibly get behind a party that tells me to leave, that says convert or leave?... Many, many hear these things, the messaging, and think that they’re dog whistles,” Hussein said. “I was hopeful that I’d come here and get a clarification. What we got was kind of a confirmation.”
Dear journalists: extreme weather event attribution is good science.“If you treat the misinformers’ frame as a legitimate, good-faith scientific critique, you are helping them produce doubt. Don’t do it. Don’t be a Merchant of Doubt.” open.substack.com/pub/theclima...
Paxton's attacks on Talarico are reminding me of what the great Molly Ivins once said of a Texas GOP Congressman: “If his I.Q. slips any lower, we’ll have to water him twice a day.” www.chron.com/politics/article/paxton-talarico-bbq-challenge-texas-22305739.php
Trump axed Biden fly plan. “This administration came in so skeptical of the career people, they didn’t really want to listen... The hold up in the money going to Mexico for the sterile fly facility was most likely caught up in the whole DOGE thing. It probably looked like some sort of foreign aid.”
One problem with trying to disabuse people of silly conspiracy theories is that there really is a cabal of wealthy and powerful people trying to secretly rule the world.
www.wired.com/story/leak-e...
Muslim delegates and attendees hoping to participate in the state Republican convention were shunned and rejected by members as they espoused themes of party unity ahead of the November election.
More than 200 of the world's elites registered for a retreat whose agenda runs from panels on cult-building and sex to prepping for World War III. An associated app offers matchmaking.
Sterile fly facilities are expected to open in the coming months, but it could be years before authorities have the ability to produce the 500 million flies a week required to eradicate the...
