‘I can think of nothing more American.’ — Beto O'Rourke — the man taking on Ted Cruz — brilliantly explains why NFL players kneeling during the anthem is not disrespectful

Why?

Three Senate ratings changes today: #MTSEN: Likely D to Lean D ⇨ #TXSEN: Lean R to Toss Up ⇦ #WVSEN: Toss Up to Lean D ⇦ Full chart: cookpolitical.com/ratings/senate…

FACT: Senator Cruz was the lone Senator -- 1 out of 98 -- to vote against beginning a discussion on immigration reform. #TeamBeto chron.com/news/politics/…

A producer on @TheBetoDoc captures the insane media swarm in Dallas last night

I’m a former US Attorney. If a judge/juror made a public statement that their mind was made up before all testimony is in, the trial would be prejudiced & I’d move for mistrial & have the judge removed. Mr. Leader, is this the message we want to send to victims of sexual assault?

A simpler time

“The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.”—George Orwell x.com/aravosis/statu…

I am replacing my earlier concession with an unapologetic and uncompromised call to count every vote.

I have informed the Majority Leader that I will not vote to advance any of the 21 judicial nominees pending in the Judiciary Committee, or vote to confirm the 32 judges awaiting action on the floor, until the Mueller protection bill is brought to the full Senate for a vote.

Is George Bush too nice a guy to be president? Face The Nation asked him in 1979

Let me get this straight: Trump wants the federal court to postpone indefinitely hearing a case claiming that he is illegally profiting from his Washington hotel, because the government shutdown, created by Trump, prohibits his attorneys from working. politico.com/story/2018/12/…

EXCLUSIVE: DHS test of steel prototype for border wall, Trump's preference, showed it could be sawed through. We've obtained a never-before-seen photo. Our report, with Julia E. Ainsley. nbcnews.com/politics/immig…

Amazingly, the chyron is not the most foolish thing about this picture. To get ahead of a potential refugee crisis caused by great suffering in Central America, it would make sense to use our resources to help reduce that suffering. This is self-defeating.

“I perceive the necessity... the necessity for haste.” - George “Maverick” Washington #RevolutionaryWarAirportStories

Real journalists provide facts to inform the public, not to lead them astray or put them in danger.

I love how Mitt Romney reappears once every three months to outshine the entire Republican Party by doing the absolute least.

Roo Code 3.20.0 | THIS IS A BIG ONE!! Marketplace for extensions AND modes, concurrent file edits and reads, and numerous other improvements and bug fixes. docs.roocode.com/update-notes/v…

September 2025 Evals featuring GPT 5, Grok Code, Claude 4 Sonnet, Claude 4 Opus, and Qwen 3 Coder is now uploading. This was by far the largest test run i've done to date, which leads more to why I need to figure out more ways to automate as much of this as possible. 1. Some

If we nominate Trump, we will get destroyed.......and we will deserve it.