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March primary ensures record turnover in Congress for Texas Twelve House incumbents from Texas are set to leave Congress after this year, with the possibility of additional turnover in the May runoffs and November general election.

Twelve House incumbents from Texas are set to leave Congress after this year, with the possibility of additional turnover in the May runoffs and November general election.

US vaccine panel retreats from mRNA Covid review ahead of midterms

Advisers to RFK Jr drop the plan to end federal guidance amid Republican worries about the political impact

The standard GOP playbook: pray for a solution then blame Democrats when it doesn't appear

Corpus Christi’s water issues spur threat of state takeover Residents and businesses’ demand for water could soon exceed supply. Gov. Greg Abbott said the state could step in if solutions aren’t found.

On Tuesday, Gov. Greg Abbott criticized Corpus Christi leadership over its looming water crisis and warned that if local leaders do not take immediate action, the state may need to intervene to ensure residents and businesses have enough.

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.

Platform Decay by Martha Wells The lethal but good-hearted security robot that narrates Wells’s Hugo and Nebula award–winning Murderbot Diaries series returns,...

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What’s the biggest change the Dead Sea Scrolls make to the Bible? #maklelan3181 YouTube video by Dan McClellan

What’s the biggest change the Dead Sea Scrolls make to the Bible?
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Came here for this. Leaving satisfied

It will be a flag level house. So while it still sucks I wouldn't worry too much as there is a good chance they are MAGA

As someone whose worked w/the MISO folks, this only is possible/works because Epstein class had already been established by authentic/legit/real accounts & picked up by other authentic/legit/real accounts. Had the Iranians tried to create this whole cloth it would've failed.

Timeline Cleanse

Texas is a no fault state. IIRC his ex wife initially used that phrase. She wanted everyone to know he is a cheating dirtbag

John Cornyn is out with his first ad of the Texas Senate runoff and it features a scary God voice telling voters to defeat Ken Paxton

The worst cabinet in American history And it's not even close.

New in PN: The worst cabinet in history

"Even having one or two cabinet members as disastrous as Noem, Hegseth, Kennedy, or Bondi would be a stain on any administration; putting them all in one govt has created a kind of Bizarro World 1927 Yankees, an all-star team of incompetence and malevolence."

When he is deposed he must be given a fair trial.

Several of them.

This is one of his most terrifyingly stupid performances ever, this one’s a Hall of Famer

This isn't journalism; it's unquestioningly taking dictation.

Iran names Khamenei's son to succeed him, signaling no letup in war as oil prices surge Iran has named the hard-line Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei to succeed his late father as supreme leader.

Iran has named the hard-line Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei to succeed his late father as supreme leader.

Elizabeth Warren reacts to Live Nation reaching a settlement with the Department of Justice over federal antitrust lawsuit.

“Donald Trump just betrayed every fan who's been exploited by Ticketmaster.”

I can't compete with this.

UPDATE: BBC Verify RT’s Bellingcat’s post with video of a missile dropping on the facility where the girls’ school was located - the missile matches 🇺🇸 tomahawks and “appears to contradict Trump’s claim” it was Iran 🤔

What makes it so disheartening is that 30%ish of the population thinks this is exactly how it should be.

Screenshot of a tweet from US Representative Richard Hudson (R-NC) on 19 March 2025 @ 3:38pm ET. Text reads: THE TRUMP EFFECT AT WORK FOR NORTH CAROLINA! [flexing arm emoji] A furniture manufacturer, Prepac, is shutting down its operations in Canada and moving all of its production to its NC facility. This will help grow our economy and bring more good-paying jobs for folks in our area!

Screenshot of an article headline from the News & Observer. Headline text reads: "NC furniture maker is going out of business, lays off 200 near Greensboro". Above the headline is a photo of a manufacturing facility. The caption to the photo reads: "Prepac Manufacturing facility in Whitsett, NC. The company announced this week it will wind down all operations."

How it started vs how it's going

The power of MAGAnomics!

An Ohio high school is on one of the greatest winning streaks in sports. What’s the secret?

An Ohio high school gymnastics dynasty seeks a 23rd straight state title on Saturday. Inside the program behind one of the most remarkable streaks in all of sports

BREAKING Initial reports of an explosion at the U.S embassy in Norway, no reports of casualties

The dining scene is wild as well. You have the super bougie vs local with what seems like zero between.

Special Ops To Get The Uranium - Lawyers, Guns & Money There are folks out there dreaming about a daring raid by special ops forces to grab Iran’s stock of enriched uranium. Trumpies would like to grab the Ayatollahs’ goodies. People concerned about proli...

I hope they've thought it out.

Yup www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

I am not sure what the US govt plans. But turning Iran into a ungovernable warlord state of chaos and poverty is an outcome Netanyahu would benefit from.

That would be a disaster for the US. I don’t see how that chaos and violence doesn’t come home to hit the US mainland.
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