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Missouri State Representative Anthony Ealy, Jr., was arrested on Wednesday after being reelected. fox4kc.com/news/missouri-sta…
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Podcasters Jennifer Welch and Angie Sullivan can't stop laughing at the thought of digging up Charlie Kirk's corpse and "doing it" again to him.
After laughing for 30 seconds straight, the women falsely claimed that Tyler Robinson was a 'MAGA person.'
They will celebrate your death, laugh uncontrollably, and still be fully convinced they're the "good guys."
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Romney attacked me during Covid as an “authoritarian” who was “more dangerous than Trump.”
This was during the time when I used my power to protect people from the largest incursion against liberty in our lifetime — restrictions and mandates that Romney supported.
Blocking local governments from imposing covid mandates/restrictions is not being an “authoritarian”; it is liberating people from government overreach by city and county officials. Florida is better for our efforts, and the country would not have been liberated had we not led.
Claiming to be “severely conservative” and then smearing the one guy who delivered the conservative wish list across the spectrum shows him to be a phony.
Better than Obama but he would have given us managed decline that accepted the assumptions of the left and bowed to criticisms of the legacy media.
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A few days ago, Austin Payne, a 15-year-old White boy in Georgia, was hunted, shot, and left to die in an abandoned apartment by four black teen males.
He called his mom after being attacked and shot, telling her he was dying.
She found his body the next morning after searching all night for him.
Charged with his murder: Jansquincey Donaldson, 15; Omari Marion, 15; Adarious Wallace, 16; Detravion Parker, 22.
National media has been completely silent.
If four White teens had done this to a Black kid, it would dominate cable news for days.
Instead, silence.
They covered the Nolan Wells case wall-to-wall for a drowning.
Yet this kid was hunted like an animal and brutally murdered, and because his skin is White, his story will never be told.
I couldn’t imagine being his mother and getting that call.
Rest easy, Austin. 💔
#whitelivesmatter
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AUSTIN MAN who choked his girlfriend until she passed out is now accused of attacking another girlfriend. He squeezed her arm so hard his fingertips left bruises and cuts. And then a court set his bond at $1.
A few years ago Edwin Middleton took his girlfriend's keys, punched her repeatedly while driving, threw her to the floor of the car, and choked her with both hands until she lost consciousness.
A year later (pre-DA Garza) he was convicted of felony family violence assault and sentenced to three years.
Last year, he was arrested for violating a protective order. He got probation on a related charge, blew it within two months, and got one day in jail.
Then cops arrested him at a public housing complex where officers said they watched open-air drug deals. They booked him for crack cocaine and for being a felon with a gun. No felony case for some reason.
A few months later, deputies caught him driving on a fake temporary tag with no valid license. The fake tag charge was declined. A month later he was caught driving without a license again, and that charge was dismissed.
This summer, he showed up at his girlfriend's apartment and got angry that she didn't want to talk. When she tried to walk away, he grabbed her arm and pulled her. She then got away, picked up her daughter, put her in the car, and pretended to leave until he drove off. Fifteen minutes later he was back, banging on her door until she called 911.
Now he's charged with another felony family violence assault. $1 bond.
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BREAKING: Marco Rubio is reportedly considering resigning!
The rats appear to be preparing to flee the sinking ship?
According to The Independent, Marco Rubio may be considering abandoning the Trump admin after Republicans’ disastrous midterm losses.
He reportedly wants to distance himself from Trump’s Iran war and position himself for a 2028 presidential run against JD Vance.
Here’s the irony: Rubio may want to escape Trump’s political baggage after spending years helping carry it.
You can jump off a sinking ship. That doesn’t mean you weren’t part of the crew that steered it into the iceberg.
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The local media push the narrative that Jose is just giving first time shoplifters a second chance. They will never properly cover gentleman like Howard.
AUSTIN MAN, a registered sex offender with at least two prior indecent exposure convictions, got caught exposing himself again. Prosecutors dropped that case and 11 more. Three months later he was charged with assaulting a security guard at a Rainey Street bar. A judge cut his bond to $1, he skipped court, and then he was arrested for failing to register as a sex offender again.
Howard Turner was arrested for indecent exposure in October 2024. Then came a string of trespassing cases. On Christmas Eve he was arrested for trespassing and theft, and four days later he was arrested for both again. He failed to register as a sex offender twice in one week. He ran from police, and DA Jose Garza's office filed no charges.
A judge found him incompetent to stand trial. Eleven months later, a judge ruled he was competent again. That same day, Garza's office dismissed the indecent exposure case and both sex offender registration felonies. County Attorney Delia Garza dropped the rest two days later.
In May, police say, he attacked a security officer at Bangers. In September a judge cut his bond from $7,500 to $1. He skipped his next court date.
Last month he was arrested again for failing to register as a sex offender.
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The City of Austin is paying 10 lobbyists $772,623 to lobby the Texas Legislature to let the city raise taxes and spend more money.
Since 2020, the city has paid lobbyists $4.1 million.
For the last session, City Council told its lobbyists to fight any bill that "prohibits or restricts the City's current ability to petition the Legislature." It also told them to oppose "a more restrictive revenue cap of any type."
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Texas midterm prediction: Republicans lose statewide offices for the first time since 1994 (or come dangerously close).
This isn't endemic to Texas going blue. The Texas Republican Party is flaccid and brought this on itself.
Republicans have controlled the governorship, House, and Senate for 24 years. Abbott and Patrick have held office for nearly half of that time.
A two-year budget up from $209B to $338B in a decade. A House speaker elected by 49 Democrats and 36 Republicans. Property-tax patches without a lasting fix.
If our rally cries center around cultural wars, we’ve lost the plot.
Texas needs a revival. New leadership. Bold execution. Maximal freedom. No more pandering to leftists in Austin.
After the dust settles tomorrow, my bet is on @DonHuffines emerging as the de facto leader of the Texas Republican Party.
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DeSantis: “Ultimately, politics is only part of life and do not look to that for salvation.
Just look to it for people tell you they're gonna do things and then they do it.
I think voters appreciate that.”
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🚨 THE RNC’S ELECTION INTEGRITY OPERATION IS IN FULL FORCE.
We’re responding to reports of voting machine issues across the country and working with local election officials to ensure EVERY ELIGIBLE VOTER CAN CAST THEIR BALLOT.
In line? STAY IN LINE
See an issue? REPORT IT ⬇️
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Austin police recruits are being taught race and policing by a UT professor of African and African Diaspora studies who says "Black death at the hands of white authority is older than this country" and has "friends who call for the abolition of police."
APD has put $39,000 toward him, out of its patrol budget.
Kevin Foster, also an AISD trustee, teaches cadets the "History of Race & Police in Austin." He calls himself "a vocal advocate for reform."
He says he pitched the course to the police chief and APD leadership first. They approved it. APD has kept him on since 2022.
APD's last academy class started with 73 cadets and graduated 35. The graduates asked for more firearms and defensive tactics training. But what are they getting instead?
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We have to keep sharing this until she’s held accountable for her actions once and for all
This is unacceptable
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WE WILL “DO OUR PART” & KEEP RESHARING — just like @UMich “does their part” by Indoctrinating students into a leftist mental health crisis
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Austin City Council renewed four more race-based health contracts:
- $4.6M for “vulnerable communities of color” (see below)
- $1.5M for mental health “within African American churches”
- $1.3M for “chronic disease prevention for African Americans”
- $635K “prioritizing the Asian American and Pacific Islander communities”
Austin Public Health admitted two of them missed their performance goals, but council renewed both anyway.
Austin is paying $4.6 million for a birth program for Black and Latina women co-founded by a city Equity Office employee.
The group’s vision: “Woman of color sisterhood disrupting capitalism, white supremacy, patriarchy and institutional abuse.”
It’s “open to anyone who identifies as BIPOC.”
Kellee Coleman, the co-founder of the group, works in the Equity Office. The group is Mama Sana/Vibrant Woman.
Another co-founder co-chaired the city’s 2020 Reimagining Public Safety Task Force that led to police defunding.
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We are not going to tolerate threats to assassinate the president. Allison Albro, 21, Daytona Beach, is learning that the hard way. She posted this last night and got a visit from the @VolusiaSheriff Domestic Security Unit and the @SecretService. She said she was joking with this post, she doesn’t have access to a Glock or any other weapon, and she would never hurt anyone. Today she’s sitting in jail on charges of written threats to kill and unlawful use of a communications device. I would strongly advise anyone else thinking of posting a “joke” along these lines to think twice. VSO continues to work hand in hand with the Secret Service, FBI and all our law enforcement partners to ensure this presidential visit to Daytona Beach is a safe event for all who attend, and for our whole community.
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Thank you, @realDonaldTrump, for commemorating this consequential day in history, particularly as it impacted the founding of our nation.
Elections have consequences.
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🚨 BOMBSHELL: Two former members and one current member of Katy Padilla Stout’s congressional campaign staff have come forward, speaking under condition of anonymity, to describe what they call an extremely hostile work environment.
The current staffer alleges that Stout routinely berates and curses at her staff. “She’s mean and angry all the time,” the staffer said. “Her smile in front of the cameras is fake. She treats us like slaves. She has us do her grocery shopping, take her dogs to the groomer, and pick up her kids from school, stuff completely unrelated to the campaign.”
The staffer continued: “Earlier this month I requested a day off to drive to Dallas and visit my mom, who was scheduled to receive her first round of chemo. I had worked 11 straight days with no days off. Katy went psycho on me during the phone call, telling me, ‘Are you fucking kidding me with this stupid shit two days before a debate? We’re not playing these fucking games. You either start giving me 110% ASAP or I’ll fire your ass.’”
One former staffer said Stout frequently had blowups over food. “On one occasion, one of my colleagues went to pick up lunch for all of us at Tacos El Rey, which is around the corner from the office. Katy ordered two asada tacos, a chicken taco, a carnitas taco, a cup of beans, and a cup of rice. It was her usual order. When she opened her bag, she noticed the carnitas taco was missing.
She went absolutely crazy on my colleague, accusing her of stealing food and asking if she didn’t pay her enough that she needed to steal. As my coworker tried to explain that they probably just forgot to put it in the bag, Katy threw the cup of beans at the wall where my coworker was standing, told her, while she was crying and visibly shaken, to clean up the mess and earn her paycheck, and then stormed out to eat in her car.”
Another former campaign staffer said, “She’s made her whole campaign about how her opponent treats women, that he’s a misogynist and says inappropriate things on his YouTube channel, but she would say super inappropriate sexual stuff all the time when I was there. It got really awkward sometimes because she’d go into detail with me about sexual dreams she’d had. It made me and others feel really uncomfortable.
On many occasions I witnessed Katy refer to other women as ‘bitches’ and ‘cunts.’ On a separate occasion, we had the TV on and Scott Bessent was doing an interview. Katy referred to him as a ‘f*ggot Nazi enabler.’ I had to step out because I didn’t want to say something that would get me in trouble. I resigned about a week later.”
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I’m a moderator on NextDoor for 128 neighborhoods in N Austin TX and surrounding areas. I have 97 reported issues this morning and the majority are the parents of kids who stole candy, damages property, urinated on front porch & chairs - this was my lovely experience) and more.
All parents wanted their kids videos taken down because it violated their rights. My response to the parents : “nope keeping these up may force you to parent your kids so in ten years you aren’t visiting them in prison!”
