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Tim Rogers @timmytyper.bsky.social · Aug 12

Business idea: a nationwide chain of shops that sell only cheap sub sandwiches. Stale bread. Turnt meat and stale veggies. They are cheap, though! Just $3 for a sub. So you can throw them at fascists. The shop is called Donald J. Subs. Who wants to invest?

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Tim Rogers @timmytyper.bsky.social · 17h

October 24. Join me to watch Dirk on TV at Rollertown Beerworks www.dmagazine.com/micropost/di...

Dirk! Beer! Fun!

Hopefully by now you've read Mike "The Looch" Piellucci's story about Dirk and his new gig as an NBA studio analyst with Amazon. And hopefully also by now

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Txnewsprincess @txnewsprincess.bsky.social · 20h

More to come, but good news.
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Robert Roberson issued a stay of execution

More to come, but this morning the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals issued a stay for Robert Roberson, who was scheduled to be executed in exactly a week.

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Txnewsprincess @txnewsprincess.bsky.social · 1d

Just a reminder that if you're going to the fair, we have created the Ultimate Guide to the State Fair of Texas. It has hacks. It has advice. It has places to eat near the fair that aren't part of the fair, and it also provides guides to navigating Fair Park on Saturday (the TX-OU game).

The Ultimate Guide to the State Fair of Texas

Find the hacks that make the fair fun, the skinny on the entertainment, and even parking advice.

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Tim Rogers @timmytyper.bsky.social · 1d

100 years from now, kids will learn this is when the second civil war started

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Pritzker: "It's unconscionable. This has never happened before. They're calling out troops onto the streets of a state that doesn't want them and they're not even telling us where they're gonna go, what they're gonna do. This hasn't happened I don't think since the Civil War."

Tim Rogers @timmytyper.bsky.social · 1d

As the New Yorker surmised, this is the future of talk shows: www.youtube.com/watch?v=P1rJ...

MICHAEL KNOWLES Talks Theater, Daily Wire, Conservative Media

YouTube video by The Adam Friedland Show

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Tim Rogers @timmytyper.bsky.social · 1d

Props to State Fair of TX for their slogan: “The Most Texan Place on Earth.” Not sure that’s true, but it’s a good slogan.

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 1d

One day you're living in a constitutional republic, the next day the president is calling for the arrest of governors and mayors

Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 1d

I will not back down.

Trump is now calling for the arrest of elected representatives checking his power.

What else is left on the path to full-blown authoritarianism?

Donald Trump Truth Social Post: Chicago Mayor should be in jail for failing to protect Ice Officers! Governor Pritzker also.

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Tim Rogers @timmytyper.bsky.social · 1d

"Very few Democrats seem to understand this new dynamic; Democrats are so used to being the 'responsible' party who helps keeps government open … that they seem not to be able to reckon with how irrelevant Donald Trump has made Congress …" www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/there-is-n...

There is no budget "deal" to be made

President Trump has so broken the constitutional framework as to make joint normal, responsible government impossible.

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Tim Rogers @timmytyper.bsky.social · 1d

"I don’t want to be alarmist, but this is an emergency. It is incumbent on us to name the thing we are seeing and be unflinching as we describe it." One state is invading another at the direction of the president. How is that NOT the start of a civil war? www.thebulwark.com/p/emergency-...

Emergency Triad: The Chicago Rubicon and What Comes Next

We aren’t at the worst-case scenario yet. But if you squint, you can see it looming out there, just over the horizon.

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Tim Rogers @timmytyper.bsky.social · 2d

Huge loss for the turkeys

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Txnewsprincess @txnewsprincess.bsky.social · 2d

A new podcast by NBC reveals that the judge that presided over Robert Roberson’s trial was the same judge that allowed his daughter to be removed from life support.
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Robert Roberson’s attorney says new podcast proves judicial misconduct

A new podcast by NBC reveals that the judge that presided over Robert Roberson’s trial was the same judge that allowed his daughter to be removed from life support.

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Mike Piellucci @mikelikessports.bsky.social · 2d

The outstanding @flemfile.bsky.social has a book coming out about the original Dallas Texans, and it is predictably great.

So I'm thrilled to be running an excerpt of it. Meet Buddy Young, a 5'4'' RB who was Dallas' first pro football star. You'll love this:

www.dmagazine.com/sports/2025/...

Remembering the Pint-Sized Buddy Young, Dallas’ First Pro Football Star

An excerpt from the upcoming book A Big Mess in Texas: The Miraculous, Disastrous 1952 Dallas Texans and the Craziest Untold Story in NFL History.

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Tim Rogers @timmytyper.bsky.social · 4d

“The money used to buy the Portland Trail Blazers is money that was built on predatory lending,” Williams said [a former Federal Reserve regulator]. Dallas guy getting the sort of attention he has avoided most of his career
www.propublica.org/article/tom-...

Portland Trail Blazers Buyer Tom Dundon Built His Fortune on Subprime Loans

In 2020, the state sued Santander Consumer USA for allegedly preying on Oregonians through high-interest car loans they couldn’t afford in a case involving more than 265,000 borrowers nationwide.

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 6d

1. This is one of the most insane statements ever delivered by a presidential spokesperson in U.S. history. Totally disconnected from reality.

2. There is either going to be a civil war or abject Democratic surrender to autocracy. They are telling this you, to your face, in explicit terms.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6d

Leavitt: "President Trump will end the radical left's reign of terror in Portland once and for all. The president has directed Secretary Hegseth to provide all necessary troops to protect war-ravaged Portland."

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Matt Zoller Seitz @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 6d

I've thought a lot about the scene in A Clockwork Orange where Alex finds out that the droogs he used to rampage with are now policemen

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Tim Rogers @timmytyper.bsky.social · 6d

ICE operation today to round up children is code named Freaky Friday. JFC

Txnewsprincess @txnewsprincess.bsky.social · 6d

I’ve gotten this from reliable sources from within the Methodist Church. ICE is targeting children today.

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Tim Rogers @timmytyper.bsky.social · 6d

Fascinating, important reading. Ever heard of the Palmer Raids? www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/welcome-to...

Welcome to the Era of "Kavanaugh Raids"

ICE crosses another big, important line.

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Tim Rogers @timmytyper.bsky.social · 6d

Glad you are OK. Please be careful. I like to play a game at every intersection called Which One of These Cars Will Try to Hit Me? Head on a swivel, Nathaniel.

Tim Rogers @timmytyper.bsky.social · 7d

Yeah, what is up with those grates (man holes)?

Tim Rogers @timmytyper.bsky.social · 8d

At this point, Ross Avenue is almost unnavigable. If Dallas aspires to be world class, it should start there.

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404 Media @404media.co · 8d

Within moments of opening OpenAI’s new AI slop app Sora, I am watching Pikachu steal Poké Balls from a CVS. Then I am watching SpongeBob-as-Hitler give a speech about the “scourge of fish ruining Bikini Bottom.”

🔗 www.404media.co/openais-sora...

OpenAI’s Sora 2 Copyright Infringement Machine Features Nazi SpongeBobs and Criminal Pikachus

The main use of Sora appears to generate brainrot of major beloved copyrighted characters, to say nothing of the millions of articles, images, and videos OpenAI has scraped.

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Tim Rogers @timmytyper.bsky.social · 8d

The guy from Microsoft, as he’s unleashing more AI, says this about Office: “While others will try to replicate us, there is no substitute for the real thing.”

Huh

Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 8d

feels like we're living through some kind of cultural gas leak

The Verge @theverge.com · 10d

Microsoft launches ‘vibe working’ in Excel and Word

Tim Rogers @timmytyper.bsky.social · 8d

I love this man www.dmagazine.com/publications...

Dirk is Anchorman! - D Magazine

Six years after retiring from the Mavericks, he's made a career move that would shock his younger self. And that's far from the only thing he's been doing since hanging up the jersey.

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Tim Rogers @timmytyper.bsky.social · 8d

They violated ethics laws?! You don’t say!

NPR @npr.org · 8d

Federal employees across the government reported seeing similar messages. Experts say the messages may violate ethics laws meant to keep partisan politics out of day-to-day governing.

Trump administration uses taxpayer dollars to blame Democrats for government shutdown

Federal employees across the government reported seeing similar messages. Experts say the messages may violate ethics laws meant to keep partisan politics out of day-to-day governing.

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