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My mom was a teacher, my grandmother was a teacher, and I've been honored to work as a teacher. Kirk Cameron and his ilk openly want to destroy public education as surely as the Taliban love to destroy schools. They are the same.
Actor Kirk Cameron on his new movie ‘Home School Awakening:’ “We’ve become grossly aware of the inaccurate and immoral things that the public school system has been teaching our children .. The public school system has been public enemy number one.”
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@tedcruz
Ted, you don’t remember me, but I interviewed you a few times and met you at a few events. Even sat with your dad at a luncheon once. And I can say without hesitation that of all the people I’ve talked to in 45 years of public life, no one is more full of shit than you are.
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In all my years of working shows I’ve only seen 3 artists for whom everyone backstage stood spontaneously when they entered the room: Johnny Cash, Dolly Parton…and Loretta Lynn.
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Anyone who was around for the televangelist scandals of the late 80s/early 90s can draw a straight line from Jimmy Swaggart and Jim Bakker to Donald Trump. Same audience.
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Okay, since someone asked, a thread about teleprompters...and why Trump locks up when his do.
For starters, I've been around since prompters used paper scrolls (they really did, kids).
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@ladyfromdalou
Hi, Mel! I teach here in DFW at an HBCU and first want to say Well Done! I also host a weekly TV show about stories just like yours, and would LOVE to use the clip of your mom this weekend! I know it would make my viewers as happy as it did me. Hope to hear from you! - Jody
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For all members of the
@GOP
upset at Jen O'Malley Dillon's vulgar description of Republicans, warmest Holiday greetings from the First Lady of the United States:
"Who gives a f*** about Christmas stuff and decoration, but I need to do it, right?" - Melania Trump
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@KelvinLeeJones1
@clarencehilljr
First time I met her she was driving around Texas in a van with her dad and Destiny's Child doing local TV. You could tell even then.
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Mattress Mack with special NLCS Game 7 guest, Ken Paxton. How to lose $13 million and decades of accumulated goodwill at the same time.
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@DrPaulGosar
@SenTedCruz
@ChrisPlanteShow
A great example of why this Republican is voting Democrat.
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You could have handed out blankets.
You could have helped supply food.
You could have helped load generators.
You could have stood with Texans.
You could have been a leader.
Instead,
@tedcruz
, you went on vacation.
.
@tedcruz
on his Cancun trip: "I gotta tell you, I don't know how to string power lines. When we had a freeze, when the state was frozen, I don't have the ability to control the weather."
Says his power was out, "so I made a decision to take my kids to the beach."
#TribFest23
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@RexChapman
Worth noting that Rod Serling earned both a Purple Heart and a Silver Star fighting against totalitarianism in WWII. He was later said his experience infused his storytelling, and he suffered nightmares for the rest of his life.
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This is Larry. Larry didn't close the beaches either. Don't be Larry,
@GregAbbott_TX
@RonDeSantisFL
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@cullend
@erinisaway
Blanks can kill. The cartridge wadding can penetrate bone at close range, and just the muzzle force alone can put a hole in a skull. It could also have been a breach or barrel explosion, especially if the weapon was period or had a Damascus barrel.
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Republicans don't want to solve the border crisis. They need it.
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Then you have all the side trips - as he wanders into either familiar dogwhistles or Klingon word salads while somewhere in the building a prompter operator has a bp approaching 220/120. "Is he going back to the script NOW???" Imagine that job for 2 hours.
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Whether it's a charity function or corporate video that requires using a prompter (or even a few local TV anchors I won't name...for now), review, review, review. Then don't read. Relate.
You'll also notice who's really interested in doing so.
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All my life I've been grateful to be a Texan. Today I feel little but shame.
A reminder to my Democrat friends in the state: we wouldn't be here if
@texasdemocrats
ran viable candidates with messaging that connects. Gilberto Hinojosa is never going to get you there.
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If my adopted city of Dallas wants to elect a Republican, okay. If it wants to elect a Democrat, okay. If it wants to elect a little green dude from Mars, okay. What it didn’t vote for and doesn’t need is a turncoat. That’s what
@Johnson4Dallas
is, and that’s not okay.
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The state of Texas is going to turn even further to the hard right unless good people rise up and vote this November. It's as simple as that.
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Which brings us to Trump. First start with the way he cranes his back to read the things. That's the posture of someone having trouble making out the words. He's trying to read them, and it's obvious it's his first time seeing them. He doesn't study.
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@tedcruz
I think you're a fascist and I'm not a communist. I'm just a Texan who'll never vote Republican again.
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America: where schools ban peanut butter to protect the 3% of students who have allergies but can't require masks to help protect 100% of them from COVID.
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ERCOT warns blackouts are possible this winter. But…but…but…I distinctly remember
@GregAbbott_TX
saying he fixed the grid. What gives, Governor Suckhole?
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I'm old enough to remember when the phrase "duped by Russian intelligence" meant the instantaneous end of a career. Now it's just Wednesday in the
@GOP
.
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Only
@DanPatrick
could claim with a straight face that crime and murder rates are skyrocketing thanks to Democrat policies when Republicans have held every statewide elected office in Texas since the Cowboys' last went to a Super Bowl.
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Plus, it'd be the size of a small phone book to make allowances for all the riffs. So now you have the perfect storm: scant preparation, complete reliance, and technical fallibility. And besides getting the thing up again you have to find where he was.
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Abbott may be more nakedly ambitious, Paxton more unremittingly conniving, and Cruz more spectacularly unctuous, but you will not find in all of God's own Texas a more colossal schmuck than this man.
Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick (R) says that if officials lock up 15% of the population, there will be no crime:
"Only about 15% of all Americans commit 100% of the crime ... If you lock up the 15%, we don't have any crime."
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Today’s heat index in Dallas-Fort Worth is expected to hit 115. I work construction. I know how important those breaks are. The only thing that’s important to
@GregAbbott_TX
@GovAbbott
is his big business donors.
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“My God, is it possible all the people have gone mad?” - Sam Houston
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And then the prompter dies.
Noting here that there's a reason it's called a prompter. It's supposed to prompt. It's not called a "reader". Ideally, you also have a hardcopy of what you intend to say right in front of you, or your news copy if you're doing a newscast.
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School vouchers remind me of asking a dad years ago about what it was like to send his kids to one of the state's most privileged, exclusive ISDs. "Great", he said, "but the problem is they only ever meet one kind of people."
Which is exactly what voucher scam supporters want.
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Good morning. This is your Monday reminder that Dan Patrick and Ken Paxton are the kind of second-rate men that Sam Houston would have beaten with a knotted hickory stick.
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Also note these days how few people on TV actually do that anymore, but I digress. Ever see Trump carry a binder up on stage? Nope, because he doesn't think he'll need the backup and would get tied up turning the pages even if he thought he did.
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The day Texas sends
@tedcruz
packing can’t get here soon enough. Of course, given Ted’s history, he’s probably already packed.
Ted Cruz, securing his border photo op, responds to reporter asking what he has done in 11 years as a Texas senator to secure the border:
“You don’t get to argue with me.”
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The key being, of course, actually reading through your script enough times to recognize the words - which becomes very obvious very quickly when you see someone who doesn't have that good habit.
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After 44 years behind the mic, Eric Nadel makes the call he’s always dreamed of.
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@AndrewFeinberg
@Kris_Sacrebleu
@VP
@SpeakerPelosi
@SenSchumer
For God's sake, they built a makeshift gallows outside the Capitol. They weren't looking for hostages. They were looking for hangings. Has everyone forgotten what their plan was in Michigan?
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The couple killed in the Rainbow Bridge crash have been identified, and I think
@tedcruz
owes their families an apology.
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Now, some people can get up and ad-lib all day. Extemporaneous speaking is their gift. Others, though, only think that it is. Either way, riffers can drive a prompter operator insane - even when the writers allow for the riffs in the copy.
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So, you learned to read with your peripheral vision - focusing your eyes on the viewer while recognizing the words you'd presumably already read through by...their shapes.
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@tedcruz
@JoyAnnReid
Why are you taking a vaccine for something you guaranteed wouldn't require serious measures after Election Day?
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Nowadays, of course, your speech or copy is usually projected onto a glass screen - either at eye-level or positioned directly in front of camera, like on a news set or in a production studio.
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Having taught a few courses on corporate crisis response, I think I'm well within some expertise here in saying that Kim Mulkey's WaPo rant is an epic example of everything you don't do. Ever.
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Every supporter of
@KenPaxtonTX
: is it his corruption or his cruelty that you enjoy most?
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Stop, start, stop, start...and you can imagine what the software then does if you do that too many times. Also no way to know when (or if) your speaker will eventually wander back to the plot.
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But back in the day they stood off camera, or in the case of a newscast, slightly below it. Actually "reading" it was a bad idea, since that likewise focused your eyes away from the camera - and the viewer at home.
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For the unfamiliar, the Texas Rangers' home is Globe Life Field in Arlington - Texas' seventh-largest city. It's 19 miles from Fort Worth, 20 miles from Dallas, and sits in the relative center of roughly 8 million DFW-area residents.
And
@tedcruz
is full of sheep dip.
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If there's one thing I loathe more than Trumpers, it's Texas secessionists.
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@tedcruz
@Sethrogen
How 'bout if I'm just an angry ex-Republican disgusted with what people like you have done to the party? Does that get extra points?
What Seth said. You offered more of a defense to him than you did of your wife and dad to Trump.
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The men who died on the Key Bridge remind me of guys I work with. Hard workers with calloused hands and tender hearts. Quick to smile, slow to anger, with advice that'll help save you an ER visit if you take it.
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A good portion of Cowboys fans booed Don Meredith out of town, wanted Morton instead of Staubach, never appreciated Danny White, and insisted on Walsh rather than Aikman. Maybe the trouble isn't the quarterback.
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Since
@GregAbbott_TX
loves to blather about "the majority of Texans", you'd think he'd have noticed that a large majority of Texans - both Democrat AND Republican - favor stricter gun laws.
But of course there's no Wilks/Dunn money in that.
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@FashionableRes1
"Reputable" being the key word. Hard to get those when you're notorious for not paying vendors.
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@RexChapman
Hey,
@mattgaetz
: here's a few of the rioters, one holding up a shard of Speaker Pelosi's sign and another wearing a "Camp Auschwitz" t-shirt. Which one of them is Antifa and which one is BLM?
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The film director I worked for a month ago is Indian. The photographer I shot for two weeks ago is Iranian. The church I worked with this weekend is Nigerian. Immigrants don’t poison America’s blood. They ARE America’s blood.
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Oh look, Texas. Private schools increase tuition once vouchers pass.
It's never really been about the kids, has it
@GregAbbott_TX
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Hell of a day for the voucher lobby to push this.
New research dropped today
@eduwonkette_jen
showing IA voucher schools raise tuition once vouchers pass:
And
@BrookingsEd
showing AZ vouchers mostly go to wealthy families:
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I hope whatever Jesse Prado was paid was worth his honor.
Investigator Jesse Prado leaves after announcing that his report found the Uvalde Police department did not commit any wrongdoing in its response to the deadly school shooting at Robb Elementary.
@LeighWaldman
reports
FULL STORY--
#KSATnews
#Uvalde
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Disappointing - but the more I think about it, the more it tracks.
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You'll recall
@GregAbbott_TX
also said Uvalde "could have been worse".
Regarding the largest fire in Texas history,
@GregAbbott_TX
says, "It could have been worse." I shit you not.
THEN, he gets the death toll wrong.
This was the first press conference he's held on day six of the largest fire in Texas history.
#txlege
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@tedcruz
How's it feel being surrounded by 100,000 people rooting for different teams but united in their utter dislike of you?
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Thanks to
@SpeakerJohnson
, some of those operations won’t come back.
Cattle ranchers in Texas will be impressed when they find out that USDA Livestock Loss programs are not authorized because
@SpeakerJohnson
has not prioritized passing a Farm Bill. The old one expired last year. Oh well.
@Ruralusapac
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More and more schools are going to be closing across Texas until folks figure out that closed schools is what Republicans want.
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This is a video of tens of thousands of people who decided it was time give a shit.
This is Berlin today. Calling for resistance against the Far Right.
All around Germany, people took to the streets in the last days.
History tells us:
We cannot wait until it is too late and Fascists are in power.
We have to stand up to them.
NOW.
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You might have to know DFW to get this, but the thing
#JennaRyan
is going to be most upset about will be clients knowing now that The Frisco Realtor actually lives in Carrolton.
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“Rapid unscheduled disassembly” is the perfect description for Musk’s public image.
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I wonder how many folks who wouldn't get a COVID vaccination have no problem loading up on Ozempic.
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Daughter’s graduation. Just like that, she grew up.
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If you ever wondered what “love your neighbor” looks like, meet Jim Finch.
This man drove half an hour with a grill and a truckload of food and parked right in the middle of
#Mayfield
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You really have to wonder about folks who'll adamantly insist that saving the drowning isn't their problem but turn around and vigorously sing "Love Lifted Me" on Sunday morning.
Read the lyrics, y'all.
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@tedcruz
As usual, you take no personal responsibility for anything - and make no mistake: you personally helped ignite this.
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When I talked about getting choked up after getting my first Pfizer shot, some people mocked me. Yesterday, my second shot took me one step closer to meeting my 1yo grandson for the first time. Between that and the thought of how many have died to get here, you bet I teared up.
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No one likes
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The Ted Cruz campaign really packing in massive crowds. You can really feel the excitement and energy.
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"History will prove that our current state government is the most corrupt ever...“bought” by a few radical dominionist billionaires seeking to destroy public education, privatize our public schools and create a Theocracy...both un-American and un-Texan."
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@BudKennedy
@CityColleyville
@judge_whitley
I've visited, shopped, dined, played ball, promoted, advertised and spoken in the city of Colleyville for the better part of 40 years. I'll go through Oklahoma before I'll pass through that town again, and will encourage others to avoid it as well. I couldn't be more disgusted.
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Nothing says
@HouseGOP
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Ken Paxton and his sycophants will not come away from this chastened. They will feel licensed, and things will get uglier.
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This sorry SOB is going to skate.
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@TheRickWilson
@GOPLeader
stands in the ashes of what he thought would be useful controlled burn, only it got out of hand.
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@JohnnyGarrett4
You left out the second part, which Jesus said is equal to the first.
But you know that, and you don't care.
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You can absolutely bet your bottom dollar that Ken Paxton will try to prosecute Kate Cox when she comes back to Texas - and his supporters will adore him for it.
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Ask yourself if you want your children and grandchildren to inherit a country run by ignoramuses who let measles and polio back in the door. Ever see an iron lung? Yes, it’s time for you to give a shit.
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Here's what's incomprehensible: people who showed up with bullhorns and guns because they couldn't handle a few weeks of not being able to get a haircut or visit a bar can't understand people who are angry over several hundred years of lynchings, bombings, death, and oppression.
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I grew up in the South. Lee was an ancestor of mine. Other family members rode with Quantrill. I have pictures of my mom as an infant in the arms of freedmen my family had formerly owned.
@NikkiHaley
might not be a racist, but she most assuredly is a coward.
Nikki Haley defended not citing slavery as the cause of the Civil War during a campaign event in New Hampshire, saying that this was "a given" for people who grew up in the South: "To me, it was about freedom. It's bigger than slavery."
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Attention, anyone who wants to wear a western (or really, any) hat. See that itty bitty bow? That goes in the back. You’re welcome,
@elonmusk
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How long has my family been in Texas? Since it built this cabin in the 1830s.
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The only thing that's going to stop Trump is a complete repudiation at the ballot box this November. Quit depending on anyone or anything else to save your country, your freedoms or your children's future. It's up to you. It always has been.
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Whatever Greg Locke worships, it has nothing to do with Christ.
Just a normal Sunday at Global Vision Bible Church as right-wing pastor Greg Locke literally screams at his congregation "do not get vaccinated" while saying that only "crack-smoking, demon-possessed leftists" think Biden is the legitimate president.
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