Ken Paxton doubles down, adding to GOP's Texas fears

This gonna be good!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2026/3/5/2371767/-Ken-Paxton-doubles-down-adding-to-GOP-s-Texas-fears

Attorney General Ken Paxton on Wednesday said not even President Donald Trump could push him out of the Texas Senate contest, telling a right-wing cable news show that he still plans to stay in the GOP primary runoff against Sen. John Cornyn even if he does not earn Trump's endorsement.

I'm staying in this race," Paxton told Real America's Voice. "I owe it to the people of Texas. I've spent a year of my life campaigning against John Cornyn because John has not represented the people of Texas well. He's been against Trump in both of his elections, said he shouldn't run last time. The people of Texas, at least the Republicans, would like something different."


Paxton"s comments came after Trump said on Wednesday he was finally going to acquiesce to establishment Republicans' pleas and get off the sidelines to endorse in Texas' Republican Senate primary. Trump added that whomever he doesn't pick should drop out of the race to spare the GOP an expensive and bruising runoff that could hurt the eventual nominee in November"s general election.

"I will be making my Endorsement soon, and will be asking the candidate that I don"t Endorse to immediately DROP OUT OF THE RACE!" Trump wrote a post on Truth Social."We must win in November!!"
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This is great news for us
The ensuing struggle is a big help to Talarico

Hillary asked for press to be allowed to view deposition

since Boebert leaked images-but apparently Repubs declined

https://x.com/krassenstein/status/2027097939039138084

Judge blasts ICE 'sloppiness' for claiming 4-year-old kid had a marijuana conviction

A federal judge reprimanded Donald Trump’s administration for claiming that an immigrant seeking his release from custody was convicted for marijuana possession in 2009 — when he was 4 years old.

To support arguments for the man’s ongoing detention and removal from the country, government lawyers attached a document from Immigration and Customs Enforcement that they "indicated" was related to his criminal history.

They submitted the document in court filings “despite the differences in birthdate, birthplace, parents’ names, and immigration status,” West Virginia District Judge Irene Berger noted in her order to release him on Tuesday.

“This sloppiness further validates the Court’s concerns about the procedures utilized by the Respondents depriving people present in the United States of their liberty,” she wrote.

More at https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/ice-sloppiness-judge-contempt-rulings-b2927381.html

Who did this?

NOW, could we actually get refund tariff checks?

Asking for a friend...

Dark comment seen online re: SC decision

A poster on emptywheel.net:
From OldTulsaDude:
If I were the 6 justices, I’d have someone else start my car.

Thanks for the heart!

I love this place, thank you one and all!

Anti-ICE chant erupts at AEW pro wrestling match in Las Vegas, pausing event and startling wrestler

Brody King, competing against wrestler MJF in the ring at the Vegas match, has been outspoken against ICE and organized campaigns to raise money supporting immigrant communities.

https://www.nbcnews.com/sports/wrestling/wrestling-fans-launch-anti-ice-chant-aew-match-las-vegas-pausing-event-rcna257579

Fans at an All Elite Wrestling match on Wednesday night broke out into an anti-ICE chant that briefly paused the pro-wrestling match and appeared to startle one of the wrestlers in the ring.

At the AEW World Championship Eliminator Match in Las Vegas, which was being broadcast live on TBS and HBO Max, a loud and sustained cry against U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement of “F--- ICE” reverberated through the audience before the opening bell rang.

Reigning champion Maxwell Jacob Friedman, also known as MJF, looked shocked as the chant began, seeming to break character and staring into the camera wide eyed before scanning the crowd. Brody King, in the opposite corner, can be seen looking at the audience and nodding.

King has been outspoken against ICE in the weeks leading up to the Championship Eliminator Match. The pro wrestler and lead vocalist of the heavy metal band God’s Hate collaborated with artists and a printing company to release t-shirts raising money for the Minnesota Rights Action Committee.

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AEW is a professional wrestling organization that competes with the more well-known WWE. WWE is owned by the same company as UFC and are linked with Trump.

We overperformed by 20 points in a Minnesota state house special election!

BOOM! We won 95.6% to 4.4%!!!

This was a Harris 71+ district.

🎉 BOOM!!

DFL candidate Meg Luger-Nikolai ends up winning by 91.2 points!

That's a 20 POINT OVERPERFORMANCE in a seat Harris won by 71 points!

— Charles Gaba ✡️ (@charlesgaba.com) 2026-01-28T03:52:38.415Z

Media lauds Trump's Davos speech as 'very strong' as world cringes

Mainstream media outlets on Wednesday once again reported on a strange, rambling speech by President Donald Trump as if it were a normal presentation, continuing the tradition of “sanewashing” his rhetoric and misinforming their audiences.


But soon after the speech was over, CNN anchor Wolf Blitzer characterized Trump’s rant “very strong,” betraying the haphazard and unfocused remarks that had just aired on the news network.

The New York Times reported on the speech in a piece headlined “Trump Threatens Europe Over Greenland but Rules Out Sending Troops.” That was based on Trump’s statement, “I don’t have to use force. I don’t want to use force. I won’t use force. All the United States is asking for is a place called Greenland.”

But this ignores Trump’s considerable history during his time as a tabloid media figure, a reality TV host, and as a politician during which he has lied with abandon. Trump’s claim that he would not use force against Greenland should rationally be put in context of his past claim that President Barack Obama was not a natural born citizen (a lie) or that climate change was a “hoax” from China (a massive lie).

More at https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2026/1/21/2364648/-Media-lauds-Trump-s-Davos-speech-as-very-strong-as-world-cringes