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Nearly five months after Alabama Republican Sen. Tommy Tuberville announced his hold on Department of Defense nominees, the tactic has become a major flashpoint within the US Senate as institutionalists inside the body are voicing concerns the hold could have long-term repercussions and are openly warning an overhaul of the nominations process could be needed. Despite efforts from Republican colleagues, Tuberville’s been resolute, holding up the nomination of roughly 250 military nominees – many promotions that would typically be fast-tracked through the Senate. The dramatic impasse is forcing senators to openly question if it’s time for the body to consider changing the rules or at the very least limit the number of nominations that require Senate confirmation. “Maybe we need another gang to come up with a set of rules changes, but the vast majority of us who understand these tools should be used sparingly, I think we need to raise our voices,” Sen, Mark Warner, a Democrat from Virginia, said. The angst is bipartisan as senators are grow wary of a further roadblocks in a Senate that is already doing very little legislating in divided government. “Are we all gonna start taking hostages now?” Sen. Lisa Murkowski, a Republican from Alaska, said.

The Biden administration announced Monday that Alabama will get $1.4 billion in broadband funding. Sen. Tommy Tuberville celebrated the news, calling the funding "crucial" for rural broadband. But he voted against the 2021 infrastructure bill that established the program he's now Cornyn did the same thing. Republicans and flies…

Consider that he (even with connections) had to transfer from Fordham to gain admission to Penn.

Is it true the Tech chancellor had armed guards stationed outside of his office once his firing of Leach broke?

This only thing left to bring the moral poverty of the GOP full circle is for McCarthy to appoint Santos to the ethics panel that will sit in judgement of the newly censured Adam Schiff.

Many of us who have been generally supportive of West in the past are giving him major shade because of this stunt.

He’s a Republican stooge chaos agent who was recruited to their movement by Steve Bannon. Now he has RFKJr collaborating with Moms for Liberty.

Conspiracy theorists are an interesting bunch. There should be more studies done on them since they seem to be everywhere and are beginning to have a outsized impact on our body politic.

I didn’t realize he was this crazy. He thinks poppers cause AIDS: https://www.yahoo.com/news/poppers-cause-aids-environment-makes-133912227.html Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the noted conspiracy theorist and anti-vaccine activist, thinks kids (particularly boys) are being made trans from exposure to chemicals in the environment, equating them to frogs in a lab, and he claims AIDS is an environmental condition for which poppers are responsible. Really. The son of former president John F. Kennedy’s brother, the late Robert F. Kennedy, who served as his attorney general, is challenging President Joe Biden as a Democrat in the 2024 election. In two recently unearthed videos, the activist made bizarre and false claims about the existence of transgender people and the origins of AIDS. I see these huge levels of depression and despair, loneliness in kids, and I don’t think that there’s a single cause to it, and I think blaming it on depression about climate is probably over-simplistic,” Kennedy told Canadian far right-wing political pundit and psychologist Jordan Peterson. “A lot of the problems we see in kids, and particularly boys, it’s probably underappreciated that how much of that is coming from chemical exposures, including a lot of the sexual dysphoria that we’re seeing.” Kennedy claimed that kids are “swimming through a soup of toxic chemicals,” including atrazine, a common herbicide.

It’s more than a little ironic that a FOX reporter had to show all of the others how to interview Trump. The only mistake Baier made was not correcting Trump on his claim of creating “the best economy” That’s total bs.

One would certainly hope. Texas needs more than 3 high falutin’ academic schools, especially one of those is aggy.

In what way? They’re all among the 131 Carnegie Classification Institutions of Very High Research Activity.

That would be true of the Oklahoma schools as well. Not enough kids to fill their schools. It’s why Houston, Texas State, UTD and Tech fund themselves competing for kids not going to UT or aggy.

Hoops build character.

Chuckle, sure.

Mark Cuban slammed Joe Rogan Sunday for making what he viewed to be harmful statements against the medical and pharmaceutical industries while propping up anti-vaccination rhetoric from the likes of 2024 presidential hopeful Robert F. Kennedy Jr. “Way to talk in generalities, Joe,” Cuban, who owns Cost Plus Drugs, wrote in a tweet, quote-tweeting Rogan’s own post that said the medical industry is made up of “heartless monsters.” Also Read: Joe Rogan Offers $100,000 to Leading Vaccine Researcher to Debate RFK Jr. Over ‘Nonsense’ Anti-Vaxxer Claims “Not saying there aren’t a lot of f–ked up things about pharma,” Cuban continued, “but to ignore that the same industry has saved who knows how many lives is bulls–t and you know it. It’s also disrespectful to all the doctors, researchers and medical professionals that dedicate their lives to saving lives The social media beef stemmed from Rogan’s recent podcast with Kennedy, a prominent anti-vaxxer, that spotlighted misinformation about the COVID-19 vaccine. That interview led to vaccine researcher Peter Hotez calling it out as “nonsense,” which then led Rogan to challenging Hotez to debate the topic on his podcast with no time limit in exchange for $100,000 donated to a charity of his choice. In his escalating attacks, the podcast host condemned the medical industry as “heartless monsters … [who] look[ed] at human beings as an opportunity to generate insane wealth regardless of the tragic consequences.” In addition to that tweet, Cuban addressed Rogan’s incessant attacks on Hotez, which was only intensified when Twitter owner Elon Musk got involved by sayingHotez was “afraid of a public debate, because he knows he’s wrong.” https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/mark-cuban-blasts-joe-rogan-193818517.html

Apologies to drag queens everywhere, but she looks like a drag queen who doesn’t know how to supply her makeup.

Check out the second response in this aggy thread: https://texags.com/forums/16/topics/3383214

There’s quite a bit of fallout that we’ve yet to consider. From Haaretz: Top brass in the Israeli defense establishment, particularly in the IDF Intelligence Corps and the Mossad espionage agency, are concerned that secret documents seized from former U.S. President Donald Trump include material whose exposure has damaged Israel’s security. Among hundreds of documents removed from the White House were most probably references to Iran and Israel

Cruz won his first race by 16 points. He won the second by 1.5 points. The more Texans learn about him, the less they like him. Let’s hope the trend holds.

Okie State didn’t pitch a fit because OU was not driving the bus to the Sec. Texas was.

Really? What are their names?

The only way he will attend the Thanksgiving dinners if he’s able to brag about getting 3 billion for selling secrets to Jared’s 2 billion.

One legal expert last night called the Trusty bunch nor ready for prime time, said they were “D leaguers” and would need to be replaced by A list trial lawyers. Seems he was right.

Meant to write “should not be viewed as an excuse.” My bad.