Ahh, wingnut Twitter. When this news broke, one MAGA Tweeter claimed she'd passed a breathalyzer. I told him that the Trib story, linked above, didn't mention a breathalyzer. It DID say she refused a blood draw but the cop got a warrant. It also did say that she failed a field sobriety test. (Update: New stories mention, in order, the officer smelling alcohol, one of three field sobriety tests being failed and two being borderline/inconclusive, a breathalyzer that wasn't done correctly or didn't have usable results, then Angela Graham-West first consenting to a blood draw and then changing her mind and asking for a lawyer. That last is within her legal and constitutional rights, but people like her hubby don't want the general public to know that. What we have is CLASSISM. On the matter at hand, she was also reportedly talking on a cellphone when stopped and presumably beforehand. That, in turn is why Tex-ass is so weak on cellphone laws. Talking and driving with a 3-month-old grandson? Too bad she can't get a ticket for just that. As for what happened? I venture she had one-three drinks ... probably no more than that. Her blood draw will probably come back right around 0.08 but no higher. But, by law, Mr. Law and Order GOP ex-chairman, cops, and courts, can use more than BAC results.)
Havana Ted / Cancun Ted Cruz doesn't want to be a disloyal jackass, so he's public now on saying he'll vote for Abbott rather than West or Huffines. (Talk is cheap; on election night 2016, after claiming he would vote for Libertarian nominee Gary Johnson, Jesse Ventura ("The Body," or "The Rug," as in "lies like one") admitted he didn't. Cruz will still be a jackass, just a loyal one, at least for public consumption.
A federal judge, whose president of nomination the Trib doesn't identify and is so underground that Google doesn't show me, has ordered an injunction on the Biden Admin's ending of the Trump Admin's renegotiated extension of Texas' 1115 Medicaid waiver.
Stace honors journalist, poet, playwright, and cultural critic Gregg Barrios , who passed away suddenly last week.
Insurrectionist real estate agent Jenna Ryan has pled guilty over her role Jan. 6. She supposably says she won't go to jail, but that's for a judge to say in November, as no official news of that has been announced. Given her straight lies plus schwaffles from the day she was arrested, she is of course not credible.
The REPUBLICAN controlled Maricopa County, Arizona, Board of Supervisors, wants the GOP controlled state senate to pay $2.8 million for election equipment damaged during the #Fraudit.
Biden did fuck up the Afghanistan withdrawal, starting from the premise that he should have known Trump's original withdrawal timetable and plan had no actual plan. Nonetheless, we needed to withdraw and it was right. Why doesn't the MSM interview people like me, Popular Info asks. Besides, we knew a whole decade ago how corrupt Afghan officialdom was, Mondoweiss reports.
When neoliberals fellate their own.
Beyond Bones assures us that dinosaurs loved their children too.
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