Speaking of Austin:

AUSTIN (KXAN) " Austin Energy wants to help pay for your next electric vehicle.

Through its updated and expanded e-bike rebate program, Austin Energy customers can receive rebates that range from hundreds of dollars to more than a thousand dollars.

Eligible vehicles include electric scooters, bikes, mopeds, and e-motos.

The possible rebates include:

Up to $600 for individual customers
Up to $800 per vehicle for fleet customers purchasing 5-25 vehicles
Up to $1,300 for participants in Austin Energy's Customer Assistance Program

"We wanted to provide a more affordable way for people to get from point A to point B in the city," Bobby Godsey, the electric vehicle program outreach manager with Austin Energy, said.

"The community tasked us with being net zero emissions by 2040, so this is an opportunity for us to help our citizens go electric sooner rather than later."

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How dare she not put out to Diaper Don!

At least it was over quickly for her; others haven't been so fortunate:

Vance/Gaetz '28!

No couch will be safe!

His health may conveniently deteriorate once he becomes Lame Donald Duck.

Unless Vance becomes Pres, and even if he does, DJT may have to move to his coming Trump Gaza Hotel, Casino, and Pedo Palace to avoid prison.

Pres Zelenskyy dared to disagree with Vlad's poodle, so innocent people had to die... including a 6 year old girl in those attacks.

No Enforcer is perfect!

Though I've never noticed them being overtly pro-Israel. Interesting part to me is the clips they get from locals near attacks.

My favorite was the Russian guy standing on an overpass with some kind of shoulder held launcher who fired at a drone and hit one of the fuel depots the drone was targeting! Blew that sucker right up.

I lived in Austin for several years after I left the Silicon Valley; Austin was being touted as the 'Third Coast' for IT development in the early 80's... talked to Michael Dell once on the phone, and or his brother, I can't remember which.

Better yet I saw SRV perform at a tiny venue on the main drag, it was awesome!

Caucused for Jesse Jackson and the Rainbow Coalition.

My daughter was 6 mos old when we got there and we did all the new parent stuff around town and the river/lake, it was just starting get crowded, though, and we moved to New England after afew years.

San Antonio with the Riverwalk downtown and the Hill Country were also great places.

"Oct 12, 2026

Sen. Jon Ossoff puts Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on the spot in a tense Senate exchange, confronting him with his own past statements about winning the war.

Ossoff presses Hegseth over the apparent contradiction between his victory claims and the ongoing conflict, demanding answers about the administration's war strategy and its definition of success."

"Trump should fire Hegseth to avoid Hegseth's impeachment. It's the honorable thing to do," Massie said in response to the post on the social platform X."

vid is of Masse explaining the Impeachment he's filed against Drinky Pete.

Also talking about Moses Mike closing the House tomorrow so there won't be a Vote on Impeachment.

= it seems to be raised with such gravitas only in this late stage of the campaign.

He's been saying the same things for years, and from the very beginning of this Campaign; it's NOT some late game 'tactic'.

RELATED NEWS TODAY:

"Trump announces BAD NEWS for Ken Paxton in Texas"

You should perhaps see for yourself... but no, they seem to be fairly savvy militarily and politically Americans, and report from a Western perspective.

Anything else I can get you? Something to drink? A joint?

Some dessert?

Today. It's called News for a reason...

They're take is that NATO appeasing Russia now rather than confronting their aggression rhymes with appeasing Germany in the '30's.

- that resonance will be on Election Day.

Which is better than it has been for, as I said, literally decades.

What's 'fluff' to you is something average everyday Texans haven't been hearing in a very long time.

It's somewhat possible that it might even elect the first Dem US Sen from TX since Lloyd Benson in 1988.

Be careful getting down off of that horse you're up on... apparently it's pretty high.

The Enforcer News LIVE

clips and maps of the action

= little more than fluff.

They are apparently important enough to resonate with voters in a state that's been Red for decades now.

There's a few left from that time, like Jim Hightower, but the Anne Francis, Molly Ivans, and Barbara Jordons from back when I grew up there haven't been heard from until James Talarico, and I'm damn glad of it... it's quite refreshing, actually.

from the thread link transcript:

Chapter 1: The American dream

The American dream has become an American nightmare. It is too expensive to buy a home. It's too expensive to get married and have kids. It's too expensive to retire comfortably. People are working hard every day.

They're playing by the rules. But those rules of today weren't written for us. They were written for billionaires.

We can't afford a home, but Jeff Bezos has at least a dozen. We can't afford to
fill up our tank, but Mark Zuckerberg is launching helicopters off his mega yacht.

One in five Texas children live in poverty. But one of our own residents became the world's first trillionaire.

Those three men now own more wealth than the entire middle class. The top 1% has put the American dream behind a paywall.

Chapter 2: Corporate welfare

I haven't heard a good democratic argument of great let's help people, but how are you pro? There are nasty people. There are welfare queens.

There are nasty people who take advantage of the system and take away from those who earned it, take away from those who need it.

So, how are you going to take that into account?

How are you going to going to make sure we we cover that risk as well?

The biggest welfare queens in this country are the giant corporations that don't pay a penny in federal taxes. The biggest welfare queens are the CEOs who get a tax deduction for flying on a private jet.

It's not hungry kids. It's not working parents who work multiple jobs to provide for their families."

RLR for Quote O' the Day!

"Oct 15, 2026

Billionaires are spending millions to bail out their top puppet, Ken Paxton. These dark money super PACs are flooding the airwaves with lies about me and my record. What do you do when you can't persuade? You lie. What do you do when you won't debate? You hide.

What do you do when you know you're losing? You call on your billionaire backers to bail you out. I know it feels like we're up against a lot to see all this dark money flowing into our state.

But where we could see reason to despair, I see reason to hope. You should believe in our power because they sure do. You should believe that we can make history because they sure do. And you should believe that our movement can beat their money because they sure do."

more from James Talarico SLAMMING Billionaires and Corrupt Politicians

"James Talarico rolls out economic agenda that takes aim at "false Gospel of trickle-down economics"

Like his U.S. Senate rival, Ken Paxton, the Austin state lawmaker introduced a plan to address what he called an "affordability crisis." But they differed on who is to blame for rising costs."

"Democratic U.S. Senate nominee James Talarico proposed a sweeping economic agenda on Wednesday that called for repealing recent GOP tax cuts for the wealthy and enacting universal childcare, among other policies meant to lower everyday costs.

"We have an affordability crisis because we have a corruption crisis," Talarico said during a nearly 30-minute speech to an audience of 1,300 people in Arlington.

"For too many of our neighbors " for too many Texans " the American dream has become an American nightmare."

"It's time for us to come together across these manufactured divisions, to take on the people at the top who have been screwing us over for far too long," Talarico said.

"That is the movement that we are building here in Texas. This is not a politics of fear. This is not a politics of division. This is a politics of unity, a politics of friendship, a politics of love. This new kind of politics can change our state. It can change our country."

Visitor isn't even trying any more.

DJT promised to drain The Swamp... and he did!

He drained it right into Sieg Heil Musk's pockets.

Trumpers are SO proud! Just ask them...

Elon and the Oil Barons purchased America for cheap, and they intend to keep her.

He alone 'invests' aka openly bribes politicians, especially the ------ POTUS; millions that return billions.

What a guy! Rwingers love this guy... he's like the modern version of Rand's hero, who was based on a soulless serial killer; he feels no shame for his grandiose psychosis.

(Grandiose psychosis " clinically known as grandiose delusions)

"Michael Waldman of the Brennan Center says we haven't seen a gap like this since the Watergate election of 72. And here's the grubby part. Musk is a federal contractor. His companies have pulled in at least $38 billion in contracts, loans, subsidies, and tax credits.

And Pete Hegseth just handed in a Pentagon task force on the future of warfare.

Not long ago, this kind of spending was just flatly illegal. Then came Citizens United and a federal elections commission that can't even muster a quorum. Add another $1.3 billion in dark money from donors you'll never see or know.

And Waldman's remedy is a real ban on political giving by federal contractors and the people who own them. His question is blunt. Why steal an election when you can buy it?

When one man can outspend an entire political party, the rest of us aren't citizens anymore. We're spectators.

Trump brags, we're making a fortune while your gas costs four bucks and 33 cents. Hours after federal data showed inflation hit 3.7% in September, Donald Trump stood before a rally in Bullhead City, Arizona and said the quiet part out loud.

Because oil is so high, he said, Texas and Oklahoma and North Dakota are making a fortune."

(much more at the link; hit Transcript below the link for Full Article)

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'Member when DJT stood before the Oil Lobby and sold them America for a million dollars each?

We were bought really cheap.

- Anyhow, Republicans are getting their way so far - the government can barely function whatsoever now.

That's purposeful goal of Project25... to get the last vestiges of Gov of by and for the People turned over to the moneyed interests; Corporations as Super Citizens and the Richest People with the loudest voices because Republicans made Money equal Speech... and the least educated, least informed voters fell for their Carnival Barker Criminal President of Grift.

MAGA was always really Make America Grift Again.