@#4 ... The results weren't even close.

Sen. John Cornyn (R) must be pissed. ...

My guess would be that in the longer term, it is the good people of Texas who may become annoyed when they begin to realize that TX AG Paxton will be serving Pres Trump's interests more than their interests.

@#2

So, the original thought of the GOP was not to invite Dems?

... citing the fact that they were only invited on Friday, well after their Republican counterparts were asked to attend. ...

More from the cited article ...

... The event was originally intended for Republican attorneys general, but Vance later extended the invite to Democrats, a person familiar with the situation told CNBC. ...

@#22 ... His putrefactionous corruption is manifesting visibly itself on his hands and neck ...

Yeah, but as I noted in #21, my main concern is the apparent need for a continuing series of cognitive tests.

I am more concerned about mental degradation than physical degradation. I'd be less concerned if there weren't a history of dementia in the the Trump lineage.

The Moon?

Why not Mars or Venus?

Not really a surprise. As I have stated many times, primaries bring out the fringe votes, not the mainstream votes.

November will be interesting.

So, how might candidate Talarico respond to this primary win by TX AG Paxton?

My guess might be a focus upon corruption ...

But I don't live in Texas, so what do I know?

@#8 ... But, you see, they're stupid. ...

Stupid?

I'm not there yet.

Sucked into a cult, yea, maybe I'm there with that aspect.

Intelligent people can be sucked into a cult.

A friend of mine (quite intelligent) is a unabashed MAGA supporter. His main reasoning for what his opinions seem to be are along the lines of, ~because Pres Trump says so.~

More from the article ...

... SpaceX CEO Elon Musk claimed the Reuters report is wrong. But Musk also said the military drones initially used the commercial Starlink service instead of the government-specific network, in violation of Starlink's terms of service. Musk blamed the violation on the contractor that built the drones for the government.

The Reuters report, based on Pentagon documents and interviews with sources familiar with the pricing talks, said that SpaceX recently asked the military to pay $25,000 for Starshield access on each kamikaze drone.

The Pentagon, which previously paid $5,000 for each connection, objected to the price hike but ultimately agreed to pay it, according to Reuters.

While the $25,000 charge is a monthly fee for the satellite connection provided to a satellite terminal, the terminals are being used with drones that only make one-way trips before hitting targets and detonating on impact.

Starshield is a network for government entities and is based on Starlink technology. Musk wrote in an X post today that the "Reuters article is false." But in the very same post, he seemed to confirm a dispute over how the military used SpaceX satellite technology.

"They made improper use of the Starlink civilian system for military purposes. Direct violation of terms of service," Musk wrote today, seeming to indicate that the military used the commercial Starlink system when it should have been using Starshield. ...

Pres Putin's one-week invasion and takeover of Ukraine did not appear to go as planned.

Now, Pres Putin seems to be backed into a corner, much like Pres Trump and Pres Trump's war with Iran.

Animals backed into a corner tend to be most vicious.

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... The antennae are based, he said, in the heavily militarized territory of Kaliningrad, sandwiched between NATO alliance members Lithuania and Poland on the Baltic coast.

"The occasional interference began with the 2023 NATO summit in Vilnius. Now they have built up the infrastructure and the interference has become systemic, permanent, unending Russian provocation against European security," Kuliesius said.

The Russian embassy in Lithuania's capital Vilnius did not immediately reply to a request for comment, but Moscow has frequently denied such accusations in the past.

A map from the Lithuanian regulator indicated Russia's Global Positioning System falsification could reach across Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, most of Poland, and parts of Finland, Sweden and Belarus, as well as the Baltic Sea.

The range had reached 450km, Kuliesius said, which the Lithuanian regulator estimated by analysing disturbances in aviation surveillance ADS-B transmissions.

PAST INCIDENTS

Last year, a Spanish military jet with Defence Minister Margarita Robles onboard experienced a GPS disturbance near Kaliningrad while a plane carrying European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen was jammed en route to Bulgaria.

Estonia and neighbouring Finland have also blamed Russia for jamming GPS navigation devices in the region's airspace. ...

Taxpayer or UFC money?

... The state is likely to appeal the decision directly to the Supreme Court, which last month ruled that a Louisiana congressional map drawn to create two majority-Black House districts was an unconstitutional racial gerrymander. ...

SCOTUS does not seem to be the least bit concerned about the active return by Republicans to the Jim Crow era.

Indeed, SCOTUS seems to be actively encouraging that transition.

At this point, Pres Trump's goals seem to be to try to bring the Mid-East back to where it was before he waged his war.

Current negotiations seem to be focusing upon re-opening the Strait of Hormuz.

With an emphasis upon the "re" part of re-opening.

Before Pres Trump's Iran war the Strait was wide open. But Pres Trump seems to have instructed Iran about Iran's leverage in its ability to close the Strait of Hormuz.

So, in his peace negotiations with Iran, is Pres Trump just hoping to go back to mid-February, before he launched his war?

... A MAGA super fan who helped boost Donald Trump's runs for office now says he needs to be booted from the White House before he tips the country into total ruin. ...

What is so new in Pres Trump's behavior and statements that this "super-fan" did not see it previously?

Or is this just yet another example of the idiocy of some who have been sucked into the Cult of Trump?

My main concern is not necessarily why he has so many physical well-being exams.

No.

My main concern is why he seems to be given so many cognitive tests.

My guess might be that there is some cognitive-decline tracking being done.

But, as I have said in the past... I am not a lawyer. I am also not a medical professional.

@#23 ... "The left started doxing"

No they didn't. Police, like all government workers, are public servants. ...

Yeah, if the "doxing" excuse that MAGA seems to proffer is correct, then all local and state law enforcement officers should also wear masks and not identify themselves.

The problem, as I see it, is the [unlawful?] unnecessarily violent behavior of ICE agents, combined with administrative warrants to break into peoples' homes (instead of judicial warrants), and what seems to be ICE agents' behavior that tries to provoke unrest.

@#1 ... That is only one piece of a much greater national effort underway. Democrats are waiting for the wave. Republicans are building the sea wall. ...

Exactly.

The Democrats seem to be looking at voters voting for Democrats.

Meanwhile, Republicans seem to be changing the election infrastructure to make it more difficult for Democrat voters to choose the politicians.

Instead, Republicans seem to be choosing which voters they want to vote.

As a fmr Trump admin official once said ...

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... No formal agreement exists between the US and Canada to cooperate on consular services, so a plan was hastily arranged for the Canadian embassy to serve as a pickup point for handing out new and renewed US passports so citizens could evacuate.

That US foreign service members turned to their Canadian counterparts is surprising, given the two countries' strained relationship under the Trump administration, which has levied tariffs while the president has repeatedly called for making the longtime ally "the 51st state."

But the Canadian embassy "did not hesitate. The answer was an immediate yes," a senior State Department official told Semafor, asking not to be named because the information isn't public.

"We were kind of stuck," the official added. "We had all these passports arriving by FedEx from the print facility in the United States" but "we didn't have a location to give them out." ...

@#2 ... This past weekend Bessent went on TV to tell Americans to lower their withholding taken out of their wages and if they do that, it is a "pay raise". I am sure there will be people that listen to that nonsense. ...

Like Dir Hassett telling people that consumers needing to use their credit cards for necessties, increasing the amount of consumer credit card debt, is A Good Thing because how robust the economy is.

@#16 ... When you die your consciousness dies with you (sorry you religulous now get over it!) and your energy returns to the universe ...

If there is a multi-verse, then which universe might one's energy go to?

@#11 ... Where does the human mind comes from when the human body is made? ...

I wish I knew.

Where does life come from?

Unmask ICE and make them identify themselves, as is done with law enforcement.

Where does the human mind go when the human body dies?

More from the analysis ...

... Instead, it was one of the strongest midterm performances by a governing party in decades. Republicans gained only nine House seats, failed to retake the Senate, and spent the next four years arguing about why.

That story should haunt Democrats heading into 2026. The mirror image of the 2022 environment is now setting up around them: Trump's approval underwater, inflation cooking, Democrats overperforming in special elections, the generic ballot tilted blue.

The lesson of 2022 wasn't that wave conditions don't matter anymore. They still do. It was that they don't reliably translate into wave results. And, what's more, the infrastructure for blunting waves has changed since then.

Just after midnight on May 20, the South Carolina House voted 74-37 to redraw the state's only Democratic-held congressional district, a move urged personally by President Donald Trump, replacing it with one designed to elect a Republican in November.

That is only one piece of a much greater national effort underway. Democrats are waiting for the wave. Republicans are building the sea wall. ...

@#21 ... I don't know what you will do with yourselves if a deal actually gets worked out with Iran and we have peace in the middle east. ...

Will the possible peace be better or worse than the one that Pres Trump tore up?

Will the Strait of Hormuz be fully reopened? (notice I said "reopened," because the Strait of Hormuz had been fully open before Pres Trump's Iran war.)