André Treiber

My thread of everything I read, watch, or play in 2025. Will I be more timely with my updates this time? Uh, well, judging by the date of this post, clearly not.

This isn't a "myth" - it is based on what *actually happens* when states have imposed work requirements. When states have imposed work requirements in the past, most of the people who lose their health insurance were working.

Probably a bad day to use the term “crazy train is coming to a halt” Joni

Pretty dark black pill moment that people looking for work in all kinds of industries are reporting how hellish it is to fight through the AI spam, only for the brownshirts to be going on an obscene hiring spree

Did Greg Abbott learn nothing from the fury that was whipped up leading into the SB 3 THC ban veto? So much of it was coming from his own base. This is a massive political self-own. #txlege

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If you like that trope, you should read the hit web serial Worm, by Wildbow.

Texas Democrats in 2006 and 2010:

You know, it actually takes some work to appoint a 21-member committee and not include a single representative from Austin, one of the largest cities not just in Texas but in the U.S. They did this to us in 2021 as well, because they blatantly do not care about our voice.

Lisa Murkowski says she feels "cheated" after Trump removed tax credits she asked to include in the budget bill: “I feel like we made a deal and then hours later, a deal was made to somebody else.”

Chat are we cooked?

coal is way worse for your health than red40 and seed oils

Anything that exists without saying pwease and thank yew exists without manners

chatgpt is always writing shit like "It's not just huge — it's 𝗹𝗮𝗿𝗴𝗲."

Married a certified yapper

I am unfortunately in a problematic yap gap relationship

Now seated (clearly in the intended format this was meant to be viewed)

Having $14.4 million cash on hand for a statewide race in Texas is a lot less impressive when $3 mil comes from family and $10 mil is a loan from yourself.

This isn’t just blatant racial discrimination, Republicans are going to run into a fundamental math problem if they try this. There is a reason they turned Austin into two bright blue districts, because we got very, very close to beating their incumbents when they cracked us.