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Lyndon Baines Johnson @lyndonbajohnson.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Biden's unwillingness to change course on Israel and his insistence on running again have proven doubly disastrous for the Democratic Party.

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Lyndon Baines Johnson @lyndonbajohnson.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Platner is all at once a parable about the squandering of faith and trust by the professionals who should know what they're doing and the gullability of blind distrust in the professionals.

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Lyndon Baines Johnson @lyndonbajohnson.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Could Belgium handle the rigors of an SEC schedule? That's the real question.

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Lyndon Baines Johnson @lyndonbajohnson.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

This would be a significantly more embarrassing moment for American sports if Texas Tech and the NCAA didn't exist, but they do.

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Lyndon Baines Johnson @lyndonbajohnson.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

If you think this is just too embarrassing for the soccer team to even show up, I'd remind you that SMU still suits up a football team every year.

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Lyndon Baines Johnson @lyndonbajohnson.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Damn. Was pulling for Japan because their fans came to town and showed they have the spirit of true Houstonians -- they immediately gravitated to our enchiladas and the world-class badonkadonks built by those enchiladas. -OS

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Lyndon Baines Johnson @lyndonbajohnson.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Nancy Pelosi to Hakeem Jeffries is like if Rayburn handed things to John Jarman instead of leaving it in the hands of McCormack and Albert. Chief reason we balk at comparing Pelosi to Rayburn. Mr. Sam left four decades of leadership in his coattails. Pelosi left diddly-shit. -OS

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Lyndon Baines Johnson @lyndonbajohnson.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Espaillat joins Crowley and Engel on the pyre of "should've spent more time tending the home garden." Simple as that.

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Lyndon Baines Johnson @lyndonbajohnson.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

NY-10 is a tricky district, Westside Manhattan and Brooklyn. Goldman never made either constituency happy. 33 points is worse than the shepherd's crook. That's getting taken out behind the shed like Old Yeller. -OS

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Lyndon Baines Johnson @lyndonbajohnson.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

This also oft-stated but wrong. The Civil Rights bill JFK abandoned had to be ripped in half, passed separately (CRA of 1964/VRA of 1965) and in the process re-written. The VRA went far beyond the voting rights titles of the 1964 bill, and Fair Housing went far beyond public accommodations. -OS

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Lyndon Baines Johnson @lyndonbajohnson.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

These issues are not black and white. The Cold War produced a lot of bad things. The United States also produced the only largely cooperative and peaceful Europe that's ever existed and a Japan thats both an economic power and not a menace to its neighbors. -OS

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Lyndon Baines Johnson @lyndonbajohnson.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

In 1945 the United States was a superpower with liberals in charge who weren't going to let the Soviets dominate Europe. Nor should they have. -OS

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Lyndon Baines Johnson @lyndonbajohnson.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Why we wish people read Randall Woods instead of Caro -- Vietnam can't be untangled from the Great Society. The Cold War was at the foundation of the liberal consensus. The NAACP supported the war in Vietnam. Martin Luther King was reluctant ti o criticize the war, even after Tet. -OS

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Lyndon Baines Johnson @lyndonbajohnson.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

For no reason at all we'll just remind folks that LBJ was the architect of both Washington DC home rule and WMATA. -OS

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Lyndon Baines Johnson @lyndonbajohnson.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

Giving this public tomorrow at Jesse Jones Park in Houston. -OS

The Infamous Senate Primary of 1948: LBJ vs. Coke Stevenson and Texas Politics in the Past and Perhaps Present

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Lyndon Baines Johnson @lyndonbajohnson.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Allow direct from factory sale in all 50 states and wipe the motherfuckers out.

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Lyndon Baines Johnson @lyndonbajohnson.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Our fair and balanced take on the Texas Tech situation is that Tech, Hocutt, Creighton, and Campbell are idiot cowboys but the rest of the NCAA is voting them off the island only because a player gambling threatens the profitability of fans gambling. -OS

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Lyndon Baines Johnson @lyndonbajohnson.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Greene is a conspiracy nut. Boebert is a dipshit. Mace is plain old fuckin' nuts and I think needs some clinical help.

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Lyndon Baines Johnson @lyndonbajohnson.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Us, being these assholes at Buckets in East Austin. -OS

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Lyndon Baines Johnson @lyndonbajohnson.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

By far, our favorite thing about Austin is listening to people who moved here in 2021 explain how much better it was "back then." -OS

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Lyndon Baines Johnson @lyndonbajohnson.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

Going to be in Austin for work this week, and need to spiritually prepare ourselves for the level of shit-rippedness that will be going down at Buckets for Game 1 Spurs/Knicks. -OS

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Lyndon Baines Johnson @lyndonbajohnson.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

Spurs got 'em on the ropes. So time to see if a young team can close them out.

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Lyndon Baines Johnson @lyndonbajohnson.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

People discovering that New England, much like Florida, gets more Southern the further north you go. -OS

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Lyndon Baines Johnson @lyndonbajohnson.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

People wanted Platner because he felt like an authentic Mainer. Unfortunately, they were correct.

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Lyndon Baines Johnson @lyndonbajohnson.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

More seriously, if you're Talarico you ignore the attacks and keep it focused on Paxton being a crook. Make the case in as many venues as you can. I'd even go on Fox. Because Ken is never going to debate, and never going to an outlet outside the right wing media world.

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Lyndon Baines Johnson @lyndonbajohnson.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

I agree that Talarico's crossover support is probably limited when he's a fairly normal guy and the Republican Party is built from the guys who'll click the link for "one simple trick that will allow you to control any woman."

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Lyndon Baines Johnson @lyndonbajohnson.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

Talarico having a girlfriend who can stand him *is* an attack for the voters Paxton is targeting. Paxton's core of support is people who've googled how to kill their wife and make it look like an accident.

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Lyndon Baines Johnson @lyndonbajohnson.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

The knives came out for Hidalgo, and though she won in 2022 she didn't exact her revenge. Without Turner a friendly city hall, she and Rodney Ellis became isolated. She accused Adrian Garcia of being a handsy creep, which is probably true, but cost her a majority in the commissioners court.

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Lyndon Baines Johnson @lyndonbajohnson.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

The thing Democrats really need to think about institutionally is that Houston doesn't have organized Hispanic politics. Not through unions, not through the churches. Not through Ward bosses. Nothing. Tejano politics were organized in the 70s and 80s by community leaders -- Felix Fraga, et al. -OS

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Lyndon Baines Johnson @lyndonbajohnson.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Deep account lore here: Houston really beating the historical curve by producing non-insane dentists. First Lonnie Smith, the Black dentist from 5th Ward who ended the White Primary in 1944, now Letitia Plummer. -OS

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Lyndon Baines Johnson @lyndonbajohnson.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

The last few years of Houston politics have been so god damned depressing. The bad guys were winning on every front and the concrete club was just going to push aside Lina and put their chosen gal in there next, and then somehow Letitia Magooed her way to beating Annise! -OS

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Lyndon Baines Johnson @lyndonbajohnson.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

If Annise Parker loses to Letitia we will likely be found elated, drunk and naked somewhere between Westheimer and Bissonnett. -OS

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Lyndon Baines Johnson @lyndonbajohnson.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Mostly, I hope the folks in 18 learned their lesson with Sheila and Sly and bought Al his golden watch.

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Lyndon Baines Johnson @lyndonbajohnson.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Even before the endorsement, MAGA had decided Paxton was their guy. I don't expect this to take long.

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Lyndon Baines Johnson @lyndonbajohnson.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Spoiler alert? (Its been months, so c'mon) this was the hardest thing to buy in the 2nd Season of Paradise. Super intelligent quantum AI? Yeah, right. That thing be sitting in a bunker using its limitless computing power on making porn gifs and hallucinating book citations. -OS

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Lyndon Baines Johnson @lyndonbajohnson.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

It should not be hard for any human to "beat the bot" studying history. You just actually have to read and write. LLMs talk about race, ethnicity, religion, gender (the stuff of historical analysis) with all the grace of a toddler. Predictive models based on patterns don't get nuance. -OD

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Lyndon Baines Johnson @lyndonbajohnson.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Something useful everyone should know about LLMs and other machine learning, is that at their hearts their flaws and blindspots have been programmed by people whose primary drive in life is to use computers to stalk women and digitally remove their clothes. -OS

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Lyndon Baines Johnson @lyndonbajohnson.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

Our new thing with college kids is to give them -- as part of any assignment -- exactly how Claude and Chat GPT do the assignment, with a a rubric that says "if you aren't better than this you fail." 10 mini-mester kids dropped the class day 1. Good. Frauds. -OS

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Lyndon Baines Johnson @lyndonbajohnson.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

Again its just mildly (okay, more like moderately) annoying the Spurs are so much more fun and good of a franchise than the Rockets considering the Rockets are in HOUSTON, which is like sort of a PIPELINE of basketball talent. -OS

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Lyndon Baines Johnson @lyndonbajohnson.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

Important context. The gov't was already being thoroughly segregated prior to 1913. Taft had called Reconstruction a "mistake" and abuse of federal power from the inaugural podium in 1909. Endorsing Wilson was a gamble, the fact Wilson broke his promises to protect Black spoils was a tragedy. -OS

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Lyndon Baines Johnson @lyndonbajohnson.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

I put Massie in the same boat as Marjorie Taylor Green -- a batshit conspiracy theorist who stumbled upon an actual cabal of pedos who run the country.

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Lyndon Baines Johnson @lyndonbajohnson.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

I'm not going to praise Massie. He was for a long time a royal pain in the ass. What I will l say for him is he does actually have a line he'll draw and most his colleagues don't. And that line is covering up a kiddie rape island.

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Lyndon Baines Johnson @lyndonbajohnson.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Ken Paxton intends to celebrate Trump's endorsement by selling literal get out of jail free cards to Steve Hotze and his friends in order to raise money to get his mistress her second saline titty and a townhouse in Bethesda. -OS

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Lyndon Baines Johnson @lyndonbajohnson.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Likely Thune begged Trump to endorse Cornyn or not endorse at all, but the man loves a scam.

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Lyndon Baines Johnson @lyndonbajohnson.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Well, after a decade of the Astros being the best-run sports organization in Texas, both the Spurs and the Astros are back where they belong. -OS

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Lyndon Baines Johnson @lyndonbajohnson.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

We *say* every elected Republican in Texas is a pedo and/or a wife beater and... (gestures broadly) -OS

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Lyndon Baines Johnson @lyndonbajohnson.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

(To the tune Won't Get Fooled Again) "Meet the New South! Same as the Old South!" -OS

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