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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

Kennedy has almost nothing personally to do with the Civil Rights legislation that was passed. -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

Nor were they going to let Soviets influence or thwart our nation-rebuilding efforts in Japan. Nor should they have. -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

The liberalism of the Postwar Era was quite hawkish and all about exuding the confidence to lead at home and abroad. And it got challenged by both the failures in Vietnam and the backlash to Civil Rights. -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

There are things that have happened to her that have scrambled her egg.

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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

Austin is never ruined for us. Because every version of it is ridiculous and hilarious. -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

Harris County is > 4 million people. Third largest county in the country after Los Angeles and Cook. -OS

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

Adrian is a fucking creep, but he's never going to lose his commissioners precinct and so he has to be dealt with. That's politics.

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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

Yeah. 2nd Ward, Aldean, North Houston, everything along the Hardy Toll Road, and out by the airport. It's all very Hispanic and a turnout wasteland. -OS

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

Exactly. Adrian Garcia and Sylvia Garcia build nothing, do nothing, and are content to just run unopposed in low turnout elections where they win by default. -OS

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

Adrian Garcia spends all his time cruising through the Heights in a fake cop car. Mario Castillo, Joaquin Martinez, and Alejandra Salinas in city council do nothing and have built nothing. And Ramierz does even less. -OS

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

There's several versions of organized White politics. There's Westside oil politics. Downtown developer politics. YIMBY beardo politics in the Heights and Montrose. There's no organized Hispanic politics among Tejanos, Salvadorians, or Guatemalans. -OS

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

Houston has organized Black politics. Its fractious and internal frackus, but its fuckin' organized. Which is why Black people flex power in Houston and Hispanic people don't (even though Hispanic Houston has Black Houston thoroughly outnumbered) Black Houston just chose a county judge. -OS

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

You wanna build a winning statewide coalition in Texas? You gotta get East Houston off its ass and to the polls. Cause, yeah, you need to win Harris by 20. -OS

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

Hell, all through the 90s and 2000s, the Hispanic opportunity district on the eastside (CD 29) was repped by Gene Green. A white guy who didn't even speak Spanish. He repped the district well, but he was never challenged, and he never built any kind of machine over there. -OS

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

Houston's Eastside is so low turnout because it has no seat at the table. Houston/Harris Co. have Hispanic elected officials, but they aren't at the head of any kind of organization, they're just people with some money who win low turnout elections. -OS

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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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