Somewhere In ATX
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Looking for more info - in perpetuity. Posts are my own, unless I've been hacked. #YIMBY Urbanism (Social Housing In My Back Yard 🙏) He/Him/His
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Personally, I think it’s shitty of Crockett to be running in the primary against Talarico.
She’s insane if she thinks she could win statewide general election.
She’ll spend the whole primary beating up on Talarico and make him a weakened general election candidate.
She’s insane if she thinks she could win statewide general election.
She’ll spend the whole primary beating up on Talarico and make him a weakened general election candidate.
December 8, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Personally, I think it’s shitty of Crockett to be running in the primary against Talarico.
She’s insane if she thinks she could win statewide general election.
She’ll spend the whole primary beating up on Talarico and make him a weakened general election candidate.
She’s insane if she thinks she could win statewide general election.
She’ll spend the whole primary beating up on Talarico and make him a weakened general election candidate.
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This is the Tufts PhD student who seized by masked agents on the street and jailed for two months because she wrote an op-ed calling for the school to divest from Israel.
December 8, 2025 at 10:52 PM
This is the Tufts PhD student who seized by masked agents on the street and jailed for two months because she wrote an op-ed calling for the school to divest from Israel.
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Hey folks 👋 I'm the reporter who revealed immigration agents detained 170+ citizens this year
My fellowship w/ProPublica has been incredible, but it wraps January. I'm looking for my next gig. Please reach out to share leads & opportunities! [email protected]
www.propublica.org/people/nicol...
My fellowship w/ProPublica has been incredible, but it wraps January. I'm looking for my next gig. Please reach out to share leads & opportunities! [email protected]
www.propublica.org/people/nicol...
Nicole Foy
ProPublica is an independent, non-profit newsroom that produces investigative journalism in the public interest.
www.propublica.org
December 8, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Hey folks 👋 I'm the reporter who revealed immigration agents detained 170+ citizens this year
My fellowship w/ProPublica has been incredible, but it wraps January. I'm looking for my next gig. Please reach out to share leads & opportunities! [email protected]
www.propublica.org/people/nicol...
My fellowship w/ProPublica has been incredible, but it wraps January. I'm looking for my next gig. Please reach out to share leads & opportunities! [email protected]
www.propublica.org/people/nicol...
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This at the same time that Texas passed a law (on hold in court right now) banning Gay Straight Alliances and other LGBTQ clubs in schools
Happening now: Texas leaders announcing a rollout of a statewide program to put TPUSA chapters in high schools and colleges across the state. Gov. Abbott adds that schools that stand in the way should be reported to the Texas Education Agency.
December 8, 2025 at 11:37 PM
This at the same time that Texas passed a law (on hold in court right now) banning Gay Straight Alliances and other LGBTQ clubs in schools
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This statement from the Talarico campaign is classy. Hope both candidates keep it up.
December 8, 2025 at 11:35 PM
This statement from the Talarico campaign is classy. Hope both candidates keep it up.
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very good profile of James Talarico in @texasmonthly.bsky.social by the ever-wonderful Allegra Hobbes: www.texasmonthly.com/news-politic...
The Confessions of James Talarico
The insurgent Democrat wants religion out of politics. And he won’t stop preaching about it.
www.texasmonthly.com
December 8, 2025 at 5:44 PM
very good profile of James Talarico in @texasmonthly.bsky.social by the ever-wonderful Allegra Hobbes: www.texasmonthly.com/news-politic...
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James Talarico: The only minority destroying America is the billionaires.
Trans people aren't taking away our healthcare.
Muslims aren't defunding our schools.
Immigrants aren't cutting taxes for themselves and their rich friends.
We are focused on the wrong 1%.
Trans people aren't taking away our healthcare.
Muslims aren't defunding our schools.
Immigrants aren't cutting taxes for themselves and their rich friends.
We are focused on the wrong 1%.
December 8, 2025 at 7:46 PM
James Talarico: The only minority destroying America is the billionaires.
Trans people aren't taking away our healthcare.
Muslims aren't defunding our schools.
Immigrants aren't cutting taxes for themselves and their rich friends.
We are focused on the wrong 1%.
Trans people aren't taking away our healthcare.
Muslims aren't defunding our schools.
Immigrants aren't cutting taxes for themselves and their rich friends.
We are focused on the wrong 1%.
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Mientras Estados Unidos se enfrenta a los mayores recortes del sector médico en su historia, Texas presenta una visión aterradora del futuro de la atención médica a largo plazo.
Sin escape: Dentro del sistema de casas de huespedes en Texas donde el abuso, la negligencia, y la explotación son comunes
Mientras Estados Unidos se enfrenta a los mayores recortes del sector médico en su historia, Texas presenta una visión aterradora del futuro de la atención médica a largo plazo.
inthesetimes.com
December 8, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Mientras Estados Unidos se enfrenta a los mayores recortes del sector médico en su historia, Texas presenta una visión aterradora del futuro de la atención médica a largo plazo.
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I came across *the* example I have been hammering with these food delivery robots.
A man with a mobility aid is forced to step aside because there is not room for him because the robot will not make room for a person (esp. those with a mobility aid who need addditional room)
A man with a mobility aid is forced to step aside because there is not room for him because the robot will not make room for a person (esp. those with a mobility aid who need addditional room)
December 8, 2025 at 5:50 PM
I came across *the* example I have been hammering with these food delivery robots.
A man with a mobility aid is forced to step aside because there is not room for him because the robot will not make room for a person (esp. those with a mobility aid who need addditional room)
A man with a mobility aid is forced to step aside because there is not room for him because the robot will not make room for a person (esp. those with a mobility aid who need addditional room)
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The stop also highlights how local police hide collaboration w/ Border Patrol and other agencies while also juking their own stats—judging by this reporting, you def can’t trust Bexar Co sheriff’s data on contraband from searches
apnews.com/article/immi...
www.houstonchronicle.com/news/investi...
apnews.com/article/immi...
www.houstonchronicle.com/news/investi...
Border Patrol is monitoring US drivers and detaining those with 'suspicious' travel patterns
The U.S. Border Patrol is monitoring millions of American drivers nationwide in a secretive program to identify and detain people whose travel patterns it deems suspicious.
apnews.com
December 8, 2025 at 3:22 PM
The stop also highlights how local police hide collaboration w/ Border Patrol and other agencies while also juking their own stats—judging by this reporting, you def can’t trust Bexar Co sheriff’s data on contraband from searches
apnews.com/article/immi...
www.houstonchronicle.com/news/investi...
apnews.com/article/immi...
www.houstonchronicle.com/news/investi...
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A shady stop and search outside San Antonio underscores the role of local elected officials (sheriffs) in the growing surveillance dragnet by federal police
www.houstonchronicle.com/news/investi...
www.houstonchronicle.com/news/investi...
How mysterious Texas surveillance network is reshaping traffic stops in Texas
The Bexar County Sheriff’s Office case provides a rare inside look that illustrates nearly everything critics say is wrong with the practice of stopping and searching motorists.
www.houstonchronicle.com
December 8, 2025 at 3:21 PM
A shady stop and search outside San Antonio underscores the role of local elected officials (sheriffs) in the growing surveillance dragnet by federal police
www.houstonchronicle.com/news/investi...
www.houstonchronicle.com/news/investi...
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Some important context for everything Joe Lonsdale says or does www.nytimes.com/2015/02/15/m...
December 8, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Some important context for everything Joe Lonsdale says or does www.nytimes.com/2015/02/15/m...
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You understand that the road from "blow up any boat we want" to "kill any Americans we want" is very short.
WELKER: Is there any hard evidence showing this particular boat was headed to the US?
TOM COTTON: That didn't come up in my briefing
WELKER: Are you comfortable having the US target a boat that you're not sure is heading to the US?
COTTON: I'm not just comfortable with it -- I want to continue it
TOM COTTON: That didn't come up in my briefing
WELKER: Are you comfortable having the US target a boat that you're not sure is heading to the US?
COTTON: I'm not just comfortable with it -- I want to continue it
December 7, 2025 at 10:16 PM
You understand that the road from "blow up any boat we want" to "kill any Americans we want" is very short.
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unfortunately it is very funny that Henry Cuellar took the quid and refused to do the quo
December 7, 2025 at 4:48 PM
unfortunately it is very funny that Henry Cuellar took the quid and refused to do the quo
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Newly released photos of Rosa Parks emphasize lesser-known aspects of her legacy. These images, made public for the first time, show Parks a decade after her involvement in the Montgomery Bus Boycott, 70 years ago this month.
Unseen photos of Rosa Parks return to Montgomery, Alabama, seven decades later
Newly released photos of Rosa Parks emphasize lesser-known aspects of her legacy. These images, made public for the first time, show Parks a decade after her involvement in the Montgomery Bus Boycott, 70 years ago this month.
bit.ly
December 7, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Newly released photos of Rosa Parks emphasize lesser-known aspects of her legacy. These images, made public for the first time, show Parks a decade after her involvement in the Montgomery Bus Boycott, 70 years ago this month.
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It’s important to remember there are two scandals here:
1. The Administration has likely committed war crimes.
2. But the entire operation - which now includes two dozen attacks - is illegal. In our democracy, the President CANNOT wage war without the consent of the people.
1. The Administration has likely committed war crimes.
2. But the entire operation - which now includes two dozen attacks - is illegal. In our democracy, the President CANNOT wage war without the consent of the people.
BERMAN: Did you see any evidence of them trying to use a radio in the video you saw?
TOM COTTON: Well I saw lots of evidence of them standing on the boat that had been capsized
BERMAN: That wasn't my question. Did you see any evidence?
COTTON: No, I didn't
TOM COTTON: Well I saw lots of evidence of them standing on the boat that had been capsized
BERMAN: That wasn't my question. Did you see any evidence?
COTTON: No, I didn't
December 7, 2025 at 6:26 PM
It’s important to remember there are two scandals here:
1. The Administration has likely committed war crimes.
2. But the entire operation - which now includes two dozen attacks - is illegal. In our democracy, the President CANNOT wage war without the consent of the people.
1. The Administration has likely committed war crimes.
2. But the entire operation - which now includes two dozen attacks - is illegal. In our democracy, the President CANNOT wage war without the consent of the people.
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“We know that Jesus was born into a Roman imperial occupation, and pretty much immediately becomes a refugee in Egypt,” said The Rev. Michael Woolf, who was violently detained by police outside an ICE building last month. “So we have to ask: what would it be like if Jesus were born here today?”
In Chicago, a Nativity scene features a zip-tied baby Jesus and Roman centurions in "ICE" vests.
Near Boston, Mary, Joseph, and Jesus are absent from a Nativity scene, replaced with a sign reading "ICE was here."
It's all part of growing religious blowback to ICE. religionnews.com/2025/12/05/i...
Near Boston, Mary, Joseph, and Jesus are absent from a Nativity scene, replaced with a sign reading "ICE was here."
It's all part of growing religious blowback to ICE. religionnews.com/2025/12/05/i...
ICE Nativity scenes: Churches reimagine Christmas story amid deportations
(RNS) — 'We know that Jesus was born into a Roman imperial occupation, and pretty much immediately becomes a refugee in Egypt, has to flee and faces political violence,' the Rev. Michael Woolf said.
religionnews.com
December 7, 2025 at 5:54 PM
“We know that Jesus was born into a Roman imperial occupation, and pretty much immediately becomes a refugee in Egypt,” said The Rev. Michael Woolf, who was violently detained by police outside an ICE building last month. “So we have to ask: what would it be like if Jesus were born here today?”
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New SUP in the area. Will help getting to @austinfootballclub.bsky.social games easier on this route ⚽ #atx #bikeatx
December 7, 2025 at 6:08 PM
New SUP in the area. Will help getting to @austinfootballclub.bsky.social games easier on this route ⚽ #atx #bikeatx
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@austinbeerworks.bsky.social Sputnik release.
Bike rack situation and line 5 minutes after general admission opening. #atxbeer
Bike rack situation and line 5 minutes after general admission opening. #atxbeer
December 7, 2025 at 6:06 PM
@austinbeerworks.bsky.social Sputnik release.
Bike rack situation and line 5 minutes after general admission opening. #atxbeer
Bike rack situation and line 5 minutes after general admission opening. #atxbeer
That evil billionaire moved to Austin.
it does feel like an intense societal problem that the founder of palantir, the biggest survellience company, thinks like this
December 7, 2025 at 5:36 PM
That evil billionaire moved to Austin.
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I think it's awesome that the people in power have made it a stated policy to destroy our educational system
University of Oklahoma has removed another professor because they said they would excuse students who wanted to attend the protest against the firing of the FIRST professor (the one who failed the student for the bad essay)
December 7, 2025 at 5:05 PM
I think it's awesome that the people in power have made it a stated policy to destroy our educational system
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Strong arguments here.
The real problem is we don't live in a society in which we genuinely plan power production decades in advance.
If we did, both nuclear and renewables would be built faster and cheaper as we wouldn't face the same grid constraints and economies of scale would be much greater.
The real problem is we don't live in a society in which we genuinely plan power production decades in advance.
If we did, both nuclear and renewables would be built faster and cheaper as we wouldn't face the same grid constraints and economies of scale would be much greater.
New from me in @jacobinmag.bsky.social.
It has not always been the case, but there’s definitely now a debate on the left on the topic of nuclear energy. I tried to compose the most compact “case for” on climate, labor, and reliability grounds (as well as answer the questions posed by critics).
It has not always been the case, but there’s definitely now a debate on the left on the topic of nuclear energy. I tried to compose the most compact “case for” on climate, labor, and reliability grounds (as well as answer the questions posed by critics).
The Socialist Case for Nuclear Power
Nuclear energy is still regarded with skepticism. But nuclear power’s critics wildly overstate its dangers, and preserving and expanding this energy source is essential to a just green transition.
jacobin.com
December 7, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Strong arguments here.
The real problem is we don't live in a society in which we genuinely plan power production decades in advance.
If we did, both nuclear and renewables would be built faster and cheaper as we wouldn't face the same grid constraints and economies of scale would be much greater.
The real problem is we don't live in a society in which we genuinely plan power production decades in advance.
If we did, both nuclear and renewables would be built faster and cheaper as we wouldn't face the same grid constraints and economies of scale would be much greater.
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New from me in @jacobinmag.bsky.social.
It has not always been the case, but there’s definitely now a debate on the left on the topic of nuclear energy. I tried to compose the most compact “case for” on climate, labor, and reliability grounds (as well as answer the questions posed by critics).
It has not always been the case, but there’s definitely now a debate on the left on the topic of nuclear energy. I tried to compose the most compact “case for” on climate, labor, and reliability grounds (as well as answer the questions posed by critics).
The Socialist Case for Nuclear Power
Nuclear energy is still regarded with skepticism. But nuclear power’s critics wildly overstate its dangers, and preserving and expanding this energy source is essential to a just green transition.
jacobin.com
December 7, 2025 at 1:30 PM
New from me in @jacobinmag.bsky.social.
It has not always been the case, but there’s definitely now a debate on the left on the topic of nuclear energy. I tried to compose the most compact “case for” on climate, labor, and reliability grounds (as well as answer the questions posed by critics).
It has not always been the case, but there’s definitely now a debate on the left on the topic of nuclear energy. I tried to compose the most compact “case for” on climate, labor, and reliability grounds (as well as answer the questions posed by critics).
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abolish the senate
December 7, 2025 at 4:08 PM
abolish the senate
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A Palantir billionaire just called for public hangings.
“It's time to bring back masculine leadership to protect our most vulnerable,” writes Joe Lonsdale.
This is where Silicon Valley authoritarianism is heading:
www.thenerdreich.com/joe-lonsdale...
“It's time to bring back masculine leadership to protect our most vulnerable,” writes Joe Lonsdale.
This is where Silicon Valley authoritarianism is heading:
www.thenerdreich.com/joe-lonsdale...
Joe Lonsdale Calls For Public Hangings
Silicon Valley radicalization escalates
www.thenerdreich.com
December 6, 2025 at 9:15 PM
A Palantir billionaire just called for public hangings.
“It's time to bring back masculine leadership to protect our most vulnerable,” writes Joe Lonsdale.
This is where Silicon Valley authoritarianism is heading:
www.thenerdreich.com/joe-lonsdale...
“It's time to bring back masculine leadership to protect our most vulnerable,” writes Joe Lonsdale.
This is where Silicon Valley authoritarianism is heading:
www.thenerdreich.com/joe-lonsdale...