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Mel Brooks having to bury Rob Reiner is against all laws of nature and I’m not ok about it
December 15, 2025 at 2:42 AM
Mel Brooks having to bury Rob Reiner is against all laws of nature and I’m not ok about it
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To my younger Lubbock BlueSky friends. NO BETTER place to work than where Molly Ivins used to write.
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December 8, 2025 at 8:01 PM
To my younger Lubbock BlueSky friends. NO BETTER place to work than where Molly Ivins used to write.
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I couldn’t leave Chicago without getting a cut from my old barber, Zariff!
December 11, 2025 at 11:56 PM
I couldn’t leave Chicago without getting a cut from my old barber, Zariff!
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one thing that doesn’t get enough coverage or comment with regards to this administration is it how much it hates the actually existing united states
Trump Administration Scraps Plan to Mint Quarters Featuring Abolition, Suffrage
The move comes as a controversial $1 Trump coin for the nation’s 250th birthday is also being considered.
www.wsj.com
December 11, 2025 at 9:05 PM
one thing that doesn’t get enough coverage or comment with regards to this administration is it how much it hates the actually existing united states
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Former Texas A&M President Mark A. Welsh III wasn’t pushed out over just one incident.
The A&M Board of Regents came to want a more explicitly conservative leader who would shut down controversy before it reared its head.
The A&M Board of Regents came to want a more explicitly conservative leader who would shut down controversy before it reared its head.
Why Texas A&M president Mark Welsh lost his job
The A&M Board of Regents came to want a more explicitly conservative leader who would shut down controversy before it reared its head, as they grew weary from the steady drumbeat of online posts accus...
www.texastribune.org
December 10, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Former Texas A&M President Mark A. Welsh III wasn’t pushed out over just one incident.
The A&M Board of Regents came to want a more explicitly conservative leader who would shut down controversy before it reared its head.
The A&M Board of Regents came to want a more explicitly conservative leader who would shut down controversy before it reared its head.
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Elections have consequences. A man like this never belonged near the levers of power. Not the first time. And certainly not this second time when everything was knowable. We are trapped in a tragedy and must fight our way out.
December 11, 2025 at 1:15 AM
Elections have consequences. A man like this never belonged near the levers of power. Not the first time. And certainly not this second time when everything was knowable. We are trapped in a tragedy and must fight our way out.
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A Klan rally without the hoods.
Trump: "Ilhan Omar, whatever the hell her name is. With her little turban. I love her. She comes in, does nothing but bitch ... we ought to get her the hell out ... she's here illegally."
The crowd in Pennsylvania then starts chanting "send her back!"
The crowd in Pennsylvania then starts chanting "send her back!"
December 10, 2025 at 1:05 AM
A Klan rally without the hoods.
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I guess we've already pivoted from affordability?
Trump: "Ilhan Omar, whatever the hell her name is. With her little turban. I love her. She comes in, does nothing but bitch ... we ought to get her the hell out ... she's here illegally."
The crowd in Pennsylvania then starts chanting "send her back!"
The crowd in Pennsylvania then starts chanting "send her back!"
December 10, 2025 at 1:03 AM
I guess we've already pivoted from affordability?
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Rice News has a story about my new role as editor of the Journal of Southern History (as of January 1). Here’s a snippet:
"McDaniel, the Mary Gibbs Jones Professor of Humanities, said he sees the editorship as an extension of Rice’... https://updates.wcaleb.org/2025/12/09/rice-news-has-a-story.html
"McDaniel, the Mary Gibbs Jones Professor of Humanities, said he sees the editorship as an extension of Rice’... https://updates.wcaleb.org/2025/12/09/rice-news-has-a-story.html
December 9, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Rice News has a story about my new role as editor of the Journal of Southern History (as of January 1). Here’s a snippet:
"McDaniel, the Mary Gibbs Jones Professor of Humanities, said he sees the editorship as an extension of Rice’... https://updates.wcaleb.org/2025/12/09/rice-news-has-a-story.html
"McDaniel, the Mary Gibbs Jones Professor of Humanities, said he sees the editorship as an extension of Rice’... https://updates.wcaleb.org/2025/12/09/rice-news-has-a-story.html
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You’re allowed to say “Merry Christmas” but you’re still not allowed to emulate Christ.
DHS ordering a church to take down a nativity scene!?
Wait, so is Trump waging a WAR ON CHRISTMAS!? I’ve been warned about this for years by Fox News!
Wait, so is Trump waging a WAR ON CHRISTMAS!? I’ve been warned about this for years by Fox News!
ICE’s acting director ordered a Boston Catholic parish to tear down its Advent Nativity scene—stripped of baby Jesus and branded with the message “ICE WAS HERE.” The parish priest is refusing, citing he pope’s call to stand with migrants. It's another chapter in Kristi Noem's war on Christians.
December 10, 2025 at 2:13 AM
You’re allowed to say “Merry Christmas” but you’re still not allowed to emulate Christ.
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I can’t believe how much of the Trump era is about solving problems that *don’t* exist while making all the problems that *do* exist, worse.
There is no one who thinks the biggest problem with air travel right now is not having an area to do pull-ups.
There is no one who thinks the biggest problem with air travel right now is not having an area to do pull-ups.
Duffy on what he's doing to improve the airport experience for travelers: "Maybe I want a workout area where people might get some blood flowing doing some pull ups or step ups in the airport."
December 9, 2025 at 12:10 PM
I can’t believe how much of the Trump era is about solving problems that *don’t* exist while making all the problems that *do* exist, worse.
There is no one who thinks the biggest problem with air travel right now is not having an area to do pull-ups.
There is no one who thinks the biggest problem with air travel right now is not having an area to do pull-ups.
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Nobody treats the Republican base with more contempt or counts on them being stupid more than Republicans
Karoline Leavitt lies with impunity on Fox & Friends: "Don't forget -- a year ago, President Trump inherited the worst inflation crisis in modern American history from the Biden administration."
December 9, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Nobody treats the Republican base with more contempt or counts on them being stupid more than Republicans
“arm-chair tough guy,” huh? 🤨
December 9, 2025 at 1:25 PM
“arm-chair tough guy,” huh? 🤨
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In other words, Americans should be ashamed that a migration flow so pathetically small compared to a population of over 300 million is being used to trick them into collaborating with the destruction of their own democratic norms and institutions
The story (www.nytimes.com/2025/12/07/u...) also lets people believe a million immigrants is a lot. It's not. In 2023 there were 32 million immigrants here who arrived in the last 26 years -- well over a million a year. A healthy level of immigration is probably higher than that.
December 8, 2025 at 10:45 AM
In other words, Americans should be ashamed that a migration flow so pathetically small compared to a population of over 300 million is being used to trick them into collaborating with the destruction of their own democratic norms and institutions
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"Now that I've hit everyone with ruinous taxes, I'll dole some of it back out to my political supporters as welfare payments."
Trump: "I'm delighted to announce this afternoon that the US will be taking a small portion of the hundreds of billions of dollars we receive in tariffs ... and we're going to be giving and providing it to the farmers in economic assistance. We love our farmers. The farmers like me ... $12 billion"
December 8, 2025 at 8:03 PM
"Now that I've hit everyone with ruinous taxes, I'll dole some of it back out to my political supporters as welfare payments."
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Absurd. The bailout exists to ameliorate the negative impact of the tariffs.
Trump on his farm bailout: "This money would not be possible without tariffs ... because of tariffs, this is possible."
December 8, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Absurd. The bailout exists to ameliorate the negative impact of the tariffs.
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This is very good work.
IRW — a Pulitzer-winning nonprofit newsroom at American — and @thebarbedwire.com traced the history of anti-trans legislation. Houston conservatives realized homophobia didn’t fly anymore, weaponized girls’ safety, and parroted segregationist language. It worked.
thebarbedwire.com/2025/12/04/a...
thebarbedwire.com/2025/12/04/a...
Where Did Anti-Trans Laws Start? How a Forgotten Houston Ordinance Turned Into a Massive, Nationwide Culture War
In fighting for bathroom bills in Houston, Texas conservatives provided a blueprint for the rest of the country.
thebarbedwire.com
December 8, 2025 at 8:26 PM
This is very good work.
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Remember when the Supreme Court said Biden couldn’t forgive school loans without congressional input?
Apparently tariffs, handouts to farmers, and blowing up boats needs no such input 🤷🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️
Apparently tariffs, handouts to farmers, and blowing up boats needs no such input 🤷🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️
December 9, 2025 at 2:02 AM
Remember when the Supreme Court said Biden couldn’t forgive school loans without congressional input?
Apparently tariffs, handouts to farmers, and blowing up boats needs no such input 🤷🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️
Apparently tariffs, handouts to farmers, and blowing up boats needs no such input 🤷🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️
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That’s not a surprising pipeline. 😂
December 8, 2025 at 11:15 PM
That’s not a surprising pipeline. 😂
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imagine saying this in public to the guy who fucked your business up in the first place.
random farmer to Trump on what his child said to him: "He said, 'Daddy, I don't want Santa Claus to come to our house for Christmas, I want President Trump.' I think you brought Christmas to farmers with this bridge payment."
December 8, 2025 at 11:47 PM
imagine saying this in public to the guy who fucked your business up in the first place.
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It is newsworthy that the president of the United States is increasingly verbally abusive of women reporters and he should be asked about it.
December 8, 2025 at 8:39 PM
It is newsworthy that the president of the United States is increasingly verbally abusive of women reporters and he should be asked about it.
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They are white supremacists. They support socialism and subsidies and all sorts of government programs for themselves, but lose their shit if a much smaller portion of the budget goes towards feeding minority kids. Re-education and Reconstruction are a must.
December 9, 2025 at 12:55 AM
They are white supremacists. They support socialism and subsidies and all sorts of government programs for themselves, but lose their shit if a much smaller portion of the budget goes towards feeding minority kids. Re-education and Reconstruction are a must.
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Today, I made a presentation at a local church about the unhinged Islamophobia unleashed by Gov. Abbott, state Attn. Gen. Ken Paxton, & state Rep. Jeff Lech against the East Plano Islamic Center because that mosque wants to build a planned community. To protect the church, I'll keep it unnamed.
December 7, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Today, I made a presentation at a local church about the unhinged Islamophobia unleashed by Gov. Abbott, state Attn. Gen. Ken Paxton, & state Rep. Jeff Lech against the East Plano Islamic Center because that mosque wants to build a planned community. To protect the church, I'll keep it unnamed.