Texas electricity prices are predicted to increase 79% by next year in this forecast.

A WW II "One Battle After Another" movie waiting to be made. Thank God for the fearlessness of women.

Language and framing matters. Never repeat your opponent’s catch phrases and arguments. Are Dems too lazy to come up with their own Luntz focus-grouped tested name for this abomination - “The Save Trump’s Ass Act,” “The Steal Elections Act,” “The Trump Voting Obstruction Act?” Geesh.

The landmark 5 to 4 Supreme Court case deciding flag burning is free speech was based on a protest during the 1984 Republican convention taking place in…Dallas. Greg Johnson burned a flag at City Hall Plaza at the end of "Republican War Chest Tour” thru downtown and was charged by Dallas police.

Hello from Minnesota

Odds favor him donning an XXL version of this outfit before his term is up.

“we are more like the brave ones from Minnesota”

Polymarket, Kalshi and all the rest of these prediction markets need to be wiped off the face of the earth. They provide absolutely nothing of value and are corrupting everything they touch.

Lola Young with poem lyrics - “Art is Rebellion” at her first U.S. show following a personal beak at #SXSW

"...organizers turned to group singing as a form of “embodied resistance, when a group of people or a person goes into a space & use their bodies to disrupt the energy of that space.” And these physical acts – from sit-ins to singing – are unavoidably powerful because “everything stops” for it."

No surprise, except how well it mimics the FU appointments in every other federal agency this administration has touched.

Here are more videos of Police/Feds brutality in Burlington, Vermont.

South Burlington residents formed a human tunnel to rescue a three-year-old from an ICE raid without a warrant.

This is Nathan Cavanaugh, another DOGE staffer explaining how he flagged grants at NEH for "DEI" which would be reviewed for termination. 404 Media has reviewed hours of this footage and we'll have more soon. Part of a lawsuit by @acls1919.bsky.social, @modernlanguage.bsky.social + @historians.org

Texas - 23rd House Seat Polling - (R +7): Senate: 🔵 Talarico: 48% 🔴 Cornyn: 42% 🔵 Talarico: 49% 🔴 Paxton: 44% Governor: 🔵 Hinojosa: 48% 🔴 Abbott: 48% PPP / March 11, 2026

The people of Minnesota have resorted to forming musical traffic jams to make ICE’s lives as inconvenient as possible. Ultimately, ICE will be defeated by the will of We The People ✊

Trump is forcing Texans to foot the bill to build inhumane detention facilities. DHS wants to put a new, 8,500 person detention facility in El Paso that will drain precious water supplies for the county and raise costs for working families. Hell no. #txlege

Imagine all the engineers and venture capitalists and educators who won’t move to TX (or are leaving) because they don’t want to die here if they miscarry. Terrible for the state. Terrible for humans.

Words matter

Dallas City Council majority doing its best to make the case for government-by-consultant:

Wild story from @washingtonexaminer.bsky.social: ICE "wasted millions" to buy "thousands of employee vehicles that the agency cannot use to arrest illegal immigrants" The problem: the vehicles are marked with ICE logo and motto “ICE has never had marked vehicles,” person familiar said

Zoning requests for $10 billion Fort Worth data center punted a third time as City Council asks questions: What we know

"Our government is treating the suffering of the Iranian people as a backdrop for our own entertainment... in the end, we lose our humanity when we are thrilled by the destructive power of our military."

The United States killed all these children last Saturday. 170 of them. Every. Single. One.

“We have a situation where someone called a malignant narcissist is unfortunately drifting into a state of dementia that is difficult to manage.”

The Department of Homeland Security, which oversees ICE and Border Patrol, is using a broad web of surveillance tools — purchased as its budget has ballooned under this administration — to monitor, apprehend and intimidate the people it seeks to deport and the U.S. citizens critical of its policies.

Nashville journalist Estefany Rodríguez was detained by ICE without a warrant and is currently held at the Louisiana Processing Center.

Support for Abolishing ICE Hits Record High in New Poll truthout.org/articles/sup...

Talarico's message delivered by someone who's not attending Seminary.

Pretty certain that both Paxton and Cornyn would rather drink lye than agree to Trump's Marquis of Queensbury rules for the run-off.

New Brattle report: Europe could get much farther pivoting to "clean flexibility" than it will trying to find alternative gas suppliers. We're seeing that gas dependence ties you to just as much uncertainty, volatility, & inflation as dependence on oil. The only real independence is clean.

"No reporters have pierced the secrecy veil...Steven Monacelli told me he filed an open records request on Jan. 20 seeking all emails from the past year between key city staff, area landowners, developers and both sports teams...None have been released." www.dallasnews.com/opinion/comm...

It's hilarious how many Dems think it was a GOP/White conspiracy that keep Crockett from winning, when in fact it was her own combination of ambition & incompetence. Talarico is actually more liberal. This is Karma from her ignoring her own constituents' pleas for help biting her in the butt.

Politics of semantics 😏

The kids will hardly believe it today, but way back in 2024, the mental & physical acuity of elderly presidents was, quite literally, <the> single most important, nonstop front page story of American politics 🤔

This may seem trivial to people who use the word "sportsball" online, but remember that, for many Americans, the events that finally drove home the severity of COVID was the cancellation of March Madness.

This is still happening...

The National Christian Charitable Foundation, one of the largest donor-advised funds, funneled more than $5 million in grants to the Dallas Express in 2024. NCCF facilitates billions in grants for Christian and far-right organizations such as Alliance Defending Freedom. The donors remain anonymous.

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Day 27 #BHM: Septima Clark (1898-1987): ‘‘Mother of the Civil Rights Movement,’’ was the daughter of a laundrywoman & former slave who became a teacher, leader of workshops at Highlander Folk School in TN, & founder of “Citizenship Schools” throughout the South. 1/2 youtu.be/yd5kP1fGdDE?... #PINKS

Yes please

Today in “neither our media nor our political system is designed to deal with a far right authoritarian party.”

Not a great moment in our national history when the language a white supremacist doctor used on a site called “White Date” is indistinguishable from the public messaging of the current administration and its media surrogates.

King of Frisco....

NEW: Guards have taken away crayons, colored pencils & paper during recent room searches at Dilley, according to detainees and others. After one inspection, the children just “cried and cried and cried,” a mother said. The facility denies the claims. By @mckenziefunk.com @micarosenberg.bsky.social

The researchers estimated that over the course of the study period, roughly 115,000 cancer deaths across the U.S. (or about 6,400 deaths per year) were attributable to proximity to Nuclear Power Plants. hsph.harvard.edu/news/proximi...

For the first time since @projectsaltbox.bsky.social launched their DHS warehouse acquisition tracker, the number of canceled sales is higher than any of the other warehouse-related figures. We've reached a tipping point, folks. lookerstudio.google.com/reporting/b0...

Pretty good primer on Dallas City Hall politics in only 4 posts

Another one bites the dust