🌱Good Morning Gardeners🌱 An amazing visit to a local garden hosting a Snowdrop Festival at the weekend. Snowdrops as far as the eye could see in a beautiful (if muddy🙈) woodland setting! ☘️😊☘️

Blossom is waking up in the garden. 🌱🌸

Thyme baby doing well under grow lights 🌱

An NPR investigation finds the public database of Epstein files is missing dozens of pages related to sexual abuse accusations against President Trump. n.pr/4qTItsU

For a story: I'm looking to speak to people of all ages about how uncertainty around access to SNAP and high cost of food is impacting mental health and well-being, especially as new restrictions/work requirements have taken effect. [email protected], Signal rstauff.20

A former ICE agent is blowing the whistle: Academy training is "deficient & broken." He claims he was ordered to teach cadets to bypass the Constitution & enter homes without warrants. ICE reportedly cut 240 hours of legal, firearms, and use-of-force training.

If the USA Women’s Hockey team wants a real celebration and invite ,,, I’ll host them in Las Vegas. Do some nice dinners and shows and good times. I’m sure I can get a hotel and airline to help me out here and celebrate these women for real for real. 👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾

So I've not posted here much about it, but my mom is on home hospice. 💔 She was in the hospital for a few days, then transported home with 24/7 caregivers and hospice nurses 3x a week. She's been home for a little over 2wks, and it's been a rollercoaster. 🙏 💜

No cheating, your last saved pic of a celebrity is your therapist The Obamas would heal me 🥰

I hate it here. For reference, I got two Covid boosters during my pregnancy, didn’t get COVID or give it to my baby. I did, however, develop severe preeclampsia, and shudder to think about how much worse my outcome would have been if I had gotten Covid during my pregnancy.

At our recent event in Irving, community members heard directly from state legislators about the most pressing issues facing our public schools and where they stand. If you couldn’t join us, you can watch the townhall online. Catch up here: https://www.raiseyourhandtexas.org/txed/ #TxLege #TxEd

Inbox: Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s campaign arm declares that “Democrats are more energized, organized, and funded than I’ve ever seen” in fundraising email Email also features Donald Trump Jr. saying “Democrats are flooding Texas with money” #txlege

Last year, Greg Abbott and Republicans in the #txlege tried to close all records about police misconduct statewide, barely failing. As ICE rampages on, this cd be made a potent campaign issue. Gubernatorial candidate @ginafortexas.bsky.social just filed a PIR for records that bill wd have closed.

Democrats can now credibly call for the repeal of the Trump tax cuts and the clawing back of the additional ICE funding as a way of offsetting the revenue loss from the ending of the illegal tariffs.

Even though the Supreme Court ruled Trump’s tariffs are illegal, the criminal intent behind them hasn’t changed. Scott Bessent said, in so many words, that the theft of the American people will continue. As for the money already stolen, he said: “I got a feeling the American people won’t see it.”

We voted as a family this afternoon! #txlege #texasvotes

So now we are actually pushing for accountability RIGHT because at this point if he ain’t know SOMEONE did and As an opposition leader he will lead the charge in clearing this up

JUST IN: 5th Circuit sitting en banc rejects facial challenge to Louisiana law requiring posting of 10 Commandments in schools, but says it could fail if and when enforced. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Jonathan Alter (@jonathanalter.bsky.social) has learned that Trump will kill Netflix’s bid for Warner Bros and help Paramount win, giving the president control of Fox, CBS, CNN, and TikTok. washingtonmonthly.com/2026/02/17/t...

Seems counterproductive for a university system to announce to the world, "you should assume our graduates are thin-skinned ignorant losers who can't handle hearing anything except what they want to hear" but that's what UT's board of regents just unanimously approved. 🤷‍♂️

Not me CRYING watching Alysa Liu 🥹🥹🥹 THIS is the best of America. Immigrant parents who sacrificed so much. An athlete prioritizing her mental health and making a comeback. And she NAILED IT

Trump plans to send $10 billion in funds that Congress hasn’t appropriated from the US Treasury to an organization that he will continue to chair personally even after he is out of office. This is looting.

Too late to get my money back?

AGGIE WOMEN’S HOOPS DID WHAT?!

Damn. Just so heartbreaking. RIP

They said it. We’re all thinking it.

These dimwits are doing lasting damage on satire in this country. It's hard to parody something which insists on being way WAY more idiotic and stupid than anything you might imagine to try and lampoon that stupidity. Brain damage in spoken word form.

I never meant to run for office, but when my son's school was in danger of closing, I ran for school board to make sure that didn't happen. I'm not new to winning hard fights.

Gina Hinojosa for Governor of Texas! #GinaHinojosa #txlege

Republican abomination Tony Gonzales of #TX23 is *not* being "blackmailed." He's trying to deflect responsibility for his grotesque actions, like a liar and a coward. He, quite obviously, should #resign immediately. #txlege #SanAntonio #SATX @texasdemocrats.bsky.social @progresstexas.bsky.social

"Don’t be confused by the Republican and Democratic labels on the primary ballots. If you’re a Texan, you should go vote even if you're an independent. Especially if you're an independent." #txlege

Let's go Tejas!!! #txlege #vote

Noting: The pastor who gave the invocation at new Democratic state Sen. @TaylorRehmetTX’s swearing-in today was Rev. @RyonPrice of Broadway Baptist — one of the pastors thrown out of Commissioners’ Court meetings by Republican Judge @TimothyOHare #txlege

Let's go, Bell County! #txlege #texasvotes

Last night's pink skies were beautiful. Tuesday's sunset was stunning, too!

Impressive clouds at sunset as a heavy shower blew away

Another damp day but my young goat willow is beginning to flower. Planted in a wet spot (one of many) it shoukd thrive, feed the bees & provide shade for the sheep. There is something quite magical about pussy willow ✨️🌱

Morning all. Very wet weather so no sign of Melvyn (he must be snuggled up somewhere). Delighted to spot the first of the cherry blossom, mostly budded but there are a few blooms. A sign of the joy to come. Have a super day everyone 😊🌱

Sunroom thinks it’s spring in Maine! The chickadees too, mating calls in morning sun… 🌱🐦‍⬛☀️

GIG'EM AGGIES! 🏀 🙌

Early Voting Turnout in Texas at 7pm CT. Voter Participation Rates Compared to 2022 Day 1: Travis - 9,812 (278.6%), Ellis - 2,231 (267.2%), Bell - 2,347 (252.4%), Montgomery - 4,505 (165.9%), McLennan - 1,569 (145%), Hockley - 112 (127.3%), Madison - 80 (44.7%). #earlyvoting #Texas #vote #txlege

This is all just so good www.youtube.com/watch?v=oiTJ...

Same, the anti Chip Roy one was on last night and my wife was like “fighting for trans kids and voting to impeach Trump…sign me up!”

"They will make our women dress modestly, limit their education, control their autonomy! They will make kids study their holy book and follow their outdated religious tenements!" And what the fuck do y'all think you're doing now??

So good

Roses are red Vaccines are effective More kids get to grow old When we share this perspective #healthpolicyvalentines

maybe the biggest difference between LLMs and every other computer you ever used is that other computers can A) do math and B) give you an error message if you try to get it to do something it can’t do

This race is about how Texas uses power. @jaworskifortexas.bsky.social