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So exciting and hopeful! Yea, Democracy! Federal court blocks Texas from using new congressional gerrymander in 2026 midterms www.texastribune.org/2025/11/18/t...

Long thread alert! The 20 craziest books currently unavailable to students in New Braunfels ISD in Central Texas due to the efforts of Texas book banners. (Not in order, just going through the list) 1. A Streetcar Named Desire, Tennessee Williams (1947)

‘Antivirus for libraries’: How a Texas startup is capitalizing on school book bans www.statesman.com/politics/art... @frankstrong.bsky.social @freadomfighters.bsky.social @txfreedomread.bsky.social

Oh happy day for First Amendment rights! Texas #HB900 found unconstitutional. @freadomfighters.bsky.social @txfreedomread.bsky.social @bookpeople.com

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Wake up, Texas! @ashleyhopeperez.bsky.social @txfreedomread.bsky.social @frankstrong.bsky.social @freadomfighters.bsky.social www.statesman.com/opinion/outl...

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By son Jack Queen. www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

Calling all Texans. If you can’t show up in person, please submit public comments against Todd Hunter’s HB 4 which further gerrymanders Texas to appease Trump. comments.house.texas.gov/home?c=c055 House Public Comment

Texas Republicans are trying to silence your vote with their MAGA Maps. @juliejohnsonTX and I want you in this fight. Get on the bus from Dallas to Austin so YOU can testify. It’s time to stand up and fight back to demand fair maps! 🚌 Sign up now: bit.ly/NDallasTrip #StopTheSteal #FairMaps #TXLege

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Jeffrey Epstein’s friends sent him bawdy letters for a 50th-birthday album. One was from Donald Trump. - The Wall Street Journal

Failing to address a stark public safety need — one with a staggering death toll and compounding grief — would be a dereliction of duty.

The time has come—first anti-malaria pill down the hatch as @librarianjones.com, @captainlibrary.bsky.social & I prepare for our adventure to Kenya to build a library. Learn more about this work and get updates for our journey at buildinglibraries.org. TY to all who helped make this happen! #TLsky

We’ve lost civility in our language. I remember reading old 1900 headlines, “a Negro fiend” and feeling we’d progressed. No. Even the SSA parrots Trump’s way of speaking.

Holiday tragedies: Flash floods and wildfires haunt Central Texas - Austin American-Statesman

Pray for the girls at Camp Mystic. About 20 girls remain missing from Kerr County summer camp after 'catastrophic level' floods www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston...

"Well, we are all going to die." --Senator Joni Ernst That has to be the glibbest way any politician has ever told a constituent that they didn’t give a shit about them.

www.statesman.com/story/news/p... @txfreedomread.bsky.social @freadomfighters.bsky.social

ZELDIN: I understand you're an aspiring fiction writer. I see why. SCHIFF: I understand your view that you can cut half of the agency and it won't affect people's health or their water or their air. That to me is a big fiction ... you could give a rat's ass about how much cancer your agency causes

We couldn’t agree more. Say no to HB3225.

Trump Claims Springsteen Not Born in USA open.substack.com/pub/borowitz...

Rubio spreads misinformation about Van Hollen's trip to El Salvador and meeting with Abrego Garcia: "We deported gang members, including the one you had a margarita with. And that guy is a human trafficker. And that guy is a gang member."

So we thank the authors, parents, grandparents, veterans, librarians, and citizens who spoke up for library access today. We ask the legislature - Don't mess with Texas libraries! @aclutx.bsky.social @equalitytexas.bsky.social @aabbri.bsky.social @everylibrary.bsky.social #txlege

HASSAN: What is habeas corpus? NOEM: Habeas corpus is a constitutional right that the president has to be able to remove people from this country HASSAN: That's incorrect

Texans! If you want me to continue to believe that everything is bigger in Texas, then you gotta gin up the biggest book banning backlash ever seen north, south, east, aaaaaaand west of the Pecos!

@txfreedomread.bsky.social @freadomfighters.bsky.social No to HB 3225 and SB 13! Thank you, Donna Howard!

Ready for press conference. Vote no for HB 3225! @txfreedomread.bsky.social @freadomfighters.bsky.social

Guys can we just revoke this baby’s victim card? So beta Seriously such a beta. This guy is absolutely unworthy to be commander of military men and women

To be natural is to be rare. Be rare!! #auspol #woman

It’s time to contact YOUR Texas House rep and let them know why you oppose SB 13, and ask them to vote NO on the bill. Visit our website for more info about SB 13, helpful links, and an email template. www.txftrp.org/sb_13_anothe...

Michelle and I are thinking of the entire Biden family. Nobody has done more to find breakthrough treatments for cancer in all its forms than Joe, and I am certain he will fight this challenge with his trademark resolve and grace. We pray for a fast and full recovery.

We have always been at war with Eastasia

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Pence: "To have POTUS in Saudi Arabia questioning America's global war on terror & describing is as nation building & interventionist I thought was a disservice to generations of Americans who wore the uniform..particularly giving that speech in Saudi Arabia where 15 of the 19 hijackers hailed from"

If you need to visualize how the book restriction bill SB13 would damage Texas schools, here’s the just-released Free-Response Question 3 (Set 2) from this year’s AP Literature exam. And, next to it, here’s the same question with the books that would be banned from schools under the bill whited out.

What’s this bullshit controversy over 86 47? I recall 86 to mean something along the lines of dump, get rid of, trash, discard. If that what was even meant. How is that a threat? What’s the difference with say impeach 47, remove Gabbard, sack Bondi. The MAGA outrage machine is pretty absurd.

Pop quiz: Is this group of Texas representatives defending their vote A) against letting 16-year-olds read The Perks of Being a Wallflower or B) in *favor* of letting 16-year-olds get married?

Ron Johnson: "This bill is primarily about tax cuts. We can't afford to cut taxes when we're running over $2 trillion a year deficits for the next 10 years as far as the eye can see."

RFK Jr starts having a tantrum as Chris Murphy details how he lied during his confirmation hearing about his anti-vax views

www.houstonchronicle.com/neighborhood... backlash begins! @txfreedomread.bsky.social @freadomfighters.bsky.social

Bill backed by Gov. Greg Abbott to ban 'furries' in schools stalls in Texas House www.houstonchronicle.com/politics/tex... thank you! @jamestalarico.bsky.social

Another librarian is standing up for herself! If you feel led to do so, consider giving up a snack/treat this week and donating that $5 to my friend Christine. www.gofundme.com/f/legal-supp...

U.S. Executive and Legislative Branches Battle at the LoC www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/... Via @publisherswkly.bsky.social