An immigration judge ruled ICE can’t deport Catalina “Xochitl” Santiago, who has permission to be in the country, unless the agency can provide evidence that her legal status was revoked.

Manu have wondered what lil keke meant when he sang “25 lighters on my dresser” but the answer is clear, he just cleaned his house

I'm going to wait until someone that isn't the Daily Mail reports on this but Ken Paxton allegedly having an affair with the producer of God's Not Dead is a big lol www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...

I abandoned my home state but the rest of you should get in on this. Wells is a pretty cool dude and the Texas Standard is great.

HEY. I need to hear from you. Yes, you!! What’s your perspective on the economy? Are you making sacrifices to get by? Have you changed your habits? Is your pay not going as far? I want you to record a message for @texasstandard.bsky.social. Do it so I can share it on air! Texasstandard.org/talk

Every centrist hagiographer: he said some very important stuff Everyone: oh, like what? Every centrist hagiographer: very important things Everyone: Can you repeat some of those things he said? Every centrist hagiographer, looking at their legal department frantically shaking their heads: no

explaining to my boss why he shouldn't send a violent mob after a career fbi agent whose wife is dying of cancer, only for him to force a challenge coin with the phrase "Ka$h Patel" on it into my hand

Begging for cinemas to bring back Eddington, this is literally a scene from it, they brought back The Salt Path for less.

Another professor in Texas is fired, this time after a selectively edited video of a talk he gave was posted on X, with the bogus claim that he was inciting violence www.texastribune.org/2025/09/10/t...

The second this Texas A & M story broke I said to a friend “we’re going to quickly learn that this student is the child of some county GOP chair.” I was close. Of course the entire episode was not spontaneous, but was part of a PR stunt that’s now ruined several people’s lives.

last night was a bleak one for TX legislature history. dan patrick literally denied senate democrats the ability to filibuster redistricting, even though rules allow it. roland gutierrez asked what precedent there was for this. patrick didn't even bother to answer. that's how the map passed.

Inbox: In a show of “unity and defiance against Republican intimidation tactics,” 8 Texas House Democrats will “Rip the Slip” – publicly tearing up the permission slips required by Republicans for members to leave the chamber. They’ll join Rep. Collier overnight ahead of tomorrow’s vote on the maps.

Texas Republicans are holding a Black woman, a Democratic state rep, hostage in the legislative chamber. They have locked the doors and have banned her from leaving.

“‘I refuse to sign away my dignity as a duly elected representative just so Republicans can control my movements and monitor me with police escorts,’ Collier said in a statement that called her a ‘political prisoner’ for refusing Republican ‘surveillance protocol.’” www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...

They gentrified Roku City

Since @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social is so concerned about @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social housing maybe he should address his own property tax bill of just $213 a year thanks to a sweetheart deal he supported when he served in the state Assembly that will last through 2032. nypost.com/2022/01/23/r...

"Conservatives, from the bottom of the pyramid to the top, have a constant need to find outraged liberals... A policy’s success is judged not by its material impact on the world but by how many Democrats wail and moan about it." www.infinitescroll.us/p/in-search-...

Here to check this out. Been an Aronofsky stan since the jump but missed his last few films. This looks fun.

Texas DA once paid for abortion — then charged a woman who had one with murder, court filing claims www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston...

“It just struck me as very manic,” the coworker said. “The way he was speaking was kind of fast and declarative. It struck me as very concerning just because it was such a stark difference from the Ethan I had worked with the previous weekend.” www.kut.org/austin/2025-...

Rick Perry opens the stargate: 'Objects flew past him. Some of them appeared to resemble Maya hieroglyphics. He saw an arm reaching out for him, and attached to it was a figure with horns. “Satan, get behind me,” he heard himself say. The figure instantly disappeared.' txst.us/uz7bge

Just insane how a woman married four times with multiple kids born through affairs has thoughts on the sanctity of marriage fuck off lady

Teacher across the hall from Uvlade shooter: “I had shrapnel in my back from when he shot in my window. I had blood all over the back of me, but I tried to stay calm for my students.” No one from the school reached out after the shooting. Per new reporting here: txst.us/alhz7s

Very excited for the post-show McDonalds opportunities with The Lost Well’s new location 😈🤘🏻

WHAT THE HECK IS IN THOSE FILES?!

A little martial law, as a treat

“By indulging in the spectacle, the Apple boss helped legitimize Trump’s transactional style. .. Cook may see it as a small concession.. but the performance.. signaled to other corporate leaders that pandering is the price of doing business.” @passantino.bsky.social www.status.news/p/tim-cook-g...

Cook openly bribed the president with a large hunk of gold in a televised performance of obeisance and walked away with a valuable tariff exemption.

Charley Crockett’s work ethic is unmatched. His second album of 2025 drops this week — and he’s already planning the next. "I’d say I was running from the law, but I think I’m running from some people a little more dangerous than that."

Pritzker clearly has confidence in his armed goon situation

Fascinated to see whether a direct assault on the institutionalists will do anything to change their timid pushback against the administration. Not sure the priors look very good! newrepublic.com/article/1988...

“I don’t think I’ve seen a more dangerous decision in public health in my 50 years in the business,” said Mike Osterholm, a University of Minnesota expert on infectious diseases and pandemic preparations.”

But Bill Clinton met with Loretta Lynch on the tarmac for 20 minutes!

"Hundreds of AI-powered automated license plate reading cameras paid for by Lowe’s and Home Depot in the stores’ parking lots are being fed into a massive surveillance system that law enforcement can access, according to … a public records request." First discovered in Texas: txst.us/vrr709

81%! www.umass.edu/news/article...

breaking: the texas house has issued arrest warrants for democrats who fled the state to block the GOP from taking a vote on its congressional redistricting plan. but an election lawyer says the warrants are likely “not effective” outside of TX. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

I see my governor is back in his Riddler mode

More than 50 Texas House Dems left for Chicago and NYC, breaking #txlege quorum. It blocks the Texas House from mid-decade congressional redistricting to help Republicans and Donald Trump. Rep. Gene Wu: “Gov. Abbott has turned the victims of a historic tragedy into political hostages.”

Presented without comment: “I didn’t get no help from the state or the government. FEMA’s a joke and it needs to be abolished. The state is broken.”

“The emergency management coordinator of Kerr County, which bore the brunt of the deadly July 4 floods in the Texas Hill Country, testified that he was sick and asleep when the floodwaters rose in the middle of the night, eventually killing 108 people in the county.” www.nytimes.com/2025/07/31/u...

DOJ put out a memo stating that all recipients of federal funding must ban trans people from bathrooms. www.justice.gov/ag/media/140...

NEW: We’ve documented nearly 50 incidents of immigration officers shattering car windows to make arrests — a tactic experts say was rarely used before Trump took office. ICE claims officers use a “minimum amount of force.” You can judge for yourself. By @nicolefoy.bsky.social @mckenziefunk.com

‘Not a Damned Penny.’ Texas Flood Survivors Look for Help www.nytimes.com/2025/07/31/u...

how much of the money from the ICE/tax cuts bill is just going to go to scammers, do you think? www.richmonder.org/this-tuckaho...

It overlooked that TX-38 will be shifted to become Italy

Source tells CBS that FBI and DOJ IG “are in possession of a copy of the video that does not cut from just before 11:59 p.m. to midnight of the night Epstein died... “What is unclear is why that section was missing when the FBI released what it said was raw footage” www.cbsnews.com/news/jeffrey...

Proposed congressional redistricting map, via @punchbowlnews.bsky.social #txlege

Imagining Mrs Doubtfire gaining sentience like HAL 2000 and going on a killing spree while also going HELLLOOOOO! and stuff

Tae Heung Kim, 40: - Lived in US since he was 5 - Has green card - Getting PhD at Texas A&M - Researching vaccine for Lyme disease - Has 1 minor pot charge from 2011, since sealed Also: Detained incommunicado by DHS after returning from wedding in Korea www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

NEW: TX republican redistricting chair admits he hasn’t looked at census data | from @democracydocket.com www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...