At least four videos show what really happened when ICE shot a woman in Minneapolis on Wednesday. DHS has established itself as an agency that cannot be trusted to live in or present reality.

Doing the spongebob "five years lay-tere" voice in connection with january 6

Among the newly-released Epstein files. This Justice Dept email from Jan 2020 'I wanted to let you know that the flight records we received yesterday reflect that Donald Trump traveled on Epstein's private jet many more times than previously has been reported"

Bari Weiss literally runs a unaccredited conservative "college" out of a disused apartment store here in Austin containing a marble bust of her own head. Ain't a metaphor in the English language for her whole career that's gonna be more on the nose than that.

The full Weiss memo is dogshit -who cares if administration figures “regret” sending people to CECOT -who cares about the criminal histories of the people we sent to CECOT, we sent them to a torture prison —who cares about the “debate” over the legality of sending people to a torture prison

BREAKING: At least 16 files from the Epstein release disappeared from DOJ's webpage, including a photo of Trump, with no explanation.

Had the three Dems who voted for this held the line and voted no, they could have blocked it.

Watching BRAZIL (1985, dir. Terry Gilliam) really prepared me for authoritarian cultists being proud of their tacky plastic surgery

Scenes from a Chicago area gas station: Gregory Bovino playing rock paper scissors with an agent over who gets what piece of beef jerky while a community member shouts “you’re a piece of shit, you’re a fucking loser!”

Catching up on all my end-of-year funeral doom listening. Great vibes for when the cold snap hits

nothing makes women feel safe like receiving ocular patdowns from guys who look like this btw

Gonna tell my kids this was Josh Homme

Homegirl must be trapped in the ethereal horizon

I received an "F" on my dental school paper for writing "the tooth fairy takes 'em while you sleep" and now I'm suing the school for religious discrimination

They lied about it. All of it. A thug cop shot an unarmed woman five times without justification, boasted about it to his colleagues, and then this administration tried cover it all up by arresting her and charging her with felonies.

the gulf between the swift brutality with which places like harvard treated students protesting genocide and the endless, endless latitude those same institutions have given people like larry summers tells you everything you need to know

Produced a really interesting interview with Hayden Pedigo on his newest solo LP, his Chat Pile collab and making a "record store album," moving away from Texas, making art first and finding the meaning later, becoming a dad! What a great guy and great Q&A by @laurarice.bsky.social: txst.us/yi13a9

Predictable but still amazing to watch people who spent literally years accusing every librarian, teacher, and trans person they could find of sexually grooming children suddenly throw themselves in with "actually it's ephebophilia"

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Made the friend apologize for putting his face in between the gun and the birds he was shooting

Anybody pulling up to Black Magnet tomorrow?

An 'alternative system proposed by the [LCRA] would also have offered [more coverage and] more capacity. And it could have been cheaper. But Motorola won the contract anyway, aided by a process that was tilted in the company’s favor.' Damning new look at Kerr Co. disaster radio failure

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🧵 A long-running access fight at The Cutoff—a former branch of the Trinity River in East Texas—just got a new twist. The Cutoff has been a public fishing & hunting spot for decades. Then in early 2022, landowner Phillip Surls fenced off entry from public access along FM 1667. txst.us/66mgcz

Subtext. Anyone else remember it?

Finally saw One Battle After Another last night. What a friggin' powerhouse. If time travelers from the future wormholed their way back into 2025, all you need to show them is a double feature of it and Eddington and you're good

Austin's downtown music fest 'Free Week' returns for one weekend only 🧐 in January Had a blast hopping around over Hot Sumer Nights, happy to see the tradition continuing

Whatever happened with this story, it got shared by the Daily Mail but then it seemingly disappeared

My totenkopf tattoo has people asking a lot of questions already answered by my totenkopf tattoo

Thinking about Dimebag Darrell and how cancelled he'd be if he was alive today

This story got worse and worse and then I get to “Uvalde Police” and I’m just

“Soon, the land will be returned to its natural state: no space garbage, and still completely free of pointless [expletive] border walls,” the announcement read. buff.ly/BFXj1VA

I watched Nightmare with the boy last night and vaguely troubled by all the impact on his 11yo psyche, I worked up a question guide for after. Productive!

If you could send one message from Texas to the rest of the country, what would it be?

Earthshattering news here in Austin. I'm at a loss for words. www.kvue.com/article/news...

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.

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.

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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...