It took somewhere around 20 to 30 minutes for the whole line to march out of the gates of the capital

No Kings-Austin,TX

Find a No Kings protest Saturday and go! Don't worry that you've never been to a protest before. Don't worry about being dressed wrong or looking out of place. Don't worry that you don't agree about everything -- or even about much -- with lots of people at the protest. /1

File state charges. This is a crime.

If you think I'm not alarmed, read this. www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

Thanks. FTR, the very first time I had to call NCIS (I was working for the Navy) and then the FBI because of threats from Trumpers was almost ten years ago. I also had to fight being fired; I told my family, including my young daughter, that I might be unemployed soon. /1

I visited the apartment building ICE raided on Tuesday today. Story to come, but you can walk right in. Half of the apartments have no doors on them. Children's stuff abandoned in some flats. *Citizen* residents told me they were arrested and held for hours in zipties. This is America

Every few months now I re-read this "Who Goes Nazi?" piece from 1941 and am blown away by how it captures the people we are dealing with 80 years later. harpers.org/archive/1941...

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The Dept. of Education has pulled funding for programs in 8 states that support students with both hearing and vision loss. A staffer at one program says he was told the Trump admin. took issue with 2 words on the grant application: “transition" and “privilege": www.propublica.org/article/trum...

Massie: "The Speaker of the House just offered a fig leaf to my colleagues. They're gonna vote on a non-binding resolution today that does absolutely nothing ... they're allowing the DOJ to curate all of the information that the DOJ is giving them ... the perpetrators are being protected"

“I have a Republican representative, what can I do?” This. Call every office they have, every day. Be polite, be persistent, but push

"Every one of these people is taking with them skills and knowledge that will be difficult to replace. But there may be no single individual whose departure better captures what is being lost and destroyed than Demetre Daskalakis."

9 CDC Directors going back to 1977 speak out. What RFK Jr has done to our nation’s public health system "should alarm every American." It "is unlike anything we have ever seen at the agency, and unlike anything our country has ever experienced." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...

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This makes me question the president’s health more than the size of his ankles

This is the kind of choice that leads to a military that tells you you’ll take Kyiv the first day

Pastor Doug Pagitt realized Vote Common Good would need a robust mass-alert system because of ICE’s new, aggressive tactics of showing up unexpectedly at places that were previously off-limits. Like churches. www.thebulwark.com/p/exclusive-...

It is back-to-school season for Texas students, and our newsroom needs your help to check off a school supply list for all of Texas. 🧵

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This is the way (my favorite are that “chicken” and “deal” and randomly in quotes 🤣)

He’s going to take over DC to avoid talking about Epstein.

BIG NEWS: Texas Dems plan to flee to Chicago today in order to disrupt redistricting attempts, according to Politico.

Just so’s we’re all clear, almost 3/4 of everything we buy from Europe is now 15% more expensive.

“The mind justifies the decisions of the heart.” - Skye Jethani A bit late to post this, but Last week’s Holy Post episode helped be mitigate my anger *with* my sorrow. Helpful at this moment, where the right may once again excuse incredible evil to protect one distorted, broken man.

This is a great resource adoptastation.org?fbclid=PAQ0x...

I’m more proud of this thread than I should be. Click through. Go ahead. It may haunt you for the rest of your days ngl… www.threads.com/@jamiesonlt/...

Congrats to Stephen Colbert for never bending the knee.

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This is beautiful and brutal. I cannot believe how many of them survived yet they still paid a terrible price. www.texasmonthly.com/news-politic...

New: Texas officials estimate 161 people are missing after floods as death toll rises to 109

Nearly 1,000 people have come to Kerrville as either first responders to help the search and response teams or volunteer to help those displaced by the flooding, Kerrville Mayor Joe Herring Jr. said.

This will destroy many churches.

If you are inclined to gloat over the death of kids — or the death of ANYBODY — because they live in a place where 6 in 10 voted Trump instead of 5 in 10 or 4 in 10, then I think maybe you’re not here for the hunting.

“…He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures…” -Declaration of Independence, 1776

God bless the group chats / With silly names / Without them, us women / We would go insane / God bless the gossip / The memes and reaccs / God bless our lifeline / The humble group chat

We hate each other more than we love the good we did together for 50 years. #USAID

Still mad that The Last Battle—my least favorite book from the Chronicles of Narnia—ended up being the most political relevant work of fiction from my childhood.

If you have a R senator, seriously call their office tomorrow & say vote against this bill. Say you don’t wan’t three times the budget of NASA going into a sprawling immigrant detention infrastructure. That you don’t want to kick folks you know off Medicaid. That you don’t want solar taxed. reps.fyi

Deporting children of military veterans because they were born on an overseas military base. This man has no citizenship now.

This is good and important www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

"They say with Trump accusation is confession. Having warned during the 2024 campaign that Joe Biden, then Kamala Harris, would trigger “world war three”, Trump is now offering a perilous test of that proposition." My take. www.ft.com/content/c689...

If the Iranian program is now gone, that's a good thing, but as strategists and military planners always warn, the “enemy gets a vote.” The Iranians may respond in ways the U.S. does not expect. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

It's probably a good thing I am on break from my church work right now. Who knows what I might say tomorrow morning. One thing I know, we must pray for peace.

20k in Austin for #nokingsday But the boomers stole my heart

San Diego #NoKings

There are nearly 100,000 people at the rally in Philadelphia. #NoKings

OK, so is the president going to send the Marines to Minnesota now? No, not needed, the law enforcement community has it well in hand? How about that.