Tuesday: Joy, celebration Today: Senseless cruelty

Does anyone have examples of strong data sharing agreements (especially if you work in comms/digital)? Looking to build out some standards at work, would appreciate references!

A 34-yr old democratic socialist from Uganda was just elected mayor of the largest city and financial capital of the United States. NO BIGGIE ROSS, NO BIGGIE

EVERY Republican got that Trump stank on them. Don't need his name on a ballot--that stank permeates.

One day I hope I won’t have to express gratitude for folks in the rest of the country cleaning up my state’s mess

As a Democrat in Texas, THANK YOU CALIFORNIA!

New Yorkers said yes to four citywide ballot measures Tuesday night, approving a slate of proposals intended to reshape how the city approaches affordable housing development. buff.ly/xKX5mwS

As a Texan, fuck all of ‘em. Celebrating tonight and hoping we get a Mamdani moment here soon.

This one’s for @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social and the beautiful people of New York City. From NYC to ATX, a little bit of hope restored tonight. God bless.

Already voted. Austin peeps, you can vote at any polling place in the city. Get out there and vote for prop Q.

The Texas Way: UT faculty group issues new definition of 'academic freedom' www.statesman.com/news/educati... And AAUP chapter raises concerns.

Fascists want everyone who is a fascist to know they are one and everyone who isn’t a fascist to argue about whether they are one

Thanks to the NITA Act, and a city ordinance from @aldermanlaspata.bsky.social, Chicago has the highest population of any city in America that live on property that does not require vehicle parking

If you live in a major city, your mayor is almost certainly aware of @annehidalgo.bsky.social's record. If they're deciding not to follow her lead, that decision is a deliberate one.

As someone with multiple friends who saw rent declines I think our “extreme YIMBY-ism" is succeeding at least a little bit

“After Rainey’s termination, UT’s accreditor put its status as an accredited university on probation…The AAUP censured the institution for nine years, deterring professors from coming. It took a decade for UT to restore its reputation.” 😬

car ppl and their problems, can’t relate 😙✌🏼

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They are **erecting** statues that honor racists

ACLU reporting that “several of the 6 women detained at South Louisiana ICE Center in Basile, LA, & Stewart Detention Center in Lumpkin, GA were pregnant & have miscarried while in custody.” 0 outrage from MAGAs about these fetuses. They were never about life. They are only about control of women.

Tear gassing random residential streets is just absolutely psychotic behavior.

1) that's highly illegal. 2) there's no proof the people in those boats are involved in the drug trade 3) in a bunch of cases those boats are not headed for the US 4) it's murder regardless.

A note for sports: Bluesky’s engagement rate was x10 higher than X’s across a sampling of identical posts made on both platforms by @rapsheet.bsky.social (sharing with permission) Fwiw we see a similar trend across all communities, not just sports. Real people, real conversations.

Happy pub day, @sgoodyear.bsky.social and @brooklynspoke.bsky.social! 🥳📖 Excited to dig into every page with our book club, and honored to have you in Austin with us in December!! 🙌🏼

If your first thought was "Why do they need guided missile warheads?" then your second though needs to be ".......o fuck this is actually happening."

Messaging matters, and this was big-ass messaging.

Congratulations to bicyclists: you're one of the most efficient movers in the animal kingdom! 🧪 www.scientificamerican.com/article/a-hu...

block this shit

block this shit

yeah, look .... not sure who needs to hear this (actually, everyone does), but turn off the stupid AI suggestions in your search results, and def. go and use @wikipedia.org a lot more. I use it as my first-go-to knowledge base resource. Follow the trail of citations to primary sources. It's good.

Meanwhile, Justice Gorsuch is nodding along to oral arguments at the Supreme Court about how there’s no racism in politics anymore

This is no more lawful than if Iran / North Korea / whoever blew up a couple American yachts in the Mediterranean for suspected drug trafficking. On the legal spectrum it sits in the middle of a Venn diagram between overt acts of military aggression, state-sponsored terrorism, and simple murder.

🚨Faculty teaching conditions are student learning conditions. Degrading #academicfreedom and free speech affects EVERYONE on campus. This is not the way to build and protect world class colleges and universities!! ⬇️⬇️

I’m a doctoral student at TXST. The feeling on campus is worse than you imagine. Faculty afraid to speak, grad students feel like they could lose their entire futures if they draw the university president’s ire, undergrads openly worrying about the complete loss of a fundamental right.

If you make "controversial statements" outside of classroom, that the President of the university dislikes, you can be summarily fired even if you are tenured.

Several years of Republican investigations over Joe Biden, Hunter Biden and Burisma never once turned up anything as clear as this. I would guess that not a single Republican makes even the mildest criticism of Trump over it.

Leadership.

When enough time elapses for historians to take measure of this truly batshit era, one theme that will become oddly clear is how the American right was obsessed with other peoples' genitalia.

This is quite good.

My grandpa was a gun collector, mom’s a gun owner, I’m a gun owner. First lesson: you don’t point the gun at something unless you intend to kill it. Even if it isn’t loaded. Even if the safety’s on. If ICE/cops point a gun at you, they are either too ignorant for the job or they want to kill you.

I'd like the author of this article to please identify where the "pragmatic" Republicans are

Claim: 10 cars rammed ICE Truth: No cars rammed ICE Claim: She boxed ICE in Truth: ICE boxed her in Claim: She shot a rifle at ICE Truth: She did not have a rifle Claim: ICE returned fire Truth: Only ICE fired Claim: She drove herself to the hospital Truth: Paramedics found her

Austin is getting a new rail station! Love to see this — as the developer is building out their project, they're working with CapMetro to make sure residents, workers, and visitors can access the site without bringing a car. 🥳 www.capmetro.org/majorproject...

Tried to have an honest conversation with some Swifties about this very weird line from “Wi$h Li$t” and got basically what you’d expect

This evening, President Trump is ordering 400 members of the Texas National Guard for deployments to Illinois, Oregon, and other locations within the United States. No officials from the federal government called me directly to discuss or coordinate.

HAPPENING NOW: Judge Karin Immergut hears emergency arguments as California and Oregon seek to block President Trump's deployment of federalized California National Guard troops to Portland. 🧵

This administration is waging war on Americans. Full stop. Not hyperbole. Literal, physical violence.

if Kash can go back years and fire people for kneeling or displaying a pride flag the absolute least the next Dem admin can do is fire every one of these assholes who are assaulting people on camera (and then prosecute them)

California! Make the call. Climate, democracy... it's all wrapped up in this bill.

Taylor Swift thinking of euphemisms for Travis Kelce: