Harris County is critical to both major political parties' statewide ambitions, but has been blue for about a decade.

This is good. But we’re at a point that my reaction is to grind my teeth and growl it’s not enough to hear that charges were dropped against innocent victims of ICE, or to hear that hundreds more were released from prison conditions. It’s time we hear that ICE is being arrested, charged, prosecuted.

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.

I was talking to a guy who does beautiful woodworking stuff and I said it seemed hard as hell. He said "Shit son, doing anything is hard. Hammering in a nail straight is hard. Anyone says something is easy they just don't remember being taught how to do it. Or practice didn't feel like work."

Really pleased to learn that one of our students, Kristen Waddell, has won a national award for her NSF-funded research on local water quality. Congratulations to Kristen and to my teaching colleague, Dr. Daisy Zhang. Folks, we're a community college. www.kiiitv.com/article/news...

Looking the financial indices out of the UK and apologies if this has ever come up before, but have they considered reviving the economy by joining a large economic and political consortium of countries nearby, say in Europe?

1) @washingtonpost.com reported Thursday on a controversial policy downgrading how nooses and swastikas are labeled in the Coast Guard. 2) Admin officials attacked The Post, falsely alleging the reporting of "fake crap." 3) The CG said it would review policy language. 4) The CG reversed course.

The latest, with gift link: wapo.st/4rdDQew

Watching this is good for your eyeballs. It keeps them healthy and happy. Send more auroras please!

We are seeing a sudden flurry of censorship activity in smaller towns in central Texas. If you are a parent or librarian in this area, please reach out to us or @txfreedomread.bsky.social if you need support.

What is common knowledge in your field but shocks outsiders? Art conservators often wash prints on paper like etchings or engravings by submerging them *in water* for cleaning harvardartmuseums.org/article/it-s...

Traces of saffron have been found in cave paintings in Iran dated 50,000 years ago, meaning they were growing / harvesting crocus flowers at least that long ago. (!)

Thousands of rare American recordings — some 100 years old — go online for all to enjoy A collaboration between UC Santa Barbara and the nonprofit Dust-to-Digital Foundation laist.com/news/arts-an...

Not really a fun fact but an anecdote. In autumn every year Japan gets these little jumping spiders. I always have several in my house (dunno why). They seem to like hanging out with me when I’m writing. This morning one of them jumped right up to my computer waving its feelers and dancing😆☺️

the actor who voiced the predator in the original movie also voiced eeyore for many years

I had to find out how cute this was. Turns out: incredibly cute and I needed to know this. I put some time into these alt-tags

Like many places these days, Scotland lets the public name their snow plows. But they take it up a notch and offer a live tracking map so you can follow Thistle Grit Through, Robert Brrrns and Ice Sweeper Willie on their rounds www.traffic.gov.scot/gritter-trac...

New Mexico is the only state to have a “state smell” A bunch of grade school kids said that roasting green chile should be our state smell so their teacher had them write our state Congress and in a shocking display they all came together, wrote the bill, and passed it in a matter of weeks

Man, everything is so bleak, anyone got a fun fact or little bit of trivia they want to share

San Antonio’s new Museo del Westside opened in October. It honors the unique heritage, culture, and people of the historic West Side. It’s housed in a former ice house that served as a grocery and gathering place for the community for decades. Read More👉 ebx.sh/P8lwhq

I’m getting more and more of these too. It’s depressing.

Just about to watch a theater production of Sweeny Todd and the actual thunderstorm outside the building is providing the right foreshadowing as we wait for it yo start.

And be sure you’re following and supporting some of the bravest, kindest, most awesome Texas librarians we know - @freadomfighters.bsky.social 💙📚

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Oh yeah this is going to go over well, telling tired travelers on weather delays, after cramped economy class, to dress nicer and smile.

What planet are these people from?

Quite a metaphor. 👀 "The blaze [sent] panicked delegates racing to evacuate...rain from a torrential downpour leaked into the meeting spaces...There were complaints about food shortages, & the air-conditioning struggled to keep up with the high heat..."

NEW: Elon Musk's Grokipedia cites a neo-Nazi website 42 times, researchers say www.nbcnews.com/tech/elon-mu...

Via Ariana Figueroa: U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials detailed to a federal judge Thursday plans for the Trump administration to again remove the wrongly deported Kilmar Abrego Garcia, this time to the West African country of Liberia.

Judge Ellis derides Greg Bovino as a serial fabulist who brazenly lied on the stand and seemingly considered it funny to perjure himself. cst.brightspotcdn.com/49/34/daecfb...

Ellis repeatedly accuses multiple CBP and ICE officials of lying (under oath) and says their "widespread misrepresentations call into question everything" they "say they are doing in their characterization of what is happening." She broadly discredits their testimony as objectively false.

Mayor Kirk Watson said the score represents “the highest standard of inclusion.” https://www.kxan.com/lgbtq/austin-maintains-perfect-score-in-annual-review-of-lgbtq-policies-for-13th-consecutive-year/

“According to several county clerks contacted by NewsChannel 13, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) informed them that naturalization ceremonies are canceled indefinitely.” wnyt.com/top-stories/...

A naturalization ceremony is exactly where newly minted citizens should be registered to vote. It should be part of the whole ceremony, not just and after thought conducted by nonpartisan third party groups handing out forms to the crowd.

Let's get one thing clear, issues like ICE terrorizing cities like Los Angeles and Chicago and now our neighbors in Charlotte are not a distraction from "real" issues like affordability. They're both equally a part of billionaires bleeding us dry and need to both be addressed with equal energy

I’m a Glaswegian living in Los Angeles and I’m encouraging people not to come. Same for the Olympics. ICE & CBP (Customs & Border Patrol) are out of control. Yesterday, they broke the windows on a US citizen’s car w the barrel of an AR15 for honking to warn people they were in the neighborhood.

Today is Day 167 of the ICE raids here in Los Angeles. On Thursday, December 18 at 6 p.m., Linnaea’s Café (1110 Garden St., San Luis Obispo) will host ¡Chinga La Migra!: Poesía y Música Para La Raza—a benefit for 805 UndocuFund and Colectivo Mariposa.

ICE in Los Angeles. Immigrants are not the problem! I love my neighbors, the culture in our neighborhood, immigrants are what makes life here great!

ICE raids may stunt economies of states with large Latino populations - Los Angeles Times https://www.latimes.com/delos/story/2025-11-19/ucla-study-immigrant-latino-labor-ice-raids-red-blue-states

Immigrant rights group placing 'ICE stole someone here' signs in Ontario, California - ABC7 Los Angeles abc7.com/post/ontario...

ICE raids are posing a new hurdle for Black and Latino families to pay rent in one of America’s most expensive cities. But they’ve also catalyzed Black neighbors in Los Angeles to act. capitalandmain.com/in-south-l-a...

Good Night World

if anyone wants to follow the ICE attacks in Los Angeles, here are a few sources on the ground:

DAILY MEMO: A Father Was Abducted by Feds. His Teen Son Left School to Finish His Work Route If you appreciate reporting like this, please consider becoming a member, buying some merch, or dropping a dime in our fundraiser to bring you this vital information. @eltragon.bsky.social

The feds are escalating in Los Angeles. We've seen record high kidnappings and our communities are under attack. The media focus on LA has died down so electeds don't feel the need to even feign opposition. People are out here fighting. We need all of us. Join the struggle. Defend your neighbors.

Today, hundreds of people assembled in St. Paul to resist an ICE raid. In this account, a participant describes what happened. crimethinc.com/StPaul2025 Today's events echo the resistance to ICE in Minneapolis on June 3, which helped to set off weeks of open revolt in Los Angeles and countrywide.

In Charlotte, businesses continue to close on a massive scale. Others begin locking their doors behind each customer. All as ICE terrorizes the NC community.

🧵 1/2 Charlotte is saying NO!Not my city! Learning from L.A., Chicago & Siembra North Carolina, they’re ready to melt ICE!

Charlotte Set a New Standard for Resisting ICE www.digitaldrumbeat.com/p/charlotte-...

Fox chyron reads "ANTI-ICE PROTESTS ROCK CHARLOTTE" while in the background on their liveshot you can see people in frog and dinosaur costumes