“Why do you lie?” advocates & @houstonchronicle.com ask they mayor who bragged to the New York Times about leading a model immigration policy, then turned a lost autistic boy over to ICE.

The history our government doesn’t want us to remember: “And here we all were - this group of Black Americans having to deal with these bodies of White Americans. The stark reality was we had to bury those soldiers although we couldn’t sit in the same room with them when they were alive.”

Not just climate change: “Last year, a 100-foot-high tower of oily saltwater exploded from the West Texas desert like Old Faithful. Poisonous hydrogen sulfide gas billowed from the geyser in plumes so powerful that workers trying to fix the malfunctioning oil well had to evacuate multiple times.”

Science is so fucking cool.

Since the Democrats worked extra hard to hide who actually supported this, I think the No Kings/Resistance position should be to primary every Democrat unless they publicly call for Schumer's ouster this week Either they go into total rebellion mode, which they won't, or the people will

“The hate is coming from inside the house.” Preferring bigotry a la carte, “right-wingers such as Shapiro who seemed comfortable with intolerance when it was directed at Blacks, immigrants, trans people and other marginalized groups, are shocked (shocked!) that their former friends also hate Jews.”

Remember that the same people who brought you Project 2025 brought you Nick Fuentes. It’s two sides of the same coin.

I can’t understand why there are problems with gambling and corruption in sports.

Very excited to be going to see “Porgy and Bess” at Houston Grand Opera tonight and hoping I can remember it’s not a singalong.

Got a letter from Sen. Cornyn: “When we look for a solution to rising healthcare cost we should not listen to the same people who sold us Obamacare on false premises…& prefer we continue to prop up a failed system… the failing system of Obamacare.” So the GOP plan on ACA subsidies is to repeal it.

TLDR; No.

The problem of non-representation of 49% of the voters in a state due to partisan House districting is straightforward: eliminate partisan districting.

Whoever is picking the between-inning music is a genius.

#HalloweenWisdom I just asked a little girl why she picked a banana costume and she said, "Because they didn't have a Lorax costume."

Tonight’s recipe contains a logic puzzle. “Cool pasta until al dente, about 8-10 minutes. Add kale for the last 2 minutes.”

Just catching up on Wednesday to get into Halloween spirit. “If you’re not here to help, feel free to dissipate” is going to be my new slogan.

Very clever beer label :) (And nice beer)

I have limited expectations for digital privacy when I’m a user. But it is remarkably invasive of Meta to retain & share non-users’ personal info without notice or opt-out options when a third party provides it, & much worse to retain a non-user’s information even if the non-user tells them not to.

There’s a name for this There’s a phrase that fits And “leadership in action” would not be it.

Trump posts meme of himself bombing Americans with sewage. CNN says “Presidents Barack Obama and Joe Biden, as well as…Hillary Clinton, all had their moments & a sense that liberal elites disrespected heartland Americans was fundamental to Trump’s rise to power.” Can #whataboutism get more absurd?

This (goldenrod) is not where your allergies come from.

Steelers, Bengals to meet in the #IcyHotBowl

Where okra comes from

“Innocent bystanders” implies a degree of helplessness that seems too easy an out. “We’re not in politics?” They need to be.

“We are not afraid of our own ideas” should be every Democrat’s approach.

Penn State football coach’s contract buyout would fund the budget for SIX YEARS at one of the campuses the school is closing due to cost concerns.

Has anyone else noticed that lined running shorts are actually a Klein bottle?

We need to stop viewing our age as exceptional. People (including scientists) have been passionately wrong about the natural world for at least the history of the western world. As long as inquiry persists error gets corrected. What we need to advocate is continuing inquiry with minimum quackery.

A lot of things are terrible but here is a small wonderful kindness.

Was just looking up an exercise (not with an AI search) and the AI results summary told me to focus on my front glute. I don’t think I learned about that one in anatomy class.

What it’s like teaching school in Texas.

@clclark.bsky.social The Unbroken is on this list!

Hits the nail on the head: “Who is going to be checking the panties to be sure the right potty is used? …Will they hire someone already accused of checking panties?”

Why people think politicians are corrupt: The Texas Senate voted against delaying a groundwater grab on the same day the company behind it hired one of Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick’s top advisors as a lobbyist. Also hired: a key senator’s ex-staffer, & a former deputy chief of staff to Gov. Greg Abbott.

The choice between science and Trump is perfectly possible and Dr. Susan Monarez made the right one.

JFC. This is why people don’t go to the theater.

The Texas Miracle: this article showing that 40% of people in Houston’s home county are food insecure appeared alongside an article showing that 100,000 people applied for 5000 available slots for help with utility bills.

It must say something good about me that when I have a typo that comes out “woed” my spellcheck offers “woad” instead of “word.”

Grass has a life.

This video of bats forming “cuddle balls” will improve your day.

Why we must not let Trump ruin HHS, NIH, and medical research: "You do more work, you learn more about cancer, you run clinical trials and you cure more patients. The formula is very, very clear and the path is very obvious. It's just we need to continue doing that."

I’ve read three different posts about Trump-Putin this morning by sociologists or reporters with large followings. All of them headlined “I nailed it” and reposted their prior posts predicting the outcome. This is neither useful nor serious.

I love our NWS Houston/Galveston forecasters. Here’s their forecast discussion for International Cat Day.

Bright women

Aside from the obvious, here’s another reason not to cut food stamps: “Having the means to buy nutritious food is important for preventing cognitive decline. This study suggested that SNAP participation, or any nutritional support program can delay the onset of cognitive impairment or dementia.”

It’s incredibly alarming that the State Department is labeling IUDs and birth control implants abortifacients. This won’t stop at foreign aid. The US government will outlaw these methods of birth control.

This is the idiocy behind NIH grant cancellations: “The study itself has value, however unfortunately it was funded under an ideologically driven DEI program under the Biden Administration.” In other words we’re burning down our own perfectly good house bc we decided we don’t like the architect.

“What is so unfortunate about the current situation is that Trump inherited policies (and in one case an agreement) that were far more likely to lead to the results he promised as a candidate than the policies he adopted over the early months of his presidency.”

And Magenta.

New piece at @houstonchronicle.com discusses my criticisms of Texas' new "Bible-infused" Bluebonnet curriculum, as well as the views of a Bluebonnet supporter 1/2 www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston...