Even if she loses, I'll feel better about losing for calling out their bullshit. And you never know, if a Dem actually fights, they may win. The "they go low we go high" bs never worked and abandoned the battlefield to a bunch of nazi villains. We need fighters.

Imagine interviewing a victim of torture and independently confirming the details of his torture and then being told you can’t broadcast it because the people who ordered the torture wouldn’t give their side of the story.

Almost immediately, Texas weaponizes its school voucher program on behalf of religious bigotry.

Read this thread, from a an account of the spiked 60 Minutes story that was (apparently mistakenly?) aired in Canada. Weiss refusing to air this story isn't just journalistic malpractice, it's running interference to help cover up atrocities.

Good thread, this part esp

I think a lot about Arthur DeWitty, the Austin journalist and civil rights activist whose entire, 23-year journalism oeuvre has been lost to history. In my 2nd neighborhood history zine, I compared his lost work to those of "an ancient poet writing in a language for which no dictionary survives."

I wish he'd appoint Greg Abbott to something. He's a moron with zero foreign policy experience, there's gotta be some frigid, barren wasteland he could be sent to as well.

Links to the underlying records are in this story: Watching football rn but flagging for future review.

One day something will happen — a wedding, a graduation, a job promotion, Jake Paul getting knocked out, Andrew Tate getting knocked out the next day — and you’ll want the right outfit to celebrate. Buy that special outfit now, so you’re ready when that next unexpected moment arrives.

I go back and forth btwn this and the Pogues' Fairytale in New York as "truest" to the season. Definitely one or the other. The song most closely describing my own childhood Christmases, by far, is Robert Earl Keen's, "Merry Christmas from the Family." It's like he was sitting on the couch w/ us.

Did not have "Open Seas Piracy" on my 2025 Bingo Card, but here we are. www.nbcnews.com/politics/pol...

The @expressnewsopinion.bsky.social has a worthless column by Jonah Goldberg, of all ppl, on the TX Senate race, and one wonders why a San Antonio paper thinks the famously non-Texan fmr National Review editor is the right voice to lecture their readers about an insufficient commitment to centrism?

This is a great thread up and down. It really is time to get back to first principles

Wine connoisseurs talk about a vintage having "notes of cherry" or "hints of oak," but given a choice, I prefer Aggie tears flavored with "notes of defeat" and "hints of regret." OTOH, one certainly must congratulate the 104k fans at Kyle Field and everyone in College Station on this exciting news

The US has a great modern history of leveraging federal funding to advance civil rights, and the Trump administration is doing the exact opposite: leveraging federal funding to roll back civil rights. www.huffpost.com/entry/hhs-wa...

Was interested to learn that this year's edition of Santa's Naughty List includes a section titled, "Technically legal, but c'mon, read the room."

Statesman editorial board: "Our GOP-inspired propaganda campaign against Prop Q worked so well that local nonprofits losing funds didn't even know they'd be impacted. We got what we wanted! Yay, us! We're so smart!" To the side stands Tony Plohetski, beaming, "Don't forget to give me credit!"

What's funniest about this is that the Waymos seem to work pretty well and are all over Austin. But somehow Space Karen can't emulate their success. Maybe if he fires more engineers and tells their replacements they have to sleep in the office it'll go better?

How the nyt used the Cass report to restart its anti-trans propaganda campaign in the US: Coverage of the report was initially assigned to a nyt UK correspondent, usual practice for a UK report. The story being prepared cited critics who called Cass a shoddy, political document that defied science

I'm glad to see this confirmed just to stop a few stupid arguments, but IRL, I didn't need eyewitness confirmation of bad intentions: their coverage was prima facie evidence of bigotry and bad faith, as is a lot of their performative faux-centrist framing.

I don't recall rooting for Miami since Michael Irvin went there and they played FSU (I was never a Bobby Bowden fan), but I hope they whip A&M tomorrow like the Aggies owe them money.

The New School owns about a billion dollars worth of art, most of which is not on display. They could sell the two Warhols they own and raise $100 million tomorrow. But they’d rather close academic departments.

random journeyman pitchers when Josh Miller tells them to start throwing the change-up

Santa's Naughty List used to fit on a scroll. Now the billionaire section alone requires its own database with cloud storage.

i recognize it's just a performance arts center and we've all collectively stopped giving a shit but changing the signage of the kennedy center is explicitly prohibited by law

#ICYMI, from our magazine: “Bitcoin miners in general, if you map out across the United States, this is my opinion, are taking advantage of small rural communities that don’t have the wherewithal to fight back.”

There's an extent to which right wingers taking over legacy media will simply make them irrelevant. Women now get ~60% of college degrees and have opportunities their grandmothers cn never dream of, this dumb-as-a-bag-of-hair nonsense doesn't have a prayer of moving the needle.

This brought me joy

This advice appears to “misunderstand what a servicemember is supposed to do in the face of an unlawful order: disobey it if confident that the order is unlawful," said a retired Army lieutenant colonel and former JAG lawyer.

The Trump regime wants to dismantle a world leading climate research center. Why? Because the US has become a petrostate where the government has been captured by fossil fuel interests. They’re calling climate science “green new scam research”, in full denial of reality. 🤯

Don't let the door hit you on the way out www.statesman.com/news/article...

David Brooks is in the Epstein files but thinks we should ignore them is the most predictable story of 2025.

Just went through my now-43k-word manuscript to count the total number of women lion tamers in America I've ID'd from 1844 through 1918: I found 40 total, with about a quarter of them European transplants. 22 of them had significant, multi-year careers as stars; the others were short timers.

This is a crazy and funny and story but also demonstrates that AI is not ready for prime time for most uses that require any accountability or judgment at all.

Thanks to A-Line Auto Parts on MLK for helping me muddle through my automotive stupidity this afternoon and get back on the road w/ relative ease. Good guys, super helpful, and generously accommodating to idiots, which in this case turned out to be necessary.

Just straight up bigots www.kxan.com/news/texas/t...

An Aussie paper in 1898 declared that, whenever male daredevils in those days came up w/ some new stunt, immediately women emerged saying they cd match or top them, and the "imitator usually outrivals the original performer," inc lion tamers, strong women, acrobats, parachutists, high divers, etc.

It is, as a practical matter unless and until we take it back

The optional war we're ginning up in Venezuela shows that, if this administration had wanted to implement a blockade of Russian oil to enforce US sanctions, they could have done so. They do not want that IRL, and we know this bc actions speak louder than words. www.csis.org/analysis/gho...

There it is, it's really okay to say true things out loud

One of my 19th century women lion tamers, who also performed on the vaudeville stage with big cats and other animal performers after the Civil War, changed up her act after nearly a decade and became a circus strongwoman under a different stage name, performing through at least 1894! I'm excited! 🦁

I only just learned that the Texas Capitol was built with stone cut & iron worked by black prisoners leased out as convict labor Far as I know first acknowledgment of this is in the inscription of the African American History Memorial installed on site in 2016—134 years after those men started work

This has been *such* a saga, but better late than never: Texas prisoners who died during convict leasing and were often buried where they dropped in unmarked graves have been honored and commemorated. www.houstonchronicle.com/neighborhood...

Here's another example of a TX case pushing the edges of AI investment viability and spurring "bubble will pop" memes: The drop came after a tenant bailed on "the company's Advanced Energy and Intelligence Campus at Texas Tech University." A bunch of the most dubious s*** is happening here.

My HS debate partner is researching his family history and it turns out his 3rd great grandpa was part of a paramilitary terrorist slaver group that burned down the pro-Union Alamo Express newspaper in San Antonio in 1861. The publisher fled south to Mexico, eventually landing in San Francisco.

One notices a lot of articles saying an AI bubble may soon pop are focused on Texas companies who're out way over their skis. Screwing up a data center rollout in Denton tanked this stock. www.wsj.com/tech/ai/core...

So, if this is how it's gonna be, can we at least stop all the disingenuous "baby bust" articles blaming women for declining birth rates and telling them they have to date assholes out of patriotism? You either want more babies or you don't. Republicans apparently don't even want military babies.

In 2013, the Texas Historical Commission published a document titled, "Texas in the Civil War: Stories of Sacrifice, Valor, and Hope," if you were wondering whether Lost Cause fetishism was still alive and well in this godforsaken state. thc.texas.gov/public/uploa...

Expect CBS News to jump on this right away