Denton County and its economy are built around the University of North Texas. Denton County also went 56/43 for Trump in 2024. That's because most voters there wanted to get rid of immigrants. Now, as international students disappear, the university is collapsing. They burned down their own house.

Grateful to Governor Spanberger for trusting me to serve in this new post on the State Board of Elections — ensuring fair, secure, and accurate elections for all Virginia voters. Never to be taken for granted!

96-year old Dolores Huerta made a gutting confession today. She deserves to be heard in her own words. Even the most righteous movements find ways to make space for misogyny. medium.com/@dolores_hue...

Watch to the end. “There were no books.”

The 2026 National Science Foundation budget is $8.75 Billion.

Attacks leave dead vs killed

Charlottesville: Swords Into Plowshares needs your input. How should we recast the bronze ingots from the melted Lee statue? How can we reclaim public space? Come meet the design firms, see their proposals, view photos of the melting. 6pm Saturday, March 14 at the Jefferson School. www.sipcville.com

The statue is gone, and what comes next is up to you. From March 14 - May 30, @jsaahccville.bsky.social invites you to help shape the future of the Lee statue's melted bronze as we consider proposals from MASS Design Group, PUSH Studio, and Hood Design Studio. www.eventbrite.com/e/swords-int...

A folk logic about it is starting to develop. People may not understand the monopolies and geopolitics of renewable energy at a gradual level. But they can see data centers, hear data centers, and read their electric bill statements. They are angry.

Today's @gelliottmorris.com post is really eye-opening with respect to Dems' optimal midterm strategy ... www.gelliottmorris.com/p/new-poll-d...

True in public service, too.

My head hurts.

Our grasp on reality is slipping. The response rate to the survey behind the unemployment rate (and the rest of the household survey) is now lower than during the pandemic. The decline in response rates during the first year of the Trump Admin 2.0 was larger than at any time outside the pandemic.

The pace at which US wealth concentration is rising is simply staggering The concentration of AI wealth into the hands of a few tech barons + plutocratic capture ==> unchartered territory

I used to live in a big house in Boston with a bunch of Air Force Academy grads granted leave from active duty to study at MIT — aerospace engineering & cybersecurity. Some of the smartest, highest-character men I’ve ever met. Heartbreaking that our country is no longer proud to produce them.

We need to raise the bar on research code right now. 1) documentation and tests are dead simple now. 2) creating benchmarks integrating across multiple implementations 3) have agents double check your work / fix broken tests 4) fix outstanding bugs in major scientific packages

Independents say 2:1 that Bad Bunny "better represents America" than Donald Trump www.yahoo.com/news/politic...

Pretty much the most important thing happening in the world right now. www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-chi...

Let’s build some houses.

❄️ Cville SOS ❄️ Is there somewhere closer than RVA that sharpens skates now that the Main St Arena is closed?

“It takes a long time to sound like yourself.” — Miles Davis

One thing I found deeply moving about resistance in the Twin Cities was the universalism of loving your neighbor, the philosophy driving the opposition to the ICE/BP invasion. I couldn't help but notice the contrast with the blood and soil-ism of Miller and Vance. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

I once asked my late uncle what he thought ended the legal Jim Crow era. He immediately responded that the murders of Chaney, Goodman, and Schwerner in 1964 were the moment Jim Crow died. When I asked him why he said: “When White folks fight White folks, it changes everything. Enough was enough.”

ICE just shot another one of my neighbors. They had the person on the ground, being beaten by several agents, and then fired multiple shots. In front of the donut shop where we like to get donuts for our kids.

There has been an increasing sense in Minneapolis that we are on our own, that our elected representatives are unwilling and/or unable to take action to get these murderous Nazi thugs out of our community. I really hope that changes today. The time for pleading TV hits ended weeks ago.

My kid came home sick this afternoon, and promptly tested positive for Influenza A. My physician is going to call in a prophylactic prescription for Tamiflu, for my wife and, because we've been exposed. If you're exposed to flu this season, consider asking your doctor about the same.

One of the things about people showing up to protest for the first time, that many, many armchair theorists don't grasp, is the effect of seeing what happens with your own eyes, then seeing how media covers it, and what is said ABOUT YOU by media and political personalities/office holders.

How is this better than … a picture of their badge?

Breaking News: The EPA will stop considering lives saved when setting pollution limits and instead calculate only the cost to businesses.

Suspect arrested in predawn fire that left parts of Mississippi’s largest synagogue in charred ruins A fire heavily damaged Jackson’s only synagogue before dawn Saturday – the same house of worship that was firebombed by the Ku Klux Klan in 1967 because the rabbi had been an advocate for civil…

y'all Kristi Noem absolutely deserves to be impeached but please, please be wary of Dems who try to use an impeachment vote on Noem (fine, but not gonna end in removal) as a substitute for action on ICE funding (real, hits them where it hurts)

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ICE Out For Good: Vigil for those murdered by ICE. Sunday 2-3 pm at Market Street Park, Charlottesville. Updates coming soon. #AbolishICE

the administration wants to frame this (bizarrely) as law enforcement. but if law enforcement conducted a raid for a suspect and killed 40 people, including an unknown number of unarmed civilians, it would be treated as a clear disaster like Waco.

“.. Her swift defiance of Mr. Trump made clear that his plans to swoop into the South American nation and run it as his own faced many more hurdles than he suggested ..” @nytimes.com 🇻🇪 www.nytimes.com/2026/01/03/w...

NYT: At least 40 people were killed in the US attack on Venezuela, including military personnel and civilians.

The casualties already coming in. Grandmothers in their apartments….

I am struggling with what might be a generational experience. The gulf war was pretty politically formative for me. It’s not history so much as memory this time. It is destabilizing to see almost the exact same gameplan but this time without the guardrails that at the time I took for granted.

Very important signal here. You can say it's abt oil. And part of it is. But the White House is actually being forced to strongarm the oil companies to get involved. www.politico.com/news/2026/01...

Before President Trump announced on Saturday that the U.S. had captured President Nicolás Maduro of Venezuela, the U.S. military had launched one of the largest deployments of its forces to the Caribbean region in decades. About 15,000 troops were in the region by December, the military said.

Never seen a purer piece of writing by committee.

The AOC/MTG nexus of American politics: it’s the oil not the drugs.

I would not have had the guts to take Sue up on this offer as a grad student (because 🤩🥰🫠). But I was silly and you are smart! Go hang out with Sue. Double up with a friend if you want a wing(wo)man.

Sue is truly the best. If you're at the meetings this would very much be the highlight! If you're junior it can be scary bc she is SUE DYNARSKI, sure sure but she's both amazing AND incredibly kind and generous so get over it

But for some reason the USPS is supposed to make money

Off to a good start

You absolutely love to see it!!!

Can someone please respond to Stephen Miller with this message from Frank Sinatra?