AUSTIN: a friend is looking for homes for these 4 adorable puppies. not able to take a puppy, but want to help? consider a donation to Orphan Annie’s Neonatal Rescue who are assisting with their veterinary care: www.orphanannies.com

New: The Supreme Court DENIES Kim Davis' request to overturn Obergefell, the marriage equality decision. No noted dissents. www.supremecourt.gov/orders/court...

every time you think the new WaPo editorial board can't embarrass itself any more, they manage to find a way. Left: 'Texas gerrymandering is no big deal!', from August. Right: 'Maryland gerrymandering is an affront to Western civilization!', from today.

Texas voters will face 17 proposed constitutional amendments on their ballots next Tuesday, including Proposition 15, a shortly-worded and somewhat vague proposal that affirms that “parents are the primary decision-makers for their children.”

That same 33%. We need to stop listening to them.

Game 7 forcing TOOTBLAN

my god, what a paragraph (from tonight's @hcrichardson.bsky.social)

Free baseball

🚨 To celebrate @theflytrapmedia.com's first anniversary, we're offering a one-day paywall drop on my look at the rise and fall of eShakti, once the go-to home for dresses! with! pockets! and now a shell of its former self:

ICYMI: We got leaked audio from a crisis pregnancy center conference in which the fake clinics—and their far-right lawyers—make stunning admissions about the "care" they offer and acknowledge they're manufacturing cases against the states regulating them in order to get a SCOTUS win @autonomynews.co

“The number is impossible to measure since Congress let lapse a requirement that ICE report how many pregnant, postpartum, and nursing immigrants are in custody.” 19thnews.org/2025/10/ice-...

Absolutely disqualifying position for an AG candidate.

early voting starts today in TX and the @houstonchronicle.com has the paywall up on their voter guide. please be serious

it's a michelada. it's a steak. it's a combination michelada steak

Culturally, we need to make abortions like Labubus—no one cares whether you have one.

Austin TX: Do you know this dog? She was found by the railroad tracks with her leash tangled in bushes. She seems to be in good shape, friendly and taken care of. She's on stray hold at Austin Pets Alive.

Promoting the editor-in-chief's personal side project. Zero named sources in a story that promotes the editor-in-chief's personal political position. Misspelling the subject's name. It took one day for CBS News to become a conservative blog. www.cbsnews.com/video/some-n...

We’ve known this since the days of Robert Moses. Good public transit creates transit riders. New highways create drivers.

"After 35 years at UT Austin, I hardly recognize my university." www.statesman.com/opinion/colu...

As my grandmother used to say about things one would 'like to do', "Wish in one hand and shit in the other, and see which one fills up first"

"the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa"

Bushmills? That’s Protestant whiskey

Just a perfectly constitutional Kavanaugh stop. I'm sure this gentleman will have no problem getting restitution for this assault in the courts.

Texas is back!

Academic apologist for fascism: "There's a lot of things that are actually good about this poisonous fettucine alfredo. There's butter, there's homemade fresh pasta, and there's cheese. I'm not a fan of the antifreeze, but I think we ought not be hasty in not eating it. #Satire

Trump's lecture to military leaders that US cities should be used as "training grounds" against the "enemy within" shows it was never about crime or immigration. It's about normalizing the misuse of troops against Trump’s opponents to create a military personally loyal to him, not the Constitution.

Cruz’s uselessness to the people of Texas and the United States cannot be overstated.

To me it seems even more basic than this. The “harm” here is just them having to keep following the settled rules while their (novel and weak-ass) arguments about why they should get to ignore those rules gets litigated. That’s no harm at all.

DOGE was a failure because its entire premise was flawed, and, on top of that, the people who ran and implemented it were both arrogant and ignorant.

Wow, I'm shocked to see that the $16 million extortion payment that ABC made at the end of last year wasn't the end of it. Literally no one expected Trump to come back asking for more in the near future, yet here he is.

If you follow me and would like to do something nice - please repost this link to my son’s new iPhone/iPad app! It’s a drum/sound machine app that is pretty sophisticated and a lot of fun. More technical specs can be seen at “Punchline Drum Machine” in the App Store. 🙏 Charles.pizza/punchline

Let me let you in on a secret, most federal judges don't believe that other federal judges higher up the food chain are one bit smarter, or any more faithful to the law, than they are. And yet, by and large, they fully accept the legitimacy of review and potential reversal of their decisions. Why?

Only an Idiot Would Think We Need Anti-Abortion Democrats www.jezebel.com/only-an-idio...

Over the next 15 months, we can expect a coordinated campaign — backed by the full power of the executive branch — to undermine confidence in our election system. Here’s what to expect, and how key actors can be ready to respond: bit.ly/4fRIqtA

The asymmetrical media response to political violence in America is, in itself, one of the most important contributing factors to how we arrived at this place of escalating political violence.

Scott L. Cummings, UCLA School of Law, is publishing The Autocratic Legal Playbook in the UCLA Law Review / papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

I was going to stand firm against SCOTUS siding with Trump and issuing decisions that increase the likelihood of authoritarianism, but the tone of the dissent just doesn't seem sufficiently respectful. #Satire

My son made an app! It’s neat! It was made in Berlin, where all the cool kids live! 😉 It turns your iPhone or iPad into a seriously useful (and fun) drum machine. Truly, if you love music and/or beats, check it out- And REPOST please!! 😄 🥁🪘🎶🎵🥁 charles.pizza/punchline/

Platner: No one cares that you pretend to be remorseful as you sell out to lobbyists. Symbolic opposition does not reopen hospitals. Weak condemnations do not bring back Roe V Wade. Maine deserves better than Susan Collins.

attn: lone star skeeter, it's time to learn a shitload about texas wine with @paulaforbes.bsky.social

my father-in-law is a “I know a guy” Guy. sadly all the old Guys are aging out of the Guy Economy. Guys are fundamentally incompatible with Hustle Culture because it’s not about “winning” a deal, it’s about collecting favors and goodwill in a mutually-beneficial cycle. protect your local Guy Economy

“We regret to inform you—Castellanos with a long drive, deep center field—Donald John Trump has passed away. 45th and 47th president of the United States. Home run for Castellanos, Phillies are up 4 to 3.” “It’s weird, though, right Tom?” “Sure is.”

Signed before flood relief. Before flood warning sirens. Before any other bill on his desk. The governor's no. 1 priority was always the racist, rigged maps. #txlege

Texas support for giving individuals additional rights to sue people or entities that helped someone obtain abortion pills in violation of state law (April '25 UT/Texas Politics Project Poll) R: 40% support/37% oppose D: 15% / 75% I: 22%/56% More: texaspolitics.utexas.edu/set/support-... #txlege

Remembering today when pro-GOP media erupted with outrage over Kamala Harris' warning that Trump had plans to militarize the national guard and deploy them on the streets of US cities. Indeed, he had such plans. And now he's implementing them.

“Totalitarianism in power invariably replaces all first-rate talents, regardless of their sympathies, with those crackpots and fools whose lack of intelligence and creativity is still the best guarantee of their loyalty.” ― Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism

What Danielle said. According to the Yale Budget Lab, the average effective tariff rate in this economy right now is 18.2% Let me put that another way. President Trump has raised taxes on American businesses and consumers by -- on average -- 18.2%