Workers at Wafler Farms are fed up. They've been waiting for two years since they first voted for the UFW to get their contract, but all the company gives them is delays. Sign their petition demanding Wafler sign the contract now. act.seiu.org/a/waflerpeti... #WeFeedYou

#Journalism #FreePress #Reporting #1stAmendment #fascism

hi from EL PASO 🫡 excited to be here so i can keep you posted on a major hearing in federal court to decide whether TX can use its new gerrymandered congressional map in next year's election. here's my day 1 recap: www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

At the age of 13, Jennifer Wood remembers being in a car driving up to the Portage La Prairie Indian Residential School with her suitcase and not comprehending what was going on until her father said he would see her at Christmas. She shares her story on the season premiere of Face to Face.

Jane Goodall, ethologist and conservationist, has died. She was 91

#AMomentofJoy Black doctor Edition. Scroll down to see all the videos.

I have never seen such a blistering rebuke of a President by a federal judge. He is telling us clearly to stand up for our liberty against a dictator. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

#ToPray✝️ If God didn't send Jesus into the world to condemn it, I doubt he sent you. (David Huskins)

This is the way. The one rule to your Life

Day 1 of our five-day series, "The Unraveling Safety Net," takes a look at one of the first states that carried out the "defunding" of Planned Parenthood and other family planning: Texas. Within the first two years, Texas lost about 25% of all clinics, most of which were not Planned Parenthoods.

Take the threats about banning or restricting mifepristone seriously. It’s all based on junk science. open.substack.com/pub/vajenda/...

#Poetry #TakeABreak #FeelSomething #SpendAMinute

Texas stands to lose $675 million in federal money if earmarks are lost in budget battle. Most funds are for local government infrastructure projects. www.texastribune.org/2025/09/29/t...

This @texasobserver.org story is insane. The flimsiest excuse to harass and deport brown people. #HaysCounty needs to correct this immediately and stop allowing #TexasDPS to collaborate with #fascistICE

This weekend

Omg. Had I known, I would have dropped everything and raced straight down there

John Weak

Mornin, @thehill.com

Ohh that's RICH @ohhthatsrich.bsky.social

Here’s a summary of the constitutional amendments you’ll see on the November 4th ballot in Texas. Mostly property tax exemptions. Note the exemption for feed stores (animal feed - usually a lucrative business in small rural towns). www.texastribune.org/2025/09/22/t...

Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin ✨ figured out what stars are made of ✨ when she was just 25. 🔭🧪 Her PhD thesis basically established the Harvard astro department — at a time when Harvard didn't officially allow woman students. I wrote this little profile to mark the 100th anniversary of her thesis:

#NaloxoneTexas #narcan #savealife #AustinTx #CommunitiesInRecovery #UTHealth #SanAntonioTx

Few say it out loud, but Texas' leaders have decided that nobody need live in West Texas anymore after a generation or two and that it's okay for frackers and cotton farmers to suck up all the water rn, while the fix is still in. www.depts.ttu.edu/research/dis...

Italy has moved me to tears for 3 days straight. Bravo ❤️

HBO has a new short documentary called The Devil is Busy about a day in the lives of the workers at an Atlanta abortion clinic and it is outstanding.

1/ A longtime Wired editor just wrote a mush-brained essay about how he totally missed the political rot of Silicon Valley (& still doesn't get it). But in the late 1990s, a Wired journalist warned of a toxic ideology bubbling up from tech. Paulina Borsook has largely been erased. Let's change that

David Barton, the widely ridiculed and perpetually corrected "amateur historian" who has mainstreamed the idea that church-state separation is a myth, will be advising the Texas State Board of Education on social studies curriculum.

My SIL, the triple threat #ShannonCochran is a supporting cast member in the refreshed #TheHandThatRocksTheCradle #Cinema #Thriller #Movie #remake

Inspired by the Negro Motorist Green Book, the University of Wisconsin’s first research lab in the African American Studies department is collecting data on spaces where Black people thrive throughout the city. www.wmtv15news.com/2025/09/23/u...

Stop a moment, and read... • Kenneth C. Steven •

Guns are the leading cause of death for children and teens in America. And yet they are trying to restrict access to Tylenol, but not to guns.

it's so nice to see what a functioning judiciary looks like "A transgender woman in the East African nation of Kenya has won a landmark court victory in which the judge not only found in her favour, but ordered the government to pass a Transgender Protection Rights Act." fuck yeah

"we are better than this" i am telling your right now... no we are not find the courage to be what the moment requires

Nothing says “land of the free” like armed agents of the state saying “show me your papers if you want your daughter back” bsky.app/profile/nbcb...

#Project2025 the literal vast #conspiracy running a shadow government agenda

Under the moonlight, you see a sight that almost stops your heart

Apropos of nothing in particular, here's Walt Disney's testimony to HUAC in 1947, where he named employees he believed were communists, condemned labor unions, and accused "commie" groups, including the League of Women Voters, of smearing him. 🗃️ archive.org/details/walt...

Austin/TX: CVS has new COVID vaccine appts and doesn't ask much about why you need one. Get your shots!

Earlier this year, ProPublica found that the sepsis rate in second-trimester pregnancy loss hospitalizations increased by more than 50% under Texas’ abortion ban. Here’s how we did our analysis. (Published Feb. 2025)

Much of the cardboard and paper goods strewn about our homes are sold by a single private company, with its name, Uline, stamped on the bottom. Many may not know that a multibillion-dollar fortune made on those ubiquitous products fuels far-right candidates across the country. (Published 2022)

We are all exhausted and have so many reasons to be. But if you’re a menstruating person you may be iron deficient so get your ferritin checked & make sure it’s at least over 30 (even better over 50)! tinyurl.com/JAMAFe

International Women’s Media Foundation is reconsidering letting Bob Iger’s wife host their fundraiser 😭

Trump criticizes Pam Bondi for not charging his adversaries quickly enough, in a Truth Social post that looks a lot like a DM. truthsocial.com/@realDonaldT...

More good news I missed: the two Metro bus drivers who’d been fired for speculating about how they’d resist ICE have been *reinstated* after public outcry.

This beloved children's book was just banned in Texas—along with hundreds more www.chron.com/news/article...

People have such short memories. About 18 months ago, Russian government took credit for cyberattack on water infrastructure in Muleshoe, Texas (near Lubbock): www.texasstandard.org/stories/russ...