Sometimes i have distinctly Catholic rage. Today was one of those days. All of these people should be cast out of the Church as the apostates that they are. I don't make the rules but I know them and live them better than Matt Walsh

The Kavanaugh Stop

The "God Bless the USA" bible and Constitution distributed to school children in Oklahoma has a US Constitution which has been bizarrely manipulated. Missing: the 13th Amend abolishing slavery, the 19th Amend granting women the vote and the 22nd Amend limiting a president to two terms.

Local 6th grade expert here confirmed the analysis

My NFL post of the year: Arizona Cardinals decided their uniform is just...dirty. By design

Despite it all, we keep aspiring to be the land of opportunity, the home of the brave (enough to eat chocolate-stuffed shelf-stable marshmallows)

Ed Yong is a national treasure. Science Vs is always great. But Wendy wanted to be convinced that science could be saved by appealing to usefulness and Yong resisted that idea in no uncertain terms By helping people understand, we harden them against rule by fear

Everything is fine, just fine

I thought Slow Horses was a western show. Secession and severance are the same show. Neither appeal. #fancystreamingnewbie

Out of office set for tomorrow. Just in case 🤞

Move over Emil Bove. This man is allegedly 46 years old

From the cat cafe, all vibes no thoughts from this truly perfect floof

me telling my grandkids what it was like to have vaccines

Good advice. The % of married women changing their names is extremely high. It is inconvenient, possibly disenfranchising, and risky. Everyone wants/hopes/believes marriages will work out. But then there are a lot of women walking around tied by name to a terrible ex or having to change it all again

My child asked me what I use to play on the iPad as a kid. I told her I use to talk into a fan to sound like a robot.

I went to a cat cafe today. All of you will be the beneficiaries while i suffer kids constantly bemoaning the kittens we could have adopted

Language is important. My career started in human rights law where we spent untold hours trying to tweak language to get states to treat dire abuses a little more seriously. To force politics in those countries. To raise the stakes. Here, we see a systemic minimization

I find it hard to get excited about "inappropriate." Wearing denim to a formal wedding is inappropriate. Loudly burping in the middle of church is inappropriate. This is a gross abuse of power

Diego *can* run. Who knew? Austin FC 1-0

💚 these

Vamos! #AustinFC

Word on the streets--as in multiple students thought I personally needed to know-- is that Jared Padalecki was hanging out at UT Law School today. I didn't see him but that's ok #teamjess

Dale! Dale! Dale, ATX!!!

Just talked my kid out of starting harry potter. Putting aside principle, the books are tedious, mostly dedicated to rehashing previous volumes, and unwilling to let the characters have any inner life

Robert Redford's environmental activism was, in part, rooted in the summers he spent in Texas as a boy: "That time was very, very important to me. My early experiences with land and with nature really started in Texas."

RIP Robert Redford. Thank you for the best sports movie ever made

Never stop breaking TVs (I am the last person to watch ted lasso. Y'all thought it was most needed in 2020, but we hadnt met 2025)

Chase tells me someone just tried to use my credit card at the Louvre. I am frankly impressed (and a little envious). That's some high class crime

How about we a a society honor somebody who as a teenager showed more courage and commitment to fulfilling America's promise than every single reactionary, authoritarian influencer combined. Incidentally he also served 37 years in the Air Force, also more than every influencer combined.

Civility discourse has always been hollow. And unabtainable for women and minorities, uncivil by simply asking for rights For bigots, as Kruse writes, the "rule of thumb seems to be that, as long as the tone is cheerful, there's no need to examine the ugliness of the words."

Big Boi at Longhorn City Limits! Texas pregame unmatched

“The bishop advised Catholics considering joining ICE that ‘you can never attempt to turn off your conscience.’”

State court/constitution watchers might be interested in this argument that TX's new bountyhunter law runs afoul of the Texas Constitution's open courts provision

There are horrible, life-altering events and then there's your mom walking you right up to the bus stop...and trying to continue your conversation Please respect my son's privacy as he works to recover

The Economist was not alone, at all, in its terrible both-sidering of the “free speech” debate, but this cover is basically a Platonic Ideal of “aged like milk.” On the left: students yelling at speakers. On the right: state power used to silence speech.

A chill in the air!

I write about public accommodations - places of entertainment, leisure, dining. The movement to undermine freedom in public has always insisted these places arent important. Their arguments are bullshit - leisure time is central to full citizenship, to being people, having families, being free

Very interesting thread

Every semester begins with a haze of weekday confusion

Just beautiful

I at Meanwhile where the whole crowd just screamed STUUUUUUUU #AustinFC

CJ Fodrey!!!!! I have liked him since he was FC II. He is fast, tall, young, and really wants the ball

#AustinFC with 25 guys at the goal and no one, not one person, willing to shoot

When you realize tomorrow is Monday

Tearing my hair out. Stupid penalty kick

I always knew that my grandfather's sister died at age 11. We thought scarlet fever or flu. Today, I learned that it was diphtheria--the D in TDAP/DTAP. And that my grandfather, then just 8, was critically ill with diphtheria too

I have acquired an ancestry.com membership and if y'all think I'm not looking up your yearbook pics right now, you're wrong

Disgusting and despicable

Hey, ATX!! Wanna help the Long Center get a grant to continue the free concert series over the next 3 years? Go to this website (these guys are legit) and vote for The Long Center in Austin. vote.levitt.org/locations/th...

An insight into how fancy institutions do fascism. My old dean at my former school mused about a visit for Justice Thomas. He was in but wanted no protest. She proposed admitting students to his class based on ideology (super not ok) and banning protest or dissent (also not ok). This was 8 yrs ago