Sarah Thurmond
@sarahthurmond.bsky.social
Native of Del Rio, Texas. Proud cat mom to Lola. Freelance editor/writer, web and events editor for Texas Highways, alum of Austin Monthly, Tennis, SI. Interests include tennis, pop culture, theater, politics, and celebrity couplings.
Wish Texas had the guts to tell the old man to back off. What happened to Texas’ independent spirit?
BREAKING: We won a court order blocking Pres. Trump’s attempt to stifle First Amendment rights and gain political control over the University of California system.
The President can't force people to think or believe only the way he does. This is a key victory for our clients and the rule of law.
The President can't force people to think or believe only the way he does. This is a key victory for our clients and the rule of law.
November 15, 2025 at 5:19 AM
Wish Texas had the guts to tell the old man to back off. What happened to Texas’ independent spirit?
As with everything in politics today, what’s really going on here? What are they really up to? 🤔
The dismissal of Greene — once the epitome of "Make America Great Again" — appeared to be the final break in a dispute simmering for months. n.pr/47IOjXM
Trump cuts ties with Marjorie Taylor Greene, once among his top MAGA-world defenders
The dismissal of Greene — once the epitome of "Make America Great Again" — appeared to be the final break in a dispute simmering for months.
n.pr
November 15, 2025 at 5:14 AM
As with everything in politics today, what’s really going on here? What are they really up to? 🤔
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The Dallas Cowboys are going to honor Marshawn Kneeland in a number of ways moving forward, with helmet decals and more.
How the Dallas Cowboys plan to honor Marshawn Kneeland in upcoming games
The Dallas Cowboys are going to honor Marshawn Kneeland in a number of ways moving forward, with helmet decals and more.
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November 14, 2025 at 8:01 PM
The Dallas Cowboys are going to honor Marshawn Kneeland in a number of ways moving forward, with helmet decals and more.
I'm mean, why not?
It's time to raise taxes on billionaires and use that money to invest in making housing, health care, and child care affordable.
November 14, 2025 at 7:59 PM
I'm mean, why not?
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Like the Koch brothers and other conservative billionaires, Dunn and Wilks want to slash regulations and taxes.
Their endgame, however, is more radical: not just to limit the government but also to steer it toward Christian rule.
(Published Oct. 2024)
Their endgame, however, is more radical: not just to limit the government but also to steer it toward Christian rule.
(Published Oct. 2024)
A Pair of Billionaire Preachers Built the Most Powerful Political Machine in Texas. That’s Just the Start.
Tim Dunn and Farris Wilks are poised to take their Christian nationalist agenda nationwide.
www.propublica.org
November 14, 2025 at 4:00 AM
Like the Koch brothers and other conservative billionaires, Dunn and Wilks want to slash regulations and taxes.
Their endgame, however, is more radical: not just to limit the government but also to steer it toward Christian rule.
(Published Oct. 2024)
Their endgame, however, is more radical: not just to limit the government but also to steer it toward Christian rule.
(Published Oct. 2024)
Starting the day watching @petebuttigieg.bsky.social talking to @jeffreygoldberg.bsky.social!! @texastribune.org #tribfest #texastribune. www.texastribune.org/2025/11/14/p...
Watch Pete Buttigieg speak at the 2025 Texas Tribune Festival
The former U.S. secretary of transportation sits down with Jeffrey Goldberg of The Atlantic at 9 a.m. Friday.
www.texastribune.org
November 14, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Starting the day watching @petebuttigieg.bsky.social talking to @jeffreygoldberg.bsky.social!! @texastribune.org #tribfest #texastribune. www.texastribune.org/2025/11/14/p...
Now we’re talking!
BATTLE OF THE NETWORK STARS debuted #OTD in 1976.
ABC's winning team included (L-R) Robert Hegyes + Gabe Kaplan (WELCOME BACK, KOTTER), Penny Marshall (LAVERNE & SHIRLEY), Hal Linden (BARNEY MILLER), Lynda Carter (WONDER WOMAN) + John Schuck (HOLMES & YOYO).
What a time to be alive. #ClassicTV
ABC's winning team included (L-R) Robert Hegyes + Gabe Kaplan (WELCOME BACK, KOTTER), Penny Marshall (LAVERNE & SHIRLEY), Hal Linden (BARNEY MILLER), Lynda Carter (WONDER WOMAN) + John Schuck (HOLMES & YOYO).
What a time to be alive. #ClassicTV
November 14, 2025 at 7:22 AM
Now we’re talking!
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Russia's 200-year 'obsession' with destroying Ukraine: Speaking in Vienna, @efinkel.bsky.social argued that the Kremlin has wanted to eliminate Ukrainian identity for a very long time. www.theredoubt.net/russias-200-...
Russia's 200-year 'obsession' with destroying Ukraine
Russia has wanted to eliminate Ukrainian identity for a very long time, says Prof. Eugene Finkel.
www.theredoubt.net
November 13, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Russia's 200-year 'obsession' with destroying Ukraine: Speaking in Vienna, @efinkel.bsky.social argued that the Kremlin has wanted to eliminate Ukrainian identity for a very long time. www.theredoubt.net/russias-200-...
Instead they want domestic servants.
JD Vance: "Democrats' idea was the way you get more prosperity is that you import more and more low wage servants."
November 14, 2025 at 2:24 AM
Instead they want domestic servants.
Like everyone else, I’m wondering why Trump won’t release the Epstein files. I’m also wondering if it’s not about Trump protecting himself b/c let’s face it, he can get away with anything and people will still support him. Maybe the question is: Who or what is paying him to keep them sealed? 🤔
November 13, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Like everyone else, I’m wondering why Trump won’t release the Epstein files. I’m also wondering if it’s not about Trump protecting himself b/c let’s face it, he can get away with anything and people will still support him. Maybe the question is: Who or what is paying him to keep them sealed? 🤔
Why do they want to destroy the hemp industry? I just don't get it. It's a money maker. It's not killing anyone. Why???
November 13, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Why do they want to destroy the hemp industry? I just don't get it. It's a money maker. It's not killing anyone. Why???
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President Donald Trump signed a spending deal Wednesday night that includes a ban on nearly all THC products, dealing a potentially fatal blow to the Texas hemp industry, which had narrowly staved off a state ban earlier this year. bit.ly/4qYPslm
November 13, 2025 at 3:20 PM
President Donald Trump signed a spending deal Wednesday night that includes a ban on nearly all THC products, dealing a potentially fatal blow to the Texas hemp industry, which had narrowly staved off a state ban earlier this year. bit.ly/4qYPslm
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NEW: @propublica.org investigated the Chicago apartment raid where kids were zip-tied and citizens detained for hours. They find:
- NONE of the arrested were criminally charged
- NO evidence the building was "filled with TdA terrorists."
- ZERO legitimate reason for DHS to rappel from a Blackhawk.
- NONE of the arrested were criminally charged
- NO evidence the building was "filled with TdA terrorists."
- ZERO legitimate reason for DHS to rappel from a Blackhawk.
November 13, 2025 at 2:08 PM
NEW: @propublica.org investigated the Chicago apartment raid where kids were zip-tied and citizens detained for hours. They find:
- NONE of the arrested were criminally charged
- NO evidence the building was "filled with TdA terrorists."
- ZERO legitimate reason for DHS to rappel from a Blackhawk.
- NONE of the arrested were criminally charged
- NO evidence the building was "filled with TdA terrorists."
- ZERO legitimate reason for DHS to rappel from a Blackhawk.
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You can really see why this class of rich guy is so hopped up on AI and thinks we all desperately want it to write our emails.
November 13, 2025 at 4:07 AM
You can really see why this class of rich guy is so hopped up on AI and thinks we all desperately want it to write our emails.
I guess I don’t speak wealthy elite because I can’t understand any of the exchanges in the emails.
November 13, 2025 at 4:53 AM
I guess I don’t speak wealthy elite because I can’t understand any of the exchanges in the emails.
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Brooklyn Bridge https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/1569
November 7, 2025 at 9:40 AM
Brooklyn Bridge https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/1569
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her middle name lol they're barack hussein obamaing my goat
November 13, 2025 at 4:00 AM
her middle name lol they're barack hussein obamaing my goat
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Ken Starr signed an email to Jeffery Epstein with "hugs"
![From:
Sent:
To:
Subject:
Starr, Ken
8/22/2018 7:17:35 PM
jeffrey E. [jeevacation@gmail.com]
Re: Jed Rubenfeld
Importance: High
Wise counsel. The!
Sent from my iPhone
On Aug 22, 2018, at 1:49 PM, jefirey E. <jeevacation@gmail.com> wrote:
I think scholarly but not too much so. no one above the law.. we began leaving a kingdom. . unlikely to give king like powers to a president. on one above the law.
I would like lunch pail joe to come away and
think, this guy is smart. I understood. lets see what he writes about the clintons. someone suggested that trump could shoot someone on fifth avenue and not lose a vote. that is true, but would make little sense for him not to suffer an immediate consequence. the allowed civil depo setting precedent for criminal process, is a lawyers outline I might think of dumbing it down, again, and suggesting that you can sue your neighbor, even if you neighbor is the president. makes little sense that the you can be indicted for assaulting him but he cannot if he assaults you.
low bar for civil higher bar for criminal. . at
some point on your book tour I might point out how disappointed you were that the clinton and betty curries' trashean story, was reopened. .
On Wed, Aug 22, 2018 at 2:08 PM, jeffrey E. < jeevacation@gmail.com> wrote:
i vote yes as it makes you relevant to today rather than merely re- reciting an old tale. :) or tail?
On Wed, Aug 22, 2018 at 12:07 PM, Starr, Ken < Can you talk? Impt.
WrOte:
Sent from my iPhone
On Aug 17, 2018, at 9:18 AM, jeftrey E. -jeevacation@gmail.com› wrote:
tha
On Fri, Aug 17, 2018 at 10:14 AM, Starr, Ken
wrote:
Good morning!
Jed teaches crim law at Yale. Outspokenly strong on the need for procedural fairness in campus adjudicatory proceedings. Relevant to your friend's unhappy situation? If so, happy to make the connection.
Hugs, Ken
Sent from my iPhone
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November 13, 2025 at 12:22 AM
Ken Starr signed an email to Jeffery Epstein with "hugs"
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Events taking place this weekend will benefit SAMMinistries and the San Antonio Food Bank.
Artists create ways to help struggling San Antonio residents
Events taking place this weekend will benefit SAMMinistries and the San Antonio Food Bank.
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November 12, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Events taking place this weekend will benefit SAMMinistries and the San Antonio Food Bank.
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This is everything I want a chocolate cake to be: squidgy, cocoa-rich, and as good for after dinner as at teatime. It’s also easy to make and, as it happens, vegan, not that you’d guess it. Yes, #RecipeOfTheDay is my Dark and Sumptuous Chocolate Cake! www.nigella.com/recipes/dark...
Dark and Sumptuous Chocolate Cake
This cake. It confounds me. It delights me. I never ever thought I would be in raptures about the joyfulness of a — yes — vegan chocolate cake.
I now make this as my chocolate cake of choice for peop...
www.nigella.com
November 12, 2025 at 1:01 PM
This is everything I want a chocolate cake to be: squidgy, cocoa-rich, and as good for after dinner as at teatime. It’s also easy to make and, as it happens, vegan, not that you’d guess it. Yes, #RecipeOfTheDay is my Dark and Sumptuous Chocolate Cake! www.nigella.com/recipes/dark...
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Texas lawmakers on Thursday will hold their first hearing to review speech on public universities.
The legislative panels were created after Republican leaders criticized students mocking or celebrating Charlie Kirk’s death.
The legislative panels were created after Republican leaders criticized students mocking or celebrating Charlie Kirk’s death.
Texas lawmakers to review college campus speech after Kirk killing
The legislative panels were created after Republican leaders criticized students mocking or celebrating Kirk’s death. They come amid a push to tighten rules around campus expression.
www.texastribune.org
November 12, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Texas lawmakers on Thursday will hold their first hearing to review speech on public universities.
The legislative panels were created after Republican leaders criticized students mocking or celebrating Charlie Kirk’s death.
The legislative panels were created after Republican leaders criticized students mocking or celebrating Charlie Kirk’s death.
Schlossberg's favorite band is Kings of Leon. 😒 Will voters be able to look past his questionable taste in music?
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/11/s...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/11/s...
Jack Schlossberg, Social Media Provocateur, Gives Politics a Try
www.nytimes.com
November 12, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Schlossberg's favorite band is Kings of Leon. 😒 Will voters be able to look past his questionable taste in music?
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/11/s...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/11/s...
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We have 27 controllers when the FAA says we need 60, and I’ve long pressed the FAA to give them the help they deserve. Perhaps Trump should try fully staffing the tower before taking aim at those inside.
Trump slams air traffic controllers who called out during the government shutdown
Trump said on social media that he wasn't happy with controllers who called out of work, and suggested a $10,000 bonus for those who didn't take any time off during the shutdown.
www.npr.org
November 11, 2025 at 10:28 PM
We have 27 controllers when the FAA says we need 60, and I’ve long pressed the FAA to give them the help they deserve. Perhaps Trump should try fully staffing the tower before taking aim at those inside.
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About half of Austin Community College students are being directly impacted by Trump’s disruption of SNAP in order to use hunger as a bargaining chip during his government shut down. In recent weeks, emergency funding requests from students have doubled.
At Austin Community College, SNAP uncertainty could impact 1 in 2
One in two Austin Community College students could lose or receive delayed funding as SNAP's fate in the shutdown remains uncertain. ACC is determined to help.
www.statesman.com
November 11, 2025 at 7:00 PM
About half of Austin Community College students are being directly impacted by Trump’s disruption of SNAP in order to use hunger as a bargaining chip during his government shut down. In recent weeks, emergency funding requests from students have doubled.