Molly Cox
@themollycox.bsky.social
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I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
July 3, 2025 at 6:58 PM
I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
Over and over again, Republicans show us they prefer money and power. They don’t care that millions of people will lose health insurance or that children will go hungry.“Will the richest among us become richer and will they give me some of it?” This is what they ask. This is how they vote.
July 1, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Over and over again, Republicans show us they prefer money and power. They don’t care that millions of people will lose health insurance or that children will go hungry.“Will the richest among us become richer and will they give me some of it?” This is what they ask. This is how they vote.
Greg Abbott deployed the National Guard to San Antonio, when he could have deployed the Coast Guard. ‘Cause everything went peacefully (as expected) at the protests, but we need boats to get to work due to crumbling infrastructure and heavy rains.
June 12, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Greg Abbott deployed the National Guard to San Antonio, when he could have deployed the Coast Guard. ‘Cause everything went peacefully (as expected) at the protests, but we need boats to get to work due to crumbling infrastructure and heavy rains.
San Antonio’s election showed people-powered campaigns prevail. Rolando Pablos’ Campaign relied on racist, sexist rhetoric (+ sky planes & PAC money) to rile up an electorate, while Gina Ortiz Jones’ Campaign knocked on doors & built a diverse coalition. You show up for people, they show up for you.
Gina Ortiz Jones will be San Antonio’s next mayor, becoming just the third woman elected to the city’s top post.
Gina Ortiz Jones wins hyperpartisan mayoral race with 54% of vote
Gina Ortiz Jones will be San Antonio’s next mayor, becoming just the third woman elected to the city’s top post.
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June 8, 2025 at 5:41 PM
San Antonio’s election showed people-powered campaigns prevail. Rolando Pablos’ Campaign relied on racist, sexist rhetoric (+ sky planes & PAC money) to rile up an electorate, while Gina Ortiz Jones’ Campaign knocked on doors & built a diverse coalition. You show up for people, they show up for you.
That dude & Greg Abbott-aligned PACs spent upwards of $1.5 million to buy the mayor’s seat in San Antonio, & they were trounced by a grassroots campaign for a first-generation, lesbian woman of color veteran. San Antonio, Texas just said pretty clearly, “This is who we are,” and that’s cool as shit.
June 8, 2025 at 1:29 PM
That dude & Greg Abbott-aligned PACs spent upwards of $1.5 million to buy the mayor’s seat in San Antonio, & they were trounced by a grassroots campaign for a first-generation, lesbian woman of color veteran. San Antonio, Texas just said pretty clearly, “This is who we are,” and that’s cool as shit.
🌈💫 Sharing rainbow memes on your timelines is one way to show allyship. Voting for policymakers who see us as humans is a better way. In this sense, I’m a one-issue voter: you must believe in my inherent rights and worth as a human to earn my vote. In San Antonio, vote Gina Ortiz Jones for mayor.
June 6, 2025 at 4:08 PM
🌈💫 Sharing rainbow memes on your timelines is one way to show allyship. Voting for policymakers who see us as humans is a better way. In this sense, I’m a one-issue voter: you must believe in my inherent rights and worth as a human to earn my vote. In San Antonio, vote Gina Ortiz Jones for mayor.
He put tariffs in place due to a “national emergency” before heading out to a golf tournament during said emergency. Congress could stop this today. If Republicans would put people over…golf tournaments.
April 4, 2025 at 3:00 PM
He put tariffs in place due to a “national emergency” before heading out to a golf tournament during said emergency. Congress could stop this today. If Republicans would put people over…golf tournaments.
Between 2023 and 2024, every city council district in San Antonio saw an increase in registered voters. (We know ‘cause we did the math.) Today is the last day to make sure you’re registered to vote in San Antonio’s municipal election. 🧵 (1/3)
April 3, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Between 2023 and 2024, every city council district in San Antonio saw an increase in registered voters. (We know ‘cause we did the math.) Today is the last day to make sure you’re registered to vote in San Antonio’s municipal election. 🧵 (1/3)
Every #SanAntonio City Council District saw an increase in registered voters between 2023 & 2024. What district are you in? Are you registered to vote in the upcoming municipal election? Check all this and more at vote210.com 🙌🏼
April 2, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Every #SanAntonio City Council District saw an increase in registered voters between 2023 & 2024. What district are you in? Are you registered to vote in the upcoming municipal election? Check all this and more at vote210.com 🙌🏼
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I may be tired and a little hoarse, but as I said again and again on the Senate floor, this is a moment where we cannot afford to be silent, when we must speak up.
April 2, 2025 at 1:09 AM
I may be tired and a little hoarse, but as I said again and again on the Senate floor, this is a moment where we cannot afford to be silent, when we must speak up.
@booker.senate.gov is showing us what it means to disrupt “business as usual” when “usual” is anything but. And I am here for it.
I’ve taken the Senate floor and will speak for as long as I’m physically able to lift the voices of Americans who are being harmed and not being heard in this moment of crisis. Watch here:
Live: Speaking on Trump, Musk, and America’s Moral Moment on the Senate Floor | Senator Cory Booker
YouTube video by Senator Cory Booker
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April 1, 2025 at 1:58 PM
@booker.senate.gov is showing us what it means to disrupt “business as usual” when “usual” is anything but. And I am here for it.
Over at vote210.com, a group of volunteers (me included!) has put together the most comprehensive voting resource for San Antonio’s municipal election. Plus, vota210.com is translated by a real person who speaks Spanish. Check them out and make sure you’re registered by April 3 🙌🏼 #SanAntonio
2025 Municipal Election - Vote210
It's Time to Vote, San Antonio! San Antonio's municipal election is Saturday, May 3, 2025. During this election, San Antonians will vote for Mayor, their City Council representative, some school board...
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March 31, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Over at vote210.com, a group of volunteers (me included!) has put together the most comprehensive voting resource for San Antonio’s municipal election. Plus, vota210.com is translated by a real person who speaks Spanish. Check them out and make sure you’re registered by April 3 🙌🏼 #SanAntonio
**pulls up soapbox, gets on it**
If San Antonio media outlets spent half as much time on *who* is running for elected office as they do on how *no one knows* who’s running for elected office, we’d have a more informed electorate.
**screams into the abyss, steps down from soapbox**
If San Antonio media outlets spent half as much time on *who* is running for elected office as they do on how *no one knows* who’s running for elected office, we’d have a more informed electorate.
**screams into the abyss, steps down from soapbox**
March 5, 2025 at 10:11 PM
**pulls up soapbox, gets on it**
If San Antonio media outlets spent half as much time on *who* is running for elected office as they do on how *no one knows* who’s running for elected office, we’d have a more informed electorate.
**screams into the abyss, steps down from soapbox**
If San Antonio media outlets spent half as much time on *who* is running for elected office as they do on how *no one knows* who’s running for elected office, we’d have a more informed electorate.
**screams into the abyss, steps down from soapbox**
Here we go.
SCOOP: Now that Linda McMahon is confirmed/sworn in as secretary, Trump will be imminently issuing an executive order eliminating the Department of Education.
I’ve obtained a draft of an email that McMahon will be sending to staff re: the EO and the department’s “final mission”.
Here is a portion:
I’ve obtained a draft of an email that McMahon will be sending to staff re: the EO and the department’s “final mission”.
Here is a portion:
![After President Trump's inauguration last month, he has steadily signed a slate of executive orders to keep these education promises: combatting critical race theory, DEl, gender ideology extremism, and discrimination in admissions. President Trump has also been focused on eliminating wasteful bureaucracy and harmful programs in the federal government. To that end, today he signed [Executive Order XYZ, entitled "Eliminating the Department of Education,] which has given us a clear and final mission.
We are to identify which of the Department's functions, programs, and offices are not mandated by statute, and eliminate them. This reorganization will impact staff, budgets, reporting, and more —and in coming months, we will determine how it can be accomplished with minimal delay and disruption. The President further tasked us with creating a plan to reallocate and reassign functions of the Department of Education that would be more effectively managed by other agencies. This plan will offer Congress a road map toward fulfilling the expectations of the President and the American people.
The new vision—which I hope each of you will embrace going forward—can be expressed as four main convictions:
Parents are the primary decision makers in their children's education.
Students deserve to be protected from physical violence, racial discrimination, medical tyranny, and gender extremism ideology on campus.
Postsecondary education should be a path to a well-paying career aligned with workforce needs.
Taxpayer-funded education should refocus on meaningful learning: proficiency in math, reading, and core subjects, and patriotism in American history and civics.
As we move to reduce the Department's middleman role in education, these four convictions must guide us toward conscientious and pragmatic action. The elimination of bureaucracy should free us, not limit us, in our pursuit of these goals
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March 4, 2025 at 2:46 AM
Here we go.
I want elected officials who bring SA to DC direct flight energy to affordable housing, true living wages, and better roads and sidewalks with ample street lighting. That’s how I’m calculating my vote in San Antonio’s municipal election on May 3.
March 3, 2025 at 2:03 PM
I want elected officials who bring SA to DC direct flight energy to affordable housing, true living wages, and better roads and sidewalks with ample street lighting. That’s how I’m calculating my vote in San Antonio’s municipal election on May 3.
When hostile dudes govern, we get hostile government.
Courts blocking Trump’s policies on trans rights argue they reflect animus — government action driven by hostility, rather than legitimate policy. bit.ly/4gPTM03
‘Horrible discrimination’: Federal judges say Trump’s anti-trans orders are rooted in bias, not law
Courts blocking Trump’s policies on trans rights argue they reflect animus — government action driven by hostility, rather than legitimate policy.
bit.ly
February 21, 2025 at 5:11 PM
When hostile dudes govern, we get hostile government.
When a random ass bookstore from a city I’ve never been to or hardly visit finds their way into my feed, you can bet I’m gonna follow them. ‘Cause if I do find myself in their city, you can also bet I’m gonna visit and buy books.
February 6, 2025 at 1:38 PM
When a random ass bookstore from a city I’ve never been to or hardly visit finds their way into my feed, you can bet I’m gonna follow them. ‘Cause if I do find myself in their city, you can also bet I’m gonna visit and buy books.
To watch San Antonio’s elected and appointed leaders cave so quickly is unsurprising and disappointing. And to watch the coverage of this closure fail to interrogate their talking points is also hella disappointing.
The city opened the Migrant Resource Center facility in partnership with Catholic Charities in 2022 to be used to temporarily shelter migrants who surrendered to immigration authorities at the border and moved through San Antonio.
Read more at www.tpr.org/government-p...
Read more at www.tpr.org/government-p...
February 4, 2025 at 12:08 AM
To watch San Antonio’s elected and appointed leaders cave so quickly is unsurprising and disappointing. And to watch the coverage of this closure fail to interrogate their talking points is also hella disappointing.
The rage that stems from this administration’s desire to create fear and chaos lives alongside the pride in community for pushing back so hard that they had to rescind their bullshit. It shouldn’t be this hard, and I wish our elected leaders had as much backbone as our community leaders.
🚨 BREAKING: OMB has just issued a memo *rescinding* the previous memo freezing all federal financial assistance programs.
Full text, per government source:
Full text, per government source:
January 30, 2025 at 12:09 AM
The rage that stems from this administration’s desire to create fear and chaos lives alongside the pride in community for pushing back so hard that they had to rescind their bullshit. It shouldn’t be this hard, and I wish our elected leaders had as much backbone as our community leaders.
More of this, please.
“There’s still this idea that news is only ‘real’ once it’s confirmed by big corporate outlets. After all, could one woman with absolutely zero institutional backing in leggings and a sweatshirt in her NYC apartment really be the one to break such an important story? Now we know the answer is yes.”
Breaking: The Handbasket is first to report catastrophic OMB funding memo
Posted on Bluesky earlier this evening, other major outlets have since confirmed.
www.thehandbasket.co
January 28, 2025 at 2:25 PM
More of this, please.
Y’all. @eltacolico.bsky.social, San Antonio’s current Poet Laureate, closed out the annual Blessing of the Peacemakers yesterday, and…I think I love him. Funny, poignant, smart—exactly who we need right now to have the mic.
January 27, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Y’all. @eltacolico.bsky.social, San Antonio’s current Poet Laureate, closed out the annual Blessing of the Peacemakers yesterday, and…I think I love him. Funny, poignant, smart—exactly who we need right now to have the mic.
“Leaders aspiring to some degree of honesty should level with us: If this is the best we can do, then our best isn’t good enough.” by Kevin Sanchez for @sacurrent.bsky.social.
#SanAntonio City elections are in May this year. We can do better, y’all. We must.
www.sacurrent.com/news/bad-tak...
#SanAntonio City elections are in May this year. We can do better, y’all. We must.
www.sacurrent.com/news/bad-tak...
Bad Takes: Mayor Ron Nirenberg’s defense of San Antonio’s failure to aid poorest residents flunks the test
Nirenberg’s progressive grandstanding has frequently stood in contrast with the city's less-than-inspiring governance.
www.sacurrent.com
January 22, 2025 at 2:14 PM
“Leaders aspiring to some degree of honesty should level with us: If this is the best we can do, then our best isn’t good enough.” by Kevin Sanchez for @sacurrent.bsky.social.
#SanAntonio City elections are in May this year. We can do better, y’all. We must.
www.sacurrent.com/news/bad-tak...
#SanAntonio City elections are in May this year. We can do better, y’all. We must.
www.sacurrent.com/news/bad-tak...
My grandma was prolific, full of lessons and good sense. She died before my 11th birthday, and at 46, I still rely on the wisdom she imparted. One of her best: “Not everyone else can always be the asshole. But there are a lot of assholes out there.” In short, check yourself and trust yourself.
January 21, 2025 at 1:06 PM
My grandma was prolific, full of lessons and good sense. She died before my 11th birthday, and at 46, I still rely on the wisdom she imparted. One of her best: “Not everyone else can always be the asshole. But there are a lot of assholes out there.” In short, check yourself and trust yourself.
Damn.
Cecile Richards, the former president of Planned Parenthood and feminist activist, died Monday of an aggressive brain cancer. She was 67.
Cecile Richards, former Planned Parenthood president and feminist activist, has died
Richards died Monday of an aggressive brain cancer. She was 67.
19thnews.org
January 20, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Damn.
“To love this country and to work to strengthen it requires first a proper diagnosis of the weaknesses that lie at its core. We cannot protect against that which we refuse to diagnose and name.” @sifill.bsky.social
January 20, 2025 at 1:58 PM
“To love this country and to work to strengthen it requires first a proper diagnosis of the weaknesses that lie at its core. We cannot protect against that which we refuse to diagnose and name.” @sifill.bsky.social