@austinmags.bsky.social
Generally genial Democrat, Chiefs/Mizzou Tigers, KC-er turned Austinite. I’d really like to make friends with your cat.
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Shooting our videos is a little bit different now.
July 8, 2025 at 2:12 AM
Shooting our videos is a little bit different now.
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Ted Cruz: ‘Vacationing Is How I Grieve’
July 8, 2025 at 8:25 PM
Ted Cruz: ‘Vacationing Is How I Grieve’
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“At a time like this, that’s all you can think to say?”
Lines from The Princess Bride That Double as Comments on Freshman Composition Papers
“You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.” “At a time like this, that’s all you can think to say?” “Nonsense. Yo...
buff.ly
March 1, 2025 at 2:30 PM
“At a time like this, that’s all you can think to say?”
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we’re five seconds from this
March 1, 2025 at 2:39 PM
we’re five seconds from this
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Not all critiques of medicalization are progressive or helpful. Some are just fascist—and they feed off the widespread reflex to defend our failed status quo of mental health and healthcare writ large. I explain here in TNR:
newrepublic.com/article/1918...
newrepublic.com/article/1918...
RFK Jr.’s Mental Health Bait and Switch
The newly anointed HHS secretary is weaponizing legitimate anger at the failures of current psychiatric care to gut public services, abandon poor and disabled people, and expand the police state.
newrepublic.com
March 1, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Not all critiques of medicalization are progressive or helpful. Some are just fascist—and they feed off the widespread reflex to defend our failed status quo of mental health and healthcare writ large. I explain here in TNR:
newrepublic.com/article/1918...
newrepublic.com/article/1918...
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As of today, a new term has entered our language. A “rubio” is a spineless lump of nothing. Example: Don’t be such a rubio.
March 1, 2025 at 4:03 AM
As of today, a new term has entered our language. A “rubio” is a spineless lump of nothing. Example: Don’t be such a rubio.
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The DC police last week sought to arrest a sitting member of Congress, a Florida Republican, for physically assaulting a woman in DC. But the US attorney’s office didn’t sign off on it. www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/f...
Florida congressman investigated for alleged DC assault as police probe their own handling
D.C. police confirm they are investigating an alleged assault by Florida Rep. Cory Mills, a Republican representing a district northeast of Orlando, calling it an active criminal investigation.
www.nbcwashington.com
February 25, 2025 at 12:11 AM
The DC police last week sought to arrest a sitting member of Congress, a Florida Republican, for physically assaulting a woman in DC. But the US attorney’s office didn’t sign off on it. www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/f...
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REVEALED: we identified the operator of an overtly racist X account, "GlomarResponder," as ICE Assistant Chief Counsel James Rodden, based on an overwhelming number of biographical details matched through publicly available documents, other social media activity, and courtroom observation.
ICE Prosecutor in Dallas Runs White Supremacist X Account
The Observer has identified the operator of “GlomarResponder,” an overtly racist social media account, as ICE Assistant Chief Counsel James Rodden, based on an overwhelming number of biographical details matched through publicly available documents, other social media activity, and courtroom observation.
www.texasobserver.org
February 19, 2025 at 10:04 PM
REVEALED: we identified the operator of an overtly racist X account, "GlomarResponder," as ICE Assistant Chief Counsel James Rodden, based on an overwhelming number of biographical details matched through publicly available documents, other social media activity, and courtroom observation.
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JUST IN: Another medical horror story in an affidavit from a USAID employee stationed overseas. Says his pregnant wife was not medevac-ed for emergency health care because of directives from DC. Took intervention of a U.S. senator to reverse — but was too late. s3.documentcloud.org/documents/25...
February 18, 2025 at 1:40 AM
JUST IN: Another medical horror story in an affidavit from a USAID employee stationed overseas. Says his pregnant wife was not medevac-ed for emergency health care because of directives from DC. Took intervention of a U.S. senator to reverse — but was too late. s3.documentcloud.org/documents/25...
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Go ahead.
Let the people see you for what you are.
Let the people see you for what you are.
for the second time today, Tom Homan is on Fox News confirming that he asked the DOJ to investigate AOC
February 18, 2025 at 3:54 AM
Go ahead.
Let the people see you for what you are.
Let the people see you for what you are.
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Roses are red
Violets are blue
Violets are blue
February 15, 2025 at 4:31 AM
Roses are red
Violets are blue
Violets are blue
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If you ever said "Genocide Joe" or just couldn't bring yourself to vote for Harris - this is for you:
February 5, 2025 at 12:41 AM
If you ever said "Genocide Joe" or just couldn't bring yourself to vote for Harris - this is for you:
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Heard a version of this from a source earlier today: Everyone from USAID working abroad forced to uproot their lives, let alone abandon their work, on three days notice. Uprooting thousands of families on no notice, in an intentionally humiliating and harrowing way.
February 4, 2025 at 10:48 PM
Heard a version of this from a source earlier today: Everyone from USAID working abroad forced to uproot their lives, let alone abandon their work, on three days notice. Uprooting thousands of families on no notice, in an intentionally humiliating and harrowing way.
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Elon Musk's mother moved to South Africa in the year Apartheid was created, and she and Elon left the year it ended. The last Apartheid Prime Minister, a man who refused to testify at the Truth and Reconciliation Committee, was a family friend who stayed at their home. This is not a crazy theory.
February 3, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Elon Musk's mother moved to South Africa in the year Apartheid was created, and she and Elon left the year it ended. The last Apartheid Prime Minister, a man who refused to testify at the Truth and Reconciliation Committee, was a family friend who stayed at their home. This is not a crazy theory.
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My first and definitely last time working with the Los Angeles Times. Editing out the most urgent point of an OpEd in the minutes before sending to press while then also assigning a title and image that suggest an argument entirely opposite to the author’s clear intent is pretty shitty.
January 31, 2025 at 4:00 PM
My first and definitely last time working with the Los Angeles Times. Editing out the most urgent point of an OpEd in the minutes before sending to press while then also assigning a title and image that suggest an argument entirely opposite to the author’s clear intent is pretty shitty.
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Watching this on repeat how is your day going?
January 31, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Watching this on repeat how is your day going?
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incredible things are happening on the federal employee subreddit
January 30, 2025 at 4:41 AM
incredible things are happening on the federal employee subreddit
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leaving the cruelty aside for just a minute it's absolutely humiliating to imagine being my age or older and getting excited because you think you've been given permission to say a bad word. what are you gonna do next, ride your tricycle past the end of the block
I guess I'm too woke because I find the proliferation of this really off-putting and gross. The fact that it's now reached the "enlightened centrists" class is depressing.
January 28, 2025 at 5:33 AM
leaving the cruelty aside for just a minute it's absolutely humiliating to imagine being my age or older and getting excited because you think you've been given permission to say a bad word. what are you gonna do next, ride your tricycle past the end of the block
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BREAKING: Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agents attempted to conduct an enforcement action at Hamline Elementary School in Back of the Yards, Ald. Jeanette Taylor and Chicago Public Schools officials said Friday. @wttw.bsky.social
ICE Agents Turned Away From Back of the Yards Elementary School: Officials
The agents were turned away and no one appears to have been detained, Ald. Jeanette Taylor (20th Ward) told WTTW News.
news.wttw.com
January 24, 2025 at 7:50 PM
BREAKING: Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agents attempted to conduct an enforcement action at Hamline Elementary School in Back of the Yards, Ald. Jeanette Taylor and Chicago Public Schools officials said Friday. @wttw.bsky.social
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Like baby y’all sold your own country out “to save” the folks that are about to get nuked off the planet because y’all let a literal Nazi win the Presidency of the United States after WATCHING what he did the first time.
Banning together with you would be exactly like banning together with MAGA.
Banning together with you would be exactly like banning together with MAGA.
January 22, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Like baby y’all sold your own country out “to save” the folks that are about to get nuked off the planet because y’all let a literal Nazi win the Presidency of the United States after WATCHING what he did the first time.
Banning together with you would be exactly like banning together with MAGA.
Banning together with you would be exactly like banning together with MAGA.
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gosh it's a good thing elon saved free speech from cancel culture
January 22, 2025 at 10:21 PM
gosh it's a good thing elon saved free speech from cancel culture
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Being a person with deadly, incurable cancer who is nonetheless still alive for an indefinite timeframe gives me an interesting metaphor that helps me deal with things like large-scale corruption in government or commerce.
Bear with me for a second while I try to explain.
Bear with me for a second while I try to explain.
January 21, 2025 at 2:26 AM
Being a person with deadly, incurable cancer who is nonetheless still alive for an indefinite timeframe gives me an interesting metaphor that helps me deal with things like large-scale corruption in government or commerce.
Bear with me for a second while I try to explain.
Bear with me for a second while I try to explain.