Gracelyn James
@charweb.bsky.social
Writer / Poet. Grandma who rocks. Proud Austinite.
#poetry I started a Substack publication "The Jollyville Chronicles" where I am telling the story of a war between good and evil in a small Texas town that I'm calling Jollyville, post WWII, that no one remembers anymore. Hope you'll check it out.
gracelynjames.substack.com
gracelynjames.substack.com
The Jollyville Chronicles | Gracelyn James | Substack
A chronicle revealing long-buried truths in Jollyville, Texas, where nothing is as it seems. Click to read The Jollyville Chronicles, by Gracelyn James, a Substack publication. Launched 2 months ago.
gracelynjames.substack.com
July 18, 2025 at 3:45 PM
#poetry I started a Substack publication "The Jollyville Chronicles" where I am telling the story of a war between good and evil in a small Texas town that I'm calling Jollyville, post WWII, that no one remembers anymore. Hope you'll check it out.
gracelynjames.substack.com
gracelynjames.substack.com
@50501movement.bsky.social
Here at the Texas Capitol
Here at the Texas Capitol
February 17, 2025 at 6:03 PM
@50501movement.bsky.social
Here at the Texas Capitol
Here at the Texas Capitol
Reposted by Gracelyn James
The Revolution WILL be Televised. Monday, February 17th. events.pol-rev.com @polrev.bsky.social #50501movement #politicalrevolution #buildtheresistance
February 15, 2025 at 3:09 PM
The Revolution WILL be Televised. Monday, February 17th. events.pol-rev.com @polrev.bsky.social #50501movement #politicalrevolution #buildtheresistance
Austin Peeps!
Join 50501 in a National Day of Action on Monday, February 17th. We are reclaiming President's Day - a day that is supposed to be celebrating the Presidency. Unite to limit executive overreach. Find your protest at https://buff.ly/417VjtT, or create one.
February 16, 2025 at 2:22 AM
Austin Peeps!
I'm going to DC in March. My old stomping grounds. Any protests planned that I can participate in?
February 9, 2025 at 10:36 PM
I'm going to DC in March. My old stomping grounds. Any protests planned that I can participate in?
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Final Draft Go only for iPhone and iPad. Please #FinalDraft get with the times and do a web based version, or service your Android users. Until then I will NOT be upgrading.
Final Draft Go only for iPhone and iPad. Please #FinalDraft get with the times and do a web based version, or service your Android users. Until then I will NOT be upgrading.
Final Draft Go - Final Draft®
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January 8, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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Final Draft Go only for iPhone and iPad. Please #FinalDraft get with the times and do a web based version, or service your Android users. Until then I will NOT be upgrading.
Final Draft Go only for iPhone and iPad. Please #FinalDraft get with the times and do a web based version, or service your Android users. Until then I will NOT be upgrading.
Now this is Italian pizza
January 8, 2025 at 3:51 AM
Now this is Italian pizza
Rich coming from a man, who doesn't give a shit about women's privacy
thefederalist.com/2024/11/25/s...
thefederalist.com/2024/11/25/s...
McBride Is A Trojan Horse To Force Men Into Women's Spaces
McBride and his allies want women to give up privacy and safety, and all of us to give up our integrity and become complicit in their lies.
thefederalist.com
November 26, 2024 at 4:32 AM
Rich coming from a man, who doesn't give a shit about women's privacy
thefederalist.com/2024/11/25/s...
thefederalist.com/2024/11/25/s...
So big government is going to go after these local governments to stop them?
"The decision to fluoridate the water is taken at a local level and depends on how much fluoride is naturally present."
www.cnn.com/2024/11/23/h...
"The decision to fluoridate the water is taken at a local level and depends on how much fluoride is naturally present."
www.cnn.com/2024/11/23/h...
3 charts that help explain why there’s fluoride in drinking water | CNN
President-elect Donald Trump has picked Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as his Health and Human Services secretary and while we don’t know what the policies will be, one thing Kennedy has signaled he would look...
www.cnn.com
November 24, 2024 at 12:13 AM
So big government is going to go after these local governments to stop them?
"The decision to fluoridate the water is taken at a local level and depends on how much fluoride is naturally present."
www.cnn.com/2024/11/23/h...
"The decision to fluoridate the water is taken at a local level and depends on how much fluoride is naturally present."
www.cnn.com/2024/11/23/h...
Well, whaddya know. Won't matter to the so-called "family values" crowd.
www.nytimes.com/2024/11/21/u...
www.nytimes.com/2024/11/21/u...
Linda McMahon, Trump’s Education Secretary Pick, Named in Sexual Abuse Lawsuit
Linda McMahon, who ran World Wrestling Entertainment for decades, was accused in the lawsuit of not preventing one of the organization’s employees from victimizing children who helped set up wrestling...
www.nytimes.com
November 22, 2024 at 1:09 PM
Well, whaddya know. Won't matter to the so-called "family values" crowd.
www.nytimes.com/2024/11/21/u...
www.nytimes.com/2024/11/21/u...
No doubt will be in the hands of profit makers. www.bbc.com/news/article...
Texas offers Trump land for migrant 'deportation facilities'
The president-elect has repeatedly pledged to deport millions of undocumented migrants once in office.
www.bbc.com
November 21, 2024 at 4:35 PM
No doubt will be in the hands of profit makers. www.bbc.com/news/article...
So I kinda like the idea of Democrats just letting him have his way, so when it all goes to shit they can't blame the Democrats. I mean how shitty can it get?
November 20, 2024 at 8:51 PM
So I kinda like the idea of Democrats just letting him have his way, so when it all goes to shit they can't blame the Democrats. I mean how shitty can it get?
Reposted by Gracelyn James
Someone should introduce a resolution banning fake boobs from Capitol restrooms
November 20, 2024 at 1:39 AM
Someone should introduce a resolution banning fake boobs from Capitol restrooms
These gangs are a major reason people have been fleeing El Salvador. Trump claims the country's murder rate is down because they are being "sent" to the US.
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'Worst of the worst': Go inside El Salvador’s fortress prison for gang members
YouTube video by CNN
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November 19, 2024 at 12:53 AM
These gangs are a major reason people have been fleeing El Salvador. Trump claims the country's murder rate is down because they are being "sent" to the US.
youtu.be/E-Oz14D5sz0?...
youtu.be/E-Oz14D5sz0?...
Notable exceptions to filibuster rules:
- Budget reconciliation bills only need 51 votes
- Executive branch nominations need only a simple majority
- Supreme Court nominations need only a simple majority (changed in 2017)
- Budget reconciliation bills only need 51 votes
- Executive branch nominations need only a simple majority
- Supreme Court nominations need only a simple majority (changed in 2017)
November 16, 2024 at 2:15 AM
Notable exceptions to filibuster rules:
- Budget reconciliation bills only need 51 votes
- Executive branch nominations need only a simple majority
- Supreme Court nominations need only a simple majority (changed in 2017)
- Budget reconciliation bills only need 51 votes
- Executive branch nominations need only a simple majority
- Supreme Court nominations need only a simple majority (changed in 2017)
Basic Rules of the filibuster:
- Senators have the right to speak as long as they wish on any topic
- It takes 60 votes (out of 100 senators) to invoke "cloture" - ending debate and forcing a vote
- The modern filibuster rarely involves actual marathon speeches - usually just the threat is enough
- Senators have the right to speak as long as they wish on any topic
- It takes 60 votes (out of 100 senators) to invoke "cloture" - ending debate and forcing a vote
- The modern filibuster rarely involves actual marathon speeches - usually just the threat is enough
November 16, 2024 at 2:13 AM
Basic Rules of the filibuster:
- Senators have the right to speak as long as they wish on any topic
- It takes 60 votes (out of 100 senators) to invoke "cloture" - ending debate and forcing a vote
- The modern filibuster rarely involves actual marathon speeches - usually just the threat is enough
- Senators have the right to speak as long as they wish on any topic
- It takes 60 votes (out of 100 senators) to invoke "cloture" - ending debate and forcing a vote
- The modern filibuster rarely involves actual marathon speeches - usually just the threat is enough
Take heart, from someone who has seen it all
I have faced fascism before, in this very country. I was one of 120,000 Japanese Americans summarily rounded up and expelled from our homes at gunpoint, all for the crime of looking like the people who bombed Pearl Harbor.
I spent my childhood behind barbed wire. My parents lost everything. 1/
I spent my childhood behind barbed wire. My parents lost everything. 1/
November 16, 2024 at 1:56 AM
Take heart, from someone who has seen it all