Cutter W. González
@cutterwgonzalez.bsky.social
Texan. Storyteller, musician, geographer. Digital strategy @welcomingneighbors.us. PhD student @txst.edu. Alum @uh.edu.
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Urban Austin Readers! Our friends at @islandpress.bsky.social are clearing out inventory following their acquisition by Princeton University Press, and they're giving a 50% discount on all print books through this weekend.
Get your fav urban reads at islandpress.org!
Get your fav urban reads at islandpress.org!
November 14, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Urban Austin Readers! Our friends at @islandpress.bsky.social are clearing out inventory following their acquisition by Princeton University Press, and they're giving a 50% discount on all print books through this weekend.
Get your fav urban reads at islandpress.org!
Get your fav urban reads at islandpress.org!
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Indiana University, which has now been subordinated to the direct control of the Indiana GOP, announces that criticism of the MAGA movement and doctrines of the GOP is forbidden. An instructor is dismissed for speaking critical words about the MAGA movement.
Indiana Professor Removed From Class Over White Supremacy Lesson
www.nytimes.com
November 13, 2025 at 11:20 PM
Indiana University, which has now been subordinated to the direct control of the Indiana GOP, announces that criticism of the MAGA movement and doctrines of the GOP is forbidden. An instructor is dismissed for speaking critical words about the MAGA movement.
Fun personal news! I’ve been nominated to the Project Connect (CapMetro/Austin Transit Partnership) Community Advisory Committee! 🥳
Pending approval by the ATP Board, CapMetro Board, and City Council — eager to dig in and help us build a stronger, more equitable, and more connected community.
Pending approval by the ATP Board, CapMetro Board, and City Council — eager to dig in and help us build a stronger, more equitable, and more connected community.
November 13, 2025 at 11:36 PM
Fun personal news! I’ve been nominated to the Project Connect (CapMetro/Austin Transit Partnership) Community Advisory Committee! 🥳
Pending approval by the ATP Board, CapMetro Board, and City Council — eager to dig in and help us build a stronger, more equitable, and more connected community.
Pending approval by the ATP Board, CapMetro Board, and City Council — eager to dig in and help us build a stronger, more equitable, and more connected community.
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This little man is out of control.
I feel like I’m saying that all the time.
I feel like I’m saying that all the time.
Bovino: "Whether they were criminals or individuals that were taking jobs from Americans -- you name it, that's what they were doing. And I'll tell you what's gonna happen. We're gonna go even harder on the streets. If he releases those 650, we're gonna apprehend 1,650 on the streets of Chicago."
November 13, 2025 at 8:42 PM
This little man is out of control.
I feel like I’m saying that all the time.
I feel like I’m saying that all the time.
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To see journalists and financiers and academics at best gossiping with Epstein and at worst providing him care and counsel is to see how the #MeToo movement never went far enough: www.thenation.com/article/poli...
The Epstein Scandal Is Snowballing
And Republicans are running scared.
www.thenation.com
November 13, 2025 at 6:41 PM
To see journalists and financiers and academics at best gossiping with Epstein and at worst providing him care and counsel is to see how the #MeToo movement never went far enough: www.thenation.com/article/poli...
So many things to discuss this week at book club. The chapters are "Cars Ruin Nature" and "Cars Are Killing Us" — both chock full of harrowing data on how car culture results in immense human and more-than-human suffering. A call to arms!
FRIDAY! Chapters 4–5 of Life After Cars. See you at Café Crème!
November 13, 2025 at 6:11 PM
So many things to discuss this week at book club. The chapters are "Cars Ruin Nature" and "Cars Are Killing Us" — both chock full of harrowing data on how car culture results in immense human and more-than-human suffering. A call to arms!
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1. BREAKING
The US Conference of Catholic Bishops has issued a statement admonishing the Trump administration’s immigration actions.
The last time they issued such a statement was in 2013 in response to contraception mandates.
The US Conference of Catholic Bishops has issued a statement admonishing the Trump administration’s immigration actions.
The last time they issued such a statement was in 2013 in response to contraception mandates.
November 13, 2025 at 12:30 AM
1. BREAKING
The US Conference of Catholic Bishops has issued a statement admonishing the Trump administration’s immigration actions.
The last time they issued such a statement was in 2013 in response to contraception mandates.
The US Conference of Catholic Bishops has issued a statement admonishing the Trump administration’s immigration actions.
The last time they issued such a statement was in 2013 in response to contraception mandates.
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Jeffrey Epstein in 2018: "i know how dirty donald is."
November 12, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Jeffrey Epstein in 2018: "i know how dirty donald is."
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The House Republicans continue to protect a pedophile sex trafficking ring and all their friends who were involved.
Not surprising, but hilarious on a day when the GOP is insisting that a partial release of emails was meant to smear the innocent President.
Why keep hiding the files then?
Not surprising, but hilarious on a day when the GOP is insisting that a partial release of emails was meant to smear the innocent President.
Why keep hiding the files then?
Nancy Mace is expected to pull her support for the petition to release the Epstein Files, the day before Adelita Grijalva is sworn in.
November 12, 2025 at 4:57 PM
The House Republicans continue to protect a pedophile sex trafficking ring and all their friends who were involved.
Not surprising, but hilarious on a day when the GOP is insisting that a partial release of emails was meant to smear the innocent President.
Why keep hiding the files then?
Not surprising, but hilarious on a day when the GOP is insisting that a partial release of emails was meant to smear the innocent President.
Why keep hiding the files then?
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Lest there be any insinuation that Dems spared their own. It would be tough for Kathy Ruemmler—Obama’s WH Counsel from 2011 to mid-2014—to come off looking worse in these docs the committee Dems released. oversightdemocrats.house.gov/sites/evo-su...
![From:
Sent:
To:
Subject:
Kathy Ruemmler
9/19/2014 11:54:57 AM
jeffrey E. ljeevacation@gmail.com]
Re:
Importance: High
Doesn't look like you are prioritizing your schedule very effeetively.....how are you going to manage all of that? this is unga week so the boss will be in town too....l'Il be here all week -- you may get sick of me....just sat down on the train so can't talk freely.
On Sep 19, 2014 7:48 AM, "jeffrey E." <jeevacation@gmail.com> wrote:
"girls?", careful i will renew an old habit, . this week, thiel, summers, bill burns, gordon brown, jagland, ( council of curope and nobel chairman). mongolia pres, hardeep puree (india), boris ( gates). jabor (qatar ). sultan (dubai, ), kosslyn (harvard), leon black, woody. you are a welcome guest at any... also if you think there are interesting people in town, everyone here for climate summit, clinton security council, holy shit im on
for next 30 minutes
On Fri, Sep 19, 2014 at 7:15 AM, Kathy Ruemmler -
> wrote:
Most girls do not have to worry about this crap.
On Sep 19, 20147:09 AM, "jeffrey E." <jeevacation@gmail.com> wrote:
understood. it comes down to high risk / reward / low risk / reward. professional, cmotional. and financial
On Fri, Sep 19, 2014 at 6:15 AM, Kathy Ruemmler
Agreed, but I need to be prepared to say yes before I talk to him.
wrote:
Sent from my iPad
On Sep 19,2014, at 1:21 AM, "jeffrey E." <jcevacation@gmail.com>wrote:](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:on5oeywiqx32fh2zau473wz6/bafkreidpc4aexgxfahdqvqgbocphszflpkdsfpldci2zeo7aqsjkzkbub4@jpeg)
November 12, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Lest there be any insinuation that Dems spared their own. It would be tough for Kathy Ruemmler—Obama’s WH Counsel from 2011 to mid-2014—to come off looking worse in these docs the committee Dems released. oversightdemocrats.house.gov/sites/evo-su...
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Trump and his cronies are now pushing 50-year mortgages.
Buckle up. This is going to make the 2008 mortgage crisis look like the good old days.
Buckle up. This is going to make the 2008 mortgage crisis look like the good old days.
November 8, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Trump and his cronies are now pushing 50-year mortgages.
Buckle up. This is going to make the 2008 mortgage crisis look like the good old days.
Buckle up. This is going to make the 2008 mortgage crisis look like the good old days.
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"Zohran Mamdani will be the first mayor of New York City in decades not to own a car"
Will be exciting to see if he can implement his vision to pedestrianize areas in the congestion pricing zone and dedicate entire streets as combo busways + active transportation
Will be exciting to see if he can implement his vision to pedestrianize areas in the congestion pricing zone and dedicate entire streets as combo busways + active transportation
How Mamdani could push a bold redesign of New York's streets
The mayor-elect has articulated a vision for reshaping the city streets. Janette Sadik-Khan, the former commissioner of the New York City Department of Transportation under the Bloomberg Administratio...
www.fastcompany.com
November 8, 2025 at 4:36 PM
"Zohran Mamdani will be the first mayor of New York City in decades not to own a car"
Will be exciting to see if he can implement his vision to pedestrianize areas in the congestion pricing zone and dedicate entire streets as combo busways + active transportation
Will be exciting to see if he can implement his vision to pedestrianize areas in the congestion pricing zone and dedicate entire streets as combo busways + active transportation
If they weren’t actually evil, they would let the decision stand. They could feed people and still tell their (also evil don’t-help-people) base that the courts made them do it.
But it’s rotted all the way through.
But it’s rotted all the way through.
BREAKING: DOJ goes to SCOTUS trying to stop a district court order that USDA pay out full SNAP benefits this month.
The First Circuit denied an administrative stay, but has not yet ruled on the stay request. And, CNN reported that USDA is already processing payments.
DOJ went to SCOTUS anyway.
The First Circuit denied an administrative stay, but has not yet ruled on the stay request. And, CNN reported that USDA is already processing payments.
DOJ went to SCOTUS anyway.
November 8, 2025 at 12:02 AM
If they weren’t actually evil, they would let the decision stand. They could feed people and still tell their (also evil don’t-help-people) base that the courts made them do it.
But it’s rotted all the way through.
But it’s rotted all the way through.
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November 6, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Tuesday: Joy, celebration
Today: Senseless cruelty
Today: Senseless cruelty
BREAKING: The Supreme Court will allow the Trump administration to enforce its anti-trans and anti-nonbinary passport policy during litigation.
The unsigned, four-paragraph order effectively reverses two lower-court decisions. The Democratic appointees dissent.
More to come: www.lawdork.com
The unsigned, four-paragraph order effectively reverses two lower-court decisions. The Democratic appointees dissent.
More to come: www.lawdork.com
![SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES
No. 25A319
DONALD J. TRUMP, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED
STATES, ET AL. v. ASHTON ORR, ET AL.
ON APPLICATION FOR STAY
[November 6, 2025]
This case concerns an Executive Branch policy requiring
all new passports to display an individual’s biological sex at
birth. The United States District Court for the District of
Massachusetts preliminarily enjoined the Government
from enforcing the policy, and the First Circuit declined to
stay the injunction pending appeal. The Government then
filed this stay application. Applying our familiar stay fac-
tors at this preliminary stage, we grant the application.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:36eqtmzysqf7wsslczw4uxcd/bafkreievxyvqikl7wmrg5jkqhsrta5l5xfq272x7caunvxka7vtuzp7hoa@jpeg)
November 6, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Tuesday: Joy, celebration
Today: Senseless cruelty
Today: Senseless cruelty
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A 34-yr old democratic socialist from Uganda was just elected mayor of the largest city and financial capital of the United States. NO BIGGIE ROSS, NO BIGGIE
November 5, 2025 at 5:56 PM
A 34-yr old democratic socialist from Uganda was just elected mayor of the largest city and financial capital of the United States. NO BIGGIE ROSS, NO BIGGIE
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EVERY Republican got that Trump stank on them. Don't need his name on a ballot--that stank permeates.
November 5, 2025 at 5:04 AM
EVERY Republican got that Trump stank on them. Don't need his name on a ballot--that stank permeates.
One day I hope I won’t have to express gratitude for folks in the rest of the country cleaning up my state’s mess
November 5, 2025 at 5:13 AM
One day I hope I won’t have to express gratitude for folks in the rest of the country cleaning up my state’s mess
As a Democrat in Texas, THANK YOU CALIFORNIA!
It’s official: Prop 50 passes. Californians have rejected Trump and Republicans’ efforts to rig the 2026 midterms.
November 5, 2025 at 5:10 AM
As a Democrat in Texas, THANK YOU CALIFORNIA!
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New Yorkers said yes to four citywide ballot measures Tuesday night, approving a slate of proposals intended to reshape how the city approaches affordable housing development.
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Affordable Housing Ballot Measures Prevail
Fought fiercely by the City Council, which would lose some sway over development, the items promise to fast track some projects amid an apartment shortage.
www.thecity.nyc
November 5, 2025 at 4:02 AM
New Yorkers said yes to four citywide ballot measures Tuesday night, approving a slate of proposals intended to reshape how the city approaches affordable housing development.
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As a Texan, fuck all of ‘em. Celebrating tonight and hoping we get a Mamdani moment here soon.
Just some of the responses from Texas' elected officials:
November 5, 2025 at 5:03 AM
As a Texan, fuck all of ‘em. Celebrating tonight and hoping we get a Mamdani moment here soon.
This one’s for @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social and the beautiful people of New York City. From NYC to ATX, a little bit of hope restored tonight. God bless.
November 5, 2025 at 4:54 AM
This one’s for @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social and the beautiful people of New York City. From NYC to ATX, a little bit of hope restored tonight. God bless.
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Already voted. Austin peeps, you can vote at any polling place in the city. Get out there and vote for prop Q.
November 4, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Already voted. Austin peeps, you can vote at any polling place in the city. Get out there and vote for prop Q.
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The Texas Way: UT faculty group issues new definition of 'academic freedom' www.statesman.com/news/educati...
And AAUP chapter raises concerns.
And AAUP chapter raises concerns.
UT faculty group issues new definition of 'academic freedom'
At top leadership's direction, UT faculty crafted a statement on academic integrity, saying colleges must create a culture of humility and open dialogue.
www.statesman.com
November 3, 2025 at 11:42 PM
The Texas Way: UT faculty group issues new definition of 'academic freedom' www.statesman.com/news/educati...
And AAUP chapter raises concerns.
And AAUP chapter raises concerns.
Fascists want everyone who is a fascist to know they are one and everyone who isn’t a fascist to argue about whether they are one
November 3, 2025 at 10:52 PM
Fascists want everyone who is a fascist to know they are one and everyone who isn’t a fascist to argue about whether they are one