liprap
@liprap.bsky.social
Sky's the limit over here. Rockin' the greater Houston area 'burbs…exiled from New Orleans, but not in the Napoleonic sense. Trans-Sabine Texmudgeon. Also found on 🧵 as liprap3. https://liprapslament-theline.blogspot.com
Pinned
Oh my goodness me
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Worst Christmas by Aaron Reynolds on Apple Music
Playlist · 57 Songs
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November 20, 2025 at 3:56 AM
Oh my goodness me
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There’s a new non-profit that has stepped in to continue this work, thank goodness: gcjt.org
Global Center for Journalism & Trauma
Resources for journalists covering violence
gcjt.org
November 20, 2025 at 3:27 AM
There’s a new non-profit that has stepped in to continue this work, thank goodness: gcjt.org
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Wow. Everything is awful! The Dart Center is, or I guess WAS, so important for journalists who cover and experience trauma in their work. Columbia, what a sad, sad demise.
“The Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma, according to Columbia Journalism School dean Jelani Cobb, had lost the funding it needed to stay at the school.”
www.poynter.org/business-wor...
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What happened to the Dart Center at Columbia? - Poynter
When the center lost a major funder this past spring, it found itself stranded at a university besieged by political and financial attacks
www.poynter.org
November 20, 2025 at 3:26 AM
Wow. Everything is awful! The Dart Center is, or I guess WAS, so important for journalists who cover and experience trauma in their work. Columbia, what a sad, sad demise.
Hee hee hee, what a thread.
November 19, 2025 at 10:59 PM
Hee hee hee, what a thread.
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Autocorrect has become our worst enema.
November 19, 2025 at 10:04 PM
Autocorrect has become our worst enema.
Yyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyup.
November 19, 2025 at 10:53 PM
Yyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyup.
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Here are my top 10 Labrador Retrievers of all time!
November 19, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Here are my top 10 Labrador Retrievers of all time!
Challenging day today, to say the least. *sigh*
November 19, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Challenging day today, to say the least. *sigh*
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#embroidery
Needlework isn’t a grandma hobby, it’s a balm for the soul and a creative outlet! Support your local crafters and craft stores this holiday season!
Needlework isn’t a grandma hobby, it’s a balm for the soul and a creative outlet! Support your local crafters and craft stores this holiday season!
Hobbies offer numerous benefits, but crafting comes with special ones. “Detailed hobbies create small zones of predictability, which regulate the nervous system and restore a felt sense of agency.”
Needlework comes with physiological benefits.
www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/20...
Needlework comes with physiological benefits.
www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/20...
Column | Cross-stitch comes with extraordinary benefits and a history of protest
Needlework can soothe the brain, heal the psyche and keep you from texting your ex.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 19, 2025 at 5:44 PM
#embroidery
Needlework isn’t a grandma hobby, it’s a balm for the soul and a creative outlet! Support your local crafters and craft stores this holiday season!
Needlework isn’t a grandma hobby, it’s a balm for the soul and a creative outlet! Support your local crafters and craft stores this holiday season!
Mazel tov!
Honored to be recognized as one of 25 Best Leaders by @usnews.com including 5 in the Health category. I look forward to meeting some extraordinary colleagues at an upcoming event in Wash DC www.usnews.com/news/leaders...
November 19, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Mazel tov!
I imagine New Orleans going to war against ICE as being a bit like Andrew Fox's The Good Humor Man...it'll come to the point where even Carnival floats will be used in Fury Road fashion to feed the people and outrun the pigs.
November 19, 2025 at 12:42 PM
I imagine New Orleans going to war against ICE as being a bit like Andrew Fox's The Good Humor Man...it'll come to the point where even Carnival floats will be used in Fury Road fashion to feed the people and outrun the pigs.
"In recent years, as mainstream journalism looks increasingly weak and flabby in the face of U.S. authoritarianism...scribes in their teens and early 20s — burning with youthful idealism and the freedom of not much to lose — have raced into the void."
www.inquirer.com/columnists/a...
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College journalism exposes the rot of ‘grown-ups’ | Will Bunch Newsletter
Plus a history lesson on the real ‘Charlotte’s Web,’ and fascism,
www.inquirer.com
November 19, 2025 at 12:39 PM
"In recent years, as mainstream journalism looks increasingly weak and flabby in the face of U.S. authoritarianism...scribes in their teens and early 20s — burning with youthful idealism and the freedom of not much to lose — have raced into the void."
www.inquirer.com/columnists/a...
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Clint Smith is always worth reading.
Tell Students the Truth About American History
We owe it to Americans of all ages to be honest about the country’s past, including its contradictions.
www.theatlantic.com
November 19, 2025 at 11:10 AM
Clint Smith is always worth reading.
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The cops must hate ICE (at least these ones) because they'd never arrest one of their own for a crime against a woman or girl
An ICE employee was among 16 men arrested after trying to solicit a minor for sex in Bloomington, Minnesota, police say
"When he was arrested, he said, 'I'm ICE, boys,'" Bloomington Police Chief Booker Hodges said during a press conference. "Well, unfortunately for him, we locked him up."
"When he was arrested, he said, 'I'm ICE, boys,'" Bloomington Police Chief Booker Hodges said during a press conference. "Well, unfortunately for him, we locked him up."
November 19, 2025 at 5:14 AM
The cops must hate ICE (at least these ones) because they'd never arrest one of their own for a crime against a woman or girl
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Red Panda steals the show on ESPN.
November 19, 2025 at 3:15 AM
Red Panda steals the show on ESPN.
Thread illuminating something that's been in the back of my mind through all of this Epstein mess: it's dragging a perfectly good name through the mire and drowning it.
This is not actually important to the world. (But hey, this is my bsky, I can make it about me for a sec.) My beloved grandfather z"l went by the moniker Eppie. It was his med school nickname from Karlova University in Praha / Charles University in Prague in the 1930s. (1/)
November 19, 2025 at 3:34 AM
Thread illuminating something that's been in the back of my mind through all of this Epstein mess: it's dragging a perfectly good name through the mire and drowning it.
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New Orleans #NOLASky help!
ISO anyone with a disabled adult child living at home that I can chat with re: supports in the GNO area.
Thanks in advance!
ISO anyone with a disabled adult child living at home that I can chat with re: supports in the GNO area.
Thanks in advance!
November 18, 2025 at 11:58 PM
New Orleans #NOLASky help!
ISO anyone with a disabled adult child living at home that I can chat with re: supports in the GNO area.
Thanks in advance!
ISO anyone with a disabled adult child living at home that I can chat with re: supports in the GNO area.
Thanks in advance!
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People who migrated here made New Orleans and the Metro Area home whether before K or after. Louisiana is rooted in multiple races, ethnicities, culture and heritage.
Targeting one is targeting us all. Get your voices and whistles ready.
www.wwltv.com/article/synd...
Targeting one is targeting us all. Get your voices and whistles ready.
www.wwltv.com/article/synd...
DHS plans to deploy 250 border agents to Louisiana in major immigration sweep, AP sources say
Federal agents are set to conduct a major immigration crackdown called “Swamp Sweep” in New Orleans in the coming weeks. The operation aims to arrest around 5,000...
www.wwltv.com
November 18, 2025 at 10:51 PM
People who migrated here made New Orleans and the Metro Area home whether before K or after. Louisiana is rooted in multiple races, ethnicities, culture and heritage.
Targeting one is targeting us all. Get your voices and whistles ready.
www.wwltv.com/article/synd...
Targeting one is targeting us all. Get your voices and whistles ready.
www.wwltv.com/article/synd...
"It seems that Epstein was not a CIA or Mossad asset—...because that was too lowly a role. Rather, he was a power broker, an American oligarch, who played a major role in shaping Western policy, which brought him in contact with spy agencies and diplomats."
www.thenation.com/article/soci...
www.thenation.com/article/soci...
Jeffrey Epstein Was a Warlord. We Have to Talk About It.
Mainstream media is ignoring the fact that the late sex trafficker was a power broker who shaped global policy.
www.thenation.com
November 18, 2025 at 10:58 PM
"It seems that Epstein was not a CIA or Mossad asset—...because that was too lowly a role. Rather, he was a power broker, an American oligarch, who played a major role in shaping Western policy, which brought him in contact with spy agencies and diplomats."
www.thenation.com/article/soci...
www.thenation.com/article/soci...
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Breaking: An Epstein survivor just silenced press conference attendees when she delivered the following remarks:
“Today we stand in a moment that will decide whether our government belongs to the American people, or to those who prey on them.”
“Today we stand in a moment that will decide whether our government belongs to the American people, or to those who prey on them.”
November 18, 2025 at 9:43 PM
Breaking: An Epstein survivor just silenced press conference attendees when she delivered the following remarks:
“Today we stand in a moment that will decide whether our government belongs to the American people, or to those who prey on them.”
“Today we stand in a moment that will decide whether our government belongs to the American people, or to those who prey on them.”
I check out this app after work and am all, "Yay courts" and "dammit, Texas" with every other skeet I see on here.
November 18, 2025 at 10:31 PM
I check out this app after work and am all, "Yay courts" and "dammit, Texas" with every other skeet I see on here.
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He is the shame of Texas
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott said that Muslims are a “threat to our freedom” on Tuesday as he targeted the largest Muslim civil rights organization in the U.S. with a foreign terrorist organization label in an escalation of a movement of anti-Muslim hate in the state.
Abbott Says Muslims Are “Threat to Our Freedom” as He Targets Civil Rights Group With Terrorist Designation
Governors do not have the authority to designate groups as a foreign terrorist organization.
truthout.org
November 18, 2025 at 10:17 PM
He is the shame of Texas
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Judges are working wonders in Texas today.
November 18, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Judges are working wonders in Texas today.
Because of course it is. *sigh*
UPDATE: Texas is appealing today's redistricting ruling to the U.S. Supreme Court. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
![IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
WESTERN DISTRICT OF TEXAS
EL PASO DIVISION
LEAGUE OF UNITED LATIN AMERICAN
CITIZENS, et al.,
ALEXANDER GREEN, et al.,
Plaintiffs,
Plaintiff-Intervenors,
3:21-cv-00259-DCG-JES-JVB
[Lead Case]
All Consolidated Cases
GREG ABBOTT, et al.,
Defendants.
THE STATE OF TEXAS'S NOTICE OF APPEAL
Notice is hereby given that Defendants, the State of Texas; Greg Abbott, in his official capacity as Governor of Texas; Jane Nelson, in her official capacity as Secretary of State; and Dave Nelson, in his official capacity as Deputy Secretary of State, (collectively, "State Defendants") hereby appeal this Court's November 18, 2025 order granting a preliminary injunction, ECF No.
1437, to the United States Supreme Court. This appeal is taken pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1253.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:36eqtmzysqf7wsslczw4uxcd/bafkreiabpkcuvxhaztzim7ppi2mla2sd7vqibpwefntaa6hazrvcsll6um@jpeg)
November 18, 2025 at 10:29 PM
Because of course it is. *sigh*