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Ppl justifiably dislike masked law enforcement, but cops hiding the identify of bad actors in their ranks goes well beyond that. E.g., this press statement doesn't name the officer who shot this social media influencer, but accuses the dead man of multiple felonies.
Food influencer Michael Duarte shot to death by Hill Country deputy
While in Castroville, Duarte charged at a Medina County sheriff's deputy and threatened to kill her, officials say.
www.expressnews.com
November 13, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Ppl justifiably dislike masked law enforcement, but cops hiding the identify of bad actors in their ranks goes well beyond that. E.g., this press statement doesn't name the officer who shot this social media influencer, but accuses the dead man of multiple felonies.
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A Republican sheriff in a swing county that Trump won by 0.1% signed a contract to help ICE, then lost last week by 11.
New by me in @boltsmag.org: boltsmag.org/sheriff-of-b...
New by me in @boltsmag.org: boltsmag.org/sheriff-of-b...
Voters Ousted This Pennsylvania Sheriff After He Signed Up to Collaborate With ICE - Bolts
A populous, swing county replaced its GOP sheriff on Tuesday after months of controversy over his joining ICE’s 287(g) program. The Democratic winner promises he’ll end the contract.
boltsmag.org
November 10, 2025 at 7:20 PM
A Republican sheriff in a swing county that Trump won by 0.1% signed a contract to help ICE, then lost last week by 11.
New by me in @boltsmag.org: boltsmag.org/sheriff-of-b...
New by me in @boltsmag.org: boltsmag.org/sheriff-of-b...
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This is what's happening in Austin. Doesn't help folks w/ leases locked in, but supply expansion has mitigated what were for a while outlandish and untenable rent hikes. Real estate folks are calling it "oversupply," but IRL it's a much-needed correction following an extreme, unsustainable shortage.
November 11, 2025 at 4:31 PM
This is what's happening in Austin. Doesn't help folks w/ leases locked in, but supply expansion has mitigated what were for a while outlandish and untenable rent hikes. Real estate folks are calling it "oversupply," but IRL it's a much-needed correction following an extreme, unsustainable shortage.
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The nature of policing is to avoid accountability and responsibility. That is how it works, in the past, today, and in the future. (I’m not allowing responses because I don’t want to keep explaining. At this point if you tell me the police need to be more professional, I’ll just tap this.)
November 5, 2025 at 4:36 PM
The nature of policing is to avoid accountability and responsibility. That is how it works, in the past, today, and in the future. (I’m not allowing responses because I don’t want to keep explaining. At this point if you tell me the police need to be more professional, I’ll just tap this.)
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What's happening in TX-18 is more obscene than not seating Grijalva during pro formas. Turner died in March. Abbott delayed the special election until yesterday, and now it goes to a runoff early *next year.*
Congress can and should require special elections to be held within 90 days of a vacancy.
Congress can and should require special elections to be held within 90 days of a vacancy.
November 5, 2025 at 4:14 PM
What's happening in TX-18 is more obscene than not seating Grijalva during pro formas. Turner died in March. Abbott delayed the special election until yesterday, and now it goes to a runoff early *next year.*
Congress can and should require special elections to be held within 90 days of a vacancy.
Congress can and should require special elections to be held within 90 days of a vacancy.
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I forgot to note that this was a thread, so: Here is a 🧵🧵 on the direct connections between Heritage Foundation, Nick Fuentes and the far-right Texas billionaire who is fueling the rise of Christian nationalism. If you do not already know a lot about Tim Dunn, I recommend changing that.
Two years ago, Nick Fuentes was so toxic that, after I reported on a secret meet he had with a top Texas GOP donor, the party was engulfed in scandal and voted to explicitly ban Holocaust deniers/Neo Nazis.
Today, Heritage Foundation effectively said that "no enemies to our right" includes Fuentes.
Today, Heritage Foundation effectively said that "no enemies to our right" includes Fuentes.
Heritage president backs Tucker Carlson after interview with Holocaust-denier Nick Fuentes
Kevin Roberts denounced the “venomous coalition” that has criticized the former Fox News host.
www.politico.com
October 31, 2025 at 2:58 AM
I forgot to note that this was a thread, so: Here is a 🧵🧵 on the direct connections between Heritage Foundation, Nick Fuentes and the far-right Texas billionaire who is fueling the rise of Christian nationalism. If you do not already know a lot about Tim Dunn, I recommend changing that.
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At sundown, the new Jewish year begins. It will be 5786. This is the start of our High Holidays. The new year in Judaism is complicated. It’s not about being excited for a new year, but rather teshuvah, repenting on the things we’ve done wrong, collectively and
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September 22, 2025 at 8:03 PM
At sundown, the new Jewish year begins. It will be 5786. This is the start of our High Holidays. The new year in Judaism is complicated. It’s not about being excited for a new year, but rather teshuvah, repenting on the things we’ve done wrong, collectively and
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A friend of mine was on Charlie Kirk's "watch list" of Black professors. She received so many death and rape threats that her university offered her a security detail for the walk to class.
This is Kirk's legacy.
You would never know it from reading all of these legacy newspaper op-eds about him.
This is Kirk's legacy.
You would never know it from reading all of these legacy newspaper op-eds about him.
September 12, 2025 at 7:14 PM
A friend of mine was on Charlie Kirk's "watch list" of Black professors. She received so many death and rape threats that her university offered her a security detail for the walk to class.
This is Kirk's legacy.
You would never know it from reading all of these legacy newspaper op-eds about him.
This is Kirk's legacy.
You would never know it from reading all of these legacy newspaper op-eds about him.
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For the record, if you pick 1 cause - just 1 - and fight for it, I think that’s cool as hell. No part of me is gonna go “wow, you picked y vs x? Clearly you don’t give a shit about x.” That’s not how human energy works. You can care about many things, but you can’t throw yourself at all of them.
September 18, 2025 at 4:52 PM
For the record, if you pick 1 cause - just 1 - and fight for it, I think that’s cool as hell. No part of me is gonna go “wow, you picked y vs x? Clearly you don’t give a shit about x.” That’s not how human energy works. You can care about many things, but you can’t throw yourself at all of them.
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People missing an important point about folks getting fired for whatever they said about Charlie Kirk: Americans are being conditioned to be snitches on their fellow citizens who don’t toe a party line on what is “allowed” to be expressed. And employers are going along. It’s the new secret police
September 14, 2025 at 3:32 AM
People missing an important point about folks getting fired for whatever they said about Charlie Kirk: Americans are being conditioned to be snitches on their fellow citizens who don’t toe a party line on what is “allowed” to be expressed. And employers are going along. It’s the new secret police
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This is a Melissa Hortman appreciation account for the next 24 hours.
Minnesota lawmaker Melissa Hortman remembered as funny, savvy and 'a true leader'
Friends and colleagues remembered her as grounded, kind and compassionate.
www.pbs.org
September 10, 2025 at 11:39 PM
This is a Melissa Hortman appreciation account for the next 24 hours.
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Because a transfem friend was harassed at a gas station in Texas over the weekend by a security guard who told her that she had to use the men's bathroom now, a reminder that 1) Texas Senate Bill 8 has not gone into effect yet and 2) It does not apply to private businesses
September 8, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Because a transfem friend was harassed at a gas station in Texas over the weekend by a security guard who told her that she had to use the men's bathroom now, a reminder that 1) Texas Senate Bill 8 has not gone into effect yet and 2) It does not apply to private businesses
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Just Trump declaring war on a US city, a normal Saturday
September 6, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Just Trump declaring war on a US city, a normal Saturday
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Trey is such good people. Help him by helping his family
My sister’s house flooded in July. She’s been in a hotel with my 3 nephews since then.
Insurance closed the claim and is no longer covering the hotel OR a $5k repair they JUST told her about that they need in order to move back home.
Everything helps!
Share if you can!
gofund.me/fe73f4bc6
Insurance closed the claim and is no longer covering the hotel OR a $5k repair they JUST told her about that they need in order to move back home.
Everything helps!
Share if you can!
gofund.me/fe73f4bc6
Donate to Support Soleil's Family After Flood Damage, organized by Trey Ferguson
I'm Trey, but I'm here to try and rally help for my sister, Soleil.
On Ju… Trey Ferguson needs your support for Support Soleil's Family After Flood Damage
gofund.me
September 6, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Trey is such good people. Help him by helping his family
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“The removal of hormones from prisons is a deliberate act of cruelty that strips trans people of medically necessary care and basic dignity," said Dr. Christy Perez, a formerly incarcerated trans woman who advocates for trans people behind bars.
September 2, 2025 at 11:31 AM
“The removal of hormones from prisons is a deliberate act of cruelty that strips trans people of medically necessary care and basic dignity," said Dr. Christy Perez, a formerly incarcerated trans woman who advocates for trans people behind bars.
The rhetoric Sen Perry used is part of a campaign to dehumanize immigrants so that Texans will accept that violence against them is ok. Whining about not getting forgiveness when he sent up this test balloon is outrageous. He's the one normalizing murder. #txlege
September 1, 2025 at 11:22 PM
The rhetoric Sen Perry used is part of a campaign to dehumanize immigrants so that Texans will accept that violence against them is ok. Whining about not getting forgiveness when he sent up this test balloon is outrageous. He's the one normalizing murder. #txlege
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This photo was taken of miners at the end of their shift during the Gilded Age before they were unionized.
A Labor Day reminder of the blood, sweat, and tears that those before us paid to give the working class the basic rights that Trump and his thugs are trying to strip away.
A Labor Day reminder of the blood, sweat, and tears that those before us paid to give the working class the basic rights that Trump and his thugs are trying to strip away.
August 30, 2025 at 4:22 PM
This photo was taken of miners at the end of their shift during the Gilded Age before they were unionized.
A Labor Day reminder of the blood, sweat, and tears that those before us paid to give the working class the basic rights that Trump and his thugs are trying to strip away.
A Labor Day reminder of the blood, sweat, and tears that those before us paid to give the working class the basic rights that Trump and his thugs are trying to strip away.
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Nuther one. Under HB 15 at the #txlege, Sheriffs, constables, etc. can make records about misconduct allegations against themselves secret simply by declining to punish ... wait for it ... themselves. So stuff like this will continue to happen, but who knows if we'll continue to hear about it?
‘Do some ungodly things’: Details of lewd allegations against Johnson Co. sheriff
“Back in my younger days, you wouldn’t want to know what I did to women wearing white pants,” Sheriff Adam King told a female employee, according to an indictment.
www.star-telegram.com
August 30, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Nuther one. Under HB 15 at the #txlege, Sheriffs, constables, etc. can make records about misconduct allegations against themselves secret simply by declining to punish ... wait for it ... themselves. So stuff like this will continue to happen, but who knows if we'll continue to hear about it?
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“I heard the bill author say they weren’t sure if they were here to protect trans rights, but we are. I don’t want anyone to go home today thinking that they are not wanted or loved. Because that is not where we stand. Not in Texas.”
Thank you, Rep. Nicole Collier. #txlege #SB8
Thank you, Rep. Nicole Collier. #txlege #SB8
August 28, 2025 at 9:39 PM
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There's always been "scum and villainy" at the #txlege, but until 2017 or so, the democratic processes still largely functioned, and if you engaged, you cd affect them. That began to erode in 2019 and, by 2021, the old norms were gone and I openly began calling the new regime "fascist" on Grits. 🧵
August 28, 2025 at 9:58 PM
There's always been "scum and villainy" at the #txlege, but until 2017 or so, the democratic processes still largely functioned, and if you engaged, you cd affect them. That began to erode in 2019 and, by 2021, the old norms were gone and I openly began calling the new regime "fascist" on Grits. 🧵
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Breaking: Democrat Catelin Drey just won an Iowa Senate district that Trump won by double digits last year, flipping the seat blue.
Republican just lost their supermajority in the chamber.
Republican just lost their supermajority in the chamber.
August 27, 2025 at 1:59 AM
Breaking: Democrat Catelin Drey just won an Iowa Senate district that Trump won by double digits last year, flipping the seat blue.
Republican just lost their supermajority in the chamber.
Republican just lost their supermajority in the chamber.
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People accuse Trump of lacking principles but he's consistently in favor of impunity for sexual assault.
August 25, 2025 at 5:47 PM
People accuse Trump of lacking principles but he's consistently in favor of impunity for sexual assault.
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The lesson for Democrats of the last four years is that if you don't use power when you have it, your opponents will happily use it instead
Senate Democrats’ Abandonment of Adeel Mangi Made Emil Bove’s Confirmation Possible
Senate Democrats could have confirmed Biden nominee Adeel Mangi to the Third Circuit last year. They caved to a disgraceful right-wing smear campaign instead.
ballsandstrikes.org
August 26, 2025 at 11:45 AM
The lesson for Democrats of the last four years is that if you don't use power when you have it, your opponents will happily use it instead
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August 26, 2025 at 1:33 AM
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