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Nom de plume of Scott Henson, Austin, TX, recovering journalist, opposition researcher, and criminal-justice advocate (ACLU, Innocence Project of TX, and others). Cancer survivor. Househusband. Blog (on hiatus): https://gritsforbreakfast.blogspot.com.
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I love this article w/ my whole heart and adjusted my Youtube playlists accordingly. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/18/t...

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,@schiff.senate.gov

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BTW, if you live in Austin, care about sports, and have never heard of Richard "Night Train" Lane, you owe it to yourself to drop everything and spend the next 20 minutes googling his story.

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If Elon thinks Adam Schiff is a "criminal,' let's stop all the bullshit and get to the bottom of it.

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Austin political friends, pls help me w/ this.

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What Austin groups are engaged in trying to get more arts funding? DM w/ contacts. The folks doing the Community Investment Budget are struggling to find a champion, and the current arts funding system is a bit of a mess.

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Wemby blood clot news is really bringing me down

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If you've never heard of Pythias Russ, spend a few minutes on Google and ck out his amazing negro-league career. I'd argue he's the greatest athlete ever to play in Austin. Other candidates (to me) are Earl Campbell, Willie Wells and Richard "Night Train" Lane. But for my money, I'm going w/ Russ.

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This is, in no uncertain terms, a rout. The New York Times published an unfortunate op-ed trying to legally justify Trump administration's #Birthright citizenship order. Here, five leading scholars show, with analytic precision, how that op-ed was "fundamentally flawed and irresponsible."⬇️

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The court ordered that NIH grant funding be unfrozen, so The Regime found a way around it. For NIH grants to be funded, a review panel must rank them. In order for a review panel to meet, they must post it on the Federal Register. Submissions to the Federal Register are now on hold “indefinitely”.

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The correct "clarification" in response to a letter like this is "Fuck you and the horse you rode in on."

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I'm just gonna go w/ my top 5 Texans, in no particular order. Joe Williams Rube Foster Biz Mackey Pythias Russ Willie Wells 4 of 5 in the Hall of Fame. Russ almost certainly would've been if he hadn't died young.

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Reminder that Andy Collins, the guy Ann Richards hired to oversee the Texas prison system, which tripled in size on her watch, said later that prison expansion was "the stupidest thing the state of Texas has ever done."

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This is a thoughtful thread on the topic of good guys vs. bad guys in TV/movies/fiction and the rise of the antihero as a framework that ppl clearly identify with. The recommendation "put truth in the mouth of the good guys" is good advice these days writ large.

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Another example why police and deputies' unions want state Sen. Phil King's Bill Waybourn Protection Act (SB 718). They hate it when this stuff comes out. Bexar County: "Deputy told inmate to meet him in the bathroom, then attacked him, Texas police say" www.star-telegram.com/news/state/t...

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Pretty damn solid legislative record on behalf of birthright citizenship in the 14th Amdt: "Sen. John Conness of California answered that the children of Chinese and Gypsy aliens 'shall be citizens' and he was 'entirely ready to accept the provision proposed in this constitutional amendment.'"

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America not feeling hardcore on Space Karen

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Any D senator who refuses to do this should be pilloried and primaried.

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We have now elevated this model to federal government leadership: All hype, all the time, and nobody GAF about value, or ftm values.

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