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Writer, editor, teacher, Aggie, Longhorn. Author of Normal School, Burnt House, Professed, That Demon Life, and Answers Without Questions....
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If I had been downright honest with myself, I would have seen very plainly in my heart

Fully on board with dems running for office promising to reinstate fired federal employees and jail this administration’s various criminals, but let’s go ahead and add “we will seize by eminent domain any national parkland sold to developers”

The greatest Texas movie of all time, Lone Star, would never get a tax break

I now demand of you to speak out

Periodic reminder….

Utter confusion exists among the historians

Hegseth, stay off signal!

Curb your enthusiasm (for Donald Trump)

It’s the cruelty plus the incompetent chaos plus the gaslighting plus the so-called experts (but really just loyalists) who don’t know what’s happening, either, but who tell us there’s a plan. Then, when every single “plan” fails they tell us we’re too impatient. But the only plan is the cruelty.

Evil.

Failures of Imagination talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/failu...

That's the game plan

Many products sold in the U.S. are made in El Salvador. In response to the El Salvador president’s statements today, we’re calling for an immediate boycott of all Salvadoran-made goods. Please help by listing any products or brands made in El Salvador in the comments below.

Any Democratic politician who doesn't understand Nayib Bukele's grave offense against the sovereignty of the American people and constitutional order and say as much publicly should have no future in elected office. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/bukel...

Harvard FTW: "The university will not surrender its independence or relinquish its constitutional rights. Neither Harvard nor any other private university can allow itself to be taken over by the federal government."

✴️ @utaustin history professor Lauren Gutterman on the danger Texas Senate Bill 37 and other restrictive bills pose to the honest teaching of US history in Texas colleges and universities.💯 #AcademicFreedom #HigherEd #AcademicSky statesman-tx.newsmemory.com?publink=0d30...

It's worth remembering that the entire planet is being engulfed at the moment by a crisis that is the work of a single person. I've heard some people ask how many people actually support this. I think there's a better question: how many people support this *who would still support it* the day ...

These nuts are pathetic. DOGE Playas, their DOGE Enforcer Pals And the Security Detail You Need to Be a True DOGE-Banger talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/doge-...

This is a screaming red alarm for Texans who care about books and intellectual freedom, and it’s about restrictions in *public* libraries (not schools): HB3225 will be heard in the House State Affairs committee on Monday morning.

🖋️ “Trump tariffs = damage, shakedowns, insider trading. TAKE BACK Congress's powers” hit 500 signers! 💬 Text SIGN PCEUEF to 50409

Think not, is my eleventh commandment; and sleep when you can, is my twelfth

Man Who Bumped Tesla While Parallel Parking Sentenced To Death

My birthday happily falls on International Beer Day. I’m always impressed that my parents got the timing just right….

Life goal: Write a book so important that the Naval Academy removes it from its library

"If the U.S. military is given direct orders to seize Greenland—it will have been ordered to attack an ally and engage in a war of conquest, even if no shot is ever fired..." www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

So we’re 75 days into trumps second term, people are protesting everywhere. Markets have had two days of absolutely apocalyptic losses. There are grad students being disappeared and a man with an autism awareness tattoo was sent to a super scary prison in El Salvador. They’ve cut cancer research..

Fortunately Wall St. learned valuable lessons from the 1929 crash. Most office windows don't open now.

We're not going back. www.thebulwark.com/p/the-americ...

www.nybooks.com/articles/202...

This is all because a Black guy got elected president.

American Taliban.... www.chron.com/culture/tv/a...

Absolutely thrilled—& just totally SHOCKED—for my novel The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois to be named as one of the “Best Books of the 21st Century (So Far)” by The Kirkus Review! 😱🙌🏾 www.kirkusreviews.com/fiction/best...

It's happening. Here. Now.

Third term? It's a self-appointed kingship....

What they see. What we see.

There is NEVER a THOUGHT by REPUBLICANS that MOST AMERICANS may consider REPUBLICAN BELIEFS as "an improper ideology!" As an ART & SCIENCE LOVER, I'm appalled that MUSEUMS across the COUNTRY may become nothing but RIGHT-WING PROPAGANDA CENTERS! I LOOK 4 FACTS about POC, INDIGENOUS, LGBTQ Brilliance!

I don't want Canada or Greenland… I want PBS, Social Security, and The Smithsonian. CAN YOU SAY THE SAME?! 🤚

"There’s no messiah who will sweep in and make everything better. That’s up to you and me." newrepublic.com/article/1931...

Hegseth's office ordered the U.S. Naval Academy to review all 590,000 books in its library for content at odds with an executive order banning “radical indoctrination” in K-12 schools, even though it is a college. MLK, Einstein books already identified for removal www.nytimes.com/2025/03/28/u...

This from some weirdo who destroys careers and health insurance and—lives. #FFS

so, @deephunk.bsky.social combed through the pool photos from the Vances' bizarre little Greenland trip, and in light of how pathetic the whole affair was, we couldn't help but put together a little photo diary, with an assist from @jennygzhang.bsky.social: slate.com/news-and-pol...

“I can no longer sit back and allow Communist infiltration, Communist indoctrination, Communist subversion, and the international Communist conspiracy to sap and impurify all of our precious bodily fluids.”

They're clearly going for Nazi aesthetics here. Surely they know that is how these images will be received. Even if you believe we make too many Nazi comparisons in our culture, that will be the framework through which these images will be received. They know that, and they're doing it anyway.